Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 10, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 30 August 1890 — Page 2

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CHAPTER XV

TH:E FATTED CALK— BUT THE NEIGHBORS, TOO. THOUGHTFUL man once remarked that a special proof of divine *vi*lom was that the dear okl story of the

low the amateur swineherd's example. Philip Bayn was not a prodigal: be bad spent nono of his inheritance except as specially ordered by hi* father, and his only ground of self reproach was regarding an affair about which the neighliors had no moons of obtaining information: yet the ipeclal effort* made by the family to manifest their joy at regaining him wore unequal to the task of overcoming the disquieting effects of the neighbors' tongues.

The dreadful man who had caught Phil on the train had spread the news of the boy's return, so next morning the road from the village to Hayn Farm presented an appearance as animated as if an auction had been announced in that vicinity, or If some one bad been found dead in the woods. Men old and young, wives and maidens, and even tittle children, devised excuses for visiting the farm. People who came from the other direction were already supplied with the standard excuse—they wanted to borrow something those who had really borrowed so often as to doubt their welcome made heroic efforts to return what they had already bor rowed

To escape the succession of visitors at the bottw Phil went to the barn yard to aeo anew family of pigs of which his little brothers had informed him, but just above the fence line saw two pairs of eyes—with their attendant neaas, of course—that had boon lying in wait for an hour or two, after the manner of that class of countrymen, evidently among the last offshoots from the brutes, who ap parently have on inherited animal approhonsion of harm should they enter the den of any species higher than their own. -"Gue» you didn't see any pigs tike them down to York shouted the owner of one pair of oyes, whllo the other pair opened as if they would engulf tho returned traveler. Phil nodded his head negatively and precipitately retreated to tho barn, where ho found quite a respectable old farmer studying the boach wagou. "Reulwn reckoned mebbe ho could gimme a burgaiu if I'd take this off his hands," he said, by way of explanation, "so I thought I'd tako a look at it." Tho old man shook tho wheels, tapped tho bod, examined tho iron work closely, remarking, as ho did so: "Reckon, by his wantin' to dispose of it, that them city folks ain't a comin' here next summer to be druv down to tho beach, ehf' "I don't know," said tho unhappy youth. Ho was grateful to tho old fellow for not looking him in tho eye, like a wituess teaser, as ho asked tho question, yet he longed to kick him out of tho barn and lock tho doors, to that there would bo ono less placo for tho enemy to iio in wait Ho returned to tho house, ami entered the kitchen just in timo to hear a feminine neighbor say: "I s*po$o he'll wear hi* now clothes—them that Sol Mantring fetched word about—to church on Sunday

Phil abruptly got an ax and went to tho wood lot his first impulse was to take his gun, but half iu jest and half in earnest he told himself that ho would not dare to have arms In his hands If the torment was to continue. Yet even while in the depths of the ancestral forest he was not safe, for, on the hollow prtteu«s*of tracking a dog who had been stealing sheep, a neighbor followed Phil to the woods, fount! him by tho tell tale blows of'the ax. and had him at his mercy for a full hour. The visitor had mentally sot apart a half day for the work, "There's one way o% getUn* rid of this raft o' people," mid Mrs. Hayn, who rapidly became as indignant as her son at the parsSstcsncv with which jjeople brought Lucia's name into conversation "One would s'pose that the world had got back to the way it was in old Father Adam's day, as far as gals was «o.!Kwr.od. mi' there- was only one female tlmt anybody tvuld Unkc a notion'to, They come n-fR^fwin' the life out o* me, jttst as if I kwowtxl any more a Unit it than they do*~ which I don't" Then the anxious mother looked slyly, and somewhat reproachfully, at her wn. who (tusked and said "Tell the way of getting out «T it, mother, »nd at least one of your ehildmi will arise and mil you blessed," "Why. it's to have the minister an' his wife to tea. It*# manners, an' pretty much everybody knows it, not to disturb anybody the day they're g^in' to have Use minister,"

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Copyrighted by the J. B. Lipplncot'- Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, and Published, by Permission, through the American Press Association.

