The Carlisle independent., 1917-09-20
MARRYING SUE OFF
By c. B. LEWIS.

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 She looked up at him and drowned. Robbie was twelve years old, and there were those who termed him precocious. At any rate, he thought he was man enough to boss his sister around. aI- though she was eight years older than he.
 Tt seems to me you take the great news rather eoolly," he went on. Here I've done for you what mother and yourself have been trying to do for the last two years, and you haven't a word of thanks for me-"
 Robbie, what do you mean?" asked the sister as she sat up and laid aside her book.
 'Mean? Mean? I can't mean but one thing. I have found a husband for you at last!o
 "W-h-a-t !'
 "Oh, you have come to your senses, have you? I thought it would astonish you. I have needed a brotker-in-law for the last two or three years, but no one seemed to take a shine to you. went out looking for one this morning and I found him without much trouble Susie, he is a cracker -jack-nicest fel- Ter you ever saw. His name is Earl Cosgrove and he is good feller from head to heels"
 Robbie Winthropt, what are you talking about '" half shouted the girl.
 "Why, about the chap you are going to marry, of course" was the sober reply. You see I went out into the woods this morning with my Flobert rifle to kill a bear. I knew there wasn't one left on Long Island, but I thought one might swim over from Connecticut just to please me. found the young man, while hunting around. He is what they call naturalist. Oh, Susie, he is a peach of a good feller, and I only hope you'll fall in love with him! p
 "You are talking pure nonsensew w exclaimed Miss Susie. as she knocked the cap off his head.
 'There is no nonsense about it, Susie. I didn't quite invite him to come back to the house with me, but I shall tomorrow. I am going to do it to show you off and see if you can't catch husband"
 "You weren't forward enough and bold enough and mean enough to tell him you had a sister," queried the girl, as her cheeks famed up.
 "I don't remember that I did but I am rather absent-minded at times. If I told him anything about you, it was that I hope you'd get married soon because I was tired of seeing an old maid about the house. It shan't last much longer"
 Robbie received a shaking which clicked his teeth together and a push which sent him far out of the room and Miss Susie returned to her book. Robbie hunted up his mother and re- lated the circumstances to her, and it was with a very sober face that she received them and replied:
 'Bobbie, you must not plague your sister about men. That is the way to make a girl hate them. Don't bring this young man to the house, and don't talk about Susie to him."
 t. protested Robbie.
 ''Yes, but talk of general things"
 Robbie went away growing and muttering, and next morning he saw the stranger again. He was a little more on his guard this time, and when he got home he had nothing to say, and no one tried to pump him. For a week to come he was out in the woods and fields with the naturalist every day. but not a word did he have to say around the house.
 The following week he went away on a visit to his aunt. to be gone {. week, and it was during this week that Miss Susie took saunter in the fields, looking to gather some wild strawberries. Before she had picked a single berry she heard a voice calling to her and, looking around, she saw young man seated on log. He beckoned to her to approach, and as she drew nearer he said:
 "I beg your pardon, miss. but have met with an accident. By a careless step I have turned my ankle and can- not use it. Would you go to the high. way and ask aid for me from the first passerby?"
 Miss Susie was all sympathy at once. She told him to lean on her and she would take him straight to | the house, where her mother could use some remedy for the sprain. He hesi- tated to accept, but finally did with | many thanks, and after a slow and painful effort, he reached the house and was at once handed over to the | tender mercies of mother and the cook. Later on a doctor was telephoned for. | The patient gave his name as Earl | Cosgrove, but that brought no mem- ories.
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