Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-01

room. Come. my bairnie, tell Jessie %
bring up the vivers. I'm Just faint like; It
has been q cold journey"
"0Will you take q little whisky and water
ct once, u~nclei' asked Mona. trying to re-
member her duties with an effort, so azed
did she feel at this astounding reappear-
ance.
"Aweel, Il might be better TO do 81. Just
hang up my coat, will your En-, but You
have q fro that's enough to set a the
chimneys Ia Kirktoun burning; still 1t
locks gran. The young moi will think
auld Sandy Craig has a fine hose y his
ain. It's varra strange you knowing each
other ThanF You, my dearie," as she
handed him hts allowance OK wdis&y aud
water.
But, uncle, how In the world did you
come % know 5f p%nTrg
"Mep Aweel, / knew him when he was
a wee BARN. but it's lang years since. His
mother was Mr.. Leslie's daughter. You'll
mind my telling you o. the great h0ose o.
Maceachern & Leslie. Leslie was the
gran gentleman Of the firm; and his daugh-
ter--eh, my word, she was a bonnie! she
was the young Teddy that ought 10 have
been my wife, and this lads eyes are just
like his mother's-she married . proud.
upsetting Englishman: hut the siller was
hers, and the boy was named after her
father. He has been fulish, I'm fearin'
and has spent a cruel lot o. money, gaming
awful and rac!n' and rampaginS. So me-
thing turned him wrong; moo, he seems
more wise like, and has settled doom on a
farm in America. He came over ABBOTT
some law plea, a bit o. money that was
coming TO him through his mother, n
sac he came on TO Glasga', to speak TO Mr..
Cochran, who was aye the adviser Of a. the
hoose, an there he fouud me. ! was right
glad to meet him. and-but here he is, and
Jessie, too. The denner's ready. I'm glad
TO see you in my hose, Mr.. Waring. Give
me your arm. am r puir frail body
Waring threw n smiling glance at Mona,
as IL asking pardon for preceding her, and
led his host into the Gining-room.
Mona took her place Mt the head Of the
table with an over-powering sense OF en-
barrassment, mixed with self-rcproacn.
Something had turned him wroag"'
Uncle Sandy said; was she tlIat some
thing;'"
Pride came 10 her assistance, however;
she must not let him see how overwhelmed
she really was. Dy n resolute effort she
recalled her self-control. and played the
part Of hostess with sweet gravity and
simple kindness; but though avoiding
Warnings eyes, she keenly observed how
greatly he had changed. lie looked taller
because he had grown thinner. His strong
figure looked iirmer and more set; his face,
longer, darker, more i~lnbrowned, and
grave. IL not absolutely sad; it had com
pletely lost the ford fleshiness OF early
manhood; his eyes, too, seemed larger and
more thoughtful; but his long thick mus
tache, dropping 10 either side, showed
when he smiled that his rather large teett
were as brilliantly white as before; his
hands, that used 10 be so creamy auc
plump. were burned almost blu nnc
showed both bone and muscle, ns though
they and hard work were we'll acquainted
Yes. he was changed wonderfully, and i'm
proved. His old, good-humorcd eagernes;
10 please and 10 be pleased was replaced by
profound repose Of manner, as II the ef
fervesence Of youth had entirely evaporat
ed, and left u slightly weary but kindly
quietude behind.
He ate his dinner "a il lie liked ii, az
did not say much; once he looked rounC
the pretty, comfortable room a~dmiringly
and exclaimed
CONTINUED next week,