Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-16

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What! You're going to get mar.
ried?'
why not. If l have an invitation
'Twcnty-two's getting on"
"Ah,' said Cambel and set to rock
ing his chair.
"Yes?'
II didn't say anything
You said An Patrick, and thai
mean you thought a lot besides"
quite right, | did. Ii had neyes
quite struck me till then that You &ere
"A completely grownup young womaS
o n might any day zee a man &c
go into permanent partnership With
It's n bit of a jar mean IL comes
oddly TO one at first TO think OF you
as married. Elsie"
"Shoo-ssn-Pat, get UP and drive
that humming bird away. He won't 80
for me, greedy little beast. and If he
stays any longer / know he'll oyereat
himself. Well, you'd better brace your-
self up for q blow, because married
mean TO be some day. Who knows but
what youth beat me In the C
"I?"
Mabel became a widow"
That" said Cambel, lis the usnsl
sequence OF events"
You know she never wanted TO
marry him"
$50 l was led TO understand some
fly years back. Yet marry him she
did nevertheless, and that after due
publication OF banns. / might remark.
Elsie, Ia that humming bird you were
interested in Is still gorging himself
out OF those red flowers Just ON the
other side OF YOU"
Some creatures never know when 10
stop. Now, l do" said Miss kildare
That's the bell for dinner. I mnst 10
n tidy myself"
Meanwhile a certain Mr.. Kenf-Wn-
Hams, a young gentleman OF Eng
land who was throwing poker dice at
h bar with two friends for
ante prandial cocktails, was looking at
h subject from a different coign Of
view. he was a young gentle
man who had not made conspicious
success of himself in England and had
been deported to Florida with "A view
to extracting q fortune from oranEe
growing. AS on reaching the spot he
found this VAS difficult OF achieve
ment, he wisely did not worry his
brain with any vain attempts, but was
content with living in inexpensive Te-
tirement for Observation-Disclosures Of
of each quarter and b~lossoming 0ut
during the remaining days in riotiogS
living on h allowance which reached
MIN from home. And with him were
4wo others who had been softly nur-
Aured and who were also taking their
quarterly nip OF standardization
Il tell YOU" said Kent Williams.
shes a clinking fine specimen, that
kildare girl, and, by Jove! / ought 90
be a judge if any one is now here.
Lock-three sevens, first shot! Good
I'LL keep these and see il / can't rattle
out another. She'll go to England and
marry a duke as sure as fits, don't
you know. / wonder IL Cambel win
hitch onto the other sister. Looks hike |
At. his coming here after the Duvernay
beast turned up his toes. / never
could stand Duyernay. Not a varsity |
man. don't you know, and hadn't been !
anywhere to school. Simply a hit of
money and thought he could swaEger
on that. BY Jove! two bullets. That
makes me a full house, and IN stand
on 1t. Collar h box, Willie. dear boy
and beat me If you can"
"No," said Willie, scooping the 6zrn
into the leather box and thoughtly STIR
ring them before he empted into the
pewter counter. Il don't think-aF-I
Duvernay was anybody. / didn't know
him here, but I-ar-don't recolleut
meeting him at the club or anywhere
before we came out-by ged. look
there! Fours, first shot OF course
hlludEGS dTt dl right Ab ldE lib ihEily
goes. But they're poor aS regards b
-ar-almigthy dollar. II 1t wasn't for
that, by ged! / wouldn't mind going I'm
for the fair Elsie myself Wohinson.
old chappie, take the box and agi4ake.
You won't beat my four ladies'
. II wish" said Kent-W Williams znedf-
tatively, Il knew what Carnbel WAS
going to do. Mabel Duyenay's a
charming woman, and she's got Rt
least $500 a year. / don't want I'd
a DOL of myself IL CambelS stf1
I'm the running. And, by Jovei I know
she's as fond OF him as ever. That
beast Duvernay used to twit her with
Ii when he was in an extra vile tenn
per"
GO slow" advised Robinson. and
hang back for bets. Here. i cnn.t iIn-
again. Here's the BY the Way,
why not ask Cambei yourseifs You
knew him well enough at Cambridge.
and you aren't shy"
I'm not shy, dear boy. and I used 10
know Patrick Carnbel well befnrR Il
came out. He's a devilish genial feb
low so long as o rub him tfue right
way, but I shouldn't like to crosa gnes-
ton him too much about Mrs Dn1ser-
You see, DOM you know, he was
most Internally struck on the lady be-
fore she was married. n he's "a Uf
these fellows with a long memory who
don't forget. Now, i. dear boy. have
been in love with hcapsof women in my
time. and they with me. but when 4tey
gave me the chuck, or / got tired eFs
them / didn't break my blessed heart
or play the goat. or do anything Of the
kind. / simply went on 90 the nexf
caravan. which is a dcviiish comfort
able amusement. But old Pat Isn't
built that way. He's one of those fouls
would get gone on a woman and
keep her in mind for years ard years
afterward. Mighty dreary sort az q
game to my way of thinking by love,
four kings! If you beat those. dear
boy, may / live on sweet potnfGey and
all the rest OF my iife.- 1
s'Oh. Lord!" said Robinson. -Eseg a
years. 00-one could pig along with
very comfortably In lots of places
What unlucky brutes some of ns are.
oh, curse it. just my form. two pairs
We won't proiong agouy
shout Whatll you fellows have =
They crank their cocktails and went
the vast bare dining hall where q
shining negro waiter supplied cash
q tumbler of iced tea and xuo
dozen oval dishes of comestfblcsl
-aCamsbcl seems thick enough With
the Kildare girl" Williams OBJ
served. But of course he knew her
when she was a kid and they'd have
heaps 20 talk a3cut- What DO srn
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