The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-30

water had been thrown in his uneXpect-
ant face A few days thereafter | re-
ceived visit as editor of the paper on
which this young man was employed,
from the gambler. | saw in moment
that he was angry from head to foot,
and had come to settle the affair with
me, having failed, as | subsequently as
certainCd, to convince the daughter of
the improperly of her accepting as an
| escort this young man whom she had
never met before. | was aS blunt as he,
and although not as fond of AleCk
Boyd as he was of his Mary, | champi-
| Oned Alexis cause. | showed Danser
the possible course that lay before the
young man. assured him of my entire
confidence in him and my intentions to
farther his prospects all that was in my
power But" asked l, ''why make
a serious matter of it? The young
people have met but once. He may
never think of her again or she of
! him. "
"Ah," said he in reply, "you little
know that girl This young man is the
first person have ever know her to
feel the slightest interest in as an indi-
vidual. have had such a scene in my
house as | care never to have again"
| Quick as flash, turning to me after a
moments pause he said, That man
drinks and hate druEkard.
What could say?
THE OLD TALE RE-TOLD.
To make long story short, for the
| interview lasted over an hour, | per-
suaded Mr. Danser to keep his hands
| of bot IL fba vO,,pp MON oa1loH tO Coo
his daughter, she being quite old enough
to determine, let him do so. If he
didn't why there was an end of it, and
l assured him that in the meantime |
would speak to Boyd and would let
HIM (Danser) know how the boy felt.
The "boy," by the way, had got
ten to be twenty-one years of age,
and Miss Danser was fully that, i not
older.
In the course of three months Boyd
and Miss Danser were engaged, and
Aleck did very we'll in his work, lapsing
occasionally into drink.
One week missed him.
The woman with whom he had
boarded said he had been drinking very
heavily and had gone out one night,
since which time she had heard nothing
| from him. l sent to Miss Danser. She
wrote that he had called upon her in an
intoxicating condition, and had behaved
so badly that she, thinking her father
would find him, had compelled him to
leave and she had heard nothing of him
since. felt alarmed and sought the
aid of Supt. Jordan. Aleck was found
| on Blackwell's Island.
QUEER HOME FOR A GAMBLER.
On his release he came, naturally. to
me. braced hiE up, encouraged him,
gave him work, and at his request call
ed upon Miss Danser. / found her in
Elizabeth street, / think, in a quaint lit
lie house, pictures of religious subjects
on the walls, hymn books and Bibles,
tracts and a volume of Mrs Heman's
poetry on the table. While waiting
for her took up Mrs. Hemans and
found that she had marked,
And was His mortal hour beset
With anguish and dismay2
How may we meet our conflict yet
In the dark narrow 'wayl
How, but through Him. that path had trod
Save or we perish, Son of God;
and others. but that particular verse
underscored half dozen times. Well,
now, just imagine the position.
A gamblers home, a gamblers
daughter, gambler with the reputa-
ton of being the sharpest of his class;
cruel, crafty, merciless to all his vic
Tins, but enveloping this one child
with the holiest of sentiments, the
sweetest of affections, the care, the
thought, the love, the protecting yearn-
ing for his daughter and his daughters
good; ard here in this room, the room
Of the gamblers daughter, within call
of other rooms less sacred, were these
emblems of her faith, these indices of
her thought, these flowers upon the
pathway Of her existence.
/ had painful half hour with her
She admitted with fearful protesta-
tons her love for Aleck; she told how
greatly she desired his happiness here
and hereafter; but through it all it was
painfully evident that as Christian
woman she believed with faith that
could not be turned 1t would be sin
| for her to link her life with a man who,
s.s .s:. .i.e q ananna Of 4iiasior Yielded
up everything that was true, everything
that in her Judgment was worth living
| for
| Yet made as good fist Of it as /
could, and finally secured her promise
that if Aleck would sign and keep a
pledge Of total abstinence for month
She would receive him, and that mean
while he might write to her once a
week. OF course knew that ended it,
for the moment man and woman, sit
uated as they were, begin to write, look
1 ing forward to meeting, che veriest
/ blind man must be able to see the GER
| tain end.
The end came.
They were reunited and day was set
| for their marriage, against which the
father made most vigorous protest, but