The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-20

she saw her lover appear. a SILVER ran
through her, which made the kind
hearted sophie. with "a troubled and
anxious look, Immediately disappear.
My love" he said, a have been
thinking over everything. trying to
see the right and VIZ NJ of things
simple right and wrong. without rela-
ton to ourselves at all. My father
could do it, and used to say he be-
lieved | could when | was tried. ]
hope so: | hope | can Judge calmly,
without being either sclti,h or unjust.
Am r.
40 a thousand times no."
MY darling. VIC must love n au-
other-wc NUT be married. You left
it TO me t. decide. and | have decided.
1t will be a pang in some ways-a risk
in others-but it must be-; it ought to
be. Love is best. Come
Il would have lived" she cried
yes. | would have lived. .One has no
right to break ones heart and die till
God chooses. But life with you, and
life without you oh, the di icronce.
Rodcrick claspcd her in his arms,
ana they wcpt togethe' like little
children.
once again Rodcric5 wrote to his
mother. informing her that he had de-
layed his marriage for three months,
hoping against hope that after all it
might not he the "a ldcst of weddings,
without PARENTS blessing. but that,
whether or no., ii must be. He al
lowed her no possibility Of believing
that he could change his Minis I.
While opposing. he never deceived
her, for deceit is always cowardice, and
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coward.
which the, were spending with the
good lie niers at Chaumont' The
had climbed the hill through the long
watching that lovely view. the triple
chain of axes. vita It's long line of
snowy Alps beyond. The air wa mild
and soft: there were vioIets in the
woods. it felt like the first day of
spring, which always comes, as it were,
with Il message Of promise to the
young, Ay. and even to those whose
youth j. only IL Icver-fujillcd remcm-
b.ance.
Silence, Rodcrick said, as he took
in his the hand that would be his own
through life. Il have finished all the
work ! Lad to do here. Now, when
shall we go home;:"
"Home?'
"Iour new home, and mine; the home
We are to share together"
startled, she faltered out something
about waiting IA little longer
II nave waited. 1t is now nearly nine
months since the da, at Berne, when
81 did uut see her passing by.
And vet | love her tn die. -
"That would have been very fool
ish, said Silence. with naive gravity:
unless YOU have followed up the ac-
quaintanCc, and come to know me
we'll suddenly patting her two hand,
in her lovers y on do know me,
faults and all. so take me: and oh, lie
good to me | nave only you.
"And | YOU. You will be good TO me
also
she smiled. Little use in talking,
but ! think there viii W come a
day when / would O cheeriuliy die, if
my dying could help you. My living
wlll, much more. 50 an TO live
And she looked up fondly, with all
her soul ii her eyes, at her young
bridegroom. Would she forty, fifty
years hence, see in the old mans face
that OF thi, lover of her youth, the
face forgotten 10y all but her: Coz
knows bat it is good TO believe so.
The marriage was arranged, Of
course. to be quite quiet. All the
usual Swiss festivities, tha sOirce anX
bou uets before tn wedding, and the
ball after it, were OF necessity omitted.
The ltcl nier family alone we're to las
sist' at the ceremony. for which the
girls implorcJ silence would. for one