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Dorothy’s tears broke out afresh.
’’She is dying—dying," she sobbed.
“The doctor says there is no hope—no
hope whatever."
"But tell me all about it,” he urged.
“What is the matter with her? She
was all right yesterday afternoon
when I left. It must have been very
auddden. Was it a fit?”
“Paralysis," answered Dorothy
mournfully. “We were just going to
bed, and Auntie got up, and all at
once she said, *1 feel so strange, Dor
othy; fetch Barbara;’ and when I
came back a minute afterward she
had slipped down on the floor by
the sofa there and could hardly speak.
We put a pillow* under her head, and
got Adam up, and Adam drove into
Dovercourt and brought the doctor out
as fast as he could; but Auntie did
not know him at all. And as soon as
he came in, Barbara and I knew it
was all over with her, for he shook
his head, and said, ‘We had better g*»t
her to *bed. Oh. no, it won’t disturb
her, she feels nothing.’ But she did
feel something,” Dorothy added, "for
when we were undressing her she
spoke several times, and always the
same, 'My poor little girl—Dorothy
all alone,’ ” and here, poor child, she
broke down again, sobbing over her
own desolation. “I begged and prayed
her not to worry about me, but it was
no good. Dr. Stanley said she couldn’t
bear me, and so she kept on all night.
‘My poor little girl—all alone.’V
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CHAPTER Vl.—(Continued.)
“The devil take those fellows,” Dick
was saying to himself at that mo
ment, as he drove along. “They have
either got a clue or they’ve turned
suspicious. Snooks the other day and
Laurence now. I shall have to make
up my mind to screw things up to a
climax.” <
Put he had not now much fear that
the climax would be a disagreeable
one for him; and he drove along over
the muddy roads as gayly as ever he
had done between the sweqt Sep
tember hedgerows. Yet w’hen he
drew up front of. the Hall it
struck hini that there'was somathing
strange about the place. For one
thing, the usual neat and well-kept
gravel was cut up, and in one place
the low box-hedge which skirted the
now empty flower beds was cut and
crushed as if a careless driver had
driven over it.
He was not long left in doubt. Old
Adam c?me to take his horse and led
him off to the stable, shaking lift head
with ominous sadness, anti muttering
something indistinctly about a bad
job; and then Barbara opened the
door with scared, white faca, and quiv
ering lips which could not command
themselves sufficiently to tell him*
anything.
“Good God, what is it?” exclaimed
Dick; his thoughts flying straightway
to Dorothy.
But it was not Dorothy, for in two
minutes she came running into the
room, tried to speak, and then, scared
and trembling and sobbing, she found
herself somehow or other in his arms.
Dick was almost beside himself with
anxiety, but he soothed her tenderly,
and patted her shoulder with a gentle,
“There, theie, darling, don’t cry like
that. What is it, dear? Tell me."
But for a little time Dorothy sim
ply could not tell him. “I’ve been
longing for you to come,” she said
at last. Oh, poor Auntie! and she is
all I have in the wor’d —in the world.”
"But is she ill?’’ asked he. "Ramem
ber that I know nothing.”
"But you got my telegram,” “she
said, ceasing her sobs to look at him.
"Your telegram? No! What tele
gram?”
"I sent one early this morning to
you at Oolchester,” • she answered—
“ ‘To R. Harris, 40t’h Dragoons, Col
chester.’ Was not that direction
enough?”
"Well,. scaroely,” said Dick, half
smiling at his own knowledge. "But
about your aunt —is she ill?”
For some minutes Dick said never a
word. "Dcrothy,” he said at last, "I
should like to see her. }Vhere is she?"
"In her own bed,” said Dorothy won
derlngly.
“Then take me up there. Perhaps
she will understand me if I tell her
something."
So Dorothy took him up to the large
darkened room where the mistress of
the house lay dying. Barbara, filled
with grief and dismay, sat keeping
watch beside her, and she stared with
surprise to see Dorothy come in, fol
lowed by the tall soldier, who en
tered with a soft tread and went up
to the bed, where he stood for a mo
ment watching the dying woman, and
listening to the Incoherent, mumbling
words that fell from d*.t lips. •'Dor
othy—little girl—no one—alone—
ah!—” and then a long sigh, enough
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to break the hearts that heard it.
