The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-07-13
CHAPTER III.

shame to waste day like this"
''Pm not wasting the day, Bob,
DEAR" said the person appealed to.
81 have my hands as full as they can
hold It's Lillian Lees birthday to-
morrow, and if I'm to have this fin
ished in time | shall be at work till
paidnight."
ooh, bother Lillian Lees birthday.
I've no more than a fortnight's leave,
and we've hardly had day together.
l call 1t downright unssterly. It's
simply beastly."
"They don't teach We manners on
board ship, do they, Bob darling?"
said Miss Molloy, looking up at her
companion with roguish eyes. "Ah,
then, what's the use of your trying to
be out of temper? Sit down now, like
the good boy We can be when We like.
Ye can smoke If ye want to, and we'll
be just as happy here as we would be
ON the river"
CAN right" said the young man. in
q tone which indicated that all was
wrong. His sister. who was engaged
in the fine embroidery of some slken
mystery, sat on the shady side of the
veranda which surrounded pretty
little bungalow overgrown with Nir-
ginia creeper and roses. Her brother
bestowed his flannelclad figure in a
long cane lounging chair, lit a pipe.
and lay smoking for while with an
air of injury "Yere mighty fond of
Miss Lillian Lee all of sudden" he
said. 81 never heard of her till came
home this leave"
ooh, yes we have, then" responded
Miss Molloy, 'only we've forgotten.
We've been friendly this three years"
The young man. yielding to the sooth-
ing influence of tobacco, lay quiet for
WHILE putting rings of smoke into
the tranquil air.
ooh, Belle" he said suddenly. I've
news for We. We're going to have a
new neighbor The newspaper man
what's his name again?-Truscott--
is going to get married.
That's an interesting fact in itself,
but don't know the man be sight,
said the young lady. who's he mar
rying?"
Its some tremendous swell, l
know" said young Molloy; but I've
forgotten her name. | got he news
from Billery. You remember Bilery?"
Faith do, then" his sister an
swered. Its the little man that ruin
ed himself, and is always tellin' other
people how they can make a fortune. "
That's the Johnny" said young
Molloy. But I've not told you me
news yet ] say we're goia.g to have
q new neighbor.'
'Is the newspaper man leaving when
he marries?"
'sHe Is, and it's your own knight of
the rueful countenance that's taken
over his lease and is coming to live
down here"
Eye can't be meaning that Brangwyn
man% cried Miss Belle. dropping her
work into her lap aud looking at her
brother with an all yt great d,spleas-
ure
II am" he said. mo less. Mr..
Aloysius Brangwyn takes up his ten.
ancy in about week. so Billery tells
me. Yen not he wanting for society
now, Belle, me darlin'."
Society" cried Miss Molloy with
tone of great acerbfty. rs it soci-
ETY.? Upon my word OF honor If were
shipwrecked with the man upon a
desert island I'd live on one side of 1t
and Danish him to the other
'Ye would not, then" her brother
responded. ''lm not saying like him
meself, for don't, but never met a
soul In me life that had half the mans
charm when he likes to use it. It's not
six months since we were stationed at
Villeffanche, and saw great deal OF
hiH there He'd lovely yacht-the
Seagull-a little thing of about three
hundred tons, and dined aboard with
him. He was good enough to remem
Der me, and at first 1t struck me that
he was lot too patronizing, but In q
month we were as thick as thieves
and tell We. Belle, he was the idol OF
the place. The women were round
him like shoals"
"Oh, the women" said Miss Belle
with mighty disdainful infection.
II know your opinion of your ow1
charmin' SEX" said Master Bob. "ant
needn't tell you that share ut"
You. We whippersnapper," cried hi,
sister; "an' what right have you to a,
opinion? The women are little enough
to brag Of. They're flighty and hollow
headed enough. poor things, blu
they're wisdom's self with any NAL,
creature OF your age and experience.
That's as may be-" said Bob, com
placently. but ! thought ye'd be In
terested in knowing that your owl
special bete-noir was coming to liv
within hundred yards.
suppose this is your mean II
yenge. because I couldn't come on TIL
river" said Belle. yiciousiy, bitin
with her white teeth at . piece Of seal
let sewing silk. "Of course that's moi