The Red Cloud chief., 1884-11-07

U seeing none. u ait0SeQ INN %
embrace her. MY own-as last my
own. How well you understood me Ia
those old days And yet It was al
without q ~word-almosf wishou: .
sign" She bowed her head before she
had sscapsd fsUa - sgzA ~6ow !
&naf2efll 81 done I 1cs yoz-T
IAN I not thankful?'
How can I be thankful q I Ought
Think II the gratitude that / ~ him
think Of all the lore! Whist man has
loved a. he has done Vho has brought
himself 70 TO ahaalbs % smother the
reward he had sfszzxAs h worth his
while 70 wish foef Yos must not count
the value Of the thing"
But / do"
..But the price he had scs upon Il. 1
was 20 be the com tort OF his life TO
come. And IL would have bssn %. had
he not seen and had he not believed
Because another has loved he has Civ
en- up that which he has loved him.
self"
1T was not for my sake"
s.But it MAS for m ne. You had come
first. and hai won my poor heart II
was not worth the winning 10 either OF
YOU"
lit was for me TO judge Of that"
Just so. But you do not know his
heart How prone he is . hold by that
which he knows he has made his owr.
I was his own"
..You told him the truth when he
came TO YOU"
Il was his own" said Mary. firmly.
Had he babe me never TO see you
again, ! should never have seen You.
Had he not gone after you himself. you
would never have come back"
Il do not know how that might be"
alt would have been 10 no good. Having
consented TO take everything from his
hands, | could never have been untrue
to him. l tell You that / should as GER
tainlv have become his wife as hat girl
will become the wife OF that young
Gle -gyman. OF course l was unhap-
py."
"Wcre YOU. dear:?'
..Ycs: I was very unhappy. When
you flashed upon me there at Croker 8
Hall, | knew nj once all the Joy that
had fallen within my reach. You were
there, and you had come for me- All
the way from Kimberley. just for me to
smile upon you! Did you not?"
..lndeed | did"
when you bad found yocr dia-
monds, you thought OF me--was noi
sou
! .Of you only"
You fa,terer' You dear, Lonny
! lover. You whom l had always loved
- ...zI g.. xh.o 4 tn.x NOT xyhaa..
I you were! You who had not left me to be
, like Mariana. but had hurried home 1t
once for me when your mans work was
done doing just what a girl would
[ think that a man should do for hel
sake. But it had been all destroyed by
the necessity Of tine case. i take no
: blame TO myself
"No; n
t Looking back at it all, / was right.
He had chosen To want me, and had Z
5 right TO me. | had taken his gifts,
5 gwen with a full hand. And where
: were you. my own one? Had a right
r TO think that you were thinking o.
me:"'
II was thinking OF YOU"
"Yes; because YOU have turned out
to be one in a hundred; but / was no
: to have known that. Then he asked
me, and l thought it best that bt
should know the truth and take hi;
h he knew the truth-that you were 81
0 far on your way to seek my hand"
S II was that very moment almos
within reach of it."
t But still it had become his. II,
5 did not toss it from him then a. a thing
e that was valueIess. With the truest
noblest observance, he made me under
stand how much it might be to him
and then surrendered it without a wore
: of i'll -humor, because he told himsel
y that, in truth, my heart was within
your keeping. Ii you will keep it well
YOU must find a place for his Also" /
was thus that Mary Lawrie suffered tin
spooning that was inflicted upon he
n by John Gordon.
o The most important part OF cur mar
l. rative still remains. When the da,
came. the Reverend Montagu Blake ws
duly married to Miss Catherine For
, roster in Winchester Cathedral. by tn
Very Reverend the Dean. assisted b
the Young lady's father; and it is pleas
q ant to think that on that occasion tn
two clergymen behaved to each otne
g with extreme %civility. MIR. Blake a
K once took his wife over to the Isle O
k Wight and came back at the end of
e month to enjoy the hospitality of Mr.
o Hall. And with them came that lady
: maid. of whose promotion to q highe
i sphere in lie we shall expect soon 4
hear. Then came 4 period of thorough
enjoyment for Mr.. Blake in superintend
It ing the work of Mr.. Nexface.
70 should ever be finished?" sad the brid
to Augusta Hall. because as things ar
now, Monts u is Supremacy happy; h
, will never be so happy again"
UNLESS Wien the baby comes,' sal
Augusta
Il don't think he'll ARE a bit abou
n the baby said the bride.
o The writer, however, is of differen
opinion. as he is inclined to think tina
the Reverend Montagu Blake WI
d be a pattern for all fathers. One wor,
d more We must add of Mr.. W~hittlestal
Q and his future life and one word O
i Mrs. Bagsett. Mr.. Whittlestaff did no
Q leave Croker's Hall. When Octobe
It had come round. he was present a
l. Mary's marriage. and certainly did nc
It carry himself then with any show @
outward Joy. He was moody and s.len,
and. as some said. almost uncourteoti
Of to John Gordon. But before Mary wen
down to the train. j n preparation of he
long wedding-tour. he took her up I
his bedroom. and there said a final wor
TO her. Give him my love"
= .Oh, my darling. you have made N
so happy
(r lyon viii find me better when yo
come hack. thouph shall never ceaS