The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-01-16

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WA . modern castle. And why did
this handsome Harry persist in calling
his sister Marian ?"
Marian herself was also puzzled, un.
til it occurred to her mind, "all of g
sudden" that this Miss Harper must
have been sent to their assistance
by old Mrs. Telliff, who knew all sorts
OF nice girls in need, and who was also
acquainted with the fact Of their moth.
er's illness.
Mrs. Teliff is always thoughtful, y
she pondered. "But SO dreadfully
brusque and abrupt sometimes"
"Do you know how to take cara q,
sick people, Miss Harper?" she asked,
as she wss shaking out the snowy mus
lin folds of the curtains in the "best
room"
mot particularly" confessed Nell.
cent. "Why?".
"Oh, because mamma is Just recover
ing from rheumatic fever! |" said Marian
and it would be 30 nice If you could
help us nurse her."
"Then / will help you," said Nell.
cent with o kiss.
Harry is'ever so useful, said Marian.
He is the dearest fellow in the world.
But he can't do everything. He is down
stars now broiling the chickens for
dinner. He learned to cook when he
was camping out. And can't
drink any coffee but that which he
makes"
Melicent's eyes sparkled. "He must
be the best of brothers, said she.
HE is" cried enthusiastic Marian.
Mrs. Brown, the sweetest Of pale in
valids, received the visitor with some
thing of that puzzled air which Nell
cent found SO hard to understand.
And there was a cottage piano, q banjo,
some new music, and q wilderness of
wild flowers; and the young people
promised to show Melicent q cascade
up the glen, and q haunted dell still
further on.
"They are SO NICE" thought MeI1cent
that night when she went to bed in the
little muslin-curtained room. "Not at
all what 1 expected to see, from Aunt
Josepha's description. And Harry is
SO unselfish and tender to his mother
and Marian is SO sweet and affectionate.
/ am sure I could be happy here for a
year"
Consequently, the next day, when
the grand carriage from Glenburnie
ratified down the read, and Miss Beatrix
Browne came to claim the waif and
stray, Melicent Harper was more sur
prised than plensed.
Have L come to the wrong placer"
said she. ooh, they have been so good
to me-! The wrong Browns? No; that
cannot possibly be. They are right,
right in everything. But I shall not go
away until Mrs, Brown Is we'll enough
to be about the house." -
And Melicent adhered r~esolutely to
this determination, in spite of Trix's
frowns and Herschei Hubert's blandish-
ments. She remained nearly all sum-
mer at the cottage, and spent only one
little week at Glenburnie.
"But one can accomplish a good deal
in q week." said Mrs. Bethune Browne,
hopefully. "And, CT course, Glenburnie
must be like Paradise to her, after those
horrid little cramped-uprooms and ever
lasting pine forests"
Herschel Hubert made himself as
agreeable as he possibly could to the
New York visitor, and on the night be-
fore her return to New York he laid his
hand and heart at her feet.
%"Oh, I am so sorry?" said Melicent.
But 1 am engaged already"
ITO Harry Browns" said Herschel
Hubert, grinding his teeth.
EYES," said Melicent, "to Harry. ]
was going to tell Beatrix about it to-
night. l am SO vexed that you should
have committed yourself in this sort
Of way. But please let's forget all
aboutit."
MI Herschel Hubert Browne muttered
some sort of a lame congratulation, and
withdrew from the scene as hastily ns
possible.
cts all q comedy of errors, it seems
he said, almost savagely, to his mother.
Here is our season wasted, our purse
empty, our tradesmen clamorous; and
Harry Brown, down at the cottage, has
gained the prize"
And all that Mrs. Bethune Browne
could say was:
Its very strange! Very strange, in
deed!"