Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-01-29
NONA'S CHOICE.


II suppose Lisle will be up here again."
resumed Waring, rather abruptly.
Perhaps! | do not think 1t likely. I
believe my uncle is already in treaty with
someone else for the shooting, so there will
70 nothing to come for"
Nothing to come fort" repeated War
ng, as II to himself; and Mona suddenly
;hought-"Does he imagine that / am the
attraction to st. John Lisle, and does his
'riendliness incline him to rejoice at the
prospect of q good marriage for mel"
She rose, and went into the next room
20 lind a book, for an excuse not to talk
my more. AS she returned, she met War
ing, who had followed her.
Goodnight" he said. 81 am rather
tired. Miss Black is booked for chess, and
you are going to read, so l had better go to
bed"
"1f you would like me to read to you"
oegan Mona, for there was something de-
spending in his tone.
mo, no! exact too much" he intor-
rupted. 81 will leave you in peace"
You know you enact nothing"
"Thnt is true. You all give freely.
Nevertheless, I will say goodnight"
= y y
1t seemed strange to Mona that Uncle
Sandy-who, though on the whole ex-
tremely indifferent to things which did not
affect himself, was, when his attention was
aroused, a keen ohserver--did not notice
the complete understanding which existed
between Kenneth and Mary, nor the very
lover-like attentions which, as ne grew
more at ease in his new home, the young
Highlander could not refrain from be.
slowing On the lady Of his heart. But, rs
many strong-willed persons do, Uncle
Sandy was very apt to make plans with
out taking into account the individual lik-
ings or d~islikings Of the persons affected
by them.
She rather dreaded the moment when
the ruler OF Craigdarroch would awake to
the knowledge that the ''bit lad and las
sic" as he considered them, had taken
their lives into their own hands, irrespec-
tive OF his consent. II he was angry and
unreasonable on the subject, it might be
terribly bad for both young creatures,
though his evident liking for Mary was 2
great point in their favor. indeed, Mona
wished to turn her thoughts from the pain,
the dull aching which oppressed her, Ia
pros and cOnS of her friends fortunes.
1t was a few days after the above record.
Ell conversation, Mona was in the library,
entering sundry items in an account book,
which her uncle had great pride and pleas
ure in teaching her to keep in the most
orthodox fashion.
IL was q lovely day stolen from May tt
beautify the last hours OF March. The
blue sky, the glittering loch, the balmy all
which stole like a caress round cheek and
throat, seemed to promise that gloomy
winter was AVA"
Kenneth had taken n holiday from tn,
spring operations Of field and byre, and
proposed to take Waring and Mary for Q
drive through Strathairlie and Balmuir
that the former might see some OF the IN,
views in the neighborhood, as his time wa.
now growing short.
Mona volunteered to remain with hel
uncle, and-with a degree of u%nreasona
bleness, for which she scorned herself
felt hurt that Waring had made no at
tempt to persuade her to come with them
Mr.. Craig had been pottering about tn,
garden, and Mona thought she had heart
the %tap-tapping Of his stick in the hall Jus
before the eXcursionists had driven of.
The sound Of the wheels had hardly dice
away, when Uncle Sandy zane into tn,
room and threw himself into his arm
chair, upsetting the fire-irons with nm un
usual amount Of CHATTER.
"Gaid preserve usl' was his first excla
nation. They're gan" clean daft! Wha'C