Show ERDA I 1 ser b R Y ass A ROMANCE OF A pennsylvania PENNSYLVA NU FARM by J JOHN LUTHER LONG illustrations by don im by bobb men I 1 co SYNOPSIS the crown ng desire in tl ti e life 0 of old baumgartner a pennsylvania Penn silvania german Is to obtain possess on of tl e beamut ful ul meadow which les 1 es just between baum gartner gart ners s property prOD erty and the railroad sta tion the property in question was in merited by sarah pressel very pretty and athletic young girl and belonged solely to her but old baumgartner lad 1 ad 1 longed longe d for it so many years and en deavo red to p rel ase it from sarah a father so many times that the property ibe 1 became c ame known as baumgartner s yearn ye arn at tl e vicinage gatherings on the porch of tl ti e store old baumgartner always declared that the property would some day be his at length baumgartner came to realize that h s only hope of obtaining the property would mould be through the marriage of his son Sephe nijah to sarah pressel in a mock auction jeffy as sephen jah P baumgar ner jr is popularly known Is raffled off by his father to sarah for 1 I 1 heffy is a meek slow going I 1 auth alo 4 1 0 Is never first in the race for anyta ing he ile Is fair ha red doclie always led by his father of a rather ange c disposition Is he a gentle and kind ho seems not to under stand anything an thing about strife and compe thus he appears utterly inca in capaci pact bated to win in any contest of lole loe or life sarah pres pressel iel is quite the opposite of heffy her hair Is nearly red she is all life and an matlon mation and can jump fences like a wild lid colt and sl a e Is grace and color itself her one fault Is a very lagh agh temper baun bann gartner gives betty some lessons in courish p CHAPTER 11 II continued at last it was evident that heffy fully understood and his father broke into that discordant whistle once more A gal that ken jump a si six rail fence and bissout no running start dont don t let her git alast you I 1 well I 1 in going to set up with her tonight to night baid heffy again with a huge ahem and the tune his father whistled as he opened the door for him sounded something like I 1 want to be an angel but not riot to buy no pastureland pasture land warned heffy no of course not agreed his wily old father that a chust one of my durn jokes but I 1 expect take the fence down to tomorrow morrow t say set sef you chust marry the gal take keer leer the fence III but sally was the angel it took heffy a long time to arra arraj himself as he had threatened and when it was all done you wouldn it have known him y asu ft would rit t have cared to know him for his fine yel low was changed to an ugly brown by the patent hair oil with which he had dressed it and you would not have liked its fragrance I 1 trust Der bergamot Berga gamot inot I 1 think it was his fine young throat was garroted within a starched standing collar his feet were pinched in creaking boots his hands close gauntleted in buckskin gloves and he altogether able uncomfortable and triumphant down stairs his father paced the floor watch in hand prom from time to time he would call out the hour like a watchman on a minaret at last look a yere setty its it s about two inches alast and by the time you git there say nefer git another feller a chance to git there afore you or to leave after you heffy descended at that moment with his hat poised in his left hand his father dropped his watch and picked it up both stood at gaze for a moment sunder set you as beautiful as the sun moon and stars and as stinky as several apothecary shops yere take the watch and gidlong git along long so a you haf some time wiss you now git along you late a ready boshens j you was behind time when you was I 1 born yas your mammy wass digap p anted in you right at first you wass 76 hours late latel but now ou reformed sank god I 1 always knowel it wass a cure for it but I 1 t know it wass as nice as sally heffy issued forth to his first con quest lighted as far as the front gate by the tat fat lamp held in his father s hand A set sef heffy snail shall I 1 set up for you tell you git homec he called into the dark no shouted heffy aha aha aha that sounds right don dont t ou forgit when aou ou bose well comfortable aha alia ha ha bebby on one cheer aha baha ha ha and well we 11 bose tal e the fence down to morrow bebby all three IV suppose she had greased her hair heffy sauntered confidently up the hill of delight upon which sail s house stood when within sight of iti it he polished his hat on his sleeve set the butterfly li necktie straight felt that the diamond was ra safe and marched up to the ho se only to arrive a little later than a b i iggy y from which sam pritz he was certain had extracted sally if it had noc b en for thought of his father which corpor bunely came softy would have gone straight home so did his I 1 eart fall fail him I 1 and then instantly there was adoth er and better reason for staying sally had seen him As he wavered which she seemed to I 1 now she came hurry ing down upon him it m is as too late then even if it he had had the courage to retreat from such dear danger she put her arm within his and leaning ber witchingly upon it led him into the house chattering fervidly the most willing of captives to the most bagull ing of captors for sally had put on all her wit witcheries cherles tor for this night of nights once within she added the charm of the accomplished amateur hostess doing fascinating things which needed no doing hovering about heffy like the very spirit of a home so that he had the intoxicating sense of difficulty la in keeping from being entangled in her fluttering arms and garments for hin feet unused to elysium would catch themselves in her whirling skirts as if they knew better than he their ultimate destiny all this was a splendid revelation to heffy he ile had never in all bis his dreams of her and they were legion fancied this soft and winning domesticity it went to his head like alcohol opium ether making it so light and happy as to be quite useless to him so when sally finally took the tall hat and went to deposit it in the dark parlor heffy followed her tor for no bet ter reason than the things in the basin have for following the magnet and understanding this sally looked over her shoulder at him and then snuff ing her conquest at a distance she laughed and mercifully stopped tor for hlin him to catch up that she might present ly surrender she got his hand to lead him only that lou care a lol for your hat don t you set sef seffa and you want to to see he couldn coulden t see a thing that I 1 that I 1 put it at a sate safe place still by the hand further into the darkness and heffy honestly tried to cate tor for her a yes but he gasn wasn t thinking of the treasured hat at all the hand that it was deliciously warm and soft and