Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-04-22
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"Yes, and before e got there Lanah stole
Il, and so II got back again."
Jim shrugged his shoulders impaiiently.
II wish they would leave 1t alone" he
said; then after pause: "Haye you hard
OF Bardolph?"
''Nothing-nobody's seen him.
''How did he get so clear offg' said Jim.
musing. II don't half like II, and so tell
you Sabina." Z
but what does Ii matter to usT +
"Bardolph's treacherous, Sabina. I've had
q notion that he meant 10 get clear away,
and perhaps shoulder that business at Cor
donfells upon Us. We've men from all
points to-day. Go and see IL you can hear
anything OF him."
''She nodded, and wandered of about the
fair, asking questions here and there, but
ever with an eye to business.
A staring yoke, with shock head of
hair, attracted her eye, and she was by his
side i'm G moment.
Tell your fortune, pretty gentleman"
she said.
',Thee'll tell me lies" he doubtfully an
sxered.
''The stars may lie--I cannot say" she re.
Joined. II only tell you what they tell me,
pretty gentleman. Cross my hand with .
bit Of silver and let me read your fate"
IN give thee sixpence."
Nay, pretty gentleman; o shilling-a
shilling for good luck. know all about the
fair-haired girl and her other lover"
do thee now?' exclaimed tho yokel,
staring. But this Is good 'un!'
They are both here" said Sabna with q
keen look at him.
why, so they be-"
"And he's most In favor at present"
well, am blamedr' said the yokel.
Heres shilling. Now tell me more.
Hold out your hand, pretty gentleman,
and let me read the lines"
The amazed yokel hastened TO obey, and
Sabina, STOPPING down, pretended to trace
certain marks on his soiI-stained palm, as
hard and horny as the hoof Of horse.
You've given your heart to q fair lady
who doesn't value it," said the gipsy-wo-
man; but she will by-and-by, when she
knows what you are"
''She knows what am, well enough" he
said; "the carter to Mr.. Gipkins, OF Cowley
Farm"
Il mean that when she knows how much
you love and how true you will be. There's
line that shows she will walk through sor,
row to you. She will have to find out the
baseness OF the other lover first"
Shed better do 1t soon," said the rustic,
''or be a-going after Mary Sturms.'
Don't be in a hurry, pretty gentleman"
said Sabina; she's not TO blame, poor thing !
She has been led away. Thank you, pretty
gentleman, and good-day."
From him she passed 10 q place where
haif-a-dozen gypsy horse-dealers were gath.
cred together talking in an undertone. She
touched one on the arm and he looked up
and made rough bow with every appear
ance of respect
''Yod come from the south? she said.
Yes" he answered.
'Do you know one Bardolph? Did you
see anything of him?"
No"
'Nor heard of him?"
Nothing, except that he'd got of with .
real lady"
She moved away, and the man returned TO
his comrades. Ere she had got far she met
blue-eyed vacant-faced lass hanging on
the arm of heavy self-satisfed agricultural
laborer who, In humorous spirit, had pin.
ned enlistment-ribbons In his cap as a sign
OF having bound himself to enter into the
matrimonial army
"four fortune, pretty lady," said Sabina,
''let me tell It,"
She knows it." said the self-satisfed
lover.
"Oh no, she don't" returned Sabina
shrewdly linking this pair with the yokel
on whom she had previously practised her
art; there's danger not far away"
"Lawks, now, is there!' exclaimed the
girl, opening her eyes.
There's an angry disappointed lover"
continued Sabina
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