The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1902-06-13
LOVE IS BEST ),
BY Florence I4odsHnson


Manor; do you remember her at alp
Only that she was very pretty and
gentle. and seemed more like a play.
fellow than an aunt; but why do you
ask, mother?"
Then you won't see the resemb.
lance" said Mrs. Dynevor, in dis.
appointed tone; "but when I first
looked at that girl who came with
Mrs. Grey I thought the years had
turned back, and I saw Nina as she
was when your uncle brought her home
bride. Miss Lendon's face is grave1
and sadder, but the likeness is won
derful''
"Chance resemblances are puzzling
things" said Kitty. Il have asked
Miss Tendon to come and see us,
mother-you don't mind, do you?"
II shall be glad for her to come,
Kitty, she seems a charming girl And
my dear, if Harold were not the best
of brothers, you might be earning your
bread"
II shouldn't be half as brave and
contented over it as she is" said
Kitty frankly.
Arrived at the Uplands, mother and
daughter went to bed, for it was past
their usual hour. Harold turned into
his own den to smoke one pipe before
retiring. AS he lighted the gas his
eye fell on letter with the Marion
postmark, addressed in the we'll
known had of Mr. Proctor.
What can he want to write about?
l saw him yesterday"
But the lawyer had gone out of his
way to do Harold kindness. He
would not even trust one of his clerks
to write the letter of warning which
he sent to his old friends son. The
letter was marked "private"-a need
less precaution, for Harold Dynevor
would be sure to keep it's contents from
his mother and Kitty until the last
possible moment.
Dear Dynevor: I have bad news
for you. 1t has reached me from a
true source that Eustace Lendon in
tends to give you three months notice
Of foreclosure at Micaelmas. My in
informant believes that he is keeping
his intention dark, so that it may take
you by surprise, in the hope that the
three months will be all too short for
you to get the needed capital. l need
not assure you of my most earnest
sympathy. Still, the amount, though
large, is not preposterous, and it ought
to be possible to arrange things. Any
how, by this letter you have five
months to raise the money instead Of
three.
Yours sincerely,
w. Proctor.
Harold Dynevor put his head on his
hands and fairly groaned. He had
been old enough when DyneYor Manor
passed to stranger to feel the loss of
the old place very keenly; but that
was as nothing compared to the bit
terness he felt at the bare thought of
Uplands, his mothers home, going
from them to the man who was their
direst foe.
please God, it shall not be-" he
said reverently, as he folded the letter
and put it in his pocket. Mother shall
never lose the house she was born in
if can help it. I'll work as man never
did before, I'll toll early and late, but
that money shall be found. And
Eustace Lindon must content himself
with Dynevor Manor; Uplands shall
not be hist"
But, brave as was the resolve. Har-
old did not make light of the difficult
ties in his path. To raise such sum
would have been hard task even in
prosperous times; and now, when a
succession of bad harvests had spelled
something like ruin to many a land
owner, the difficulties of the attempt
were quadrupled.