The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-13
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Continued from IiriidaHl
Miss Bell was quite gracious next day
After breakfast Yates hurried off, rs usua
leaving tho others seated. Albcrtync'
resentment, tho irritation OF love, spok
out. II have done your bidding" no be
gan; "and II you did not know befor
what 1t came to, I will tell, now that "
obeycd."
.'Good gracious! I mover bade you d
anything! And don't understand bus
mess n mite! Father wouldn't ask you Il
do wrong!"
WHATS not wrong for him 10 asl
might DO wrong for me to 10, knowing th1
consequences toward myself. A mai
lights his own quarrels rs he can, but Mr.
lates's enemies arc not mine, and pvo II,
right to kill thom or risk my life"
What on earth do you mean? Is there
a new war? And what have you or fathcI
to do with It between you p"
us 1t possible you do not know
Albertyne paused. swell, It WIS In nj,
mind that ! ought not to do what Mr.
Yates asked, and you drove me 10 il
against my will. That shows, anyhow
Whit value put on your kindness, Miss
Bell.n
What is this mystery? I shall asl
father" "
pray don'tl You will ycx him against
both OF u.s." ,'' fS,..f
II don't know why you should put your.
sell between my futller and nc, Mr..
Albertyne. We arc one party, md you
arc another" 'I'
This is my reward"
"Oh, don't think INC u%ngrateful. II you
will tell mo what 1t all means, | shall sec
the obligation, no doubt"
1T means, for me, that I love you so
dearly, there's nothing l could refuse and
nothing I could regret il it proved to you
my love-"
"Oh! this is not" She ran from the
room. Mushing and laughing rather hys-
terically.
a damsel OF fashionable experience
might have found it trying TO drop into
easy ways again after this conversation.
Miss Geil, perhaps, did not trust herself to
try. She resumed that dignity which had
oppressed and bewildered Albertyne when
they first met. And Miss Bell found
Young ladies in Dloemfontein to support
her in their glowing but melancholy
"reminiscences Of Port Elizabeth. The
victim waited, not impatient, for he knew
that events hurrying to Il crisis would
force IN explanation, and beyond this he
did not go. a modest sinelo-hearted fel-
low, who had learned such hard expert
once, did not think for moment that the
rich aud beautiful Miss Yates could be
his; sentimental also, nevertheless, he
was resolved that she should feel his love
and know what it cost. That would be a
triumph OF devotion which heroes and
princes might envy.
The time drew near. Ono after another
stalwatt diggcrs reached Bloemfontein,
and they asked not for Mr.. Yates or Wood,
but for Albcrtyne. The very first showed
astonisliment and dissatisfaction when re-
terred to strangers; and rs 0 as half n
dozen had collected they summoned him
in a body to explain his position. ALDER
tyne defended himself Us best he could,
but the diggers would not accept his plan,
and they unanimously consigned Mr..
aoeSo w PCitatloHs 4No UT IllTcC WENT
back growing imprecations, but a score
remained, and at every hour Of the day
Albertyne was encircled by q group
threateningly anxious to know, all oyer
again, "what he meant by it." All this
the poor fellow had foreseen, and the end
also. After struggling until the diggers
charged him with flat trcachery, he gave
way. Yates Instantly named him captain
Of the troop, commissioned him to buy the
best horse in town, ind hurried his prep
arations for starting.
A trader on his way southwark had n
"salted" mare-one, that is, which had
been bitten by the tsetze fly and recover
ed. It's peculiar virtue would not be
pr. cious in the Bechuana country, but
such horses must needs be vigorous, and
this was young and inst. While Alher-
tyne bargained, Miss Yates came by with
a friend, and the ladies stopped to look.
A "salted' animal is always rough, and its
eyes have an odd stare. Said the other
maiden, "fou are not going to buy TINT
creature at such a price? It looks like a
fool!"
"The better suited to me, Miss yillers.
an fool,"
"Do you address that statement to nc? ?"
Miss Bell asked haughtily..
1.-THE small service I did your father is
bearing its fruit, l thought you might like
to know how l felt about it SO far"
Miss Bell stared, frowncd and turned
away. When Albertynp got home she
"Now, sir, I earnestly beg you to ex-
plain these hints and charges"
The tone was appealing, but it did not
touch bis angry mood: Albertyne sup
pressed only the brutality and wickedness
Of Yates's enterprise, giving the old man
credit for motive allowable, but frankly
relating the trick played on himself,
whittier It had led anh what Its conse-
quences would be to him. For all this
Bell was accountable. But when he had
thus vented his passion, Albertyne felt
suddenly that the declaration o. his love
would not tremendously work III, and
paused in bewilderment.
Miss Miss Bells color had changed several
times. She rass,
II do not doubt you have told the truth,
but swear it"
II swear! But don't think I am sorry
to have obeyed you. At your demand
-" Miss Bell did not wait the eYplana-
ton, leaving him with a glance he could
not read.
At supper that night Yates casually
mentioned q project OF %journeying toward
the liqrts ltlveF On business; Miss Hell
took the same easy tone. She had always
felt an interest in Kafirs aud Kattir life,
but those gDecimnnS mt Port n1iznhath nra
50 evidently bogus! 1t would be delight
full to visit them in their kraals, etc. The
Batlapins, Yates urged, are scarcely more
genuine than the despicable specimens OF
the colony, Rut Miss Bell declared she
would content herself with them, pending
better opportunities, Not yet alarmed,
Yates pointed ont that tho country was
unpeopled and barbarous. quite unfit for
ladies' travel, hut his daughter replied
that many thousand Roor women had
mado journeys far longer, more painful,
and more perilous, with no such comforts
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