Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-04-02
Hidden
. Perils
. BY MARY CECIL HAY
CHAPTER Continued.)
BY MARY CECIL HAY

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neither of us could prevent this love gro"
ing in our hearts, SO how can we blam
each other? If she chooses you, | sha
know that she never would have bee
quite happy with me. If ! were to wi
her. j suppose you would feel the same.
Never; | SHOULDN'T it is best not t
think what | might do: | should be
selfish coward. any way. Atho!, old frI
low, | often wondcr how you can bea
10 have me near you-knowing how
try TO win the girl You love, and haV
loved for so many years. All! l rem"m
her it; the story you told me on tina
evening ! returned to England-before
saw her. Our words often come back 1
ne now. / was glad YOU loved Ter then
! said it would seem as if 5ou Marie
my own sister. Sometimes, We're, l tr
to go back and feel so .gain but ! nev"
can. We're. why don't you answer! n
added. after his cause Of restless silence
NO words yo.7 could inter would he 81
full of hopelessness as silence is. lei
me what you think about the old question
viii that bill pass Athol, you know
you remeInber-that, last year. the ma
jority against it was nearly thirty les
than it had been the year before. Their
will be surely just such u decrease agar
this sitting"
Yes, there may be-" Athol said. hi
answer very quietly following the eager
question.
The law that prohibits marriage will
a deceased wife's sister is a monstrouS
and iniquitous law" said Rourke. witt
suppressed passion. 1T cannot stand as
it is E.
No answer from Athol.
Il have bothered you to death. | know
Athol, and what have we proved?'
Just what we had no need to prove
at ALL said DR.. We're, with his pleasant
smile, that, however we may think diff,
~fercntiy on one point, we are true friends
always
True friends always" repeated Tren'
ham "and let us promise that whether
/ mean, in any case, nothing shall break
that friendship. Athol, old fellow" he
added, n little brokenly. ''you will never
take that from mesas all-good things
have been taken"
sour friendship can never end but with
%death-if then" said Athol, with steady
ea~rnestness.
Thank you. Now shall we GO"
At breakfast time next morning Win
terfield was crowded with Trenham's con
stituents, and the meal was taken in a
great clamor and excitement.
Many times did DR.. We're glance in
at his friend. who seemed so
light-hearted and so confident of success.
II must go now" said Athol. speaking
low to him before the breakfast was over !:
Il ought to be at the lnfrmary this mo-
ment. | shall soon see you in town"
VERY soon. Don't desert M to-day"
Athol laughed. "My only fear is that
I shall haunt the poll like n luna tic" he
And he did: for between the visits he
had to pay he always found himself rid
ing rapidly back to Alton, lowering about
me long wooden booth where Trenham's
name stood, and stopping eagerly and
proudly before the polling list.
At three o'clock he was obliged to at
tend an operation at the Infrma ry, and
then the names stood as they had stood
all the morning. only the numbers had
altered.
I,Vdi
Newley LOIS
"How are the votesT' asked a medical
student Of him as he entered the hos
pital.
"A majority of twenty-three for Tren-
ham,
That's right. What a ferment the
town is in They say Trenham has just
walked across the square with an old
woman's arm round his neck"
..True enough" laughed DIR. We're.
HE IA A y y 49, -, t,.-t ny,, "a hn - - IL .,
except Miss Gaveston. What a shame it
Is Her sisters husband, standing for
the county, and she not paying him the
compliment of coming in to see the cleo
ton. l suppose, being so pretty, she
thinks she may be whimsical.
Athol passed on without answering.
he could understand the feeling
which kept Lorraine at home, and the
painful anxiety which was making this
lay seem like a year to her.
-Four o'clock, and the polls closed.
Newiey I'LL
Trenham LOS
Rolling along the crowded streets in
his great luxurious carriage, blue ribbons
living from che heads of his four gray
horses. blue ribbons flying from the
dresses Of the ladies who sat with him
Horton Newley, NJ. r., bowling
barcheaded to the ~obsequious crowd.
At the hotel door, waiting while Brent
brought round his dogcart. the defeated
candidate stood in the midst of another
crowd, listening with lazy indifference to
the scofing of the opposition beyond and
acknowledging with quiet courtesy the
-..~xI,,4 10 bic frsarJc HE
and unshrinking. his tones even more
leisurely than their wont.
When Brent at last drove the bays up
through the crowd Trenham stood aside
while Mr.. Galveston took his place in the
~logcart, then slowly followed him, laugh
ing to the very last moment with the
gentlemen who stood around. Raising
his hat then with cool deliberate cour-
tesy, he took the reins; from his servant
and easily and skillfully guided his horses
through the crush.
But when the long day was over, AID
he was left alone at the farm, he sat
through the whole night upon his solitary
hearth. his head lying heavily back in his
clasped hands. and his face like the face
Of a man sImitten down upon the battle
field By a wound which he knows to be
CHAPTER XVIII.
Lucilla was still away from home when
were returned to the Cottage, after
dining with Rourke Trenham, and when
ehc arrived She was in q state of ire
pressible excitement; her wrath against
the electors as a body making her eyes
flash. and her checks buru. until nature
asserted herself through Art. But next