Prodigal SOD did not reproduce any of the conversation of the neighbors with or regarding the naughty boy. for bad this also been given as it really occurred no subsequent penitent would ever have dared to fol­

hits,* said PhiU eagerly "TO

do anything to help yon get ready—beat eggs, stone mMns-«»ythteg but go to the store for nutttWfgs and be caught by the proprietor and all his customers, Say, mother, why can't you invite the other ministers fexx. 00 su«*s*ive daysf "You will «w your new clothes* though, when the minister comes, won^t ym asked the old lady with some timidity. "You know 1 habit scan Vm on you yet, an' Pm a-dyin' to, though I haint liked to put you to the trouble of drrwwn' op oo purpose, knowia* how hmci hate to try things oo."

Phil promised he could not res&t his mother^ appealing eyes. As the old lady propbcaW, the family were not annoyed the day of the cupper to the ml&ister. Phil's Cdbsdwnce was not wwy tn anticipation of tbe expected for he knew he would be quMtlecMd about the appearance of noted New York diritin whom he would he supwm* to have heard, whereas the only vice he had atwoded was at the Tnunlay«r church, the pastorjof which had.no tx*orte«y at aUL perhaps it was to punish his yoathfol pan bfckxMr for wsgkrt of jprt*0«« that the good man qwwUaosd Phil qaita dkwky «boot tbe Tnuniay family and delirred a thoughtful analjrai#^ the characttr of (FEE daughter, with QMUBMK* opoe the pr&xM ffe^isctf msrrisgwoo var«us quails uf satum Attar met be ^noeajedl to Phil for oorroh&ratfcso, and bfew^botne ^ofiflbed l® M*

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Ifeved he had fully prepared the dear young brother for what tie mig& expect should he fjtif* the important step upon which in all probability ho Ivas resolved

Phil end urea with becoming fortitude the minister's remarks about Lucia, and tbe whispered tut not unheard comments of the minister's wife on tbe "store clothes," which bad been worn in deference to Mrs. Hayn's request He ate the three kinds of solid cake without whiwh no supper to a Hayn ton minister was supposed to be complete. He made unusual effort, his father being away, to cause tbe visit one to be pleasantly remembered by the good pastor. He was rewardeby discovering that his trip to the city which he bad heard called the "Modern Sodom" and the "American Babylon" had not destroyed or even weakened his Interest in religious subjects, and he was prepared to retire with a more peaceable mind than he had known in several days. But after tho table bad been cleared and the uneaten pieces of cake carefully put in an earthen jar against the next Sunday's tea, and Phil was about to go to his room, his mother said! "Dearie, I s'pose you'll wear your new black things to meetin' Sunday mornin'. won't you?" "Oh, mother," said Phil, with a frown quickly succeeded by a laugh, "nobody ever wears such a coat to church Everybody would laugh at me." "Dear mol" aaid tho old lady,evidently disappointed quite deeply. "I want to knowl Then when be you goin' to wear itf "Never, I suppose," said Phil, his smile vanishing. "I was an extravagant fool to buy that coat I'll never forgive myself for it" "Neverf" the old lady had echoed. "Then your poor old mother, who loves yon better than anybody in tbo world, is never to see you in itf" "Sho shan't wait another hour!" said Phil, hurrying out of tbe room, and telling himself that his mother cared more for him than all bis New York friends combined Ho dressed himself anew, with as much care, though not as much trepidation, as when preparing for tho Dinon party ho oven slipped out of doors and by lighting two or three matches selected a bud from a rose bush which was carefully covered from the frost every night He dressed his hair carefully, caressed his moustache into tbe form a barber bad told him was most becoming to his style of face, and squeezed bis feet into the low, tight, patent leather shoes which a shoemaker had assured him were the only proper thing for evening dress. Then ho came down stairs, whistling "Hail to tho Chief."

