Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-06-23
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The more Chester Sewall pondered
the more uneasy he became over Mr..
Willmarth's manifest confidence in the
impregnability of his position. The
young man had naturally expected
that upon the discovery of his aspira-
tions the bankers house would be
closed to him and measures adopted to
prevent his communicating with Irma.
And he had gone to the trouble of
thinking out various ingenious
schemes of c~ircumventing the pater-
nal vigilance, devices SO romantic that
he was impatient to put them into
realization. But the starting point of
each was that he should be denied ac-
cess to the house. And he could not
get himself denied. He was even vel.
coined. The cruel father, meeting him
there, greeted him with q friendly
courtesy that quite took his breath
away. Instead of being angry at see.
ing him I'm conversation with Irma, the
old gentleman seemed amused.
"And yet he knows-he must know"
said Chester to himself, "that l pro-
pose to carry his daughter off and
marry her despite his opposition. Can
IT be possible he has any assurance
that she will not let herself be car
ried off"
There was nothing in her manner
to him that savored of d%isloyalty. On
the contrary, she was as witchingly
tender as he could have hoped to find
her, and when a girl like lrma Will
marth condescends to demonstrate
tenderness she does so with no ordi-
nary degree of effectiveness. Hers was
a tail, magnificent figoIro, voluptuous
in its outlines, ~statuesqte in repose,
regal in action. A habitual expression
of cold hauteur rested upon her su
pcrbly lovely features, but she had the
natural art to Danish it at will, assum.
ing in its stead a mask of charming
smiles or exquisite sensibility as the
occasion might seem to demand. "Her
royal highness" was the title be.
slowed upon her by her classmates al
Nassar, and it seemed fitting. She had
hayward humors, but not impulses
and inherited from her father-as well
az his dark complexion-suficient OF
his self control and power Of judg.
ing things from the standpoint Of per
sonal interest to keep those humors
well under subsection. That was what
he-knowing her better than any one
else could-relied pom to guide
her as he would have her go in
the affair with Mr.. Sewall. No sucl
fool was he as to oppose her within Of
sentiment, which he was very sure in
volved no serious dangers. He hat
mentioned to her the extent of hel
lovers capital, and did not fear hel
forgetting it. In the old mans eyes
the love affair of the young folks wa.
simply q funny little dramatic cpl
sode.
Irma sat at the piano and Cheste,
stood by her side. They had just fin
ished n duet that they learned t
sing together at her Boston cousin
house In the first flush Of their mutua
passion, and the sweet memories &
evoked thrilled their hearts. lie locke,
down upon her with eyes that saw NJ
horizon beyond her beauty and met IL
her gaze an ineffable tenderness which
filled his soul with bliss. Heart spok,
to heart and the lips of both were 81
lent. Idly her fingers strayed over tn
keys and the exquisite melody o
Schumann's "Traumerei," hushed I,
tones scarcely louder than q whisper
stole upon the charmed air. Cbeste,
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