The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-29

MY known to be d~isagreeable tOSher
once. sand that once was the last time
heNand she had speech together. and
what he had said vas entirely to her
interest and without any profit to him
! self. It was on the morning OF the
great ball, and he called her 10 him
tnahis room and asked If Fairfax would
be there that evening.
Q course" she said, s'why?"
us?"
You mean in the city?"
~ do, my e 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, q
very fattering position for SO young 8
man. and then ne caused me deep sor-
row In doubling the pureness OF my
motives n floating the company at all.
l am long suffering. Amy, and Wcatse
tits my duty to bear with the hasty
l do 80 as much as possible. But Mr..
q spirit as his would cause d~issension
among our simple minded workers, and
l 1elt 1t due to them that he should no
longer be at their side"
SO you gave him the-well, the sack.
Oh course l know
Perhaps" said Mr.. Shelf, with a
smile OF pain, The Will b. able to OBJ
tain employment elsewhere, or being a
young man of means he may choose to
set up in business for himself, but I
fear. my dear, that he will miss many
OF the Christian influences which SO
elevate and purify the dependents OF
Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf"
Miss Rivers shrugged her shoulders.
isn't this" she said. ito do with the
city and not Park lane? AS Mrs. Shelf
says. were ordinary society heathens
when were here, and as she sent Ham
flton his card l don't see that 1t mat
tiers. It's Mrs. Shells at home.,"
And not mine, Amy? You are right
IN the word, my dear. but not in the
spirit. As a Christian, Of course. /
nave already forgiven h wrong. Mr..
Fairfax has done me in doubling the
pureness of my motives. But this
humble roo is mine, Amy, and 1t would
with whom l am not on terms Of broth
erly amity. But perhaps you as
sure me, my dear. that Mr.. Fairfax has
already repented him OF his hasty and
unjust words"
Not that" said Miss Rivers. I'm
sure he hasn't"
Then replied Mr.. Theodore Shelf,
] with a sorrowful firmness, IT cannot
receive him. I couldn't do it,"
4 suppose you know" the girl re-
torted sharply, that II Hamilton does
not come here tonight I shan't either,
you are my ward"
II may be. But you've never tyran-
nized over me. and Q are not going
20 oeg1n now; ! tell you fatty that II
me. ! shall go to Hampstead to stay
with my cousin"
Il cannot give way in this. Amy. My
conscience will not permit me"
Very well. May I have a carriage.
or must I order a hansom?"
| MY dear child. I can refuse you
nothing in reason. The brpugham is
now, as 1t always has been. entirely
at your disposal"
Shell scrubbed his dogs ragged head.
She's angry with me now, George" he
said, with a fat, satisfied smile. "but I
think she'll change her mind afterward.
She's q clever girl, M she'll see. So
WIN that young beggar Fairfax, con-
found him!"'
Then Mr.. Shelf put George on n
comfortable chair and turned to his
table. He had, as may be imagined.
a good deal of writing to get through,
and considerable deal Of Burning, and
the work took him till very late. Then
he dressed, slipped out for dinner and
returned by II o'clock to stand behind
his wife and watch her as she received
her guests. He thought he had never
seen the woman look SO handsome or
so@queenly, and once or twice he half
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 t silver lamps, and the
flowers, and the items OF that gorgeous
display would go into his soul and
wither up any morsel of compassion
which might have been there.
A an impelling motive is not al
ways under his own hat" he overheard
| some one saving as Ithav rocoaI Lj.,
and he applied the words to himself.
and when he relnembered the ruthless
extravaganza which no words or en-
treaties Of his own could stay, and
Whlch alone-so he believed-had
forced him into knavery, he felt that
social death was a poor requital to the
woman who had worked his ruin. A
Knife was more her due. And yet-and
yet she was such a monstrous fine wo-
man and SO thoroughly clever in the
ole she had set herself to play!
1t certainly was a gorgeous assem-
bly,. not made up exclusively of the
very best people perhaps, though many
OF them were there, but it looked
wealth ~unspeakabls. Men in evening
dress cannot show this. If they fan
TO Ike walters, that is the ut
moHt they can expect. But the wo-
men! They carried 1t on their should
ers and backs. as they have done since
the beginning of time. Their dresses
were a dream Of lost and loneliness.
their jewelry a chStn Of rainbows.
oh Lord!" said che u man with
predatory instincts who D a
wall. why arSt I practicing bush
ranger just now? there's some of the
f1nest diamonds here in all the world
and two Johnnies with pistols could
stick up the whole house. Why's Eng
land such a beasty safe place? II
there was a hard wooden chair any
where here to sit on and think, / be-
lieve I'd turn anarchist on the spot"
"ron't reduce the crowd to e s.. d."
saio a fellow prop. It spoils the poetry
of the thing. Now 1 find them good
emo 6 to look at" Never said they
weren't" rejoined the other. only
thing Is they arn't mine. Now 1 could
do very well with the lot of them"
"fhis isn't Turkey" sal his friend
r~eprovingly.
oh, not the women. I'VE got one
wife, and she's enough for me. But
I'd Ike the dresses. And the diamonds.
I'd sell 'em second hand and riot on
the proceeds. Talking of sales, come
and find some burgundy cup"
Ihey went away from the ballroom,
passing down the hroad shallow star
way, and were going to cross the hall
when 9 man stoppEd them and told
them way was c.osed.