Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-07-24

est in yOu-my-my ardent regret that
fortune should treat you 50 unkindly, urges
me To risk making an ass Of myself"
"You puzzle mel | feel vaguely there il
something ] do not quite understand be-
hind this sudden illness of my poor grand
mother. Everyone seemed so sorry for me
and Lady Mary, who is kindness itself,
said she feared she had lost a great deal of
money. DO tell me what you know. You
always seem to me to know everything"
81 wish | did not know the present state
of affairs-and | wish you did not look as
If those grand eyes of yours had been wide
awake all night"
Again she smiled, a somewhat tremuious
smile this time.
"Indeed | could not sleep! | was haunt
ed by the recollection of my many quar-
rels with grannie-who is really fond Of
me, and has been very, very good to me!
1 must try and make upt 20 her for the past"
Il can imagine that Mrs. Ncwburgh's
rule is of the iron rod order" said Captain
lisle. Nor do ! suppose that you are too
meek a subject! ! fear, " he added, grave
ly, softly, "that "A terrible reverse awaits
her-and you. The speculation in which
she has invested her whole capital has
NNfiiS w IA u iNtll SlC iltlo lOSbt Ntll
thing"
How do You know"
"Sir Robert Everard told me all p~articu-
lars last n~ight-when the other men had
left the sm%oking-room. Mrs. Newburgh's
solicitor is also his. The sudden shock has
been too much for her, and brought on a
feverish attack"
do you mean to say that we shall have
no money at all?"
Il fear you will not! Everard spoke
openly to me, knowing the interest | take
In you, of which hope you too are aware"
1--WE have always been very good
friends" she said, shyly, with quivering
lips.
Eyes! and for that friendships sake l
am about to break my usual habit of not
interfering with what does not absolutely
concern me-to risk the snubbing you are
quite capable of administering"
He paused, and gaZed for "A moment at
the delicate, downcast face opposite to
him, his brows contracting in a sudden
frown.
"Why should | snub your" she asked,
without looking up.
wait till | have finished. Will you be-
lieve me when | say that / was Us ~sleeplcss
as yourself last night2 Ny fancy-no, /
am not an imaginative NANNY expert
ence, depicted all the hardship of your lot,
for have known dificulties-money diff
%culties; poverty, too, is n hundred fold
worse for a woman, a proud, delicately
nurtured woman, like yourself; and for
you there is no escape, such as Il man can
find in a good appointment hope for one
m vrcn1f i1 I,lt, Infaan ,.,,, ...aH.. .n.
over"
But women can work, too" she said,
wo~nderingly. "Why do you try to brighten
me2"
Because | want you 70 seize the only
way OF escape that offers"
"Escapet Howl"
"Hear me out! I am going to rush in.
probably like n fool-where Angels might
hesitate to tread; but / know what life is,
and / must open your eyes. After Everard
had told me all he knew, / went to my
room, and Warning, who had been doing
over an evening paper"
WAS he a confident of our troubles, too?"
she interrupted, with n slight curl of the
lip.
HE was-that need not affect you.
Warning followed, and asked for a few
words with me. You know what a shy,
awkward fellow he is. Well, I was amazed
at his clearness and fiuency-pray hear me
out. He said he came to consult me, know.
ing that / had been On tolerably intimate
terms with Mrs. Newburgh and yourself
all last season-in short he confessed
what / already guessed-that he was des.
perately in love with you; that he was
afraid Won did not think much of him. and
asked me II, under the circumstances,