Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-10-23

grabbed looking little Scotsman.
"Ah! Miss Craig, don't you think We
might contrive q cousinship out OF the
double relationship" lie said, In q solt
but weakly voice, and with what he intead.
ed for q fascinating simpca
81 am afraid not. The only real relation
l have is my uncle"
What n rude speech. Mona! DO you
rcpudiate met" said Eyerar1.
"Oh, no. | take you for what you aTe
worth"
Everard lifted his eyebrows.
"IIow IL your friend aud partner, the
music mistress? II was the funniest idea
ourruuning away from my mother to her"
Ran away Did'you really run away,
What an entcrprising young LADY, said
Lord Fi'zallar, Us the quartet strolled out
towards some seats under the trees.
"Dinna hear till him, - cried Uncle sandy
a good deal disturbed. 'My niece is not
the sort o youpg Teddy TO do sic an I'M
mannerly imprudence, she is just a lassie
wi n proper sense OF independence"
roper sense Of independence, reiea.-
cd Everard; II fancy you will think It i'm
proper when she runs away from D0a,'
"Eh! bu: she'll no do that. Sac can
have q good home with me II she Chooses,
as you know, my lord"'
"Who-meg' exclaimed Lord Flt2allan.
"My good sir, what DO / know about ito
Then you ought, considering you have
rented my house for near on two years.!
Don't we mind Craigdarroch:"
~"Craigdarroch. by JOyel Are you Craig
OF Craigdarroch? had not the faiutest
idea | should meet my landlord in this re-
mote region. | should like 10 have IA third
season at Craiydlrroch. II is q snug little
box. and as | do not like large parties, Is
just suits me-"
'Sna'r' repeated Mr. Craig. i~udignaatly.
"There are six large sleeping-rooms, forbye
twa ithers, and servants ACCOMMODATION. a
drawing-room. and dining room, alibrary
and my museum, and cellars. etc"
"What n funny notion that Craigdarroch
should belong to your uncle, Mona" said
Everard.
And why shouldn't it?' asked Uncle
Sandy, testify. why shouldn't Mona's
uncle buy what he likes with the money he
worked so harl TO make'"
II ara sure ! have no objection. Only I
wish you would let Fitzallan have the
place for another year. can only be with
him for ten days this season, and the shoot
ing about there is flrst-rale."
II am afraid you are a self-seeker, young
mon" said Uncle Sandy, solcmnly.
Yes, of course | am. So are you; so ara
we all"
rafhr w yrer Rtlhs asFaa tft94 tft fed~ y 'ttfts ~
tack.
~ dare say. 1t Is much the best plan; II
| does one no harm II you manage properly,
and it pays in the end"
yet" said Mona. quietly, 81 can imag'
inc your performance OF duty not heiie
specially profitable To your employer"
''What right have you to say that?' cried
Eyerarl. n little nettled. 1T Is appalling
TO think what your tongue will be when
you are an old woman, considering what ii
is at present
"Miss-Miss-" began Lord Fitzallan,
whose memory was not retentiye. Your
| charming cousin will never be Old"
"Well. I have some letters 70 write, SO
| eood-evening." sail Eyerard, rather ab.
ruptly, aud he went oil toward the ctdb-
Basement.
Lord Fitzallan remained a few moments,
trying, vainly, to flirt with Mona, but her
manner was so chilling that he, too, bowed
and departed.
CHAPTER xv.-AS OLD ACQUAINTANCE
Mona did not find life at Contrexeville
by any means eXhilaraiiag. Uncle Sandy
seemed to have taken complete possession
of his niece, and was indeed more amiable
and affectionate toward her than he had
ever been before to any creature.
At the first moment OF recognition, Mona
was displeased to find that Eyerard and
| Lord Fitzallan were to be their ''compan-
ions of the bath" But it was very anus.
ing to her to see how profoundly gratifled
that stern republican Uncle Sandy was by
being associated as a family connection
with the great grdndees OF the season.
Sheer as he might ut lyon puir fcckless bill
or lord" IN his absence, hs was always
placidly content to hobb.e along with Mona
between himself and the elderly young
man in public places.
To Everard he was more deferential.
That gentleman's good-humored, unfinch-
ing indifference to the feelings Of his fell
low-creatures filed him with awe. There
was no knowing what he might say next,
while the feurlessncss with which Mona
crossed rapiers with him excited his adj
-aira.ion. Yet Eycrard was always ready
to talk with her, and even tried, With the
obstinacy for which he was remarkable.
10 get her away from her uncle 10 walk
with him.
This degree Of attention woke Uncle
sandy's suspicious, for. as is not unusuat
In Scotchmen, he was disposed TO attribute
all such indications to the master passion
Of humanity.
Tell me, noo," he said one exceedingly
warm afternoon, as they sat in his room
stell me, was 1t because o. n cousin 20
refused the otherf"
"How do you mean, Uncle Sandyf'
.Eh! you understan' we'll enough. Is 10
because you 1--WE young Eyerard yoa re-
fused KENNETH"
"Love BERTHE Everard! Do you think any
human being loves him. except, perhaps,
his mother,'
"How can ! kea' He is a Draw, out
spoken Gallant
"He is b~rutally Indifferent to ~everyone's
feelings. Were ! obliged to marry either,
lsaould certainly prefer Kenneth"
"Then what for should you refuse hims'
Because l do not intend TO marry him.
do you know that 1t will 90 hard VII
me before ! ever consent 10 your marrying
| ony either mons'
"well, l shall not trouble you, uncle. I
shall never marry Kenneth"
t"Then, Mona. l am sair at heart to say
1t, but I'll no count you as my daughter
"Oh, yes, You will, uncle. You could not
do without metz
mot wecl. Yet I'd try, II you set your
face against doing what l want you to do.