The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-13

SUN a tiShilsI pfOpefty--SO easily lie.
stroyed-that it ought not to be own
ed oy any one who doesn't run it.
| One months laundering would take
5O per cent. off the value OF the Jour
nall"
But you are not q blunderer Lis
ten to me, Dick. l am not doing this
for you; would really like to own a
newspaper. There is something grand
about it. | would not buy it if you
| were not here to run it for me. But
know that it will pay me better
nom: rnSn anG amy ;f 'nv1StmSGt S;tn. ha, haze We
as much out OF it as Mr. eastman is
making, | know, Dick, that you would
| keep 1t clean, wouldn'tyou? Willyou
help me try the experiment? We will
see II daily newspaper can not pay
| without publishing wicked advertise
ments. have heard you talk, Dick,
and know what youwoulddo. There
should be no blackmail, no illiteracy,
nothing that would not be proud Of.
Help me, Dick"
'Mrs. Warner, Iwould give ten years
OF my life to have such chance.
would work for 81 dav to do it and
live on it. | wasn't getting much more
when first knew you. But can t do
1T. am nothing to you that you
should do so much for me-"
"No one would know, Dick. Mr.. Jar
din would buy it, and no one would
know whom he was acting for. And
surely, no one would be Jealous OF an
old woman like me doing you good
turn. Is there any one who might be
jealous, Dick?"
"No, indeed. But l shouldn't feel
right about it. don't see how
could do it. Unless-do you like me
very much, Mrs. Warner? You have
been so kind to me, but then your
heart is so big Do you like me per-
sonally?"
"Of course do. You know that. :"
"Then will you be my wife?"
Mrs. Warner blushed as she had not
blushed for ten years
"Oh, Dick!'
''Will you?" and Headly took her
band-not in a love-like fashion, but
very affectionately.
Glow could |, Dick? I'm old Ell ough
to be your mother. People would
call me the Baroness Burdett-Coutts;
and wouldn't mind that; but they'd
call you Ashmead Burdett- -Coutts.
Bartlett Burdett Coutts, or whatever
it is
You are only seven years older
than l."
But am a widow. You wouldn't
feel comfortable, Dick-your friends
would chatf you"
~ don't think they would; men
don't chatf me very much. don t
pretend to be IN any Romeo condition,
but | am very, very fond of you. |
don't say that if you had no money
would ask you to marry me- for
am not in q position to marry any
woman; | may be looking for work q
week from now. But ii my position
on the journal were an assured one,
don't know any woman in the world
whom I'd rather make my wife. You
see feel q good deal older than | am,
and | can't bear the society girls, the
bread and butter kind bore me to
death, and the Others | remember my
mother too well to marry"
ooh, Dick! Dick! | don't know what
to say. love you as well as | love
anything in the world. But it must
be only mother love after all. I'm
such an Old woman, Dick, such q very
old woman. III marry you on three
conditlons-that you take the editor
ship OF the Journal; that we are to be
engaged for Il YEAR and that no one
is to know anything about it till a
month beforewe are married | know
we shall be laughed at, Dick; but
shall be proud ofyou, as proud can be,
and perhaps we shall be happy No,
don't kiss me, Dick; there must be
none OF that nonsense between us,
dear Dick"
~ will make you happy if it is in
me to do it, and | know | can make
the Journalsuch apaper as you would
like to own
Ten months later the Warner palace
was again the scene neofunlmlted festiv-
lty, and Richard Headley and Mrs.
Warner again sat on a tete-a-tete sofa
under the great red camella.
"Well Dick, said Mrs Warner, "and
how is everything down town today"
VERY much as usual. ! have final
ly committed myself to the irrigation
scheme. 1t is such big money for us
that | was little afraid OF being pre-
JUDGED. But on the whole ! think it
is right. But there's anosher scheme
which we must talk about before the
end of the month, and that is our
marriage"
at isn't the end OF the month for u
long while yet, Dick, and you must 90
and dance with Nellie, now, isn't shea
dear girl, Dick? She grows more and
more like my poor little sister every
day. You must be very nice to her
Dick. 1t has been dull work for her at
the Sncre Cmur; | want her to bright
en- up now That we have got her"
Dick obeyed like dutiiul liance, and
more than one of the guests remarked