The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-15
Winter Mont;
Found in a Snow Drift.
OR.

~ AAANs
"A. happy new year, my God-gfftl May
We stand thus together many and many a
year with hearts as light and hopes as bright
as those that make this madness In me now.
for:iye me, dear, i'll offend. Some day l
may win the right to kiss you twenty times
Il minute"
The y of Dorothy's heart had found a
name ut the warm co,t,c. VI his lips. She
knew she loved him with the first love of a
life, yet she had known him but q week !;
but the wings of love are fleeter than time.
and q csress can make infant love grow in
TO q Hercules In less time than it takes to
tell of it.
She rested her pretty yellow head against
dis breast, and he said softly:
listen to the bells, love; they seem to
fhrob with joy. Oh, how beautiful is love!
My heart is bounding with hops at this
tweet yielding. Tell ME, my own, can l
hope that you can ever care for me as do
for you? Are you free to take my love, my
name into your care? Only tell me you can
love me, and / ask nothing more of sou. "
II know you are beautiful, I feel by i'm
stinct that you are good, and you are all the
world to me-. | never loved another as I
love you. l think I loved you at first sight
when l saw YOU like q frozen lily lying in
The snow-drift.
Say something kind to me, child; l can
not bear suspense tonight"
What shall l say? love you moro than
words can tell. I've loved you ever since l
opened my eyes to see your compassionate
tender eyes bent on mine. Oh, my love, my
master! ) our trust is sweet to me as your
love, and l am not unworthy of you.
ut will be beyond the bliss of earth to be-
long to you, to have the right to love you,
to win the heart Of your little child, and to
lead her innocent soul to God"
"You will be the angel Of my home, my
life's best treasure, the one light to lead my
tagging steps to Heaven! Hlrkl how the
aoy-bells seem to bless us. How still and
clear the night is, there is not breeze enough
to wait our vowsto Heavens 9 istry; yet
they will be sacredly kept, will they not,
sweetheart? There Is an old saying that the
lover never loved Alright who did not love at
first sight"
Still the, stood together locked In a love-
dream, their forms clearly outlined by the
light behind them.
Someone stole out Of the shadows, and
looked upon the pretty picture framed in
ivy, with a background of golden light, and
a deep curse was whispered through clench-
ed teeth, and a woman smote her breast in
impotent passion.
In her heart a fiandish voice whispered
that word of hate, Kill"
The curse of Cain was on the woman; she
was seized with envy, hate, and horror in
looking upon the paradise she had once
polluted.
h has put me aside, driven me out of
his lifel but l will be a bane to him, a pes
thence upon the fair-faced girl who has fill
ed the void l left In his life. Oh, my child,
my little innocent child! you could have
kept my heart from further sin, yet may
not touch your sweet lips, or Look upon the
face that embodies all l know of heaven or
the ang Is.
II will steal you from him-a mother has
q right to her child. His heart will be torn
at losing you, for though he hates the moth
er, lie loves the child"
These muttered words, too low to be dis
tinguished, told someone OF her presence,
for a strong hand was laid on hers, and a
mans voice said in an undertone, hoarse
with emotion:
Cousin Alison, why are you here agair9
it is foolish Of you."
'Jem, look at that window. What does
1t mean?"
~ NUNS LltSlltAiy IlhC lOSC-lllhhliI9 W me,
Ally, my gill. Rem ,mber he is free to WOO
and wed atresh now. He has been a q lex
One, and no mistake. Why, he only found
her in the snow a week z She is a pretty
creature, and perhaps he might do worse,
He wants a mistress in his home; he is q
rich mar now, you know. Happy is the
wooing which isn't long ADDING seems his
motto. Surely you can't ere, Ally? You
used to hafe him like noiSun3
What is poison to a woman at one time,
Jenl, Is nectar OF the gnds another. Do not
try 10 read a woman's heart, lad, it is ever
changing as the sky above us. Mine is black
as midnight now. On, Jem, | want nv
baby. If l hal the c..ild l would care for
naight else. l have mnney enough, with
what l earn, and lat taat man gives M,
to save M from iking the wagc, of sin."
Jem put his BIZ rough nalid, Oh the MO-
man as tenderly as a mother caresses a
child, and said softly:
u always loved you, Ally; now you are
free, my handsom. girl, let me make all
honest woman of you. You liked me in the
long ago When We were lad and lass togeth-
er among our OWL tr be. FL tie so eoal IT,
you, my dear.
I've saved n bit of money thinking IT,
help you some day. Don't deny me, Ally.
Fai away in a SUMMER land tnan this we car
make our home and begin afresh. l shai
seem a comslier sort Of man when You
can't see me beside yonder fine gentleman.
Shall it be hope and happiness with me at
last, far away from the shame that ciings to
you here? TITS New Years Day now; sa.
you will begin afresh witt: me, and lead y
new life In which / may love you"
The woman seemed to waver; she was
very lonely. and her heart wal hot and an
cry. Yet she did not think, welcome as the
words Of love were to her desoiate heart,
that she could live the quiet domestic life
he painted. Yet poor Jem had been a faith
fuu lover. he deserved a reward, and l.
would be sweet to live innocently again, Ii
innocence was possible TO one so debased as
ahe.
Il will do as you wish, Jem, on one con-
dition, anil that is that we take my child
with us. Far away in a new country, anon
fresh scenes and faces, she will soon forget
her father and love me. Her father will
have other children to love, and perhaps
she may be sighted. A stepmother is no.
Q pleasant possession; you know that, Jein,
to your sorrow, don't youP"
Eyes, Ally; but mine wasa bitter hard
one. This girl is not like that. She has no
vice about her."
"How do you know that? her virtues have
to be tried, and you confess you know moth
Ing Of her; she may be what you call a Bit
ter bad one. Virtuous women arc not plcnti-
full enough to BIO picked up like wlthered
sticks Oh the h%igh-road. Well, you know
my condition, and you know where to find
me. Pm going now, l have a long walk be-
fore me, and am chilled to the heart. l
came here tonight to humble myself to
him, to plead for the only possession l care
for under heaven-the possession of my
" little child; but in face of what l have
seen, / dare not enter his doors, my blood
is up, there would beg murder done. Oh, /
wonder you can want ME, Jem, knowing my
black heart and my bitter past"
$50 do / wonder" said Jem honestly,
'yet ! can't help longing for you. l hare
loved you oil my life, and somehow 1 think
1t will be that In time-not at first, perhaps,
but I could be patient-you might get to
care for me. Not as ! DO for you. of course,
/ can't expect that; there is nothing in me
to love, while you are proud, beautiful, and
clever. On, my grill l could give up all
hope OF winning yon TO see you happy and
innocent in your old place as Pierce Pen
folds wife,"
"Hush, Jeml Why talk Of that which is