The Red Cloud chief., 1898-01-14
CHAPTER IV.-CContinucd.)

CHAPTER IV.-(Continucd.)
"Oh, poor thing! Joe came home
Drunk and knocked her about. and ono
of the n%eighbors, who couldn't bear it
any longer, went and fetched a police
man, and Joe was marched off. to poor
Janet's unutterable dismay," Miss
Dimsdale replied.
Poor JANET" murmurcd Dorothy,
softly.
by the by, Joe Benham works for
you, David, does he not?" Miss Dims-
dale asked.
Eyes, he does"
81 wonder could you do something?
Poor Janet is in the most dreadful
trouble about him."
well I'll so round and sec If you
like" David answered: but Benham's
an awful brute. and will drink all he
can get hold of to the end OF the chap
ter. / don't know whether you have
ever noticed 1t, Miss Dimsdale. but
somehow it seems to me that almos;
invariably the women prefer to marry
the wrong men, and vice versa. LOOK
at my " mother. for instance; a
swoeter creature did not live, but she
was never the right wife for my father,
and nobody knew it better than him
self. Yes, and she knew it, too. She
always used to tell father that when
he went from Graveleigh Hall to Dow
ercourt he made the greatest mistake
Of his life."
Past Graveleigh Hall, You mean,
David put in Dorothy, sharply. Il
dare say he knew very well what he
was about, and DOL the n because he
could not get the other"
my dears. my dears,' cried Miss
Dimsdale. to whom all this was untold
agony, 'let bygones be bygones. l am
sure, David, that your father was in
love with your mother to the very end.
Really, the young people of today take
too much upon themselves and settle
the affairs of their elders in an Off
hand way which Is positively indie
cent"
There was a sound of tears in Miss
Dimsdale's voice which went near to
betraying that this subject had more
than a common interest for her. Dor
othy recognized dimly that her aunt
was panied by something hat had
been said, and never sorry to have
an excuse for finding fault with Da-
vid, she turned sharply upon him.
Really, David" she cried, at Is
very ~dishonorable Of you to come tell
ing us what your mother used to say
TO your father-it could never have
been meant for us to hear, probably
MT FOR W ntthar Thay hot
dead, and their mistakes are at an end
, We don't want to know anything about
them. For my part, David" she wen
on. severely cycling the young man
who had turned a fine scarlet hue a
her rather pointed remarks. II must
say that / am surprised to find you AZ
capable either of listening or Of tat
cling about it afterwards"
He tried hard to laugh 1t off as |
she had uttered some wonderful joke
but his face was burning with sham
and anger. too. and as soon as h
conveniently could he betook himsel
away.
Dorothy, dear, you are a little har'
on him." said Miss Dimsdale, with
sigh; after all, he was her old love-
son, and his mother had been her dear
est friend.
Not at ALL" said Dorothy, sharply
David should keep his reminiscence
to himself"
II wish you liked David better" sal
Miss Dimsdale. rather wistfully.
80 do /, auntie. for your sake" an
swered Dorothy. You know l do. Blu
/ don't like him at all; l never did
never shall. can't bear him, and
David was a man." with witherin
scorn. "he would take no for al answe
ana leave me alone"
1t happened that two days later tina
this our friend Dick Aylmer receive
a letter, which ran thus:
"Your cousin"-there was no afiec
tionate prefx-"Mary Annandalt
writes to me this morning to an
nounce her engagement and approach
ing marriage to Prince Louis Lorino
so there is half a million of none
lost to the family and thrown clea
out of the country. sent wire {
7 congratulation, being too disguised I
write a letter. With you, you intern;
young idiot, | haven't got the patient
of a mouse--I hope you will live
bitterly repent 1t. Meantime kee
out of my way till I've got over 1t a bi
and don't expect a penny beyond 20,
four hundred a year, because you won
get 1t. And II ! hear OF your MARI.
ing anybody under a hundred tho'
sand pounds, I'll cut off your ALLOW
ance. After you're forty we can thir
about 1t, and you need never expe
me to fall in very quickly with yOl
views, as you have not troubled you
Golf IN fall I'm with mine And / fhiI