The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-08-08

both arms and Uttered q faint cry of
pleasure. Miriam looked to see what
had wrought such a change,
and found that the child was
looking ut Dalmayne. He
stood leaning against a pier a short dis
lance away, kissing his hand to Mamie,
but showing no intention Of coming
nearer. Understanding that her pres
ence kept him away she continued her
walk up the beach and soon returned to
the hotel, feeling very sorrowful and
more dissatisfied with herself than she
had v before been. Her inability to
do anything for the child she pitied so
much troubled and Inundated her, and
the idea that a coarse, brutal and self
ish man" should be able to effect, with
out apparent effort, what she had vainly
tried to do made her begin to think that
she and her friends had been too sweep
ing and hasty in their Judgment. In
fact, she began to be a little ashamed
of "the society" and to wish she had
not taken part in forming it.
The company at the hotel had in
creased very fast, and Miriam had an
opportunity every evening to indulge
her taste for waltzing. She often saw
Dalmayne in the ballroom, though he
never danced. One evening, when she
had just taken her seat between her
mother and her aunt, he came up and
spoke to the latter, who introduced her
to the other two ladies. Miriam was
soon called on to fulfill an engagement
to dance, but when she returned he was
still talking to Mrs. Tracy and Miss
Griselda. His corteous manner to them
pleased Miriam and made her feel dis
posed to pardon his seeming rudeness
to her on the day of their arrival. He
did not say much to her, but two or
three times during the evening, while
she was dancing, she saw him looking
at her with an interest that was too
evident to admit of doubt.
After that evening he often came and
sat with the two older ladies in the ball
room, and Miriam soon noticed that
he managed in a quiet way, to keep her
aunt from making herself ridiculous at
at such times. The old lady Was con-
t%inuously sounding his praises, and
Mrs. Tracy also spoke of him with q
warmth that showed that she consid-
cred him n true friend. Miriam found
that all invalids and elderly people at
the hotel regarded him in the same
way, and his Difference to them and con-
sideration for their tastes and wishes
gave her q high opinion of his good
breeding and innate kindness. The
children seemed to consider him their
property, and a large part Of his time
was taken up by his efforts to please
and amuse them. Her own converse
tons with him always took place in the
evenings, and they were regularly in
terrupted by her numerous engage
ments to dance, but she soon discovered
that he was the best informed and most
intelligent man she had ever known.
Miss Griselda stayed five weeks in
stead of one, and Dalmayne escorted
her back to Sinnetasket, returning next
day laden with thanks, good wishes and
infallible remedies for "the ills that hui
man flesh is heir to-" Not long after
ward, the company at the hotel began
to decrease, and it became evident that
the height of the season was over. Mrs.
Tracy had engaged rooms at a place in
the Catskills for August and Septem-
Der, and the time was now fast APP
preaching when Miriam and she were
to leave the seaside.
One afternoon she was sitting on
some rocks in a part of the beach far
away from the hotels, when Dalmayne
came up and seated himself close to
her, but a little higher up on the rocks.
Mrs. Tracy tells me You are going to
the mountains next week." he said.
"Shall you be glad to go?"
81 hardly know" she answered 81
have enjoyed my stay here very much,
but everything must become tiresome
at last, l suppose" j.
even dancing?"
Eyes. But Tn not tired of that yet"
"You don't seem to be. I don't care
much for dancing myself. but I like to
| see you dance. You do it as if you be-
lieved in it,"
Just then a little girl came running
up and clasped Dalmayne in a close
embrace. r
ooh, here you are!" she exclaimed.
I've been looking for you everywhere!
I don't like playing with children, and
there isn't one big dog in the place"
"This is Miss Caroline Thornton"
said Dalmayne to Miriam. "She is one
of my most intimate friends"
Miss Thornton had not seer Miriam
before, and as soon as she became aware
Of her presents her whole name
changed.
whats that lady's 'she asked.
"Miss Tracy replied Dalmayne.
"But what's her other name?',
"Why do you want to know that?"
The girl looked at Miriam and said
Is your name My-ry-amg" ~
"Yes," replied Miriam, o good deal
surprised and a little disconnected.
"That's what he's all the time writ
ing in the sand with his cane" said
Carrie. "Are you his sweetheart"
For q few moments there was an awk-
ward silence. Then Dalmayne said,
very quietly, "No, Carrie, she's not my
sweetheart. But I should be a very
happy mar if she would be something
more than that" After q short pause
he turned to Miriam and said: "Will
you?"
1t was q very sudden proposal, but
Miram's own nature was so frank and
straightforward that no other mode of
asking such a question would have
seemed so natural and proper to her.
Her answered was given in one word,
and it was the word he most ardently
wished to hear.
Carrie stood looking at them both for
n little while, fully conscious that they
had forgotten her existence. Then she
drew a long breath and said: ''Nell, I
suppose I'll have to play with the child
ren!'
As she walked away, Miriam's sym
pathy for her was thoroughly aroused,
and she called after her, "Come back,
Carrie, come back! We want you to
stay with us!9 But Carrie walked stol-