Lincoln County advocate. (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.]) 1876-1877, 1876-12-20

both be much given to signing and
meditating for week Or two. 49,.
Grey would spree it pretty stoutly
after such visit, and my poor little
cousin would flirt with a pertinacity
worthy of better cause than sheer
desperation.
Her affection for Grey Endicott was
the one sole thing she never confessed
to me. strongly suspected that Grey
himself received that part of her con-
fidence.
Just now he happened to be on a
summer sojourn to Milestone Centre,
and he and Jessie were going it very
strong. The first words he said on en-
tering was:
-, "Hew dye y; do, my old boy Where's
"Just gone out-Tll call her."
Ifound her in an adjoining room
before the glass. She had heard Grey's
voice, or knew his ring, and quite nat
urally discovered that her collar was
little awry, or her hair was coming
down. It was one of Jessie's peculiari-
ties that her hair was always coming
down.
When we entered the sitting room
again, Grey took Jessie's hand as a
pious Hindoo might take hold of his
pet idol.
This interesting religious ceremony
over, he stated the object of his visit to
be the arrangement of party to 60 to
the Tide-mill House, favorite water
ing place about twenty miles off, where
parties frequently went for q jaunt. A
gentleman and his wife-friends Of
Grey Endicott- going, and wanted
some young folks to accompany them
to make it pleasant. With this idea
they had commissioned Grey to make
up little coterie.
elf Miss Jessie will accompany us,
and if you can get some agreeable
young lady to accompany you," said
Grey to me, II think we may have
very pleasant time"
Charming! Miss Idelia and I must
20, of course, thought. I pictured to
myself the delight we should have in
wandering by the shore picking up
shells, and i" enjoying the fresh," as the
French say, or sitting upon the front
piazza of the Tide-mill House in the
moonlight. We must go, and Idelia
should write poem on the sojourn.
NV cousin Jessie interrupted my
meditations with what seemed to me
like very malicious and uncalled for
remark:
eff you take that Vaughn thing, I
wont 60 !"
Grey looked imploringly at me, but I
was determined and merely reto1ted:
"Then my dear child, you will not
co."
By some means unknown to me,
Grey succeeded in persuading her to
char &c her resolution and to accom-
pany us, even if "that Vaughn thing !"
was Of the party. He was very per-
suasive fellow-was Grey Endicott-
especially with some folks.
The morrow was fixed upon for our
trip, which was to last two or three
days. We got together a large assort-
ment of fishing tackle, baskets, etc.,
and Grey laid in an army supply of CT
CARS.
"For," said he, "take my advice and
never smoke watering-place cigar-it
will be something to haunt you
on your death-bed if you do"
Two stages bore us to South Milestone
two miles from the Centre-and a
small sort of single. barreled steamer
bore uo the rest of the way. Miss ldel-
ia Vaungh and myself occupied one
stage, while Grey and Jessie made
themselves miserably happy, with
Greys's married friends, in the other.
When we arrived at South Milestone,
and assembled on the pier, Grey con-
fronted us, and much to my astonish-
ment, handed my cousin over to me,
and walked Miss Idelia on board the
boat himself. AS I followed with Jes-
sic, I heard him say:
II don't know as you are acquainted
with my friends lady-shall I intro.
duce your"
The fair Idelia responded that she
would be delighted, and as we gained
the upper deck of the boat, Grey pre-
scented Jessie-my own cousin-as my
wife!
Miss Vaughn was thun erstruck. A
gloomy cloud gathered upon her brow,
and double-action lightning flashed
from her eyes, which she rolled so far
up that it seemed impossible they
should ever attain natural position
again.
Without W ord bowed low, and she
before I could get my mouth open, to
deny that my cousin was my wife
Grey led her away toward the bow Of
the boat, leaving Jessie and where We
were. A moment after, Miss Idelia
went below to the ladies' cabin, and
Grey told us that she complained of
feeling i'll. She did not make her ap-
pearance again during the trip.
Grey apologized for the mistake he
had made in introducing Jennie, and
said he would try to remedy it. His
friends-the lady and gentleman who
had originally proposed the sojourn-
now joined us, and Jessie introduced
him to me as her husband!
Ihastened to deny the relation, but
Grey and Jessie laughed off my denial
in most extraordinarily cool manner,
SO that I actually began to wonder if I
hadn't t, in a fit Of abstracti N, at some
period, been married to my own cousin.
II shall know tonight" thought I,
''at the Tidemill House; for if Jessie
and have but one room allotted to us,
shall probably be aware of the fact"
Arrived at the watering place, Grey
offered to attend to all the business of
getting apartments, seeing the baggage
disposed Of, and taking care of Miss
Vaughn, who, overcome by her emo.
tons and the ground swell, had been
most unpoetically sea-sick. -
I mean to say that Ninon de rEnclos
Catherine of Russia-yea, Sappho, or
Asnaaia harsolf-wo,11d ha ,,nnoot;co1