The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-06-06

been sewing, but we have both been in
i'll health all winter, and I wish to try
some way of getting a living that is less
combining. / have kept house several
years, but 1 have not capital to furnish,
SO we want to secure q house furnished
like this one, if possible"
Quite unconscious of the reason, Ru-
pert Smithson Vas finding it very pleas
n to talk to this gentle little widow
about her plans as she spoke, was Won
dering If it would not make an agree
able variety in his lonely life to let her
make her experiment of keeping board
ers upon the premises.
u think you will be satisfied with
my references, sir, / have lived in one
house and have had work from one firm
for SIX years, and if you require it /
q obtain letters from my husbands
friends in Cincinnati"
"Cincinnaiw
"He was quite we'll known there.
Perhaps you know of him, John Muir.
ry,--street 2"
John Murry!n
Rupert Smithson locked %searchingly
into the pale sad face that was so plead
ingly raised to his gaze. Where were
the rosy cheeks, the dancing yes, the
laughing lips that he had pictured as
belonging to John Murry's wife?
Knowing now the truth, he recognized
the face before him, the youth all gone,
and the expression sanctiied by sorrow
and suffering.
You have children" he said, after q
long silence.
$3.50 (1n1v apo Evsr~ a 1o,,o1ko,
teen years old. Ihave buried all the
others"
Il will let you have the house on n
condition, he said, his lips trembling o
little as he spoke.
Shed did not answe In the softened
eyes looking into her own, in the voice
suddenly modulated to q tender sweet
ness, some memory was awakened, and
she only listened with bated breath and
dilating eyes.
"On one condition, Kate" he said,
that you come to it as my wife and its
mistress. l have waited for YOU twenty
years, Katie"
1t was hard to believe, ever then,
though the little widow let him caress
her, and sobbed upon his breast. This
gray-haired, middle aged man was so
unlike the Rupert she had believed
false. Even after the whole past was
discussed, wronged. but not by Katie, it
was hard to believe there might be years
of Happiness still in store for them.
Rupert Smithson did not put in his
Appearance" at his counting house all
day, and Rupert the Second went home
after dinner in rather an uneasy frame
OF mind regarding the April fool trick
of his.
II must run over and see if / have
offended beyond all hope of pardon"
he said, as he rose from the table.
But u gruf voice behind him arrested
his steps. s
$50, SO! yon have advertised my
house to iet," said his uncle, but in
spite Of his efforts, he failed to be very
angry.
"How many old maids and widows
applied?" inquired the daring young
scapegrace.
IL don't know. After the first appli-
cation, Mrs. Jones told the others the
house was taken" !.
"Taken!n
"Yes, I have let it upon q life lease
too,'-here he opened the ~door-"my
wife"
Very shy, blushing and timid, my
wife looked in her slate oolored dress
and bonnet, ns her three hours husband
led her in, bu. aftera moments scrutiny
Mrs. Kimberly cried:
1T is Katie Carrol!-
Katie Smithson.." said the bride
groom with immense dignity, and my
daughter Winniefred."
There was a new sensation as p pref
ty blonde answered to his call, but
warmer welcome was never given than
accorded to these by their new relatives,
and to this day Uncle Rupert viii never
acknowledge that he got the worst d
the joke when his nephew played him an
April FOOLS trick. by advertising his
house to let.