The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-06-04

her eyes brimful of tears. But a n
not afford TO take you. Besides, you
will be a lot better of here; there are
a dozen places open TO you"
II shall fnd my way back to ole
Kentucky when you's gone" Dinah
sobbed. I'll die In my native lam"
you will be able to make much
more money by remaining here" Mari
ON said, encouraxingly But Dinah
shook her head contemptuously, as
though money was OF no account with
her.
Marion scarcely slept a wink during
her last night at odero. She felt APP
palled Mt ube thought of facing the
world alsne. hardship she did not
fear; change and sven poverty she had
been accustomed to. II was the lone
Illness and friendliness she shrank
from. Heretofore she had always her
father to lean upon, and though he
had been anything but an ideal parent,
still, he was strong and resourceful
and of unfsiling courage. Ways and
means she had never considered; her
life had been shaped for her; her faith
err decided where they should live and
how long they should stay.
This was true still in a sense. She
was going away to England at his be-
hest, but she was going alone and
without his protestion. Going to a
place she had ssen and to people
she had never heard of till a week
- - che cA,lIn,Al 18th .aS.n{u-
ings at what she might find at the
end.
She had never been blind to her
fathers sins. His acquaintances In
the main had been men she could not
tolerate. What IL this Mr.. Mayhem
should be a man of the same stamp?
What IL she had been committed to
the tender mercies OF a mar without
moral sense or ~scruple7
Try as she would she could not
shake 81 the fears and missivings
that oppressed her. She was not sor-
ry to get away from odero. She had
never loved the place or the people.
She had pinned fer the reAnements of
life-which a. an earlier time they
frequently possessei-all the time she
had been there. Nevertheless she
shrank from the terrible and mex
plored unknown that lay before her.
It was a raw, susty October morn
ing when che climbed into the dill
gence which travsrsed every other day
the dreary and uncultivated spaces be-
tween 0dsro and Beaver City. Quite
q crowd Of people came to see her of
and say good by. Adam Black put a
small parcel into her hands. "A little
token Of goodwill" he explained,
from those who knew ysur father"
Dinah sat on a tree stump a little way
of and sobbed a though her heart
were broken.
There we're only two other passen-
gers. and they rode on the outside.
The driver climbed to his sea with an
air of great importance, and after two
or three iourishes Of his long driving
whip he gave the signal, and the
horses started forward at a gallop.
Marion leaned out of the window
and waved her hand TO Dinah and the
/ rest, IuGu Balm DdSh AhtO nv oNoS
and yielded herself up to the luxury
o. a good cry" So began a journey
that was iess;-sd IN END SO fatefully
less than three weeks later.
The steamship Nebraska sighted
land early in the afternoon. A little
] after sunset she passed the Lands
End and proceeded cautiously up chan
mel. An hour later her engines we're
working at half-speed and nearly
every oficer on board was on the look
out.
Marion West had been on deck near
ly aver since the Cornish coast came
into sight. She had watched with
curious interest the rugged cliffs grow
more and more distinct, then fade
away into the darkness.
She was much more sorry than glad
that her long journey was SO nearly
at an end. She had enjoyed the whole
of her trip from West to East. Monot-
enous as II had been In many re-
spects. there had not been lacking ell
emsnts of novelty which frightened
and gave interest to the passing hours.
At Montreal and Quebec she had re-
newsd her acquaintance with the life
and movement Of big cities and had
been able to make some very neces-
sary purchases. The Ave twenty-dol-
lar gold pieces which she found In
Adam Blacks parcel came In very
handy. and she enjoyed her shopping
expedition all the nor in consequences
, of this addition to her small fortune.
Her first experience Of the sea was
marred at the beginning by stormy
weather: but she quickly got used to
It, and after the first two days enjoyed
It immensely.
The Atlantic ocean was quite . rev.
esation TO her. She had often read
about the sea. often pictured 1t In her
Imagination, but the reality far out
distanced all her dreams. Its strength.
its immensely. It's strange and passion
ate moods, filled her with . kind Of
exaltatlon. She spent every possible
minute on deck, and never tired Of
watching it, eeaseless rise and fall.
Thsre . fewer than nfty passen-
gers on board--Novsmbsr Il not usu-
ally . month that people choose to
Cross the Atlantic in-moreovsr the
Nebraska was not one Of the fashion
able boating hotsls that tempt the Idle