Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05
you were sorry for and asked
forgiveness, you'd want to be
taken in the same spirit you apol-
ologiZe in, wouldn't you? Then
be ready and come with me round
one 0'clOcl; -"

be ready and come with me round
one O'clOcl. --.-."
She saw hl.1l aero s the street who
she came out of the Office later tina
night. She went deliberately Owe
and intercepted him.
81 got your letter. she said. "l'n
sorry"
"Youll go buggy-ridin with me to
morrow"
yes"
lie called for her at Mrs. MathoM
after Sunday dinner next day. Al
the inmates of the clearinghouse
watched them drive away. Mrs. Ma.
theirs went around all the rest OF th,
afternoon looking troubled.
1t was a lazy autumn day. The
sun was warm, the fields We're ila%-
rant with stubble over which blew Z
1tful wind Barrels stood benca,f
apple trees; ladders leaned against
yellow-leafed boughs. The horizon
were hazy. Autumn's mysterious
voices have called as they have cHlle'
since the world was young.
They drove out of town by tif
south road. The hills hid Paris be
hind them. The little mare SHE'D u
boulders and old newspapers Hu'ter
inc against roadside bushes. I he
New England country rolled away I'M
til it was blurred in violet skyline
For several miles there was a :,
,onco hetween them. Then Herl
said:
"rhank you for forgivin me; &IFl.
in this town as a rule arc too iie''
anyhow"
"Lct's not talk abou, that. sec
by a local | set up on FRIDAY tina
YOUR sister has gone to New York.
"Thinks she's goin' on the stage
She's lust like all the rest. Make
me sick"
Mary tried again.
~ see the Oddfellows arc goin'
to give play in the Opera House
You're an Oddfellow, aren't you:
eyes" he replied cui tly. "Eut
don't want to talk about that,
want to talk about-about-@ome
thing else" 49,,
"You promised in your letter tina
nothing would ever happen
"But I'm honest in what I've 90
to say to you. I've thought lot
about the lawn party and our walk
home. Do you know, you're the hrs
girl in this town who's ever let m'
talk with her about horses and dog
and sports and such.'
"Yes?'
Sand a girl that's Interested in W.
things a man is Interested M l.
bound to prove interesting to tho
man them things interest
you'll get twisted up in your ton
cue if you attempt many sentence
like that" Yet despite her lau%f
Mary was uneasy.
"Im serious"
She sobered. The mans uecia'a'
ton was an appeal. Regardless 0
his size and awkwardness he sudden
" showed himself to her as no'h'h
but lonely, heartsick unm"there'
how. That was why he had ;ipo'o%N
cd to her-perhaps. A queer feelln'
of wanting to do something m"'cf'"
came over her.
Met me keep company with you-
this winter" he asked.
She sensed again that the s'tual'o'
was engulfing her. To keep co"
nanv with her? What lay at the enc
of such an experience,--What nu
marriage or a broken love affair
for there were no friendships amon'
the Younger set in those days ina
have since come to be. 10 hee,
company with girl, to be seen co..
stantly in public with her. 10 VlF!
her regularly on Wednesday evenings
was tattermount to an engageme"
IF honorable the end was matllmoh!
And as she rode along in the lISh
buggy with the delightfully."- cas-.
springs behind the neat little mare
over the autumn hills and lar away
beside the stocky young man VIII
the idiotic pompadour and lumber
ous manners, she tried to CONCEIVE
herself as married to young lfu
man. And at the conception 'her'
st;rred in her heart a little protest
And yet,-what would her mother ga
;f she knew that a young man Nld
a fortune was at the moment TAXI"
her out riding and asking her to cnte
y relation which unfailinGly LED u
matrimony,-that this was hapfehlF
and that in the daughters heart wa
and resentment:
"What what-would your zolkS 'a'
to any such arrangement, the H''
after another mile.
"Oh.--we'd keep it quiet. lhcE,
l;ck like steers probably, but VIC e
keen it quiet. We'd just slip ava!
somewhere on the sly ard be-
"What!" ,,,o
ue took out the whip and %la'hc'
the little mare cruelty ctiectln%
her when there Wa NOT "a u,
,east reason for training hcr at az
az always put my foot IN H. ut
"I'm u great s'i% 'o'"
mox, am and l wish---l Wish J va
dead!" .,,4 II,
wicked" e-,4 h,,,o an,
"But haven't you ever felt blue an
lonesome and as if nothin, 20" ''