The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-10-06

If lie Knows am mere, why does he
let them search elseWhere?'
Al this she looked away from me,
and ! made sure | saw the sweet chin
CULVER when she spoke.
lie has reasons of his own: reasons
of-of-' but instead OF telling me What
they We're she broke off to say: but
now YOU know Why ali the doors OF
this house are under guard
Truly said l; INC herewith l fell
to pacing up and down the narrow
clear-way in the garnet, striving 10 see
how l might come off with nothing
worse than the loss of my burdensome
life.
Twas easy to guess how his
shaveling lawyer discounted me. Fore
warned is forearmed in any soldier
camp; and through his blabbing, the
plan by which l had hoped to hull re-
sentiment and forestall suspicion was
nipped in the bud. l saw the far-reach-
ing consequences. and was made TO
know how a trapped rat will turn and
fight in sheer desperation whilst the
terrier is shaking him TO death.
When that heaven began 10 work in
me l was ut for the G~aringest thing
that offered: so | paused TO ask if my
Lord CORVALLIS We're Yet in the house,
He is writing letters in his bed
rooln.'' was her answer.
. II .ba WIZ Si4pS. ii' WAY HHtN 'li'N''N'
l shall he your poor debtor by that
much more"
II will not-unless you first tell me
what YOU mean TO CO. She said 1t
firmly, but now | was fronting death
and cou!G be as firm as she.
If you will not show me the Way, |
shal find it myself" Sc much ] sSid;
but as for telling her that | meant to
save his lordship and all the others the
trouble of running me down, l could
not do that.
You are going to give yourself up"
she said: and when | would not deny
1t. she darted before me and set her
back against the wainscot door. Ills
folly. folly she cried. He would but
pull the bell cord and"
And give the order that Colonel
Tarleton's sentence be executed upon
me, you would say. BE ii SO. But in
that event l can at least clear you and
your father of any completely in my
hiding
Il say you shall not GO
What touch of saNasery is it in a
man that will not suffer him to let a
woman, loved or unloVed, stand in the
last resort against his will? At any
other time l would haNe pleaded With
her: would have ended. maNhap, by
weakly defelring to her wish. But row
we'll. You must remember, my dears.
that | MAS the trapped rat. | q her
gently in my arms. set her aside, and
stepped out into the corridor.
| looked for nothing less than . VOL
cano-burst of righteous Indignation To
pay me out for his piece of tyranny.
But now, as twice OF thrice before. my
lady showed me how little a man ma
know of a Woman'S moods.
you need not be so masterfui rough
with me- she said, With a nouting oi
the sweet lips that set me back upon
that thought of a maynard child
wanting to be kissed. IF you say
must. | am in duty bound to show you
the Way" And so she led on and | fol
lowed, in a deeper maze han any she
had ever set me in.
Arrived at q pair OF doors in the nair
passage, she showed me the one that
opened to my lords b~ed-chamber anG
ran away; ran With ner hands TO hel
face as if to shut u a sight WoulC
not bear looking upon.
l turned my back stifliy upon this
newer wonder, pulled myself together
and raped on the door. \ voice with.
in bade me enter: the door opened un,
der my hand and | stood in the pres.
ence of the nan who, as | made M
doubt. would shortly summon hi!
guards and have me out to my rol,,
and tree.