The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

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Shy Jov6l = rare fdeain cried JIM who al.
ways admired what his brother admired, es.
pecially IL there was v lord in the case. .sBu
hoy the dickens could 3 chap like Bangsl"-s
much behind Bangs hack, a little unstringinS
OF tho bow-s.lihs Bangs, who isn't thirty, and
has no girls Of any sort 10 marry-n
s.My dear jim Interrupted his elder brothe,
from the height Of his superiority, she's a
stag
.tOf course. old st.pid. Ke's learned ali
about hunting by disa OF being hunted, and i'd
says someos these London Amazons Are so
deuced clever that be believes they'll catch
him by sheer wearing him down. He tells me
that I'm knocked IN the hsad-?"
"Eh!n gasped poor Mrs. Fulfcrd.
Married, mother; married. Married. mr.
knocked on the head. is all the same thing
when you talk OF . mans; but il q girl mates
pretty decently, why che is thought to have
got . prize in life's~ lottery-won . victory IN
fact Bangs Gays, mother. if every he marry.
I may say-tAh! poor devili he couldn't stani
being hunted any nore.'n
Now where shouid they find : stag for Milly?
That Was q cabinet question, and required Q
friends.
Bangs' idea was much applauded. likewise
HoNard's prodigious sharpness in picking it
up.
Cameron might so into the limbo of penni-
less lovers. Nobody cared. He wasn't a stag.
Now for it On whom were they to try theis
new found systemy Old Fulford talked a
great deal. but all he really said was that the
thing ought to be simple enough; the girl was
good looking, as all allowed; and he gave her
ten Thousand pounds.
At last 1T became evident that the actual
marking of the quarry was beyond tho Full
Jordan imaginat!ou, and there was Il general
cali upon an old Lady Wall-a woman who IN
her day had looked husbands for three plainish
Miss Walls with much cleyerness-to take mn
the word.
WELL" she said, u can't SEQ the difficulty
So much superiority provoked a murmur of
surprised approval. There was . silence. Then
Mr.. Fulford raid:
mo, really: can't your"
"Havs you ever heard" pursued her LADY,
ship, "of Hoist with his own petardy'"
No; the Fulfords only know Shakespeare
from going occasionally to the Lyceum theater,
and as they seldom listen-talk,ng a good deal,
and looking more at the people than the stage
their knowledge Of our greatest bard is OF the
most limited kind.
well, then, Caught in his own trap?'a
asked Lady Wall, bringing down her language
70 the meanest capacity with ill-aisguised con-
t'oh. yes, VIC know that cried all the Full
fords, quito proudly.
Then, there you have it." concluded their
councillor. What do you cay to my plan?"
No, not . Fulford understood her. She very
nearly swore.
Dear. dear, " she burst forth, '.you are all
very stupid"
They took this for a good joke, and laughed
quite pleasantly.
Don't you sec that the very man-stag, as
you call him--who is waiting to be stalked, is
no other than this same noble visconnt, Lord
bangs himselfw climaxed her ladyship.
SO bold ali idea was such a bombshell. TO the
Fuiford brain that it very nearly burst it
y y n u
There was very little time to be lost, for it
was already the end Of June. The fuss, the
hurry, the want OF all delicacy and Disguise,
which would have proved fatal in SO many
cases, were just what favored the Fulfords ia
the pursuit of u mani beg his pardon, q
iord-who was knocking under simply. as he
had before expressed it, to that traltorous
clatter, the row, the uutiring aud transparent
atratagems of a venery whore tho hunters
know neither pause nor encouragement, ig-
more alike both fatigue, as concerns them
selves, or pity for the poor creatures they
pursue.
Within three weeks the marriage was ar
ranged. One spectator of this strange yet COM
mon chsse-our friend, Al an Cameron-looked
on In the innocence OF his SOUL, Mt first with
incredullty. then with amazement, ut last with
alarm. he had not been enough in the first
society to have lost his sense of right and
wrong.
When he finally realized the posi- ion, he re-
solved, as any brave young fellow would. not
to see his life wrecked, and, what to him came
far before that, mt to suffer tamely that the
girl he loved should be sold like a Greek slave
to the highest bidder, without making one bold
effort to set matters right-to keep what he
had won. He sought and obtained, without
opposition from any quarter, an interview with
Miliicent alone.
"What is the meaning of this? ?" he said,
under his breath, with q deperate effort to stick
to the resolution be had made that lie would
be quiet and gentle throughout They were
quite far from one another, parted by Almost
the entire breadth of the room.
I'm very sorry. very sorry indeed, Allan,
but j. can't be helped" she began.
'Sorryl you say you are sorry-you still call
me by the old name, and yet you say it can't be
it can do no good" said she.
But am in the dark, do you hear? You
loved me-you love me still know it,"
u do. There, I tell you 80 honestly"
"Then why, by all that's sacred, are you
marrying another many"
eL-ten TO me" and she told him. as well as
she could, how she must get out of the way of
her two sist srs-she was not preferring o rich
match without love to q poor Que with it; but
that her marriage with Lord Bangs was by
sacrificing her own feelings to duty, at least
possible, whereas a union with Allan was i'm
possible-at all events for very mauy years.
Sos, don't mistake me" she continued. 'T
1 had only tny own happiness to consult"
But that makes it all tho worse" he urged.
TT you told me your feelings for me had
chaneed-"
.'Ihey never can"
And does Lord Bangs know this?"
- told him l was very fond Of you, and
could not pretend 1 was ia love with him"
And what did he say ="
H laughed, and said every nymph had her
a6nr1orf NJ M, @ t1n, ra,l- 11,,oE 1,t ~ 49,
to women after marriage, and that he was
neither jealous nor sentimental; and oh, Allan,
what do You think he ended With"
Heaven knows!"
'Why, he said | might be quito easy for that,
mantically in lore himself"
''i'lle mans a %5rute," burst forth the young
Scotchman. ut is because you have a heari,
and have gwen it forever to me, that l will
move heaven and earth to save your happiness,
peat, if You had changed. il you cared Tor this
rich lord, my pride would bid me depart iu
silence. l know not what would become of me,
but I would trouble you no m1re. But,
now hearing from your W sw ct lips that
you are trne-and oh, whatever befall, / bless
you for those words again and again. Know
ing, l say, that you are true, let me beseech-
.imp.ore-nay, have / not " right to order you
to pause at tho brink of the precipice aud draw
back while there 10 yet timer"
'But, Allan, my parents have arranged
settled everything. ] am powerless in their
hands. They leave me no choice: they prove
to me that 1t must DO! Do not urge mo to SIN
ful rebellion"
'tAnd is it no Gin, pray. to love one man and
wed another? To perjure yourself at the ALTAR
Of Cody"
II hats just what / said to papa, and he told
me that all these things are Conventional: that
every one knows the marriage service is put
into our mouths, aud that we have no choice
as to the exact expressions. He SAID if the
contracting. parties mean to be faithful and
kind to each other, nothing more is required Of
them. either spiritually or soci, lx. On, We
hsd quite q long talk about it, l assure y,u."
During this speech Cameron mad gradually