The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-05-07

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goes away from his farm, but Llew
spends several months of each winter
with her fashionable cousins in Al
bany, where she had met Mr.. Del
MARIE.
Adjoining the Chesleigh farm is the
land of ''Old John Delmarre, as he Is
generally called, a crusty old bachelor,
! whom none of his nelghbors knew eN-
cept by sight. He is the uncle OF Phil
Delmarre, who is the old mans favor
tie. and as we have said he had come
to spend the summer months with his
uncle.
The summer months passed quickly
by, and Phil, in spite of all the beautl-
full women he had seen, and women.
too, who had bestowed on him their
| choicest smiles, fell desperately in love
with this little maiden, whose indltfer-
ence to all his attentions only made
her more charming and desirable in his
eyes.
So it was not strange that one day
while on one Of their numerous eXCur-
sions, and while Teddy had gone far
Their down the river to fish, he should
take this most excellent opportunity
of making Llew acquainted with his
great love for her, and offer her his
heart and hand.
LEV, taken by surprise, replies in
the usual way, that she is sorry, but
| does not care enough fOrhim to marry
him, etc. Only one consolation does
! she give him, and that is that sheloves
no one else. So Phil is comforted i'll a
degree, thinking that someday he may
be able to win her love.
He leaves her there and wanders
| down the bank of the river, for in his
great disappointment he can hardly
bear to see her.
Suddenly he hears a sharp cry and
his heart almost stands still, for it is
Llew's voice. Can she have fallen in
to the water? Blaming himself for
leaving her there alone and SO near
he water, he rushts back and sees
LIew standing on the bank wrin2ing
her hands, while in the water he dis
covers Teddy.
Without hesitation he throws off
his coat and leaps into the river.
He is a good swimmer, but Teddy has
become unconscious and is very heavy,
and it is not without difficulty he gets
him to the bank.
Llew is standing perfectly motion
less, but this moment has brought
her to the knowledge that she loves
Phil Delmarre with all her heart,
and that without him her future life
would be a dreary blank.
When Phil reaches the bank with
the unconscious boy in his arms he
carries him to his unCle's house, which
is not far away.
Llew follows, silent and unremon.
strating, and they soon reach the spot
where Mr.. Delmarre is enjoying his
morning cigar on the porch, and as
the procession neared the steps he
called out to Phil in a gruff voice:
"Hellol What's up now? Looks as
ifyou'd been near the riverl"
Eyes. We've had an accident" re-
piled Phil, still holding the boy in his
arms.
Here the old housekeeper made her
appearance, much to the relief of Phil,
who began to give orders for her to
prepare a bed for his little charge, and
for once she did not wait for her mas
ter's bidding, because the DISTRESSED
look on Llew STAGE, who was standing
by, touched the heart of the old WON.
an.
When Llew was left alone with the
old gentleman she summoned all her
courage and walked up to his chair
and stood before him, much to his
surprise, for all the neighbors had
looked upon him as an ogre, and no
one had ever before been known to
speak to him unless it was absolutely
necessary.
"Mr. Delmarre, / am very sorry we
have been obliged to intrude upon
your quiet household, but it was
quiet unavoidable, and l can only
hope our stay will be as short as pos
sible."
She stood waiting for an answer, but
received none save a deep grunt, which
very nearly made her jump.
just then Phil came out, his drip
ping garments being changed for {
dark suit that vas very becoming tx
him.
HYou had best 90 to your brother
he said in polite tones, leading TIN
way.
Eyes, but let me first endeavor t,
thank you for the great service yo,
have" but here she was interruptet
by Phil.
LET us not discuss that. / amnoy
going for a physician. There is tn
room" and he hurried away. Lley
and Mrs. Smith made Teddy as com
Portable rs possible, but when he re
covered from his sleep he was delirious
When Phil and the doctor came b
was in arestless sleep.
The good old doctor pronounce,
him too i'll to be moved for q week o
two, to Llew's great horror. To sta,