“Just pull up that blind for a min
ute, Barbara,’’ said Dick to the weep
ing woman. “I want to speak to your
mistress, and I can't tell whether she
will understand me unless I can sec
her face." ’■
Then as Barbara drew up the blind
and let the feeble November daylight
in upon the pallid face lying so stiff
ly among the pillows, he laid his hand
upon the nerveless; one lying upon the
bed-cover. • ' ‘ /
“Miss Dimsdale,” ho said, “do you
know me?" But there was no sign,
and he tried
■ "Miss Dimsdale, don’t you know
me, Dick Harris?”
for a moment there was a death
like silence, then the dying woman
mll tte red, * ‘ Doroth y—gi r 1 alon e.”
“You are troubling about Dorothy,"
said Dick, slowly and clearly, "and I
have something to tell you about
Dorothy. Can you hear me? Cannot
you make me some sign that jyou hear
me? Can you move your hand?”
But no, the hand remained perfectly
still. still and cold, as if it were dead
already.
“Can you make me no sign that you
hear me?” Dick urged. “I must tell
•you (his about Dorothy. It will make
you quite easy in your mind about
her.”
Still she did not move or speak, but
after a moment or so her eyes slowly
opened4-ijnd she 'looked at Mnj.7 ; • •
“T see 'that you hear me , and
know me," said Diqk. “You are
ttf 'know what will happen
to Dorothy if you should die in this
Illness. Is that it?”
“Yes.” She had managed to speak
intelligibly at last, and Dick pressed
the cold, nerveless hand still covered
by his own.
“I w'ant to marry Dorothy at once,”
he said very clearly and gently. “I
should have asked’ you soon in any
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case. But you will be quite satisfied to
know that she is safe with me, won’t
you?”
There was another silence; then the
poor tied tongue tried to speak, tried
again, and at last mumbled something
which the three listeners knew was,
"Bless you.”
"Auntie, auntie," sobbed Dorothy, in
an agony, "say one word to me—to
me and poor Barbara, do.”
The dying eyes turned toward the
faithful servant, and a flickering smile
passed across the worn, gray face.
“Old friends," she said more clear
ly than she had yet spoken. "Very
happy,” and the eyes turned toward
Dick.
i’Auntle!” cried Dorothy.
"My lltte girl," said the dying wom
an, almost clearly now. "My dear,
good child. I am quite happy."
There was a moment’s silence,
broken only by the girl’s wild sobs,
and when Dick looked up again, the
gray shadows had fallen over the
worn face, and he knew that her mind
was at rest now.
And in the quiet watches of that
night Marion Dimsdale passed quietly
away, just as the tide turned backward
to the great North Sea.
CHAPTER VII.
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—WR’ii BW OraveW K h H®"
ll''9 ktkk’i until the end came,
jteM- J after which he
kx-k-l hade Dorothy go to
y jwr• i - 7, bed; and he put
K h* B horse in and
fTtn drove back to Col-
tr/V 'll Chester, which he
>Ai H rftaohed ,n time for
iWIW V | i ie day ’ 8 duty > he
> 1.1 I, j n g ort ] er iy officer
for the day.
"1 must stay in the barracks all to
morrow, darling; I am on duty," he
explained to her; "but I’ll get leave the
next day and come out here in the
morning. Meanwhile, will you and
Barbara say nothing of the engage-
menit between us?—l want to have a
long talk to you before any one else
knows a single word.”
And Dorothy, of course, promised,,
and Barbara promised too, believing
quite that Mr, Harris wished to say
nothing about marrying and giving in
marriage while the dear mistress of
the house lay cold and still within it.
It was a sad and wretched day. The
news spread quickly through the
neighborhood, and every few minutes
inquirers came to the door to hear the
details from Barbara ami ask kindly
for Dorothy. And hbout .noon, by the
time Dorothy had dragged herself out
of bed and was sitting miserably be
side the drawing-room fire, David
Stevenson rode along the avenue anu
told Barbara that he wanted to see
Miss Dorothy. ,
"Miss borothy is very poorly and
upset, sir,” said Barbara, who had a
sort of Instinot that Dorothy would
rather not see this particular visitor.
“Yes, but I must see her all the
same,” said David, curtly. “Where is
she?”
