The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1908-02-01

VI your lie, ne answered.. NO, L nope
there is a better fate in store for you.
You are very young. Go through with
your tripos and then see in which way
your high capabilities and powers can
be best utilized. You were born to be a
leader, l think. I hope you will marry
and prove to the world what a splendid
wife and capable mother a 'blue-stocking'
and advanced woman can make"
Il shall never marry" Aileen said abb
ruptly. They were going quickly up the
pier steps, and she hoped Lewiston would
think that it was the ~exertion that
brought the color to her face. He had
been very careful to say nothing that
would lead her to suspect that his vague,
Uniformed ideas had taken shape as a
result of his unwilling housekeeping the
night before when fighting against her
love, Aileen had declared her ambition
stronger.
Il hope you will marry some good fell
low" Lewiston responded. He need not
be clever, you have brains enough for a
dozen. Yes, | still hope you may know
that happiness consists in more than the
qualification of a personal ambition. For
l would not hope such a thing for you
he added almost solemnly, as they paused
to say "Good-by." IF / did not believe
you would, in such a position, married to
such a man, be doing your best work"
There was a queer little smile about
Aileen's mouth as she walked leisurely
homewards, thinking deeply. At the ave
nue. gate she met Moyra coming home
from a hurried visit to their old nurse.
"Well?" Moyra asked. HAS he gone?
isis"
Aileen burst into a laugh that was al
most hysterical.
HE has gone, my dear, and it amounts
to this. He has Tilted me. You behold
in me a blighted heart. And / never felt
so relieved in all my llfe," she added,
rather inconsequently.
AS they walked slowly up the avenue
she told Moyra the substance of what
had been said. There were one or two
parts she did not consider it necessary to
tell. But Moyra had the light gained the
previous evening to guide her, and she
thoroughly endorsed the professors views,
although not regarding them from
AiIeen's lofty standpoint. Moyra's con
| illusions were reached practically, Aliens
philosophically.
He was quite right" Moyra said. ITO
marry without love is wicked. Besides,
when there is-some one else"
Aileen went very red and pretended
she did not hear. w.. .1
After ALL she said loftily, he would
always have been more famous and clev-
erer thar /. As it is, l can shine alone
now, and my little candle need borrow no
light. But he Is q good man, Moyra.
l don't think / ever realized before that
ne was a man'-with a little laugh. II
wish he would marry Bride. But things
always 90 by contraries in this world
disregarding Moyra's quick protest. "A.
is madly in love with b., who looks only
at c., who prefers A."
But Billy's in love with you" Moyra
said, seeing only her W reading of
Aileen's parable.
And / am not in love with Billy"
Aileen retorted, with such an angry fash
ing glance that Moyra, utterly confused,
! could only say, II thought you were an
excuse that by no means relieved the
strain.
But before Aileen could make a fitting
and scathing reply that would at once
pulyerize any such theories a diversion
came. Their approach had been seen and
three figures appeared at the hall door.
1.-THE school room crew has gone crazy"
Aileen murmured, as a howl of dismay
arose from the girls when they saw Gerry
vault over the ratings that separated
the circle and the field that bordered the
avenue, thereby efecting a short cut to
the newcomers. Vera and Delda, with no
thought Of dignity, at once engaged in
a desperate race, ending in a dead heat,
with the runners unable to do more than
gasp ina~rticulately. 1t was Lulu, the
tortoise toiling in the rear, who shrieked
the news triumphantly in her thin treble.
"Such a thing! You'll never guess.
There's been a robber and he's taken
away all Mr.. Fenton's-
Diamonds" came from four throats
In a simultaneous shout.
Every blessed stone has gone" Gerry
added. Thirty thousand pounds worth,
Billy says, and they haven't a clue"
And there's policemen there Lulu
cried, seixing Moyra's hands, am jogging
them up and down to attract attention to
herself. Never had there been such ex-
citement. Moyra and Aileen could not
believe their ears. Moyra was at first
inclined to believe It was a practical joke
got up by Gerry, but the sight Of her
fathers and Mr.. Fenton's grave faces,
as she entered the hall, soon told her it
was the truth.
"Yes, unfortunately it is quite true"
Mr.. Fenton said. I'VE only discovered
our loss about an hour or so ago, when
Mrs. Fenton's maid returned the jewels
my wife wore last night. / went to re-
turn them to the safe; it looked all right.
and the spring worked as usual, but the
safe was empty. Every one had gone"
The listeners exclaimed and sympa-