THE APPLE TREE GIRL
"No," said Charlotte, "I live at Marlin Mills."
"Where's that?"
"In the northeast corner of the state, 'the wild part of Connecticut!’" she smiled. And then in an honest desire to play fair with this twinkling-eyed, gray-haired gentleman, she quietly added: "I'm the school-teacher up there."
"No!" he cried in delight.
"Oh, but I am," said Charlotte, and watched to see how he would take it. "Perhaps he won't like me," she thought, "now he knows I'm not rich. Perhaps he'll change his tone," she thought, "now he knows I'm a school-teacher."
But Charlotte needn't have worried. For one reason, Mr. Phair was an American gentleman, which is as far as anyone can get from being snobbish. And, for another reason, he had made his own millions and had made them
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