Mrs. Hayn hastily adjusted tbe spectacles sho had been polishing, and as Phil entered tho room she threw up both hands in amazement and delight It was worth the price of a coat, thought Phil to himself, to enable that dear, honest old face to express so much enjoyment As his mother gazed at him, Phil went through tbo various poses which had been demanded of him when he was a childeven later—and clothes were being fitted to him by the trustworthy Sarah Tweego he turned around, presented one side viow and tho other, walked across the room and back, and saluted his mother with his most profound bow. His mother's delight knew no bounds. Finally tbe good old lady took both his hands, held him at arms' length, looked as if sho never could see enough of him thon Hli» gave him a motherly hug and exclaimed: "I should think she'd have fell dead in love with you tho minute sho clapped her eyos on you with all those things on."

Phil retired hastily, and when he removed his dress coat bo savagely shook his fist at it

CHAPTER XVI.

MOFLK NEWS THAT WAS NOT ENOUGH ITTLE by little the excitement over

Phil's return abated, being merged in curiosity as to why his father was remaining in the city. Local curiosity was somewhat discouraged, to o, by a few sharp retorts to persons who were impertinently inquij-itive about the New York developments of Phil's acquaint auee with Lucia. There was no lack of stories, however, regarding the couple in any part of

the civiliwd world, no matter how stolid the Inhabitants, tbero is imagination enough to replace the absent link* tn a desired chain of facts.

All that Haynton and it* vicinity really knew about the "supposed Uayn-Tramlay affair was that the Tramlay* had been at Hayn farm, that they had a daughter named Lucia whose ago did wot differ much from Phil's, that Phil bad been in New York for more than a fortnight, that be had gone direct from Sol Manning's sloop to

TramJay's office,

that he had been seen in New York in store clothes, and that he admitted Slaving seem Lucia once or twice. Out of thews few facts, which would have be&n useless to «veu a detective were he unable to treat them as mere clows to followed carefully, tbe enterpriatag people of Haynton construct**! a number of storks, each of which hung together admirably. That they differed radically from one soother was not the fault of the local romancer*. they had honestly done their best with the material at hand.

Phil did not regard the matter In this light. When day by day Ms little brothers returned from school with tales they bud board from class mate* and wondered greatly that they had not first heard them aft hones Phil's temper broke loose so mtbkaly that the boys almost feared to repeat all they bad heard. Tbe wrathfol young man learned that be had proposed to Loci* and been refused, that he had been aeeepted, apparently a* the MOM Interview, that TWnlay W»s to build a handsotaa* braceon the water front of Bayn Fkrm for his daughter as a wedding present, that FhO took hi* refusal so «rkm*ty to bstrt thai be wa» going t& study for tbe ministry, and that wtsik- New York be had fallen Into drinking *t» so deeply that Tramlaj had hoes ®fc%ed to write ffermer .Bayn to httrry maoee tsis coSoctaMUte «QOtec* .*!»*• temptation.

Phi gnaabkd aad stormed tMMwm wwd tbatif i£pi hndU ootttd heiroold

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a list of denials in tbe weekly paper, edited in the county town, which devoted a column or two to Hayn ton news. Then he wondered whether he might not mafcea confidant of the minister and beg that a sermon be preached on the sinfulness of gossip but this plan disappeared abruptly when the statement of his approaching mafinago was traced, almost with certainty, to the minister himself.

But the worst trial of all remained. On Sunday be met at church and in the young peopled Bible class all the girls who lived at or near Hayn ton. Some of them belonged to churches other than that which included tbe Hayn family among its members, but for once they waived denominational preferences and went to the First church, and not only to see Phil's new clothes and cane, of which Sol Mantring bad brought such astonishing reports.

They were us good and sweet hearted, those Haynton girls, as any of fteir sex on the face of tbe earth. Fashions a trifle old and lack of professional advice us to 'how best to en banco their natural charms by borrowing from art *ould not disguise the fact that some of them were quite pretty. It was not their fault that Phil's heart had gone else where for a mate, but that the young man himself was greatly to blama for such a course was the genenil opinion among them, and they would have at least the ccnsclaticn of seeing how he had been affected by a step so unusual among Haynton youth. And what questions tb^ee girls' eyes did ask I There was no need that they should put any of them into words Phil understood them all, with tbe result that never before on Sunday bad he heard so little of sermon, hymn or prayer, or betrayed so feeble a grasp of the topic of tbe day in the Bible class.

