Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-23
The Plunderers|
BY c. o. cUTLIFFE HyNE- {.
BY c. .. cUTLIFFE HyNE.

He got q return message, X Is true
but not before neon on the following
day. IL said Take no steps. An
writing AMI seemed TO hint at 6
change o: plan.
In another place re might nave re-
scented the delay. Vt east eleven days
must pass. and probably more. before
q letter could reach him. and all the
while he would be condemned ~ mac
ton and anxiety. But as il was he
read Mr.. Theodore Shells reply cable
gram with a frowa which was quite
~~evanescent and felt n mild satisfaction
in the respite. In the afternoon he too
out Miss kildare TO ish for tarpon.
BY one OF those singular chances
which occur every century or so q
tarpon they did actually each on that
first day OF h%shing-a thirty pound
monster. with glitterinG silver scales
on him as big as dollars, who gave
three hours frantic fight before he
turned his belly to the skies and sub
mitted TO travelling backward in the
boat.
I'VE cot him between as said Miss
Kildare. That's my frsL and I've
tried for him times out OF 2umoer."
MY hrst also. and I've tarpon isheG
for weeks"
W seem 70 bring ore another luck.
TITS sn u~ndoub,ed fact. Elsie. we
do
The deduction seemed TO give rise TO
thoughts In each OF them, and they let
their eyes owe vaguely over the gulf
waters for she next minutes without
speaking. while the beat rode gently
ever the MINDLESS sTells which slid In
through the outlying keys A porpoise
snrgef past them. coughing as he
chased a shoal CT mulIsG. and overhead
a string OF purple and yellow cranes
screamed YEARLY as they tapped home
30 the Everglades after q days lard
fishing or e growing reef.
They've al got 10 make their iiv-
f.E." sa5t Cambel
who asked the girl.
Il MAS thinking OF those animals In
n water and in The air and. by an
Elogy. the rest o1 he animal world. We
NIL OF as prey On something else. down
TO h ass who cats grass, or else we
die"
~~rnct's & very sage remark. Pat.
Have yuG been reading Schopenhguer
lately. Ct is your bank un-
healthy
Cnmbel laughed. was 1t pesslmis-
tfc7 I'm rot given that way as a gen.
e-nl thiuS. It's SO much pleasanter for
oneself and everybody else 70 look at
Rs2tteTG from the cheerful point OF
giew But ] wes thinking at the time
AAslA y - 49, - "a ain II CAAfE
things had not happened as they did
my life would have been written very
differently"
You mean yoa might have been her
ambassador TO the court OF
Tlnbuk1ug"
-Or something IN that line. Pos
Eibiy. yes"
Mabel" said the girl. SIS free now"
Earabel nodded d-eamily and once
lct his gaze roam out across the
waters. The beat rode uncared for
the gentle oily swells, and the
sound CT the surf crumbling ON the dis
tant keys fell on his cars and droned
to him a lingering taie OF might have
been. Mabel was free. The woman who
had once promised 10 be his wife; the
woman whose memory had driven him
from pillar TO post across the world
through ali those long wild years. be-
cause OF his abiding love for her was
great a torment TO be borne when
rested for a breathing place In one
and had time for thought: the woman
had by pressure been made to
marry another man, whom, neither on
her wedding cay nor at n after
time. did she ever ove She was free
again. Mabel Duvernay now, and
Mabel Kildare no longer, but Mabel
Still. n free.