The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-02-01
THE D II I
BrangWyn. Mystery.

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| And do ye think, We gander," Belle
asked him, that I'd go at a delicate
thing like that as bull charges q
| gate? You let me alone for that, now
'Twould be indecent in either Of them
! to be thinkin' of courtin' Immediately
on top of tragedy like the one they'r
both Just through with, and I know
| there's nothing farther from their
moinds. But We know as well as }
that he'd doy"--Belle was very e.l-
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. D
NO" said Billery, as matter OF
| fact my dear, don't know. He hasn
| 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" t@"@
And we'll she may, by George!"
said Billery. "There amt nobler
fellow on the planet"
That's just her way CT thinkin'."
cried Belle. But there's difference
between thinking highly of man an
bein' in love with him. Now lillian
Lees just as much in love with Alloy
sius Brangwyn as ever Aloysius Brang-
wyn 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. But
they're in a position of great delicacy
and they're just the people to exagger-
ate it. He's asked! her twice already,
and 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-blooled woman. An
he'll be maxim nun an blessed
angel of her, in. his own melancholy
Don Quixote way, aud she'll have to be
quiet and niiserable-for it's not every
woman in the world that will take her
courage in 10th hands as did with
you, my DEAR And II they're not tn
go on always in that way, breakin'
both their hearts for the want of lit.
tie understanding, they'll want per
SON of tact about them p.a
r "Upong my, word, little woman" said
Biliery, you're breaking out in new
place with a, vengeance. And you're
going to be the person Of tact?"
Il am, then,". said Belle, in vivid at
firmation. And I'm goin'' to he the
person of determination in the bar
gain. Therell be no shillp-shally
where am. an that yell live to see
Mr.. Billery"
THAT shall live to see," he an
swered, Il know shall throughout my
wretched and henpecked existence
II dare We to repeat the word" she
cried. 81. I
'Henpecked' was the word used I"
said Billery. "Henpecked!"
"I'l, henpeck YETI said Belle She
kept her word by kissing the bald
spot. Hamilton, it's wonderful to
think how little a 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 l think you're
just the identical person for the busi-
ness, and l 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 them
safely married before our own first an
niversary comes round?"
you act with so much promptitude
in these little matters" her husband
answered, rising and shaking her In a
waggish way, that shall bs 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 Aloyslus. 1t was her plan in
some slight way to provoke Lillian to
OOAOAu AAAA. <AOy III AuSLduCC, lUdC IT
was absurd to go on hiding himself as
he did now that all the world was wait
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 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 ye 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. "But
that's Of course. and I'd be fool not
to see it But the curious part OF It is |