Show afi E WIK ty B A STORY OF northeastern NORTHEAST EPIN UTAH written ritten especially for the VERNA VERNAL L EXPRESS by harold L douglas CHAPTER III UIS HIS NEW LOVE so began the acquaintance between frank and hattie which was not ion long in ill reaching 0 intimacy intini acy it soon became bocal no understood that if a ball or entertainment ment was announced he would bo be on oil dock deck with a horse and road cart to offer his company and she in would bo be attired in ill her best with a half ounce of white rose scent or some other oilier oli factory abomination on her handkerchief ready to go with him frank was so constituted that ho he fell violently in ill love with every woman who inho paid the least attention to him but fortunately not with nith more than one at a time at best love is only the painted slide passing t the 0 ma magic 0 ic lantern of the ima imagination 0 throwing tb rowing guady but illusive pictures on the canvas ahead dut but franks love was not the best it was inas the sense of ownership that lie he prized L the fooling feeling that he was lord and master over tho the heart of a in woman oman that ile he could cause her pain or happiness at will and summon smiles or tears to her face so it may be imagined I 1 that hattie s joys were not continuous for oil one 0 w who ho rejoices in his power to inflict suffering buffering is not usually very slow about using that power tho the christmas season rolled around and the loving pair were as happy as turtle doves A grand christmas dance was hold at the school house in ill their neighborhood the affair wasa was a great success and about 3 a m flank and his girl got in their cart and started home tho the way was interrupted frequently by the exchange exclia of numerous caresses and sweet speeches and as he bid her good night at tile the crate he said dont forgot forget the alie dance new years 11 bo be up early and the girl entered tho the house with a song 0 in her heart never dreaming of tho bitterness and pain tho the birth of tholow the now year would bring brin to her the day before now years it snowed and hattie was 6 0 her bolf that frank would take her to tile the dance in a sleigh 0 after she had washed the supper dishes sho began to dress for the dance she got tile last daub of powder on lier liar faco face as the clock 9 then she began to wonder what kept hopt frank so late sho she went to the door add looked out olt into the night nothing there but falling 0 o 3 still sho waited and waited 10 aud no n frank TIr nile at at half past 10 flie poor girl put her head on tho iho table and sobbed away her dis appointment appoint mont then she dried her eyes shut her lips very closely and wont went to bed I 1 do not mean to ridicule hatsio because sho rho was neither a flirt norn nor a fool but considering her disadvantages wa was level headed and sensible her life had boon been spent without tho the op that mako tho butterill butterfly but teril y out of tho the cater caterpillar hor nature was lik liko like o gold quartz it needed reduction to make maho it pure gold not a now new element but an old element removed now years day two or three girl friends were obliging dobli 0 in 0 enough to call on her and iriqui 0 o in why ily she was not at the dance they also mentioned incidentally that frank griswold had been thoro there with that meade gill hattie selwyn was not a girl to mope mock tragedy was not in her line ho however over she might bo be hurt by franks neglect silo she had the strength and spirit to conceal it from the world silo she only y kept hopt bagier than ever and was inas as kind and patient and pleasant as before to return to frank two days before the now year fred came in ill from frol his hid sheep to spend a few days at home ho and frank were vere sitting by the fire place smoking that evening while the latter told tile the romance of his acquaint anco with hattie when lie he was through 0 praising her beauty and her amiability fred said pshaw tomorrow 1 ill take you up vy by tile the canal and show you a gill that just discounts hat completely ashes a daisy from f roin Dai syville and just holds the edge over the whole game of course such enthusiastic praise excited franks curiosity and ho he was anxious to see this now new star so the nest afternoon ho he reminded fiod of his promise and they saddled their horses and sot out As they vero crossing the irrigating canal tho the sound of a fiddle greeted their ears just follow that racket and get there every time said fred they dismounted tied their horses to the fence and wont iu in F fred red knocked and the door was inas opened by tho the lovely sapphira herself when she saw fred she smiled so that she almost forgot to ask them in inside frank was introduced in trod to the young lady her sister mother and father there were a dozen smaller children more or less playing 0 in different diff parts of the cabin the old man kept grinding out pop goes the weasel merely nodding when frank was introduced every few minutes one or two of the kids would jump up and dance to the music tho the four young t people got off iu in a corner and discussed the dances of the past and future the probable 3 weddings and when those these fruitful topics wore exhausted thoy fell 1 le 11 back on tho weather and tho crops sapphira Sapp hiru hint was really a vory very pretty girl with dark wavy hair largo large lusi lustrous rous eyes and full rod lips to those charms add a clear creamy complexion pl exion shaded with tho the matchless vermillion vernul lion of perfect health and you can form somo soma idea of tho the faco face of sapphira meado meade her form oven in her ill fitting dress was a continuous lino of symmetrical curves so pleasing to tho artistic eyo sho she could talk very well too consider ing those things it would have boon str strange aligo if so BO mas hablo a young 0 men as frank had not fallon fallen in lovo love with her As thoy rose to go pred fred turned to laura tho younger bli bister 1 1 stor and asked will you go with mo me to the danco to bonow night laura of course she replied then frank forgot ovely thing but Sapp hiras dark eyes gazing into hia alia own and ho he lier her his company 1 to ajo the new years d danco ance which sho accepted C CONTINUED ON T NU INU I E D N NEXT E X T W WELK E L X |