“In the drawing-room, sir,” said
Barbara. “But I don’t think I can let
you go in without asking Miss Doro
thy—l—”
“Do you know,” asked David, with
exasperating calmness, “that I am
Miss Dimsdale’s sole executor? No, I
thought not. Then you will understand
how F , perhaps, that it is necessary that
I should see her-to find out her
wishes with regard to the funeral for
one thing, and to give her authority to
have her black frocks made for an
other;” and then, poor Barbara hav
ing shrunk away scared and trembling
from this new and strange David
Stevenson, whom she did not seem to
know at all, he went straight to the
drawing-room, going in and shutting
the door behind him.
Dorothy jumped up with a cry, al
most of alarm when she saw who had
thus entered. • “There,” said he, cold
ly, motioning her- back to her chair,
“don’t be afrajd; I shall not hurt you,”
and then he got himsefr a chair and
set It a little way from here.
“I w”as obliged to come and see you
at once, Dorothy,” he said, in a cold
and formal way, “because your.poor
aunt made me the sole executor under
her will. But first let me say how
very, very sorry I am that I'have to
come like this. I have known Miss
Dimsdale all my life, and loved her al
ways.”
Dorothy had softened a little at this,
and before he had ended his sentence
began to cry piteously. David Steven
son went on:
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"I don’t want to speak about the
reason why she left me in charge of
everything,” he said —"at least, not
just now’. Of course, she thought that
everything would be very different
with us. And then, too, she was a
good deal mixed up with me in busi
ness matters, and I believe she wished
that the outside world should know as
little of her affairs as possible. Now,
Dorothy, it shall be as you wish; I
will either simply hear your wishes
about the funeral and the mourning
and all that, and tell you how your af
fairs stand by-and-by, or I will tell
you now, whichever you like.”
"I would rather know the worst
now,” said Dorothy, in a very low
voice. 3he knew from his manner that
he had no comforting news to tell
her.
"Then I will teu you,” said he, in a
strained tone; "and first I must ask
you, did Miss Dimedade ever tell you
that she had great losses during the
past two years?”
"Looses!” cried Dorothy, with open
eyes. "No; I don’t know what you
mean.”
"I feared not. Well, she had several
terrible losses of money, and—and, to
cut a long story short, Dorothy, I ad
vanced her several large sums on—on
the security of this property.”
"Then this—go on,” said Dorothy.
"At that time Miss 'Dimsdale and I
both thought that everything would
be different between you and me, and,
in fact, that I was but advancing
money to you. We thought that the
world—our little world here, I mean—
would never know anything about it,
and she was obliged to sell the Hall
to somebody. I gave her more for it
than anybody else in the world would
have done, because —well, because I
wished to oblige her, and to help her
over this difficulty. On no account
would I have disturbed her here or
have taken a farthing of rent from her,
if she had lived to be ninety.”
"Then this is your house?" Dorothy
asked.
"It is,” he answered, quietly. •
“But Auntie had a very large an<
nutty,” he exclaimed.
(To he continued.)
Sir John Lubbock makes the remark
able statement that “when we consid
er the habits of ants, their social or
ganization, their large communities
and elaborate habitations; their road
ways, their possession of domestic
animals, and even, in some cases, o|
slaves, it must be admitted that they
have a fair claim to rank next to mar
in the ncale of intelligence."
Next to Mun in Intelligence.
MONSTER SKEf/ETONN.
Remain* of (ilnnt Dinosaur! Found
Near Fort Meade by Scfentiata'.
Skeleton*..of two .gigantic dinosaurl,
monsters who inhabited the country
when the ehrth was young, have been
discovered on the military reservation
at Fort Meade by a party of scientists
sent out' from New Yorjc city by the
American Museum of Natural History.
The expedition Is under .the leadership
of Prof. G. R. Wieland, and it Is under
his direction that the work of excava
»
tion will be made. * i
i*he first and largest of the speci
mens was first discovered by a mem
ber of the party.some six weeks
But one bone, a vertebrae, was found
lying on the surface of the grouaiQ.
about half-way up the s|de of thb
Seven Pines, one of the largest peaks
In the chain of foot-hills. This bone
was twelve inches In diameter, and in
dicated to the geologists the character
of the skeleton of which it was a part.
Further search resulted in the discov
ery, but a short distance below the
surface, of a femur, or thigh bone,
eighteen feet in length and the thick
ness of a man’s body. Ribs, vertebrae,
the other femur, one tibia and other
portions of the skeleton have since been
located, and partially unearthed.
All the portions found go to prove
the enormous proportions of the ani
mal. According 'to Prof. Wieland, the
specimen belonged to one of the larg
est of the dinosauer family, probably
either an at’antasaurus or a brontosau
rus. It js estimated that it was fully
sixty feet in length and stood some
twenty feet In height.
