The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-09

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her as much as you pleas4" Later In
the evening, when the little Woman
had resumed the charge OF her young
est and was bidding her guest good
night, she calculated warmly.
There now, my dear, just you
sleep well and tomorrow we'll see if
there isn't a way out of your difficult
ties" and with q hearty goodnight
kiss Mrs. Bighart hurried off to at
tend to her children's wants, while the
young woman's facepaled and flushed
at the unwontoned caress from such
lips.
One by one the days OF that week
Slipped by and the woman still re-
mained with the Bigharts. 1t was the
day before the departure for America,
| all business having been satisfactorily
transacted, when Mrs. Bighart, laying
her hand kindly ponMary' shoulder,
said:
do you know, Mary, I've been
thinking that / don't see how I'm to
spare you, an I've talked it over with
Tom, am the long and the short of it
is, my dear, If you've q mind to go
along with Ms, I'd be glad to haveyou.
The children they We took to you so,
an you see, out west in them ciearings
it's goin' to be q bit lonesome, without
Is neighbor, barring perhaps three
miles. I'm sorry we're NOT able to
offer much wages ut first along OF tins
expenses we'll be to agettin' there, but
your bit an sup and an odd poundinow
an agin you'll be welcome TO-"
Like one dazed, Mary stood Gsten-
ing to the kind offer, then, with deep
wondsTment in her tones, she said:
lyon are asking me to share your
home, knowing nothing of me? My
God! hsd / but met such women as you
in the pSstI"
Five years had come and gone since.
the day when Mary joined her for
tunes of her helpful friends and pros
perity had dawned for them and her.
Toms and Jacks log cabins were the
envy of their less thrifty neighbors.
At first jack had boarded with the
Bigharts, bet after awhile it occurred
tp him that he, too, should like a
horne of his Dwn-a wife to share the
good luck that had cometo him. And,
as the months slipped into years, he
learned to know that there was but
one woman for him, the woman he had
saved from death. While Mary, when
it first dawned upon her how dear
she had become to this simple, God
fearing man, Was seized with an inn
pulse TO flee from the shelter of the
happyhome,that for three years had
been hers, but her strength failed her.
She could not SO easily uproot such
tightly riven ties For Jack had be-
come as a part OF her very being.
1t was only for his sake that she
thought of going away, because of the
sacrifice she deemed it would be put
ting upon him if he should wed her.
Something of this sire tried to tell him
when he asked her TO be his wife, but
he would not listen he was satisfied,
he said. Then almost desperately she
begged that he. would hear her, and
shielding her face with her hands she
related to him with pitifus pathos the
story of her life. before his path cross
ed hers, holding back nothing 'front.' the
bitter degredatiOE Of the past. With
tears streaming down her cheeks she
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harshly. She.who had never known
a mothers care; never had a home
until he came into. her life.
~Pityinglyas he raight have soothed
a little child, Jack gathered thestrick-
en- woman to has arms, saying:
MARY that old life is dead an gone,
buried away this FIVE year back; let
it rest. Together we will start afresh.
III yelove me D Aa' ma fear TO- the flu
ture, lass"
What woman could have resisted
such faith? And so there was a quiet
little wedding, and Mary became Jacks
in the pretty log cabin he had built
''agin that day"
For two years not . cloud had come
to dim their happiness. Yet some
times Mary became possessed with a
wild fear that 1t could not last. One
day in her husbands absence she saw
a man approaching the house. There
was something strangely familiar
about the saucy, devil-may-care air
with which the stranger sauntered
along. bipt not until he stood within
a. few feet OF her did it flash upon her
who this man was. A smothered cry
escaped her, and convulsively clasping
her babe she FASTENED to enter the
house But the man called cut.
"Here, | say, carn't We give me a
bite OF sumat? I've had a eoodish
walk and Pm about dead beat"
White as death, she turned and faced
him, when, with al oath, he exclaimed,
asst thunderstruck:
sMolI! by all that's blue" Then,
i~nsolently laying his hand upon her
arm, headed: sIm blamed if Ididn't
think ye'd kicked the bucket. It's
rather overpowerin' to have we turn
up here in this unexpected fashion.
You might offer mi a chair, I'm think