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Abbie Vail bent over the pan of peas
she was podding—rebellion in her
firm-pressed lips and somber eyes. Da
vid was taking too much for granted.
Just because they had been looked
upon as sweethearts in their school
days was no reason why the old order
should continue. Abbie blamed Da
vid for the general understanding; as
long as he insisted upon monopolizing
her evenings, it must continue. David
was so dense; Abbie’s ill-treatment of
him could not shake his allegiance.
She did not confess, even to herself,
that this devotion had but recently
caused her annoyance. Previous to
the arrival of the handsome stranger
she seemed to enjoy it.
Abbie had not actually promised her
self to David, and since the advent
of J. Radford Sills she was conscious
of many crudities In David’s appear
ance and manner, of which she had
been heretofore blissfully unaware.
J. Radford, fastidiously correct in
dress, wlnningly courteous in his
ways, was a formidable rival. Little
Abbie was very proud as she walked
at his side down the main street.
Mrs. Vail had taken J. Radford Sills
as a summer boarder, upon his recom
mendation from an old friend of hers,
now located in that same city.
Abbie Vail had looked with awe
upon their guest, the neat sleeping
room seemed all at once bare and
unworthy of such a presence, so she
set about adorning it with favorite
trifles of her own.
The dining table, too, was dressed
with fresh flowers, and Ahbie herself,
dainty always in fresh muslins. And
David sat by, patient, vaguely trou
bled at her aloofness. Ahbie won
dered, with a thrill, what it might
he like to be loved by a superior be
ing, and her triumph came with start
ling promptness.
J, Radford loved her, really loved
her, the little country girl, podding
peas on the old hack porch into a
shining tin pan. Only last evening he
had told her so, speaking in a glorious
way as a being should speak, compar
ing his love to the depth of the sea
and his constancy to the stars which _
shone above. p
David had never talked like that.
David was strangely shy before her,
always humble. So Abide Vail was re
bellious today, that David might not
know that she had outgrown a sim
ple, silent love, that he must force
the knowledge from her in so many
wmrds.
With the acquisition of this admired
man’s love Ahbie felt far removed
from simplicity and homely surround
ings. She despised the broken place
on the porch, the peas in the pan. She
intended to be like the women her new
lover had pictured—women of his
world—modish, charming. She hoped _
that her mother would sell the old _
place, and go with her to the city.
After all, the farm was her own; it
had been grandfather’s legacy to her.
omitting his daughter's name from his
will because of a marriage which had
displeased him.
Mother had not minded; she knew
that this was iier father’s way of be
stowing the homestead upon herself
after all. In her widowhood she knew
that Abbie’s home would be hers also.
The banker had suggested that for
her to sell now would be a wise move.
Ahbie hoped her mother would agree
to the plan. They could all three live
happily in the city together after he
and Ahbie were married.
Her face brightened at the sound
of a step on the walk, but it was only
David. David, with his new-weary
eyes, and kindly, believing smile.
He took no notice of Abbie's forbid
ding attitude, but dropped down on the —
step beside her, looking searchingly ~
Into her averted face.
“So you haven’t heard,” he said with
a sigh of relief. "Reckon, then, I’ll
he the first to tell the news, an’ maybe
I can make it softer. It’ll shock you,
Abbie, 'till you get used to the idea.
It’s about that banking fellow. He—
* well, he isn’t what you have thought
him to be all along, dear; reckon—”
David smiled—“he’s more what I
thought him to he.”
Slowly David took a city paper from
his pocket and unfolded it before the
girl’s widening eyes.
“A defaulter,” read David, “hiding _
around in the country under an as
sumed name. Got him this morning p
walking along the main road and took
him back to town. Reen keeping the
stealing up pretty clever foivsome time
back, the paper says.”
Unconscious Of the girl’s stricken
face, David folded his paper, and put
It back into his pocket.
“And now, girl, dear,” he said gently,
I’ve another kind of news that’s bet
ter. You’ve been so busy lately you
haven’t asked much what I’ve been
doing, Abbie; there’s the nicest little
bungalow on the main road that you
ever saw, and It’s mine—mine and
yours, dear, whenever you want to say L;
Your mother, I reckon, ’ll be hap
pier right here in her own old home.” l~
“But, David," b"eathed Abbie—she
found her voice witli difficulty—“I'
haven’t been loving you, David. I’ve
been loving that—that other man.”
David smiled his patient smile.
“Oh no you ain’t dear,” he snld.
“You’ve just been thinking you loved
him; it was part of that wrong think
ing of yours. I knew all the time that
you didn’t, and I’ve been right."
“And you can forgive me?” asked
Abbie, wondering.
David nodded.
“That’s the kind of love Fve lot,’ L
he said. _1
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