The Desired Woman

mhouse. Dolly, with a book, a manuscript, and a pencil, stood in a thoughtful attitude under a tr

n your meetin' to-night?"

es of two men leaning over the barn-yard fence in the thickening shadows.

saw 'im back on the mountain road

k sweeping mustache were observable. "Uncle John, you know Gid is a moonshiner, don't you?" "Folks says he is," Webb smiled. "An' fellers that like good corn mountain-dew ought to kno

t the blank manuscript paper. "Uncle John," she faltered, "I wan

en the authorities are watchin' his movements too close for comfort. I've seed the pile in our crib sink powerful in a single night. You remember the time your ma thought some niggers had broke i

-I never was so worried in my life. I'm afraid father is a

be bad, wouldn't it-that is, if the officers ketched '

and fell tremblingly; she grasped her penci

e my head again. Here I am trying to put high manly ideas into George's head, but if the boy's father is a lawbreaker all I do will be thrown away. I want to see Ann grow up and marry well, but what decent

ere amongst the pore folks the Union army trampled under heel and robbed of their all, but it ain't no fun to stand up before that United States judge an' git a sentence. I was a witness in

yn was quite near He was sm

n't like to see fine tobacco-smoke floatin' abou

his I hear Of your club-meeting to-

smile, and her color rose. "The truth is, the whole thing started as a joke on me

which he held against the fire of Mostyn's-"when them fell

" Mostyn aske

discussed only between Warren Wilks and myself. I didn't think much about it at the time and said it would suit me

swered, heartily enjoying he

completely beyond me. They are doing it for a joke, and they expect me to acknowledge defeat. I've been at the point all day of ignorin

," Mostyn urged

o vote?'" dropped from

ghed. "I hope you are not going to

ing me. I came out here to try to write down a few points, but not one idea has come in my head. That's the first stumbling-block, and the other is even more serious. You see, up to this time my side has generally won

men going to-night

gument. They think woman's suffrage originated in the bad place. They will think I'm plumb crazy, but I can't help it. I understand that a lawyer doesn't have actually to believe in his side

of money," Mostyn said, winking a

latform, an' he don't let a chance slip to git a joke on Dolly. She has dow

" Dolly said, with a smile. "I'm going to my room to try to think up something.

obby?" Mo

told me to-day that the child had had a narrow escape. A week ago he