Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-03-31
temptuous remark"
San absurd story, altogetherp' says Olga

IAN absurd story, altogetherT says Olga
throwing up her head, a,smile lighting her
| eyes as they meet Kelly's. At her tone,
| which Is more amused than annoyed, Ro-
nayne lets his hand fall into the water close
to hers, and doubtless finds its cool touch
(the waters, l mean, Of %course) veryrefresh-
ing, as 1t is fully five minutes before he
brings 1t TO the surface again.
'"True, nevertheless, ;" says Kelly. "Both
the principals In my story were friends OF
mine. / knew-indeed, l may safely say ]
kn0lU-them WELL"
Il am glad you said ~1Cere," says Olga,
| shaking her blonde head at him. Lord Ross
moyne by this time is looking as black as q
thunder-cloud.
"a questionable fsiend You must be, to
tell tales out of school" says Mrs. Herrick.
II defy any one to say l have told any
thing" says Kelly, with much-injured in
nocence. But / am quite prepared to hear
my actions, as usual, grossly maligned. 1
am accustomed to it now. The benefit Of
the doubt is not for me-"
There isn't a doubt" says Hernia.
go OH. must try to bear it,"-meekly.
81 know | am considered incapable Of q
pure motive"
"Was it you drew back the curtaln"'
"NYell, really YES, l believe it was. l
wanted my friend, you see, and knew l
should find him with the bangles. Yes; it
was | drew the curtain"
"Just what / should have expected from
you" says Mrs. Herrick.
"Ahl Thank you! Now at last you are
beginning to see things in their true light,
and to take my part" says Mr.. Kelly, with
exaggerated gratitude. Now, indeed, l
feel | have not lived in vain! You have,
though at a late hour, recognized the eX-
traordinary promptitude that characterizes
my every action. While another might have
been hesitating, l am seldom TO be found
wanting. | may, indeed, always be dis
covered just where
"You aren't wanting" interrupts Mrs.
Herrick, with a sudden smile.
"How can that be-" says Kelly, with re-
proachful sadness, "when / am generally to
be found near youg"
AT this Hernia gives in, and breaks into
a low soft laugh.
"But / wish you had not told that story or
Olga and Mr.. Ronayne," she says, in awhis-
per, and with some regret. You saw now
badly RossmOyne took It,"
That Is partly why | told 1t. think you
are wrong in trying to make that marriage;
she would be happier with Ronayne."
For a month or two, perhaps"
'Oh, make ii three" says Kelly, satirically.
Surely the little winged god has 50 much
staying power
"a few weeks ago you told me you did
not believe in him at all"
81 have changed all that"
"Ah goa can be tickle toe"
"a man is not necessarily tickle because
,Hln,, La, 1fa.4..Ar. tla ,I1N fpntn ar,A1 hn
leaves the bad and presses toward it. l
think, too, his mentor" i'm q lowered tone,
SHOULD be the last to misjudge him"
Nothing is SO lasting, at least, as riches"
says Mrs. Hcrrick, with a chastened but un-
miStakable desire to change his mood. 'Olga
with unlimited means and an undeniable
place in the world of society would be a hap
pier Olga than as the wife of a country gen.
tlcman."
Il don't agree with YOU; but yOu know
best-perhdpS. You speak your W senti-
ments, of course. A title Is Indispensable
TO you too, as well as to hels'
His tone is half a question.
at counts she says slowly, trifing with
finn though slender fingers with the grasses
that are growing in the interstices Of the
marble.
"Pshaw!" says Kelly. Rising with a
vehemence foreign to him, he crosses TO
where Ulic Ronayne is standing alone.
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