Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-06-22
HOW KATE WENT HOME.
BY ErTrE ROGERS.

Z "Yet you must not be unmindful that
your father believes he is acting for
your interests" was the rather doubt ul
remonstrance Of Mrs. Scott.
Papa is acting entirely under the in
huence Of Percy Talbot" the girl assert
ed, excitedly; "if he were not, he would
understand how grieyous it would be
should marry man whom I detest-
how utterly impossible it is when nv
whole heart is given to another. Oh,
mamma! surely you cannot blame me?'
What could thelgentle wife the troubled
mother, say? She loved her husband,
unreasonable as he might be, she idol
lied her only child, and she shrunk
from holding either blamable. So she
remained silent, while two big tears
rolled slowly down her t.ir faded
cheeks.
Mamma, my dearest, you do not
blame me, do you2" pleaded Kate, cross
Ing the room and throwing herself on
her knees beside her mother. cit
would break my heart to give up Rob-
ert! love him so dearly-oh, mamma,
Sc very dearly! You like Robert, too,
and 80 did papa before this Percy Tai
bot came here to make nothing but
trouble for us all. And have fancied
sometimes that you distrust him quite as
much as do. You do not really wish
me to marry him, do you?"
"Your father is determined that you
shall be his wife. Kate" said Mrs. Scott
winding q kindly arm about the slim.
kneeling figure, and drawing the pretty
brown head to her bosom.
know. And as disobey him, he
declares he will no longer recognize me
as his Child returned Kate, with little
gasp Of anguish; "he will send me away
from him, from my home, and from you.
Oh, mamma, it is hard. And yet, if you
would no, blame me, if you can trust me,
had rather go. After time papa
might relent and wish me to come back
to him."
The mother sighed, but she clasped
the pretty pleader more closely to her
tender heart, and fondly kissed the
sweet, bright face.
~ do trust you, Kate" she answered,
with much earnestness. always re-
member, darling, that wherever you
may be, shall trust my daughter to do
the right. Ifyou choose to go rather
than become Mr.. Talbot's unloving wife,
L
may be that some time the storm will
pass over, and this trial will end happi-
ly for us ALL
After such q concession the mother
could scarcely refuse to acquiesce with
anything her child might decide to be
best. And so Kate took her last regret
full look Of the dear old familiar rooms;
with quivering lips she kissed her weep
ing mother; ana then in the early, quiet
morning she left the pleasant house,
the doors of which, as it might be, had
been closed upon her forever.
',she has made her. choice" her
henceforth she is dead to me-"
From his home, his heart, his lips,
he had banished her; and he forbid
the mention of her name i'll his pres
ence.
And for Percy Talbot he began to
manifest singular partiality-a special
liking that was frequently shown by con-
siderable monetary favors. Perhaps he
faneied that he owed some sort of repair
alton to the luckless individual who had
been so signally disdained by his hand
some and refractory daughter!
''It seems strange that a rich man
would borrow such sums and SO often,"
Mrs. Scott once ventured to observe.
"Iou know nothing about these mat
ters, Maria," was the sharp response.
talbot can be trusted with anything.
He is shrewd man. too, and if our last
speculation succeeds, l shall be as rich
as he is"
"What speculation, Peter?" his wife
inquired, uneasily.
~ doubt YOU would understand if l
should tell you." he answered testify.
He had yet to learn that his own un-
derstanding of the speculation into
which he had been persuaded was some
what deficient.
1t was the "oft.told tale' of the Gre
dulity of one man and the duplcity of
another. And there came a time when
Peter Scott..knew that he was beggared-
when he discovered that all his little
fortune, earned by years Of honest zeal,
had been by some manner of chicanery,
transferred to the possession of Percy
Talbot.
"My dear sir, it is one of the freaks
of fortune, and is neither curious nor
uncommon" Talbot said, blandly, to
his victim. Gin my career as a specu.
llator, I too, have sometimes
been left with nothing. absolutely moth
ing but my debts But 1 never lost
courage; nor must you do so now. Be-
side, if you will bring back your pretty
fugitive daughter and induce her to be-
come my wife, will make you free
gift of the property that once was yours"
For a moment Kate's father regard
ed his interlocutor with fixed and
scathing gaze. The scales had fallen
from those tired and troubled eyes,
"My daughter" at length he enuncia-
ted, with dignity that was majestic,
twas wiser than I-she could not be de-
ceived by your pretensons as l have
been, I may be a pauper sir. but shall
still be honored that have child who
would prefer death to marriage with
such us you"
He turned away haughtily, and went
back to the home that was no longer
his. But the shock had been too sud-
den, too Overwhelming; and an hour
later he lay writhing in mortal agony at
the very gates OF death. In his delirium
he raved piteously of his folly, and Of
the man whom he bad SO trusted only
to be befooled, robbed, and insulted.
And to his dsordered senses his bonny
Kate was everywhere present. He
would listen for her gay voice and light
footsteps; he seemed to behold her
bright and beautiful image, and he would
patheticaly entreat her to forgive him
for his harshness and his great mistake;
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