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16 ‘THAT GIRL OF JOHNSON'S. | dislike and distrust that which they cannot understand. Young Green also had aroused his fears. Green had an education; he had asked where the girl obtained her edu- cation, therefore she must have an education. To-night he was assured of this. He kicked the book contemptuously, and muttered, under his breath, an oath against young Green. If ever he came there again it would be a sorry day for him. Dolores said nothing. A sudden frenzy seized him. He stooped and snatched the book from the ground. It was an old astronomy. In the advanced world of thought it was of little use; wise men had proved many of the hypotheses erroneous. The girl did not know this. Perhaps in her dreams many things that the book left in mystery were made clear. But she did not know that these had been proved plain facts to the world—until the day young Green came. She had been reading the book, for she preferred it to any of her mother’s books, and when young Green saw it the day he was there he was much surprised. He did not know that the villagers were fond of books, and had sup- posed them as a rule unable to read, for the little battered school-house where Dolores’ mother taught in the old days had long gone to ruin, and no one outside of the settlement cared to take the matter in hand. He asked her many questions, and her replies, though slow and quiet, showed that she had not only read but thought on many things and in a manner that would do justice to wiser heads than hers, simple girl as she was, with no other educator than the silent mountains and the memory of her mother. Young Green was strangely interested in her, and prom- ised to take her a volume on the subject the next time he went that way. She thanked him, and it was the first time she had _ thanked any one since Betsy Glenn died, That was two weeks before, and he had not come again aa he said he would, but she watched for him, feeling sire that he \ » = -comicbooks.co ‘ = Va ‘ = ~ , i