On the side of another hill about half
a mile distant, has been located, during
the past two weeks, the fossiliferous
remains of a second dinosaur. This Is
?• in a splendid state of preserva
i tion. and a large number of the most
perfect bones have been excavated,
cast in plaster of parts and “cached”
for the winter, preparatory to ship
ment in the spring. This specimen,
while not so large as the one first dis
covered, is of no mean proportions. It
is estimated that the original animal
was fully forty feet in length.
Owing to ttye approach of winter th<
work of excavation had to be Relayed
until spring. It* will then be resumed,
when it is hoped that the missing por
tion of the skeleton will then be found.
The scientists are confident that, at
any rate, a sufficient number Of frag
ments will be found to enable them to
restore the entire skeleton.
It is stated by the geologists thaf the
family of dinosaur! has been extinct
for a period of 2.000,000 years. The ex
cellent preservation in which these
bones were found Is due to the lime
stone formation in which they lie. It
has long been known that rich fossilif
erous dent sits . ll® in the vicinity of
Sand, in Wyomihg, but this is practic
ally the first discovery on the easterp
selope of the Black Hills. It is now
believed that a new field has been
opened up for scientific research, and
with the advent of spring the hunt for
the remains of prehistoric animals will
be resumed.
ECHO OF TIYIXHt DEFAIX*%TIOY.
State Secured .Tudfrinewt for St, nnd
Supreme Court Snatatna It.
Opinions have been handed down in
the supreme court in the following
ca ses:
By Fuller—William Sutton vs. Chica
go & Northwestern Railway, Potter
county, reversed. Estate of Peter Sey
del vs. American State Bank. Yankton
county; order affirmed denying motion
for rehearing. Thbmas W. Garlock vs.
R. W. Calkis et al., Custer county, re
versed
By Haney—Sarah Richardson vs.
Thomas S. Dybedahl et al., Minnehaha
county; reversed. State of South Da
kota vs. Thomas H. Ruth, Hughes
county; affirmed. This is an echo of
the Taylor defalcation. Ruth, as land
commissioner, failed to apportion the
school fund at the proper date, and it
remained in the treasury, going with
the rest of the funds at the time of
the defalcation. The state sued for
damages sustained, and secured $1 and
costs, which decision is sustained.
State of South Dakota, defendant in
error, vs. William D. Yokum, plaintiff
in error. This is a case where Yokum
is granted a new trial after serving
several years of a life sentence for
murder committed in Butte county.
The court admitted William Innes
huth of Redfield, on a certificate from
the supreme court of Illinois.
WIT FOR COMMISSION.
Mining Broken Concerned In the
Action Brouvht by Pryce.
Mining brokers of the Black Hills
and Colorado are watching with inter
est a suit for $2,000, commission money
due to O. U. Pryce, secretary of the
Deadwood Commercial club, for the
sale of a lar*ge tract of mining ground
at Ragged Top to the Spearfish Min
ing company of Colorado Springs, Col.
The persons backing the company
waited until the option on the ground,
held by Pryce, expired, when they dealt
with the original owners themselves.
It is a question that has not been set
tled in the Black Hills, and Is of spe
cial interest.
Several real estate transactions have
taken place at Hunter tn the last few
days which show that farmers are not
in the least discouraged by the bad sea
son and partial failure of crops. A. F.
Norrtsh sold his splendid farm of 800
icres for S3O per acre; W. 11. Simmons
sold 320 acres for $31.25 per acre, which
was considered top price until to-day,
w hen Peter Erickson sold to M. V. Erb
50 acres at a consideration equal to
SSO per acre. Mr. Erickson was one of
the first settlers here and everyone is
pleased to see hhn make such a good
sale and at the same time have the
purchaser well satisfied. Several more
leala are under way.
REVISION NECESSARY. £
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In*ut-ance Law* of S. D. fn Cbaotle
State—Commi»«loner'» Report.
The report of the state insure.nr-»
that
a rather chaotic. stfeAe, because part of
them are, legacies from- old • territorial
days, backed by more recent legisla
tion, - muc'h of which Was enacted with
out regard, to the provisions' of the
former laws. The report asks for a
thorough revision ,pf the. insurance
laws, to eliminate conflicting provis
ions. The receipts of the Apartment
for the past year are about $X$ VI gfpat
er • tl.i n • f«,r any ’ past ,year, reaching
$32,254.42. During ’the’ ten compa
nies of all classes have withdrawn from
the state, and as many more have been
admitted.
