Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1893-08-17

out the money bags n represents.
What else can ] doy You do o know
You " can know-how wretchedly
/ am fettered by those COMPOUNDED
debts, which must be paid. | am a
drowning man. and Abigail pendasset
Is tha straw that i cling 10. / know,
as Wei as You do, that she is old, ugly
and unattractiye. but she is my fate;
l cannot avoid her. Dear Dotty, you
have refused TO allow me one single
chance To speak TO you since we have
met, but l have not forgotten the de-
lightful days at Long Branch. md never
shall. | love you now as dearly as l
did then. / shall always love you and
you only, Dotty. There is no reason
You shouldn't spend half your time
ut PcndasSet Manor-H House. Dotty, IL
YOU play your cards well. we may be
very happy yet, and Hush, who the
deuce is that?'
The sound Of approaching footsteps
broke in upon the tete-a-tcte~and the
next moment Capt, Summerson found
himself alone. So
His visit that evening was unusually
pleasant. Miss Abigail was in the high
est spirits, and even Dorothy Wallace
was Il trifie more sprightly than her or
binary mood. Capt. SummersOn staid
late and, after he was gone Abigail
went into her cousins room.
"Dotty," says she, I've found out a
thing or two!'
Dorothy looked up.
What are they, Abigail?"
Ones that you used to know Capt.
Summerson's at Long Branch
1T is quite true" said Dorothy,
calmly.
why didn't You tell me before?"
What was the use? He chose TO
meet me as 4 ~stranger-why should |
rake up the past!'
Yet you cared for him once:"
"Once-hut not now"
Are You quite sureT'
Yes. quite
Il am glad Of that, Dotty Wallace
said Miss Abigail, i'll a voice that trem-
bled slightly as she reached out TO
clasp the others hands in hers. Yes,
I'm heartily glad-because, if you have
trampled the thing called love under
your feet, 1 can do the same, and ]
Will"
Abigail. what do you mean?"
The bride-elect laughed hoarsely.
Only that the captain made a little
mistake tonight. i was sitting by my
self IN the south room. and he mistook
u id~entity-he thought he was talking
to you. A 'cankered old maid'-that
was he polite epithet he applied to
the woman he has pledged himself to
marry within the week; and he went
on to vow that he always loved you,
and always should. although he couldn't
make you his wife*"
And Nfscc hl;noy1 rr,a~oll1 - -.
bosom herself of the whole story. Do
rothy listening, pale, quiet and silent.
And what shall you do, Cousin Abb
gail?" she asked, when finally the
spinSter came to Il full stop.
DO? What did you do when you
discovered that the man was q villain?
Cast him off, to be sure"
And break your hearth
MY heart isn't made of such brittle
materials, fortunately said Miss Abb
gail, with n grim smile. I'VE will
both see him tomorrow, Dotty. and
Wen send him about his business with
as little delay as possible"
When Capt. Alfred Summerson called
the next day. he was ushered into the
presence Of Miss Pendasset and her
cousin, sitting together in the south
room.
well captain said his promised
bride, c~omposedly, (which is it,
Which is what?' demanded the
puzzled son of Mars.
THE one you made love to in here
night? All, you don't quite com
prehend. You thought it was Dorothy |
Wallace, but it was !. Beware of love
in the twilight, captain; it make an
tangle sometimes. In this |
it has opened my eyes 10 the fact
that you are n villain! Dorothy, / be-
lieve. knew it long before, and neither
Of us care TO have the pleasure of your
acquaintance any longer. Good morn.
Ing, captain"
Good morning. captain sweetly
echoed Dorothy, with a malicious spar
kle In her eyes,
but, ladies'" began the bewildered
young man.
Miss Pendassct rang the bell vio-
Hester, show the captain to the
door. If he should ever call again, you
need not admit him"
And thus Sneaked the valiant Can't. |
Alfred Summerson out Of the subsitan-
tial old Manor house, which he had
hoped so 0 o TO call his own. Nor was
honest Hester's chuckle. as she bolted
the door behind him, the least of all
MS notifications.
II guess, my DEAR shrewdly OBJ
Miss Pendasset, ut will be some
time before he makes love again to
two at a time"
M. lola AND THE POPE.