The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-26
LOVES VICTORY.
BY BERTHA II. CLAY.
CHAPTER XIV,

UaiiioOln, once the prluc OF tilc county, WIS
re-decorated: the lon-, empty corridors and
suites OF apartments reserved for visitors,
were once more full of life. Miss Hastings
was the presiding genius; Pauline Darrell
took far less interest i'm the preparations.
II am glad" she said one morning, THAT
am to see your 'world,' Sir Oswald. You
despise mine; / shall be anxious to see what
yours is like
The baronet answered her testify:
II do not quite understand your remarks
about worlds Surely we live under the
same conditions"
mot in the same world of people," she OPP
posed; 'and am anxious to see what yours
is like"
What do you expect TO find in what you
are pleased to call my world, PaulineT' he
asked, angrily.
Little truth, and plenty of aifectation; lit
tie honor, and plenty of polish; little honesty,
and very high, sounding words; little sinceri-
ty, and plenty of deceit"
"By what right do you sit in judgment?'
he demanded.
"None at ALL" replied Pauline; "but rs
people are always speaking i'll of the dear,
honest world in which have lived, may
surely be permitted TO crticise the world that
Is outside it."
Sir Oswald turned away angrily; and Miss
Hastings sighed over the girls wilfulncss.
why do YOU talk to Sir Oswald in IL fash
ion that always irritates him.? she remon-
strated.
1--WE live in free country, and have each
of us freedom of speech"
II am afraid the day will come when you
will pay a sad price for yours"
But Pauline Darrell only laughed. Such
fpn tal bnr OH
have expected to see the heavens fall at her
feet than that Sir Oswald should not leave
Darrell Coart TO her-his niece, Darrell,
with the Darrell face and the Darrell figure
the true, proud features of the race. He
would never dare To do otherwise, she
thought and she would not condescend to
change either her thought or speech TO please
him.
The DarEelis do not know FEAR she
would say; there never yet was an example
OF Darrell being frightened into anything"
SO the breach between the uncle and the
niece grew wider every day. He could not
understand her; the grand, unframed, undis.
ciplned, poetical nature was beyond him
. ne could neither reach it heights, nor fathom
It's depths. There wcr, Times when he thought
that, despite her outward coldncSs and pride,
there was within a soul of lire. when he dim
iy understood the nagnilicence of the charac-
ter he could not read. when he suspected
there might be some souls that could not be
narrowed or forced into common groove.
Nevertheless he feared her; he was afraid to
trust, not the honor, but the fame of his race
to her.
She is capable of anything" he would re-
peat To himself again and again. 'She would
hing the Darrell revenues To the wind; she
would transform Darrell Court into one huge
observatory, il astronomy pleased her-uto
one huge laboratory, ii she gave herself TO
chemistry. One thing is perfectly clear to
me-she can never be my heiress until she is
safely married.
And after great delibcration-after listen
Ing to all his hearts pleading in favor of her
: grace, her beauty, her royal generosity of
character, the claim of her name and her
truth, he came to the decision that il she
would marry Captain Langtbn, whom he
loved perhaps better than any one else in the
world, he would at once make his will, adopt
her, and leave her heiress of all that he had
In the world.
One morning the captain coniided In him,
telling him how dearly he loved his beauti-
fui NIECE, and then Sir Oswald revealed his
intent lpns
uiiut<Stdhh, AuDttN, Hc Said inc
girl isklagniitently beautiful-she is a true
Dared put am frightened, bout her. She
Is not .e other girls; she il, A. ting in tact,
In KIN = ,1ge of the world, ~ Ss-arc es-
sentia u hope you will edA 4 shall
die coH,cnt if leave Dare & -
hands, and ii you are her hlisma the
not pass her over to make her nNN< dea
II you can persuade her to marry VY1n hss
can take the name OF Darrell, and ydIbu On,
guide and direct her. What do ycbu saw
Aubrey"
What do | say?' s,ainmered the cAptaip
Il say this-that | love her so dearlE that !
would marry her if she had not a faIthng. !
love her SO that language cannot express the
depth of my affection for her."
The captain was for Il few minutes quite
overcome-he had been so long dunned for
money, so hardly pressed, so desperate, that
the chance OF twenty thousand year aud
Darrell Court was almost too much for hn. |
Ills brow grew damp, and his lips pale. n
this might be his own ii he could but Wn
the consent of this girl. Yet he feared he |:
the proud, noble face, the grand, dark eySA
rose before him. and seemed to rebuke hE1
for his presumptuous hope. How was he N \
win her? Fiattery, sweet soft words won + n
neverdO ii. One scorniul look from her So d.
his ideas flying right and left" H.
"lf she were only like other girls" 81
thought, II could make her my wife In feJ Il
weeks"
Then he took heart of grace. Had he NO
been celebrated for his good fortune amon i.
the fair sex? Had he not always found hi
handsome person, his low, tender voice, his
pleasing manner irresistible? Who was this
proud, dark-eyed girl that she should meas
Ggo the depths OF his heart and soul, and find
them wanting? Surely he must be superior
to the artists in shabby coats by whom she
had been surrounded. And yet he feared as
much as he hoped.
"She has such way of making me feel
small" he said to himself; land ii that kind
of feeling comes over me when am making
her an offer, it will be of no use to plead my \
suit"
But what prospect-master of Darrell |
Court and twenty thousand per annum! He
would endure almost any humiliation to OBJ |
In in that n0sitiDn