Nevada County picayune., 1888-09-19
A LITTLE GAME.

Juoe HoN lie was
 ''ihihg to your secretary, Mir. Win.
 chell' As If he were quite at home. J
 sald Daisy Clyburne. winding on,
 pump, white arm around her faith.
 CT neck as she perched herself or
 the arm of his chair.
 Those who knew Silas Clvhurne only as business man, president ot several railroads, director in T score of other corporations and share. holder Tn every paying concern in the state, would have been amazed to see how easily this fragile girl bent to her will the stony-hearted. iron- handed man.
 Ills name is Osborne Palmer. y replied the elder Clyburne, gazing afiectlonately at his idol.
 Il didn't ask you what hi, name IS; l asked you who he is: And is that the way you dare to answer my questions, sir2" and as she smoke. Daisy playfully pinched one of his ears.
 Couch You little inquisitive torment! Well, to be explicit, Mir. Palmer is to be one of my under sec retaries; he is,to-to assist Mir. Win chell."
 Come, come, sir that hesitation shows that you are trying to hide something; want the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"
 Perhaps you remember that q few week ago you and your timd mother exacted from me a promise that l would never again, under any circumstances, open the packages that come to me by mail or ex- press.
 "Of course we didl If tn hose wretches would send you a dynamite bomb once. they might do 1t more successfully again; it was by a mere chance that the thing was out of or der and did not blow Us all up" re- phed Daisy with shudder.
 Not one of the servants has cour- age enough to do it for me; MT. Winchcll has family, and since our recent experience he has no taste for the task; so l have employed this young Palmer, whose special business it will be to open my pack ages"
 "Oh, papa, why should he take he risk of his life. He is so-so young. maybe he has mother:'
 No, nor sister, nor any relative. He is highly educated and well horn. but boing unfortunate in business. and, therefore, tilted by heartless girl, he resolved to put an end to an unhappy life. Heprocured quan- titv of laudanum, bnt decided that that was uncertain, and so shot him self in the head Either his hand sweryed or his arm was uncertain, for the wound proved 10 be onl " se- riOus. not fatal. He was taken to a and as the letter he had for postmortem purposes, which proved that the shooting was intentional. he was iu danger of ar rest and trial for attempted self murder,
 "Lcarning of the affair, l was struck with an idea and so used my influence in his behalf, and there was no arrest. He placed no value on his life, and so readily accepted the position offered him. He came the very day after you and your mother went to your grandmother's to spend thanksgiving, and MT. Winchcll tells me he is of great as- sistancc to him, especially in any large foreign correspondence. He is gentleman horn, so he will live with us member of our family, and want you to give your cousin Ser tha hint that while she is with us we hope she will he courteous to him. I am very fond of Bertha, dear, but l can sec she Is just the least hit snobbish-like her father. Ohed .Ienness is an inbred snob "
 The famous Kilkenny eats might we'll have been named Silas Clyburne and Obed Jenness, for these twomen were continually fighting tooth and nail. If one could thwart the scheme of the other it was rare sport to hlm, but retaliation was sure to come m some heart-searching way. As they had married sisters and there was constant intercourse between their wives and daughters, they out