The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1907-02-01

Brangwyn Mystery

! cate? You let me alone for that, now.
'Twould be indecent in either of them
to he thinkin' of courtin' Immediately
on top OF a tragedy like the N they're
both just through with, and l know
there's nothing farther from l. 'r
moinds. But We know as we'll as .
that he'd doy"-Belle was very ,J-
phatic and therefore rather more than
usually lrish-'he'd doy to save her
from the merest little harm. We know
he worships the very shoe she wears
NO" said Billery. as a matter of
fact, my dear, l don't know. He hasn't
taken me into his confidence"
We'll, if ye don't know, she knows,
and l dew. And she's let the cat out
of the bag tonight, Hamilton, if never
she did before. She thinks the world
OF him"
And well she may, by George"
said Billery. There amt a nobler
fellow on the planet"
That's just her way CT thinkin'."
cried Belle. But there's a difference
between thinking highly of a man am
bein' in love with him. Now, Lillian
Lees Just as much in love With Alloy
sius Brangwyn as ever Aloysius Brang-
wynn was with Lillian Lee. and for him
she's the one woman on the earth.
and has been years out o countin'.
though she's barely two-and-twenty.
They just adore each other, and
there's the long and short of it. BIT
they're in a position of great delicacy,
and they're just the people to eXagger-
ate it. He's asked her twice already,
II he'll go about thinkin' that she's
wasted her heart on that ~unutterable
villain, and can never think an feel
again like a live-blooded woman. An
he'll be maxim a u an a blessed
angel of her in his own melancholy
Don QuiXote way. aud she'll have to be
quiet and miserable-for it's not every
woman in the world that will take her
courage in both hands as | did with
you, my dear. And if they're not to
go on always in that way, breakin'
both their hearts for the want of a lit.
tie understanding, they'll want a per,
son of tact about them.'
Upon my word, little woman" said
iAiNiS sou iC oi0dhliiS out III d new
place with a vengeance. And you're
going to be the person of tact2"
Il am, then" said Belle, in vivid at
firmation. And I'm goin' to he the
person of determination in the bar
gain. There'll be no shillp-shally
whore ! am, an that yell live to see
Nj. Billery."
That shall live to see" he an
swered, Il know l shall throughout my
wretched u ~henpecked existence"
Il dare ye to repeat the word" she
cried.
"'Henpecked' was the word I used"
said Billery. "Henpecked,"
TN henpeck YET said Belle. She
kept her word by kissing the bald
spot. "Hamilton, tbs wonderful to
think how little a time we've been
married, for ye're just as easy to wear
as an Die shoe already. But amn't
right in what I've been saying? And
haven't l your subloime a%pproval?"
I've not the slightest doubt you're
right, my dear. And think you're
just the identical person for the bust.
ness, and I wish you we'll with it with
all my heart. Only-one word. Haste.
as The poet observes, my dear, is half
sister to delay"
ooh. I'll take time" said Belle. But
whatll you bet that I don't have them
safely married before our own first an
niversary round?"
you act with so much promptituda
in these little Matters" her husband
answered, rising and shaking her in a
waggish way, that l shall be prepared
for anything"
So Mistress Billery laid herself out
formally to besiege Lillian with pre-
cisely such an eager determination not
to be defeated as she had displayed
on an earlier occasion. She talked
eternal Aloysius. 1t was her plan in
some slight way to provoke Lillian to
defend him. AS, for instance, that if
was absurd to go on hiding himself as
he did now that all the world was watt
ing and eager to receive him and to
make amends. Or that he had a duty
to the world which he could not fulfil
by moping by himself forever. That
he had great talents, which he was
burying in a napkin. Thus urged, Lii
ian many a time shot far beyond her
own intent, and her heaving bosom
and tender, glowing eyes were moro
eloquent than the words in which she
sang his praise.
Lillian" said Belle, after one of her
warmest outbursts, don't We think we
women are mighty quare creatures.
ever to ourselves? Now, it's as plain
to me as the nose on Hamilton's face
and that's a plain mans plainest
feature-that ye're as much in love
with Mr.. Brangwyn as ever woman
was in love or could be-" Lillian
blushed like fire and hung her head,
but she offered no disclaimer. But
that's Of course, and I'd be a fool not
to see it. But the curious part of it is
that we've been in love with him all
along"
ooh, Belief" said Lillian, and she hid
her burning face in both hands.
Exactly" Belle answered, in her
most matter-of-fact tone. "And it's
| only lately that we've known n II hod