The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-18

Chbt ~ SDOulu nOJ only come nome TO
their family connections, but, beyond
all, that the subjects of it should
be two of the most irreprOachable
persons among them, whose shin
ing regulations the breath of SLAM
der ought not to have been able to
tarnish.
The women took the matter to
heart and in hand at once, but all
their efforts to excite the men topaz
tlsanship were unGVailing. They
"didn't care;' they had other things
to think Of. Amelia was "a nice little
girl" and George was "a good fellow"
sit would all come out right" and, in
short, they would have nothing to do
with it. The feminine sense of prODri~
ETY., however, required an arbitrary
settlement OF the affair, and the excite
ment rose to fever heat as one wOm-
an after another championed either of
the delinquents, and much bitterness
was manifested. Families were divided
against themselves, daughters Oppos-
ed mothers, and sisters were at Vari-
anCe.
The social head of the Power family
was Mrs. Sala, known and revered by
her relatives as Aunt Helen. She was
the bosom friend of Mrs. OrmistOn,
and one of the earliest champions of
Amelia, utterly COndemning George
before a hearing. She had the very
first knowledge of the scandal, and it
was at her house that the remedies,
punishments, and atonements were
proposed and discussed.
Gpoat noinC bod haop = a ION 70 Nra-
serve secrecy, but without avail, and it
promptly became the subject of dis
Cussion whenever the women of the
family foregathered.
1t had long been the custom to at
tend a sort of informal social reunion
at Aunt Helen's on Friday evenings,
every week a select assortment being
invited to tea, and more comingi in the
evening for music, parlor theatricals,
Charades, conversation, billiards,
cards, ct cetera. Thither went invari-
ably Mrs. OrmistOn and Amelia, like
wise George Power; and after the ad-
vent of the scandal it was amusing to
an outsider to watch the pronounced
way in which Mrs. Ormiston ignored
Georges existence, and the persistence
with which he and Amelia sought each
others society before her very face.
One afternoon a number of the
ladies happened to meet at Aunt
Helen's, and found her in a state of
fearful excitement overa a new develop
ment in the case.
my dears," she said, as she care
fully blew some imaginary dust off of
the library table, what we are to do
about George / really don't know. He
has actually had Amelia to lunch
again in Boston"
"Well, what of that?" remarked
Isabel Warburton. "Surely he can be
polite to her"
"Isabel, when you are oldery will
understand. A young girl, as you
are, lacks experience OF the world to
Judge of such things"
~ only wish he world invite me to
lunch. / should feel like embracing
him as we'll as the opportunity"
"That would be very different, Isa-
bel; you are his cousin, and then, too,
Ghere would be no improperly in his
politeness to YOU"
"My daughter" demonstrates mild
Mrs. Warburton, 81 wish you would
not speak like that, about embracing
George. Suppose some stranger
should overhear you; they would not
know that he was your cousin, and
what would they think of your"
"Now, mother, how could q stranger
overhear me here in Aunt Helen's Ii
brary?"
"Isabel, you should always so order
your remarks that any one might
overhear them"
"Dear me, dear me-" pursues Aunt
Helen; ito think that this shouldcome
upon us now, after centuries Of spot
less family record. / think shall ask
DR.. Jackson (thefamily's clergyman
'to see George and reason with him.
Religious authority must have some
weight with him."
Doctor fddlesticksl" exclalms
Georges sister, Louise, a girlish maid
en- of forty; 81 should call that an inn
pertinent intrusion which George
would very properly resent. What
has George done that any minister
should stick his nose into his affairs?
He had better 60 and do his reasoning
with that girl"
Iouise," said Aunt Helen, "you
forget that Amelia is q simple, confid-
ing girl, whose only fault is in listen
ing to the temptation of an accom-
plished and attractive man of the
world, the danger of which she could
not be expected to know"
"And Aunt. Helen, you forget that
my brother George is a man who has
never in his life been accused of O dis
honorable action till now, and that
his only fault is in allowing himself to
be entangled by an artful girl, who, /
believe, knows very well what she is
about"
"Let us hope that it is not so bad