The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-03-06

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and you soon outlived your grief"
Lady (rising indignantly)-FYoush shall
not speak to me in such a way; 1 won
listen to you"
Knight (calmly)-"Sit down, Ellie
I'll apologize; it wasn't soon, but yor
have outlived it. Why. child, it's til,
way of the world, one outlives every
thing. Ellie, how young you are, il
spite of your-how many?-years
When you throw up your head in tina
old way | fancy myself back on YOU
u%ncle's old porch in Chester; YOU wer.
a very willful girl, Helen"
Lady with heightened color)-"I am
very willful woman"
knight Qaughing)-"I haven't the
slightest doubt oft, my dear fortunate
ly, l can manage willfulness-and yor
better than | did in my cailow days.
Seriously, Helen, I have something tc
to say to you; VIZ didn't meet by acct.
dent. l was waiting for you, waiting
to say it. Your train hadn't gone, ]
lied to you. Yes, / did don't look angry
listen and hear the old story. Ellie, an.
swer the old question: came to-day tc
ask it"
Lady (hurriedly, glancing abou,
distractedly)--"O, hush, hush; do hush
some one will surely, surely hea,
you?"
During the last few sentences elder
~ party in glasses, torn by the conflict,
ing emotions, feminine sense of honor
always weak, feminine love of romano
always strong, has alternately fidgeted
to proclaim her presence and remained
breathless to conceal it. At this appeal
honor triumphs and she heroically and
noislly drops her sun-umbrella, which
Knight picks up and returns with a 20.
lite bow. Thus admitted to his conf
dence E. P. casts honor to the winds,
and, leaning forward, shamelessly, anx-
iously, eagerly, sympathizingly listens! }
knight with perfect calm)-.'Let any
one hear, let the whole world hear, !
told you honestly years ago, 1 repeat it
as honestly to-day love you Helen
will you be my wife,"
Lady (blushing painfully)-"Tom,
you don't know what you are saying;
you can't mean it; you can't be serious;
you haven't loved me all this time"
Knight lstill calmly)-"No, my dear,
[ haven't"
Lady (indignantly-"Then why dc
you want to marry me? You only saw
me last evening. You hadn't a chance
to fall in love with me if you forgot me
the minute we parted"
Knight laughing)-"O, the delicious.
ness of feminine logic! My darling girl,
who said that | forgot you the minute
we parted? L haven't gone about the
world weeping for you all the time, but,
believe me most truly, l have loved no
other m After our foolish, silly
little quarrel and our still more foolish
parting, l was miserable"
Lady-"Why did you rush off tc
Europo?"
Knight-"Why didn't you stop me ?
One word would nave been enough. II
was foolish. If I had staid in New York
we'd have kissed and made up IN O
week"
Lady-"You must think I was very
forgiving; it was all your fault, to begin
with"
Knlght-"Granted."
Lndy-"Well, of course, T was silly
and disagreeable, and obstinate. I'm
so sorry, Tom; but you went away, and
I thought you didn't care, and"
hnight(dryly}-"And Il good, stupid,
rich old man came along and-you mar,
ried him!"
Lady with dignitD-"Our converse.
ton had better stop. You quite forget
you are speaking to a wife of her hus.
band" CTakes up her book and begins
to read. Knight studies the head Of
his cane moodily. A long pause.)
Knight suppose you are right
about it. I'll try not to offend again.
When [ look Mt you / forget-every,
thing! Well, I went to Europe, and il
l hadn't been afraid of your laughing al
me I'd have come back on the same
steamer"
Lady-"O! Tom, if you only had!'
Knight-"So l wrote you a letter"
Lady(escitealy)-"Tom 1 never got
I'll"
Knight (composedly)-"I never SEN
it; the day it would have left fathers
letter came from New York, telling me
Of your new bctrothal."
Lady-"Iou might have saved me-
knight-"From marrying the best
man in the world? What 10 you take
me for? I had known your most excel.
lent and respectable husband for many
years. The same woman could not
love him and me. If you intended to
marry him without LOVING him, why, il
was a poor lookout for him, but that
did me no good"
Lady p~leadingly) TON, I was SC
very miserable, and he was really very
good to me and-you had left me, Tom
knight-"Helen, you said you never
wanted to see my face again. Well
spent my miserable quarter of an hour,
then [ braced up, had a charming trip,
went everywhere, saw everything, staid
four years, came back-cured! Faith.
ersaeath had left me so rich rs to be m
ldler for life. | am an eligible petted
and made much of. I've gotten a good
deal of pleasure out of life. I never
quite forgot you, Helen, but I didn't
grieve for you any more than I did fol
poor Jack. You remember Jack ,Ellie|
Lady eagerly -" and how you
held me on his back, Tom
Knight-"And how you screamed
when he began to trot."
Lady-"But I hung on, that was the
first time I ever saw you"
Knight docking at her thoughtfully
You've changed since then; you
wore your hair in a pigtail,"
Lady-"Which you and Jim used tc
pull"
Knight-t'You were badly freckled
then. never saw you looking prettiel
than you do to-day"
Lady with q pleased little laugh
absurd. In spite of my how many
yearsY and ALL"
Knight-"And all? Now, I suppose
| should say that when l heard you had
| ceased to be forbidden fruit all the old