* ‘ a Wells Smit As Wesley plodded down the main voad he glanced guiltily back over the green fields where straight rows of to- Bacco spread their broad leaves ripe for cutting, There was deeper guilt in his heart, too, when he thoug the pro- ject upon which he was Por, had he done anythii would have been ashame in class-mecting at the little chapel where he was one of leaders. The tall, Ky cast along the white road seemed a sor of premonitory figure of that better ¢ that would follow him the rest of his Efe like an accusing angel. And it was all on account of a woman; not that she was to blame, except for the fact that she Bad soft white skin and fair hair, and fhe tiniest of feet that ma de his own Beem monstrous, and the daintiest little Bgure, the kind that a big muscular fe J)- bow like Wesley yearns to hold in his Brms. Wesley had never been a ladies’ man mntil the school teacher came into the meighborhood but he had been captured | from the evening he drove to the st tion and she had sat beside him i in tl Sttle spring wagon du ] ey had to go in the he it. The § chief pla ed : afterward; i erfume tl fore a ®sweet basil,” erous sprinkling « packed little cl ered man in the univ lve under the same 0 keep the littl gon st split to : ———————————— Silas was Sea d on a high chait behind the counter regaling himself with the st posta rd news that had come in, “Howdy, Wes ' he greeted, reluctant Yr self, — "that's at's it, Silas asked, with ing the "othe rs embarra 11, I reck’'n 1 kin » he added, taking |} ven fr hind his ear. “Who's the lady?” eye- pt spi c u Kors was the answer, nsive grin to hide his em- egan to drawl the ne ting it at t! : at the “Now about the heginnin v $ te ' “MARRY A MAN JUST BECAUSE HE CAN WRITE ™ sith half of his muscular power to re Jiees a deficiency that he feared would an unsurmountable barrier between Mm and the young school marm It was a common enough falling in | he neighborhood in which We and six months before, the {; gould not write his own name, sot have embarrassed him a gre Since the school teacher had « Bis life, however, it } d be horn in the flesh, Vainly with the little imps of the alph Bis room by candle light when other members of the household were wrapped in slumber: but the goal of h s| ambition measured a distance that was] beyond the feverish impatience that pos pessed him, Wesley had been trembling on the verge of a proposal many times and would have committed himself long ago but for this barri er. For the idea of addressing the school teacher in writing seemed to have fixed itself in his mind as being the only method of procedure through which he could hope for a re- eiprocation. So it was an overwhelming desire to settle his fate, coupled with a Bopelestness of attaining the educational qualification sof being able to pen his own epistle, that led Yim to procure the agency of another party, upon which errand he was bound this afternoon, The party he had decided to utilize was one Silas Mansur, postmaster and general groceryman combined; and as it deal me into come a real TE iis 1ggled abet In all the las was under Weller ome to him for |chi a small loan, W be young lady's feelin’ he stammered but | yo that beginnin’ an’ 1 reck’n ki in pu itn ver f ney Like Hort I want you Re be sure to say I'm waltin' for her answer very patient say yes, I'll be the Chinkapin Hundred 1, an’ ef she says no, It’ drive me to do what it will hurt her Tell her I'm able to take kere of her, t I'm workin' the place on sheers 3 year, but pa, he's promised to deed a strip of lan’ down by the fur gate, "ef she ain't a mind to live with the ks I'll build her a house on my lan’, an’ say industrious husband, an’ "ll treat like the apple of my eye, which she is, an’ ever wi ercate my affections, an’ then you kin win’ up, SL” he finis hed, taking the first breath, “only as I'm particlar "bout ignin’ other folk's name, suppose you jes say good-bye My angel, ull 1 hear from you, an’ that'll do.” It seemed an age before Wesley had converted all this in a sure enough let ter, even taking into consideration the beautiful flourishes with which it was embellished, and he had ft in his coat vocket on his way to deliver into the ands of the school teacher. Then It seemed another age after he had ine trusted it to the, eare of one of the school children and watched through the open window to be sure it was Jald on the teacher's desk, before school was Jet though when he saw the | write an ,anef she'll | happles’ man in | I'll make her & sober, | her | Il be, even if she don't recip- | {ook her in the face, but began to walk at her side, forgetting to offer to take her books as usual, until they had gong some distance and he made an awkward attempt to relieve her, dropping half of them on the ground in his confusion. As he stopped to gather them up the fateful letter rolled out from the pages of one of the b there was nothing for h pick it up and f it to her. A shamed, side-long | ce at her face told Him that his doom was to be set tled He walk long, 1 ng + the verdict like “hud vot H }] ‘raw { 1 OKS, to put tl | tor . . { ’ 4 11 fled teacher school at | 3 Elmira,” was all he could ume that nT pro w, and ] Ii ! Wl Joo! INE traight ahead of her. It came like a tht he was in a measur “Miss Elmira, I'm sorry, but— “rp hi wte Silas Mansur, business terrupted, Wesley flushed to the roo “I didn't know by the writin’, it warn't imnderbolt, even though | ¢ prepared, ' actin ”" pit : g 10 ma can write; a ¢ the man 1 l 5 Own name 3 4 mike the mat i Wild Geese Killed ia Flight. 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