The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-06-22

ed" he resumed, "and asks who has done
1t, lie again. Goodnight, Miles-and
mind those dangerous places on your road
home"
wild lord was lost to view, round the side
of the house.
Left by hi,,self, Miles raped at the
door with the handle of his whip. "a let
ter from Mr.. Arthur" he called out.
Mrs. IAewson at once took the note. and
examined it by the light of the candle on
the hall table. '~Someboay has been read
ing this" she exclaimed, stepping out to
the groom. and showing him the torn en-
velope. Miles. promptly obeyiny his in
st%ructions, declared that he knew nothing
about 1t, II rode away.
Iris descended the stairs aud Joined Mrs.
LeNison in the hall before She had closed
the door. The ~housekeeper at oncc pro-
duced Arthur's letter.
Its on my mind, Miss" she said, "to
write an answer, and say something to
Mr.. Arthur which will persuade him TO
take care of himself. OF his way back to
the farm. The difficulty is, how am l to
express it? You would be doing u kind
thing If you would give me u word of I'D
vice"
Iris willingly complied. A second note.
from tie, anxious housekeeper. might help
the effect of the few lines which Lord
Harry had written.
. ASA'Sk Atlot ttsO liz iut
arranged to return at 3 O'Clock. Lord
Harry's question to the groom, and the
mans reply, instantly required to her
memory: Are there any strangers at
Rathcos'-''Two new men at work in the
grounds" Arriving ut the same conclu-
sion which had already occurred to Lord
Harry, Iris advised the housekeeper, in
writing to Arthur, to entreat him to
change the hour, secretly, ut which he
left his friends house on the next day.
Warmly approving of this idea, Mrs. Lew
son hurried into the parlor to write her
letter. Don't go to bed yet, Miss" she
said. ~ want you to read it before |
send 1t away the first thing tomorrow
morning"
Left alone in the hall, with the door open
before her, Iris looked out OF the night,
thinking.
The lives of the two men in whom she
was interested--in widely different ways
were nov both threatened: and the immi,
nent danger, Mt that moment, was the
danger of Lord Harry. He was an outlaw
whose character would not bear investiga,
ton: but, to give him his due, there was
ne risk which he was not ready to con.
front for Arthur's sake. If he was still
recklessly lingering, on the watch for as.
sassins in the dangerous neighborhood OF
the farm, who but herself possessed the
influence which would prevail on him to
leave the place? She had Joined Mrs.
lLeWSOu III me uOOT Win tnHU CONVICTION
in her mind. In another instant she was
out of the house, and beginning her search
In the dark.
Iris made the round or the building,
som etimes feeling her way in obscure
places; sometimes calling 20 Lord Harry
cautiously by his name. No living crea-
ture appeared; no sound of u movement
disturbed the stiffness of the night. The
discovery of his absence, which she had
not dared to hope for, was the cheering
discovery which she had now made.
On her way back to the house she be.
came conscious Of the %rashuess of the ACT
into which her W generous impulse had
betrayed her.
If she and Lord Harry had met, could
she have deniod the tende interest in him
which her own conduct would then have
revealed? Would he not have been iusti