Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-04-28

All what / meant to say vas h a
he lied. 1 made no threats to him, 70
tell the plain truth. 1 was too Hereby
mad to handy words with him
What made o mad, Monsieur
Johnw"
Twas his threat 20 me--to faint me
with my fathers outIawry. Do you
greatly blame me. Margery?'
No"
Thereat a silence came and sat be-
tween us. and fell TO owing her the
more because of IL but when she spoke
I always loved her more for speaking.
my father has had little peace since
coming here she aid at length. ne
Is old and none too Well. and as Tor
king and congress-. asks nothing put
his right to hold aloof. And this they
viii not give him
Remembering that Jennifer had told
me of Gilbert Stairs trimming. smiled
within.
.sThat is the way of all the world in
wartime. ma petite. A partisan may
su%ffcr'once for all, but both sides hold =
neutral lawful prey"
Twas as the spark to finder; my
word the spark and in her eyes the am
swer.hg fash.
II tell him SOL she cried. II tell him
always that the king will have his own
again. But still he halts and h~esitates;
and when these rebels come ana guar
ter on U.S.
fear she must have seen my inward
smile this time, for she broke of In the
midst. and | made haste TO forestall her
flying out at me.
'Oh. come, my dear: you should not
be so fierce with him when you yourself
have brought a rebel TO his house TO
nurse alive"
She looked me fairly In the eye. You
1 uHn,Ia ha tho Ioaf YO remind mo Of my
treason, Monsieur john"
Then you are free to call it treason,
are you, Margerya" ! said.
She looked away from me again.
How can ii we'll be less than %treason?'
Then suddenly she turned and clasped
her hands upon my knee. You u
not be too hard on me. Monsieur John.
I've tried TO do my duty as | saw IT.
and I have asked no questions. And
yet | know much more than you have
told me-"
What do you know"
II know your wound has been your
safety. If you should leave this room
and house today you would never wear
, the buff and blu again, Captain Ire
ton"
You mean they would hang me for a
spy. VII you believe me. Margery, if
! say | have not yet worn the buff n
blue at all?"
on The little exclamation was of
pure delight. Then they were all mis-
! taken? You are no rebel. after all?"
Was eyer man so tempted since the
fall of Adam? As l have writ it down
| for you in measured words, l was no
more than half a patriot at this time.
| And love has made more traitors than
it's opposites of lust or greed. In no
uncertain sense / was a man without a
| country; and this fair maiden on the
hassock at my feet Was all the world
to me. / saw in briefer time than any
clock hands ever measured how much
a yielding word might do for me; n
then | thought OF Richard Jennifer and
was myself again.
May. little one I said. there has
| been no mistake. For their own pur-
! poses my enemies have passed the
word that | am here as the Baron de
Kalb's paid spy. That is no mistake;
it's a lie cut out OF whole cloth. l came
here straight from New Berne, and
back OF that from London and the
| continent. and scarcely know the buff
and blue by sight. But ] am Carolina
borsi, dear lady land this King Georges
governor hanged my father. SO. when
God gives me strength to mount and
ride"
Now who is ferce?" she cried. And
then, like lightning: Will you raise a
band OF rebels and come and take your
own again.
You know I will not" l protested, so
gravely that she laughed again, though
now there were tears, from what WELL
spring of emotion / knew not, in her
eyes,
"Oh. mercy me- Have you never
one little grain of imagination,
Monsieur John? You are too mon
strous literal for our poor jestlng age"
Then she sobered quickly and added this:
"And yet / fear that this is what my
father fears"
/ did not tell her that he might have
feared IL once with reason. or that now
the houseless dog she petted should have
life Of me though mine enemy should
sick him on. But / did say her father
had no present cause to dread me.
He thinks he has. And surely there
Is cause enough" she added.
/ smiled. and, loving her the more for
her fairness, must smile again.
Nay, you have changed all that. dear
lady. Truly. | did at first fly out at him
and all concerned for what has made me
a poor pensioner In my fathers house
or rather In the house that was my IA
TIERS. But that was while the hurt was
new. / nave been a soldier of fortune ton
long to- think overmuch Of the loss of APP
pleby Hundred. Twas my fathers, GER
1 (: .:isy- I, /; 5..s ..-s5 iisv5T nine.
And yet-and yet 1t should be yours,
John Ireton.'' She said II brayely, with
uplffted face and eloquent eyes that one
who ran might read.
Continued Next Week.)