The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-11-08

and she fell fast asleep on Dorothy'sDreasL
Dorothy was glad she had done SO, fors h
| wanted to sit up and see her papa. So she
kept very still, and after a time fell asleep
too, lulled by the steady tick of the clock,
and warmed by the bright blaze.
When she awoke, a pillow had been placed
under her head, the light burned dimly and,
sitting opposite, watching her with admir-
ing eyes, was Mr.. Penfold.
She could moi move for fear of waking
Ally, so she kept SIN with her eyes not
quite closed. and waited. She was afraid
her dress did not propei<.; cover her pretty
ankles. She could see the eyes of the man
she had got to think a hero bent upon her,
and her face glowed with bluslies beautiful
as the tints of q budding rose.
Mr.. Pentold looked into the fireglow and
sighed; he was looking careworn and tired.
Somehow, without knowing why, Dorothy
felt sorry FOR him, and wished she had the
power to comfort him.
As she lay there wondering about him,
she saw him start up With an angrycry, and
spring to the window; they were on the
,Tolnd-tloor in a room thai looked out on
the lawn. A modern French window had
been substituted for the Old lattice, so that
Ally could run in and out at pleasure i'll the
summertime.
Doro,hy'S eyes were fixed on this window
as Mr.. Ptnfold wrenched it open, and she
saw for iieetilig moment the face that
had so frightened her that night in her bed
chamber.
Mr.. ptnfo|d had flown ont Oh the lawn.
| Dorothy rolled Ally on TO tho fur rug, and
went to the open window.
She saw Mr.. Pcnfold 1iy across the snowy
lawn to the main road then the hedges shut
him from her sight, and She could only shut
the window and waitwith what patience she
could till his return.
CHAPTER Nv.
Nh. Pcnfold did not return for some time.
Dorothy saw him talking to Agnes in the
path before the door, and wondered what
could have made him look so strangely X
cited.
He did not come back 10 the sitting-room,
but shut himself up in a little room leading
out Of the hail that he used as a study.
Dorothy turl,el up the lights, stirred the
fire, reused Ally from her sleep, and made
her smart. then returned to the room in
time to pour ont tea, and had the satisfac-
ton OF shaking hands with Mr.. Penfold,
who seemed his usual Jolly self again, only
that his eyes rarely left his little daughters
face.
After tea he found Ally impatient to have
the book he promised her, so he brought ii
10 her, and Dorothy had to read it..
Then they discussed gone of Caldecott's
quaint pictures, and in a pause Nh. Penfold
said:
Il executed all your commissions, Miss
Sncw; your luggage viii arrive tonight,
and | have some c!!.aage to give you OFT OF
your ten-pound note
"Nonscnse! you cannot have, if the peo-
pie sent ali | wanted"
well. we shall see, Miss Snow. l am
clever at buying, l can tell YOU
Dorothy did not ask him why lie had
flown away, or if he had found the woman,
but she wondered vaguely WHO she could
be.
Pierce said his business in London was
happily settled, and he seemed 10 icoN re
lieyed when he spoke of it.
When her box came later on Dorothy
found it contained all she required, and
everything of TIE best and prettiest.
When she had seen Ally to bed, and lock.
ed her door, taking the key away, she went
down, her cheeks pink as a blusli-rosc, hei
eyes shining like stars.
Something was stirring in her heart glad
some as a summer song.
She did not yet know by what name tt
call this tender JOY that gloritied all thing
about her; she did not know why her heart
beat light and gay, or why every moment
by her new friends side seemed happier
than the last.
In her desolaiion, her loneliness, her mis-
cry, her heart had gone out 10 him. anf
made him the lovc-elected master OF hcl
destiny.
She heard the sound of the piano, and Mr.
Ptntold singing in a mellow monotone like
Il bird with but one note, but that replete
Win sweetness.
When she entered, full If grateful thanks
he rose, took both her hands, and smiled o.
her brightly.
She was indeed a goodly sight With he
r0se-piHk checks, tender red lips, and eye
of starry radiance.
Mr.. Penfold felt all her heauty'ss spell AM
u rapture stirred in linn that he was free II
win her priceless love if she had n heart t
give.
SO glad and joyous were his looks tina
ten years seemed lifted from him in as man.
/, minutes.
Come. sing for me, Mss Snow. Let II
iia"e .l.s NV" A'"i . Eve o'' ~ h'''
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eltl ao'iie,hniS sootl'lis' pu1 nor snu, ",'
: 5elti.is y, NV, " n"rtl''ess' VI Visit o'
/. Asort of rapture rained lrcm his eyes
t iq,to i,1ht VI toNe MS e'eehs "eie h''i
to, MS lanus. ,isl'pIgu.
Dolotis ioohea a' nm, au'A~'o' wv syn
pa1tiG.ic, ana ne saia gary:
t .n'ia, nave you ever lteea hi ih'Ilisoi
. gu pIiu' anu seen II so"r sIis'hs ~ IN
cioudS' 10 haSk ana oa'iie IN llie sanlisht
t nave you ever looNea upon one III mort
. aeonS wheil suoneh rellei mas come "i
mace IL heaven OF resi- tot ,ieh'
ies. j. NE, mas s"ch sweet ireeooi
t come TO you''
~ mas, ma o8tte. l sialt oe@'n me fleN
year nun oil nope ana promise. before
oies away Non VIII Know my history, an
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