The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-05

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seemed TO stand at Will for that which
he was rot.
AS | have said, knew him we'll
enough knew him Incapable Of love
apart from passion. and that to him
| there Was no sacredncss in maiden
chastity or wifi Fly VOWS. SO he but
gained lis end ne cared no whit what
FOLLOWED after; ruin, broken hearts, lost
! 50 is. Il man slain now and then to keep
the scale tipping-all We're as one to
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 to
have and wear which burns like a
misers fever in the blood but never
love as lovers measure it. Why, then,
had he proposed 10 Margery? The an
sWer did not tarry. Since he was now
but gentleman volunteer 1t was plain
that he had squandered his estate, and
so might brook the marriage chain If
it were linked up with my fathers
acres.
1t was a bait to lure such gamester
strongly. AS matters stood with US in
that wan summer 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
AppleDy 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, that her
maiden love had pledged itself Il pawn
for Jennifers rcdeemlng. But there be
other things than love to sway wom
ans Will. This volunteer captain with
the winning way was of the haute
uoblesse, and he could make her Lady
Ealconnct Moreover he was with her
day by day, aud YOU may mark this as
you Will, that a present sutton hath
ever .he trump cards to play against
the absent lover.
SO, brooding over this, wore out two
most dismal days-the first in many
had had to pass alone But on the
morning of the third the sky was light
ened, though then the light was but
flash and darkness followed quickly
after, She came again and brought me
n visitor; 1t was this same Father Mat
theu 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 | was born and bred an hereto,
by any papist's reckoning. but I have
ever held 1t witless in that man who
lets creed obstruct a friendship.
Moreover, this sweet-s faced cleric was
the friendliest of men; friendly. and yet
the widest Jesuit of them ALL since he
read me at a glance ard fell straight
way to praising Margery
"A truly sweet young demoselle," he
said. by way of foreword, no sooner
was the door closed behind her and
while he preached a sermon on this text
| grew to know and love him.
He was a little man, as bone and
muscle go. with dcep-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. | could not tell his order
though from his well-worn cassock
of hempen cord he might have been
Little Brother of the Poor. But this l
noted: that he was not tCnsured 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 he came
to tell me of his life among the Indians,
1t was patent how the years had multi
piled upon him.
l listened we'll enough content to
learn him better by his own report.
But you must find it thanllless
work: this gospeling in the Wilderness"
l ventured, when ALI was said. Ills
but hermit's life for any man of
parts; and after all. when you have
done your utmost your converts are
but savages. as they WERE
AT this he smiled and shook his head.
mo, monsieur. not so. You are a SOL
dler and cannot sec beyond your point
OF sword. Mais, mon ami, they have
souls to 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"
l laughed. I've read about these
called 'Hakluyt's VOYAGES Truly,
know them nos as you do. for in my
youth | knew them most in war. We
called them brave but cruel them and
when I was a boy I could have shown
you where. within a mile of this they
burned poor Davie Davidson at the
stake"
"Ah. yes; there has been mucn Of
that" he sighed. But you must con-
TESS, Captain lreton, that you English
carry fire and sword among them. too"
From that he would have told me
more about the savages, but l was in
terested nearer home. AS 1 have said,
l was like any prisoner in dungeon
for lack of news, and SO by degrees I
letched him round to telling me of
what was going on beyond my window
sight of lawn and forest.
Brave deeds We're to the fore. it
seemed. AT Ramsour's MILL few
miles north and west, some little hand
full of determined patriots had bested
thrice their number of the kings par
tlsars, and that without leader big
ger than 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
MS way to the Forks of Yadkin to en-
gage the Tories gathering under Colo
mel RrSan. AS yet 1t seemed, we had
no iorce OF any consequence to take
the held against CORVALLIS, though
there We're flying rumors of an army
marching from Virginia, with a new
appointed general at it's head.
On the whole it was the kings cause
that prospered. and the rising wave of
invasion bade fair to inundate the land
SO thought my kindly gossip; and. hay-
ing nauSht to gain or lose in the great
war, or ather having naught to lose
and everything to gain, whichever way
these worldly cards might run. he was
fair, impartial witness.
AS you may Well suppose, this news
awoke in me the lust of battle. ana 7
must chafe the more for having r.
And while my visitor talked on. and
was listening with the outward ear
my brain was busy putting two and
two together How came it that the
British outpost still remained at