The Gavelyte, March 1906

Cl~D . R ILLJ!.: 'UfJ,bUK --------- Mi$s ._-\lde11, w~th whom he had plan- talk to someone else. He told tlw ed _to have some innocent fun. Aftel' girls, Rus. el would keep th rn bu. y rnuch hunting and examininv of ev- if they would only write to him. ery nook and corner, he came upon Wh n Thompson had gone away them seated in the hidden place. Miss Wilson took the pad and wrot , He aµproache<l them apd said, after "Wher is your honw ?" some conven:w.tion . Mr. Russel spoke back, "New York.'' "May -I bring a friend of mine Miss Wilson wrote,"New York City, whom I wish you ladies to meet?" you mean?" Ruth and Ethel said they would I "No, New York,'' he answereJ, Le glad to me~t. him. I "that city up there on the Atlantic "Who is your friend?" asked Ethel. coast." ''Oh,'' replie~ '.l'hompson, "he is "You live .on a farn;"? she wrote. just one of tpe boys, but he is great- To i\i,liss Alden, "He look:- like it, ly afflicted, . both deaf and dumb; I doesn't he". Not to know any more thought perhap.s you two would help about New York than that he must me to make the time pass pleasantly J be from tl\e back woods of for him. He didn't want to come at Maine. Here Ethel take this and all, but I finally persuaded him, but I write something. About hi:; family. l _ fe·.r he. ~s not havin_g the good ju ~e ever had any very serious lore trme I ant1c1pated. He 1s very back- / affair. All Yankees do you knuw. war<l but he will no~ be that way Ask him if he fell in love at firnt \.'. .r_v )ong with such .lively girls as I sight. Ask him most any thing. you. He doesn't . want to talk very j [f he'~ a Yankee he'll tell you." Mis. much; he would rather w1:ite what I Alden took the pad. IJe ha:,; to say. He can speak, but of, "l hate to ask him that, Ruth. v,ursl': not very plainly, and. it em- He might think we were intruding.'' - l>a.ra.s:-;es him somewhat. You ·will ''Never mind, do it anyway." ·said gt~t along alright if you just write /Ruth. on his pad." I Miss Alden wrote thi:> and he ans- Soon Thompson returned wit~ I wered back, .Pussel. Thornp~on wrote their names "Yrs, sl~e is very pret\iy. Reminds on his pad a11d then introduced him me of you, aupnrn hair, and blue to .them as hi:; friend Mr. Russel. eyl3s, very fair." Thompson remn.ined talking to them - "Ruth this is getting exciting," awhile, but finally mov-"d away to said Ethel, "c1,ange the subject to