Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-05-05
The MASTER OF APPLEBY|
BY Francis Lynds.

l. IfDuKn mat was IL Dih dtbl - -
enough. Ii was rather In some subletA
OF manner. some power of stimulation
whereby in any womanly heart he
seemed to stand at will for that whicf
he was moi.
As / have said, / knew him wei
enough: knew him incapable of love
apart from passion. and that 20 hin
there was no sacredness IN nader
chastity or wifely VOWS. So he bul
gained his end he cared no whit Whai
followed after; ruin. broken hearts. lost
souls. a man slain now and then TO keef
the scale tipping-all We're as one tt
him. or to the Francis Falconnet ]
knew.
And touching marriage, with Mar
| gerry or any other, / feared that love
would have no word to say. Passion
there might be, and that fierce desire &c
have and wear which burns like a
miser's fever in the blood; but never
love as lovers measure Ii. Why, then
had he proposed TO Margery? The an
swer did not tarry. Since he was now
but a gentleman volunteer il was plain
that he had s~quandered his estate, and
so might brook the marriage chain il
ii were linked up With my fathers
acres.
1t was a bait 10 lure such a gamester
strongly. As matters stood With US in
that wan ummer of exhaustion and
defeat, the kings cause waxed and
grew more hopeful day by day. And In
event Of final victory a landless
baronet. marrying Margery's dover OF
Appleby Hundred. might snap his
fingers at the Jews who, happy, had
driven him forth from England.
And as for Margery? Truly, she had
told me. or as good as, told me, h P her
unaflan. loN-a had pIadunA tQalf a ma IA n
for Jennifer's redeemins. But there be
other things than love to sway a wom-
ans will. This volunteer captain with
the winning way was of the haute
noblesse, and ne could make her Lady
F~alconnet. Moreover. he was with her
day by day; and you may mark this as
you will, hat a present sutton hath
ever the trump capds TO play against
the absent lover.
So. brooding over this, l wore out two
most dismal days-the first in many 1
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 and darkness followed quickly
after. She came again and brought me
a visitor; il was this same Father Mat
thieu with whom she had jestingly
compared me. and lest | should take 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 | have
ever held it witless in that man who
let's 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
read me at a glance and fell straight
way TO praising Margery.
"a 4r,,Its ru,aa xrounu daponi~aIla - ha
said, by way of foreword. no one
was the door closed behind her, and
while he preached q sermon on this text
I grew to know and love him.
He was a little man, as zone n
muscle GO, with deep-set eyes, and fea-
lures kind and mild and fine as any
woman's. some such face as Leonardo
gave st. John, could that have been less
youthful. j could not tell his order,
though from his well-worn cassock
girded at the waist with a frayed bit
of hempen cord he might have been a
Little Brother of the Poor. But this I
noted. hat hi was not tonsured, and
his white hair. soft and fine as Mar
gery's, was like an aureole to the finely
chiseIed features. AS missionary men of
any creed are apt, he looked far older
than he really was; and when he came
to tell me of his life among the Indians.
it WAS patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
| listened, we'll enough content to
learn him better by his w report.
But you must find it thankless
work; this gospeiing in the wilderness, y
| ventured, when all was said. "'Tis
but q hermit's life for any man of
parts; and after all, when you have
done your utmost. your converts are
bpt ca yaqpg SO they were"
AT this he smiled and shook his head.
mo, monsieur, not SO. You are a sol
der and cannot sec beyond your point
of sword. Mails. MOI ami, they have
souls 70 save, these poor children of
the forest, and they are far more sinned
against than SHINING. / find them kind
and true and faithful: and some of
them are noble, in their way"
/ laughed. i've read about these
noble ones" | said. Twas in a book
called Hakluyt's yolages. Truly. L
know them not as you do. for in my
youth L knew them most in mas We
called them brave but cruel then; and
when | was a boy | could have shown
you where, within a mile of this. they
burned poor Davie Davidson at the
stake"
..Ah, yes: there has been much OF
that" he sighed. but you must con-
TESS, Captain Ireton, that you English
carry fire and sword among them, too"
From that he would have told me
more about the savages but / was in
terested nearer home. AS l have said,
/ was like any prisoner in a dungeon
for lack of news. and so by degrees /
fetched him round to telling me of
what was going on beyond my window
sight of lawn and forest.
Brave deeds were to the fore. 1t
seemed. 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 q county colonel. Lord Raw
don. In command of Lord Corn
wallis van. had come as far
as Waxhaw creek. but being
unsupported, had withdrawn to Hang
ing 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, IL seemed. we had
no force OF any consequence TO take
the field against CORVALLIS, though
there were flying rumors OF an army
marching from Virginia. with a new
appointed general at its head.
On the whole 1t was the kings cause
that ~prospered. and the rising wave of
invasion babe fair to inundate the land.
So thought my kindly gossip: and. hay
ing naught TO gain or los in the great
war, or ather having naught TO lose
and everything TO gain, whichever way
these worldly cards might run. he was
a fair, impartial witness.
As you may well suppose. This news
awoke In me the lust OF battle, and
must chafe the more for having 1t
And while my visitor talked on, and