Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
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his duty by his old friend Sangerford
when he wrote him an unvafhished ac-
count of what had transpired, and
meantime Rodney had made all haste
to remove his bride from the contain
her. wv E~''''S
.Tredegar Almont showed little. emo.
top at parting with bis only child. She
hid disappointed him, bitterly as he
had it in his nature to be affected by
disappointment; but he WAS a-PhilosR-
pher who took life as he found it. She
chung TO him at the last mQment. with
sudden rush of tears in her eyes. { n
:sOh, papa. dear papa what shall ]
do without your tsk sFs
s<Itls rather late ihsthe dayto take
that into consideration, replied AL
rnOut.ii '.If YOU had reflected more
Hpon what | am to do without yOua-but
there win not Tepruaeh YOU. You
have thrown away a great deal of
money. Mignon, for sentiment which
will not give you half the satisfaction of
the grosser dross i don't think YOU
are wise, but hope YOU II be happy,
Rodney was waiting in the hall; but
She still fingered. -
Papa, she whispered, 'syousD
keep him away from me ]"
A shade touched the gamblers fea-
lures, almost the first which had dis
turbed their evenrepose.
"I'il do what / can, " said he. Its
lucky for YOU, Mignon, that this little
ahem Necessity has sent Varick flying
10 Mobile He would make youytrouble.
But enough DON'T borrow it, inv
child, whatever else You do. Good
by u .| t,.-5 fs.,.---
The slight isenseYf some elemeFt hack
ingVNvhieii had heretofore contributed to
ais comfort went cover Tredegar al;
mont as he returned 70 his empty draw
ingroom, but besQon put the feeling
DOWN He had sat at tables with bis
entire fortune depending upon single
card, and won or oSt'withUlt the tqJiiV,
efing Of q nerve. hlignon.had simpb
+klked her fortune upon such chance,
and whatever the result, he was out Of
The game 80 : y. /. 49, ga
For the. young couple. ttere was a
month, of bliss, of love among the
roses" a month during which Rodney
put away q lurking sense of uneasiness
that he did not attempt to define, while
he breatlrsd the sweet incense of orange
blooms, and tried to believe that he was
the most blessed of men. Once, and
once only, Mignon referred to her past
life. 'Hst'
"l,odhey," she asked. hadn't IbetteT
tell you all there was of it. for fear YOU
LAY think worse of me than deserve?',
My dear child said Rodney, docs
shyfellow ever care to remember what
the swamp was like where he plucked
his lilye l only know that | saw YOU
first in church and that YOU looked
like . saint. have vet To disc0Ssr
anything that is not pure and sweet and
wOmanly about YOU .. 80
A saucy look flashed up over the riant
face. ,- r.i '-r+.1.g r.i $40.
Il think must tell you, then, that
have n very horrible temper when it is
once aroused. Fortunately, il lies
deep; has nevergot complete possession
of me more than twice in nov life. Nv
old nurse used to say: Little missy,
] dem tantrums like de applepleXy; you
I neber stan it to- hab more dan free oh
EN- and that prediction makes me
careful TO avoid the third. You are toll
erably- safe Rodney, if sou are not ty-
rannical beyond endurance"
:. Iou would yanquish me with one
look out of your beautiful eyes, if it ever
camo TO a pitched battle, my love-,
The beautiful eyes" were east down,
and graver expression replaHsd her
gay smile eND-rrFCT G
:" suppose yon would be as b ard and
pitiless rs men generally are, and that
| you would conquer in the end as men
| generally do We women have not the
gift OF endurance, however strongly we
mary feel for n time - e. - - - %
a. Hard to you, my loye?'' cried Rod
ney, reproachfully.
The thoughtful shade fingered on
Mignon's face, She wondered that he
could SO. thoroughly trust her, that he
could so readily forgive her own lack of
trust.
Yet if had told you what / was in
the beginning, Rodney, you would have
dropped me like snake 'EA
He reached both his hands to take
hers in clasp-so fierce and strong, that
her color changed with the sudden pain.
're''Iisten to me, Nlipnon. For God s
sake, let that past which / am willing
to ignore, lie as dead as if it never had
been. If did not know that every link
which bound you TO it was severed com.
pletely, could not feel as do. If
found you going back to it, even in
thought, with one regret, / would curse
the hour that brought you into my life.
As l am, you have. taken me; as Won
are, have taken you. The rest is all
before us, and there is to be no looking
back"
But il is not always so easy to turn a
clean page in life. Words and acts
work ont their inevitable consequences
which must be entered on the record;
there are links which may be invisible
and unsuspected, but they make them
selves felt in good time.
The honeymoon month wore away.
Mr. and Mrs. France went North in the
late spfing, and Rodney took a cottage
on the. Hudson, until be should look
about him FOR some Observation-Disclosures
opening. He had $4,000 inherited
capital TO invest, and, with youth and
health and industry, he held the KEY to
n prosperous future. Fwo weeks later
he went to the city to call upon his
former guardian, Mr.. SangerfOrd. h,
That eminently successful merchant
sat in a dim, close counting-room
stepped in business to the eyebrows, but
Returned away from lists and invoices
at Rodney's entrance. 81, --a,o o..
The latter was prepared for a coo
reception, yet hardly prepared for the
sorrow more than anger with which he
was greeted. Mr.. Sangerford had not
been willing to intrust the happiness OF
his own and only child to this untried
young fellows keeping; he was not
wholly sorry that. That affair was at an
end forever. but he was shocked, and
grieved. and SOLICITORS for the youth
who had been admitted to his household
and made one of his family upon the
death Of his parents.
Rodney, what is this you have donei
| know the facts, of course, from your
letter and Killuth's following it, but ]
can hardly credit the latter. You have
been rash and foolish and headstrono, ]
daresay, but certainly not to the extent