The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-11-24

stu q maiden and does not love an
w, seo ms| ! . said. "a s5ss = : playing ssyss
ous!" and | Eripped my arms behind
to keep them from about her.
She noticed the movement and re-
q step.
Monsieur she said. II will tell you
the story It o win promise to re-
And after you have nnished?"
.On. e you may do as You
Il promised" I cried. the blood
bomnntdin madly through my veins.
wilfuI and headstrong creature" h
began. "and when the time came to
prepare to marry you, she rebelled.
She had been permitted, 1t appears, to
form ideas Of her own. She refused
seen, or whom she remembered only
as a thin and un~attractiye boy. So the
day before you were to arrive, having
failed to exact from her father tbs
promise that the right Of choice should
be left to her-
Yes. he old me-" I interrupted.
But he did not tell you that she
Fled" / repeated. Then that
is the reason h is not here!"
am sure she would never have
aone IT.. my companion continued;
step SO as despe eslaap BUT aas for aob beok q she
happened to find one day In her fathers
library. She was attracted first by the
Illustrations, which were by Grayalot
and very beautiful: then she became
absorbed IN the story, q translation
from the English, which related the adj
ventures of a Vpl1pp lp6v naraS SoDhfA
western who ran away from her faith
er to avoid a marriage into which he
would have forced her The. result OF
this flight proved 90 tortInate-forb by
it she won the man she really loved
that Mdlle. de Benseval resolved to
; emulate 1t. So she mounted her horse
one morning and instead of taking her
usual ride dismissed her groom and
spurred away to the house of a friend
who she knew would sympathize with
father"
"Oh. 1t was with him she was in
Lowell" ! murmured."
MOI in the least. monsieur; she was
In love with no one, and this friend
was a woman. But that very
someone whom she fancied she
might love; and in the days that fol-
lowed. when they were much together,
she was drawn very near to him; for
she saw that he loved her passionately,
~devoutedly. And at last, In q moment
Of trial. when he held her in his arms.
she confessed that she loved him In re-
turn"
WELL" 1 said with a sigh of relief,
TT appears to me that + need think no
more Of Mdlle. de Benseval. Let us
dismiss her-there is another topic"
she "T fear ~r!lis
find yourself thinking a great deal
about her, before long. For after that
one moment Of utter Joy, she drew away
from her lover, held him at a distance
while h was longing to throw herself
upon his bosom and draw his arms
close about her!"
What" I said incredulously. "She
did that? Was she mad them"
mo, she was a woman and she played
with him because that is a woman's
nature"
, yet she knew he loved her!"
s, YES. she i answered am her eye.
he loved her deeply and purely, a,
she could never hoped to be lovet
again; but she resolved to put hin
:. to one supreme test. If he stood tn,
test, she would adore him, WORSHIP
: him, she would be his body and soul
through all eternity. If he did no
i stand it-well. h would still low
e him."
And did he stand ,t?" I asked
moved more and more by this story
t to which, at first, I had listene,
but indifferently.
Let me finish and you will see
She returned to her home, she opene
her heart to her father, who is reall
S the kindest and noblest of men, an
he agreed to assist her in the test
e So today-this evening"
She faltered, stopped and locke
n at me, smiling TREMENDOUSLY, he
cheeks suddenly flooded with color.
l Yes I cried, this evening
n thought! How shall I go on? Thre
q months ago, monsieur, there was
death in our family"
u "Yes?" I asked, failing to see III
o this had to do with the story.
1T was that of my fathers eldes
: without looking at ne, $50 tina m
father, who up to that time, ha
:. been NJ. de Benseval, succeeded to tt
~ title n became-became-"
10 IN. de ~Chambray!" I shouted, Sc,
= ing 1t all as in a lightning flash, an
t. I sprang toward her, blind with sue
!, den joy.
q For an instant she tried to old n
"a off; but my arms were about he
~ straining her to me. Then sudden,
"a she yielded, and nestled to me, clos
20 close against my heart.
ID On, my loVe, my IoVe, my o
w she cried, and raised her lips to min
~ Did you call M. de Tavernay'
a. a. asked a voice, and I raised my hes
to see my fathers friend standir
Ut upon the threshold, looking at
~ with smiling face.
20 Yes, monsieur" I answered
intelligently as I could, ct desire
If announce to you that your daught
has decided to marry me-"
I'm faith" he said. a humoror
ot light in his eye, II somehow suspect,
~ It the moment I opened the door"
With which remark ho closed
again and left us alone together.
NJ THE END.
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