The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-05

whereby IN any womanly heart III
seemed to stand at will for that which
he was not.
AS have said. j knew him wei.
enough; knew him incapable of love
apart from passion. and that to him
there Mas no sacredncss in maiden
chastity or wifely VOWS. So he but
gained his end he cared no Whit what
followed after; ruin. broken hearts, lost
souls. Il man slain now and then to keep
the scale tipping-all We're as one to
him. or to the Francis I'alcomnet |
knew.
And touching marriage. with Mar
gerry or any other. L feared that Low
would have no word TO say, Passion
there might be. and that fierce desire to
have and wear which burns like Il
miser's fever in the blood; but never
love as lovers easur it. Why. then.
had he proposed 20 Marsery? The an
sWer did not tarry. Since he was now
but a gentleman volunteer it was plain
so might brook the marriage chain if
it We're linked up With my fathers
acres.
1t was a bait to lure such Il gamester
strongly. AS matters stood With Us in
that wan Summe of exhaustion and
defeat. the kings cause waxed and
grew more hopeful day by day. And in
event of flna victory a landless
baronet. marrying Margery's dover of
fingers at h Jews who. haply, had
driven him forth from England.
And as for Margery? Truly, she had
told me. or as good as old me. that her
maiden Owe had pledged itself a pawn
for Jenntfer's ~rcdeenling. But there be
other things than love to sway a wom-
ms will. This volunteer captain with
tho WINNING \yo1p Syoc ~ 3h~ MT
noblesse, ~ he could make her Lady
Falconnct. Moreover. he was With her
a by day: n you may mark this as
you Will, that a present sutton hath
ever the trump cards to play against
the absent lover.
So. %brooding over this, wore out two
most dismal days-tie first in many l
had had to pass alone. But on the
morning of the third the sky was light
ened, though then the light was but a
flash II darkness followed quickly
after. She came again and brought me
n visitor: it was this same Father Mat
thieu with whom she had ieStingly
me. and lest l should AXE my
punishment too lightly, stayed but to
make the good priest known to me.
Now l was BORN and bred an hereto.
by any papist's reckoning. but 1 have
ever held it witless in thai man who
lets a creed obstruct a friendship.
Moreover. this sweet-faced cleric was
the ~friendliest of men: friendly. and yet
the widest Jesuit of them all, since he
me at a glance and fell straight
TO praisins Margery.
"A truly sweet young denloiselle." he
said. by way of foreword, no sooner
was the door closed behind her. and
While he preached q ermon on this text
l grew to know and love him.
He was a little man. as hone and
muscle go. with deep-set eyes, and fea-
lures kind n mild and fine as any
some such face as Leonardo
st. John. could that have been less
youthful. 1 could not tell his order,
though from his well-worn cassock
girded at the waist With a frayed bit
of hempen core he might have been a
Little Brother of the Poor. But this l
noted: that he was not tonsured, and
his white hair, soft and fine as Mar
gery's. was like an aureole to the finely
features. AS missionary men of
any creed are apt, he looked far older
than he really was: and when hi came
1t was patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
/ listened, we'll enough content to
learn him better by his own report.
But you must find it thankless
work; this gospeling in the Wilderness"
l Nentured. when all was said. It's
but a hermit's life for II man of
parts: IL after all, when you have
your utmost, your ]onverts are
but savages, as they We're"
At this he smiled and shook his head.
No, monsieur, not SO. You are a SOL
der and cannot sec beyond your point
of sword. Mails. mon ami, they have
to save. these poor children of
the forest, and they are far more sinned
against than SHINING. 1 find them kind
and true and faithful; and some of
them are noble. in their way"
l laughed. i've read about these
noble ones" l said. Twas in a book
called 'Hakluyt's Eolages.' Truly, l
know them not as you do, for in my
youth ! new them most in war. We
called them brave but cruel then; and
when | was a boy l could have shown
you where, within a mile of this, they
burned poor Davie Davidson at the
"Ah. yes: there has beer much of
he sighed. But you must con-
fess. Captain lreton. tina you English
carry fire and sword among them, too
From that he would have told me
more about the savages. but was in
nearer home. AS l have said.
! was like any prisoner in a dungeon
for lack of news, and so by degrees I
fetched him round to telling me of
what was going on beyond my window
OF lawn and forest.
Brave deeds We're to the fore, it
AT Ramsour's mill. a few
miles north and west. some little hand
full of determined patriots had bested
thrice their number of the kings par
tisans, and that without a leader big
ger than a county colonel. Lord Raw
don. in command of Lord Corn
wallis van, had come as far
as WaNhaw creek, but being
had withdrawn to Hang
Rock. Our Mr.. Rutherford was on
his way to the Forks of Yadkin to en-
gage the Tories gathering under Colo
mel Bryan. AS yet, it seemed. we had
force of any consequence to take
the field against CORVALLIS, though
there were t!ying rumors of an army
marching from Virginia. with a new
general at it's head.
On the whole it was the kings cause
~prospered. and the rising wave of
invasion babe fair to inundate the land.
thought my kindly gossip: and, hav-
nauSht to gain or lose in the great
or ather having naught TO lose
and everything to gain, whichever way
these worldly cards might run. he was