Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-09
WHEN NO WOMAN PURsuETH

(Written Specially for The ,Buuetinl
 Luckily the trust company for which Giles Blake was an accountant &C., quircd one of the twin cottages In Ap- plecroft Place at the very time Giles realized that. in self-preservations ne must flee from Mrs. Borden's fashiou- able boarding house.
 He was thus enabled to secure the place with only a small mortgage as the bank was settling an estate. This would incite economy. It was carry spring, hence delightful time to come mute There was a tiny garden. and just now all his rural instincts were urging the youth back to the land- q. The house contained some fnrnish- inas; he would buy few more just yet. | Of course. he was purchasing the place for woman; but this time 1t was for ! his mother. detained at hersoid home in Maine by her aged mothers feeble ness. When, in the course Of human events, the elder woman should dtes his mother would come to make a home l for Giles. - s-...s.5
 have made him undu1y suspicious about life in the big city. Still, when his
 widowed landlady began to throw, her two growing daughters too much in the society of the youth from the Pine Tree
 State he grew wary, fleeing ingiorious- ly and without giving any hint that
 henceforth he was to have a home of | his own. He had been a mother .
 boy" that mother the widow of g coun- 1 try minister; consequently Giles was no tenderfoot in domestic science, and had no fears of problems In the com missary department of his small home which he would be unable to solve.
 His neiahbors on the other side ei I the dividing fence, he discovered with proper caution, were an elderly pair delighting in their well titled little
 garden. They did not seem likely tc
 bother him; but to avoid any such un- pleasant contingency he arose almost
 before dawn to do his own planting.
 His plans worked we'll until one I Saturday half holiday, when. from tht
 window of his sleeping room. h' chanced to glance down into the mex
 The old lady-he had learned in som, way that her name was Mrs Alden
 walked out along the little path; and
 horrorsl was followed by-a girl
 "Murder!r snarled Giles Blak
 viciously-for such a mild young mar
 They are everywhere!" by "they
 meaning, of course, girls.
 This one had big coils of yellow haiI
 pink cheeks. round white arms.
 graceful figure. There was an ai
 about her simple white frock whicl | SOIne4OW ndQ never akStlnBdi6nC0 III
 black silk which his good mother ~or , on great occasions. ~- a-l.sc That night a stray black cat came { 1, the Hermit's door and would not g , away. ''Buttinsky," Giles called the in truder. But he had heart and fed tn ? starved thing well. "A black ca : means good hlck!" he pondered, an . for some foolish and unaccountabl ! reason his thought flew to the fair
 haired girl next door, A fortnight later. following a dr spell, Giles was preparing to hurr out and water his parched garden whil s sure that his neighbors were at dime i. when suddenly he spied a tiny wreat ! of smoke rising from the fancifull 2 colored shingles on the Aldens' roof Now Giles had been foreman of 'th : village fire company, back in Main and had run with the machine" score of times. .. {. ], It did not. take him long to give tf
 Iafarm, and. professionalism getting ii
 better of his hermit philosophy, ~
 hustle his own ladder up to. the roo z climb to the ridge, and chop away Il 2 blazing shingles about the chimne 2 2 Then he utilized the garden hos