Foreign Insurance companies write
risks for about $3,500,000 more than for
any,, year since the organization of the
state and for some $5,500,000 more than
the preceding year. The total amount
written for the year . 9 ->.
They received premiums amounting to
$444,125.84, and paid losses amounting
to $226,694.17, leaving? a balance of $217,-
431.67.
The total amount of risks written by
foreign life insurance companies for
the year were $3,731,152. They received
premiums to the amount of $466,816.99.
and paid losses to- the amount of $78.-
307.58, leaving a balance of $385,503.53.
The amount of life insurance carried In
the state, besides a large amount of
mutual Insurance, is $65,998,170.
.NEW KIND <Mf CRAFT.
T*arnter» Worked by Shrewd Swin-
tiler* In South Dakota.
Two men invaded the count.y in the
north part of Yankton county and in
south Turner and western. Clay coun
ties taking orders for .dry goods and
clothing, which they represented had
been manufactured for the United
States government for the use of sol
diers during the late war with Spain
but had not been used? and the gov
ernment was disposing of them at re
duced prices. The grafters collected a
little’cash on account where they could
and took orders for goods'from every
farmer they found. The gobds were to
be distributed from Yankton on a. cer
tain day, and a number of the farmers
who were caught came into the city
to meet the government agents. It is
needless to say they were sadly disap
pointed as no agents," goods or cash
paid in advance showed up, and most
of them figure *the experience pur
chased too high.
Druggist* are Quitting.
Some of the druggists in the northern
part of the state are giving up their
liquor permits rather than submit to
the continued espionage of the detec
tives of the enforcement league. The
league has made much trouble for
druggists in Walsh, Pembina and Cav
alier counties, and a recent decision of
the supreme court holds that a drug
store may be closed as a nuisance.
This carries with it other penalties
following conviction—namely, the de
struction of the furniture and belong
ings used in the dispensation of liquor.
With this advantage, the enforcement
league is in position to-make the drug
gists keep close to the line. The state
pharmaceuttal association at its last
meeting declared Jfor the removal of the
sale of liquors ffom druggists or the
repeal of the prohibition law, the phar
macists being wearied of the odium
cast upon the whole profession by the
practices of a "few “drug stores.”
PararfUte •< the Paelfle.
William Thorton of Brovin county,
now serving tn the Philippines, writes
that he will remain there after he Is
discharged from the army, and will en
gage in business. He writes: "This is
a country of vast resources, and has
never been developed, as Spanish rule
was against advancement. In fifty'
years these islands will be the paradise
of the Pacific, as the Island of Hawaii
does not compare with them. Here the
finest tobacco, sugar, hemp, all trop
ical fruits and all things that will
grow in a tropical country can’ be pro
duced. One province produces as much
fine coffee as anywhere in the world.
We have no winter, and we do not
even have frostu.*’
Cannot Cfrarwe Over « Per Cent.
I Attorney General Pyle has rendered
a decision to the effect that counties
cannot charge above <5 per cent interest
on school money loaned through thefr
county commissioners. Brown county,
as well as other counties in the state,
has been charging borrowers 7 per
cent, using the extra 1 per cent to re
imburse the county for the expense of
making the loan and collecting the in
terest. Fl}' a recent amendment to the
constitution the state can now loan as
high as SI,OOO on a quarter section of
land, Instead of being restricted to SSOO.
Three Important business changes
took place in Aberdeen recently. Con
greSFirtan-et ct T. F. Marshall of
North Dakota, who has held a con
trolling interest in the Gohlen Rule
department store, has sold the same tc
Hezel & Schamber, of Eureka, who
have the same sort of establishment
In that place and will conduct both. C.
Earl Smith bought the clothing busi
ness of McCullough Bros., which h«
will continue. Casper Hats of Yank
ton and Eureka bought one of the
most important vacant corners, 75x154
feet, for $5,000,
William G. Butzow, a farmer living
near Frederick, left Tuesday after
noon at 4 o’clock to look for some cat
tle. He did not return during the
night, and his body was found at the
bottou of an old well which was part
ly tilled with water. The well was near
his homo, and it Is’ supposed that he
stumbled into It in the dark on his way
home.
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