The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-22

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love him too we'll
Miss Miner iooiks ed arcasticaliyrat Ellice's
sweet, flushed face, a gave o little
sniff of contempt.
What nonsensel You love him too
we'll. Love indee6l It's all absurdity. I
never was in love in all my life"
Ellice dropped her head in a pretty little
confused way.
T-can't help that, Miss Miner. i love
Frank, and he loves me. We'd be per-
fectly miserable if we parted. Please
don't tell mel must give him up! Indeed
it is impossible. We are engaged to
be married just as soon as he comes back
from his visit home"
Miss Miner dropped her feet from the
polished silver bar tothe tile3 hearth with
q resonant bang as she jureped up in
dignantly.
Engaged to be married to DIR. Olevinl
Did / ever! Well, Ellice Dunning-very
WE'LL You may pack my hand-yalise at
once. ] am going to New York on o visit
by the Clio train, and I'll be home on
Thursday. When ! come back, don't let
me find you here, you ungrateful little
wretch-youl"
Ellice's lips quiyered, her eyes filled
diamond bright tears.
II 04&R0 0A4A0A ~ MI 4OA1O AkG ~
turn me away"
THAT is just what / mean! I have told
You, time again, / didn't approve of men
beaux and love- making. and / won't have
it where I am! You can take your choice
me or DIR. Olevin. III give you just FIVE
minutes"
A little red Ash crept to the girls cheek.
/ don't want five minutes for q choice,
Miss Miner" she said proudly. You have
been very good TO me, and / cannot forget
your kindness; and 7 think | have done my
duty by you. But nothing-no one--could
come between me and DR.. 0leyin."
"All right then. Don't let me see you
here when / come back-thats al!'
AND then Ellice went up to Miss Miners
room and packed the red Russia satchel,
dropping a few tears as she folded the gar
ments Miss Miner would require.
I'll go to Mrs. Carisford Carl, Miss Miner
decided, as she sat in the city bound ex-
press, in the early dusk of the November
evening. Camilla thinks all the world of
me. Her daughter would not act as that
young mink dared act. The ideal-the
ideai-of preferring-actually ~prefering-a
penniless young doctor with e moustache-
a nasty black moustache-to mel after all
I've lone for her, tool"
II bIOn MAtcS A1inCA lCuAId OUSh pCls
c~ontentedly in her seat, satisfied that she
had done her whole duty by herself, and
Ellice Cunning, too.
1t was just $50 o'clock when the hired
hack deposited her at the door of MIR.
Carisford Carts red-brick house-a COM
Portable, coy place, with the name on the
door in full.
A servant showed her in, and asked her
name; but Miss Miner wanted to surprise
her sister, and sent word that a friend
wished to see her, while she seated herself
in the parlor, where a little girl sat curled
up in a cushioned chair, reading.
You want to see my marama, ] sup
pose?1
"Yes," said Miss Miner, with an affable
smile. lyon are Hetty, / SUPPOSED"
The child gave a heavy sigh.
Eyes, I'm Hetty. Oh, don't / hate that
namep
why, / think it a frst-rate name. You
are a namesake of somebody, / guess2"
"Yes, / am. Old Hetty Miner, my aunt,
/ who lives out in the country, / never have
seen her, and don't want to. either, cause
mamma says she's the meanest old thing in
all creations regular old Miss Nancy,
papa says"
Miss Miner smiied-a little queerly.
"Ohi that's what they say, is ID? Well,
Hetty, / am your Aunt Miner"
The child opened her eyes wider.
Are You? Then, won't manm be madi
We expect company afcer a while and mann
ma won't want you at all. We'd be dread
fnily ashamed of you before the Algerdons.
You're going to leave Us your money, amt
your Papa and mamma said they were
most tired of waiting-you had as many
lives as O cat. We are going to Europe
when you die"
Are you?n said Miss Miner, with an in
Esane desire to shake the pert, self possess
ed, non voungster. well, ] wouldn't
depend upon it If / were you"
And before Mrs Carl came dowr stairs,
Miss Miner was out ON the street, ON her
way to her half brothers house.
"A pretty nest Of vipers those Carls are.
Thank heaven, I've found them out in time
Going to Europe on my money! Why, nm
grateful as that spunky little Alice is. she
isn't as treacherous as my own hesh and
blood. HumphlD
And her compiacency was not yet restor-
ed when she left the street-car on the near
est corner to Mr.. Parker D~ollinaby's bach
elor quarters, that were alight in a perfect
blaze of bright cheer,
at looks like q party, " she thought.
But all the same she did not hesitate to-
go up the imposing stone steps and ring
the bell, to which no response coming, she
tried the door-knob, and admitted herself
into o large, brilliantly lighted hall. at the
end OF which was a room, from whlcl came
the sounds Of reyelry and Publication that
had prevented her ring being heard.
Miss Miner went into the first door that
stood ajar. and through sn ,ther partly
closed uoor she saw the gay bachelor party
--some ten or ffteen-merry over their
wine.
$50 that's the way Parker Dollingby
does, is it?" she asked herself grimly.
just as, at she same instant, that gentle
mans voice, distant, boistercus, rose high,
and for q second silenced all others.