The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-03-19

understand you will of course have to
part with Eunice."
Mrs. Morningstar started as if dodg-
ing blow.
Would this mau never have done
tormenting and robbing them?
"You think you're a-goin' to take her
away, do you?" she exclaimed fiercely.
"Why," he smiled, 'even you could
scarcely expect her to remain here
now"
81 amt leavin' her gov she stoutly
maintained, evidently not yet realizing
at all the significance Of what she had
heard.
Kinross drew a purse from his pock-
ct and. taking out some bills, laid them
before Eunice. "Your aunt gave me
this money to give to you for your
expenses until you join her in New
| York"
The girls eyes opened wide. 81 am
to 60 to my aunt?" she breathlessly
asked. ''My aunt! 1t seems so
strange" she said, her face flushing,
a culver in her voice that revealed pitt
fully her lifelong loneliness, "to feel
| that there is some one in the world
belonging to me"'
"YOur aunt expects to send her sec
retary, Mrs. Kenyon. a widow, down
here for you next week to take you
back with her to New York This
money, she instructed me to tell you.
you can use in getting yourself some
clothing for your journey with the
help Of Mrs. Kenyon. When you are
with your aunt she will do everything
in the world for your welfare, 1 know"
"Eunice," cried Abe, starting up,
you amt a-goin' away to stay away
amt not, you ain't?" he pleaded. "Och,
Eunfce. If you'd say yes to me I'd
leave you hire the washin' with the
money wot your pop inherited to you.
and I'd leave you spend at the cloes all
you wanted. and we'd go a good bit,
too, to circuses and county fairs and
even to the rooft garden in town. We
could afford to with your havin' such
lot yet! Why. guess we could af-
ford most anything! Won't you say
yes to meY
Eunice slowly turned her eyes upon
him. ''Say yes to you now with free
dom-freedom just at my hand? Mar
ry you and remain a bond slave, with
my heart still crying out as it has done
all my life, who will deliver me from
the body Of this death? Tie myself to
you, when liberty and the wide world
lie before me? Oh, Abe" she exclaim-
ed, eff the thought Of marrying you
was horrible to me while l was under
your mothers and fathers tyranny
how must it look to me now that am
free-free to live, to be myself, to
feed the hunger Of my mind and soul
with all the beauty Of the world?
Marry you, Abe?" A little ripping
laugh broke from her lips. Kinross felt
his brain beat with the shock of the
Joy that suddenly surged up in his
heart at the revelation Of her words
while he mentally pronounced himself
an ass for his stupidity in not having
realized the impossibility of her caring
for Abe.
"Ty-rantryw exclaimed Mr.. Morning
star. taking up her words, while Abe
looked dazed after all me and nom
done fur you-and our son even want
in to marry you and us urgin' ft-and
givin' you back your $1,000
The draft for that money was in her
hand. She suddenly broke in upon his
speech by holding it out to him.
"Take it back. l know how you
have suffered in having 1t forced from
you. And 1 don't need it. Take 1t as
payment for my board during the re-
mainder of my stay here"
Mr.. Morningstar almost pounced up
on it, while his small eyes cleaned.
''That amt no more'n right, SEEM you
don't need it, and me couldn't rightly
spare it." He glanced triumphantly at
Kinross "You thought you was won
derful smart, amt, gittin' this here
money off of me? But got ahead of
you that there time"
Kinross gave a short laugh. "Fm
satisfied with my work." he said.
"Eunice, you amt goin' to act so on
grateful as to leave right in the mid
die Of cannin' season." exclaimed Mrs.
MOrningstar, with a mOmentary re-
turn to her habitual asperity toward
the girl "You could put off goin' to
your aunt till a couple weeks already
anyhow. How is me and Ollie goin'
to get through all without you? And
mebbe If you stayed on a couple of
weeks you'd come to see it some diff
ferent about Abe too"
"Just as soon as the lady whom my
aunt is sending for me can take me
away shall CO."
"Well, If you don't call that actin
mean-right in the middle of cannin'
the tomats, too, yet!'
"Och, nom, you talk dumm! said
her husband, with disgusted turning
of his back on her and fiinging his
words behind him at her. with a
fortune waitin' fur her at New York
over, what would she do with stOppin'
to help with our cannin' the tomats?
She kin afford to buy canned tomats
out Of the grocery stores and won't
have to bother no more with putin
up. l know what big fortune means
to a person if you don't. knowed a
man out west was worth wOrse'n $780,
600 yeti
Again Mrs. Morningstar sighed
heavily. "Eunice," she said, changing