The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-12-31

SGOING TO GET MARRIED AGAINfnp
aas,,n snid she. !. 1t seems to me IL IL
MISUNDERSTANDING and kayesallfyou lifc
LAD make s0esl before you that you: have
thu, hast 4 "a 30 sasious.,,
sWhy Why n da,SlmYsGlEH Itsisn,t-
sea haven't come ees tpitsaes 8 are going
to got married Eagaina.
- Married aga:.,r' exclaimed tho young
woman. .No one ought to get married
again; it doesn't sound pretty"
II didn't mean to say that. I am m
unfortunate, laundering old ancestor.
Dent be too hard IN me. You know,
daughter, I'd love to soc you happy, oven
II yon did lenve me to the mercy Of tho
housn,aaids." .@5
Would you, father, would yougv Linda
earic and sat on the arm Of his chair and
stroked his grizzled hair.
.out with 1t! Who is itP I'm braced,' y
mid tho father grimly.
sob, I'm not going to marry. I'm
not cried Mrs. Marmont, with even UNI
NECESSARY fcryor. "Yoc ought to know
tin!. You know, I wasn't very happy,
a:id--aiil I want to BIO a deaconnoss!'
"a what?n
"Ycu know, the order of d~eaconnesses
tl'cy i.avu In tho church, papa. They
give their lives to good works"
Lord, Lord! 1t sounds as II they wore
b:ocnsecs. They don't, do theya,'
Fi;e cost,;me is very becoming said
Tho widow. with frosty severity.
We'll, that's something TO BIO thankful
tor.n
"Parn, you must treat me like a grown
rersoli Cor three minutes. I want to tell
YOU LiatI have made up my mind. TIM
mr. no q a opt So $6a ,,~s,Jkt,t. ID T3-, .-zf~.-
70 be Is d%eaconness. "
hands plnspod before her and looking ter
rIbly formidable for such q slender young
5onuty In good clothes. "It's my ono res
o,uticn for the new year." sho won't on
very quietly, but her breath coming In ir-
rssf;ln: pants. 81 thought I ought to tell
sou as soon az I had made up my mind,
and I made it up today, on this last day
Of tho old year, and it's tho last, too, Of
my old life. I'm tired OF the ~frivolity and
emptiness of the old ltfe."
She moved toward tho door; Us she laid
her hand on tho knob she turned and said
to tbs silent man:
"l'M, not going to the ball tomorrow
night. but don't let my movements disturb
yours
trust you have not at this hour con-
cludod to throw over your Aunt Sarah's
dinner, toe" he said, with sarcastic into
nations.
NO" was tho answer. 1T don't know
how Aunt Sarah's dinners could ever be
looked upon as festivities. I'm only try
Ing to sober my mind, and I expect that
to be II very soldering function"
Aunt Sarah's dinner was to DO enten
that very cyonlng, and the guests were to
dance and play whist and watch tho old
Year out. 1t was 10 be a family party with
a sprinkling of such other people as could
be brought to join a family party-cer-
tainly not likely was 1t that they would
be very gay members Of society.
II don't caro- what you do with IT."
said Mrs. Marmolt, when her maid was
doing her hair. Its not important how I
look
"Why, madame, 1t ces not d ladees:
luncheon you dress fc-! There will he tbs
gantlcmcn. Is 1t not sosa
Tho mistross laughed and answered that
1t didn't matter.
Mrs. Mnrmontw went to the despised din.
ner looking ~uncommonly imposing and
handsome. When she entered her aunt's
drawing room, IL little admiring hush and.
thon u littlo ndmiring murinur grocted the
aGttly draped whito figure, such az was
hardly to BIO expected from q company &c
familiar with tho sight Of her. But all
were not equally familiar with 1t; an ath-
lotic, bronzod young nan who wns talking
to Mrs. founders (his hostess, Aunt
Sarah) contributed to the hush, 80 to
spoak, by stopping short in the middle Of
his sentence Us his oyes rested on Mrs.
Mnr1nont, and then ejnculating, Ills It'll
Is
Linda, " interrupted Mrs. founders,
@of course. Didn't you expect to SEQ heri''
~ Ind heard she was nbroad-she hasn't
changed so much Al l nrst thought"
.Oh, no, n woman doesn't change much
between 81 and 26, Mr.. Lester. The fash
ions change, but you mustn't tnlk to hcr
rs Il you wsSe surprlsed-ssh she isn't deerepit