Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-05-18
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with the very rare faculty OF knowing
how to entertain.
He led the dance with Lea Hedges,
and he found frequent occasions to drop
complimentary phrase into her ear
afterward, but even the most observant
could not construo this into partlality.
Under myrlads OF swinging lamps,
the young people danced until midnight,
while In tho main cabin, about we'll
filled board, the elderly gentlemen dis
cussed wines OF rare vintage, or gave
their opinions with candor, tempered by
courtesy, on the political questions,
which were even then causing ripple
OF feeling between the colonies and the
motherland.
Two companion figures at the enter
tainment-agures that took no part in
the danclng-were Unoas and his sister
Untilla, or "The Princess, as she was
generally called.
Untllla was strlklngly graceful girl,
with lighter complexion than her
brother, for the carmlne Of youthful
health shone through her rounded
checks, Under the glow Of tho colored
lamps she looked more radiant than the
white girls, who might be called the
daughters OF the sun, while she was
the daughter of night, the more brilliant
for the darkness that surrounded her.
Nor was Untilla neglected by the OFF,
GERS. Though she did not dance, she
promenaded with many of them, talking
freely, and even gayly, In her simple,
unaffected way.
Untllla's love for Captain Ralph Dem
ham was an old story In the settlements,
topic on which the gosslpers were al
ways sure to fall back when all others
were exhausted.
She OF first could see no wrong in her
preference, and 1t was only when she
began to feel that her love was not re-
turned that she drew back and took on
that reserve which distinguishes her
race, and which the whites, for the want
Of better name, call "stoical.
Tonight, Ralph Denham gave more
food to the gosslps; he promenaded
with Untllla again and again, only
yielding her arm to some other when
courtesy required. 1t was he who took
her to supper; and whom the time for
departure came, all too soon, IL was Ralph
Denham who took the princess home in
his own cutter, and rowed her for six
miles to the little cove on whose south
ern shore was the dwelling Of herself
and brother.
Untilla babe Ralph goodnight and
hurried to the light that marked their
abode; and Captain Denham was about
to order the boat from the beach, when
the well-known form of Dlnah sprang
rom theshadows into the moonlight, and
called out:
Ralph Denham, Ralph Denham, have
Keer.
Have care of what, Dinah2" asked
Ralph, who, since his first knowledge OF
the old woman, had always treated her
with Difference, and when, as boy,
other youths showed q disposition to
annoy her, he would become her cham
plon, and still his companions by
shame, Or failing In that, by force.
Have keer Of dc wolf! croaked the
old woman.
"Of what wolf, DinahP"
"Of de wolf ez comes in de skin Of de
sheep"
is there such a one here2"
zone, Cap'n Ralph Ha, ha, ha! wy,
dar's hull pack OF EN-, en- don It you 60
and tlnk it's on'y flock. Keep watch
ez you does wen dars danjah on de
great deep. De wolves is wife en- red.
ken ear EN- 'owlln' away fab off. But
dey'll come higher en- higher; en- dey
won't owl; deyll be gettin' ready fob
to spring, en- to fasten dar wife teet In
yer wife skin. Have keer, have keer,
and repeating this, the old woman
sprang into the shadows from which she
had come.
Rather an Indefinite warning"
laughed Ralph Denham, as he took the
tlller and guided the boat from the cove
into the bay, where his ship was swung
ut anchor