The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-09-27
The iIALI-CAS'I'E
An Old GogERNEsS's TALE.
FOUNDED ON FACT.
~ MSS MuI.oCK.

we know what we are, bat we
KNOW hot what WI may be- as my
quantity clever niece and name-child.
1issla, u great reader and quoter of
saakSpeare, would say. And truly,
MO could have thought that |, a plain
Eopei3ess, should in my old age have
become q writer. Yet cannot invent
a,piot-l must write nothing but truth.
iieIe l pause, recollecting painfully
lliae ~ my FIRST sentence [ have sinned
against truth by emitting Cassia my
"niece and name.child.n when, l.rictly
speaking. she is neither the one northe
otieT' SIZE ia no bload-relation at all,
anu nay own name happens TO be Cas-
sandra. ! always disliked it heartily
until MF. Sutherland called me- But
forgot that Unjust explain a little.
NJ. Sutherland was-no, thank Heav-
EMS, q very good man; a friend of
my late father, and Of the same h,, y
lless-m indian merchant. Wien in
my esenty-hith year NJ dear father
os =, ena ~ WE u" .ned-a quiet way
y. NPtessias tp4s, but in time one
Ms - spe'.N so quietly of every pang
MIN 't srtand was very kind to my
nbetnet and to me. | remember. as
lnoVgii it were yesterday, ona dav,
wen he sat with us in our little parlor,
ana nearing my mother calling me
laSsle, said laughingly that | always
put nm in mind of a certain Indian
spec. In fact he added, looking az
1ectionately ut my dear, gentle. little
mother, and approyingly-yes. it was
approYlngl!y, at me-"in fact, I think
we three sitting thus, with myself in
tle center, might be likened to myrrh,
aioes, ana cassla." One similitude was
nntrve; for he was not bitter but
sweet as summer" However. from
lhat lime ne always called me Cassia,
! RAINIER IKE the aame, and latterly it
Was cry KIND CT him to- There
ail lof5slalsing my history again!
.nrl !. Has twenty-five, as | said, I
uiSt Nett out as goYcrness. This plan
We the result OF many consultations
net,Seen my mother and myself. a
SSard thing was my leaving home: but |
round 1 could thereby earn a larger and
more regular salary, part of which be-
ing put by, would sometime enable me
10 I'VE altogether with my mother.
Such We're her plannings and ho,es for
the future. AS for my own--Butit
Is Idle TO dwell upon things so long
past, God knew best, and it all comes
TO the same at the end of life.
IL was through hir. Sutherland that /
got my first situation. He wrote my
mother q hurried letter, SAYING he had
arranged for me To enter 4 family con-
aerning whom lie would explain befn-a
my departure. Bnt something hin
dered his coming; it was a r.aplic meet
ing, l remember; for, enough still n
young l9a1, he wa neld in much honor
.1Moiis taa Gay merchants, and knew
w auaifs % India web, from early res
lnuiice utefe. OF course, having these
dulis5 to fulfill, ii was natural he
should not recolleet my departure; SO /
started without seeing him, and with
out knowing more OF my future abode
than its name, and that of my EMPLOY
Ell. III was 4 Yorkshire village. and tie
gentleman whose family ] was going to
was Mr.sLe Poer,
My long journey was dreary-God
knows how dreaIy! in youth one suffers
so much; and parting from my mother
was any time a sufficient grief, In
taose days railways were not numer-
GUS, and had to journey a good way
ey coach, Abont eleven at night /
foahd myself at my destination. At
che door = inaid-serSant appeared; no
one else; 1t was scarcely to be expected
10y the goycrness.' This was q raw
and sad coming home,' TO me. / was
sheWn to my BEDROOM. hearing. Ms !
passed the landing. much rlst7irn ~
dresses and sapiCtlingn away of little
Ieet. (! eogsslt to apologize for that odd
eSpIessleh, which L think [ learned
"nsD 4 was quite a child, and used to
60 angling with my, father and MIR,
sutherland. 1t means a scattering of
IN al directions, as a shoaI of minTows
20 Wnen yon threw q pebble among
them.l I asked if the family were rone
TO bed, and WAS informed not so / ar
ranged my dress and Went downstairs.
unconscloosly treasured by the fact
mat the house wa neither so large nor
so arlstoeratic as my very liberal salary
mad inclined me to expect.
Who shall / say. miss2" asked the
yatner untIdy servant, meeting me in
the lobby, and staring with all her ewes,
as u a stranger were some rare sight.
MISS Eryor.o / said, thinking re-
gretfniiy that l should be henceforth
that. and not "Cassia;;n and seeing tie
mad still stared, / added, with an
effort; II am the new go~verness.'
so under that double announcement
l appeared at the parlor-door. The
room was rather dark: there were two
candies; but one had been extin-
gulsied, and was being hurriedly re-
lighted as / entered. At first L saw
nothing clearly: then L perceived a it,
sle pale isdy sitting at one end of the
Table, and two half-grown up girls,
dressed IN "going-out-to-tean costume,
SEATED Trlmly together on the sofa.
There was a third; but she vanished out
oil n 6oor as / entered the other.
Miss Pryor, l believer said a timid
y.otce11so timid that | could hardly be-
ileve that it was a lady addressing her
Royerness. | glanced at her: she was a
l1ttle Woina with pale hair and light
eyes frightened-looking eyes = that
INST rOGn otu1 Fa1I i,N ~ xa.,,tn I ii
Il was Miss Pryor. and concluded | adj
dressed Mrs. LIE Poer." She answered,
es. yes and held out, hesitatingly,
a thin, cold, bird-like hand, which 1
took rather warmly than otherwise; for
! felt really sorry for her evident ner-
Vousness. 1t seemed SO strange for
anybody to be afraid of me. My
daughters, Miss Pryor" she then said,
IN q louder tore. Whereupon the two
girls rose, courtesied, blushed-seem-
ingl.y more from a~wkWardness than
modesty-and sat down again. Ishook
nands with both, trying to take the IN
itlatiYe, and make myself sociable and
at home-a difficult matter, my position
feeling much like that of a fy in an ice
house.
These are my pupils, thanYn said /,
cheerfullY. (which Is Miss Zillah?n-
for / remembered Mr.. Sutherland had
mentioned that name in his letter, and
Its popularity naturally struck me.
The mother and daughters looked
rather blankly at each other; and the
former said: This is Miss LIE Poer
and Miss Matilda-Zillah is not in the
room at present."
"Oh, a third sister," / observed.
No" rather pertly answered Miss
lie Poer; "Lill is not our sister at all,
but only a sort of distant relation of
pas, whom be is very kind TO and
maintains at his own expense, and who
rhends Il stockings and brushes our
hair of nights, and whom we are very
kind to also"
''Oh, indeedio was all | said in reply
to this running stream of very provin-
cially-spoken and unprecedented Eng
lish. 1 was rather puzzled, too; for If
my memory was cpr~rect-aad / general
ly remembered Mr.. Sutherland's LISTERS
very clearly, probably because they
were themselves so clear--he had par
ticularly mentioned my future pupil,
Zilah LIE Poer. and no Miss LIE Poer
besides. / waited with some curiosity
for the girls reappearance; at last I
ventured to say: II should like to see
Miss Iillah. l uHderstood'-here / hes
stated, but thought afterward that plain