Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-04-15

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been lying, and walked down to the
gate.
1t would be fun to go down to the
village and see what sort of a place it
really was. She opened the gate, hat
less as she was, and went out into the
lane.
Diana reached the end of the lane
and stood looking to right and left,
uncertain which way to go, and it was
at that that a light farm trap
driven by lad in breeches and a loose
shirt open at the neck turned u OF a
] gate close by.
He saw Diana and pulled the horse
to a standstill, and Diana asked Gag
erly:
"Where are you going? and would
you like to take me with you?'
She had made friends with Jonas
when he called daily at the cottage with
eggs and cream, and she knew with
out any warning from Miss Startling
that, lad though he was, he was great
ly attracted to her.
In a few years time he would be a
fine-looking man. She quite agreed
with the Creature for once in her as
sertion that he was A very grown-up
seventeen.
His face lit up when she spok: to
him now.
I'm only going over to the other
side of the village" he said.
"Well, take me-" she urged again.
He reached down a slender brown
hand, which seemed somehow oddly
out of keeping with his rough clothes
and general appearance, and carefully
helped Diana into the high, hard seat
beside him.
"Jonas," she said, 'do you know
where DR.. Rathbone's house ISL"
Jonas nodded. eyes, l know"
Diana turned an eager face to him.
Lets go there she said. II should
love to see where he lives"
The lad hesitated.
TITS more than five mfes7away."
"Bur that's nothing inla trap like
this"
81 know -. but won't they miss
you?"
II daresay, but that doesn't NATTER
She laid her hand on his arm. DO
let's go there, she urged softly. cts
such a lovely afternoon, and it's weeks
since l was out by myself like this
He would have gone to the ends Of
the earth for her, and Diana knew it
we'll enough.
She felt quite happy and a little
excited. The seat was rather hard, it is
true, and made her body ache a little,
and the sun was getting hot on her
bare head, but those were trifles.
At last he pointed across the hedge
on the right side of the road. "Dr.
Rathbone's house is just there" he said.
you'll see the chimneys in a minute
through the trees"
Diana was a little disappointed to
find that Rathbone's house stood so far
back from the road that even when
they had driven round to the front of
it one could only catch glimpses be-
tween the trees of pointed red gables
and queer Jacobean chimney tops.
She stood up in the little trap, her
hand resting on Jonas's shoulder, but
even then, beyond splashes of vivid
colouring here and there in the garden,
most of it was effectively shut out by
a high brick wall which had many
trees and shrubs planted on its near
side.
She sat down again with a little
disappointed sigh.
Jonas was pulling the trap to the
side of the road to avoid a big car that
had just at that moment rounded the
bend. The road was not very wide at
that point, and there was hardly room
for the two to pass in safety.
"How dangerous to drive at that
speed" Diana said, and at the same
moment recognized Rathbone's car.
She turned eagerly to look after it as
with a wide sweep it pulled up to the
closed gate.
The back hood of the landaulette
was down., and sitting there alone was
a Apparently a very young
woman with Titan red hair: Diana
had only time to notice those two facts
before the trap was round the bend and
| the car hidden from view.
'That was DR.. Rathbone's car" she
said in a small voice.
Twas it," Jonas was not interested.
"There was a woman it it," Diana
said.
"Was there? It's the one who lives
at the house, I expect"
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