The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1908-03-12
CHAPTER VI.


people are particularly obtuse but this is
a fact--I.ynn Yeames succeeded in de-
ceiying everybody but me.
He was of that class of charitable peo-
pie who will give guinea at any time
TO have their names in subscription list,
no matter what the object be--aad fve
TO head it Lynn Yeames, ESD, OF 'The
Hut" tas with affected humility he called
his mothers cottage when she had bought
IT'D, was down for everything. He inter
ested himself in n'local matters, siding al
ways with the majority: he became a
member of the County GLIB, bought a
horse and got admitted to tile hunt and
with his good looks, manly bearing, ad-
mirable horsemanship and skillful free
handedness, made himself generally pop
ular. One way and another / reckoned
he was living up to nearer eight hundred
than two hundred a year.
"A pretty rod you're laying in pickle
for yourself, my boy" said / to myself,
and chuckled to.think how he would have
to draw in his horns when be found that
he was down in his uncle's will for a
trifins legacy instead of the fifty thou
sand pounds he was calculating upon.
All this time he was paying assiduous
attentions to Miss Dalrymple. lie saw,
though he said nothing about it to me.
that his uncle was thinking of Laure's
future, and wished to provide for her per-
petual association with Gertrude. and he
knew the hold he had on old Flaxmore
through this pretended attachment to her,
cunning rascal! ....-..
| let him go on, conscious that be
would not 90 too far. 1t was not likely
| that, feeling now assured of that large
| inheritance. he would pledge himself to
marry pennilesS girl. With his uncle's
| fortune and the effect he was now pro-
dueing. he would be able to take the pick
OF the county when he wished to marry:
and there were, within twenty miles,
many girls more snowy than quiet. un-
pretentious, little Miss Dalrymple. girls
with meEey, and much more to the taste
of such man as he. But though he
would not be rash enough to actually EN-
gage himself. il was pretty certain that
he would insidiously lead my unsuspecting
little friend to believe that he intended
TO marry her. and feared that he might
obtain such hold upon her affection that
when he threw up the game as he irevit-
ably would when he discovered that there
was nothing to win by it, the effect upon
her would be serious. She was not a
dirt: she had never cut up her heart into
morsels and scattered il about amongst a
crowd of admirers her heart was whole
TO be given to one man, and one only. She
was serious and earnest In all things, and
it seemed to be possible that she might
never care to give to a second man the
affection that had been despised by the
first. For this reason resolved. il / got
the opportunity, to shake her faith in Mr..
Lynn Yeames.
One day | met her alone in the road
that cuts through the Hazledown woods.
Here is beautiful morning. Miss bal
rymple.' said l, holding her hand.
"Oh. II is beautiful Z" she exclaimed.
looking around her. See how the rime
still stands on the brake, and look how
the drops s!isten ON the gossamer And
what lovely tints there are on the beeches,
and the brambles down there" "@
"Yet you would prefer at this moment
to be in your London hospital. You feel
that you are wasting your time here
that's the fact, isn't iti"
II should be sorry to think that" she
replied, with quiet gravity.
But you are. Here you are saving the
life of one child; there you might be saw
ing Dozen" #s
They will be saved without me-
And little Laure would be lost-that
is true"
LET us talk about the country" she
said, as we walked on.
4.
said /, pointing down TO the crossroads,
where ! spied DR.. Awdrey jogging along
in his gig on his begcarly round
"Oh, | don't think there is a better
man than he in all the world ~ she cried.
with enthusiasm. ,-.a--,..a. .ss.
IF he were only a little more practi-
CAL" said l.
She nodded sadly, and presently said,
g! sometimes think De would have died
a martyr had he lived long while ago."
IL don't see what there is in store for
him now. There he goes, to look after n
lot Of thankless vagabonds, who'll never
pay him for saving their lives"
She looked thoughtfnlly before her for
minute, then she said
'Do you think he could ever be happy
lin the ordinary sense of the word?"
YES, If he married"
II do not think he win ever marry"
she said, shaking her head gravely, after
a pause.
"Why not?" / asked; "he is a man
and a dne man, too. The only difficulty
is in getting any one to have him. A
man without superficial attractions and
without money, what chance has he"
"Do you think all girls are either silly
or mereenary:" she asked. ss
There's third section; but they don't
care for good men,"
have mentioned the girls trick, Of
blusaiag; and looking sidelons in the ex-