The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-27

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| talk with her about horses and dogs
and sports and such.''
"Yes?"
And a girlsthat's interested in the
| things man is interested in, is
bound to prove interesting to the
man them things interest"
you'll get twisted up in your tom
que if you attempt many sentences
like that Yet despite her laugh
Mary was uneasy.
I'm serious
She .sobered. The mans declara-
ton was an appeal. Regardless of
his size and awkwardness he sudden
ly showed himself to her as nothing
but a lonely, heartsick unmothered
boy. That was why he had apologize
ed to her-perhaps. A queer feeling
of wanting to do something maternal
came over her.
"Let me keep company with you
this winter" he asked
She sensed again that the situation
was engulfing her. To keep COM
pany with her? What lay at the end
of such an experience,-what but
marriage or a broken love AFFAIR."
for therewere no friendships" among
the younger set in those days that
have since come to be. To keep
company with a girl, to be seen con-
stantly in public with her, to visit
her regularly on Wednesday evenings,
was tattermount to an engagement.
If honorable the end was matrimony.
And as she rode along in the light
buggy with the delightfully."- easy
springs behind the neat little mare,
over the autumn hills and far away
beside the stocky young man with
the idiotic pompadour and lumber
Gus manners, she tried to conceive of
herself as married to young T1-u-
mann. And at the conception there
stirred in her, heart a little protest.
And yet,-what would her mother say
if she knew that young man with
fortune was at the moment taking
her out riding and asking her to enter
relation which unfailingly led to
matrimony,-that this was happening
and that in the daughters heart was
disappointment and resentment?
"What what-would your folks say
to any such arrangement" the girl
demanded after another mile.
Oh,we'd keep it quiet. They'd
kick like steers probably, but we'd
keep it quiet. We'd just slip away
somewhere on the sly and be"
what"
| He took out the whip and slashed
| the little mare cruelty efecting to
"train'' her when there was not the
least reason for training her at all.
81 always put my foot in it," he
complained. "I'm a great big luln-
nlox, I am and wish-I wish | was
| dead"
/" You mustn't wish that. It's
wieked!"
"But haven't you ever felt blue and
lonesome and as if nothin you did
was worth while and nobody gave a
darn for you and if you didn't have
money you'd be the least among all
the people in the WORLD
I ave been blue and lonesome, yes
I've often felt as if nothing l had
accomplished was worth while. But
I don't know about folks caring fol
Eme only for money. You see. never
had money-to bother me-that way
that is--much!'
| "That's so! But you can imagine
-
4 "Yes.">
/ az knew you could. You're thai
4 kind. Did you know there's lots o.
girls in Paris that'd like to be ou
here with me havin' me talk to ZEN
like this
i MAYBE so. But you see"
"Well,-what?"
"You're-asking me so much--s'
suddenly
81 know all about that. It don
make me feel no better to realize it
Please, please! Let's talk abou
something else. Let me thinkp'
/ 1T was eight o'clock when the,
drove into the village from the east
Most of the townfolk were in church
from behind stained glass window
organ music carried ont on tn
) strange autumn night and the tune
: Iof beautiful old hymns.
~ 81 wish you'd come in and NEE
, my folks said Herb. They wer