Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-09-06

what he had said was entirely TO her
interest and without any profit to him
self. 1t was on the morning of the
great ball, and he called her TO him
in his room and asked If Fairfax would
be there that evening.
"Of course" she said, "why?"
After what has passed between
us?
You mean in the city,"
II do, my dear. Mr.. Fairfax has dis
pleased me much. First of all, he re-
signed from the directorate of my new
company, the Brothers Steamship as
ISOLATION on which / had placed him, a
very fiattering position for so young a
man, and then he caused me deep sor-
row in doubling the pureness Of my
motives in floating the company at all.
l am long suffering, Amy, and because
II Is my duty to bear with the hasty
/ do so as much as possible. But Mr..
Fairfax overstepped the mark. Such
a spirit as his would cause d~issension
among our simple minded workers, and
l felt it due to them that be should no
longer be at their side"
80 you ave him the-well, the sack.
OF course l know"
Perhaps" aid Mr.. Shelf. with a
smile of pain, he Will be able to OBJ
tain employment elsewhere, or being a
young man OF means he may choose to
set up in business for himself, but l
bfear. my dear, that he will miss many
Of the Christian influences which so
elevate n purify the dependents Of
Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf"
Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders.
isn't this" she said, ito do with the
city and not Park lane? AS Mrs. Shelf
says, we're ordinary society heathens
when we're here, and as she sent Ham
ilton his card | don't see that il mat
tnv- Tt'c ME- CyEl &c 80 h1.,-
And O mine, Amy? You are right
in the word, my dear, but not in the
spirit. AS a Christian. of course, l
have already forgiven the wrong Mr..
Fairfax has done me in doubling the
pureneSs Of my motives. But this
humble roof is mine, Amy, and It would
grieve me TO receive under it any one
with whom l am not on terms of broth
erly amity. But perhaps you can as
sure me, my dear, hat Mr.. Fairfax has
already repented him of his hasty and
unjust words"
Not that" said Miss Rivers. I'm
| sure he hasn't"
Then replied Mr.. Theodore Shelf,
with a sorrowful firmness, II cannot
receive him. / couldn't do it."
Il uppos you KNOW" the girl re-
torted sharply, that If Hamilton does
not come here tonight l shan't either"
You are my ward"
81 may be. But you've never tyran-
nized over me, and o are not going
to begin now. I tell you fatty that If
it's no Hamilton it's going to be no
me. / shall go to Hampstead to stay
with my cousin"
Il cannot give way in this, Amy. NY
conscience will not permit me-"
Very we'll. May l have a carriage,
or must l order a hanson? ?"
MY dear child, l can refuse you
nothing in reason. The brougham is
now, as 1t always has been, entirely
at your disposal"
Miss Rivers left the room, and Mr..
Shelf scrubbed bis dogs ragged head.
She's angry with me now, George" he
said, with a fat, satisfied smile, blu l
think she'll change her mind afterward.
She's a clever girl, and she'n see. So
with that young beggar Fairfax, on
found him!"
Then Mr.. Shelf put George on a
comfortable chair and turned to his
table. He had, as may be imagined,
a GOOD deal of writing to get through,
n a considerable deal Of burning, and
the work took him till very late. Then
he dressed, slipped out for dinner and
returned by IL o'clock to stand behind
his wife and watch her as she received
her guests. He thought he had never
seer the woman look so handsome or
so queenly, and once or twice he half
regretted the blow which he was going
TO bring down upon her. But then his
eyes would fall on the walls OF tn
room, and the silver lamps, and the
flowers, and the items Of tha gorgeous
display would go into his soul and
wither up any morsel of ompassio
which might ave been there.
"A mans impelling motive is not al
I xvA az. N III 4 $780, - -
some n saying as they passed him,
n he applied the words to himself,
n when he remembered the ruthless
extravaganza which no words or en-
treaties OF his own could stay, and
which alone-so ne believed-had
forced him into knavery, he felt that
social death was a O requital to the
woman who had worked his ruin. A
knife was more her due. And yet-and
yet she was such a monstrous fine wo-
man and SO thoroughly clever in the
role she had set herself TO play,
II certainly was a gorgeous assem-
bly,, not made up exclusively of the
very best people perhaps. though many
OF them were there, but it looked
wealth unspeakable. Men in evening
dress cannot show this. If they fail
to appear like walters. that is the ut
most they can expect. But the wo-
men. They carried It on their should
ers and backs, as they have done since
the beginning OF time. Their dresses
were a dream of cos and loneliness.
their Jewelry a chain OF rainbows.
oh Lord!" said one young man with
predatory instincts who propped a
wall, why arn't / practicing bush
ranger just now? There's some of the
finest diamonds here in all the world.
and two Johnnies with pistols could
stick up the whole house. Why's Eng
land such a beastly safe place? II
there was a hard wooden chair any
where here to sit on and think, I be-
lieve I'd turn anarchist on the spot"
Don't reduce the crowd to e g. d."
said a fellow prop. 1t spoils the poetry
Of the thing. Now / find them good
enough TO look at" Never said hey
weren't" rejoined the other. only
thing is they arn't mine. Now / could
do very well with the lot of them"
This isn't Turkey" said his friend
reprovingly.
"Oh, not the women. I've got one
wife, and she's enough for me. But
I'd l he dresses. And the diamonds.
I'd sell 'em second hand and riot on
the proceeds. Talking of sales, come
and find some burgundy cup"
They went away from the ballroom,
! passing down the broad shallow star
way, and were going to cross the hall
when a man stopped them Inc told
4 them The NAV WAS clncad