The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-12-06
certainly, You are not going TO lose

certainly, You are not going TO lose
your son, but only to gain another
daughter-and such a daughter. II
you only saw her. VIII you soc her!
Will you come ba * with me. to Swift
zerland and let us fetch her home to-
gether::"
He was not wise. not tact!ul, certain
". this poor Roderick. Alas! a largo
nature. Judging a smaller one, often
makes egregrious mistakes.
Mrs. Jardine drew herself up with
indignant pride and outraged decorum.
Nv ell, / do think that is the coolest
and most i%mpudent proposal"
"Impudent." she had pronounced
it "impident." Door woman. which
made it Il still more obnoxious word.
Roderick looked at his mother full in
the face. Though she was his mother,
he was a Jardine and she was not;
wrath set better on him than on her;
because if hereditary blood teaches
nothing more. it usually teaches that
self-restraint which we are accustomed
to call good breeding. "Impudence, ]
think, has never been q vice OF II
family; and the lady | have chosen be-
ing of that family. deserves entire re.
spect-which l shall exact for her from
everybody. in luding my own mother.
Also. excuse me, | Q all resent any in.
suit offered t, he, even il offered by
my W re ations, exactly as ii it had
been an insult to myself"
He spoke so quietly and with such
stately courtesy, the steel IN OF
per ect politeness, that Mrs. Jardine
was frightened. the boy wa his
fathers own son, only with stronger,
health, a finer will, a spirit unbroken,
and, above all, tae taiisman o. hope in
his bosOm-hope and love AS he
stood there he looked so handsome in
his fearless youth-fearle.s, yet Oier-
ing no obnoxious front to any one
gifted with hat best of courage, the
power Of self-control-that his moth
er heart misgave hera lit @.
wait till next day: we will tall; it
night" And she nervously too up
ing besidc her.
Roderick lighted it for her. and then
kissed the hand into which he gave it.
"Eear mothe', l I'm grieved to vex
you, believe that: and ! will wait Il day
two or three days-rather than go
against your will. Think better of
what YOU have said think better Of
me. Do you not believe | love you"
1T doesn't look like it," SAID she.
sharply. To natures like hers. gentle
mes, sometimes seems like a confession
of weakness, and only rouses them t,
greater tyranny. "Howevo", d. as you
say, wait a few days. and I'll think
o .er it.
After his IN thor quilted him Eod-
o.i,ly nnn1npnG Sn11x nyynr hin,sn1f on1
his fortunes for a long time. Passion
ately in love as he was, he was not
sol.ishly in love. He could not throw
himself out of him elf so as to see a lit.
tie on the other de. 1t wa ha d for
his m Their. who loved authority and
was iealouso affect on, t. be dethroned
in this way. And he wished was it
disloyalty to his be oved:-that things
had happened ditferently-that she had
been some ,ne whom his mother knew
and iSed, rather than a complete stran-
ger. But al that was past now. His
choice was made-this CT none: for.
with the impulsive cOnvic ion of youth,
he was quite ccr.ain that if he did not
mary Silence "a dine he would never
mary anybcdy. Hi mother must
make up her mind to accept the in
evitable.
Sti he would wait: a few days did
not matter 50 very much, with Il whole
lifetime of happiness before him.
Surely. surely it was before him. and
not a mere phantom OF his own brain?
Surely she, so deeply beloved, must
have felt tina l was SC. Her sweet
firm. yet trem llous yes" must have
implied her telief in him, which a
little d lev would never shake. but
only confirm.
Then with an easier mind. and q
heart almost happy-so strong is hoTe
at his age-he walked back Il streets
length in the pelting rain, humming
to himself his ~favorite ditty-
Whenever she co mes. she shall find me ready
To do her hon age my queen. my queen.
ITO BE C~ONTINUEDl