Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-04-19

Hp sisa anh jeet 81 Msatia'a whereabouts
ar his 0aa Sessigsn, Although tsi0 Girl
VISA aatrts Nssti ~ talk fsttsl aak auesr
ssans stsa hsd wit attii resolution
auNtlgta III change sfsa subject when IL
llaa besn Gfsa hsnashad and Tor ,a,aay
tisaes thereafter.
tsstea iitsagwoFsh was fighting far
tits reputation u fha saa,. slia luvea
Htsd fos her nwn happiness, nFii she
MfHs resolved ta neglect no rsatnt lii Tho
MAssls. Ssla parsnsg its d iafge measure
az her fnihrr'a capacity. hns she asisi.
M te iiis somewhat tsluat ard milf
tatg T.S as dsiag things the Infinite
fass uf wessaaa. #siinuiateA by grew.
lug, overwhelming devotion to heg nh-
sefss lnyer. She cherished thar feeling
foe hiia Ia any svent and would have
tiugsn @u but the whala situation Was 10
charged With myetsry and anrehargnfi
wFsh Fcsnanee that 1t made the sanst
I,oNssrfsii arad stimulating appeal 10
iar,
3iss lived tu slndfcata Meade ansi
aha tfent every Effort toward ssaat end.
She did nat oyvrtlp 1t. elttier. Final.
hi as no himself continued to gseaa
fiaa subject upaii her, she made no se-
egei 10 shmrtilm of her devotion til the
Younger Meade. her serrow that he had
asptia such declaration. md her do.
tAgfstnntiun 10 walt for him. She WAS
aiways careful To esisi every ronypfsssa-
tsam hy saying that she knew her out.
| lock MRg perfectly hopeless and thai
she esasiii expect nathing except set.
row Until the younger Messde Was re,
IiiihiHsatesi. sho SO cuntrlsed matters
wisiie constantly affirming her feeling
/ for Meade. ns to let Shurtiiff tnfel
that shc was convinced that he has
hecs telling the truth In what he has
j said.
After 4 time she saeftiy appealed II
him to know III fe could not help IN
/ discover the truth she taetfully main
sasned even Ii, fsce OF the evidence TIM
shartiify had gisaia. And she tlid thi
Ia such mn atsroit why that Shnrtlii
necnme convinced that she did not con
meet him with ans wfiifnl deception
{ aud that she believed that he -=s~ss dc
inaesi himself and occupied the pos
/. tion al mn innocent ahettor. And Shuri
liff, In his strange. old. self-containe
way. finally grew to like Helen Iliinf
worth exceedingly. Indeed he starte
Ia hls work with natural Antagonist
. tn Colonel Illingworth. and when b
sensed, as he very soon did, the dl
ference that had arisen between faths
! land daughter, he espousad the cause {
the latter. He wns the kind Of a la,s
& who had tc devote himself to SOM
, body. He began to wonder IL thel
i was any wuy I'd secure the girls hal
! lpiness without bctraying the eld,
l Meade.
\ a She collrassed the secretary. vi
! was, 0f course, old enough 10 be II
q father. with sweet obsesvances and |
y found II increasingly hard to keep n,
10 his falsehood. Now she was ca
I able ot fascinating bigger personaIita'
u than Shurtlin. although she cared 1
Il lie for that power aiid rarely exereis,
& II. The old man actually got to thin
u ting Of her as d daughter. Sofnetim
a when they had an hoslr together
s-| found himself seconding her argumen
III Tor the innocence Of the young
n Afeade TOR she hasi progressed that
Il by now little details which
~ know wledge and experience of the Il