The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-06

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"No. ! shsaa yoaH 81 ~
lfshs hsd only known thas Il vae
ths rsd harm with Tho Isdaan on ssp
that was IN danger. she wouA proba.
bly, have 'et .hs gslIspisg brave take
care Of himself.
Il seen,ed 10 Bud. q he walked
home mortified. disgracsd, disappoint-
Cd. hopeless, that all the world hal
gone down In whirlpool Of despair.
Might knowed IT," be said to
himself 'Of courss, . smsrt esl like
Martha ANT agoin' to take . big,
"lunderin. fool that can't spell in two
syliabl~s. What's the uss Of tryip,?
A Flat Cricker IL Flat Cricksr. fou
cau't make nothin' else out Of him,
no more nor you can make . China
hog into Berkshire"
CHAPTER XXyII.
A Loss AND A GAIN.
DR.. Small. silent, attentive, assidu.
WIS Dr.. Small, set himself 70 work TO
Dino up the wounded heart Of Bud
Means, even ~ hs had bound up his
oroAen arm The flattery of his 1ns
Eyes, which looked st Buds muscles
SO admiringly. which gave attention
to bis lightest remark. "a. NOT loet ON
the young Flat Creek Hercules. Out
wardly at least Pete Jone. showed no
inclination to revenge himself on Bud.
Was Il respect for muscle, or We Il
the influence Of Small? At any rata.
the concentrated extract Of the resent
ment Of Pete Jones aud his clique was
now ready to empty itself upon the
head Of HartsOok. And Ralph found
himself in his dire extremity without
even the support Of Bud, whose good
resolutions seemed to give way oil at
once. There have been many men OF
culture aud more favorable eurround-
ings who have thrown themselves
away with less provocation. A. Il
was. Bud quit school, avoided Ralph,
AMI seemed more than ever under the
influence Of DE- small, bss;,iss bscsm.
ing the intimate of Walter johnson,
Smali's stu lent aud Mrs. Martha
Whites son. They made . strange
pair-Bud with his frm jaw and d.
lent, cautious manner, aud Waiter
johnson with bis weak chin. his nice
aud general dandy appear.
xnce.
To b thus deserted In his darkest
hour by his only friend was the bittsr-
est ing redient In RAlph's cup. In vain
he sought an interview. Bud always
rluded him. While by all the faces
about him Ralph learned that tho
storm WAS getting nearer and nearer
70 himself. It might delay. lit had
been Pete Jones alone 1t might blow
over. But Ralph felt sure that the
relentless hand of Dr.. S.nsii wAs prss-
ent In all his troubles. Aud he had
only to look into Smsil's eye to know
how inextinguishabis was mslignity
that burned 30 steadily aud 80 quietly.
But there is no cup Of unmixsl bit-
t-rness. With an innocent man there
Is no night SO dark that some star does
not shine. Beside his religious faith
Ralph had one strong sheet-anchor.
On his return from Lewisburg on
Monday Bud had handed him note
written on common blue foolscap, In
round, oid-fashioned hand. II ran:
Dear Sir: Anybody who can do 90
good tEing as you did for our Shocky,
can not be bad. hope you will for
give me. All the appearances In the
world, and all that anybody says, can
not make me think you anything sloo
but good man. / hope God will re-
ward you. You must not answer this,
s"d yo0 hsdD't better see me again. or
hiuk any more Of what you spoke
Ahsut the other nIgnt. I shall -
slave for three years more, and then
must work for my mother aud ShOcky:
but ! felt 30 6ad to think that had
spoken SO har,i to you, that I Could
not help writing this. Respect fully.
"HANNAH THOMSON.
ITO Mr. RALPH HARTsOOR, ESQ"
Ralph read 1t over aud over. What
rlse he did with It I shall not tell.
You want 10 know II he kissed It, aud
put 1t In his bosom. Many y man ~
and manly rs Hartsook has
done quite ~ foolish thing - that.
You have been q little silly perhaps
fit Is silly-and you have acted In .
sort ofs way over such
hings. But 1t would never do for me
o tell you what Ralph did. Whether
ne put the letter In his bosom or not,
ne put the words In his heart, and,
neisphOrica!'y speaking, he shook
hat little blue billet, written on coarse
paper-he shook that little
etter, full Of confidence. in the face
md eyes Of all the calamities that
1aunted him. II Hannah believed in
him, the whole world might distrust
lin. When Han nah was in one scale
nd the whole world In the other, Of
What account was the world? Justice
nay De blind, but all the pictures Of
blind cupids In the world can not
make Love blind. And 1t was we'll
hat Ralph weighed things In this
way. For the time had come In which
'e needed sil the courage the blue
'iilet could give him.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE FLIGHT.
About ten days after Rsiph's return
D Fiat Greek things came TO crisis. I,
The master WAS rather relieved at
lrst TO have the crisis come. He had
zen holding juvenile Flat Creek an- j,
Ter his feet by sheer force Of will.
And such IN exercise Of "psychic
,ower" IL very exhxusting. In racing
II the OHIO the engineer sopetimes
ends the largest of the firemen to hold
he safety valve down. and this he
loes by hanging himself to the lever
y his hxnds. Ralph felt that he had
,een holding the safety valve down,
nd that he was so weary Of the opera
ion that an explosion would be real
sHef He was . Little tired Of having
Look ut him as = thief. It
'as y little irksome to know that new
otis were put on the doors Of the
ouses In which he had stay ed. And
ou that ShMkv vSs 0nn and Rnd