electrical sud denly she stopped very close to him he was so dull he did not know heavens when hen a girl waits wafts 17 e 4 1 tor for a youth to come close to her in the dark what else can she mean meana but heffy actually did not know sams over there I 1 1 I 1 I wish he wasn gasn t to whisper it she bad had to put one hand on his shoulder how else could she whisper it if and she laughed a low bubbling laugh half confession halt half de defiance flance all invitation heffy y stooped to whisper back to her sally baited I 1 know only that sally was disappointed for it was the custom in that day and vicinage and in such circumstances to kiss a girl without fall and could a girl do more than this by way of in vi tation you must have perceived that sally was learned in these theme mat and you may be sure she did not forget heffy s bashfulness and his inexperience but surely any one would understand that much in the dark it argues heavily for the depth of of sallys affection tor for heffy that she kept her temper for the losing of which she was wits almost as famous as her fathel had been for losing his and only sighed desperately any other girl would mould have left hope and heffy bhend at that moment happily sam was heard to move she put hei hand on heffy s mouth as it if some danger were there and heffy by a sort of instinct it must have been I 1 eissed it oh both of sally a hands went up in real surprise and heffy caught and kissed them both oh oh ob od she had to stuff her gay little hand kerchief into her mouth to keep the joy within after all could this heffy be placing possum possums was ras he deep I 1 dont don t know any more than sally how it all happened except that pei pet haps defly r discovered I 1 himself sudden ly brave in the darkness and sally quite defenseless defense lebs but presently her head was on his shoulder and his arm was N as around her in quite the way his father lad 1 ad suggested and sally had expected and neither of them thought of him or a word be he had said concertin concerning lands tenements and hereditaments sally sallys s band hand crept up insidiously about heffy s neck but then it as fearfully withdrawn please doat don t grease gease your hair here after said sally but she kissed it hereafter hereafter beff defly y s heart pounded suppose I 1 id d grease ni hair said sally si ec the horror conjured up was facil bious remember where her head was as rehling but an alien element was as now rated rat ed between them se so moved away maids should not cavil een even at oiled hair so earl in their courtship more fase nation mas w as needed perhaps only a soft cooing word lou you wouldn t like that would you still meekly no heffy answered puzzled my sunday coat v git greased my sleeve did she inspected a soiled sleeve in the ray from the hall which had no spot on it I 1 dont don t care for the sleeve it 11 bash R ash out but sam he sees every she laughed and waa was about to plunge reel lessly back into his arms but her hair was mas beautiful and she had made it more so tor for him he must see it if she plunged further into the ray from the hall lamp instead and flung it forward about her face it clung and clustered there like an aureole heffy in his brief life he thought had seen nothing more di vine she looked saucily up at him out of the tops of her eyes his adol a tion made her very happy there aln aint t that nicer than yourn I 1 she burled buried her fingers in the splendid mass and pushed it into further disorder until it lay close shining about her face ah sally said heffy approaching her as if she were some goddess wear it that way always the alien thing was gone they were in rapport once more they d have me in an asylum in no time but somehow heffy s arms opened to io invite her back and she came with a low reckless laugh the wild sheaf of 0 her hair lodged again close un under derbis nis chin he recklessly thrust his face into it its perfume in his nostrils and ita its movement against his skin were u ere ineffable he kissed it again it was the strange fashion of the ca cavalier valler in those kisses 1 where did he learn if oh sally wear it alwais so he begged again and good heavens he put his lips down upon it once more just when you come to see me murmured sally to the lapel of his coat sally sally aou ou are an angel said heffy and this one little word which came to dull heffy so happily out of his ta fa evorite song made the coquette very serious not an angel heffy set sef heffy she said with her bead head a little down I 1 don t think you would like me to be such im I 1 annot hotl angels never laugh aou ou know nor 1 love and I 1 want to do a lot 1st of both but but softy I 1 d like to be something very nice to you what Is he the nicest thing a girt girl can be to youa A sister ventured heffy who hd 41 never had one sally shivered then laughed but jut she took herself away broin heffy the pressel temper flamed a jab ab ment and certain words began to form in her mind like fool and go and damn for I 1 think I 1 haven t told you that sally sometimes swore in extreme circumstances her father had done so I 1 she spoke with that trifle of hard brutality which came out now and then you know what they say at the store that I 1 flirt and am not nice in other ways and they re right but I 1 do want to be nice to you though not a sister quite ugh and you know one thing they say is true my temper look out for that you must always take time to forgive me and let me ask to be forgiven now I 1 beg to ask 3 ou whether an amende was ever more dell delicious cious con si dering that much of what she said to and tor for heffy was meant to and tor for herself alone indeed before she got through with it it bad had affected her quite as it heffy had pleaded it and her voice sank to its pretty mezzo then quivered a bit and she under stood that was answering herself I 1 am awfully sorry for what sallyc asked heffy heffy dull heffy really did not know tor for what but there Is something which god gives the dull as well as the sprightly witted that out leaps words to comfort sorrow and this heffy had abundantly it first ex pressed itself in the strong young arms which again closed in utter silence upon the sorrowing one presently perhaps 3 ou on have n not at forgotten how it isa is in the same sl lence lips found hers not as the victor pounces upon the spoil of his conquest but slowly uncertainly as if the lips were a saints relics relies and sally waited malted not as she had waited before but in the knowledge that her hour had coma comer and that this kiss the first this youth had given to woman since his mothers died in his infancy must not be re as others had been but as sa credla as it came and when it finally fell the lips of the coquette quivered as they received it and then sudden suddenly lyo sobbed and did not know why do you your TO BE CONTINUED |