The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-22
MARK llGBER'S LUCK.
Az ISp,AN STORY.

y n
Mark UuHcr returned homh from hjs 9
thee, funeral with tn, problem of hi.
I'D future pre- -iug upon his thoughts,
ID damaudIus prompt solution.
Ills homo hHl boon, from his earliest re-
upon y stouy worn cut farm
Gt,y ucrp-. situated upon the SeIc,a
axe, IT, Wet';a Sew York Hs father |
nd become 80 heavily involved Iu dcb0
nat two wrr.. before Ms deun lhs farm
I'd hacu soil by foreclosure OF wp'gpse.
And how whp. WAS " ,r., t. d,P
IL. 'was - lad Ut nineteen, slight ,snd .
,oyi~h iu frame. tut with the strength oi /
man IA his .iucwy arms. lie hal h1h !
he usual advantages Of education afforded
- farmers sons.
lie returned home from his fathers
grave to The small, Imprinted story and
, half house, and after him came hi,
'athar's only brother II we l-to-do farmer,
who re iieI in the neIshborhood.
Tni,uuclc, Mr.. William Heoer, was
man of sixty years, pump '"s ana s'II,ih-
H,s soul wa. of the smallest
pattern. and lac ral newer been known t.
dua generous decd, while he had done
many ne ga oucs.
"WeN Mark, slil his uncle, I've sent
my folk, on uoinr, 80 that | could have II
good talk with sou. Morgan tells me ho
wants the farm. He has held of two
weeks while George wa, dying, but he
wants to move ia next week, What are
you going TO do -
II don't know uncle / am trying to
think. What can | dor
Il have thought the matter over said
Mr.. Ilcocr 'uu1 have thought upon It
plan. ! am wiling to take You, Mark,
aud treat you as my own son. You shall
have II home at my house and seat at
my table. What do you say"'
you forget, uncle, that ! have some
one to proyil, Cor besides myself said
Mark. "Slppu,o I were TO accept this
offer of YOUR, wh It viii you do Tor Gay
Tho girl D, no relation OF yours, Mark.
The boy sighed.
"Poor listln GAY h s1idi "hcrs is
hard lot. Do you remember how the
chIld came by her uam1i 1t is thirteen
year. this spring since q lady stopped ut
our door and asked leave 10 remain over
night She s,ail ON day after day, grow
ing weaker AMI weal,cr. 1t did not take
long TO discover ;Aat she was insane. She
called the cl.l Gay, and sometimes
Gabrielle, "Ni ID is Gay true name. But
she aid not tell her surname, nor any
thing concerning herself. Late thut
Summer she died. No one ever came to
inquire after her or the child.
"ler mother wl, crazy tramp, an d
nothing more 80 wonder George was
beh;ndhand, when his wife adopted the
child ola tramp and brought her up a
lady, said hi uncle.
Mark colorol.
81 cannot bear II word agaiJst my
mother, SIR n said. II shall pr, tee,
Gay while / live, and she shall not bc
separated from me-
Then l va-h my hanl- of you, cx
claimed Mr. Neher angrily. "You cat
60 your own way and get your own liv
| ing.
"Very wei, SIR aid Mark quietly
that Is settled then.
In one week Marx had sol n pair O
colts which ha arj raised himself for dvO
hundred dollars, The household furnitur
tor nearly ~ much more, and WAS on hi
WY, with little Gay, to the far West, t,
seek their fortune.
Inc young travellers arrived at Leavcn
worth after Il long and iuugung journey
Here Mark, while looking for II wug'r
and yoke o. oxen with which to eros
the prairie, 60. 10 wish IN Old fumct
n.meG Whitman, who hid been living 10
Wr-tern huU.U-, but did not like il, an.
was now on Do. way 10 Nebrisha. Mail
concluded io i,ir hlm, and Mr.. Whitman
assisted him lu purchasing a suitable out.
~, ana that .Im" uI-ui Mark and Cav
were ugly cEseoucnd in their LuT,
travelling wagon, inside of the city, on
the edge OF the prairie where Mr. Whit
man, with ms wife and seven Children