Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-09-06
P1underers"
BY C. j. cUTLlFFE HYNE.

And So he said bitterly, after all
that / have gone through and al I've
done. you want me to give this fortune
up. My God, Elsie, you know what a
hateful thing poverty is as we'll as l 90:
Think what this money would buy.
Love for n another. we have already,
and we can get besides every pleasure
the heart can wish for. ! know as Well
as you do it was dirtily earned, and l
hated the work of getting it, and III
never dabble in anything SO foul again.
My instincts bid me live as an uprisht
gentleman, and with the income I'd
do that and forget / was ever anything
else. When l cease to be poor, l cease
70 be in the way OF temptation. Don't
o see? And, besides. there Is no
chance Of being found out. h morey
is supposed to be blotted out of exist
ence, and its there nov. in h Glades as
a private mine TO dig at as we choose.
Besides I'm bound in honor to go on
after getting thus far. 1t isn't as II
were working for my own hand alone.
Shells my partner, and l can't neglect
his interests for a sentiment"
Mr.. Shelf may do as he chooses, Fat.
You yourself may do as you choose,
dear, but | can't alter what I've SAID:
/ love money, heaven knows, but
couldn't use one of hat sort. Yoe
might forget how it came. / couldn't.
/ can't forget some things. I've a ter
rible memory when / don't want 1t 10
act. I tried TO forget you, Pat, ever
since you left us in England till the
day l saw you here, but l couldn't.
used to pray for forgetfulness all hose
years, and it wouldn't come, and If
were TO marry YOU now dear, with that
money, should always remember, just
in the same way
What is the use Of carrying thumb
screws in your pocket?' he asked hall
angrily.
She smiled a little panied smile. Can't
help it, Pat. 1 suppose It's the way
I'm built. But I'm only telling you
facts"
II thought" he said %brusquely, you
wanted 10 go pack into society and
have a steam yacht and do things com
fortably. Now, without this quarter OF
a million, which is lying ready to be
picked up, o have goo a year, and
/ have $500, which makes $500 in all
Now l might point out to you that one
can't do much continuous splashing
among smart people on that, in Lon,
don or anywhere else, unless. of course
o married some one else"
She flushed painfully. "Oh, Pat!' she
said, II don't think l deserved that
from you"
He dropped his arms round her and
drew her TO him tenderly. mo, dear
you didn't. / was a brute. But it's
hard for a man to speak soberly wher
he's just had all his plans smashed &c
the smallest kind Of fragments and
stamped upo by the only person in the
world whose opinion he cares a RAP
about. OF course l know all this bust.
ness was a theft, a piece Of piracy pure
and simple. But circumstances ell
bowed me into 1t, n l bowed my
head to them. Circumstances-you
that is, and you entirely-now drag me
out Of 1t, and I'm going to bow agar
and say 'kismet. Only I wonder VIVA,
will become OF the money. l swear
Shelf shan't have the whole half mil
lion and the steamer too. But l dom,
see now we are to give my share back
TO the rightful owners One can't very
well draw a check on the Everglades
n send 1t to them anonymously by
post"