Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-11

J1u'eSH Oy waking out With chap like
Whats it got to do with you?" she
asked. angrily.
:" Why. just this, that found ont a
bit about him, and he's only laughing
at you, and thinking you are nice
looking girl when you are dressed up.
to walk about with; but as for marrying
you he'll no more do it than that"-eand
ne snapped his fingers, though what
that action had to do with Mr.. Alfred
Hills intention he did not explain.
Why, he's going to marry the daugh-
ter OF Mr.. Brooks, what travels for the
firm, that's what he's going to do. Ask
him, and see if he can deny it. WAY,
it's coming of'directly, only she's moth.
ing to look at, SO he isn't fond of show
ing her OF, but she's got some money,
she has, and plays on the piano, and
looks like 2 LADY,
How do you know2" Mary osked,
her very lips turning white, for her ex-
7acting heart knew that he had fallen off
iatety, and that he was not what he had
been IN the spring (the summer was
over. Not that for a single moment
she believed Toms words,
Why, 1 work there, and the servants
tod me, Besides I've seen him go
/ there courting."
!" I'don't believe it. You ought to be
ashamed of yourself,"t and she rushed
away to hide her gathering tears and
frightened face.
She wrote to him, asking him to meet
her that night; but hereplied with an ex-
cusethat mad her heart sick, He would
| meet her Tomorrow Saturday afternoon
In kenslngton Gardens, if she liked, he
| said; and to this she consented, and for
| the first timo, and for his sake, was false
o-her charge of Frankly.
"You run about, Master Frankly,
dear" she said; 81 want to talk to
friend of mine-but don't 70 out of
| sight" and then in her bewilderment
she forgot all about him. Alfred Hill
looked rather bored than otherwise, but
he was smiling and shiny as ever. She
hardly greeted him when he appeared,
but she looked at him with all the ad-
miration she had ever felt for him inten-
sitied by her. fear. He sat down beside
her, and elegantly crossing his legs, be-
gan tapping his highly polished boots
with his bone-headed cane.
"Alfred," she said, crossing her hands
and looking him straight in the eyes,
is it true that you are going to get
married directly?" rs
"Who's told you so ?"
1t isn't any account who told me; is
1t true as you are going to marry Miss
Brooks because she plays on the piano
and has money, and /" The tears
came into her eyes and herlips quivered
with anguish. {" Oh, it isn't true |
know 1t isn't" and she touched his hand
in her dismay, and looked up into his
eyes with oil her hearts story written in
her eyes. .,--Aa ~. L.. -
81 don't see why it shouldn't be, and
so there's the long and short of it, my
dear girl"
:" But it isn't, it isn't?" she said, ap-
pealingly.
We'll, yes, it is true" he said,
slowly, not daring to look her in the
face; $50 you may as we'll know it at
once"
She stood up before him.
"True! Do you mean to say, AL
fred, after all that has passed between
us, that you are going to be married to
someone else ?"
81 really don't know what you
mean by what has passed between us.
You don't think l was going to marry
| you?'
"Why couldn't ?"
Well, L don't wish to hurt your feel
ings, but consider the difference in our
positions. One walks out with pref
ty servant girl, but one doesn't marry
her."
You are not a gentleman, as you
think yourself, Alfred Hill," she said
slowly. You are dressed like one.
but You are just q bit of a clerk, not
better than a respectable girl like me;
| you are not gentleman. A gentle
man doesn't try to take girls good
name and win her heart, as you have
DONE"
Mary often wondered how she fought
her battle as she did; but she seemed to
have no feeling then, only to realize that
which would come hereafter.
" I'm sorry that you let yourself fall
i'll love with me" said lie, tapping his
boot again, II thought you would
have had more pride, at any rats till you
were asked"
"More pride What do you take me
for?" she asked, her checks flushing.
DO you think I'd walk out with one,
and talk to him, and llet him talk to me
as you've done If Ihadn't cared for him ?
I've too much pride for that, and wouldn It
be fit company for any honest man if 1
hadn't. And you know that I've liked
you, for you made me say it, and you
know it; but it isn't you that like, but
the man took for you, and he isn'there
at ALL"
4 Well, I'm sorry you're disappointed
IN your hope of bettering yourself by
marrying above you. l think, after all
you've said. we'd better part"
! The sooner the BETTER" aud she let
him go, and then she sat down and al
most sobbed her foolish henrt out, and
| spent the bittercst hour of her life be-
meath the trees from which the leaves
were falling. Suddenly she looked up
for Fraliky; he was nowhere to be seen.
She called at the top of her voice; no
answer came. With a fear hatdeadened
all other feelings she ran to and fro in
wild endeayor to find him. She asked
the policeman at the gate; he had not
seen him. An hour passed in fruitless
lsearch; and then, pale with fear and
trembling in every limb, she went home
to relate the terrible news. Just as she
got to the door she saw through the
gathering shadows Tom Dawlish, and
in his arms little figure, which her
heart told her was Master Frankly.
81 met this young, gentleman as he
was running away to be q sailor, and
luckily brought him back"
Running away! Why, how were you
going to get to sea ?"
81 was going to walk there" said
Frank, stoutly. lfHfQTI,ga.
You would have killed your poor
mamma"
Mamma" said Frank Poole the next
day, "would it kill you if 1 ran away
to sea ?"
i n 'sYes, dear, I think itwould."
"Oh, we'll then, he answered patron
izingly, | won't"
| 1t was springtime again when Tom
Dawlish asked Mary the question once
more. he had good situation and a