The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-03-27
LOVE AND DUTY.

1t was a wild and rocky coast, along
which ran the path that led to the
home of old Martin Frere. At ordina-
ry times the cottage would have pos
SeSsed but little attraction for a bold
stirring youth like Owen Glenn. But
a visitor had of late frightened up it's
precincts-a young girl named Annis,
named after the aged grandmother
who dOzed by the hearth through the
long evenings, content to watch the
bright flames as they shot up from the
broad Replace, and perhaps to see
visions of the past with her dim eyes.
Dame Frere was a s~harp-voiced,
busting woman, long past middle age.
and no having the name of possessing
a very sweet temper, but she had a
soft place in her heart for granny, and
II was TO please her she had invited
her pretty name-child to come and
visit them for a few months.
Annis was a tall, slight girl, as
straight as a pine tree and as graceful
Is a fawn. Her yellow hair hung in a
perfect name of shining curls all about
her shoulders and far down below her
waist. Imagine a sweet, innocent face,
lighted with great lustrous dark eyes.
and a red mouth almost always curry
ing into smiles, and you have some
idea of Annis.
Most of the young girls in the vicini-
~ were buxom, merry lasses, with
hair and eyes to match-both of in
tense blackness-and with more or
less of the hoYden in them. Their
laughter was loud and hearty, and
their ways more frolicsome than refin-
ed. So it is not strange that when this
graceful, quiet stranger came among
them, with her shy ways and blonde
coloriDg, her swift changes of express
sion and native ease of manner she
was at one taken into the hearts of
All the young people in the neighhor-
hood.
1t is a great mistake TO think that
one girl is insensible TO another
maiden's beauty. Sometimes, TO be
sare, she may have a feeling of jeal-
Ousy with regard to it when she is nat
uraily Of that disposition, but oftener
she loves the object of her admiration
ali the more because she embodies that
ideal which exists In every human
soul 70 a greater or less degree.
0gzen Glenn had fallen mead over
heels in love at his first meeting with
Annis, and had o missed an oppor-
tunity OF meeting her al the various
rustic gatherings TO which she had
been invited; and tonight he was 20
ing 10 test his fate by telling Annis
that he loved her, and ask If he could
hope for a response 10 the ardent feel
ing with which he had been inspired
by her.
Owen was not at all certain as to
the success Of bis suit, for there was
ansther who admired Annis, and who
was fer ABOVE him IN worldly station
and wealth, and as Owen, in his free
dom from vanity, also thought, in
good Looks and In other qualities calcu-
lated = EAa : girls heart
Asnis had received the pleasant lit
tie courtesies and attentions of both
In . way calculated to wound neither;
though, IS 70 that, IL would have been
IN fmp0ssibilfty for her TO be other
than 50 sweet and gracious as not to
enkindle hope In each passionate
young heart.
AAA& UtdtASfB 31DOA ab OWSu bbATLeQ
from his home TO take the long and
tedious walk over the cliffs, which
must be traversed before he could
reach the cottage which sheltered the
cA;eess CT his love.
Ii had been raining steadily all day
long, and as night came on the wind
had risen to a gale.
But, wrapped in his waterproof
cloak and lighted on his way BY q lam
tern, Owen cared not for the threaten
ing elements. and walked along whist
ling softly, now and then pausing to
shake himself, after the fashion of
some huge water dog.
Then he would trudge on again,
thinking what a terrible night it must
be at sea. and breathing a prayer for
the rave tossed mariners far from
home.
Suddenly . dull, booming sound
reached his ear.
It came from y seward direction,
but at first he kept on his way. think
ing
This is no the harbor, and every
one who has the slightest knowledge
Of the locality will be sure ssavoid
eUch a dangerous coast so it's no bns
sxMsss "a NINE