Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-02-24

forced, In a way, to entertain VIM
shall make you rs comfortahlso w \
can, In our poor way. There ars sv
books here, you see, and n = ~
old one, TO be sure, but ha,,an
nothing. There Is a bathroam nt
left there, with hot and cola " I
laid on-everything as comfor,.s wv
circumstances will permit Of vou
The only thing we are forced 10
you Is exercise; but that, vow VIM my
init, is Impossible, at present I'M
er, the prison door IL locked ON y.
side-Iia, ha! Who said that, y
cclleat phrase. Yes: locked ON = : q
side, and whenever you choose y ~
be thrown wide open. L bid Won
evening"" S
He had risen a. he finishes Il
speech, and taken q step or two !. \
direction OF the door: whila m
was still too indignant at this as,aa'
ing impertinence to answer. tbs \
man had unlocked the door. nsSJ
through 1t and shot a bolt on the y
side. There was no time then 10 NV
fer the key from one side of thu ~
TO the other: and the old leu Y
tremblingllest Ursua, a healthy s.,''
young woman, should make a dash }
freedom then and there. But he -
not have been alarmed. Ii neysr i
Cured TO the girl to oppose y
strength to that OF the servants 4
other people whom she supposed Nj
in the house.
As soon as she had overcome n
first feelings OF bitter disappointns1
and her Indignation at the outrsgs }
which she was the victim, She hss,1
TO take heart, and tell herself thar b
plight was not so very desnarJ
Someone must come to the room M
were only to bring her food; and ~
er or later she would find a way }
communicating with the 'outside wod}
Then 1t would be the turn of her al
ors to be terrified. The worst OF Il NJ
that she had no one, no true, staH,}
friend, TO whom she could appeal. vi
a certainty that her appeal would !
listenea 10. and all that could be I'D
for her liberation would certalny \
done. IL Frank were
But IL was better not TO think Of bd
There was another hoye for her. !
was hardly possible that she shOdl
rot be able, sooner OF later, to al
vince her jailers that she did moi |
thuth know anything about the d
nonds; and, rs oon as their deluS}
was shaken, they would be sorry N
they had proceeded TO such e~xtremiul
and she would be able TO make Z
own terms with them.
This thought supported her for Y
rest of the evening; and Ursula v]
glad 10 find that she did not lose \
courage or give way TO a fit Of despa}
as at one time she had very nes3
done.
But when her Imprisonment ID
lasted q day or two-when she had 4
time To see the significance Of the AID
ations that had been made for keepj
her more securely; the opening III 4
panel of the door through which a
meals were thrust three times a I'D
the double windows, TO keep IN 4
sound OF her screams, the outer 4
provided with outer shutters, wa
could be closed from an adjacent "A
dow, shutting In her voice and ss9
ting out every ray Of light-when 4
though how much care and time 4
been spent In getting the prison rag
for her, il seemed madness to dra1
that she would be allowed to es1d
from ii. She might have to snd1
years, perhaps half a lifetime. In a
hateful room. And then she Won
break down in a tit OF wild soDe1
and tears. calling on Frank and 4
father, and her old friend, Miss UpD1
20 come and deliver her.
When she was exhausted oy =
grief, when her mind and her couI9
were weakened by the rigor OF her 4
prisonment, the willy old man wa
pay her a visit, and speak soothlH1
TO her, trying TO get her to divulse \
secret he believed her TO possess. \
cours, these efforts were vain, TOT y
sula did not in truth know wna' y
become Of the stones which had q
the cause of so much misery 70 =
But the jew was obstinate. ana WI
not be convinced, and so the W.
dragged their slow length along. i
the poor girl had. lost all count
time.
She could not find 1t In her near
touch the old tinkling piano nov. }
book had any power to make nel y
get her Indebtedness. She woum }
10 hours wrapped in a blanket 70 y
her warm, staring at the blank 49,
of the trees that grew opposi,s \
window, sometimes trying To thina
all was not lost. that the day u :
deliyerance would surely come, i
more often sunk in a melanchon
profound that she neither hopea I
feared. Her mind was benuinpeui
was only conscious OF a dull cl'
suffering.
CTo be Continued)