The Red Cloud chief., 1882-01-12

general called the Square House. Or in
dividuals. in case they were punctilious.
the Squire's House.
JINGLE SECOND.
kathleen, Kathleen, you cannot,
you will not break my heart?"
kathleen's lip quivered, her eyes fell
before the half-cOmmanding. half-be-
seeching gaze that rested with such in
tensity upon her face. For 4 second
she was honest with herself, and owned
silently that if she broke this manly
heart it was breaking her own. too.
Then there rang out on the clear,
frosty air of the star-lit Christmas eve,
and penetrated keenly into the breath
less hush of the room where Kathleen
and her sutton had finished hanging the
Christmas wrcaths he had brought her,
an hour ago. 4 peal of sleigh-bel!s-
the very same old, silver-voiced bells
that the blind girl had loved, shaken by
the impatient stamp OF the coal black
horse standing at the gate.
Not At the gate of the old fair home,
1.-The 'Squire's House." but before a
crampcd, brick tenement in 4 duh city
street. Full of hope and courage, Dick
had left the beloved square House
and gone out 10 Uncle Lane and India
when he had finished school. Upon
his fathers sudden death AMI the al
most simultaneous disaster which swal-
lowed up many more fortunes than
this one, Dick, at whatever sacrifice,
would have fastened home but for
Kathleen.
But Kathleen, strong and sclf-willed
as ever, would not hear to her gentle
mother, would not for once hear TO
Snowflake.
"Uncle Lane writes, and Dick him
self writes, that Dicks fortune is made
if he can remain at his post Il given
space of time. Remain he shall"
vowed Kathleen, clenching her hands,
land he shall know SO much only Of u
losses rs is necessary. He shall have
every chance to gain the fortune he
used 10 laugh about, but which has
now become a matter of such bitter
need"
Kathlccn's temper, Kathloen's will,
Kathleem's real force and faculty car
I ricd their credentials with them, and
drew over TO her side friends and help
crs by whose aid everything was sold,
yes. even the silver slcigh-bclls, for
Snowflake insisted on il n transfer ef-
fcctcd 10 this changed home, and work
found for Kathleen that the mother and
her daughters made brave efforts to
call the equivalent OF their living eX
pcnseS.
SO Dick was left To work on manfully
M his far-OT toll, saddened. indeed,
but unsuspicious that Kathleen let
tiers left the half untold OF their revcrs-
eS and all the stint and suffering there
by entailcd.
Courage. then. whitcst Snowflake,
dearest lady-lovc" lie wrote, blithely,
IL II claim the s~leigh-bclls yet"
Poor, naughty Kathleen! What n
change that Jingle of the sleigh-bclls at
the gate wrought in her softened
thoughts!
So it WAS Frank Collamore who had
brought Snowiake's silver sleigh-bclls?
She had not known, had, indeed, tried
not to know who had bought them. A
twingc of unreasonable anger stung her
ut the discovery now. Ii was a we'll
timed discovery, she thought in a fash.
She had been on the point of forgetting
quite that this could never again be the
Kathleen Morris of old times this was
n poor girl, a girl who worked for her
living-and Frank Collamore had no
right TO be %coquctting with such 4 per-
son. His lady mother deigncd her but
the most distant nod if by chance they
met in town. Gossip had blown 10 her
ears-ah! fatally easy ii is for gossip To
connect by an invisible telephone with
her victims,-the lady sisters supercil-
iouS remark: "Of course If Frank had
not already gone so far, if he did not
feel in honor bound, there could be
nothing more between them. Why.
they've had TO sell everything. posi-
lively ver,thing, my dear, down 10
their s~leigh-bclls. But. as it is. Frank
being the soul of honor. it's very lucky
for her, certainly. and doubtless she
will take every pains TO hold him fast"
Unlucky stamp of his master pet
horse that Kathleen herself in other
DAYS had named Pride! Frank Cola
more drove him fast and far that day. n
disappointed, wraihful man. 1t goaded
him 10 hear the sweet-toned bells, and
| am afraid that both to him and to
Kathleen Christmas that year meant SO
little goodwill that they took very
mcagcr pains TO have it afford TO those
about them peace.
JINGLE THIRD.
There is more sleighing this winter