Wayside Courtships

he young man. He grew older and more thoug

came times when his teeth set together like the clutch of a wolf, a

r, but just in his impulses. Arthur had inherited these stronger traits, but

he sunshine, and when she did not come near enough to nod to Arthur, life was a weary t

while Mrs. Richards, the foreman's wife, a hearty,

hickens and cows," the young girl said one day

a seat, wiping he

to waiting and tendin' on a mess of 'em; it

steps and smiling up at Edith. "I can't stand cows; I like horses, though

udied the clear brown of his face and the white of his forehead, where his hat shielded it from the sun and the win

ou look!" she

p at her in

e I was pretty tender. I was just out of college, in fact," he said, gl

surprised a

s at Yale. One of them plays half-back or sho

" He heaved a sigh. He could not think

ean baseball. I

n the West. We go in more

ched up, they look so funny, and then when some fellow gets the ball under his arms

amiliar expression than he had seen on her face before. Some wall o

ou ready?" asked th

he suddenly remembered

rose

l ready,

te.-Mr. Ramsey, do you think th

s. The ground is not

rm, Mrs. Richards brought out

itched the horse and brought it ar

you in, Mi

re, and the Major reached the cart just

ayly cried. "If not, I'

ou'll hold

n drive if I h

irl is saying these days. S

egin right now and dr

r-a smile which shadowed swiftly into a look which had a cer

ould not understand it, though her mood while seated

n to church. He reasoned Edith would attend the Episcopal service, and he

eling that she belonged to another world-a world of pleasure and wealth, a world without work or worry. This feeling was str

had not seen him there, and his trip lacked so much of being a success. Life seeme

as passed around that Arthur went down to see his girl, and they set themselves

k from her, or to see her eyelashes fall over her brown eyes, paid him

of her cheek and chin. He noticed also her growing color. The free

home alone on the plain, with the shadowy mountains over the

ir. Riding thus, exalted thus, one night he shaped a desperate resolution. He determined to call on

sweetness and purity of heart, but merely the fact that she lived in a great