The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-08
1 CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS

Depot for the z o'clock train, that
frosty November morning.
One might have thought that 7 was
rather an early hour for SO large and
exceptionally gay a gathering-es-
necially as only one of the party was
r take the train, the remaining six
teen having assembled merely to "see
her off,"
But fora better informed person the
+oct that that one was Ida Terrill,
would have been a sufficient explana-
ton.
That young lady had come to
Brackenbridge on a visit to her aunt,
fonr months previous; and Bracken-
bridge society had given her the warm
pst welcome imaginable. There had
hpen a furious run of parties and pic
MICS all summer. breckenridge had
never been so lively; for Miss Terrill
had "taken" immensely and society
had exerted itself IN her behalf.
The heroine of the occasion stood
in the midst of the chattering tbrons,
entirely bewitching in her snug brown
suit, tossing back laughing replies to
the chorus of sallies aimed at her.
Charley Whitlock vas pretending to
crv into his pocket-handkerchief
George Becker, lolling across a seat
with his hair rubbed up wildly, was
Stimulating a fit of Insanity brought
about by Miss Terrill's departure.
The train came putting up.
you'll surely come back next sum-
mer?" cried all the girls together.
There was q confusion OF kisses and
hand shaking, the masculine portion
affecting violent indignation that they
we're excluded from the former.
Miss Terrill's uncle, who was to see
her safely to the junction at Crosby,
where she was to change cars, hurried
her into the train. And the hutter of
q handkerchief from q window was ell
that was left to thegroup on the plat
form.
Charley Whitlock and Lizzie Cavins
walked away together, OF course.
They had been engaged all summer,
and were to be married soon.
"Poor Arthur" said the girl, look
ngafter a tall form which had detach-
ed itself from the group and was TAX
ing a solitary course up the street.
ayes, poor Giffordl" said her lover
compassionately. "What made her
throw him over, anyhow? I've never
had the rights of the case; but sup
pose yoa known"
eyes; she told me all about it. She's
the most conscientious girl in world
Ida Terrill. She l~A~sed him simply
because she wasn't quite sure she liked
him well enough to marry him. She
said she'd be doing him q wrong if she
married him without being certain.
So she rejected him."
Charley gave q musing whistle.
"She's rejected amighty nice fellow"
be declared,
eyes, ! told her so. / tried to make
her change her mind, butshe wouldn't.
Do you know-I oughtn't to say it,
but I've imagined two or three times
that she had come to care for him a
little? You see, the longer you know
Arthur Clifford the better you like him,
and it was two months ago that shere-
fused him. Well, Idon't knowl" Lizzie
concluded, obviously.
Ida Terrill, meanwhile, was spinning
toward Crosby. Her uncle had taken
from the train boy a magazine for her
and a newspaper for himself, and was
already absorbed in the political
aspect.
Ida turned the leaves of the PAM
phlet listlessly, closing it at last and
allowing her Eyes to wander among
her fellow-passengers-rather an un-
interesting SCI, she concluded. Then
she rested her elbow on the window
sill and her pretty chin on her hand,
and looked out somewhat absently.
Had she made q mistake? she
thought. Was she sorry she had re-
fused him?
No, surely not. How could she
nave accepted him when she had not
cared for him? There were plenty of
proofs that she had not caredfor him.
According to the best authorities
she should have turned red and pale
py turns at his approach, and her
heart should have substantially in
creased it's palpitations; she should
nave been madly jealous at seeinghim
with anybody else; she should have
thought of him by day and dreamed
o. INN by night-if she cared for him.
put she had none of these symptoms.
VI course, she reflected, as she sped
~ houses, and fences, and fields, she
mad appreciatedhim. She had known
,as who did not?--that he was very
peasant, very gentlemanly. very en-
lertaining. And his behavior, after
ns rejection, had been nothing less
IMAM sublime. He had, as it were, ig-
nored 1T, continuing to devote himself
oner with the same genial willingness,
hnu never again referring to the am
Oarrassing topic.
one should miss him-she owned
mat. She should think Of him in the
macs OF the German-there was no.
oody at home who could dance quite
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