New-York tribune., 1914-07-05

i,,, o,or the door 50 wide as a maiden can and he
won't walk in
@Sbe's done nothing unbecoming, answered the
nisss; ~but she loves him, and OF course simple girl
like her can't help showing It,
nit s;rnnle she was not, and love him she didn't
ID hocarsc she wasn't built to love anybody but her
eeI6sh greedy self She knew that he was blt above
her bv his havage brth and she knew that he was an
only son and would have pot OF money some day, and
b lncw nlcntv else about him; but from her point q
view Nicholas was catch at all tor himself: only ior
his possessions. She'd had an affair at seventeerl
that came TO nothing: but if she ever really loved any
hodv else than Miriam Wcdlake, it was Tom Bassett
tho nostman.-a haxen man, much her own color, with
= bob con,plexion and the check Of the devil where
girls concerned.
They say that Satan finds some mischief always for
idle hands to do: but in my experience extending
three score wears and tcn I've found that us the busy
ones interest Satan most because theyv got the
ro,, and push and pluck The lazy be feeble folk
times-too lazy even for anything like righ down bit
Of good wickedness; because you see, wckcdness in
tbc GRAND manner means hard work, and plenty Of IT,
And so it's among the busy people, not the lazy ones
You'll find the biggest raScalS
And il was 50 with Postman Bassett; for, though he
ne,er walked less than twenty mile day, yet
Sunday that man was always hungry and tmr'y tor
bit Of naughtincsS, -poaching or such ikc,-i when
he wasn't after the fish or birds he'd got gf IN tow
R,,t though his nature attracted Miriam, She ncw
bit too much about him to go very far IN that ION
Resides he had only a poStmanS money am lived
with = drunken mother So Tom Bassctt wa uD use,
though she admired his dashing ways and, that being
co for her to pretend to love Nicholas Damcrel was
ridiculous, in my opinion.
However. at seventy years old you know o@ctly
what your opinion is worth in the ear Of the younger
Generation: so never uttered mine except sometimes
.aI,, very d, r rt .r
her fathers sake, because Rupert Wcdlake se' good
store on me; though seemed no more than dull I'D
dog to most other folk.
NIc and lane, however, would get talking about 1t
sometimes and she'd often stand up for Nicholas, ye
wonder a good bit why he held off, and when ho j
screw his courage up and pop the question.
"Nirams done all She could TO help him, and 50 has
Mother and SO have l., said Ianc.
We were coming back from a rcyd at the time, AM
had left Mrs Wedlakc and her eldest al the fair Then
a horse overlook us in a lane, and on the horse "as
Nicholas Damere.
LAVE e had enough too, Mr. DamcrelI;' 6ed
IL lane; and he nodded.
Then talked about the hay and said II "'. cruel
thin along Of the dryth; and he nodded again.
Did YOU see Miriam and Alother'' asked Jane; and
he shook his head.
suddenly he spoke "You was singing when came
up he said.
And 50 she had been, trying over a song thai she'd
heard sung at the fair by comical black ngs,r
Il can't sing answered Jane. miriam sin- letter
far than me.
After pause Damercll spoke again. You f' " '"r
he said.
Then he reckoncd he'd talked enough for on. t.''r-
noon. and shut his mouth and listened to mo ai. .no
From time to time he fidgetcd with something hos
pocket but, whatever it might have been, he lcit e
lane who was always sporting, stuck up ior A''.tm
in her little way and told her sisters good .r''
a few more than she had, to be honest. And N'. as
listened very respectful, with his dark, earnest el "
on her and now on me and now on his horse ,r-.
NNh.., .. III rn arnn in sohi he wont N Nm, l-