Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-12-14

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CHAPTER VIII.
well, mother. ana when are VIC to
have that little talk you promised me
now nearly two weeks ago."
About what. my dear?"
Surely YOU remembe ?"
A veNed look. passing like q shadow
acr S. the round, aood-tcmpercd face,
showed that Mrs. Jaldine did TO ncm.
her, though she would have hecn glad
enough to pretend She did not, and to
shi X the question.
WHAT, that cnlanglement of yours
with the little Swiss girl. Oh, she
has forgotten you by this time, depend
upon 1t: and l va, in hopes you had
forgotten her"
That was not likely. and / must beg
OF you not to call it an 'cntanglement.
the very serious uestion OF my mar
rage. You promise to consider it. l
have waited, not IN rely a few days,
but Il whole fortnight and you have
~ said q single word to me on the
matter. viii Ii, you must know, is SO
very near my heart. 1t is rather hard
mother"
TWAS hard, and to do tho young
man justice, he had behaved exceed
ingly we'll. Never sulky, never dis
trait, Us is the manner OF young men
in love, he had set his mind steadily to
do his best. had been at his mothers
beck and call from morning till night,
had gone with her wherever she had
wished, and done whatever she told
him to do.
Mother" he said sitting down by
her and taking her hand-it was u wet
afternoon, and she had just sent the
carriage ~away-"you promised me to
think it over-this matter so very near
my heart. Mother. have you done
80: Will you give ne your approval,
and let me take your love and blessing
with. me-to Neuchatel."
land why? What may be YOUR bust.
ness at Neuchatel?:"
He turned bitterly away. Mother,
do you think l am q stone. that you
try me so? You understand quite we /
though you pretend to misunderstood.
You know I am going to Neuchatel tc
ask Mademoiselle Jardine to marry
me-"
and then?"
-Then, l suppose, we shall be mar.
ried."
Might I in luire what you intend te
marty upon.
ssssss2sE have not considered the question o.
1vSncome; Tut it keeps me, and it is
eSf6tless enough to keep a wife. You
1t SO regularly that it is you who
16JAest inform me it's precise amount
nd whence 1 draw it: for l should like
~ naturally, from this time, to be as in
epehdent US possible"
S4sSsNp you shall be, never fea., and
e.d6Agood may your independence de
y s%Hoderick Jardine. since you will.
634ech q fool, hear first what you have
He4sIgHook to. Whom | married youl
4 1919, except that tumble-down place,
&ss1&&1ekhall, he had not q %half-penny. |
was daft toymarry him, I know that
but l was young and l was fond of him.
Her voice trembled Il little. How.
ever, that's all past: and he was q good
man and akind husband to me-always
let mo do as l liked with my own. FOL
everything was my own. and is still,
ard / will do as l like with it,; mind
that"
"Of course: who wishes to hinde,
you, mother?" said Roderick, gently
FOR the loud tongue was growing louder
aud the red face redder. Self-re.
straint, he knew. was not n of his
mothers MISUNDERSTANDING that
was why he had been obi ged to Learn
1t himself.
My money is my own ("my ain,
she pronounced it, dropping. as she
speesh Of d' her IN goesh1. NE ye ' Re8 m an.
and marry against my will, iad, We may
do the hest We can with that wretchec
hole, Elackhall: go and starve in The
musty old rooms among the mice anG
rats, US | dare say your father would
have liked to do: but yell get naethine
out o. me. L has thousands-hundred.
OF thousands to spend and to leave
but though you're my ain, only son
marry that woman, and Ill Mother gle
We, o leave We, ae bawbee."
She thought she had overwhelmed
him, crushed him: but he stood there
without any visible change in him, ex
cent a certain holiness of carriage ant
brightness of eye.
Don't let US quarrel over money
matters, mother. AS you say, do a
YOU like with your own. Ii l have
Blackhall I shall be quite satisfied
and SO will She" .
"Then you mean to brave me, insul
me, and marry herr"
"Not to insult you. But l certainl.
mean to marry her-if I can"
with or without my c~onsent?'
frederick waited a minute and the
answered, in a very low tone. "Yes."
sLad, lad! have We gone clean daft
Do We really mean what We say??" Fo
apparently, until now. ever accustomed
to entire and unquestioned authority
she had refused to believe him ii
Il shall go back to Switzerland
marry my cousin if 1 can, and presen
her here as soon as possible US my wife
II she will not marry, me IL shal
Ae IN ae ear O. that. She'll talk ye, lad
she'll jump at We if she thinks you'v
.aMother'-Roderick spoke beneatl
his breath in q whlte heat Of SUP
pressed passion-"mother. how dar