The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-08-31
XXXII.

Mrs. C~holmondely and Jocelyn Hugh
Dapler had been left mere infants to the
guardianship of an unwilling, selfish man.
Another had Joined him, but took no heed
or care for them, and they might not
have had a friend in the wide world but
tutors, and governesses, aud school fell
lows, for aught either of these cared.
AS children, they loved each other
more than anything else in the world; as
they grew into youth and girl, the feeling
ripened, and they stood OF the defensive
against their Indifferent protectors, and
chung to each other the more.
II was thus Jocelyn Hugh Damer and
his sister, Edith Damer, began and car
ried on their lives. There was no pre-
tense on either side. For twenty years
they were all in all to each other, and
then Jocelyn began to go to the bad. He
did we'll enough at school-indeed, was
considered q clever boy: but a foolish
freak had got him rusticated at college,
and his guardians declared that they had
no hopes of him, and should be glad to
wash their hands of him and his affairs.
Edith. proud of her brothers birth and
high estate, felt the blow keenly, and 1t
was the occasion of the first quarrel they
had ever had.
what does it matter?' said Jocelyn.
coolly. Il didn't care for a degree; 1t
would have been of no use to me. l in
tend to enjoy my life after my own fash
Ion, and that is not the fashion of people
like our guardian, for instance"
you ought to be ashamed of yourself,
Jocelyn," she said, angrily. 1T is a dis
grace to a gentleman to be turned out Of
his university; and as for spending your
life in your own fashion, IL you continue
as you have begun, heaven only knows
where you win STOP"
well, / hope / shall be informed in
good time, that's ALL" he said, laughing.
81 am not very particular, but II you
expect me ever to settle down into an
old fogey, and marry, and that sort Of
thing, Edith, you will be mistaken; so /
may as well tell you first, as to let you
see 1t at the last"
Then he had kissed her, and gone away
to celebrate his coming of age with a
grand party in his own chambers, gath
.ering round him all that was witty and
artistic and clever, but people who were
all strangers in the exceedingly severe
school in which Edith had been brought
mp.
There was no calling of the aristoc-
racy OF the neighborhood round him at
his country seat-no procession of ten
ants-no roasting Of whole oxen, or
school children's feast. He sent a cheque
to the clergyman of the parish, telling
him to use it how he liked, and gave the
tenants a dlnaer. and then for himself
he enjoyed his natal day in his W way,
end after his own fashion.
And SO years crept on, and Edith had
found something OF the hollowness OF the
world that was so strictly proper, then
had married Mr.. Cholmondely, and in her
children had been very happy.
But even now her brother stood first.
He wrote her long letters, and gave her
an amusing account Of his travels; and
she never knew how much she loved him
'tiIl a letter, written by q foreign hand
IN provincial French, told her that her
only brother was dying.
She took the letter straight to her hus-
band, and he had been greatly perrlex-
I'll, doctors had been consulted, and their
consent given. Next she was kneeling
by her brothers side. and was talking
to him, the good cure having slipped out
Of the room.
She soon knew the cause OF his hapless
state-of the terrible railway accident
that had go crushed his spine that he
Law dying there this bright day.
Jocelyn wns telling Edith the history
Il Ma lie. the which had been compress
a }nfo I year OF such exquisite bliss
art ~ description OF II brought tbs