Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

CnaI you are true, let me beSeech, inn
plore, nay, have | not a right to order
you to pause at the brink Of the preci-
pee and draw back while there is vet
"But, Allan, my parents have ar
ranged-scttled everything. l am pow
erless in their hands. They leave me
no choice; they prove to me that it must
be. DO not urge me to sinful rebel
lion"
And is it no sin, pray, to love n
man and wed another? 10 perjure your.
self at the altar of God?"
"Ihat's just what | said to papa. and
he told me that all these things are con-
vcntional; that every one Knows the
marriage service is put into our mouths,
anu mat we have no choice as to the
exact expressions. He said if the con
tractlng parties mean to be faithful and
KIN to each other, nothing more is re-
CURED OF them either spiritua ly or So
clally. Oh, we had quite a long talk
about it, l assure you"
During this speech, Cameron had
gradually drawn quite close to her, and
was now looking hard into her ewes
to see if she was dealing with him
frankly.
Yes, there could be no doubt; the Girl,
II blinded by sophistries, was vet with
out guile. ~
During all this coloquy he had never
called her by name, though she ad-
dressed him as Allan as Simply as if
their relations had never changed.
Perhaps he waited to see II she de-
served it; or did he keep the power that
is Inherent IN such terms to try a last
appeal?
He made it now. Taking her unre-
sisting hand in both his own. he said:
"Did l not know o so well / should
tnlnk you We're acting a part. Milly-
my w Milly! it were better-beiter
far in the sight OF Heaven, believe me-
that you should fly with me this night
than fulfill this cursed engagement. 1
90 not say I shall urge that. 1 will
think, deliberate, pray. Only tell me.
Milly, that you will never wed Lord
Bangs"
ooh, [ can not. You should noturge
me, indeed you should not. l have
promised papa and mamma"
And she began to try and twist her
head away from him, and her whole
aspect became n of perplexity and
alarm.
For a moment the young man thought
he should lose his senses.
What was to be done with such a
girlP She owned she had for him what
she called love, yet was that love which
would not submit to either guidance or
coercion?
The solution lay in a word, but it was
quite beyond Allan Cameron.
She was a Fulford!
How long the painful conference
might have lasted l am unable to say,
but at this point steps and voices were
heard approaching, and in another
moment Mr.. Fulford and Lady Wall
entered the room.
"Ah, Cameron, how are you? Won't
you stay and lunch? This is queer
news of the House Of Lords"
Such was the perfectly easy greeting
of Milly's father to the man whose
wreck he had succeeded in accomplish.
ing.
Lady Wallis was very different.
Kissing Millicent with effusion, she
bestowed an inclination Of the head up.
on her lover much ruder than any cut
direct.
The fact is, her ladyship had made
war for so many years OF her life upon
"detrimentals," that she continued af.
ter all her daughters had married to
hate them from habit.
Poor Allan had but one distinct feel.
ing at the moment. A longing to es.
cape 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 up
on his bed, and sobbed aloud.
He felt that his happinessin this world
was over.
And Millicent married Lord Bangs,
and the twins came out with no obstruc-
ton in the shape of an attractive elder
sister.
All the Fulfords rejoiced and cackled
over their handiwork like so many
geese. Just at first-for a week or two
his lordShip was rather happy. 1t was
a change, you know.
Even Millicent nearly enjoyed her
honeymoon.
After that the marriage turned out like
two out of every three which are botched
up on the above fashionable plan
shockingly i'll.
Lord Bangs thought himself far too
charming a fellow for any one woman
to ~monopolize, and the scandals of his
life became one of the favorite themes
of society. Only society, which was al
ways looking forward to the further lit
tie excitement of her ladyship "serving
him out by boiling with one of her
husbands friends, vas doomed, in this
particular, to disappointment.
The Fulfords don't bolt. At least the
female Fulfords.
1t was from the merest chance, 1 adj
NIT, and [ don't think they themselves
could tell you why, but it is the fact.
She hates her husband, and owns she
has quite lost any high principles she
may N have possessed; but every
thing now is said to be hereditary, and
she doesn't inherit the boiling weak
ness; 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 Milly
abandoned him. and contracted thence