The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-10-18
THE H%ALF-CASTE
IN OLD GovERNEss's TALE.
FOUNDED ON FACT.
BY MISS UNLOCK.

WITH her faVOflto White bonnet, that l
lad lately trimmed for her, carefully
led up in a kerchief.
/ touched her shoulder. "Zillah,
where are you going?'
She started and screamed.
"Tell me; / must know!" I repeated,
Holding her fast by the arm, while Au-
ustus rather roughly pulled her by the
Sther.
"Cousin, you hurt me!' she cried,
Ind instinctively drew back. Then for
he first time the lieutenants saw me.
l have often noticedt that cunning and
leceitful people-small villains, not
kreat ones-are always towards. Mr..
Augustus drew back as if he had been
lhot. took no notice of him, but still
appealed to Lillah.
Tell me, my child, the plain truth,
Is you always do-where were you GO
She stammered out: II was going
to-to Belfast-to be married."
married to your cousin?"
She hung her head and murmured:
'Yes."
At this frank confession the BRIDE
kroom interposed. He perhaps was all
The Drawer for rejecting that he had
snly women to deal with. He leaped
In at the chamber window, and angrily
asked me by what right l interfered.
II will tell you,'' said /, 'if you have
enough gentlemanly feeling to leave my
apartment, and will speak with me in
he open air."
He retreated. ! bolted the window.
and still keeping a firm hold on the
trembling girl, met him outside the
front door. 1t certainly was the oldest
place for such a scene; but l did not
tyiCh tn admit him iuciIn tho hn,,co
Nov, Miss Pryor. said he impera-
lively, but still politely-a LePoer could
not be otherwise-'will you be so kind
As to relinquish that young lady, who
has confided herself to my care, and in
tends honoring me with her hand?"
us that true. Zillah? Do you love
This man, and voluntarily intend to
harry him?"
Yes, if you will let me, Miss Pryor.
He told me you would be so pleased.
He promises always to be kind to me,
and never let me work. Please don't
be angry with me, dear Miss Pryor!
Oh, do let me marry my cousin!"
Listen to me a few minutes, Zillah,"
said !, land you shall choose" And
then l told her in as few words as |
could, what her position was-how that
it had been concealed from her that she
was an heiress, and how by marrying
her, her cousin Augustus would be
master over all her wealth. So I'M
worldly was she. that | think the girl
herself hardly understood me; but the
lieutenant was furious.
cit is all a lean infamous cheat!"
he cried. Don't believe it, Zillah!
Don't be frightened, little fool! I
promised to marry you, and, by Heav-
en-! marry you l will!n
Lieutenant LIE Poer," said / very
quietly, that may not be quite SO easy
as you think. However, l do not pre-
vent you, as indeed | haze no right; l
only ask my dear child Zillah here to
grant me n favor, as for the sake of
my love to her''-(here Zillah sobbed)-
II doubt not she will; namely, that she
should do as every other young woman
of common sense and delicacy would
do, and wait until tomorrow, to ask
the consent of one who will then prob
ably be here, if he is not already ar
riyed-her guardian, Mr.. Andrew Suth-
orlando
Lieutenant Augustus burst out with
an oath, probably very mild in the
mess-room, but very shocking here to
two women's ears. Zillah crept farther
from him and nearer to me.
''1ll not be cheated sol" stormed he.
Come, child, you'll trust your cousin:
You'll come away to-night?"-and he
tried to lift her on the car, which had
approached-the Irish driver evidently
much enjoying the scene.
mo, cousin; not tonight" said the
girl, resisting. ''I'd rather wait and
have Miss Pryor with me, and proper
trademarks, and a wedding-dress, and
all that-that is, if marry you at all
which | won't unless Miss Pryor thinks
you will be kind to me. So goodbye
till tomorrow, cousin"
He was SO enraged by this time that
he tried forcibly to drag her on the car,
child's waist and shrieked for help.
Faith. sir" said the sturdy Irish.
man, interfering, half in amusement
half in indignation, "ye'd betther lave
the women alone. I'd rather not med
die with an abduction"
So Zillah was set free from the lieu
tenants grasp, for, as | said before, /;
scoundrel is often a great coward.
drew the trembling and terrified CIR
into the house-he following with
storm of oaths and threatenings. A
last I forcibly shut the door upon him
and bolted him out. Whether this in
dignity vas too much for the valorou
soldier, or whether he felt sure that al
ldllS oNVls L hIIO llOO, Duu WIFI
looked out ten minutes after the coas
was clear. l took my erring, wronged
yet still more wronged than errini
child into my bosom, and thanke,
Heaven she was saved.
The next morning Mr.. Sutherland al
rived.
After this nights events | have littl
to say, or rather l prefer to say but Lit
tie, of what passed during the remain
der Of that summer. We all travele'
to England together, going round b
Yorkshire in order to leave Mr.. LIE
Peers daughters at their own home
This was Mr.. Sutherland's kind plan
that the two girls might be kept in ig
tally of their fathers ill-deeds. VIII
they suspected l know not; they wer
merely told that it was the desire c
Zillah's guardian to take her and he
g%oyerness home with him.
So we parted at Halifax and / neve
saw any of the family again. l had n
scruples about thus quitting them, as
found out from MI. Sutherland that
had been engaged solely as governes
to his ward, aAd that he had himsel
paid my. salary in advance; the Who'll
of which, in some way or other ha
been intercepted by MI. LIE Poer. TIL
money Of course was gone; but he ha
written to me with each remittance
and thus l had lost his letters. Tha
was hard!
I also found out, with great joy an
comfort, that my Zillah was truly III
lab LIE Poer-her fathers legitimat
daughter and heiress. All / had bee
led to believe was a cruel and wicke
lie. The whole history of her fathe
and mother was one of these famil
tragedies, only too frequent, which, th
actors in them being dead, are best fol
gotten. / shall not revive the tale.
In late autumn Mr.. Sutherland sale
for India. Before he quilted Englan
he made me sole guardian in his stea
over Zillah ID Poer, assigning for her
handsome maintenance. He said h
hoped we should all live happily togett
er-she, my mother and Until h
came back. He spent a short time wit
us all at his country seat-a tim
which, looking back upon, seems in ii
eight days like eight separate years.
l ought to speak of Zillah, the III
moved center of so many %convolvin
fates. She remained still and silent q
ever-dull, grieved, Inundated. / tol
her gradually and gently the who
truth, and explained from how muc
she had been saved. She seemed graf.
full and penitept: it was clear that he