The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-05
COUNTY, DAKOTA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1883.

contempt Will winch i WOulu tell him
that henceforth we could be nothing
more than strangers to each other. But
1t all ended in a burst Of tears. II John
was faithless, my love, my demi.god in
whom could i believe?
1t was 8 o'clock at night when at last
stood on The steps at my own door.
dered way.
"Master wasn't ~expectin' of you,
ma'am," she said, land"
II know; let m pass" I uttered
hoarsaly, and the next moment l stood
in Johns study. l don't know whether
or not l had expected to see Lulu Ell
we'll sitting beside him, but it certainly
was q relief to find that he was aloue.
bending owe his desk ~intentiy contem-
plating some small bright object in a
velvet case. He started to his feet at
the sight Of me.
"Bell!' he cried.
"Exactly!" l retorted with a hard
laugh. "You were not expecting to see
me-? May l ask where Miss Elwell is?"
"Lulu?" he looked at me in genuine
establishment. SIN the mountains l
suppose. She went off the day after
you"
ooh, John!" I threw myself on his
oiO0oG AL OuloV VI AybICIlCdi tSSIps
He pressed me to his heart.
my darling is over-tired," said he:
"over-tired and nervous. Let me see if
we cannot chase away those tears"
AS he spoke he hung something bright
around my neck-a diamond cross!
John, is it miner" l cried.
"Yes, dearest, it is yours. 1t is what
I have toiled for aver since you ex-
pressed a wish for it a month ago. Now
you know, dear love, why I did not 80
to Saratoga"
oh, John! But how pale o are"
l cried, as 1 looked up in his face.
."Pale?, Yes, perhaps 70. lhave worked
night and day, you know" And even
as he spoke he reeled and fell.
During the brain fever that followed
I had sufficient leisure and opportunity
for regretting my folly and levity; for il
John had died I never could have looked
again upon the diamond cross. But all
that is past and zone. John is alive and
we'll, thank God, and we are the hap
plest couple in the world. I never have
been Jealous of him since.
Fred Gebhardt and His Horse
EOle.
People have learned to think of Fred
die Gebhardt as a brainless dude, says
the Chica o Tribune, but he is in some
Of the ordinary transactions of life an as
tute and remarkably shrewd person.
This is particularly made apparent in his
connection with the turf. He is an en-.
thusiastic attendant upon racing-courses,
and own in Eole one of 1.-THE best long
distance race-horses in tue country. il
not in the world. Usually young men
with large fortunes who 60 on the turf
retire at the end Of a few seasons in a
badly shattered condition financially.
Gebhardt has proved a marked excep-
ton to the rule. Instead of being
skinned he has a%ssiduously devoted
himself to the labor of removing cuti-
Gle from other people. Gebhardts latest
exploit occurred at the Monmouth Park
race-track recently. The circumstances
are these:
Some weeks ago Mr.. Pierre Lorillard's
horse lroquois, that won the EPSON
Derby two years ago, was brought back
to this country from England. A race
was arranged at Monmouth Park, in
which were a number Of entries, at five
hundred dollars each, including Iroouois
and Eole. The race was won by a horse
called George Kinney. Mr.. Lorillard,
smarting under defeat, at once proposed
to run the race again on the first good
day. It was done. The Dryers OF
Brooklyn made two entries each, Kin
ney being one of them, and Mr.. Loril-
lard put in n thousand dollars on be-
last named animal having been pur-
chased by him a few days previous for
seventeenthousand five hundred dollars,
Nobody expected any other entries, put
MI. Gebhardt came listlessly forward
and handed over five hundred dollars
to represent Eole. Most of the people
present smiled at the simple-minded
young man, but he needed them not.
When the day of the race arrived Geb-
hardts horse was scarcely noticed in the
betting. People were jumping over each
other in order to gamble on the chances
of l%roquois, Drake Carter, or Kinney,
but nobody wanted Eole-that is, ex-
cept simple Mr.: Gebhardt. He valiant
~ backed his horse, now buying him
for two hundred dollars. in a pool of
one against eight with the bookmakers.
The race began. There were shouts and
cheers when Kinney and Iroquois
began racing at each other. Eole
was not, apparently, In the struggle.
But about the time that Kinney had run
lroquois to a stand-still, and raced
ALONGSIDE of Drake Carter at a pace that
made that hlghpriced creature feel sick
at heart, the unassuming EoIe began to
loom up very prominently in the hori-
zon. He cantered gayly past Iroquois
and Monitor, whlsked by Drake Carter
as if the latter had been tied to the
fence, and then. in the exuherance Of
his old age, dashed ahead OF George
" n - nd r.~~
canter by four lengths, landing the
stakes Of even thousand dollars and
about fifty thousand dollars in bets for
the young man with the high collar, the
tight pants, and the tooth-pick shoes.
ABRAVEW WOMAN.