Cleveland County herald., 1919-05-08

| ! dear to me up in the hills, spent the night with the Packets and the school master and I sat an hour together af- ter the family had gone to bed.
 "How are the Dunkelberg's" I asked.
 Sunk in the soft embrace O lux ury," he answered. "Grimshaw made him; Grimshaw liked him. He was always ready to lick the boots O Grim shaw. It turned out that Grimshaw l left him an annuity of three thousand dollars, which he can enjoy as long as he observes one condition"
 "What is that?"
 "He must not let his daughter mar ry one Barton Baynes, late O the town O Ballybeen. How is that for spite, my boy? They say it's written down in the will"
 I think that he must have seen the flame of color playing on my face, for he quickly added:
 Don't worry, lad. The will O God is greater than the will O Grimshaw. He made you two for each other and she will be true to ye, as true as the needle to the north star.''
 Do you think sop
 "Sure I do. Didn't she as much as tell me that here in this room-not a week ago? She loves ye, boy, as true as God loves ye, an she's a girl of a thousand"
 ''Why did they go awayf Was 1t because I was coming?'
 q think it likely, my fine lad. The man heard O it some way-perAaps through yer uncle. He's crazy for the money, but he'll get over that. Leave him to me. I've a fine course O in- struction ready for my lord O Dunkel- berg"
 T think shall go and try to find her." I said.
 q am to counsel ye about that" said the schoolmaster. "She's as keen as brier-the fox! She says, Keep away. Don't alarm him, or he'll bundle us off to Europe for two or three years
 "So there's the trail ye travel, my boy. It's the one that keeps away. Don't let him think we've anything up the sleeve O yer mind. Ah, my lad, I know the heart O youth Ye'd like to be putin yer arms around her wouldn't ye, now? Sure, there's time enough! Ye're in the old treadmill O God-the both O ye! Yc're bein. weighed an tried for the great prize. It's not pleasant, but it's better so. Go on, now, an do yer best an what ever comes take it like man."
 A little silence followed. He broke it with these words:
 "Ye're done with that business in Cobleskill, an Pm glad. Ye didn't know ye were bein' tried there-did ye? Ye've stood it like a man. What will ye be doin' now?"
 'Pd like to go to Washington with the senator"
 He laughed heartily.
 Il was hopin' ye'd say that" he went on. "Well, boy, I think it can be arranged. I'll see the senator as soon as ever he comes an I believe he'll be glad to know O yer wishes. l think he's been hopin', like, that ye would propose it. Go up to the farm and spend a happy month or two with yer aunt an uncle. It'll do ye good. We've been growth plump down there. Go an melt it off in the fields.''
 A little more talk and we were off to bed with our candles.
 Next morning I went down into the main street of the village before leav- ing for home. 1 wanted to see how 1t looked and, to be quite frank, I wanted some of the people of Canton to see how I looked, for my clothes were of the best cloth and cut in the latest fashion. Many stopped me and shook my hand-men and women who had never noticed me before, but there was quality in their smiles that I didn't quite enjoy. I know now that they thought me little too grand on the outside. What a stern-souled lot those Yankees were! "All ain't gold that glitters." How often I had heard that version of the old motto!
 "Why, you look like the senator when he is just gittin' home from the capital" said MT. Jenison.
 They were not yet willing to take me at the par of my appearance.
 met Betsy Price-one of my school mates-on the street. She was very cordial and told me that the Dunkel- bergs had gone to Saratoga.
 q got letter from Sally this morn- ing" Betsy went on. "She said that young Mir. Latour was at the same ho- tel and that he and her father were good friends"
 I wonder if she really enjoyed stick ing this thorn into my flesh-a thorn which made it difficult for me to fol- low the advice of the schoolmaster and robbed me of the little peace I might have enjoyed. My faith in Sally way cred up and down until it settled at it's wonted level and reassured me.
 It was a perfect summer morning and enjoyed my walk over the famil-