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

room. Come. my bairrie, tell Jessie 60
bring up the vivers. Pm just faint like; Il
has been a cold journey"
''Will you take q little whisky and water
ut once, unclei" asked Mona. trying to re-
member her duties with an effort, so dazed
did she feel at this astounding reappear-
ance.
"Aweel; 1t might be better to do so. Just
hang up my coat, will your Ell, but you
have n 1re that's enough to set a. the
chimneys IN Kirktoun burning; still IL
locks gram. The young mon will think
huld Sandy Craig has a fine hoose o his
ain. It's varra strange you knowing each
other TranR you, my dearic," as she
handed him his allowance OF wnisky and
water.
"But. uncle, how In the world did you
come to know ar. ]%mTug.e --r- ~-
"Mef Aweel, l knew him when he vas
n wee BARN, but it's lang years since. His
mother was Mr.. Lcs!ie's daughter. You'll
mind my telling you o. the great hoosc u
Maceachern q Leslie. Leslie was the
gram gentleman of the Arm; and his daugh-
ter-eh, my word, she was a bonniel she
was the young Teddy that ought to have
been my wife, and this lads eyes are just
like his mother's--she married u proud.
tipsettinG Englishman: hut the siller was
hers, and the boy was named after her
father. He has been fulish, I'm fearln'
and has spent a cruel lot o. money, gaming
awful and racin' and rampagin2. So me.
thing turned him wrong; moo. no seems
more wise-like, and has settled doom on n
farm In America. He came over ABBOTT
some law plea, q bit o. money that was
coming TO him through his mother, and
sac he came OH TO Glasga', to speak to Mr..
Cochran, who was aye the adviser Of a. the
hoose, an there he found 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 hoose, Mr.. Warning. Give
me your arm. am r. puir frail body"
Warning threw n smiling glance Mt Mona,
as II asking pardon for preceding her, and
led his host into the ~dining-room.
Mona took her place ut the head OF the
table with an over-powcring sense OF EN-.
barrassment, mixed with se~lf.rcproach.
Something had turned him wroags"
Uncle Sandy said; twas she that some.
thingi'"
Pride came to her assistance, however;
she must not let him see how overwhelmed
she really was. BY q resolute effort she
TcCtlIeu HtI sell-COlllTDl, uiN DiNgtt Wv
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 frmer and more set; his face,
longer, darker, more imbrowned, and
grave, il not absolutely sad; it had COM
pletely lost the florld 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 teeth
were ms brilliantly white rs before; his
hands, that used to be so creamy ant
plump. were burned almost black, anC
showed both bone and muscle, as though
they and hard work were we'll acquainted
Yes, he was changed wonderfully, and i'm
proved. His old, good-humorcd eagernesS
TO please and TO be pleased was replaced by
profound repose OF manner, As II the eff
fervesence Of youth had entirely evaporat
ed, and left II slightly weary but kindly
quietude behind.
lie ate his dinner rs IL he liked 1t, ant
did not say much; once he looked roun,
the pretty, comfortable room admirjngly
and exclaimed
CONTINUED next week,