The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-10-18

or of an avalanche tumbling down upon
me. shall only sec the Alps at a dis
lance. At this time of year one must
content ones self with towns"
That's hard. laddie. when YOU are
so fond of the country. But do "a you
likc-do as you like-only don't forget
the marriage. You viii have I o give
away the bride, Roly. All. your poor
father
The widows eyes filed with tears.
If she had not understood her hus-
band, she had loved him certainly.
an more perhaps after his death than
befo g it.
"Well we'll talk the matter over an
other time. cried RCderick. AT this
morcnt I'm busy-I mean, II have an
engagement. Go,d-by, everybody. III
be back at dinner-time.'
"A little before dinner-time. plea:e,
my dear. Remember we have compa-
ny-twenty at lea,t-a regular dinner
party
oh, yes, a meeting Of creditors
as my father used to call it." said the
young fellow somewhat bitterly. NO
fear. mother: III be back in time, and
do my duty to all the old fogies."
They're not old fCgies: there are
some as nice girls II, you could wish to
see. If you'd only look Al them, ROder-
lex" said Bella, who, going to be mar
ried herself, uuite lamented that her
only br Their seemed determined
against matt imony.
Well, / will. Bell, | promise you,
only let me 20 now And snatching
up his hat-a Glengarry bonnet which
he persisted in wearing, though his
sisters told him it made him look like
the Highland portcrs at the quay-he
fairly ran away.
Rapidly the young fellow walked on
through park and square, through
street ana wind or %"vennel," as such
dreary dens aye often called here:
shrinking from and d testing alike
the poverty and the riches. the splcn-
dor and the rags. 1t began to rain
heavily. but he needed not. Though
brought up in luxury. he wa; not lux
urious by nature, could stand a good
deal OF hardship. and had Il young
mans instructive pride il "roughiny
it, Still a even down-pour." as his
mother would have called it, is not an
agreeable thing, and "a in reality mis-
only engagement" wa with himself.
whose com any he felt free to enjoy u,
much As anybody else, he stopped his
walk and turned into a railway station
where at least he could sit down quiet
Is and read his letters. which he had
snatched up from the hall table on 90
ing ont.
But having no very interesting COR
respondence-ior he had left behind
at Cambridge few intimates and no
duns. also being, | fear. of a rather
di!atory turn of mind. and given to the
bad system of Observation-Disclosures
left the letters unopened in his pock-
ct, and sat idly watching the passen-
gers gather for q train Just about to
start.
And when he heard the guard call
ing out the namC Of a place where he
and his father had spent many Il happy
day, OF a sudden impulse he sprung
into the train without Il ticket lust
like Rody. silly fellow they would
have said at home. and was borne
away.
AS he swept along in the train. and,
quitting it. started on an old familiar
walk, along high cliffs which gave him
Il view of the country-land and sea-
for many lovely miles, Roderick's
heart vas very full. Not only of his
father. bat of himself and his own new
future, which lay before him like Il
map; the map of an u%ntravelcd country
-untraveled out yet NOT undiscovered.
for there were in it more certaintics
than lie in the lot of many young men
OF his q
Poor fellow, so young, so ignorant Of
life and its burdens. Yet he thought
himself quite vie and quite old. and
felt his burden very heavy indeed, and
/ hiulEnlf 81 rnn-f nnfnpfnnafn fn1lnW on
being obliged to go back to that
meeting Of cred tors which he de-
tested.
very last minute thought he. and sat
high ground everything looked as if it
never had raincd and never would rain
again, till the next time. which would
probably be within twenty-four hours.
Wrapping his plaid about him. he felt
perfectly happy. That lovely outline
Of hills-hc must Just put it down: so.
hunting in his pocket for the pencil
that wa, always a-missing, he turned
out the letters that he had crammed
in there, and looked them over.
None attracted him, except a black
edged NJ which. opened, he found
was one of the "intimations" Of death.
customary in Scotland, a~cquainting
him that there had died at Blackhall.
aged sixty-nine, Miss silence Jardine."
Silence Jardine. Surely @ relation.
Who could she be? For he knew his
father and he were the last of their
family.
However. thinking a minute, he re-
membered that in the business ar