The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-08-22
CHAPTER XIV.

CuAPTER XIV.
The excitement aud gossip about Lord
john Gleidurwood's romantic marriass
fingered much longer than the prover5tsl
| sine days.
A month passed away, and a curious
noeth 10 was to Audrey. Every day she
sat with her mother studying French
and Italian, and having her rirst lessons
Oh the plane and in singing. Audrey
lived In her dreams and in her studies.
Sac was 50 strangely, incomprch1asloly
happy. 10 dc6pe ner condition Of mind
| wou!a be IN impossibility. 1t Ieened TO
her as tkor.A some fairy had suddenly
| touched her with G wand, and everything
about her had changed to this delishtf al
existence. In dim, misty sort OF way,
she recognized that she had become a
sra.d lady, but that vas not BY any
lncans = certainty.
She wrote often to Jean Thvait and
reiterated her vows OF never-endiag love,
but somehow Jeans letters panied her
! and left \ sort of discomfort.
Jean, in fact, was alarmed at all that
had happened 10 her whilom friend, and
now that Audrey was grand married
lady she was separated from her humble
chil6hoods companion By 4 social chasn
they could never bridge over; therefore
Jean wrote timidly and with much con
strait, and both girls sighed over the
simple yet strong friendship which had
lived and now was ended.
|. March having come in like lamb,
was going out in the most approved leon
inc fashion. How the wind blew, and
how dreary the gray skies looked above
the tossing trees.
I'VE shall have a fall Of s2ow, depend
upon it that is what is coming" declar-
ed DR.. Sentance. Take my advice, Lord
John, fold yourself up in as maRy rugs
as you can find, and lee away souch to
| the sun and the warm breezes."
/ "Wthc.e ought i to So?" he asked,
weariiy.
We'll, | think Florence would be IN
excellent spot. Suit both her ladyship
and yourself"
II am quite sure that Aud-my wife
! will never consent to this arrangement
Pray, why not?"
''She-oh, we'll, hang it all, doctor, look
NNNRA
| and buried and she wouldn't care! She
has never been near me for a month
never since l was SO bad !"
1T strikes me that you are a very
| foolish young man, Lord John, if you
imagine your young wife doesn't care
anything about you, and as to her not
| coming to see you, we'll, think if you
reflect a little you will agree with me
tEat so young girl is apt to be shy and
modest. Modesty is 80 rare nowadays
my lord, | would not try to do without il
! If | were you"
The young mans checks We're quite
| healthy in color.
II dare say / am a fool, but | hav,
been worrying myself that, perhaps, Au
drey had married me only out OF pity
when she thought l was dying and
And lot more nonsense Of the same
sort, of course" broke in the old doctor
checrily, his eyes twinkling as he spoke
! You don't seem to realize, my lord
that you are the hero OF q romance. Il
| is not every one who can boast of sucf
a marriage az yours, but, though romance
| has its pleasant points, it also has it'
disagrecable ones. and unless | am yer!
| much mistaken, that sweet little nader
will be ever so much happier when sh'
il rescued from the curious and c2rT:et
J 2way 9or t;'':a d: 1,2 &lS19 !.
aara u!yl.drwcoL nearly ssoOx Dr
Sentences hand OF.
What an idiot | ann he exclaimed
Most lovers are" was the dry reply
And you will take my advice about thi
foreign trip"
Il will go and find my--my wife thi
very moment, and if she agrees we viii
start at once"