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“Val Graham!” exclaimed , . tlw» three,
in startled chorus.
with “Who? horror Not filled Val Graham!” and paling cried cheek; Bess,
eyes
but, reading confirmation in the faces
before her, she drops hastily the precious
bug. flashes an angry glance at the
owner of that name, and turning runs
swiftly into the woods.
“What have I done? Who is she?” he
asks, with a perplexed look.
“Why, it’s our Bess, and she knows
you hate girls and won’t want her here.
How did you happen to come? Thought
you were sick!” questioned the boys al¬
together.
“So I was, but I am better; only I lost
myself in this maze and nearly tramped
myself to death—if it hadn’t been for
her coffee,” he continues, awkwardly.
“How could I hate to have her here?”
he adds so enthusiastically that Hal re¬
tires suddenly behind the house and re¬
marks, “Well, I’ll be b-b-blest!” to hi*
boots.
How can the days that follow be de¬
scribed? Golden, sunshiny days, filled
with simple pleasures. But, as a reliable
chronicler, I am very sorry that I cannot
say Miss Fleming’s temper was all serene.
Towards the unoffending Valentine she
bore an enmity that neither time nor
familiarity seemed to soften. Occasion¬
ally she would unbend so ftur as to allow
that gentleman to assist in her investiga¬
tions into the flora of the region of the
country in which they were.
Can you guess what a revelation this
sweet, tantalizing girl was to a young
man who had never known a woman’s
low? Day after day to watch her merry
potting of those big brothers, and then to
roe II his lonely childhood and youth. Is
1lie fate of this poor Val easily sur
> ,ised? *
Tramping alone by the river side, Val
. t last discovers and acknowledges to
h mself the cause of the vague wretched¬
ness of the past weeks—acknowledges
with a sickening realization that his hap¬
piness for life is in the hands of a girl
who has only an unreasoning hatred, or
at best a supreme indifference, to give
in' n; and he grinds his boot heel into the
soft turf as lie goes slowly towards the
camp. fringe
A sudden turn around a clump of
hung birches, and Mr. Graham beholds a
spectacle which drives away from him
a 1 thoughts of his own troubles.
Upon a, gnarly old tree, leaning far dis¬ out
over the river, sits Miss Bess, plainly
consolate. In the pool below her hat is
slowly sailing around like a gondola of
now design. At the sound of footsteps
she raises her head, but as her eyes meet
his the welcoming gleam cf liope in them
gives way to a flash of ire, and she says
petulantly:
“Oh, 1 hoped you were Steenie.”
4 4 I’m sorry,” he says gently, “but
Steenie would not help you more gladly
than 1 would were it in my power.”
After a pause, during which the girl’s
tears puzzled him, he continued quietly:
i i Let us go home to the boys and our
camp fire. It is getting late. You will
take cold there; and you have lost your
hat too.”
“Not at all,” returns Bess. “I am
only leaving it there till I come down. I
am waiting fpr the sunset, but you need
not wait too.”
4 t But I should like to.”
A long pause ensues. Miss Fleming
apparently gives rapt attention to some
soft, fluffy little clouds flushed to a rose
link by the setting sun Mr. Graham as
! B'ves his whole mind, aided by
>n i r? 1 a" g w\Sdudk te ,rimpm 0 n“m
1: lung pole with an agility which seems
(o prove it endowed with the spirit of its
owner.
4 i I wish you would come down now,”
he breaks forth, landing as he speaks his
h ’I ping and somewhat dilapidated prize.
•You don’t look comfortable up there.”
“Well, I’m not,” she replied, withun
iooked for energy and a hysteuiwftuixiing-
ling of tears and laughter. “The branch
that helped me up here broke off, and
then floated down the river. Every time
I have tried to get down I have nearly
pitched into the water, bo I have sat here
for hours like a graven image, and my
two feet fast asleep. I’d have jumped in
long ago before you found me sitting here
like an idol,” she concludes vehemently,
“only it looks so deep down there.”
As she finishes he has found a firm
footing among the roots of her tree, and
with a gravity which causes Bess to re¬
gard him with suspicion says in a busi¬
ness like way:
‘tff you will lean forward a trifle I
will place you on terra firma and we
will go.”
But Miss Fleming has resumed her coa
templation of the sky, and without glanc¬
ing at him says willfully:
‘ ‘I told you before that I intended to
stay here to see the sunset. You are
evidently in haste; you may go. But be
sure and tell Steenie I want him.”
Valentine’s arms fall, his face whitens,
and his voice Yings with passionate
anger:
4 h So I may not even touch your hand,
and I would give my life for you! You
have nothing but undeserved contempt
for me, and I—I love you.”
Ho folds his arms upon the tree and
drops his head upon them as if the end
of all things had indeed come.
Bessie’s eyes are looking far away, and
within them a new, sweet light of self
revelation grows and deepens.
The little clouds are growing gray; the
cool twilight seems to creep closer, with
ii.i soft, cool languor and its blurring
shadows. The wind sighs through the
trees in low, sad whispers; the murmur
of the river sounds clear and loud. A
saucy bird, very near, suddenly gives a
shrill, startling cry and Bess stirs unea¬
sily, and with her eyes dropped to the
helpless little boots, says, nervously, with
an argumentative air:
‘•This out of door life is very healthful,
don’t you think? j i
At this apparently irrelevant remark
Valentine raises his head and looks at her
in great amazement.
“I have grown so very stout and
heavy,” she continues bravely, “that I
do not think you could lift me down.”
4 4 I am quite willing to try,” he says,
with eager sarcasm; and with the color
flushing her sweet face she leans toward
him with outstretched hands.
I cannot tell you anything more, ex¬
cept that as they came into camp arm in
arm, ^itii a new light in their faces,
Hal’s boots received an especial benedic¬
tion ; Martha knocked over the coffee pot
in a fit of bewilderment; Czar upset
Steenie in the exuberance of his joy;
while Tom, in an aside, asked: “What
will Uncle Ralph say?”—Somerville
Journal.
A Lost Art Fouml Again.
1 have, I think, discovered the lost art
of tempering copper. It happened some
time ago during an experiment I was
making ‘ with a machine I am complet¬
ing—a combination gas and steam gener¬
ator. I had occasion to use copper in
certain parts, and removing this part
shortly afterward I discovered that it
was tempered so hard that I could not
cut it by ordinary means. I am investi¬
gating the thing and still experimenting,
and will, if things work right, be able to
show a highly tempered copper drill.—
Daniel W. Smith in Globe-Democrat.
Who Discovered Hudson ltiver?
hasrecently received at the
^ ubrarv itl Alba ny, N. Y„ a map of
-rld\vhich was printed in 1529.
This map, which was made long before
Henry Hudson was born, shows the Hud¬
son river on it. This is proof positive
that the river was discovered long before
Henry Hudson sailed wp the stream. The
map is a fac-simile of that by Ribero,
called the Borgian map. This fact will
reopen the question of who discovered th*
Hudson river. —Chicago^Times.
1888 .
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