Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-04-24

alive, breathing, 1t is true, but dead to the
world their bodies were in-dead to all
hope or fear or any of the varied emotions
which would so soon be in full play when the
smoke commenced circling from those rude
chimneys.
Two or three moving figures were seen on
the river bank-watchers of the night
guarding against any sudden rise Of the
stream liable through the breaking of dams
above and letting down the vast body of
''hackwater," a fluid avalanche which Would
sweep before it like chaff mans frail con-
structions.
Iroused Mr.. Rankin and returned him his
horse, which he put in the stable with the
remark that yesterday was probably his
benevolent day, which would account for
my return alive. But the next man dies" he
added.
Broener returned late In the day. What
a different man was no to me from yester-
day. Despite the uncertainty regarding
Blanche, I sympathized now with the Moor's
ruling passion. Jealous? Yes, and jealous
Of Broener. All of him that had previously
attracted me were now as so many weapons
turned against me-brilliant weapons, too,
aud used by o skilled hand,
He noticed the change in mel cannot say
in my ann I had rather state it that he
felt a change-something between us-com-
ing through those fine interior senses which
feel, and sense thoughts, as the outer ones do
material things.
"You seem out of sorts, :" he said.
l laid it to o headache-that convenient
beast Of burden, which bears SO many lies!
"Young man." said he that evening, "were
you ever in loves"
II suppose SOIL replied: ''They say its
part Of the programme along with whooping
cough and the measles"
"Well," he rejoined, II believe I am, SO
far as I am capable Of being. At all events,
I've found a woman who I think can hold
me,n
"May / ask who she isT'
"oh, yes. It is the girl you saw last night
playing the wife to Iago."
Silently we pulled our cigars simultaue-
ously for a few seconds. A cigar is a great
relief to a "throbbing heart" l was never
conscious of much action of such character
on the part of that organ, and use the phrase
as covering a good deal of ground applicable
to these peculiar situations. l said:
Evil you think I'm inquisitive if | inquire
if you have known her long!"
"Not at all. l made her acquaintance a
few years ago in a New York clearinghouse
kept by he: aunt, whom she was visiting. /
met her, strangely enough, Oh my recent trip
to San Francisco. She had just come out by
the 1sthmns with the company you saw. !
recognized her on the stage in Ss.u Fran.
CISCO"
''Is Brown her real manner
"No.n
1 dared not ask txs name. Broener 10.
sumed after a pause:
'That girl puzzles me. I can't make her
out. Probably if I could l should not be SO
much attracted to her. I find that mine is a
nature always demanding to fathom-see
through-women, and ceasing to worship
them when seen through"
l felt then a CLEAN of comfort. II it was
Blanche Seton, l more than hoped that Broe-
ner had no shallow depth to fathom. Yet I
| still feared him. He was to me deep, diaboli-
cally deep, and powerful, too.
"Perhaps you've met your match at last" /
ventured to say.
"Well, l hope I have. l media match.
Excuse me-" he added; II detest puns and
punstcls. This was an accident. She's a
strong character-self poised, self-reliant, i'm
passioned III the outside with boiling depths
below, which no one has ever yet brought to
the surface-at least, I Judge so. She's miles
beyond the people she's travelling with. They
see and know Of her only as much as she
chooses to show-a tenth, perhaps only a
twentieth-only what they're able to see and
appreciate, or what she allows them to see.
Good Judgment, that. No use in showing any
more cards than you want to use-in any
game"
"Do you call hers a game, tooT I asked.
Gas I look on life and people-ycs. Yet
possibly with her, thus far. an unconsciou!
one as to motive. What some call nobility
of character, is SO well expressed with hel
that I am content to admire it without tot
deeply aualyzing it."
"You fear, then, you might find the las
metal underneath the gilding?"
my boy, I don't care to put myself OF
that train Of thought. If l pursue an illu
sion, I want it ever to remain one"
forbore from asking If he knew her rea
name. Broener's indeflnable said t.
me, plain as words, Hands off"
II shall go to Marysville next week." h
said after a pause. "The company pla.
there on the 2Oth."
"Well," I thought to myself, as I crept int
my blankets, "Marysville, love and myster.
ON one side. Pratt. hatred aud more mys
terry for Bull Bar oil tho other. l seem t
he a fulcrum for events to teeter on"
Continued meet Week.)