The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-05-30

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dug themselves into the pink palms.
yes, she shall die this very night,
even if l risk my own life by putting
I'M end 10 hers. But how-how Am l
to do itT
She bent her head in morbid, anX-
ious thought, and she wandered about
the deserted passages and corridors tf
| the ancient portion of the castle, as
| though she expected that the ghosts
| of some of her dead ancestors, Who
| had been notorious for their evil
deeds, would come to tell her how to
| accomplish her murderous design.
In her restlessness she wandered up
to the top chamber i'll the old tower.
| and listened TO the bowling of the
| wind and peered through he arrow
| window into the darkness beyond.
| A river ran near the base of this
! tOwer-a deep. silent liver, that would
| not readily betray her If she gave it
| victim but how could Kate be con-
| signed to the dark water in such a
manner that help would not be forth
| coming?
She unused on this scheme long
| that she at length bethOught her of a
| the river side.
If Kate received note purporting to
| come from Frank Fairfield. the son Of
| her fOSter-mOther. and whose mad in
| fatuation for the baron's eldest daugh-
ter had hanished him from the castle,
| Kate might perhaps yield to the APP
| peal and go out to meet him. and then
under cover of the dark night the rest
would be easy.
But would Kate keep the appoint
| ment, or would she not be more likely
TO hand the note to her father and ask
him TO deal with the impudent writer?
Here was the difficulty.
Grace knew that she would herself
be an easy dupe for such a plot, but
Nate was so uncOmfortably straight
forward, and had a high appreciation
or what was due to her own honor and
dignity, that she might regard the
most lmpaSSiOned appeal as an insult,
ana resent it accordingly.
And then, again, Frank would not
dare to ask Kate to meet him. and
she would know this, and for this rea-
son, II for no other, would not 20 TO
| the rendezvous.
Next to Kate | detest him" Grace
muttered vindictively: but there has
been no love lost between us all our
lives; he was the terror of my child
hood, and yet, for all that. | played
him some clever tricks, and often GOT
him punished when he would other
wise have escaped. All, that reminds
me; in this very tower is the secret
| well that he threatened to throw me
into; 1T will answer my present pur-
pose if | can get Kate to its edge.
That Will be grand revenge indeed
upon both Of them"
She laughed a low, wicked laugh,
and the wild wind. as though in SYM
| pathy, shrieked among the branches
| of the leafleSs trees that partially sur
| rounded the mansion.
But Grace needed not the sound:
she had given up her whole mind to
work evil, and the means by which
to accomplish her foul purpose were
near at hand.
Il must and will get her here this
very night she muttered; but how
| is it to be done? All. | have it. I'll
! propose a game of hide and seek. and
/ 1t shall go hard with me if l don't
| make Kate hide in place where Lord
| Roland will never find her. Wen have
a modern edition of The Mistletoe
| BOugh."
Then she began to sing in a mock
! ing tone:
And young Lowell cried:
ooh. where dOst thou hide?
am lonesome without thee?
| My own dear BRIDE"
She finished the song. the singing
| Of which seemed to give her much sat
| isfactiOn, though she had not sin
| gle listener, and when all her arrange
ments were made she went back to
| the great hall: but it was some time
afterward before the happy lovers re-
| joined the guests.
II wish you would try to put little
| spirit into the people. Kate" said
! Lord Lilburne to his eldest daughter.
as she and Lord Roland re-entered the
hall; everything seems to flag, and
the musicians are half asleep"
Poor fellows. they are tired and
hungry, too, have no doubt" here
interposed Grace. with more consider
alton than she had ever shown be-
| fore. Let them go into the kitchen,
| papa, and join in the fun the servants
are having-we can amuSe ourselves"
But howT' asked Lord Lilburne,
! obviously.
"WeHl have some Christmas games.
We will get up some charade, or have
forfeits, or play game at hide-and-
| seek. That would be the best fun,
would 1t nOtT she added, appealing
| to Lord Roland.
1T would be a change" he replied