So seriously was his mind disturbed that he held himself sharply to account, "examined his evidences" in the time honored and orthodox manner, and resolved that lack of occupation was at the bottom of his trouble. He would begin bright and early Monday morn ing an extension of the big ditch in the marsh land if the mud and stones and roots and quicksands, the tugging and straining and perspiring, sure to be incident to the work would not cure him. he grimly told himself, then bis case was hopeless indeed

Bravely he kept his word. At sunrise he was already on his way to the marsh, and by the middle of the morning a single sensation encompassed his entire mind, it was that ditching was the hardest, dirtiest, forlornest work that ever fell to a farmer's lot He dragged one heavily booted foot after the other from the ooze, loaned on hi* spade and offered himself five minutes' rest.

He looked wearily along the prolongation of the line of the ditch already completed, and wondered how many hundred days the entire improvement would require. Before he decided his calculations were disturbed by the sound of the family dinner belL He looked at tho sun, which was his only time piece while at work, and wondered what could have befallen the hitherto faithful family clock. Again the bell sounded, and when he looked In the direction of the house he

saw,

on the brow of the hill behind the

orchard, his mother waving her apron to him. Something was the matter what could it be? a tramp?—a persistent lightning rod man I He hurried toward the house, and soon saw that his mother was waving also some thing that looked like a handkerchief and then like apiece of paper. A little nearer and ho heard his mother shouting:

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"DEAR OLD Gmtr—Your husband is about as usual, though the well water in this town ain't Gt for decent cattle to dktak. I've seen some of tho sights, and wished more than once that I had you along if things turn out as they look, though, IU bring you down in style yet I've run against the folks that looked at our south ridge with a view to making a cottage village, and, as luck would have it, they knew Mr. Tramlay, who's rolled up his sleeves and done bis best to help clinch things and make a good thing out of it forme. I need Phil Mr. Tramlay wants him too: and I wish you'd tell him to pack his bag and get back here ns soon as ho can. Tho boys can take care of the animals, and there's nothing else on the farm but can wait till I get back. "The Lord be with you all, so OQ more at present, from your loving husband^.* "REUBEN.* •p. S.-—That gal ain't no more engaged than I am."

Phil took off his bat, rubbed his eyes, looked* away in the direction of the ditcb extension, and made a face at tho faithful old spade. "1 s'pose you'd better be thinkin' about got tin' off at once." said bis mother. "Father's will is law," said Phil, in the calmest tone he could command. "Do you think the boys and Carlo can help you tnke care of the place for a few day»F* "To be sure," said his mother, *W a powerful sight o1 days besides, if it's goto' to saye your father from drudgin' away tbo rest of his da vs. An' 1 aint above sayin' that I'd stand ~a good deal of loneliness if I thought twould end in my stoppin' trottin' around in a pint pot day In an' day out An* you," said the old lady, looking at her son, "I want to see tho time come when 1 can take them old boots out to a brush heap an' bum 'em out 0* sight an* knowledge. But what does your father mean altout that gal not bcin' Ang-ngreif ts it that tramlay calf" "I suppose so," *»id Phil, carelessly, though his manner was the result of prodigioos effort "When be found me ho asked mo about her, along with the other folks, and I told him, just as Pd beard, that she was engaged to be married. Fkther must have been asking some pointed question* about her. It Horn heat everything the Interest that old tnsn sometimes take in young women who aren't kith nor kin to them, doesn't itf I guess it's about as weD that Pm going back. If only to keep tbe old gentleman's country curiosity within proper boonds. Dont yoo think tor "She ain't engaged," said Mrs. Hayn, ignoting ber soa^i explanation and hisaUwnpt at joking. **8be aint engaged," tbe old lady reraated soyoo*1——*

Ths sentence was not completed, but PhiTs face flushed and fa* looked down at his mnddy boot*. For the Am time sinoe his return he bad beard an all usioo to Lacks that did not make him tmcomfortablei

