Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1906-06-15

anu '4'H t' N''"-' '"' "a"
papa-that marry him.
Il You marry som" on" "h" mas
title ana position 10 give You lie re-
pliei. Yes. hay" hhiIt NY hopes on
ii; tllat is my way to greatness, my
ambition realized.
i like him very weil.' sh" replied;
'hc Is very handsome. But know lit
Il" about him.
Like him." repeated Mr.. ltanS0mc.
That is a cold word. can tell you.
liiIdrctl, thai some OF the loYcIleNt
Women i'll London would be battered
at receiving attention from him.
why does he not marry one OF
those lovely women she ask"i.
quietly.
"Because he has asked to marry you.
Hildred.'
She thought for IL few moments in
silence, and then she SAID:
4 should be a countess. L suppose
papa. One of the girls from st. Roche,
our school. became Il countess-every-
ono envied her; but her marriage was
not a cry happy one.
Al marriages would be happy" II
women expected only a little less than
they do, and were RATIONAL he said,
hastily.
The Earl of carhven wants to mar
ry me, papa-did he say that he loved
meT
Gentlemen seldom speak to lawyers
about love he replied. fmpatientiy.
This Is not Il mere sentimental. non
| spnGjT.1i love affair. In is of flr greater
Importance. Give 1t your serious atten-
ton. Hildred; put aside all the non
sense.
Again the dark eyes from
the ripping river to the blue sky. to
the green trees. the soft, dewy grass.
the sleeping tlowers-wandered unaasi-
ly. as though reading something Iere
that did not harmonic with her IA
Tiers words; then she spoke 10 him
years afterward she IN her
words.
That is your dream. papa-to see
me Countess OF GaraVeh. Ieii me-l
have been at school all my life, M |
know so little OF real lfe-lt seems
TO me that | have done nothing but
study--l have read few novels, l know
nothing of what people call love. but
you, my father. would nor deceive me
tell me, is love a needful part or mar
riage! Is 1t right TO marry without
IT: Are people happy without II! l
ask YOU. because | say this TO my
self, papa-if there De no such need
for love-f love Is only the poets
dream ana the noSells1 $ chleI resource
why. then l may just as well be
Countess of Garaven as anything else.
Most decidedly" he replied, with an
air OF relief.
But she went on. If there is a
reality In love, II love be heedful Tor
happiness, do not let me marry WITH
out It, You are my Iatner. my only
friend-l appeal to you. Is your point
of view the same as otner people $
papa?
..All sensible people have the same
ideas on the subject, he replied: ana
again his daughters dark eyes soush
the lovely, cleaning river
Il did not think. continued Hiidreu.
slowly. that marriage was a contract
of any kind. l had a different idea OF
it. l thought 1t TOOK place When TWO
souls We're attracted insensibly to each
other, n life became nopier ana pet
ter and higher because OF their love;
and l thought that same love began III
time and ended III eternity.
Arley Ransome looked in wonder at
his daughter
Mildred he said. Il hope you are
not going to turn out romantic.
Il hope not" she replied, quietly.
You have told me the truth, papa,
and, though it has astonlshed me. |
thank you for it-one should not have
false notions. | have asked it because
it strikes me that it would be a ter
rible tliing to marry without love, and
then for love not TO come afterward.
The lawyer held up his n IN hor-
ror.
Such a thing could not be. Every
woman with a well-regulated mind
loves her husband; every husband III
the same way loves his Wife
Then. if I marry the Earl of Cara
ven now" she said, quietly. II shat
learn to love him aftcrward."
Certainly" he replied, with n wish
that She We're not so earnestly sincere.
Il will marry the earl" h said
Simnly