The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-02-16
The Blind Bride.
BY Amy Randolph.

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Bentley Grange was pretty place at
all times of the year, but loveliest of
all when the reapers We're at work in
the harvest fields and the yellow light
of the October sun turned the wood
land paths to enchanted aisles. A
long, low structure of warmly tinted
red brick. with mullioned windows
| velVet-smooth sweeps of lawn and box
borders. which stood up like walls of
solid emerald OH each side of the path,
it had a SAVIOR of the antique about 1t,
which one seldom sees in an American
| house.
And old Brande Bentley, walking up
and down in the mellow sunshine, be-
tween the walls of black-green box,
with his eyes bent on the ground, and
his hands clasped behind his back
correspondent we'll with the Grange.
Suddenly cheerful footstep rang on
the stone terrace steps-the sound of a
clear, hute-like whistle rose above the
click of the distant moving machine,
and Harry Wade, the old mans neph-
ew, stood like an incarnation of youth
and sunshine before him.
Uncle" he cried merrily, you've
got the prettiest place in the world
here"
Mr.. Bentley took out his big, old
fashioned silver watch
1.-TWO O'clock" said he, "and the
bank don't close until four Humph!
1t appears to me, young man. that you
don't stick very close to business
hours!"
Like limpet, uncle" said Harry,
"and just for today. Will Caryl has
come to act as substitute, for ] real
ly wanted to see you, uncle"
"Humph!" again commented Mr..
Bentley. You're very fond of me
just of late."
I'm always fond of you, Uncle
Brande," said Harry, gravely, "but I've
something to tell you"
Some scrape you've got into" said
Mr.. Bentley.
Nothing of the sort, sir!'
Want to borrow money, perhaps!"
Upon my word, moi"
you've fallen in love with some
girl, then!'
you are right this time uncle -
said Harry, laughing and coloring;
land. OF course, 1 have come directly
to you to tell you of my good fortune.
1t is little Bessie Bird!"
"a milliner's apprentice!" snarled
the old bachelor.
| of cha rnnncna hn1Y, Tor
along by trimming hats in her aunts
millinery rooms, 1 see nothing derog-
atory in that said Harry, valiantly.
"a mere child of seventeen!"
But | don't want an old lady OF
forty-seven!"
"Humph!" growled Mr.. Bentley
what do either of you know of life?
mot much, to be sure. uncle, as yet, "
admitted the young lover, "but we
think we can easily learn-together. '
And where do you think the nap
kins and tablecloths and bread and
butter and rent and water taxes are
to come from?" sardonically inquired
Brande Bentley.
Il have my salary, Uncle Brande
said Harry, land Bessie has been edu-
Gated to be very economical
IN have nothing to say to such
nonsense said Mr. Bentley.
, But. Uncle Brande, all we want
is"
, Nothing, 1 say-absolutely moth
ing." Numbered the old man. "It's
folly Observation-Disclosures tomfoolery
, If you want my opinion, there it is
Time enough for you to think of mat
J rimony when you are thirty. There
) ought to be a law to prevent young
people making fools Of themselves"
l And Brande Bentley turned on hi!
heel and strobe back into the house.
l., So that Harry had no very inspir
iting news for Bessie Bird when he me
$ her, as usual, on the corner Of Broad
way, to walk home with her through
. the pleasant autumn twilight
WAS he very CROSSE" said Bessie
3 who was a white-kitteny sort of girl
with fluffy yellow hair, dimples in he
cheeks. and eyes the exact color OF thu
"fowing-blue" china on our grand
: mothers shelves.
' AS savage as Bluebeard!'
did he scold dreadfully?" aisle,
1 Bessie.
i Told me was fool!'
r But If he won't consent"
( "Then we must manage to get alon,
without his consent" said Harry. 'Be
4 cause, you know, Bessie, do love 70,
\ sosvery dearly, and you like me lit
( tie, don't you?"
Q But your mother has always count
!. ed upon your being his heir" said Bes
u sic. "And to lose all that money
Q just"
d "Just for love and you." archly in
q tsrrupted Harry. Darling. there 1