Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06

she only struggled hard in his grasp
but never uttered a sound.
Don't be frightenrd," he continued
in a soothing, but to her a horribl,
familiar hammer 81 won't hurt Won
OF course, you mistook the room. Onl,
tell me who you are, and give ms s
kiss to keep your secret, and I'll lei
you CO."
A kiss. indeed! And this was tho
MAJ she had believed to be so chiyal.
rous. Never should he learn whom he
had held in his arms. And she 'strup.
glcd harder than ever to escape.
Quiet. silly one!" he said, witt
some Impotence in his tone. DOM
/ tell you won't hurt you. Come
give me a kiss, and tell me your name
like Il sensible girl, and l promise tc
let you go. Ican'tdo fairer than that,
can II" But still no sound from her,
only a further struggle as he strove
hard to kiss her and she to push his
face away, severely scratching his
checks in the dark in her Efforts To
avoid his carcsses. And now he, too,
began to get angry and to strive more
%mastcrfully for the toll which he was
determined to take, with the result of
finally reducing his victim to an utterly
exhausted condition of body, Though
her spirit was such that she allowed no
sound to escape her. But her PROLONGED
and silent resistance had thoroughly
reused his spite, and the true temher
OF the man came out unchecked; and,
as he impressed a kiss upon her cheek,
wet with angry tears,-"Little fcol!'
he said. "if you had not been S, alb
surd | would have let you off, bu now
am determined to know who ytu are;
there, that little pinch will las, long
enough to enable me to recognize
you in the morning, and make
you repent of your folly" AMI as he
spoke he gathered up the tiniet BIT of
her velvet check in his teeth and bit it
sharply, causing little pain. hut MAX
ing a mark which would be visible for
many days. And then he le her go,
and she darted as quickly as tie dark
ness would allow her into theoassage,
and away to Mrs. Fudgelow%s room,
leaving. in her wild, angry Mste, her
candlestick and one little slipper be-
hind her. Gervoise, who hadcome up
from the billiard room to fetch a ciga-
rette, nov decided, remembering the
scratch he had received, to g to bed,
but, having brought no light With him,
he had to manage his undressing as
best he could in the dark. Whilst
CROPPING along the room. hsfelt with
his bare foot the soft slipper; Zone
more link in the chain of evidence. my
lady, he remarked with "a chuckle,
putting the slipper under hi pillow.
Meanwhile. Muriel had ilownIin a half
hysterical state to the arms of her
friend and hostess, and had poured out
her indignant story into he. sympa-
thetic ear
:How could he! How couldhe9" she
kept calculating, as she gradually told
all the details of the matter, aid showed
her pretty check with the little angry
red mark in the center Of it, and then
her slipper, he had that also-what
could she do? How could She escape
the shame of detection? She knew
from his tone how insolently triumph
ant he would be. Mrs. Fudselow was
full of sympathy and indignation.
"He shall leaye here tomorrow, nv
dear. promise you"
Dae ShAee WIN l. P1CfCilU us wv
who it was he kissed. Oh, he is horrid.
horrid!!"
.Never mind, dear. leave that to me.
L think we u outwit him. Men are
clumsy things at the best; they have
their brute force. and that is all. they
can rely upon. A woman can always
outwit any man; and now, come. l
Will take you to YOUR room and see o
safe i'll bed. and then You must go to
Steep and hope for the best.n And
Mnriel went to bed in all due submits
sion. but hardly slept much.
Gervoise woke early. as was his wont
i'll the country, and his mind instantly
reverted to the incident of the previous
night. How sorry she. whoever she
was, would be to think that she had
not submitted quietly. After all, what
was a kiss i'll the dark: Nothing for q
girl to mind. He would have the up
per hand of her now. though. perhaps.
he was sorry he had marked her. No
girl would like that. Never mind. it
WAS done now. and could not be I'M
done. and with that satisfactory re-
Election he put on his dressing-gown
and hurried off to the bathroom before
the house began to stir.
Returning some ten minutes after
wards. and proceeding to shave, he was
considerably disguised to find a long,
curved scratch acros his right cheek,
which did not add materially to his
personal appearance. and which, He
feared. could not in any way be attri-
huted to aslip of his razor. No matter;
he had marked her. too; and. by the
way. there was the slipper. He would
have a look at that; no doubt it was a
pretty little thing, and there would be
no difficulty in finding the fellow to it:
and. as he thought thus. he moved
toward his bed. and passed his hand
under the pillow i'll search of it. He
drew it out, and stared at it in amaze
ment. 1t was an enormous old. worm
out. frowsy carpet-slipper, which would
have fitted a giant. Could this be the
one that he had placed beneath his
head last nights He shuddered at the
idea; he was sure that it was nothing
Of the kind: he could not be so de-
teived! But his visitor had dropped her
candleStick: he had heard it fall. aud
she certainly had no chance of picking
it up again. He searched for It
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