The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1907-02-01
THE
Bra ngWyn Mystery

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asked him, that I'd go at delicate
thing like that as bull charges q
gate? You let me alone for that, now.
''rwould be indecent in either. of them
to be thinkin' of courtin' Immediately
on top Of a tragedy like the one they're
both just through with, and l know
there's nothing farther from their
that he'd doy"-Belle was very en-
phatic and therefore rather more than
usually Irish-"he'd doy to save her
from the merest little harm. Ye know
he worships the very shoe she wears. +"
NO." said Billery, "as matter of
fact. my dear, don't know. He hasn't
taken me into his confidence"
We'll. If We don't know, she knows,
and | 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 we'll she may, by George!"
said Billery. '"rhere aia't nobler
fellow on the planet"
That's just her way CT thinkin'."
cried Belle. But there's difference
between thinking highly of man an
bcin' in love with him. Now, Lillian
Lees just as much in love with Allow
sius Erangwyn as ever Aloysius Brang-
wynn was with lillian Lee, and for him
she's the one woman on the earth.
and has beer 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. But
They're in Il position Of great delicacy,
and they're just the people to cxagger.
ate it. He's asked her twice already,
and he'll go about thinllin' that she's
wasted her heart OH that mutterable
villain, and can never think an feel
again like Il live-blooded woman All
Ec'll lie maxim nun an blessed
angel of her in his own melancholy
Den .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 I 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 1T.
tie understanding, they'll want pe:.
son of tact about them"
Upon my word, little woman" said
Biliery. you're breaking out in a new
place with vengeance. And you're
going to be the person of tact?"
Il am. then" said Belle, in vivid az
firmation. And I'm goin' to Re the
person of determination in the bar
gain. Therell be no shillp-shally
where am. an that ye7l live to see
Mr.. Billery.'
THAT shall live to see,' he an
swered, Il know shall throughout my
wretchcd and henpecked existence
Il dare we to- repeat the word" she
cried.
'Henpecked' was the word used /"
said Billery. "Henpecked!"
"I'l: henpeck ye!" said Belle. She
kept her word by kissing the bald
spot. Hamilton, tits wonderful to
think how little time we've been
married. for ye're just as easy to wear
as an old shoe already. But amn't
right in what I've been saying? And
haven't your subloime approval:''
I've not the slightest doubt You're
right, my dear. And think you're
just the Identical person for the bust.
ness, and 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
"Oh, I'll take time," said Belle. But
what'll you bet that don't have Their,
safely married before our own first an.
niversary comes round?"
you act with so much promptituda
in these little matters" her husband
answered, rising and shaking her in a
waggish way, that shall be prepared
for anything"
So Mistress Billery Laid herself ont
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 Aloyslus. It was her plan in
some slight way to provoke Lillian to
defend him. AS, for instance, that ~
was absurd to go on hiding himself as
he did now that all the world was watt
| ing ard 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 napkin. Thus urged, Lii
ian many time shot far beyond her
own intent, and her heaving bosom
and tender, glowing eyes were more
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.
even to ourselves? Now, it's as plain
to, me as the nose on Hamilton's face
and that's 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 "Rnt
that's of course, and I'd be fool not
to see 1t. But the curious part Of It ID
\ that we've been In love with him all