The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-15

| relation of the previous days events
and an exaggerated sketch OF his own
forlorn condition.
Now really, my lord, don't be so
funny she begged delighted. lit
makes my head ache to laugh"
Don't call me that" he whispered,
lit sounds too formal -,
And, pray what shall | call you"
Cali me Guy"
Just the name of all others | would
have chosen" thought Ariadne, 80
romantic"
Now tell me somethingabout your,
sell" he asked, with a haIf-tender and
wholly interested air.
"Oh, there's nothing to tell. I'm an
orphan. I've been in Germany study
ing. live in Boston with an aunt.
| Lena lives in New York. We had a
chaperone going over, but she elOped
with u music teacher, so we are re-
turning alone. Now tell me about
your life, it must be much ro-
mantle and interesting than mine; it
must be nice to have a park OF your
! own, and ancestral halls hung with
ancestors by the oldest masters"
"And the family ghost-you've for
| gotten the family ghost"
"0h, how charming; the most arts
tocratic thing. Tell me about it
please"
"She was a daughter OF the house.
Her portrait hangs on the walls; they
were marrying her to the wrong man;
when her maid came to dress her, she
persuaded the maid to put on the
wedding inery herself, and GO down to
the assembled company; while she
stole out to the river where her lover
was to await her, but the bridegroom
got wind of the affair, and it vas he
who met her at the river. But here
she eluded him again,-she dropped
into the water, and was new seen
again though they dragged for her
body. Now, at midnight, you hear
the hum of festivities; people rustic
up and down the broad s%taircases;
you hear the echo of voices, of music,
the tinkle of laughter, the tread of
dancing feet-Or again you pace the
hall, and light footsteps patter before
you, but there is no one present, you
are alone"
How perfectly delightful! 1t makes
my flesh creep"
However, the country people of
that time had a legend, that she did
not drown-that she simply dived,
being q fine swimmer, and while the
bridegroom went for help, she came to
the surface, met her lover OH the OPP
posite bank and emigrated to Ameri-
ca"
"How l should like to see her pict-
ure. lido think a ghost is perfectly
lovely. / wish we had one, but the
made land in Boston is too new for
them"
would you accept miner"
ooh you wouldn't part with such q
treasure"
"No, but / might share it,"
Ariadne congratulated herself that
the Nereid was theslowest boat on the
line; and she was not at all disturbed
when a storm blew them off their
course; she and herlord played euchre
in the saloon, together, or he read
aloud to her, orrepeated lines from his
own sonnets-the man who wrote
poetry, and he who quoted it, were
totally different beings in her esteem,
and no doubt the poetry was diff
ferent, likewise.
Hes perfectly splendid" she con.
fessed to Lena.
"But I'm afraid he's only flirting; he
does it SO very well, and so easily" re-
turned Lena. "You know when they
are in real earnest, and positively in
love, they're not $3.50 voluble and
ready"
"Then / suppose the h~obbledehoy
isn't voluble."
81 don't suppose he's in love with
me. He likes TO walk and talk with
somebody; if / weren't here it would
be somebody else,-you perhaps"
wickedly.
"Never," cried Ariadne.
"Love, you know, is only friendship
grown tender-I read that somewhere
in a book-and it takes more than
ten days for the process, I fancy. ]
only wanted to put you on your
guard"
"Very kind OF you. Consider your
self thanked. / flatter myseli that
I've had experience enough to know
when q mans in earnest, or making
believe"
When they walked the following
morning, the air had grown cold and
sharp, although the sky was blue and
sunny, Ariadne's lord met her, as
! usual.
"Conae with me-, = he said, "and ]
will show you something you never
saw before" and he drew her arm
! within his own.
"a whale, ! suppose
"Oh, very like Q whale. Do you see
it, off yonder2" and there against the
deep colored sky lay a mountain oil
ice, the sunshine breaking along its
edges, and illuminating assures in its
expanse.