The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-04-16

You can make your choice with your
eyes ope.I. either WaJ""e shai' "a"
forget you.
Il will go on with you, If you please
answered at once. II, too, annot
&c home" And as L said this Mistress
Rertram also came up, and l too her
hand in mine-which looked, by the
way, so strangely thin 1 scarcely rec
ognized it-and kissed 1T. I Will come
with you, madam, IL you will let me.
| said.
Good" she replied, her eyes spark
ling. Il said you would. l do not NINA
telling you now that l am glad of 1t.
And II ever we return to England, as
God grant we may. and soon, you shall
not regret your decision. Shall he,
Richard?"
IF you say he shall not. my dear"
he responded. smiling at her eslthus-
iasrn, Il think l may answer for 1t ne
will not"
l was struck then. as had been
before, by a certain air of Difference
which the husband ssumed toward the
wife. 1t did not surprise me, for her
bearing and manner as well as such or
her actions as l had seen, stamped
her as singularly self reliant and IN
dependent for a woman, and to these
qualities, as much as to the rather
dreamy character of the husband, L
was content to set down the peculi-
| arity. l should add that a rare and
| Pretty tenderness constantly displayed
on her part toward him robbed 1t or
any Semblance of unSeemlineSS
They saw that the exertion of talk
ing exhausted me, and so, with an
encouraging nod. left me to myself. A
few minutes later a couple of English
sailors belonging to the Framlingham
came up and with gentle strength
transported me. under Mistress Anne's
directions, to a queer looking VIDE
beamed boa which lay almost along
side. She was more like a huge Thames
barge han anything else, for she drew
little water, but had a great expanse
of sail when all was set. There was
q large ~deckhouse, gay with paint and
as clean as it could be, and in a COM
partment at one end of this, which
seemed to be assigned to our party,
l was soon comfortably settled
Exhausted as l was by the excite
ment of sitting up n being moved.
l knew little of h passed about me
for the next two days and remember
less: l slept and ate and sometimes
awoke to wonder where l was. But
the meals and the vague attempts at
thought made scarcely more impression
on my mind than the sleep. Yet all
the while / was gaining strength rapid
ly, my youth and health standing me
In good stead. The wound in my head.
which had caused great loss of blood,
heated All OIle way, dS we Sdy Ell
Warwickshire. and about noon ON the
second day after leaving bort I was
we'll enough to reach the deck unas-
sisted and sit in the sunshine on a pile
of rugs which Mistress Anne, my con-
slant nurse, had laid for me in a cor
ner sheltered from the wind.
Fortunately the weather was mild
and warm. and the sunshine fell bright
ly on the wid liver and the wider
plain of pasture which stretched away
on either side of the horizon. dotted
farmhouse, the steeple of a church., the
brown sails of a barge or at most
broken by a low dixie or a line of sand
dunes ALI was open, free; all was
~largeness, space and distance. l gazed
astonished. The husband and wife. who
We're pacing the deck forward, came
to me. He noticed the wondering looks
l cast round This is new to your"
he said, smiling.
quite. quite new" I answered. Il
never imagined anything so fiat and
yet in it's way 50 beautiful"
YOU do not know Lincolnshire?"
No
"Ah, that is my native county," he
answered. 1T is much like this. But
you are better, and you can talk again.
Now, 1 and my wife lave been dis
cussing whether we shall tell YOU more
w 'SS' <ailb, III lllSlS LS liz
time like the present, l may say that
We nave decided to trust you"
All in all or not at ALL" Mistress
Bertram added brightly.
[ murlnured my thanks.
Then, first. to tell you who we
are. For myself, 1 am plain Richard
BERTHE. nf Lincolnshire, at your serv-
tee. My wife is something more than
appears from this, or'-with a smile
from her present not too graceful
dress. She is
Stop. Richard! This is not sufffc-
[ently formal" my lady cried prettily.
II have the honor to present to you.
young gentleman" she went on, laugh
ing merrily and making a very grand
courtesy before me, katherine, Ouch
ess of Suffolk"
l made shift to get to my feet and
Bowed respectfully, but she forced me
to sit down again. Enough of that"
she said lightly, until we go back
to England. Here and for the future
we are Master Bertram and his wife.
And this young lady, my distant kins-
oman Anne Brandon, must pass as
Mistress Anne You wonder how we
came to be Straying in the streets
alone and unattended when you found
u.s."
(continued Next Weekly
a Sleep Mill.
Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin: 81 call
IL a Siaar mill ~ cojJ .rha 49, ,,,Faot,ro