The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-08-27
smile and nod. Good evening. Mr..
Mansfield"

smile and nod, Good evening, Mr..
Mansfield.
"Jove! how she does manage to cut
me short whenever try to talk with
her" muttered the young millionaire.
gazing after the light, vanishing form,
with Il puzzled frown on his handsome.
dark face, Why does she do it, I'd
like to know? Is it pride, or-whatp
No other woman ever tried, or cared,
to keep me at such an icy distance, I'm
sure. But she is so different from all
others, in every way! Just glance
from those deep, cool gray eyes, and
then she is gone. All! my fair. proud
Leslie
He walked up and down the beach
for time, half-hoping she might re-
turn. But she was not visible again;
ard three hours later Mansfield was
smiling and uttering his meaningless
compliments to the fashionable women
who thronged about him with their
sweetest smiles, while his thoughts
were forever drifting away to fair.
proud face with gray eyes that seemed
to be gazing upon him with their
mocking light from the far-off, frozen
pinnacle of an iceberg.
Mrs. Lou Harding had chanced to
witness that brief interview on the
beach and startled. uneasy look
flashed into her glittering black eyes
ON have to get rid of that girl. l see
that" she muttered vindictively draw
ing her breath hard as she watched
them from her window. "She is lovely
in her old style-dangerously SO; and
it'll be impossible to keep her in the
background any longer, now that he S
insisted upon having an introduction
to her. won't mention this affair, of
course, but I'll find some good excuse
for discharging her before two days
have passed. l would die before l
would admit that looked upon her as
a rival"
Mrs. Harding kept her word. And
when, after several days had passed
without glimpse of Miss Weir, Mr..
Mansfield made some inquiries concer-
ming her, the young widow put on a
pretty air of injured innocence
"She left me very unexpectedly, and
l must own that felt rather hurt over
it since l had kept her so long in my
employ and had done so much for
her, said she, with charming little
pout. but she said she expected
soon to be married and limited at
some old romance which had just
ended all right, as an excuse for leay-
ing me SO suddenly. So suppose l
really ought not to blame her. after
all"
The look that swept over Hugh's
dark, handsome face and settled gloom
lily in the depths of his beautiful dark
eyes, as he heard the startling news,
convinced the pretty little schemer,
that she had not sent Leslie away one
moment too soon.
But the watering place suddenly lost
all attractions for the young millionaire.
lie left at once, not caring particularly
whittier he went; and, by some strange
fate, found himself at the end of the
first day, in the very same hotel, at
which Leslie Weir was stopping on her
way to take hew situation.
In the shock of the sudden meetino.
Hugh blundered forth the story of his
honest love. and Leslie, having heard
it, threw aside her GOODNESS and reserve,
and then the whole truth came out.
''Since you have no relatives or
friends to consult, my darling" plead
ed the impassioned lover, .'let us be
married here at once, and we will
return to the fashionable watering
place We have just left to spend our
honeymoon.
And Leslie allowed the happy fellow
to plan the whole affair lust to suit
himself
When Fannie Remington received
their wedding cards. she smiled and
nodded her sincere approval. When
Mrs. Lou. Harding received hers
which CHANGED to be at the breakfast
table, in the presence of dozen other
guests-she tainted dead away.
Within a week the beautiful Mrs.
Mansfield was the reigning belle and
fashion: while Mrs. Harding who had
lost not 4 moment in packing up her
bewildering wardrobe and fleeing to
new fields of glory, listened in bitter
silence to the hated echoes of her riv.
ais fame.