ooked nose, like the inverted prow of a ship, boarded the schooner, and scratched his head, thro

n' with me, in a lumber-wa

said Vinnie, who wa

" he asked, as he lifted one end of the t

se; Mrs. Betterson is m

d of the trunk, and tu

"I don't take nobody in my wagon to the house of no s

ny house near by?" sai

I've nothin' to do with that family, but to hate and despise 'em. Tel

nce, the angry man turned his back upon

om the shock his rude conduct gave he

to console herself for the disappointment. She had thought all along: "If I can do no better, I will take the stage to Nor

chandise,-dry goods, groceries, hardware, boots and shoes,-and the ca

ht to make one more effort to find a conveyance direct to L

he was just going away from the door, having met with no success, when a slim youth, carrying his head

ed to find somebody going out t

now of anybody I

rrow morning. A gentleman and his daughter. Wife and daughter, in fact. A two-seated wa

nd can I go ther

if you please, I will int

, despite his affability, there was something about him she distrusted and disliked,-an in

could not at that moment recall the names; so, as th

-house as the name had led her to expect,-he showed her into a small, din

es. "Meanwhile I thought I would order some refreshments." And he was followe

IGING B

for me!" cried

he youth, carelessly. "Intimate friends o

s ago you couldn't think of their names,-those intimate

ss, threw himself back

Bettersons; intimate friends of theirs, I mean. You think I'm not acquainted out there

ow my sister Caro

down his gla

uiring your way to Betterson's; but I never dreamed-Excus

e?" Vinni

did I call their names? I just wanted

ith indignation.

me out," he said, wit

xation. "I've come alone all the way from my home in Western New York, and me

ed by this rebuke; but he laughe

p; we'll be friends yet. Won't drink? Here goes, then!" And he tossed off the contents of the

o her side; she walked faster still, and he ca

r ask the protection of the first person she met, when, looking eagerly from the doorway

! O J

. He paused, glanced up and down, then across at the girlish figure starting

alton! is

so eager to avoid a moment before. When she thought of him again, and looked about her, he had disapp