The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-11-27

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he said, with n brief grunt.
Il amt never earne n cent in my
whole life,' returned JeSsica.
o father and me have got enough
for one girl, | guess" said her other
bridling. a color stole over the thin,
rigorous face. You have all you need"
~ you want a new dress said her
father.
Ssh don't want a new dress" said
her mother, She has all she needs"
II want to go and earn some money"
said JeSsica. Adde'S goin'."
her father ScoWled over his potatoes.
II don't know about that big hotel"
he said.
Tour dollars a week is a good deal
OF money said Jessica. She knew her
ground. Money was the golden apple
OF existence to these thrifty parents of
hers.
"Id like to know whnt you'd do with
It," her mother said.
oh, | don't know; l could put it in
the savings bank" replied Jessica,
carelessly.
You needn't think you're goin' away
10 earn money and waste 1t on gim-
cracks like Addie Rose said her
mother, severely.
No said her father. your mother
and me can buy you all you need yet
awhile"
Il don't want to waste is on GIN
cracks declared Jessica, land I'll do
Just what you tell me to with the
money"
Il don't know anything better than
the Midtown Savings bank said her
father. thoughtfully. They're real
ZONES there, and It's 4 per cent. inter-
est"
I'd just as soon put 1t in there" said
Jessica.
How long will you be gomez" asked
her father.
Twelve weeks
"Forty-eight dollars" said the father.
inc the girl knew 1t was settled.
When she went up to her own room
that night she was a different person
and she looked out on a different land
scape, 1t was coiored with her own
hopes and anticipations. The boughs
of the old cherry tree tossed In a
radiance Of the soul; the river ran a
race or the spirit: the hills beyond
lowered into Imagination.
AS she looked out Of her window be-
fore going to bed a dark figure came
down the road, lesltated a second at
the gate, then passed on. She knew
VINO 1t was, and laughed, and the laugh
was no less gay because it was in a
measure cruel to herself. She knew
that the young maj was David Lap.
ham. that he had come to see her, and
that he had retreated on seeing the
light IN her room, concluding that she
had gone to bed. She felt his disap-
polntment more keenly han he felt 1t
hlmself, she wanted to see him, vet
in her morbid state of mind he repre-
scented the worst monotony of 1t all. He
aroused her at times to q more savage
revolt than anything else. She seemed.
without being fully conscious of it, to
recognize in him and her feeling for
him eeternal repetition and monotony
or love m passion and life itself, and
she became almost blasphemous. She
watched him going back with a tri-
umph or emancipation which yet stung.
She had known him ever since they
We're both children; she had never had
a minutes doubt of his love for her,
that he wanted more than anything
else to make her his wife. He owned
the next farm, his parents being dead.
lie rented the house n boarded with
his tenants, who assisted with the farm
work. IT she married him he would
come to live with her, and her old life
would go on, n on, n on, only mag
nified and doubled and trebled, as by a
system or mirrors. There We're times
when she fairly hated David Lapham,
yet there vas something about the
cant of his head when he repassed the
house which gave her pain. She knew
wei enough that he had heard of her
intended fitting, that, he would come
the next evening to see her. She re-
solved to evade him, and did so. She
Went over to Addie Roses. The next
day was Sunday, and she did not go to
evening service, thereby not giving
him a chance to accompany her home,
and she went early to bed that night.
after having again seen him pass her
window.
she went away with Addie Rose the
next week to the great seashore resort
not having seen him at all. The day
after reaching her destination came Al
letter, which she Gid not answer. She
wrote to her mother on her arrival, but
10 no else. Her work was distaste-
full and %arduous, n she realized for
the first time how much her obstinate
mother had taken from her girlish
shoulders; her quarters were uncom-
Portable, but h had no thought OF
giving in. She had not even on the
border of the great ocean, and in such
entirely new surroundings, the freedom
change which h a anticipated
Ihe girls who worked with her were
largely of her own class; she still re-
malned In her own element, on the
boundaries of another forbidden one
After her work was done at night she
used to linger around the windows Of
the great ball room and wonder if Ii
there, In an entirely different existence
governed by entirely different condi.
tons, was the break of the monotons
which she SO loathed. Passing thu
dishes over dainty silken and musk
shoulders at meal time, she a a real
ization of q gulf across which her very
soul yearned. Il can't see as it is 81
very different here. from what 1t Is a
home" she said to Addie Rose; but tn,
other girl colored sweetly and hal
laughed. She had fallen in love witt
the head waiter, who was n colleg,
student working during his vacation
Jessica mad little sympathy with her
The head waiter was the son OF
; farmer: he had ambition, but it locke,
as If there was little chance for him
s1Once she said SO to Addte. IF the oil,
folks die, and Albert hasn't got any
thing but the farm, you'll have to g
there n live. I can't see that you'll
t be any differently situated; 1t will b
the same old thing over again"
r lite the old that's the new reptile,