Within two boors Baynsoo 'was shaken from oentor—tha railway station—to draooffereaea by tbe announcement that RtO Hayn, in his store cftttbec, had bought a tkfeet for New York and was ataMgywalf on Mm iourney. Meanwhile, st Hayn Ftom, uoid swaft a* deeply tetaraMl as any one hi the fcreartnaw and ether possibilities that had been forsshatiowad wasdobsg ailia her jxwwr to further them «b» mm apeadfatf tb» afierodpa oo her ksaas at tar twdridfe-

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"Father's writ We've got a letter I" Phil ran nearly all tbe way up tbe hill ho had not performed that difficult feat since ho and another boy bad raced up, in coasttagg. time, hi wild

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a popular girl ami take her down on his sled A letter from his father was indeed an unusual event, for the old man had not been away from home before, except when on jury duty in tho county town, in many years, yet from the old lady's matfner it seemed the letter must contain something unusual. As be reached the hill top his mother placed the sheet in his hand, saying: "I thought mebbe you'd better see it at once."

Phil took it and read aloud, as follows:

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CHAFTER XYIL A E A N OUTH has some advantages peculiarly its own in the general battle for fame and fortune and in capacity for enjoy ment, but for -discovering all that may be pleasing in whatever is nearest at band it is left for behind by age. The school girl does not

care for dainty flavors unless tbey have candy for a basis her mother, with palate* which has been in training for half a century, will get truer enjoyment out of a neighbor's toaf of home made cake than the girl can lind in a shop full of bonbons, A boy will ramble througn an orchard in search of the tree which is fullest and has the largest fruit his father, in late autumn, will find higher flavor. aUd more of it, in the late windfalls which his stick discovers among the dead leaves.

Farmer Hayn was old and weary he was iloue in his rambles about tho metropolis, md he kept close guard on his pocketbook but no country youth who ever hurried to the city to squander his patrjmony could Have had so good a time He saw everything that the local guide books called attention to, and so much else which was interesting that

whom he had occasion to see for a

few minutes each day, said oue n\orring,at the breakfast table %'^T ,? "I wish, my dear, that 1 could steal a week or two from business, so that you and I could poko about New York, personally conducted by that old farmer.** "Edgar I" exclaimed Mi's. Tramlay, "1 sometimes fear that old age is taking sudden possession of you, you get such queer notions. The idea of New York people seeing their own city with a countryman for a guide!" "There's nothing queer about facts, my deal'," replied Tramlay. "except that they may be right under our eyes for years with out being seen. A few years ago you and I spent nearly a thousand dollars in visiting some European battlefields. Today that old fellow has carefully done the Revolutionary battlefields of New York and Brooklyn, at a total expense of a quarter of a dollar, even then ho had a penny left to give to a leg gar." "1 never heard of a battlefield tn New York or Brooklyn," said Mrs. Tramlay. "Nor I," her husband replied "at least not lh so long a tSrae that 1'd forgotten ths local itiea. But that old fellow knows all about them, when 1 drew him out a little be made ine plans of each, with pencil on the back of an envelope, and explained how we lost Long Island and New York, as well as nearly two thousand men, when men were far scarcer than they are now Here"—the merchant drew amass of letters from bis pocket and extracted front themascrapof paper—"here's the way it happened let me explain"— "I'm not interested in those stupid old times," said Mrs. Tramlay, with a depreca tory wave of her hand. "I've heard that in those days there wasn't a house above Wall street, no park to drive in, and parties lusgan before sunset. "Ah! to be sure," said Tramlay. with a sigh. But old Hayn has seen modern Now York too, 1 was intensely interested in his description of the work being'done in some of the industrial schools, where hundreds of little street Arabs are coaxed in by a promise of full stomachs, and taught to be good for something the boys learn bow to use tools, and the girls are taught every branch of housekeeping." "1 really don't see," said Mrs. Tramlay, as she nibbled a roll, "what there is to interest us in the doings of such people." "They're the people," said her husband, raising* his voice a Uttlo, who generally supply us with paupers and criminals, they being untaught at home, and consequently having to beg or steal for a living. It i9 because of such people that wo have iron bars on our dining room windows and area door, and hire a detective whenever we givo a party, and put a chain on our door mat and pay taxes to build jails and asylums and"— "Oh, Edgar," said Mrs. Tramlliy, plaint ively, "our minister told us all this in a sermon nearly a year ago, I'm sure I listened patiently to it then I don't think it's very kind of you to go all over it again." "No, I suppose not," slghod the merchant, hastily kissing his family good-by and starting for his office. In a moment he returned, and said: "Just a word with you, my dear,, It's uothing about farmers, or battles, or industrial Say," ho whispered, as his wifo joined him in the hall, "don't you think I'd better have tho doctor drop in to see Lucia Pm afraid she's going to bo sick. She's looked poorly for days, and doesn't soem to have any spirit." 'Tm sure she's lively enough when she's out of temper," said Mrs. Tramlay, "which she is nearly all the. while. She's snapped at the children until they hato the sight of her, and I can't speak to her without being greeted by a flood of tears, Margie seems the only one who can do anything with her." "Umpbr mattered the merchant, taking much time to arrange his hat before the mirror of the bat rack.

