The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-08-24

Harry left tins country with n purpose Of

ii"iiS iei. tIlS country Wltl n purpose OF
Mr.. Vimpany wanted no further explain
alton. Yes. yes, | know. You may be
easy about that. There's been no mischief
done, either one way or the other. The
1lan he wa after, when he landed in South
Africa (he told me SO HIMSELF, has escaped
him"
With that reply the doctor got up in a
hurry to bring his visit to an end. He
proposed to take to flight, he remarked
tacetionsly, before Miss Henley whecdled
nm INTO saying anything more.
After opening the door, however, he sud
denly returned to Iris, aud added u last
word in the strictest confidence.
IT you won't forget to recommend me
to your friends he said, 'I'll trust you
with another secret. You will see his
lordship in a day or two, when he return
from the races. Good-by."
The races! Whit was Lord Harry do
ing at the races?
CHAPTER XvIL.-oN HAMPSTEAD HEATH.
Iris had only to remember the manner
in which she and Mountjoy had disap-
pointed her father, to perceive the serious
necessity of preventing Mountjoy's rival
from paying visit at Mr.. Henley's house.
She wrote ut once to Lord Harry, at the
hotel which Mr.. Vimpanv had m> ltioned,
entreating him not to think OF calling on
her. Being well aware that he would in.
sist on a meeting, she engaged to write
agaiu and propose an appointment. In
making this concession Iris might have
found 1t easier to persuade herself that she
WAS yielding to sheer necessity, if she had
not been guiltily conscious of a feeling of
pleasure Mt the prospect of seeing Lord
Harry again, returning to her an innocent
man. siiere was some influence. in this
train of thought, which let her mind back
to Hugh. She regretted his absence
wondered whether he would have pro-
posed throwing her letter to the Irish lord
into the hre-sighed, closed the envelope,
and sent the letter to the post.
On the next day she had arranged to
drive to Muswell Hill and to pay the Gus
tomary visit to Rhoda. Heavy rain obliged
her to wait for q filter opportunity. 1t
was only on the third day that the sky
cleared and the weather was favorable
again. On a sunshiny Autumn morning,
with IA fine keen air blowing. she ordered
Mere was helping her to dress. that the
girl looked even paler than usual, she
said, with her customary Kindness to per-
sons dependent on her, You look as il a
drive in the fresh mir would do You good:
YOU shall go with me to the farm and see
Rhodn Bennett
When they stopped at the house the
farmers wife appeared, attending Il gem
tlenan to the door. Iris ut once recoQ-
nized the local medical man. YOU'RE not
In attendance, | hope, OF Rhola Bennett
she said.
Tn doctor acknowledged thatthere had
been some return to the nervous derange-
ment from which the girl suffered. He
depended mainly Che said on the weather
allowing her to be out us much rs possible
IN the fresh air. and on keeping her free
from all agitation. Rhodn was so far on
the way to recovery that she was now
walking in the garden by his advice. He
| had M fnur of hnr nrpvi1aT ota u,os M
too readily encouraged, in her present
state. to receive visitors. Her mistress
would be, of course, al exception to this
rule. But ven Miss Henley would per-
haps do well not to excite the girl by pro.
longing her visit. There was one Other
make while he had the opportunity. Rhoda
was not, as he thought. warmly enough
clothed for the time of year, and a bad cold
might be easily caught by a person in her
condition.
Iris entered the farmhouse, leaving
Fanny Mere, after what the doctor had
said on the subject of visitors, to wait for
her in the carriage.
After an absence OF barely ten minutes
Miss Henley returned; personally changed,
not at all to her own advantage, by the in.
PRODUCTION of a novelty in her dress. She
had gone into the farmhouse, wearing u
handsome mantle of seal-skin. When she
came out again the mantle had vanished
and there appeared in its place a common
cloak of drab-colored cloth. Noticing the
expression Of blank ainazement in thu
maid's face, Iris burst out laughing.
"How do you think l look in my hew
cloakt' she asked.
Fanny saw nothing to laugh at in the
sacrifice of q sealskin mantle. II mus
not presume, miss, to give an opinion
she said grayely.
"Atany rate" Iris continued, "you mus,
be more than mortal If my change of cos
tune doesn't excite your curiosity.
found Rhoda Bennett In the garden, ex
posed to the cold wind in this ugly tlimsN
thing. After what the doctor had tol6
me, 1t was high time to assert my author
ity. l insisted on changing cloaks will
Rhoda. S;ro made an attempt, Door dear
TO resist; but she knows me of old-and
had my way. am sorry you have beer
miss the opportunity when she is wei
again. Do you admire q fine yiew2 Yer,
well, we will vary the drive IN our return
Go back" she said to the coachman, "by
Ht9hgate and Hampstead"
Fanny's eyes rested on the shabby cloal
with n well-founded distrust of it rs
protection against the Autumn weather
She yentured to suggest that her mistres
might feel the loss lin an open carriage) o
the warm mantle which she had left OF
Rhoda's shoulders.
by her maid. But by the time they ha,
\ passed Highgate, and had approached tn
beginning Of the straight road which
crosses the high ridge Of Hampstea,
Heath, she was obliged to acknowledge
that she did, indeed, feel the cold. "Yol
: ought to be . good walker" che aid. look