The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-12-14

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away from him, and her whole aspect becam,
one OF perplexity and alarm.
For = moment tho young man thought b,
should lose his senses.
What was TO be done with such a girl? She
y she had for him what she called love
yet was that love which would not submit tc
either guidance or coercion?
The solution lay in a word, but it was quite
beyond Allan Cameron.
She was q Fulford!
How long the painful conference might have
lasted l am unable to say, but at this poinl
In another moment MI. Fulford and Lady Wal
entered the room.
"Ah, Cameron, how are youe Won't you
stay and lunchy This is queer new OF the
house Of lords"
u Such was he perfectly easy greeting Of
succeeded in accomplishing.
Lady Wallis was very different.
Kissing Miilicent with enusion, she bestowed
an inclination of the head upon her lover much
ruder that any cut direct
The fact Ia, her ladyship had made war for
80 many years other life upon ''detrimentals,'
that she continued after all her daughters had
married to hate them from habit,
Poor Allan had but one distinct feeling al
the moment A longing to escape from them
all, and to be alone, muttering a few words Of
excuse and farewell, he rushed into the street,
strobe off for his solitary lodging, and locking
himself in, he flung himself upon his bed, and
sobbei aloud.
He felt that his happiness in this world was
over.
And Millicent married Lord Bangs. and the
twins came out with no obstruction in the shape
of an attractive elder sister.
All tue Fuifords reloiced AID cackled over
heir handiwork like SO many geese. Just at
first-for a week or two-his lordship was
rather happy. 1t was a change. you know.
moon.
After that the marriage turned out like two
out of every three which are botched up on
the above fashionable overwhelmingly i'll.
Lord Bangs thought himself far too charm
ing q follow for any one woman to monopolize,
aud the scandals of his lIfo became one OF
the favorite themes OF society. Only society.
which was always looking forward to the
further litlle excitement of her ladyship ssery-
ing him out by boiling with one OF her hus-
bands friends, was doomed, in this particular.
to disappointment.
The Fulfords don't bolt. At least the femaia
Fulfords.
1t it i. from the nlerest chance, 1 admit. and I
don't think they themselves could toll Won why-
but it ia the fact. She hates her husband. and
owns she has quite lost any high principles
she may once have possessed; but everything
now is said to be hereditary, and she doesn't
inherit the boiling weakness; that, no doubt.
must be it.
OF her old lover she has only heard vaguely
and at long intervals. He had abandoned the
desk when his Mllly abandoned him, and con-
tracted thepceforth q way Of turning up in re-
mpte quarters Of the globe, and always as per
forming deeds decidedly quixotic. At one
moment fighting desperately in Mexico, OF
another performing prodigies az q volunteer
against the pirates Of the China seas, he
81 emed to be ever counting death in the glamor
OF excitement, and 30 five years rolled away.
Lady Bangs was sitting with her three child.
rem one morning-herseif skimming the morn
ing Post, an easy task, for the whole
group were melancholy rs a young duchess.
Not that anything had happened, but simply
because they were so nice and grand,
Suddenly MilIicent utters u faint CIV and
press 8 her hand to her heart.
The little honoraDles betray q very faint,
well bred surprise.
Her eye has jus. lit upon a paragraph
headed ga Hero," and relating how Allan
Cameron, in an attempt to save a sailor boy,
swept overheard in a gale, by jumping after
him, had at last met his death in the I,.d,nu
ocean, which he had apparently long sought
in vain.
The eldest child, a lovely boy, aud Milly's
%favorite, tries upon herthe remedy of a caress.
See. she repels him!
Well, just now, no offspring of her lords is
likely 10 give her comfort.
For a few seconds-white as marble-she
gaZ-s into space, then mnrmuriug:
"&Sy God, my God!" falls back in o
paroxysnl of tears.
How is this? Has he-ca it be possible
that she has loved him all these years.
But then, by all that's reasonable, why, ii
her love was so great, so true, why did she
originally"
-"H- NJ.