The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-12-05

was, if anything, a man OF business
and though saturated with the belle
that everything should give way {
genius, always knew what geniu
really was, and passed over tn
spurious specimens with a kindly
word or two indeed, but with a diS
tinct refusal TO have anything TO d
with them. Miss FairfaX's violin hIu
taken him by storm. He had waXeu
eloquent Over it, and having succeed.
in gaining an introduction to the w
er of it. had said to her many thing
that her friends would have wishc,
unsaid. But to Barbour, the adorer 6
genius, il was impossible 10 hear sue
music and refrain from a%dv0catin,
his creed. To him, to have the divin"
fire and refuse TO lay it at the world:
feet, vas to be unworthy of the gift.
Eleanor. throwing herself into IL
arm chair beneath "a lamp, gaZes long
and earnestly at the card.
Here is Barbour'S name, address,
and, unwritten, all his golden prom
Uses. The world is before her, with
it's hOneyed praise, its adulation II
the splendid triumphs that others haG
achieved. All this before her, if she
choose-and what behind?
Mary Sylvester is going to be mar
ried. She viii not miss her. And, in
deed, who will? Not grandpaIa. He
is always at feud with her more q"
less. lie has threatened to east her
off, to disinherit her unless
She gets up suddenly here and
brings her pretty white teeth with
a sharp click together. After all,
grandpa need not have been so hard
on her-she, evidently, was not the
only one averse To the marriage he
has ut heart. oh, that she could be
even with Noel some time or other;
that she could only give him back in
suit for insult. He who had dared to
believe her capable of kissing a man
to whom she was neither engaged,
nor likely to be; Il man whom now she
holds in deepest hatred and contempt.
What malignant god laid hands on
Noel and pushed him into the cOnserv-
atory just at hat moment, and not a
second later, when she had, with an
CRY Indignation, repulsed hartford.
and refused the offer OF his name and
fortune in words that admitted Of no
doubt. How ready he CNoeD had been
to believe the worst of her. Yes; she
will go, to try her fortune with the
world. To him it will be n relief TO
get rid Of her, and to herself-well, |
Glory is a gracious partner; what 9th
er need she seek? And If grandpa is
going to disinherit her for IL thing,
why. he may just as we'll do it for an
other. And to be free, and famous
Col. Dalrymple, whose night had
been passed in a remOrscful view of
his own conduct during that last con-
versation with his cousin, had come
down to breakfast in a p~enitential
mood. eager to cry mea culpa, n
throw himself metaphorically at her
feet with a view to gaining pardon
for all the harsh things said to her.
Hope, indeed, was at an end for him,
but, after all, who was he that he
should smite her; and II she had erred,
what was she but a child? He had
been brutal to her. He would make
amends for that, at all events He
would demand her pardon for the high
tone he had taken, and try, il possible,
to r~e-establish between them he Old
friendship, which, If of a rather war
like kind, was, at least, better than
nothing.
But his desire to abase himself be-
fore her receives a check. Miss Fair
fax does not grace the breakfast Ia
Bile. The chair behind the high urn
sacred to her remains uDtenanted I'M
til a servant having said that Miss
Fairfax had gone for an early Walk,
and her early walks meaning n reap
p~earance only at luncheon, Miss Syl-
yester kindly. very inefficiently tac-
cording to Col. Dalrymple,, consents
to pour out the tea, now d~eplorably
out of condition through long stand
ing.
But luncheon comes, and still no Op-
p~ortunity given to Dalrymple to make
his peace with his small hostess. III
she had outraged all tn claws of hos
pitality last night by absenting her
self from her guests, she is behaving
In doubly bad fashion to-day. Lunch
con Is discussed in dead silence.
Mary Sylvester, who Is returning to
town by the afternoon train, feeling
rather uneasy, and Dalrymple posi-
lively frightened. She, Nelly, has, OF
course. only gone to some Of the peo-
pie In the ne~ighborhood, determined TO
spend her day there, and so punish
him for his i~mpertinence This conduct
has by this time come to be regarded
by him as something monstrous). n
presently will be home again. But
how terribly she has been annoyed, to
60 to such great extremes. To abso-
lutely absent herself from the house
when she knows Mary Sylvester Is
leaving by the three train! Lord
Carbyne has asked for her several
times. and has been assured by Dali
rymple that she Will be back in time
for dinner. The old man, pining for
the violin that has now become almost
an Indispensable luxury, has sworn a
good deal, but presently has consent
ed to be quoted down, waiting for the