Meanwhile tbe old farmer and his son were having along oiiat in a hotel bedroom. "So you see bow tho land lies," said tho old man "Though 1 never held that part of the fariu at over two hundred an acre, the soil bein' thinner than the lower lyln' land, an' requirin' a good deal more manure to make docent crops, Tramlay says it'll fetch a clean two thousand an acre when it's cut up. if the scheme takes hold as it'# likely to. Tbnf why be advised mo to retain an in* teres., instead of sellin' oat an' out Pm to get five thousand in cosh for the forty acres, an' have a quarter interest in all tales that means twenty thousand in the end, if things turn out as Tramlay thinks." "My I" ejaculated Phil, his eyes opening very wide, and going into a brown study. The old man contemplated him for some time with a smile of capreine satisfac!tion. Finally be said: "Makea yon feel a Uttle bit as if you was a rich man's son, dou't it, old boyf" "Indeed it does," Phil replied. "But I dont see how 1 can help you about it" "Dont, eh I WcU, Pll tell you,* said tbe old man, eyeing his aoo closely. "That forty aorta It about quarter of the farm land In value, 1 calculate, counting oat the hoaso an" other btcQdiefe If I was makin' my will an' dividin* things up among the family, I'd leave just about that much land to you, with aa interest la the boose, stock, etoetery, wrhen the Lord was (It to call your toother. So"—here the old man intensified his gaae— "IVe arranged to give toy quarter interest in tbe enterprise to you, as your inheritance that'll make you a director is tbe eompHiy, with as orach say as anybody eiML "ItH fcsep yoa la York a good deal, though."

Father twhhwJJPhfl. "An*," oonttnoed the old man, dropping his «y» snooashis son looked athiia, and oo the countenance in which i» osnslly discossad tbe ordinary affair* of the fiom, "attitsiuy nsedsotoe moaey foryonto with people whom to pet the to oar joint ao soyoo can drew wbeeerwr yeo need

Etna, "waaayowofwwawpey keep op proper ttyiewith fhepeq yocftl have to deal with, 1 propon ftte thousand In bank hen to oar

The old man began to pare fine shavings from tbe tooth pick which he had cherished ever "since he left the dining room, but Phil compelled a suspension of industry for a moment by going over to his father's chair and pressing the gray head to bis breast "The other principal stockholders," said tbe old man, as soon as he was able to resume his whittling, "are Tramlay au'a man named Marge.*" "Marge!" Phil echoed "You seem to know bim," said the farmer, looking up from under his eyebrows. "I should think so,r said Phil, frowning and twitching his lips a great deaL "He's the man"—-

Well asked the old man, for Phil had not finished his sentcnca. There was uo reply, ,so be continued: "The man you thought had caught the gal

