Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-09

.hey fail to see 1t.
= oh, you must not talk like that. 1t
is worse than swearing the big oath.
And am to be your wife. Mrs.
Virgil? Then what do we do? Go
about and sing with the fiddler"
"No, we go to the beautiful places
on earth and look upon them--togeth-
err. We
mo, no, you must not think like
that. You take my father by the wrist
and he hate you. =. And do so
wrong to see YOU l am the sinner, but
believe that the Blessed One. she
ask for my forgiveness. No,
Virgil, we can only play together and
then n -. 1t will live in the mind,
our childhood here. My fa-
Their is not well all the time now, and
l must be good to him. Only
I must see you, sometimes. That is
the only wrong do him.
For IL love you. / did not
want to tell you, but l cannot keep it
all the time down in my heart
/ dream of you all of the night, and
kneel down and pray that you always
love me. Is. There, have told
you so much. And l kiss you, too.
n. Now-you may stay for little
time, and then you must CO."
Boy and girl they played, not from
the book but from loves ever-varying
text. In his canoe they padded affair
off where the lily-pads paved the sur
sface of the pond. They landed on a
knoll where was spread over persim-
mon saplings an arbor of muscadine;
here an adventurous catbird had her
nest of young. She cried and fiut-
tered about in great alarm, but when
she saw that they We're not her en-
emies, that they caught grasshoppers
to feed her brood, she sat high among
the vines, calling her mate, the musi-
clan, and here he came, scared at first,
but when she had explained to him he
sang his medley, ending with the cat
call whence comes his unpoetic name.
The sun had been speeding, and went
behind q cloud Fear seized Nadine
and taking Virgirs hand, she urgaH
him toward the boat.
MY dear one, we must go now. The
sun was jealous that we so happy and
will go into the dark to pout.
l will show you the near way for you
to come again, the way | came when
there was the fire. You can leave
the canoe in the rushes and you will
need it only to cross over to the cane.
But we must hurry now"
sIn the rushes opposite the island he
hid his canoe, and then she conducted
him along a narrow and sometimes
treacherous trail. Coming to the foot.
log, she halted.
II must leave you here. But l stand
for two minutes. The sun he will wink
a few more times. l am so
glad now to know that will be your
wife. And am strong and can work"
Lord bless you, but you won't have
to work.
His arms were about her, her cheek
against his, and with happiness the
world was glowing.
It'll Thursday he cried as he
dipped his paddle.
IT'LL Thursday!" she echoed as she
watched him go.
( IT'LL Thursdayw muttered the SIMS
ter voice of old Stepho, who had ap-
preached softly through the under
I, al Of u al
overheard their parting. But when he
came to Periwinkle house, he gave no
sign to Nadine that he had overheard
only talked of Monsieur Boyce and
the fine dresses he would buy for her
when she was his wife
* It was long past noon when Drace
reached the river.
The General had gone over into an
other parish TO attend stock sale.
Tycie said; and When she had looked
at BRACE more closely, at his torn
clothes, his muddy shoes, she sighed
and sat down beside him where on the
rustic bench he had dropped to rest
before going to his room.
"virgil," she said, "there is some
thing troubling you. Now, you needn't
tell me that 1t is business. / know
what business is. / know all of its
tricks but l also know love and all
of its tricks. Virgil, you are in love.
Let me hope that it is not that Nina
Spence. She isn't worthy Of you; and
besides, she doesn't belong to us. She
is not of our world. Virgil, am so
sorry
she put her hand on his arm, and he
took it and affectionately kissed 1t.
"Aunt Tycie, never saw the girl
you speak of. ! am in the-the throes,
you might say, and have been-was
before / got here, but not with her"
"But is it with anyone i known
"You have seen her, / have heard"
"Oh, you must tell me. 1t shall be
sacred with me. If you only knew how
people tell me their affairs of the heart.
Even old Colonel Josh has told me.
Now, why won't you?'