Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-24

posed tnat tley should take u WAIh to
gether.
harrington said that the lad must
be allowed TO go home at once, Tor he
had made rather too free with the
punch; and Nicksey, who was still toll
erabiy steady on his legs, laughed,
and shouted to Emmeline, Yes: go
home to your mother, youngster; you
will be better seasoned after you have
kept my company a few weeks longer
And Darlington found opportunity
to whisper to Emmelinc, That u
have been the EUgenia who wrote that
letter which I so strangely found"
'rOh. l am fun of hope. My mother
has prayed for U.s., and h aye1 protects
u.s. Emmeline fervently exclaimed.
NiCksey linked his arm within that OF
Darlington, and the two men, so
strangely assorted, walked forward
together.
That Noel was anything hut delighted
to find himself pacing the streets
with such a companion by his side, will
be very readily believed.
But he bore it as well as he might,
since his entire submission to every
wish and command Of Mr.. NickSey
was, for the present, at least, abso,
lutely necessary for the purpose he a
In view
They had reached Oxford street. when
NLcksey suddenly pulled his friend up
and stopped short before a jewelers.
shop, into the window of which he pro
ceeded to stare with all his might.
There II is-there 1t ISL presently
shouted Nicksey.
Two or three Of the passers-by
stopped and looked towards him.
Hush" said Darlington, trying to
tone his friend down. What is there?'
why, a watch that l wanted two
months ago, but hadn't n shilling; but
now I've got money, and as the watch
hasn't been sold afore, III buy 1t now"
he left harrington standing before
the window, and proceeded to enter
the shop.
AS he was opening the shop door,
a lady customer at the counter turned
and looked, for just a moment, to-
wards him; but earelessly and with
out at all resting her eyes upon him.
Having quietly, but hastily reclosed
the door, which he had half opened,
Nicksey was back again by his friends
side, whose arm he tremblingly
| clutched.
Looking into the mans face, which,
an instant before, had been rosy with
q drunken flush, harrington saw now
that II was white as a sheet.
Harrington, too, turned pale, for his
belief was that Nicksey had been de-
tected in attempting a robbery from
the jewelers. shop; and, in that case,
Noel himself would be placed in n very
painful predicament.
He was Immediately. and very satis-
factorily undeceived, for Nicksey, in a
hoarse whisper, and pointing to the in
terror Of the shop, said:
"She Is there!'
Whom ?Not-not-" faltered Noel,
greatly agitated.
Observation-Disclosures came
tremblingly from Nlcksey's lips.
Both of them now, for the first
time, perceived that n carriage was in
waiting before the door.
And that's the carriage ! saw her
In afore; I'm sure Of that, tOo!' said
Nicksey.
"Emmeline wac rightr' was the
thought which now flashed through
Noels brain. Providence does, in.
| deed, protect us now, and will not
fail to guide us to the end we aim att"
Quickly did Noel draw Nicksey away
from before the jewelers. shop. and
looked around In search of a hackney
coach, but there was NO conveyance
of the kind near him.
But, IL on foot, he would follow Mrs.
Chesterton's carriage; on that Noel was
resolved.
These two men stood and watched,
and waited, for what appeared to them
an age, but which was in reality about
ten minutes; and at last the lady came
from the shop, and entered her car
riage.
One Of the jewelers. assistants, who
had followed her, saw her seated, hen
handed to her a casket, bowed, and re-
turned to the shop.
The footman, having received his
! orders from his mistress, who was
heard by the two listeners to say, very
distinctly, "Home!" mounted to the
box. and took MS seat beside the
coachman.
And rs the carriage was driven away,
Noel harrington ran after II for a
few yards, and then, %unnoticed, leaped
quickly up, and sat himself down on
| the footboard behind II.
And Nicksey, left standing In a state
Of bewilderment upon the pavement,
presently recovered so far as to chuckle
and to say to himself:
That's q friend to swear by-it's
all right"
And the purple flush which the punch
had produced, returned now 10 his
face as quickly and "a suddenly as
awhile before 1t had left It.