The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-11-29

an answer. lie l so. perhaps. In The
few words that he was determined a
all hazards to say to his darling before
he left-to herself only, regardless d
ceremony on custom the sanction
of his mothers appreciation woulc
lie a help and a c~onso!aliJ n. He should
be abe TO tell the orphan tIat ii was
not his arms acne that were open t.
receive her, but those of Il NV mother,
ready to replace. if any could replace,
in s,me small degree, her who wa
gone. Very unlike the we're. and he
had Il secret fear that ii was Il dine
emf sort OF u daughter-in-law that Mrs
Jardine would nave preferred one
much g~randcr, ricler, hand ,cmer.
Silence had the 10. ~eliness of loyable-
ness: but even in his widest passion,
her lover knew she a not handsome.
Still, in spite of all, there were two
things he never doubted to find in his
mother her strong sense and her
warm heart.
To these he trusted, and felt that he
might safely tru the girl he loved
the girl who would ma e MIN all he
lacked, al that his mother wished him
to be. He pleaded this in Il letter,
touchingly earnest and tender, which,
on second thoughts. he dete mined On
writing home. His heart "a, full
full TO overlooking; and, almost for the
first time in his life, he poured 1t out'
where, under such circumstances.
every good son is right to POUR his
heart out-into his mothers bosom.
Going to the post, letter in hand
for he had learned eilencc's habit OF
doing things at once and doing them
herself, ii pCssiblc-he met Sophie
Reynier, in mourning dress. fastening
TO com ort and sustain her friend dur
ing the funeral day.
40 YOU think You could take me in
to the house with you:" he pleaded.
"Noboiy would know or be harmed
thereby. In my W country we even
think I a tribute of respect to the
dead to be allowed to look at them
once more. And Mademoiselle Jar
dine
Sophie Reynier suddenly turned to
him with a flash OF womanly emotion
in her kind blue eyes-renetrating as
kind.
Monsieur, yea are an honest man
what in England you cal a gentle
man You could never act otherwise
than kindly i such a d~efenseless
creature as Mademoiselle Jardine:'
God for id. no.
Then l will take you"
But she d d not admit him at once
ana finding that Nine. Reynier had
gone ont she toll him to come back in
an hour. al ele en- o'clock.
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nov
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from her N least. The address aud
name we're hers thopoh tie WORDING
was in the thi,d leru,n.
~Nour uo1har i not we'll Come
home Immediately
mi. wa.alI M il came with snch
q blow IN II de,irl who inverted Nj,
fathers neryou, tenn eramcnt. that he
felt himsc + turning dizly and obeyei
the frien ly GA G NJ, suggestion that
monsieur had better lit down