The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-11-27

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soln SO FAR as the money Is concerned >,
tG salu, with a brief grunt.
alit never earned q cent in NV
wnole llfe.' returned Jessica.
our father and me have got eno,,gb
loI one girl. l guess" said her other
utluiilg. A color stole over the thin
s sYc race You have all you need"
father. eaio her
She don't want q new dress s,,a
her mother. "she has a she needs"
want to go and carr some money!
sa2d Jesslca. Adde'S goin',"
tier rather scowled over his potatoes
he said. os ioeel'
-Four dollars a week is q. good saa1
u said Jessica. She knew her
ground. Money was the golden annie
hers. ~ @te' "
I'd like to know what you'd do with
It, her mother said.
"Oh, don't know; I could MT q In
carelessly. '~
GU needn't think you're goin' away
70 carr money and waste 1t on GIN
cracks Ike Addie Rose" said her
mother, severely.
No" said her father. your mother
ana me an buy you all you need yet
Il don't want to waste is on GIN
CRACKS, declared J%ess!ca, and I'll do
Just what you tell me to with the
money" -
I don't know anything better than
ahe Midtown Savings bank" said her
iather. thoughtfully. They're real
honest there. and It's 4 per cent. inter-
est"
I'D Just as o put 1t in there" said
JesSica.
How long Will you be gomez" asked
Twelve weeks"
"F~orty-eight dollarn," said the father,
and the girl knew 1t was settled.
When h went UP to her own room
that night she was q different person
ana she looked out on q different land
scape. 1t was colored with her own
hopes n articipations. The boughs
of the old cherry tree tossed In O.
radiance of the soul: the river ran a
race OF 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, hesitated a second at
the safe. then passed on. She knew
who 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 man 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-
p~cintrnent more l1eenly than he felt 1t
himself: She wanted to see him, yet
IN her JnprhiH =Gtn% - al y,if,I tn m ~ Z.
sented the worst 1lonotony of it 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 INC her feeling for
himthe eternal repetition and monotony
OF love and passion and life itself, and
she became almost blasphemous. She
watched him going back with a tri-
umph of emancipation which yet stung.
She had known him ever since they
were both children; she had never had
a minutes doubt Of his love for her,
that he wanted more tina anything
else to make her his wife. He owned
the next farm. his parents being dead.
He rented the house and boarded with
his tenants, who assisted with the farm
work. If she married him he would
come to live with her. and her old life
would go on, and on, and on. only mag
nif1ed and doubled II trebled, as by a
system or mirrors. There were times
when she fairly hated David Lapham,
and yet there was something about the
can of his head when he repassed the
house which gave her pain. She knew
well enough hat 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 mex
day vas Sunday, and she did not go to
evening service, thereby not giving
him O. 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 a
letter, which she did not answer. She
wrote to her mother on her arrival, but
to no one else. Her work was distaste-
full and arduous, and she realized for
the first time how much her obstinate
mother had taken from her girlish
shoulders; her quarters were uncom-
Portable, but she 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
and change which she had anticipated.
The girls who worked with her were
largely of her own class, h still re-
NAMED in her own element, on the
boundaries of another forbidden one.
After her work was done at night h
used to linger around the windows of
the great ball room and wonder If in
there, In an entirely different existence,
governed by entirely different condi-.
tions, was the break of he onotony
which she so loathed. Passing the
dishes over dainty silken and muslin
shoulders at meal time, h had a real
ization Of q gulf across Which her very
soul yearned. II can't see as 1t Is SO
very different here from what 1t Is at
home" she said to Addie Rose; u the
other girl dolored sweetly and half
laughed. She had fallen In. love with
the head waiter, who was a college
student working during his vacation.
Jessica had little sympathy with her.
The head walter was the son Of a
farmer he had ambition. but It looked
as if there was little chance for him.
Once she said so to Addie. II the old
folks die, and Albert hasn't got any
thing but the farm. you'll have to go
there and live. I can't see that you'll
he any differently situated. It will be
the same old thing over again"
s.Y.,. tbao old that's the new" replied