The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-06-11

And once and once only, old Mrs
W~illOughby had asked her eldest
grandson what his late employer had
done to him that he had quilted their
service sc abruptly.
The expression of bitter agony
which, at that question, came to sgd,
ney's face, perfectly terrified his
grandmother; and she strove to sooth
him, and promised that she would
never again trouble him respecting
what h perceived was to him a very
painful matter.
But 1t was q constantly recurring
and ~perplexing thought to her of what
had really occurred-her poor boy had
been very badly used, the good dame
was convinced Of that; in some way
or other his feelings had been shame
fully outraged, and he had a proud
spirit, as she knew. and so would not,
even to his good old grandmother, re-
veal the humiliation which he had
been made to endure.
And Mrs. Willoughby had asked
Tony if he had been at all taken into
the confidence of his brother.
And Tony answered, but rather con-
fusedly, that there had been nothing
to tell, that Sydney had been subjected
to abuse that he had not merited; that
he had given his employers as good as
they had sent; and had. then. with
a proper spirit, and without as a
Good day, gentleman" put on his hat
and walked himself off.
That the above was q true account
of the matter, Mrs. WillOughby did
not for n moment believe-she was
satisfied only of one thing, that, what
ever had been the cause which had
driven Sydney from an employment
in which he had seemed so perfectly
scure, her darling boy had been in no
sort Of way to blame.
And poor Tony. brave as he had been
to endure trouble which touched him
self only, now found himself a coward
beneath the afhiction which had fallen
IN his brother.
Often, while seated at his bench. the
thought of his brothers seemingly for
ever-blighted life would come TO him,
and then would he be unable to see
the work on which he was engaged,
for blinded would he be by the tears
which rushed into his eyes.
And he worked not so diligently as
formerly; was away from his work
shop every day for whole hours 20
gether.
And his grandmother had asked him
how it was that he was so often from
his bench. and Tony had answered
that he was running about concerning
a very important piece of work which,
if he succeeded in it, would prove, for
all Of them, the best job he had ever
had in hand.
The fact was, Tony was scamper-
t,r nLnrt al a,-a. N-I>,, ,N $1,000,
watchmaker's and engrayer's shop, in
he endeavOr to trace out to
whom had belonged the broken seal
which Sydney had found lea the cup
board in which the money chest hau
been placed.
But up to the present moment no
success had rewarded his strenuous
efforts; no matchmaker to whom he
had applied had before seen, and no
engraver had been employed on the
seal.
And all said it vas so peculiar a seal
that if they had ever before seen it
they could not have forgotten it.
Tony, however, was not diSheart-
ened; but as each day he returned
from his unsuccessful pursuit, found
consolation in the fact that there We're
still hundreds of the shops he needed
which he had yet to visit.
And Tony Drummond had been to
his sweetheart and had told her that
he had entered into a hazardous spec
ulation with h money which he had
saved, and in trying to make it more
had made it less-had indeed reduced
it to nothing at all.
And so, he was very sorry, but their
marriage would have to be put off a
bit.
But Nancy Smart was unable to per-
ceive the slightest reason for the pro-
posed pOstpOnement.
What had money to do with love?
Nancy desired to know. Plenty of time
to get rich after they were married;
the money Tony had lost might be re-
placed; but moments, as they dropped
into the past, were gone forever: and
now to delay their happiness would be
to shorten the term of it's duration.
To all of which Tony said that his
Nancy was not only as lovely, but per
fectly equal in goodness to an angel.
And his Nancy was highly delighted.
And then Tony added that for all
that he did not think it would do to
get married yet awhile; and his Nancy
was nightly indignant.
But she soon conquered that feeling,
for she loved good Tony with all her
heart; and, Of course, her lovers de
termination was the right one, for
TOny-in his Nancy's o~pinion-was the
cleverest and most sensible young man
that had ever existed upon the face of
the earth since the said earth had first
possessed a face on which it had been
possible that a young man could exist
at all.
1t was another grief to Tony that he
was compelled to appear so little anx
ious for the happiness which seeming