The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
The MASTER OF APPLEBY|
BY Francis Lvnd..
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stan,xr is little more u.s. = ..s..asl ht-
trothal, as you well know, se."-
enough legally to make Mistress Mar
gerry my heir-at-law. mayhap, but still
lacking everything Of
He could not wait TO let me finish.
Lacking. dye say2' he raped out.
swrathfully. And whose fau!t is that,
We dc -blooded stick? Tell me this: did
! no bundle We neck and heels into your
W wife's bedroom? And how do you
thank me" I'm to suppose We quarrel
wi her like the dur-faced imp o. Saw
tan that we are. and presently ye come
raging out. swearing most shamefully
at Il man old enough to be your
father"
Twas far enough in the retrospect
now SO that | could smile at 1t. Yet
1 would not suffer him to buster me
aside.
nonc the less, MIR. Stair: the more as
you must have known that Mistress
,Margery's faith was plighted to Rich
ard Jennifer long before all this came
to pass"
did / know it?" he shrilled. That
lang-legged ~jackanapes of a Dickle
Jennifer": Light o. love jade that she
is, she never cared the snap of Il
finger for him.
you are talking FAR enough beside
the mark now" retorted. Your
daughter loves Richard Jennifer well
and truly: and with this ENHANCEMENT
brushed aside she will marry him when
he comes back from the wars"
"Shc will, We say? And what will be-
come O he Draw acres of Appleby that
gait. I'd like to know? But ye're daft,
man; clean daft. Didn't l spelr her
him his quittance once for all
that night when he rode away after
they had pitten We to bed? She tell't
him fiat she loved anlther man.,
Another MANI 1 echoed. lex
plain yourself. If you please, Mr.. Stair.
What other man.
He was at the door by this, and he
broke out upon me In such a blast OF
cursing as | hope never to near from
the lips of such an old MAJ again.
I'VE cold-blooded, crusty deevil." he
quayered, when all his breath was
spent upon the bigger malisons. HAS
skull that the poor fule lassie is sick
WI love for ye, de dour-faced LOOM"
And with that lie let himself out and
slammed the door behind him. and
heard hin go pottering down the cor
ridor, still cursing me by all the choice
phrases he could lay tongue TO.
CHAPTER LII.
WHICH BRINGS US TO THE JOUR
NEY'S END.
[ may confess to you. my dears, tina
Mr. fNfIhnpAZ Ofntv MI, pvStrr tf,,nI, llE
not move me greatly, since I would SCI
down everything ne ilad suii to tbs ont
account-the miser's.
Yet when l came to second thoughts
upon IT, this count balanced but in.
differently. Why should he be 81
eager to make me think small of Mar.
gery's love for Richard Jennifer? Ane
why, misliking me, as l made sure III
did, should he be so hot to make the
shadow marriage a thing OF substance
From the miser-fatller's point OF view
Richard, with his goodly heritage o
Jennifer House, was a match to b.
angled for; yet here was the man il
whose y house and lands loomet
largest flying into rage because
sought to put his daughter in the wa.
of marrying them.
l was pondering thoughtfully on this
giving the pinching old man credit 70
any and every motive save that Which
he had sc cursingly avowed, to wit
the furthering Of his daughters hap
pihess. when there came u tap at til,
door and Mistress Margery entered.
Dear heart! Do. they limit you to
single candle when my back Is turned?'
she said. in mock pity; and saying 1t
went to light the candles in the mante
scenes.
The sight of her standing a-tiptoe t,
touch on the candles on the Gimme,
breast set the old love-spell at worl
to make my heart beat faster. What l
there were a hint of truth in Gilber
Stairs wrathful protest? What II
after all, she cared less for Richard ant
more for me?
Do not. I pray you, dears. think to,
hardly OF the man who thus lays bar,
the secret thoughts of Ills heart TO
you. Twas but a passing gust of tht
tempest of disloyalty, and I was no
swept wholly from my mornings. Nay
when she came to sit on the hassoek'a
my feet, as she used to do inetllAt Othel
.halcyon-time of convalescence, 1 wa
myself again and could look upon he
sweet face with eyes that saw beyond
her to the camp or battlefield where nj,
dear lad was spending himself.
For a time we sat in silence. anc
, twas she who spoke first.
M father has been with you" Sht
said. II hope you did not quarrel viii
him
NO." I denied, saving my %conscienc,
with the remembering that 1t takes tive
to make a quarrel; and i had don,
none Of the cursing. He came to give
me this" I added, handing her tn,
Will.
She opened the folded parchment
reading a line of 1t here and there soft
ly to herself.
Being of sound mind, doth be.
queath and devise to his loving wife
Margery- All. had you been writing
lit you would not have written it SO
would you. Monsieur John?"'
.s'Tis but q FORM" I would say. "Al
wives are lowing In lawyers speech
She smiled up at me so like an limo
cent and fearless child that for TIN
moment II could figure her no other
wise. Yetsherl rejoinder was u woman's
II say you would not have written /
80: Is not that the truth
I would not let her pin me down.
:sIf I should write II now, 1t shout,
be written In great letters. dear lady
Though tits hut q form. though tina
which Followed was hut another form
you have not failed in any wirely duty
Mattress Margery.
Not once?
mo. not once. Three times YOU hav
Il done what the lOyinReHt wife could n