The Red Cloud chief., 1896-06-19
A LITTLE IRISH GIRL,
Isy "'A'hr ssuchrss."
HAPPIER V CoNrINrrp.

1900 80 A',' A"NNNH "a ~
tul, troubled, prevent, him.
Let me tell you something says
She, chat, though We are engaged.
Sir Ralph never once called INC that
Called you WHAT
''Darling.'
ooh, he's u fool says Mr.. Eyre.
with conviction. But do you UNDER
stand, darling? # | speak to your
father with your permission, 1t means
that. If | succeed with him, you will
marry me"
Does it,? says she, with a Sigh.
"Ncll," sinking into "A chair, aud
clasping her knees with her slim
fingers, you won't succeed; father will
never give in
1T certainly couldn't i'll were Ankle.
tells Inferior a Y the young man
judicialiy: but my prospects are as
good as his any day
IL don't care about prospects, says
Miss McDermot; what | want Is to
feel free. | can't bear being ordered
to do Things. You said you could
imagine u girl being told to marry u
man. but that you could not imagine Il
girl doing it. You remcmbcr?'
against her will
ooh, that's the same thing says
she. If she warted to marry him,
She wouldn't want to be ordered TO do
it.
''Truc." says he.
80 be ordered to do "a thing is at
once to want not to do it. That is
. true also, isn't itP' says she.
Nothing truer'
well, you tho ,ght me weak and
dctcstablc when | told YOU | had
promised to marry Sir Ralph
II thought ihen'- di.tiuctIy-'just
what | trink now, that no woman
should MARI! any man unless she
loved him. 1t is an iDjusti,s both to
him and to hcrse T; and you-you don t
care for Ankctcl. IT,
IL have I LII yol that | hate him.
says she, making n, direct answcr
but / | were to break with him.
YOU" iifting her eyes to his, ''ynu
don't know father: he-I do It really
know VIA would happen, il he
heard | did not want to marry Sir
Ralp7."
"Wry. Your marriage with me. that
is the first tliir that would happen
with II smile. He takes her hands
and carries { en- t. his lips. II low"
you. You KIN w that, Dulc t. dent
YOU. on uD KNOW IL
''Oh, yes. ! know it, says she, with
n quick. 10 y sigh, and a drop OF her
pr tty head.
This ca m acknowledgment of his
pas ion for her strikes Eyra with a
sort of sho X. lnvoluntarilv he
glanc * at her: and an cX animation OF
that Lowell! face Il sarms unIiind criti-
cism. The poor child is SO unhappy
,l., .ia In. tAp.,4t,n 30 die ,NIln
Girls of the sort he has been accus-
toned to meet in TO M and fashion
able country houses. would have pre-
ten ed t. doubt hi. love with II view
To stronger expression of t.; but this
poor Ii tie GIL is too hardlj pressed
by circumstances. and is too alto.
getlIcr Il ch LIT of nature, TO hide her
honest belief. SO much tn better.
And what II charming little head l. |
bent like that. with the soft, suInv,
nut-brown curls wandering over III,
broad forehead. and the delicate con
tour of che X and chin AID bare
Wfat one anon all these polished
women of the word of wnom Re has
just now t ought cou d compare il
grace and breciin with this sweet
pcrfett flower OF 60 ntry YOUTH
81 may speak to your father, then?
says he.
..Eh?" saws : e, as if rouSing out o.
n reycric; and then. ''Ies, ycs"-
feyer,shly The sooner | car
el that he an / | are separated fol
even, the better This outburst, in
coherent rs it is. has evidently some
thing to do with tho ~reveric int
VIII IN she had fallen.
..You mean .Anketcllf" says Eyre
watch NO her.
Yes nod Eng her head with d
I'm ma ion: 81 have been thinking
and it seems to me he wants me quite
rs tile us | want him. Let him so
them"
'.By all mea 5"
You hiuk"-a1Xiously-"as do
don't you?-tl"t 10 doesn't ctie 81
me either" Il have never though
about h m. If >ou thought of him Il
it'll as | do, it woul be bette: 70
YOU"
..Ah! YES. But | have old YOU how
hard it is not To | / the mi, ii dwell o,
the people who torment one most,
She stops and LOOKS scarchinglv n
him. ''Eo you know says she slowly
IL rave come 10 the conviction th,
he La es N E"
"Hc's brute e ouGh Tor an thing,
M opinion
..And that he wou'd he glad 10 know
our engagement at an end"
..Wny, If So says he ioyously. lou
task $ half accomplished. Why nc
let nc speak to him, in II casual sol
of way, You know, not mentionin
ANYTHING exactly, but
mo, / forbid you to do that" say
she. almost iierceIy. "Speak To fathc
if you will, but not to him
II see. | am sorry, darling, ! sue
gested it. or course you would NJ
caro- to appeal 10 him in any wa,
Not that ! meant anything like appea
ing; l thought only OF giving him
%loophole Of escape"
Escape"
'From this foolish engagement b
-. 800, ,.I hin, Vrh,ra lava lul y