The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-09-09

the old man rushed OIL and
told Mark thatthe night before he had
seen the Spirit of the Fails come
floating down the river in a canoe.
This had only happened nee before in
the memory of the Kaffirs, and that
was just before Chaka's Hulus came
down like a whirlwind and devasted
their homes. Was he not the Guar
liam of the Falls and surely this mys-
terions visit was intended to signify
that the Spirit was angry because the
kosana was going to leave them. and
If she really did so the spirit would
certainly demand a sacrifice, and that
would be terrible.
But it was all in vain, for Mark
had made up his mind to go, SO a few
days later Dorothy's Kattir friends
came to say god-by.
Old Ring kop brought her a long
string made of woven grass or hemp,
and fastened u precious charm OF his
down at the end of it. Then the
long line of Katiirs followed, and each
one, as the procession passed before
her, dropped a chosen bead or amulet
onto the string which Dorothy held in
her hands. So the kosana came ava
With a token and a thought of love
from each and every one of them.
The home of Dorothy Lynn for the
foHowing four years was in the low
lands that divide the T%ransvaal in the
north from Mapocks Land. They were
years of u~nspeakable happiness, for
the family prospered and Dorothy
found n lover.
Young Harold G%rosvenor was part
wner of the mines flat Mark Lynn
had charge of, SO it happened that the
young engineer saw a good deal of
Dorothy in her new home.
HE found her face fair aud her
mind %fairer, aud when he told her ut
last that he loved her better than all
the world, she awoke as from a trance
and her delicate. beautiful nature ex-
banded and welcomed his devotion,
just as a flower opens it's petals and
reflects new life and grace and color
from the touch of the dew and the
charm of the sunshine.
But Dorothy was no sentimental
dreamer, so when Harold told her that
he Won have to return to England
for a season on business, she playfully
desired him to hasten his departure so
that he might in this way quicken his
return. So together they paid a long
visit to the old home at Howick, and
then the young lover took his dcpar-
ture for England.
III had been gone but a few months
when Dorothy's father contracted the
Jungle fever and, after a weary period
of nursing and waiting, the mother
and child were left alone in the world.
After their bereavement, of course,
they couldn't stay at the mines, so
they returned to their home at Ho-
wick, and among the first to welcome
them was old Ring Kop.
-Four years had made quite a
change in the old man, but the re-
turn of his friends and benefactors
seemed to have given him n new lease
Of life. They told Dorothy that the
old fellow had almost deserted the
Falls during her absence, but now
she noticed that day after day he
wandered down among the rocks as
usual and watched the foaming, boil
ing waters from his old station at the
head of the Falls.
There he sat or rcclined in the sun
smoking by the hour, but what the old
katiir could find to think or dream
about, day in and day out, was a mys.
terry to everybody.
"And so the weeks and the months
passed and Harold did not return. His
letters We're long and atfectionate al
first, and there were many of them
but before another year had gone by
Dorothy knew that a change haC
come, and that something was wrong
She made no complaint nor did sh,
ask for an explanation. She simply
waited patiently. hoping and suffer
ing. Then, after a while she read il
the pages of q Liverpool newspaper
that Harold had married a rich ant
charming lady i'll that city.
SO l am sorry to have to tell yol
that very soon Dorothy began to pin,
and to waste away, slowly, indeed, bu
50 plainly that old Ring Kop noticed
it, and said in his heart: s.It is til,
Spirit of the Falls" demand a sacri
fee
"One evening, at the time of yea,
when the leaves were beginning Il
fall. Dorothy thought She would Xix,
70 say good-by to Harold, SO she sa
down and wrote a letter to him, ant
these were her words:
81 am sure you still remember til,
Falls of Howicll, and the path tina
winds down through the ferns and TIL,
rose bushes to the foot of the hill
| wish l could think that YOU ais,
remember the little blue flower W.
planted right on the edge of the cliff
forget its real name, but you knox
we called it Loves Token.'' 1t wa
SO delicate and tender it would thirty,
nowhere but just III the mist and TIL,
sunshine. Well, Harold. when we re
turned to Howick thought | woult
like 10 see my little blue flower again
but when / arrived at the spot l fount
in its plnce one of those beautiful lille
with the wide-spreading leaves. Tn
lily had stolen the mist and the sun
shine from the little blue flower, an.
Loves Token had withcred@a and wa
dead.
~ was thinking Of this today, an,
| said to myself, II will write and tel
Harold that cannot find any faul
with his rich and beautiful wife 70
coming between us, any more tina
/ can blame the lily for stealing III
mist and the sunshine from the toxic
of Il love-
"As Dorothy finished the letter, til
moon was shining brightly in at til
easement. Like one in a dream, sh
arose, passed silently out of the house
and hurried along the pathway tina
led to the Falls. She had been gon
from the house but a minute whe.
her mother missed her, and rushe
after her. Not fifty feet from III
cataract she caught her daughter j
her arms.
What is Dorothy going to do:
she exclaimed. If my child is tired q
life and will go away, she must talk
her mother with her, for she will no
stay in the world alone
But Dorothy struggled hard an
was crazed with her grief and til
stones were slippery with slime an
wafer. Another minute and they wi.
surely &c over the precipice together
But between them and the cloud q
mist that hangs over the brink is tn
figure OF q man, and when they SC
him the IN start back in terror
1t is only old Ring Kop, however.
HE tells them quietly that he is o
guard, us usual; he had been watchin
Dorothy lately, he knew somethin;
was wrong With her and that tn