The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-06-01
sne shook her head, and covered her
face with her hands.

face with her hands.
"No, no, you will never see me again.
she said. and then a violent fl OF cough
ing attacked her, ard slie left the room,
closing TIRE door after her.
Brace looked at me significantly, and.
IN a low voice that faltered a little, said,
lit amt nat'ral for her to give iii Ike
that; it amt like the Eid, not a bit. Her
contrariness end pbstinacy used to i1aks
me Wild, but y didn't make my Heart
ache like :lliSs"
Lola eaahhhe back in q little while. weak
and exhausted, but with asmile hrcA NY
poor face. She Eat ic,ats. me Shining
her iaaad s,ader my arm, and resting her
Check against my shoulder. Her love
was too innocent, or she was too ignor-
ant of social usages, to know restraint.
~ don't want to talk; it hurts me" slys
said. II just want to eit here dliet,n,
and she closed her eyes, nesting still
cacsar
You've come to d ruined and III on
haiiowed country. sir1." said the Judge;
"durned I'll sisercely knew it again
nothing but machinery and Chinese-not
a decent white placer in all Nevada
WALLER varmint amt left anything worth
l"uhin for. not in the Urinary way. It's
ss"t TO be looked for in onor'nary places,
and fetched ont In enor'hafy WAYS, as
I've said msre'h once before to YOU; and
NY the.inin' is that l could do the same
II had the means, and if SO be t}ts Eid
keeps her promist=as I az believe she
wiz lola nodded, without taking her
head from my shoulder, or opening her
eyes, and n little sigh tluttered up from
her heart. "As l know she will--IIl do
1t; not for the sake of the grid, F.AliiSsee
that won't be needed Wien We've GOV the
diamond, u just to prove the prencep[e
OF tiie thing. It's down an almighty
hole up the Sierra, nearly up to the snow
Inc ana I've been there .%prospectin' it
day after dey. and studyin' the thing
out xii L didn't leave it till the snow
forced us to come down, an now the
holes blocked up for months"
Suddenly raising her head, and turning
to her father, with eager eyes, Lola ex-
claimed:
"Blockedt"
"Ah, blocked for full three nontls nv
the snow, and for another by the swelled
get down it,
Lola burst into a fit of historical laugh.
ter. and, clapping her hands with {oy,
said: ''
sit IS down there-the diamond! You
MUST Observation-Disclosures till June
Then growing suddenly grave, she looked
wIstfulsy at me, as if to see if l were an
CRY with her.
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Naturally they were astonished when
they heard had been in the state a
couple of months. When | told them |
had come there tolscek my fortune, and
was farming in the -udths where hoped
they would come and staNwith me dur
ing the winter, Brace said:
We'll, hear theresa Twin to be made
rancthn'. but its a plaguy long row, they
do SLY. Howsoever, it won't bn none toe
long for me to hog along Of YOU, and SO
he you're agreeable to havin' dur cont
pahy, 1t ain'tiikrly IN hold off" Z
Loia's. eyes dilated with eager deliglit.
| fancy Her Imagination pictured a re-
teti. OF the Transvaal times, tile happi-
est she had known, when ride Necessity
us together III close coInpanionship.
dld nc. think it necessary to undcceive
them then, and the next day l took them
ing when we got there, and the air was
soft and warm; it was like an early day
Of English sumr:er. ;,
tf's effect on Lola was miraculous; she
seemed inspired with new life. l had
never seen her S 20 animated and gay.
lier countcnance fell as we passed
through the beautiful plantations and
entered the richly furnished house. It
was an unhappy disillus;en for her.
Brace, who mover let anything in the
world surprise him, stroked his chm re.
tlectively as he looked rousd him; and
said:
This is your lot, is it, Gentleman
Thorne::"
ITO be cOptinued.)