Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-02

nut when she sptsrsd the building
which had been the snrst schoolhouse
tho man drew back = step or two and
watched - surrepe tiousiy ~ q boy
who has in due secrecy planned q sur.
prise.
She went in and then suddenly halt
ed and stood near the threshold in
amazement. Her eyes began to dance
and she gave . little gasp of delight.
There against one wall stood her
piano.
She turned to find Anse Havey walt
ing in the door AZ awkwardly as a
green boy. Just how difficult a task It
had been to bring that great weight
across those roads unframed she
could only guese. He must, in effect.
have built the roads before him as
Napoleon built them for his armies.
She turned to him. deeply moved.
and after the first flush of delight hel
eyes were misty.
Il wonder how am ever going to
thank you-for everything" she said
softly.
But Bad Anse Havey only answered
in an embarrassed voice: g! reckon It
might be little jipgly. so had fell
Ter come up from Lexington and tune
1t up"
She went over and struck chord.
then she came back and laid o hand
on his coat sleeve.
I'm not going to try to thank you
at all-now," she said. But you go
home and come back this evening and
we'll have little party. just you and
with music"
"Good-by," he said. II reckon We
haven't noticed it-but my rifles
standin' there in your rack"
1t was night of starlight, with just
a sickle moon overhead and the music
Of the whippoorwills in the air. when
Anse presented himself again at the
of these visits because while she had
been away he had taken due account
ing Of himself and recognized that the
poignant pain Of locked lips would
drive him beyond control. He could
no longer endure "the unlit lamp and
the ungirt loin." Now the sight Of her
set him into a palpitating fever and q
burning madness. He would invent
some excuse tonight and go away.
Then he came to the open door and
stood on the threshold transfixed by
the sight which greeted his eyes. His
hat dropped to the floor and lay there
He thought he knew Juanita. Now
he suddenly realized that the real
Juanita he had never seen before, and
as he looked at her he felt infinitely
far away from her. He was q very
dim, faint star in apogee.
She sat with her back turned and
her fingers straying over the keys Of
the piano-and she was in evening
dress! The shaded lamp shone softly
on ivory shoulders and string Of
pearls glistened at her throat. Around
her slim figure the soft folds Of her
gown fell like gossamer draperies and.
to his eyes. she was utterly and flaw.
lessly beautiful.
She had followed within that night
and dressed up" to surprise him. She
had promised him party and meant
to receive him with as much prepara-
ton as she would have made for roy
atty. But to him 1t was only dec
laration of the difference between
them. emphasizing how unattainable
she was: how, . unthinkably remote
from him own rough world.
Then, as she heard his steps and
rose. she was disappointed because in
his face, instead Of pleasure. she read
only tumult whose dominant note
was distress.
Don't you like me?" she asked. as
she gave him her hand and smiled up
at him. -
Like you!" he burst out. then he
caught himself with something like a
gasp. EYES," he said duly. Il like
you"
For a while she played and sang.
and then they went out to the porch,
where she sank down in the barrel.
stave hammock which hung there
and he sat in split-bottom chair by
her side.
He sat very moody and silent. his
hands resting on his knees. trying to
repress what he could not long hope
to keep under.
She seemed oblivious to his deep alb