Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-10-06
'If he knows I am here, Why does he

"If he knows I am here, why does he
let them search elsewhere?"
At this she looked away from me,
n / made sure ! saw the sweet chin
CULVER when she spoke.
HE has reasons OF his own. reasons
of--of-'' but instead of telling me what
they were she broke off to say: But
now you know why all the doors OF
this house are under guard"
Truly said /; and Herewith / fell
to pacing up and down the narrow
clear-way in the garnet, striving 10 see
how / might come off with nothing
! worse than the loss of my burdensome
life.
Twas easy to guess how this
shaveling lawyer discounted me. Fore
warned is foreafmed in any soldier
camp; and through his blabbing. the
plan by which / had hoped to, lull re-
sentiment and forestall suspicion was
nipped in the bud / 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 leaven began TO work In
me / was fit for the daringest thing
that offered; so / paused TO ask IL my
Lord CORVALLIS were yet in the house.
He Is writing letters in his bed
ROOM was her answer.
III YOU will show me the way thither
! shall be your poor debtor by that
much more"
II will not-unless you first tell me
what you mean to do" She said II
firmly, but now / was fronting death
and could be as firm as she.
IF you will not show me the way, l
shall find il myself" So much j said;
but as for telling her that 1 meant to
save his lordship and all the others the
trouble of running me down, / 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. IT'S
folly, folly!' she cried. He would but
pull the bell core and"
And give the order that Colonel
Tarleton's sentence be executed upon
me, you would say. Be it so. But in
tina event l can at least clear you and
your father of any completely in my
hiding
II say you shall not CO."
What touch of savagery is Ii 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 have pleaded with
her; would have ended, mayhap, by
weakly deferring to her wish. But row
well, you must ememD my Gears,
that | was the trapped rat. / took her
gently in my arms, set her aside, and
stepped out into the corridor.
l looked for nothing less than a vol
cano-burst of righteous Indignation to
pay me out for this piece of tyranny.
But now, as twice or thrice before, my
lady showed me how little a man may
know of a woman's moods.
"You need not be so masterful rough
with me- she said, with a pouting OF
the sweet lips that set me back upon
that thought of a hayward child
wanting to be kissed. If you say /
must, l am in duty bound to show you
the way" And so she led on and / fol-
lowed, in a deeper maze than any she
had ever set me in.
Arrived at a pair OF doors in the main
passage, she showed M the n hat
opened to my lords bed-chamber and
ran away; ran with her hands to her
face as if TO shut out a sight would
not Deal looking upon.
/ turned my back stiffiy upon this
newer wonder, pulled myself together
and raped On the door. A voice with
in babe me enter; the door opened un-
der my hand and / stood in the pres
ence of the man who, as / made no
doubt, would shortly summon his
guards and have me out to my rope
and tree.