Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-07-06
49,, And you, he answered, ARE Persever.

ana And pa,c you," u, he answered, ARE Persever
She smiled and nodded. How beautiful
she had grown!
said. " ' o'o nouse' ne
do not live there any more, {" said Per-
severance. Fathers dead, and I'm being
educated. You see, she added. .that
your words, bard and cruel, as I then
1nought them, were not without their effect.
! !, am staying with some friends, and share
tne advantage Of their goyerness. And Mr..
Russell thinks am not stupid scholar"
RUSSELL"
The name was very familiar to him.
AT castle Point, little way down the
,sland, explained Perseverance,. sThey
know you very we'll. Hugh Russell and I
often talk about you.
Hugh Russell! A dagger thrust of jeal-
ousy went through Major Creston's heart.
dugh Russell, whom he remembered such
handsome, darling young fellow! Was
some other hand gathered this exquisite
wild flower2
And then, with the innocent hypocrisy
OF lovehood, he vowed that he had intend
ed all along to visit the Russells, and ac-
companied Perseverance thither at once.
Yes" said placid Mrs. Russell. "Is she
not beautiful? She used to come to my
Sunday school class. last summer. at the
little Sandy Point chapel, and when her
poor old father died took her to stay with
me. And we are all so attached to her, and
she is SO lovely and winning. Quite like
my own daughter"
Late that evening Major Cheston went
out on the stone-payed terrace, where Per-
severance was sitting on the rail, looking
up at the million golden stars which span
gled the violet sky. She welcomed him
with her quiet, self-possessed smile.
perseverance, he said, "you are sew
enteen years old, now?"
YES" she assented, "I am seventeen
| years old"
Almost woman, said he.
:. Quite woman" she responded. "Oh,
it seems as if had grown SO many, many
| Years older since poor father died!"
Has any one spoken to you of-love?"
| he asked, abruptly.
No she answered, with gravity.
'But they sometime?"
| II suppose SO. said Perseverance.
Evidently there was nothing of the CO.
! quet about he'll
Would you be very much surprised,
Perseverance, or displeased," he said eff I
were to tell you that loved you?"
She started and colored to the very roots
of her hair.
"Surprised?" she repeated. 'Yes-oh,
yes! For you despised me in those
days"
| "Never!" he cried.
! "Or at least fancied so," she fall
tered.
"But love you now, Perseverance,
sweetest, precious treasure of my soul!''
he went on reading some dim encourage
ment in the downcast eyes, the red, uuiv-
ering mouth. II will not let you go until
you promise to be my wife. You have
saved my life once, and it is in your power
to save it from further shipwreck now."
Hugh Russell had spoken the same words
of love in her ear two hours before, and
she had run away from him, half angry and
wholly frightened, But this-this was
different.
| will you promise me, Perseverance,"
he gently reiterated.
| YES" she answered.
| And that was the way in which Major
| Cheston, whose cart had been SO long re-
garded by his lady friends as an invulner-
able fortress, won the beautiful young wife
who was as unlike the other bellies Of So
ciety as is the tropical blossom of the
scarlet pomegranate to the commonplace
red roses Of the garden border.
= AS strange meeting, still stran-
er woing, but most happy marriage. And
perhaps this is the most satisfactory record
that any love affair can leave.