Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-08-19

is not the truth, he answered In
slow husky voice.
by the sun in heaven, 1t is truth
Ask her."
Then a great scoundrel are you,
unfit with honest men to talk. Ho!
Yes, your sword pull from its scab-
bard. Strike. To the heart, strike
me. Less wicked would be the deed
than the thing you have done
There was something very impress
siye in the angry sorrow Of Joris. Yet
Hyde persevered in his solicitation.
DO but hear me, sir. l have done
nothing contrary to the custom Of
people in my condition, and l assure
you that with all my soul l love your
| daughter. No man can love her bet
ter"
What say you? How, then. do /
love her? l who carried her-mijn
witte lammetie-in these arms before
yet she could say to me, 'Fader!"
His wrath had been steadily growing,
and suddenly striking the desk pom
derous blow with his closed hand, he
said with an unmistakable passion,
my daughter you shall not have. God
in heaven to himself take her ere
such sorrow come to her and mel"
"Sir, you are very uncivil; but to be
plain with you, l am determined to
marry your daughter if l can compass
the matter in any way. 1t is now,
then, open war between us; and so,
sir, your servant"
Stay. To me listen. Not one
guilder will l give to my daughter,
if"
ITO the devil with your guilders!
Dirty money made in dirty traffic"
You lie"
"Sir, you take an infamous advan-
tage. You know, that, being Rather
ines father, I will not challenge you"
"Christusl" roared Joris, "chal-
lenge me one hundred times. A fool
| would be to answer you. Life my
God gave to me. Well, then, only
my God shall from me take it. See |
you these arms and hands? In them /
you will be as the child of one year. |
Ere beyond my reason you move me,
goi" and he strobe TO the door ana !
flung it open with passion that made |
every one in the store straighten /
towards the two men.
White with rage, and with his hand |
upon his sword-hilt, Capt Hyde |
stamped his way through the crowded
store to the dusty street. Then it
struck him that he had not asked the
name of the man to whom Katherine
was promised. He swore at himself
for the omission. Whether he knew
him or not, he was determined to
fight him. Now he must see Kathe-
rine before her father had any oppor-
tunity to give any orders regarding
him.
In the meantime Joris was suffering
as only such deep natures can suffer.
Capt. Hydes proposal and his posi-
tive assertion that Katherine loved
him, had fallen upon the fathers
heart with the force of blow, and
the terror of a shock.
After Hyde's departure, he shut
the door of his Office, walked to the
and stood there some min
utes, clasping and unclasping his
large hands, like man full of grief
and perplexity. Ere long he remem-
bered his friend Semple. This trou-
ble concerned him also, for Capt.
Hyde was in a manner his guest;
and, If he were informed of the mar
iage arranged between Katherine
md Neil Semple, he would doubtless ,
eel himself bound in honor to retire.
Joris found Semple and in a few ,
hort, strong sentences, put the case ;
before him. :
MY certiei When girls are auld
nough for lover, they are a match
or any gray head. I'm thankful man
hat l wasna' put in charge o. any o. :
hem. l shall hae to speak my mind '
o Mel, and likewise to Col. Gordon;
nd you Gamma put of your duty to
our daughter an hour longer. Dear +.
1el To think, Joris, o. a man be-
lg able to sit wi the councillors o. the
alton, and yet no match for a lassie
seventeeni"
AS they walked homeward, the elder
llked, and Joris pondered, not what
as said, but the thoughts and pur- S
oses that were slowly forming In his "
wn mind. o
When the evening meal was over
oris rose, and laying his hand on 81
atherines shoulder said, There is "
to talk about Sit down, K
ysbet; the door shut close. and lis a
n to me-" H
1t was impossible to mistake the te
err purpose on her husbands face, is
i'd Lysbet silently obeyed the order. vi
Katherine, katrijntje. min kind. pl
is afternoon there comes to the store 70
q young man Capt. Hyde. To thy yt
Their he said many Ill words. To 81