The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-15
The Plunderers.
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Miss kildare again watched the
bronze green humming bird. Julien
sabel" he said. Il may be induced to
awhatl you're going to get mar
ried?"
~Wny not. if I have an invitationT
Twenty-two's getting on
.Ah," said Cambel and set to rock
ings his chair,
HYegY
II didn't say anything"
'sYou said sAh,' Patrick. and that
meant you thought lot besides" .....
"Quite right, ! did. IT had never
quite struck me till then that you were
a completely grownup young woman
now and might eny day see q man to
go into permanent partnership with.
It's a bit Of q tar--I mean II comes
oddly to one at first TO think OF you
as married. Elsie" .... r...a.
''s5hoo-ssh--Pat, get up and drive
that humming bird away. He won't go
Tor me, greedy little beast, and IL he
stays any longer I know he'll overeat
< himself. Well, you'd better brace your
self UP for q blow, because married
. mean to be some day. Who knows but
what you'll beat me in the racer"
sI?" .a.
~why not9 when Duvernay died,
-
That" said, CaTnbel, 'is the usual
sequence OF events 4. H.a. E
.'You know she nevar wanted to
marry him." ..
ESQ was led to understand some
five years back. Yet marry him she
did nevertheless. and that after due
publication OF banns. I might remark,
elsie, that that humming bird you were
interested In Is still gorging himself
out OF those red flowers just on the
other side OF you." @w#
some creatures never know when to
stop. Now, do" said Miss Kildare,
That's the bell for dinner. must go
and tidy myself"
Meanwhile certain Mr.. Kent-Wil-
land who was throwing poker dice at
the bar with two friends for
ante prandial cocktails, was looking at
the subject from a different coign Of
View. He was a young gentle
man who had not made conspicuous
success OF himself in England and had
been deported to Florida with view
10 extracting fortune from orange
growing. AS on reaching the spot he
found this was difficult of achieve
ment, he wisely did not worry his
brain with any vain attempts, but was
content with living in inexpensive re-
tirement for nineteen -twentieths Of
OF each quarter and blossoming out
during the remaining days in riotious
living on the allowance which reached
him from home. And with him were
two others who had been softly nur-.
tured and who were also taking their
quarterly nip OF semi civilization.
II tell you," said Kent Williams,
.'she's a clinking fine specimen, that
Kildare girl, and, by Joyel ought to
be Judge II any one is now here.
Look--three sevens, first shot! Good!
Til keep these and see II l can't rattle
out another. She'll go to England and
you. know. / wonder IL Cambel will
hitch onto the other sister. Looks like
ii. his coming here after the Duvernay
beast turned up his toes. never
could stand Duvernay. Not a varsity
man, don't you know, and hadn't been
anywhere to school Simply a bit Of
money and thought he could Swagger
on that BY Jove! two bullets. That
makes me q full house, and I'll stand
on It. Collar the box, Willie, dear boy
and beat me IL you can"
mo" said Willie, scooping the dice
into the leather box and thoughtly stir
ring them before he empted onto the
pewter counter. II don't think--ar-'
Duvernay was anybody. I didn't know
him here, but I--ar--don't recollect
meeting him at the club or anywhere
before we came out-by ged! look
LnerGl FOuT6, nTSI SnOLs vi COuTe5
KiIdares are all right as tar as family
goes. But they're poor as regards the
--ar-almigthy dollar. If 1t wasn't for
that, by ged! wouldn't mind going in
for the fair Elsie myself Wobinson.
old chappie, take the box and agitate.
You won't beat my four ladies'"
II WISH" said Kent Williams medi-
tatively, II knew what Cambel was
going to do. Mabel Duvenay'o a
Charming woman, and she's got az
least G 600 a year. / don't want to
make a fool of myself If Cambel's still
In the running. And. by Jove! know
she's as fond Of him as ever. That
beast Duvernay used to twit her with
1t when he was in an extra vile tenn
per" W.. -
GO slow" advised Robinson, land
hang back for bets. Here, / can't Inn
prove. on two pairs, so you and throw
again. Here's the box. By the way
why not ask Cambel yourself? You
knew him well enough at Cambridge,
land you aren't shy"
"Fm not shy, dear boy. and used to
know Patrick Cambel well before /
came out. He's a devflish genial fell
dow so long as you rub him the right
way, but shouldn't like to cross ques-
tion him too much about Mrs. Duver-
nay You see. don't you know, he was
ifnost internally struck on the lady be-
fore she was married. and he's one OF
those Fellows with a long memory who
don't forget. Now, I, dear boy, have
been In love with heaps of women In my
thine, and they with me, but when they
gave me the chuck, or I got tired Of
them I didn't break my blessed heart
Nor play the goat, or do anything Of the
Kind. ] simply went on to the next
caravan, which Is a devilish comfort
able amusement. But old Pat isn't
built that way. He's one OF those fools
who would get gone on a woman and
keep her In mind for years and years
afterward Mighty dreary sort of q
game to my way OF thinking-by Jove!
-four kings! II you beat those, dear
boy may live on sweet potatoes and
mullet all the rest of my life"
"Oh. Lord!" said Robinson, $500 a
.year---s2 ,500--one could pig along with
that very comfortably in lots Of places.
What unluclxy brutes some of US are!
oh. curse II! Just my form, two pairs
again. We won't prolong the agony.
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