A Pair of Patient Lovers

used was, "No freight out till Monday, you know." The inducement was June Alber,

anoe. But the day was of the treacherous serenity of a weather-breeder, and the next morning brought a storm of such violence that Mrs. Maze declared it would be a foo

as to get the first Hill Country train from Boston at Burymouth. He had decided that to get i

e train and ask the station-master (known to him from his former sojourn) who Miss Phyl

be blocked for several hours yet, if not longer. The express backed down to Porchester, and there seemed no choice for Gaites, if he insisted upon going to Craybrooks, but to take the first train

ne with the sky and the river again, and all three laughed at him for his folly in leaving the certain delight they embodied for the vague good of a whim fulfilled. Was this the change he had come to the mountains for? He could throw his hat into the clouds that hung so low in the defile where the hotel lurked, and that was something; but it was not so much to the purpose, now that he had it, as June Alber and the sky and the river

ad been publicly disgracing himself, he left the place, and went out on the piazza till his shame should be forgotten. Of course, the sound of the name Desmond had been as much a part of his dream as the sight of that pale girl's face; but he felt, while he paced the veranda, the pull of a

ir topic, they began again; that is, one of them began to talk again, and the other to listen, and Gaites from almost the first word joi

y years. Lower Merritt was one of the first places opened up in that part

om her childhood romps on her father's lawn somewhat older tha

nto the handkerchief on her lap as she went o

id use to travel some, winters, but I guess they don't much any more; if they don't stay there the whole winter through, I don't believe they get much farther now than Portland,

of rising abruptly and closing his paper with a clash, as if he had been trying to read and had not been able for