The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-29
he P1underers
BY G. J. cUTLIFFE HYNE.

irritation on his ward. Indeed he was
only known to be disagreeable to her
once, and that once was the last time
he and she had speech together, and
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 II Fairfax would
be there that evening.
''Of course" she said, ''why2"
us?"
you mean in the city?" r
Il 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 i had placed him, a
very hattering 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.
am long suffering, Amy, and because
It Is my duty TO bear with the hasty
do so as much as possible. But Mr..
Fairfax oyerstepped the mark Such
a spirit as his would cause dissension
among our simple minded workers, and
felt 1t due to them that he should no
longer be at their side"
so you gave him the--well, the sack.
OF course / know"
Perhaps" said Mr.. Shelf, with a
smile of pain, che 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 /
Ffear. my dear that he will miss many
+ OF the Christian influences which so
elevate and purify the dependents of
marmaduke Rivers e. 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
iiton his card l don't see that it mat
ters. It's Mrs. Shells at home"
And not mine, Amy? You are right
in the word, my dear. but not in the
spirit. AS Christian, of course ]
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 II would
grieve me to receive under II any one
| with whom am not on terms OF broth
erly amity But perhaps you can as
sure me, my dear, that Mr.. Fairfax has
already repented him Of his hasty and
/ unjust words"
mot that" said Miss Rivers. I'm
| sure he hasn't" #~.
Then" replied Mr.. Theodore Shelf
with a sorrowful~ firmness, IT cannot
receive him. / couldn't do It,"
| Il suppose you know" the girl re-
torted sharply, that IL Hamilton does
not come here tonight 1 shan't either
You are my ward"
II may be- But you've never tyran-
nized over me, and you are not going
to begin now. tell you fatty that II
It's no Hamilton it's going to be nc
me ! shall go to Hampstead to stay
with Ely cousin" .
II cannot give way In this, Amy. Ny
conscience will not permit me-"
Very well. May have a carriage
or must order a hansom?"
My dear child, can refuse you
nothing IN reason. The brougham il
now, as IT always has been, entirely
at your disposal"
Miss Rivers left the room, and Mr.
| Shelf scrubbed his dogs ragged head
She's angry with me now, George" he
said, with a fat, satisfied SMILE but
think she'll change her mind afterward
She's a clever girl, and she'll see. Sc
with that young beggar Fairfax, con.
found himl" -
Then Mr.. Shelf put George on 6
comfortable chair and turned to hi.
table. He had, as may be imagined
a good deal OF writing to get through
and considerable deal of burning. ant
the work took him till very late. Ther
he dressed, slipped out for dinner ant
returned by IL o'clock to stand behint
his wife and watch her as she received
her guests. He thought he had never
seen the woman look SO handsome OF
so queenly, and once or twice he hall
regretted the blow which he was going
| TO bring down upon her. But then his
eyes would fall on the walls OF the
room, and the silver lamps, and the
| flowers, and the items or that gorgeous
display would go into his soul anC
wither up any morsel of compassion
which might have been there.
"A mans impelling motive is not al
ways under his own hat" he overheard
some one saying as they passed him
and he applied the words to himself
and when he remembered the ruthless
extravaganza which no words or en-.
treaties of his own could stay, and
/ which alone--so he believed-haC
forced him into knavery, he felt thai
social death was a poor requital to the
woman who had worked his ruin. A
knife was more her due And yet-ano
yet she was such monstrous fine wo-
man and so thoroughly clever in the
role she had set herself to play!
IL certainly was gorgeous assem-
bly,, not made up exclusively of the
very best people perhaps, though many
or them were there, but 1t looked
4 evening
dress cannot show this. II they faiI
to appear like walters that is the ut
most they can expect. But the wo-
meni They carried IL on their should
ers and backs, as they have done since
the beginning of time. Their dresses
were dream of cost and loveliness
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 q 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 8. d. -
said a fellow prop. 1t spoils the poetry
Of the thing. Now I find them good
enough to look at" Never said they
| 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
I