Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-01-05
ibid. Say did"
"What I've did," she meekly re.

childi Didn't they teach you any Eng.
lish grammar at the district school
down thereY-with an inclination Of
his head toward the valley.
swell, you see, till was twelf
years old already, Pop he wouldn't do
It to leave me go to school no more.
So I amt just so good educated that
way, like you. Mr.. Creighton. You're
got an awful nice education-ain't you
have? And" she added, drawing q
deep breath. you become your clo'es
so! Ach!" She was given to Jumping
Unrelated facts in this way.
"But look here" he said, puzzled.
I'm sure the Pennsylvania law has,
for the past ten years or more, re-
Quired children to attend school up
to the age of fourteen years, and re-
Gently longer. Don't tell me you are
over twenty-four years old-only q
year younger than I ami"
"But you see," Nicely offered In ex.
PLANTATION, "Pop he was school d.
rector and could do what he liked.
He's awful determined. That's why
our Jake he won't live at home no
more, Pop he's so determined. Leave
him think things right and he
wouldn't listen to even Roosevelt Or
or even you yeti"
"Do you know" he said after an
instant's silence. 81 am seriously dis
pleased with you today?"
"What for, Mr.. Creighton" she
asked plaintively. "What did I-done
-didY
"You were fifteen minutes late!
When I say I'll meet you at half-past
four I don't mean a quarter to five"
"But-but 1 was here before you,
Mr.. Creighton" she answered in sur
prise. II didn't keep you waiting
I waited"
"That's not the point. The point is
you weren't here at half-past four.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."
"But-how do you know I wasn't
here-seein' you wasn't here your own
self"
"Never mind how I know. I know
q lot more about you than you think
I do, my little girl!'
"Oh!" She looked at him queerly-
almost as though she were trying not
to laugh.
snow, then, why were you fifteen
minutes late?"
II had to mind my step-mom's baby
whites the others helped Pop with
his cider-makin'.
sand then" she continued, It'll l
was through all 1 had to wait till Pop
was out of the way; I darsen't leave
him see me come awayl Well,
guess anyhow mott"
"He is determined with you, too.
is hep
swell, I guess anyhow them"
"You use five words, Nicely, where
two or three would suffice. Instead Of
'Well-I-guess-anyho just an
swer yes"
81 know 1 talk awful dumb !" Nicely
humbly admitted, looking abashed. II
don't see why you bother to make
dates with common thing like mel
that I don't"
"'Make datesr" he repeated dubi-
ously.
eyes, and listen oncet, Mr.. Creigh-
,ton"-Meely lowered her voice,
though the nearest human being was
two miles away-"that there grabbed
old-maid sister of my step-mom's
that's come to help out over my STEP
mons confinement. she's suspicioning
mel"
"Of meeting me" he asked a bit
uneasily. He had such very strong
reason for being afraid of an awk-
ward ENHANCEMENT, or of its being
known that he, philandered with q
farmers common daughter.
Zach, she don't go so far as to sus-
picion my Date is swell like you,
Mr.. Creighton. She says to me. she
says, 4 know who your Date is, he's
that there blond young man at Gent
myers farmr she says. And me, ]
Just left her think it was him."
"But," ST. Croix demanded. instant
" jealous, and himself as suspicious
as the "old-maid sister," what rea-
son does she have for thinking your
Date is the blond young man? You
must have given her reason"
Zach, well" Nicely cast down her
eyes and looked self-conscious. '"To
be sure, Mr.. Creighton, there's others
that admars me besides yourself
that's only to be expected, amt it?"
"And do you have dates with this
blond young man?"
swell, to be sure, since l knowed
you, Mr.. Creighton. other ones does
seem awful common to me, that they
dor!
st. Croix had a passing twinge Of
conscience for his own responsibility
in possibly spelling this girls chances
for a contented married life with a
husband of her own class. But he
treasured himself with the reflection
that from the first she had sought
him out quite as much as he had pur-
sued her. Seducing an innocent virgin
was certainly not one of the things he
was capable of doing!
"What have afraid Of" said Nicely.
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