The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-05-25
A Complete Novel After Anne
lie RiVeS.

FLIzzARD !.
Miss Barbarity Pompadour return
ed to her old Virginia home on adark
tempestuous night, which had been
specially selected for her by the auth
or, sc that size could drive through
the soughing rain and allow the ragged
trees TO brush her face as she dashed
onward in the gloom.
When she reached Rosemary her
aunt rushed into her arms, kissed
her, and then disappeared from the
story.
Baroarity was a dashing young
widow, who had lost her husband,
Valentine, three years before. She
vas now back at the home they occu-
pied, and as soon as she recovered
from the e~nervating effects Of her
aunt's kiss she asked to be shown to
her room. 1t was her bridal chamber,
and its familiar aspect threw her into
COnVUl>iOns. Everything there re-
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strength TO bear it, however, until
she discovered a half-smoked cigar
cite in her manicure set. She drew
back in horror. tor it wes one OF Val's
stubs. She picked it up at last, and
kissed it passlOnately.
BLIZZARD II.
The next morning she got up feeling
much better, and went out into the
woods. She returned in the evening
singing "White Wings" AS she enter
ed the drawing room she was met by
her husbands cousin, Dock Jeering,
and she faintedar thesight of him, for
he was the very image Of VAL, and he
had many OF the latter's artIess Vir-
glnIa ways, such az eXpeCtOrating on
the floor and eating pie with a knife.
The prospect Of MASKING Dock, how
ever, 500 restored her to conscious
ness: when Dock saw her profile he
acknowledged himself mashed.
A few days after he called upon her
as she was seated in the crotch OF an
old tree, and avOwed his admiration
for her profile. They ]COnversed jaunt-
lily for a while and then stepped out OF
the sunlecked forest into the teeth
Of a storm that mad been hanging
around the woods until the author
should need it.
In a burst Of passionate longing,
she said in a low, sulphuric whisper.
"You understand me-"
LET me give you one OF my galvan-
ic thoughts" said he; 81 like you"
She gazed at him with sparkling
eyes, and allowed him to hold her
hand. Then, after raving about VAL
entine, when the storm let up a little,
she permitted Dock to throw his
arms around her.
BLIZZARD III.
For three weeks Barbarity did not
see Dock. But one afternoon he came
around, and after kissing the back OF
her wrist, as was his courtly habit, he
took his seat in q nesting fashion on
the door mat.
The kiss burned into Barbarity's
conscience so deeply that she dismiss
ed Dock, ran up to her room and
drowned her emorse by standing be.
fore her mirror, where she proceeded
to address 9 few uncomplimentary re-
marks to the image therein. She grew
so cold with horror that she froze the
fire in the crate.
Dock, the living, and VAL, the dead,
were now pronounced rivals for Bar
barity's affections. 1t worried Dock
a great deal, but Val. pursued the
even tenor OF his way and didn't
seem to mind it at all. Dock finally
retreated to New York. There he re-
ceived a letter from Barbarity, bid
ding him farewell forever. He ac-
cordingly lighted four gas burners in
his room, took a Turkish bath and
went to a comic opera.
BLIzzARD nv.
A few days after she telegraphed
him: "Come TO me.
He packed his vaiise and went back
to Virginia, where he was welcomed
by Barbarity with all the fervor OF a
human Nasuvius. She sank into his
arms.
A week Of ecstacy followed. Dock
and Barbarity were dreaming Loves
young dream. They were now on the
brink Of matrimony, but. Docks good
fortune had not quite deserted him.
One day a terrific storm, Of the au.
thor's best construction, broke loose
and Barbarity was caught in il. She
was terribly frightened by the Mum
der, and she discovered BY the llare
OF the lightning that she couldn't
marry Dock. When she got home she
so informed him.
And he, after telling Barbarity that
he had had his opinion Of her all
along, put his wearing apparel into a
yalise and went over to the nearest
saloon. In the meantime Barbarity
had gone up to her room. donned her
wrapper and was deeply absorbed 10
the last New Novel.-Life.