Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. One evening in the early part of June, it was Harmon's good fortune to find Miss Leston alone again. After a few preliminary remarks he mentioned that it was a pleasant stroll to Forte Whipple or to the Pines. " I have been to the Forte," she told him. " Let us walk to the Pines." They loitered along in the cool evening, feeling satisfied with life. They were coming to the place where people began to tell each other all about themselves. Myr- nie had told Fred about her life at previous meetings and, always eager to learn more about her, he had not been slow to ask questions. She had told him that one of the faults her English aunt had found with her was that she had always preferred the society of boys and men to that of girls or ladies; also that she refused to grow up and become dignified as befitted a lady, but seemed to cling always to some of her most childish habits. She also recounted that once, when her aunt took her to a public gathering to see the Governor-general and his wife, the lady (seeing the pretty child) had wished to kiss her, but the little girl exclaimed, " Don't ikes to tiss womens, dest ikes to tiss mens! " Of course, the good-natured Governor promptly kissed the child. Myrnie had learned little about Fred, except that hehad been reared in Ohio, that he had followed mining for the last ten years, and had as yet not made a great deal of money, but that recently his affairs were so shaping themselves as to make his holdings in certain copper properties promise to be very valuable. They climbed up to the top of one of the cliffs, that jut in such abundance from the hillsides out west of the town, and sat down on a huge, round boulder. Silence held them for a time, as they took in the restful scene. Pine needles were falling all about...