The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-10-18

.'that he liked dark Oriental eyes,
One day his mother told me something
which explained this. She said he had
been engaged to a young lady in India,
who on the eve of their marriage had
died. He had never cared much for
woman's society since, and his mother
thought would probably never marry.
After his departure | learned the whole
story. My neart bled e every pang
he had suffered; he was so good and
noble a man. And when l knew about
his Indifference to all women, | felt the
more grateful for the trust he showed
in me, by making me Zillah's guard
ian in his absence, and wishing me to
The last words he said were asking me
to go and see his mother often; and
then he babe God bless me, and called
me sshis dear friend" He was very
kind always!
We had a quiet winter. fof my health
was not good being often delicate in
winter time. My mother and Zillah
took care of me, and was very CRATE
full for their love. | got well at last as
the Springtime advanced, and went on
in my Old ways.
There are sometimes long pauses in
ones life-deep rests or sleeps of years
in which month after month and season
after season, float on each the same;
during which the soul lies either quiet
or torpid, as may be. Thus, without
several years-my mother, Zillah LIE.
Poer and |. One morning l found,
with a curious surprise, but without
any of the horror which most women
are supposed to feel at that fact, that |
was thirty wears Old
We discovered by the anne reckoning
that Lillah was just nineteen. l re.
member she put her laughing face be-
side mine in the glass. There was a
great difference truly. l do not mean
the difference in her from me, for l
never compared that, but in her former
self. She had grown up into a woman,
and, as that glass told me, and my own
eyes told me, a very striking woman
too. was little of a judge in beauty
myself; still | knew well that every
body we met thought her handsome.
Likewise, she had grown up beautiful
in mind as well as in body. l was very
proud of my dear child.
| we'll remember this day, when she
was nineteen and l thirty. remem-
| Der it, L say, because our kind friend in
India had remembered it likewise, and
sent us each u magnificent shawl; far
too magnificent it was for a little body
like me, but it became Zillah splendid.
ly. She tucked me under her arm as if
| had been a little girl, and walked me
up and down the room; for she was of a
cheerful, gay temper now-just the one
to make an old heart young again, to
flash upon a Worn spirit with the
brightness of its own long-past morn
ing.
recollect thinking thus at the time
Il wish | had thought so ottener! But
it matters little; | only chronicle this
day, as being the first when Liltah IN
consciously put herself on a level with
me, becoming thencetorward Il woman,
and my equal-no longer Il mere pet
and a child.
About this time-I may rs we'll just
state the fact to comfort other maidens
of thirty years standiug-I received an
offer of marriage, the first l had ever
had. He who asked me was a gentle
man of my w age, an old acquaint-
ance, though never a very intimate
friend. / examined myself we'll, with
great humility and regret. for he was
an excellent man; but l found l could
not marry him. 1t was very strange
that he should ask me, l thought. My
mother, proud and pleased first, be-
cause | had the honor of Il proposal;
secondly, that it was refused, and she
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ahu L.
~ was lle nlonen before heI comln9
OIL aye, anu She was gong 70 meet ne
guaialah' WHO q just returned 1roh
ilNIa, c..,o.,
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RON oou.iiauiploh alu l~IllleelaIe
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depea' NY Mol rus as ! lelienipet lillian
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ia M L neVel tnousnt ~ ugly.
heil we lau Lealis started, however
, n.ilai ceaseu laughing, al4 pecaln
kia.ei pionauly ae Iue ~letouecllon Q
silat nu%nliliaiilis clleullstahce WillcI
nrsv ous neI acqna!,i!ea Win ne
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/ 70 greaa petiGctlon As sne saI ther
in mind Ia and pure and yirpir in Heart
for I had So kent her out Of harms wa
that. though nearly twentv-one ibne",
she had never been 1in loyeH With an
manwas she sat Tins | felt nroud an,
, glad in her. feeling sI,re that Mr.. Snti
erland wonld saw t had we'll fulfilled th
charge he gave.
We drove to the lodge gates. A