The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-04-11
,ower her father, through his rash

to the instability oftheir fortunes, when
her father i'm his agony of entreaty had
implpred her to save him in the QUE way
opened before hor.
Although the girl had shrunk almost
with loathing from the old man who
was thus proposed as her future hus-
band, she had not hesitated.
She had given her consent, and then,
with q sense as of escape, had flown to
her friend Nita's, eager to avoid, if only
for the space OF q few months, the at
tentions Of one who, however much she
disliked him, had now the right to claim
her society whenever it SO pleased him.
One morning Robert tells his sister
and her guests, with a grave, disapprov-
ing look in the latter's direction, of the
departure for the Continent of lie Grand
Heith.
Ashort time after finds Beth at home
once more.
A year later the following letter is
penned by Robert Danvers to his friend.
Lie Grand Heith, in Italy:
Dear Grand-I have something to
tell You that, ii / am not much mis-
taken, will both surprise you and at the
same time bring you back to your native
land as fast as steam can accomplish the
distance.
elizabeth Ellis is here at our home
lying upon a bed Of suffering and ill
ness. This is not all; in her delirium
she calls one name over and over again,
and that name is yours.
aGrand, she did love you, but be-
cause Of her enforced promise to anoth-
er, who held her fathers fate in his
hand, she did not let you see that her
pain in giving you a refusal was equal
to years in receiving it.
"a month back, while her betrothed
was spending the night in her fathers
house, u fire broke out.
Before the alarm was given it had
gained such Roadway that all that
could be done was useless to stem its
fury; and ont of all within the house at
the time, Beth, whose sleeping room
overlooked the front porch. was the
only n saved.
"Her father and intended both met
the same terrible fate. Directly follow
ing the appalling disaster, it was learned
that MIR. Ellis affairs were in n desper-
ately involved condition, and that all
LIS PioRSlU Wou1d Dc lnSuliIGlGuU W pay
the debts hs had incurred; that, there
for, had been the reason of Beth's in
tended marriage with this Mr.. Hatton.
aIconfess / never could understand
whore the attraction could be in him
for q girl like Beth. However, I, Of
course, set her down as mercenary.
Now I know differently.
aAs soon as she heard of her trouble
my sister went at once to her friend.
When she returned she brought Beth.
with her - a stunned, apathetlc shadow
of her lovely self, with illness in her
face and impending madness in her
eyes. 1t was pitiful to witness! !.
"A fully anticipated when / saw
her, in a weeks time she was stricken
with brain fever. It was the natural
outcome of what she had been through.
"Tllen it was we learned all-her abb
horrence of the one to whom her hand
was promised and her hopeless loyo for
you.
The crisis passed last night, and this
morning, with haste, 1 pen you these
lines with TIL hope that, if you love her
still, her convalescence will find by her
side the lover for whom her heart
,yearns, and who alone can turn her
thoughts from the horrible occurrences
that SO nearly cost her her life and rea-
son."
Four weeks have rolled on, three of
which sufficed to bring the eager lover
back to the land he had left with such
a heavy heart.
He stands now in the hall before the
half open door of the library, within
which is Beth.
Flush! She sleepsl Come in very
softly" Nita says, as she peeps within
and beckons back to him.
aShan / not startle her?" he asks,
longing to enter, but nesitating.
Joy, if it startles, does not harm, !"
Mia replies, with unusual brevity.
"Comel"
And he needs no second bidding.
Can this statuesque form, SO deathly
still, SO wan, be Beth?
He kneels gently down beside her.
Beth" he says, softly, II have dared
to approach you once more, for q great
French doctor has taken from me the
deformity that made me unworthy to be
your lover. l have learned all-that
you were induced through filial duty to
sacrifice your freedom-and Beth, they
have told me that in your sickness your
heart spoke the name of him you truly
loved, and that name was mine. Is it
SO? IF it is raise those dear eyes to
mine. I shall understand whatever
they reveal"
1T was true. While abroad an emil
nent surgeon had studied LIE Grand's
case, and had accomplished, with the
aid of q perilons but successful opera
tion, what none OF his fellows had been
able to do, or had ever ventured to think
of.
But I doubt if in Beth's adoring eyes
the lover who has come to change the
darkness into light is one whit more.
handsome than he was the day her heart
cried out to him "Yesn all the time her
lips could only utter "No..-Bow Bells,
Professor Ayrton is Of the opinion
that the day for electric tricycles has
not yet come, because of the difficulty
of getting the supply of stored e%lectri-
city Observation-Disclosures he believes
that the period is not far distant when
that curious continuance, m electric tri!
cycle, may be taken on a tour, and the
smallest item Of expense will be that
chargeable to electricity.
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Druggists complain that their trade
is not SO remunerative as it used to be-.
Besides the adverse influences of the
ascalpers," conditions in the legitimate
business are in other ways unfayorable.
Toilet articles are now sold by grocers
and other business men; patent medi-
cines no longer remain specialties Of the
drur krado aud Aha m~ononolv If tbo;r.