The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-22
T he P1underers
BY c j. cUTLIFFE HYNE.
BY c. j. cUTLiFFE HYNE.

He got a return message. it Is true
but not before noon on the following
day. 1t said: Take no steps. An
writing" and seemed to hint at g
change @: plan.
In another place he might nave re-
vented the delay. At least eleven days
must pass. and probably more, before
a letter could reach him, and all the
while he would be condemned to mac
ton and anxiety. But as 1t was he
read Mr.. Theodore Shells reply cable
gram with a frown which was quite
-evanescent and felt q mid satisfaction
in the, respite. In the afternoon he took
out Miss Kildare to fish for tarpon.
BY one of those singular chances
tarpon they did actually catch on that
first day of f%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
mitsea TO travelling backward in the
boat.
w got him between us" said Miss
Kildare. That's my first, and I've
tried for him times out OF number"
My first also, n I've tarpon fished
FOR weeks
ITS In undoubted fact. Elsie, we
do"
The deduction seemed to give rise to
thoughts In each OF them. and they let
their eyes row vaguely over the gulf
waters for the next minutes without
speaking. while the boat rode gently
over the MINDLESS Swells which slid In
through the outlying keys. A porpoise
surged past them, coughing as he
chased a shoal of mullet, and overhead
q string CT purple and yellow cranes
YEARLY as they tapped home
to the Everglades after q days lard
fishing on q growing reef.
They've al! got to make their liv-
tEg," salt Cambel.
who asked the girl.
II was thinking OF those animals in
the water and in the cir and. by an
aicgy, the rest OF the animal world. We
all OF US pray on something else, down
10 the ass who cats grass. or else we
die"
That's a very sage remark. Pat.
Have you been reading S-csopenhauer
lately. or is your ban account I'M
healthy
Cambei laughed. was II pessiulis-
dc2 I'm not given that way as a gem
eral thing. Its SO much pleasanrer for
oneself and everybody else to look at
matters trem the cheerful point of
view. But | was thinking at the time
that IL I'd been wei; off and IL other
things a not happened as they did
n lily hAC noGAo A2SC 1SSai \ RI
differently"
You mean you might have beer her
majesty's ambassador to the court OF
Tir1buRtug"
"or something IN that; line. Pos
gibly. yes"
Mabel" said the girl. SIS free now"
Cambel nodded d-eamily and once
more let his gaze roam out across the
waters. The boat ode uncared for
ever the gentle oily swells. and the
sound of the surf crumbIing on the dis
liant keys fell on his ears and drorled
to him a lingering ta;e OF might have
been Mabel was free. The woman who
had cnce promised to be his wife: the
woman whose memory had driven him
from pillar to post across the world
through all those long wild years. be-
cause OF his abiding love for her was
toe great q torment to be borne when
he rested for a breathing place In one
And had tiH:e for thought: the woman
who had by pressure been made to
marry another man. whom. neither on
her wedding day nor Ut any after
time. did she ever love She was free
aEain- Mabel DuverEsy now. and
Mabel kildare no Longer. but Mabel
st.!I. and free.