Kimball enterprise. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1883, 1883-05-25
ago, to DO a little shopping, and will

ago, to DO a little shopping, and will
o return"
well, we must correct the mistake as
gently as possible, and make the young
lady''s visit none the less pleasant to her.
l VIII go to the store now, and return
within an hour, and while I am gone
you will, of course, explain the mistake
to IL visitor. Meantime, I will set
Frank all right in regard to the matter,
and prepare him to be Il little less de-
monstratise."
The mistake was first explained to
Miss Williams by her sister, and then
both ladies united in making the recela-
ton to their guest, and all were soon
laughing heartily at what seemed to
them a very enjoyable joke.
As for Frank, his feelings were mixed
and peculiar; and our heroine also ex-
perienced a sensation that seemed like
q gentle confusion, when she thought Of
the earnest and atfectionate kiss she had
already received from the young gentle-
man, whom she had never met before,
AMI to whom she was in no way related.
a slightly awkward and embarrassing
situation, and to get back to the formal
and dignified propriety which should be
observed between strangers, and do SO
in just the right way, might possibly re-
quire more skill and tact than Il girl of
eighteen would be expected to possess.
well, Cousin Agatha, how have you
enjoyed yourself since l saw you last?"
was the greeting Frank gave their guest,
the first time they met after the mistake
vas discovered.
Agatha flushed a little, but not very
crimson, and managed to go through her
part of the programme in q way that
made all parties feel as ifthey had found
a happy and %congenial friend, worth
knowing and loving, even though she
was not their cousin.
Mr.. Charles Brown mentioned to his
family, in the course of the evening, that
he had learned from reliable parties
that the young lady, as he had c%onjec-
tured, belonged to one of the most re-
spectacle families in Rochester.
GA good and worthy GIRL" he added;
whose visit we must make as pleasant
rs possible"
And to the carrying out of that pro-
grammc the whole family addressed
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Frank.
OF the mistake that brought the
young lady to their house, nothing was
den was simply introduced as q young
friend from Rochester, who was paying
them a visit; and all joined with them
in saying how very sorry they were that
her visit would terminate so soon.
Whether the cousinly kiss which
Frank Brown and Agatha Ogden greet
ed each other, when first meeting, was
repeated at parting, has never been
known-unless to the young people
themselves. But for some reason the
acquaintance begun in that random way
did not end with that visit.
On thinking over the whole matter,
on her way home, Agatha came to the
conclusion that it would not be best to
tell any one, except her father and
mother, the story of her cousinly adj
venture; nor did she tell quite the
Whole story even to them.
GA letter for you, Agatha, and from
Chicago" was Mr.. Ogden's remark
while distributing the Matchmaker the
postman had brought in, one morning a
few days after his daughter had re.
turned. "From your cousins, perhaps"
"Have we any cousins in Chicago?'
asked an older sister.
"We had some time ago." was the
| evasive answer which Agatha, with a sly
but imploring look, prompted her IA
Their to give.
"Who is your letter from, Ag?" asked
her sister. 81 saw the address, gen.
tleman's writing"
"Please don't bother me now" re-
piled Agatha. placing the letter in her
pocket without reading.
"Just the way" said the sister, "that
young ladies treat the first letter they
receive from their beaux,"
AFTER they have received as many as
you have" retorted Agatha, with just a
very little spite in her tone: II suppose
they give the first reading to any one
who is willing to perform a service OF
that sort"
"a love letter, as sure as / live!' ex-
claimed the sister.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the
letter was from Frank Brown, who man.
aged the correspondence 80 cleverly
that, at the end of two months, he was 6
welcome guest ut the residence of Mr.
Ralph Ogden, and the accepted lover of
his daughter Agatha.
A few young friends, that sister among
them. were mischievous enough to say.
on the day of the wedding, that Agatha
Gag" as they persisted in calling he,
most of the time-knew very we'll, wher
she called on Mr.. Brown, thatthose PEG.
pie were in no way related to her, bu,
Just went on a loYe-making adyen.
ture.
A SANDER, %ofcourse, and.they knew it
No young lady eve madea more honest
blunder. or a more lucky one; for the
young man, whose irstintroduction was
that earnest and atfectionate kiss, proved
to tie a worthy and faithful husband
Agatha could not have found one who
would have suited her better if she had
looked the whole continent over,