The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1892-06-25

11ut Nlidl Will oi1c billllh Vi tilstb Nlltll
own house is here? Remember that she Is
my future employer, and that want her ap-
proval in everything"
"But she is my sister-in-law, and domi-
neerlng woman, and want her to under
stand what think of you, and what place
wish you to take In her household"
Miss Priscilla looked at him doubtfllly.
III only you don't make q mess Of things
after all" she said.
CHAPTER III. !
"Shc has not come"
"Did l not tell you sop
Dismay and triumph struggled oddly for
mastery on Priscillas face as she answered
She was at the rectory door, where Mr..
Hornby had come out to meet her, and as she
faced him now, CONSERVATION beganto creep
over his countenance.
"She said she would comy,' ho answered
sheepislly.
"Of course; but that was before she had
begun to consider. You know there was no
reason in the world why could not receive
her at my own house"
II thought 1t was best to have her here"
"And she did not think So"
| Miss Priscilla sat down rs she spoke, and
united her bonnctStrngS. and the rector no.
ticed that she was flushed and breathed liur-
riedly, as though but little would be needed
TO make her cry.
81 am very sorry," he said, penitently.
ut was not your fault; you meant well,
| md in any case l am 10 worse Off than l
was"
She wiped her eyes fuftvely as she spoke,
and her host grew still more miserable.
" never dreamed of this" he said; "and
no one else would have played me such
shabby trick"
"Well, never mind. Let us take it for the
best. But it does seem hard, when likely
| thing arose, to lose 1t like this"
"But she may come yet. There is another
tram at five, and she said positively that |
might expect her You will wait, won't
your
aIf you think there is any chance"
He had meant kindly, and hewas very
down-hearted, and so she could not bear to
be hard Oh him. His face cleared.
ut will be quite like old times to have you
here for an attcrnoon," he said.
Miss Priscilla asScnted, but not very cordi-
ally. Where there are diverse periods of old
times in a life, it Is sometimes difficult to tell
which is referred to.
cit is Il long time since you have spent a
udS lul. MUMMY SOlltllltlttl, eager W
make conversation.
81 have not been here since Mrs. Horribly
died" Miss Priscilla answered graycly.
"You will notice changes signing.
Miss Priscilla assented, but did not COM
nit herself to a statement of the form tho
changes seemed to take.
I'VE used to be good deal about the rec
tory in our young days, Priscilla" he con-
tinued after pause. II think Mr.. Maxwell
was partial to us. Why, il seems like yestcr-
day that lie used TO take us birds-ncsting in
the woods"
eyes; 1t does not seem an age, though
you and are old people"
II suppose we are; and yet YOU know,
Priscilla, never felt myself younger than
now? l never remember enjoying nature
more or finding more likablc qualities III ordi-
nary people,"
"Age makes us tolerant" Miss Priscilla
said, with flicker of spitcful mirth.
"Ies, Isuppose so; and yet can't realize
that 1t is so very long ago since l was q lad
and you the most beautiful girl in the world
to me-
"Yon were very young them" Miss Pris-
ella said coldly. "It must hase been quite
a year before you got married"
liz lcclOI WllOlc iUIin SctIlltt 10 QrOOp
from It's momentary happy attitude.
you never understood that and 1t was
sudden, own," he said; "but suppose in
every life there ineyplicable occurrences"
! 'As il every one did not know that she
married you, and not you her, you poor
goose! And serve you right, too; l never
pitied YOU" Miss Priscilla said to herself
very clearly and emphatically; for She was
| only q woman, and his detection, though
twenty years old, had power To move her
still. Not that she held him wholly mex
cuSable for it,for 1t had been the foolish time
of life with her then-the time when she had
believed in heroes and felt a fine scOrn of
ordinary men. And so she had tioutcd him
and held him aloof till it was too late.
| 1t had been n little hard on her. though
neither he nor any one ever guessed 1t; and
afterward, when he returned as rector to the
parish where he had been born (her influence
working always for his benefit, shcwas one
of the first to welcome him. and the rcadiest
to find something good to say of the peeyish,
| frctful wife who made life us hard for him
as she knew how.
But all that was over long ago, though for
moment Miss Priscilla felt as if the past
were not so long past, and In that moment
She had called Mr. uornby, mentally, a poor
goose; but, looking at his troubled face her
heart SOftcncd
Zone need not understand ones friends to
approve of them" she said heartily.
Mr.. llornby sighed; his momentary expan-
sion was over. For the time he felt that old
things were quite ended.
Looked back on, life is different from
ones anticipatons," he said, sadly. Not
that have not got more than my deserts,
hut III
anything expected"
II think it is better, even for our happi-
ness, that results of all we do are in other
hands than ours,'' she answered gently.
mo doubt, no doubt; but still"
He stopped as though his thoughts would
not shape themselves to any words that fitted
the OCCASION
They had been sitting all this time in the
bleak, damp little drawing-room. and, ,whcth-
or from the conversation or the atmosphere,
she felt chilled and depressed, though bright
sunshine lay atilwart the land. The rcctory
was cherries house now, with dusty dec
orations dragging from the spotted CRATES,
and long cobWCbs hanging ,nnoticcd in dim
corners. And once she had known him so
fond of brightness, and free air, and sun
light. Poor George! OF course, he was no
more neglected than are other lonely men,
but having known him young and hopeful,
his circumstances struck her with melanchu-
lv sense of contrast. 1t was like Miss pes-
ella to forget her own immediate troubles in
plying some one else. s
The lunch made diversion, though twas
not what could be called, strictly speaking,
an enlivening repast. A grim sewing-wo-
man waited on them and handed them cold
plates with an air of protest and her nrrs-
encc, taken in conjunction with the dim
glasses and spotted cutlery made Miss Pris-
ella very unhappy.
"l1e has seven hundred a year If lie llas
penny; and yetcverything is perfectly dread.
ful, she sail to herself, while his good-iE,-
tured hospitality over the soaked potatoes
and hard peas and nnderdone mutton gave
her tremulous inclination to laugh and cry
together.
But all this time dark clouds had been nil
Ing themselves in the west, and sharp wind
had begun to blow coldly, so that when
messenger came to call the rector urgently
IN "a .l.xsAt H.. hal