Show esa 0 ness curds rose from the comfortable curves of the hammock and waved his lank anne over thy rail of ahn piazza cant yon take a with me he pleaded its your last day here and ive fc particular to buy to yon turned uncertainly there was something about brecky 1 ben curels that appealed to her and there was 1 flutter 0 her heart nt alio s that he had oruo to say to bior then alb and many times in t c enst two the pale dell face of atherton came between her and curels m orry bhe said ati curtla leaped avor the and came aarona the grass mr A thorton hai promised to fanith browning with me and he is waiting for roe up on the rocks let him wait arced curtla you wrong mr atherton ahe said with reproach we cannot judge bendees a we do more material per Bons rant admitted curtla cher cherruy tuy if we did wed find cm guilty acry alroe jerry Ath ertons been with tha pipe and the company eight bearg now hes got the broo jah he had when he aaroe and he noyer even got a dollar raise he has his gnu a ahe reminded jonm day H will make him fa MOU she turned with alg alty to the well worn path up tho elde of the hill to where on ahelf of rock atherton walte d with a volume of poems it wa his delight to expound poetry while his eye roamed from tb fret fw jot the to the beautiful view of the valley to be bad from the vantage point of their perch went back to the hammock and cheerfully contemplated the neat building operations of a swarm of berneta dislodged tho day before from their old neat until At had come lie had been malting resti with bean they had alwayn been brood friends ever cance they went to school together and Mull tord had given him 10 cents a week to guide the little girl safely through the perils of the city streets later his escort had become a pleasure instead of a paid duty but things had always gone in such an accustomed groove that he had never dreamed of proposing anul this summer then atherton a minor poet had cowe upon 9 acene he ac count books indifferently to satisfy creature necessities and wrote poetry to satisfy the longings of his soul besa had never met a genius before and ho fascinated her under hla coaching she had come toh avei an expressed contempt for material ben curtis with his commercialism and his hustling ways the contempt was more in words than in thought but curtla chafee chafed at the change and threatened to go into bilk stockings aaton kne breeches and long hair his bokee only served to emphasize the difference between himself and atherton and tor two weeks bess bad cultivated her soul with a capital S and her knowledge ot the poets under a gentle mastership that was as novel as it was diverting her reproved her as she returned from tho afternoon with At berton and as curtle came into the parlor and found her poring over the railway guide with atherton she smiled into his clouded face but curels spoiled it with the suggestion that a poet could not roaster the mysteries of time tables she left in the morning oi an early train to spend the remainder of the summer with school friends in the curels vacation also came to an end but he waited until the late train in the afternoon and it was late in the evening when he changed cars where the branch road joined tho trunk line here there was an hours wait for the southbound south bound train and as he went into the waiting room his eyes tell upon the huddled figure of bess trying to get some sleep upon a bench tho matter he demanded your train as late as ahls the train I 1 chose was not tho right one she explained it seems that the train I 1 had planned to lake only runs in june and july there Is a train at 7 in the morning I 1 will take that curtis went over to the ticket window and borrowed the guide for a space he pored over it arid then came back to her theres 0 fast train oa the other road that goes through here at lla he began by making these connections you can gel to your friends almost as soon as you had planned and you will save tho long wait in the station I 1 will redeem your tickets on athla line at tho main office in town when I 1 get back and meantime get you others noy there is just time to jump in a cub and drive over there he took quiet possession of her and she gladly yielded him after nil 1 ing m good to looked ader by one who ha crasp on aaa 10 in tuco a it r toe platform 1 tb lr v 1 I guest tn ies KH fo daj 01 with adlle tab ica pt as reah r balt A te its kno r liyo your ak 19 fad poetry and i hryhor aahl dro dr o all an their wy dant anny aliouse ant U fcc tl 3 on anre to coa yom urlo to wr D fi t watt alio ay 1 a airty r vl ll Mcd but jbf right nine nt alvo tharo 14 1 4 auw t man lio caff read 1 l auxt 2 oa 01 I 1 do you |