Mower County transcript., 1903-12-16

sunplicant must not go unre,varded.
YotI may leave Il % me your father
shall not suffer.
4 He stopped her thanks With . wave
Of the hand. and then inquired;
'tAnd how is your recital coming
along? Can I be of any assistance
there!
"If you only would!' the girl began.
h timtdly. One needs 80 much influ-
ence in London, you know
u Say no more. 2 said Kane, quickly.
."I see how it is; you shall have good
house," - ! =
Hardly was she gone, new light
shining In her pretty eyes, than Kane
dispatched messenger for so guineas'
worth of seats. and put his secretary
at work addressing notes to the more
influential of his friends, begging their
acceptance of the tickets enclosed, and
bespeaking their attendance at the
musicale. AS q consequence, Rose
Ackerly's fortune was made.
:: II can be hard as nails" Kane said
when taxed with soft -heartedness
anent this performance; "Ackerly's q
cur and richly deserved to be made to
squeal; but every man should know
how to temper justice with mercy.
I've been in too many tight places my
self not to realize how it feels to be
jumped on!"
So there you have the unique person.
ality, outward and inward, then newly
launched in the cream of English So
ciety.
No smart function was complete
without him, and in response to his
own lavish entertaining in town during
the season, he was deluged with invi-
tations to visit some of the most ex-
elusive country houses in England for
the shooting season. Being bachelor,
with not a relative in the world" as
he said, he was naturally regarded as
a big fish in the matrimonial swim,
and might have married titled beauz
ty before the summer was over, thus
reversing the accepted Anglo-Ameri-
can procedure in recent years.
In course Of time Rossiter Kane's
round of autumn visits brought him to
Denecroft
Three years had passed from the
date of Richard Dysart's self-expatria-
ton. Time had brought no outward
change in the lives of those hitherto
concerned in this story. Stella Dysart
was still reigning mistress at Dene-
croft. Sir Arthur, as may be lima gined,
lost no time in putting the all-iMpor-
tant question to Marcia Churchill,
only to be met with gracious but
kindly refusal and the tidings that his
brother had been beforehand. Thence
forward he remained single, nor
showed no signs of transferring his af-
fections elsewhere. =
Marcia kept her troth; although lit
tie had been heard from the absent lad.
A brace Of letters in the first six
months; then long silence; finally a
single impassioned appeal, enclosing
his picture, for which she had asked,
reiterating his undying love, begging
her to wait for him, limiting at all
sorts of bad luck, but intimating that
a certain venture then impending
would make or break him. After that,
silence and suspense. ="
True to his word Sir Arthur paid in
$4,000 to Richards credit at the FAM
lily bankers, but it was never drawn
against. Whatever he was doing, the
boy was clearly determined to sink or
swim by his own unaided efforts The
Baronet, on his part, felt too deeply
wounded to write or make any over
lures at reconciliation
So Marcia waited, her beauty en-
HANGED and spiritualized by her faith
ful love and daily hope.
"He will come back,' she said for
the hundredth time.
"Of course he will" echoed Stella,
for Rick had been her favorite brother,
and in these latter days she and Mar
cia learned to love each other as sis
ters, and jokingly vowed to live to-
gether as old maids to the end of the
chapter.
To be Continued.