The Red Cloud chief., 1878-05-30

l'NNN 80 $50" 49, y - ~
youth. q, east. hsa t--n hers 1h~rr
~ash', the smallos, dagger ths, Liddy
~oald thr-sscn Tom is,.rc-is b, MAT
rying.
No. O msy never marry. i.ijdy."
sighed her SISTER. hut IL hove Anson.
and OH love lituc Tons. to- NV III,
tie mo,h~ri-~. Tom cannot rob him
~ his rs,rimouy. and 7 oNnnc, live
without, Arson. no~ can ! wrong Tom
,o pleasure m,s-ltF What gill he
have Ia 80 gu, in thu. hard world ~i,h
1T
Hash. YOU silly giri be- viii have
his head and hands. like other m-n
and ,hen-you NAV never have an,
chiidrcn Ia stand Ia his NAY
But nov unhappy u would MAX. me
see him earning hi. hrrad bN The ssrsi
IL his brow. while the, fsrrd hsc the
lilies - III. field Ia have Tom envy
and perhaps hate them. and feel bitter
tina, III. had l-cn msdc >" much easier
for them by Injustice
Perhaps they would share With
Tom.
"Ah, IL ~ouldn'i be- quite safe ,o ,rus,
Ia that pl.asan, perhaps
You ought not ~ suspect Nour chil.
drcn Il being les. generous than your
self"
''Bu, their mother must have lscn
uugrncrous hrst, YOU sc.
You have Arson Ia ,hiuA ui. ii,ty,
in this affair. AS well ss Tom II YOU
don't love Tom better"
eel l.r't IapfsF lar sH. U.ll Ia.
made II impossible for me la marry An.
son with n clear c~onscicncc-to marry
him and be- happy. II h. we're SURF IL
earning u fortune, with which Ne could
make amends Ia it'll. Tom. i, would le
difcr,n, Hut ! canno, count upon
such An improbable contingency. As
YOU say. Tom will have his head aud
hands to push his WAY, hut the best
head and the busiest hands do not nj.
WAYS compcl fortune, and II harm
should come Ia him from want of capi.
ital. IL ne should Ia tempted la sin from
lack u money, II should have 20 an
swcr for IL, IL would he nv guilt"
Nonsense, Hitty; your conscience IL
too tender. Marry Arson aud trust To
Fate; that's my advice, suppose YOU
refuse. and he marries somebody else
and little Tom doesn't live "a grow up!
Il shall not have wrongcd him"
But YOU will also have wronged An
son"
Not II hc-n he marrics another"
Many would. perhaps. approve Kitty
Thorne's conduct at this crisis. more
would condemn but she walked ac-
cording Ia her light in those cruel DAYS,
II was no easy task she had set herself.
She was Ia receive no need for her sac.
rifce. except self approval nothing
but reproachcs. Could shc have scen
all that would happen. she might have
spared herself this cruelty. And how
much can happen in this time! how
much Ia make their wisest forethoughts
assume the aspect Of appropriateness!
Property changes hands. values shrink.
children grow up with wills Of their own.
people die and make room for remote
heirs. or they outlive the sharp edge II
sorrow and anger, and learn Ia bear the
burden of their mistakes. Miss Hitiy
had faded In the mean time. while An
son Searle wore his years like garlands.
The fortune Of which her mot impOssi.
BILE" children might have robbed little
Tom had dwindled To the mcrest pit.
lance through the knavey II the man
"a whose wisdom Il had been entrusted,
while Arson Searle had unexpectedly
stepped into the possession of the Searlc
estate. with It's old stone mansion. its
orchards and outlying meadow LANDS.
and the income that had been rolling
up since the Searlcs first set foot upon
plymouth Rock. Twenty years before
there had been no shadow of such n
possibility, no dream Of IL In Anson's
mind or another's. Two healthy lives
had barred the way against him. but
death had effected y breach.
"What a mistake Kitty Thorne made"'
people had commented these half dozen
years. ''She might have been mistress
Ut Searle Hill II she'd had n mind To
risk marrying n poor man. Folks get
their come up once in this world m
times" with the usual charity commen-
tAtors bestow upon the motives Of 9TH
crs. Nobody had known the true cause
Of Hitty's refusal IN marry Searlc. II
had been the town talk, Ia be- surc-a
riddle which no one had solved. She
had not even coniided her reasons Ia
her lover. He would override them. she
feared, would call them absurd. and
only make her task more difficult. and
perhaps grow TO hate little Tom - and
sometime Tom might need his good
will. who could tells Arson Searle had
NOT borne his dismissal with the forti-
tude Of an early martyr. but he had
sworn he would never ask her twice To
marry him, and he had kepA his word.
But, perhaps, after his anger cooled.
and he watched her saddening year by
year. some surmise that her behavior
had not been dictated by caprice or any
petty motive grew upon him, and obliged
him TO render her the tardy justice Of
appreciation. And q pretty return Tom
had made her--speculating with his EN-
ployer's money. and threatening the
family pride with disgrace. Unless
5000 were forthcoming. there was
only q fortnight between him and ruin.
And Tom was only twenty-five. They
must save him. Miss Kitty was one To
stand by her guns; where there was \
will there was n way. and she followed
the only way she knew. II Mr.. Searle.
fumbling about for their reasons Of Hit
tvs conduct toward himself, had nj