The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-05-02

saw how tightly il closed on the upper
rail Of the gate.
IF ! knew the reason?' he asked.
HYou will not insist she said appeal
|ingly, catching her breath.
Evidently it exists in myself" be
rejoined.
No, Mr.. Cardonne.n
She spoke With rapidity and with q
quick fling of her hand.
Perhaps time, janet
NO" she interrupted. "It will al
ways exist"
He had used the word exist, and she
seemed to think it was just the n to
serve her.
Janet. you are the first woman to
whom / Q proposed he huskily
said. "'That is true, though I have al
most reached middle age"
II believe you SIR she answered
hnmbly, regretfully. 81 appreciate the
honor you have paid me. / am sorry"
He did not want her pity. He felt
like Selling her and hinging her down
the embankment: but by a great effort
he curbed his temper.
II am too polite to Insist upon know
ing your reason he said. s'You might
say have not the right to demand it,
and [ don't know but that would be the
truth. l am previously disappointed,
and it is such a novel, and such a.
a--wretclled experience for me that I
don't know where to look for redress
or for comfort. rather. You wish me
to understand that a chasm yawns be-
tween u.s."
(which can never be bridged, com
pleted she, her tone firm, though she
trembled, as he could see in the star
light.
He lifted his hand to his %crayat, as il
to relieve a choking sensation there.
II can do nothing but submit, he
slowly, rnefully said.
He strobe angrily down the path, but
stopped, turned and called out:
Coed night, janet
The resigned, pitiful tone made her
heart ache as it had never acbed before.
Good night, Mr.. Cardonne, she flung
back, startled at the sound of her voice,
it was so unlike her own.
She stood alone for a few minutes in
her agony, her fingers twisted into a
knot, an ashen pallor in her face.
Aweek later 29anet Tliorne met Gale
Cardonne at the gate of Northbrook.
She Ind stopped to deliver a dispatch.
He took it, but eyed her ~askance, his
face rigid. He noticed that she looked
worried and that her hand shook.
THANK vou,' he crisply said, turning
to go.
mir. Cardonne!'
Her tone was quick, decisive, tinged
with desperation.
He wheeled around. She stood still
for n moment, white and speeches..
She was having a fierce fight with her.
self.
aYou despise me" she said huskily.
Why, no., cfilaW He spoke the
epithet in tenderness, not because she
looked SO childlike nor because he wa.
a dozen years her senior.
II am very miserable ovef it, but can
not blame YOU he said, unless it ma,
be because you have. no business to b,
SO charming. and a queer smile cam,
to lis lips.
She lifted her hand in a self deprecat
ing way.
There is something I mnstt tell you,
she slowly said, looking past him int
vacancy. I'm Justice to myself, sil
and hope you won't think me bold,
rejected you. and yet l love you sir
How deeply. God knows"
The sweet gray ewes were looking di
| rectly at him then, a warm glow i
them. His heart gave a bound.
1 HIonnt x-p,, 1,ox-a .ono,u;laroJ Oh
+ She shook her head.
I "Then you have simply increased til
paln-the consciousness of the grea
!. boon I have lost. Do you delight i
!, that ?"
His tone o in volume and q fer
| sparkle came into his handsome brow
eyes.
: She recoiled, one hand pressed again.
Q her heart.
IT want you to know, sir, that I, too
I'm suffering" she said, in q hushet
measured tone. ut has given me MOI
r pain to make the confession than it ii
you to hear it."
She walked rapidly away and
started after her, slightly stupefied.
ut is her candor that is her perfe
charm was his mental comment.
Gale Cardonne had but one congen
: al friend, a certain DR.. Weatherby,
Ii man q little crotchety, but q ioyi1
good-learted fellow withal, a most e
n cellent physician and we'll read, not o
~ inthe classics, but in the polite lite
| ature of the day. Every idle evenil
either found Gale Cardonne in the co.
office of the doctor or the latter in II
library at Northbrook.
"Cardonne you ought togetmarried
the doctor said one evening.
They were seated in the library, lit
A more than the top of the doctors ba
head visible in the smoke with which
e had enyeloped himself.
why so, Weatherby?'
They had a familiar way If calli1
each other by their last Names.
8 You might look elsewhere and fa
d worse" remarked the doctor.
stYou have some one to recommend
Gale Cardonne said. interrogativel,y.
q aAye,I have replied the docto
sOne who is worthy, in every respec
d of an honest mans love. / mean Jan
Thorne.
!, Just then something Happened whit
rather disturbed the doctors conlpl
cency. A PAIR Of brawnv arms seizs
him. lifted him from his chair, then /
q placed him i'll ii with considerable vi
q lence
Tho 1ortnr was s, small man liz