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"We'll take vou in," saM Betty,
with ;t j;3!r.n:zin ir that was quite
new to her, "i.ccsms: vmi have been
so kirvl, an'l hr.v.- 'jo us all the
b.t!'ih.H to decorate with. Hut vf'U
muvti't Nil anybo.lv, George. Mr.
Jc Vaux and I want -onish the
na-ives t -uiht. '
It was George Knox for whom
hhc opened the door of the new barn,
thit marvelous structuie of Mr.
Sj! juc', an outgrowth of tancv
farming n ; larc c..ta..
There it stood, like a palace ot
agriculfirr, painted pure white, with
latticed windows of emerald-green,
and an airy observatory at the top,
surmounted by a gilded weather-
vane.
The barn had just heen finished
that summer, but the crops were all
in and halt threshed when Bettv
made up htr mind to have a harvest
home. There was plenty ot room
for dancing in the wide area between
the mows, when the tarming imple
ments and machinery were moved
out of the way.
"Walk in, Mr. Knox," said Clar
ence de Vaux, with the air of one to
the manner born. "Miss Bettv and
I have been doing the decorative in
side." George winced at the constant as
sociation ot his name with Betty',
and looked jealously at the girl's tair
face, which had never seem.-d farth
er from him than now
"She will never care for me,
George said gloomily, with a .des
perate look at his brown hands an '
h'-mely clothes, thrice uly by con
trast with the dainty elegance Of
Clarence ilr Vaux
He went into the b.irn marveling,
yet full of despair.
It never occurred to him that h?
had any part in the beauty ot that in
terior, though he had loaned his
team and spent a whole day cutting
boughs and gathering flowers fo
Betty at her command, without eve
knowing what the was going to do
with them.
"Doesn't it look pretty?" Betty
demanded, as they stood inside the
barn, and she took a lew giddy turns
with De Vaux over the wed-waxed
floor. "This is Mr de Vaux's do
ing. He is quite an artist, I assure
yOU."
Ab, now, Miss Betty!" cried
De Vaux, pulling his mustache.
"Spare my blushes 1"
"It looks beautiful," George said
imply. ,
And for a moment bis honest eyes
shone with pleasure. '
The scene was a very pretty one
All around the walls were arranged
Impromptu scats; the walls were
hung with green boughs and autumn
leaves, with fruit and grain and farm
implements gaily decked with rib
bons, Chinese lanterns depended from
the rafters, and it chandelier, made
of laths cleverly nailed together, sup
ported & hundred wax candles.
" x ou win have to be careful a bon
fire," suggested George mildly.
"With all that hay in the mows, the
least spatk would make a blaze in a
minute."
"There won't be any danger, 1
guess," Betty said carelessly.
Wmilil Mil litre trt crr tin in tti rn
pola, George? There's a lovely
view from there. Yeu can see
Rankc's hill and the mill-pond quite
plainly. Won't you come up, Mr.
fie Vaux"
'. "No I thank you- De Vaux said
lazily. "I am too tired for stairs.
II you'll excuse me Miss Betty, I'll
wait lor you-below."
A look of pique came over Betty's
face, but she managed to hide it, and
went on up the staircase with
George.
There was a lovely view up there,
but he had no eyes for it. He had
been longing so tor a moment with
httt alone that be pressed close to her
Side, ana looicea aown into uie wircn
ing face that had broken his peace
for cvtr.
"Betty," he said, in a voice that
trembled trom very love, "what is
the nutter with vou lately? You
arc no: the $,mc to me as you used
lobe."
"Why, nothing! she answered
tr t'iguvd surprnc. Youre full
sot nations, George."- '
'No, 1 am not," he said decided
ly. "I liiio v when vou are kind to
me and when vou are not. Bettv.
you know tat I love v-u with mv
whole soul. I have never asked you
to be my wife. iut brcau-e your
tather N ; ridi nun, an 1 I am only
a voting farmer who has his wav to
make. But if 1 thought vou could
care for me a little Oil, Bettv,
do uu think ou could?"
He hail seized her hand, and was
t looking wistfully into her fair face.
w th a great hunger on his lips to
taste the sweamess ot that tempting
mouth so near his on.
lie w-s a fine tellow, and Bettv
knew it. He had never looked
nobler than he did at that moment;
but De Vaux was a gentleman with
invisible means of support ; his hands
were white, and he could dance the
lawn tennis quadrilles beautifully.
"I am sorry, George," she said
hastily. "I am very fond ot you,
but I I don't think I could care tor
you in that way."
He dropped her hand instantly,
and a strange whiteness came over
his bronze skin.
"Is it this De Vaux?" he asked
huskily. "Are you -engaged to
him?"
No,'' said Betty with a warm
flush ; "I am not exactly engaged to
him, but "
"I understand. Shall we godown
now?"
They came dow.i in silence, ana
found Clarence de Viux smoking a
cigarette.
