Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-08-13

eyes, indeed" said Madam, agreeing
very candidly and earnestly, her smiling
gaze becoming more penetrating-"a nice
little creature. Poor Winniel she viii
make Mr.. Pascoe an excellent little wife"
"Pascoel That ill-tempered, vulgar"
began Stephen ~Tredennick, In some excite
ment, which cooled rather suddenly when
Madam again queried-
II was not aware that you knew Mr..
Pascoe, ~Stephens"
"Oh, ay-I do, though, aunt" he said.
somewhat briefly; land / do not like him.
He is a disagreeable, presuming sort Of
fellow, / think"
"He is a very worthy. honest person."
r~ejoined Madam, reprovingly, land much
attached to Winnie. 1 shall be quite glad
to see her settled so comfortably, poor
child. Pascoe he's a fair salary for a mine.
purser, and a neat little house, though 1t
is on the works"
His wife! That underlined, insolent,
fox-faced mans wife! To live in the bare,
square-built, two-story house, with its few
small windows and smar;ly painted hall
door, and its beautiful, soul-inspiring sur
%roundings Of dull-hued piles of rubbish
and broken ore-stone, hideous wooden
tarred sheds, slime-pits, and crealking
grooming, shrieking, crashing machinery!
Pascoe, the pu|ser's wife-therc TO spend
her eXistence-that pale, pure-faced, sor-
rowful little maiden, with her passionate
gray eyes, and her wealth of beautiful
silken tresses-the welded wife OF Thomas
Pascoe-his, to have and TO hold, for everl
Stephen Tredennick glanced at his aunt's
face to discover If she was in earnest, and
then a sudden impulse OF something like
passionate anger filled his heart. Winnie
Caerlyon Pascoe's Whenever!
lie was very near saying so aloud, but
restrained himself to say instead, very
quietly
and what does Miss Winnie herself
think of the prospect
Think? Oh, l don't believe she admires
him much-he is not an ideal lover, |
grant-but what matters thatf" said Mad.
am, lightly and scofIingly. winnie has
no right to indulge in any of that girlish,
romantic folly; she knows that what she
requires in marriage is an honest, kind
husband, who will give her n home of her
own, with food to eat and clothes to wear
and very thankful she ought to be to grt
one"
The tone, words, aud manner all jarrld
on stephen ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS very con.
siderably, although IL was in only a poor
little stranger-maiden's interest.
well, aunt" he returned, coldly and
sarcastically, in n very like Mad.
ANS own, "if marriage--which poets, and
nevelists, and artists, and those kind OF
fools rave about as welded bliss as
browning the love and honor Of u life
and so forth-be after all N mere dry,
worldly matter Of exchange and barter
still one ought to make the best exchange
and barter as equally rs possible. Look.
ing at the matter from u commercial point
of view, Il pretty young girl, with a fair
share OF brains and social attractions, and
of decent family, might barter herself for
something better than mere clothes end
food given to her by a very ill-favored lub.
Der Of a fellow whom she detests."
A ringing, sarcastic ltugh came from
Madam Vivian as he concluded.
"BrdpiSsimo, Stephen! / begin to have
some hope of you! You are growing TO
mantic!" Then, quite suddenly, looking
into the coffee urn as she spoke, Madam
asked her third searching question, "How
do you know that she detests him, Steph.
emf"