Show 1 t 14 ap 1 61 J f A W 4 a aih 1 I 1 I 1 11 4 I 1 1 I 1 ati I 1 ap ai 1 A WO years or more I 1 f I 1 IF I 1 z young g I 1 af X n I 1 l I 1 m abrew it A might laie have um noticed ao U W d I 1 1 with i halt balf seared scared expression on oft his bs face I 1 some se friends tor being a good fellow he had bad many any I 1 ascribed it to hopeless love lore ot others liers of more ore material views to simply feeling off hili bin feed both were equally in error he had already given promise aa a recruit to the first ranks of the literati lIter perhaps his leading line as he himself termed it lay in the dramatic social sketches of the interesting menage a 1 trots trola order in tact fact go BO hard did he labor that a months rest and country air were the imperative orders of his doctor andrew reluctantly consented to the country air and with a mental reservation on the part of bis is beloved social studies as he had the audacity to call them to the months rest in due time he found himself settled in the best parlor of an old time farmstead the household consisted of the farmer stout and jovial his wife a shrewd quick good natured little body and their daughter a quiet girl with beautiful ticul liquid eyes one afternoon in the second week it was brought suddenly to young wil sons mind that these great brown eyes betrayed a peculiar gleam when they rested on his own august person the girl had an extremely retiring disposition of which it was difficult to form definite views but he determined to mark her henceforth more closely when later she entered the parlor he be chanced to be dozing on a sota sofa by the window with the strong afternoon sun on his face she bent forward to lower the blind her hands hovered over his hair her white blouse rustled against him and when she stepped awa away though no word had been spoken two red spots burned on her usually pallid cheeks by jove that girl is certainly gone on me he said when alone and he prided himself on his discovery with the pride of a man who did that kind of thing for a living though it is probable any ordinary fool would have made it days before it must be understood that andrew wilson was a thoroughly honorable man flirtation mild or otherwise was not in his way he had always I 1 I 1 a a all I 1 1 4 P I 1 cef 41 1 a za I 1 I 1 I 1 IN OLD LD MILL POND alree bt ei too engrossed in writing his spicy social tales to pay much attention to mere flesh and blood besides I 1 he was a very shy fellow and scarcely knew how to conduct a concrete affair ol of this sort except on an paper yet he was far from being displeased and in the next few days while leeping keeping his own actions down to the severely commonplace managed to absorb a good many mental impressions the drooping dreolin of her eyes her speech disdainful anxious moody in its variety the lingering touch ol of her hands hand and so forth all stored as future copy tor for the good of andrew wil ron and his generation then the idea of some immediate I 1 sketches done from life entered his head he be called them maudie and I 1 they were piquant little snapshots of various fictitious pleasantries pleasant ries flirtations and general carryings on between that very eb charming arming witty and imaginary young lady and himself at this period he be opened out a little with the he brown eyed girl yet there passed absolutely nothing in deed or speech to which exeter hall meeting might not have listened unstirred still innocent as the relation was it i rUp supplied plied the foundation of his fin del da siccle handle Wa yarns but written up j a hundredfold with all the cunning of the old dramatic style and I 1 edly there was good work in handle after the real girl gari and himself had bad i been tor for an evening stroll he used to I 1 sit down and do a Wa baudle sketch I 1 right away so ao that lively young lady i had actually a ground layer of human I 1 nature in her which no doubt was the cause of the favor she excited andrew amdrew ons stay was lengthened out oot considerably confide bably he be had bad wished before leaving to close his things with a fari farewell Well I 1 ric sketch etch his alc fi flous handle was V sot lot a L marrying person kid ana jt ft would be unsatisfactory to I 1 jea beaw M the man lam still fluttery flut fluttering terl 1 1 ng after 1 13 tl t guem he found bound himself at 1 IV 2 a in aam atm UW ns 1 nevIt ably fl U iia A e loess ad ja K W I 1 er 4 1 th W S I 1 1 1 hii i vii ed 1118 ji I 1 I 1 latt 51 9 I 1 talfo I 1 i ess 1 berls I 1 I 1 s I 1 I 1 aid va liia 1 u li 1 I A I 1 j I 1 ijes L X 7 1 7 ar nf I 1 ax ee I 1 1 sw 7 A va t 4 I 1 W fc ta t Z 6 AM agn RN I 1 OR km M z mw ai R vi v 10 m R 4 41 A V aar vf tl f alp ilp I 1 goodness gifts he i might deci ates up wrinkle or two as an betom before aven xv his last benevolent benerd lent intention inte ution was ft frustrated rated positively stupid I 1 sho have air or at f least attempted to disguise biag uise her coy coir pleta grumbled andret andrei to himself in the train afterward mitat out knowing why he was irritated these feelings possessed him until next day he saw recorded the death ot of the girl with the brown eyes she had bad drowned herself in the old mill pool beside which they had bad so BO often sat andrew elison was not used to this sort of thing he did not understand it and that was why two years yeam ago he be went for a short abort time with a seared scared expression on his face also hp dropped his favorite menage a trots trola themes for a while |