"You ought not to light that in
here," said George sternly. "You'd
better throw it away."
"Sir!" said Clarence, giving him
a prolonged stare. "I smoke where
I choose."
"Then you had better smoke such
places as can not be jeopardised by
your folly," said George curtly.
"Betty, I wouldn't let him smoke in
here."
"I don't see any harm in Mr. de
Vaux's lighting a cigarette if be
wishes," she said with a resentful
flash of her dark eyes. 4,You must
not allow your personal feelings to
Drovoke you to rudeness, Mr. Knox."
"I had no intention ot being
rude," George said quickly. "But
I warn you that if vou are not care
ful to-night this barn will be in ashes
to-morrow."
"You are a prophet of evil," said
Betty carelessly. "If you are ready
Mr. de Vaux, we will go in. Are
you going, George? Well, good
bye. I suppose we shall see you
to-night?"-
"I hardly think so," Georee an
swered.
And, lifting his bat, he lett them
to walk back to the house together.
The evening brought with it a fine
September moon, mellow and full.
The ladies and gentlemen were all
in costume, and Betty's dress was
wonderfully becoming.
"You look like a poem incarn
ate," whispered Clarence de Vaux,
as they glided over the floor togeth
er. "Won't you give me a few
moments in the cupola when this is
over? The moon is perfect, and the
landscape is divine to-night."
"Oh, dear!" cried Betty, as a
breeze swept through her curls and
drifted them backward. "How
cool it is up here! I wish I'd
brought my shawl."
"Shall I get it lor you ?" De Vaux
said devotedly.
"It you will be so kind. It is a
white cashmere, hanging on a peg
by the door."
He started down again with alac
rity. The band was playing a merry
tune as he made his way to where
Betty's wrap was hanging.
It was just slightly above his
reach ; but he jumped tor it, and suc
ceeded in bringing it down only
something else came with it.
A Chinese lantern hanging near
was caught in the fringe of the shawl
and flitted off the wire, falling over
the licam right into the midst ot the
hay- mow.
In an instant the place was in
flimcs. Like magic a conflagation
seemed to be conjured up, roaring
around the huge rafters and breath
ing forth a choking mass of smoke.
There was one wikl scream. The
music ceased with a crash, and ev
ery individual rushed towards the
one door, Clarence do Vaux among
them. They had but one thought ,
to es:ape from the burning struc
ture.
Bettv, alone tr m the cupola, was
all unconscious of her d.mger until
the smell ot smoke sent her to the
staircase. A tev steps down, ar.d
she was confronted !v the fire, which
shut off her passage completely.
With a wild cy tor help, she ran
upstairs again, and clambered out on
the root. But there was no help tor
her there. The barn was gabled,
and its slanting root made it impos
sible to take a step without immedi
ate danger.
They saw her below, and a shout
of agonised terror.
Down on her knees Betty drop
ped. "Oil, God, help me!" she pray
ed. And then she heard a voice that
had always carried comtort and se
curity to her heart.
"This way, Betty," George
Knox cried.
And then his strong arms threw
about her a heavy horse-blanket,
whose wet folds protected her from
the flames while he bore her through
their midst down the fiery stairway
a nd out in the cool night, where she
was sate once more.
Betty never knew how they made
that perilous escape, tor when she
came to herself, they told her George
could not see her.
He was hormly burneit poor
fellow! and raving wildly.
Clarence de Vaux had vanished.
Public opinion, condemning him tor
his base desertion ot Betty in tlie
hour ot peril, had branded him a
coward, and he had left town in a
hurry.
It was some weeks before George
Knox again opened his eyes con
sciously on the world, and saw Bet
ty wringing out the soft linen cloths
that had cooled his burns and slowly
tempered the raging fever in his
head.
"Bettv!" he whispered
you sate?"
"Yes, dear," she answered with a
smile whose gladness George felt in
every part of his being. "You
saved me. Not a hair of my head
was hurt."
"Thank Heaven!" he said softly.
"I tried to spare you, Bettv. I loved
you so!"
"I know you did," she said kneel
ing down at his side and taking one
of his poor bandaged hands in hers ;
"and I loved you too, George,
though I was not quite sure of it.
But I am now," she added ten
derly, "and, George dear, it you
will take me now, I will marry vou
whenever you like."
"Oh, Betty!" he cried. "My
darling, are you sure?"
She bent over him with a look
which there was no mistaking, and
then George felt the lips which he
had coveted pressed to his own in a
fond willing kiss.
"Yes, .dear," she answered, "I
am quite sure."
Mr.' Sprague's barn was in ashes,
but people said he was a rich man
and. could stand it.
He was very fond of George
Knox, to whom he looked for the
practical realization of all his own
brilliant schemes of agriculture; and
when he heard that it was the "barn
fire," as it was known afterwards,
which gave him his son-in-law, he
said it had paid.
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