The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1895-12-14

ten to any more talk about 1t. But. yon
see, When one meets restitution face to
face. one will do neutrality-suspicious..
Besides, as ] will show you this is not real
ly q fraud. 1t is only an anticipation Of a
few years. However, there was another
reason"
was it to find the money to meet the
promiSsory noteso
''My dear, you may forget-you may re-
solve never to throw the thing in my teeth;
but my love for you will never suffer me
to forget that ] have lost YOUR little fortune
in a doubtful speculation. 1t is all gone,
never to be recovered again; and this after
| had sworn never to touch n farthing of
it. Iris!"-he started to his feet and walk
ed about the room as one who is agitated
by emotion-'.lrisl | could face iniprison-
ment for debt. / could submit to pecuni-
airy ruin, for that matters: the loss of
money would not cause ME the least trou.
bic, but ] cannot endure to have ruined
you"
''Ohl Harry, rs if 7 mindi Everything
that have is yours. When ! gave youmy-
self / gave all. Take--use-lose it all. AS
you think, ! should never feel reproach,
far less ntter a word OF blame. Dearest
Harry, If that is all"
mo; it is the knowledge that you will
not even feel reproacli that is my constant
accnser. AT my death you will get all
back again. But l am not old; ] may
live for many, many years to come. How
can wait for my w death when l can
repair this wickedness by a single stroke?"
But by another wickedness and
worse.n
''No-not another crime. Remember
that this money is mine. 1t will come to
my heirs some day, as sure as to-mor-
rows sun will rise. Sooner orlater twill
be mine: vii! nuke it sooner, that is all.
The Insurance Company will lose nothing
but the paltry interest for the remainder
of my life. My dear, if it is disgraceful
to do this | will endure disgrace. 1t is
easier to bear han the constant %self-re-
proach which ! feel when ! think of you
and of the losses / have inflicted upon
you"
Again he folded her in his arms; he knelt
before her: he wept over her. Carried out
of herself by this passion, Iris made no
more resistance.
is it's IT, she asked timidly, ''toolate
at is too latc.'' he replied, thinking of
the dead nan below. at is too late. All
is completed"
"Myp poor Harryl What shall we do?
How shall we live? How shall we con-
tTive never 10 be found out?"
She would not leave him, then. She ac-
cepted the situation. He was amazed at
the readiness with which she fell; but he
did not understand how she was ready to
cling to him, for better or worse, through
worse evils than this: nor could he under
stand how things formerly impossible to
her had been rendered possible by the sub
tie deterioration of the moral nature, when
n woman of lofty mind OF the beginning
loves and is united to Il man of lower ma
ture and coarser fibre than herself. Only
n few months before, Iris would have
swept aside the sophistries with swift and
resolUte hand. Now she accepted them.
You have fallen into the DOCTORS
hands, dear" she said. PRAY Heaven ii
brings us not into worse evils! What can
! say 1t is through low of your wife
through love OF your wife-oh, husbandH'
she threw herself into his arms, and for
gave everything and accepted everything.
Heuceforth she would be-though this she
knew not-the willing instrument of the
two corspirators.