Phil nodded affirmatively. "Now you see wbat comes of goin' off at half cock," said the farmer. "Lost your expenses two ways, to say nothin' of peace mind" 1 beard onu man telling another it," said Phil, quite humbly "so what was to think*" "If yo» betieveev'rythin' you hear about men an' women, my boy. you'll be off your course all your life kug Take a good grip on that.r

Again Pliil went into a brown study, from which be emerged suddenly to say: "It's just what you did wben you supposed you learned she wasn't engaged, isn't itf You bolieved it and wrote it at once to me." "Ob, no-f" said the old man, with an air of superiority, as he put a very sharp point on what remained of the* toothpick. "Not much. I've learned always* to go to headquarters for Information." "Why, father," Phil exclaimed, excitedly, "you don't mean to say, after what you promised me, that you went—and—and" "Poked my nose into other people's business# Not Mr. Tramlay took me home to dinner—say, what an outlandish way these city folks have got of not eatin'dinner,tiil nigh onto bedtime I an' after tho meul, 'long about the edge o' the evenin\ when Tramlay had gone for some |apers to show nie. au' the old lady was out of the room for somethin', I took Vasion to congratulate the gal on. her engagement that's the proper thing in such cases made an' purvided, you know She looked kind o' flabbergasted an' at lust she xaid 'twas tho fust she'd heerd of it I tried to git out of it by sayin' if it wa'n't true it ort to be, if young men In York hud eyw» in their heads. But it didn't seem to work. She 'asked how I heerd of it, an' 1 had to say that somebody in tho city had told my son about it"

Phil frowned. "Then," continued the old man. "she t»ust outcryin'." "Oh, dear!" sighed Phil. ••Well," said tbe old man. "I see-somethiu bad to be doue, so 1 put my arms around her" "Why, father I" said Phil, In alarm. "I put my arms around her, an'said'that when a gal was ci yin' sho ort to have her parents to comfort her, an', as neither of 'em was present, I hoped she'd make b'lieve for a minute or two that 1 was her grandr father. So she took my advice an' it scorned to do her a sight o' good." "What advice did you give her#" uskod Phil "None—in words," said tho old man. "Wait till you're my ago: then you'll understand." "I don't see," said Phil, after a moment or two of silence, "that things are much better than they wore. Perhaps she's not engaged but that fellow Marge is hanging about her all the time. From what I've heard people remark, he's been paying attention to her for a year or two. When the family were at our house last summer he was the only man she talked about. I'm pretty sure, too, from what I've seen, that ber mother favors him. So, putting everything together, and thinking about it a good deal, as I've had to do in spite of myself since I've been up home. I've made up my mind that it's a foregone conclusion." "So you're goin' to flop like a stuck pig unlet It go on, aro you# Just because you've thought somethin' you're goin' to do nothin'. If I'd thought that of you 1 don't b'lievo Pd have brought you down here to be a business mnn in the city. A fellow that hain't got tho grit to fight for a gal that ho wants is likely to make a mighty poor fist of it flghtln' for a fortune No, sir: you're not goin' to knucklo under whilo you've got a father to egg you on. I don't say she's in ov'ry way the gal I'd havo picked out for yon, but any gal that'll livo up to the best that's In her is good enough for any man alive. If you. care as much for ber as you thought you, did wben I mot you in tbo street that day. that gal is the ono for you to tie to, unL^ she breaks tbe ropo. A man sometimes gets a bad lickin' in a love fight, an' a powerful big scar besides, but both together don't do him as much harm as backin' out an' play in' coward," AJ, "Pm not a coward^ father," protested Phil, ami his eyes flashed as if he meant it "You don't mean to bo, my boy," said the old man, with int on his son's shoulder, "but ev'rythin'in this affair is new to you, an' you're in' tbo dark about some things that mebbe look bigger than they are. That sort of thing'll make cowards out of the best of men, if th«*y give in to it that's the reason Pm crackin'the whip at you." "I wonder what Mr, Tramlay wants of me," said Phil, a moment later. "Reckon you'd better go down and find oot," tbe old man replied.

lobe Continued Next Week.]

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