The Apple-Tree Girl

THE APPLE TREE GIRL ## CHAPTER I She was such an old-fashioned little thing——! "And ever likely to be old-fashioned," said Aunt Hepzibah, "born up here at Marlin Mills and raised, as a body might say, right in the shadow of Micah's apple tree!" I smiled at Aunt Hepzibah then; but thinking it over no

But for all the stupendous nature of the Three Great Sums which she had set herself, they also had in them that magnificient quality of simplicity—stupendous simplicity, if you like—which might be said to be the spirit of America. Indeed, in an allegorical way of speaking I like to think that Charlo

"I might meet someone here to-morrow and think he was all right; but he might be married or he might be engaged, and there's hardly any way of finding out unless you ask. And what would Mrs. Phair think if I went around asking: 'Is he single? Is he engaged?

"Oh, I'm so glad!" gasped Charlotte, because for one horrible moment she really believed she had killed him. Then realizing that her gladness must seem out of place to the prostrate Mr. Graham, she hurriedly corrected herself, saying: "I'm so sorry!" "What—what was it?" he further inquired. "I hit y

"And Dame Johnson, and Miss Hawley, and the children. And I wonder if Margaret's getting on any better with her husband. And—and—and I wonder how Neil is. I'll drop in and see Aunt Grace before starting for home.