The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-02-25

IAsANe AANA AAA AAAAH So 80
hlm able 10 drag himself ont into tn,
street AZ noon and try his strength.
lie had almost forgotten the lady 81
the night school for, reader dear, agu'
is the grave OF Try il anc
see. And 10 might have gone on EasI
with only a lurking memory Of Mis-.
Beck in his mind, but for one thing.
As he half staggered along the side.
walk, he met her fair and square. She
glanced up once, twice, then recognized
him. Out came her little gloyed hand,
IL thought YOU would be in Ohio 10y
this time"
10 frightened At this. She had
thought Of him, any way.
mo. with chills and quinine, YOU
see What | ana wreck he answer
cd. turning and walking back with her
To her boarding-place. They talked on
OF this andthat, and when they reached
the gate. she said. "Good-by. You're
coming West again after a while, YOU
say. Ii you come near Shocking, don't
pass Us by"
Il surely will nol.n said 10. ''Good-
by"
Her frankncss charmed him, but il
must be confessed that he wondered al
it. Perhaps you are wondering too. 81
| may as well explain. Miss Beck knew
who he was. In short, JOS own cousin,
Bella Worth, was the bosom friend OF
Miss Beck. They had roomed together
at school, had taught together in Michi-
gan, had chung together with tears in
an unobserved corner Of the ladies' sit
ting-room in an Illinois depot just be-
fore the engine which was to propel
Bella eastward came clustering up. Let
tiers had passed between them with de-
voted frequency, and Bella had once
written:
81 have a cousin out there some
where-Joseph Wallace. If he should
ever cross your path, be good to him.
| fear he is not always good TO him
self"
But all this had not flashed on the
mind of Miss Beck at once. Ii was not
until next morning that she thought Of
il al all, and then Bella's photograph,
in its little frame on hertable, happened
to suggest il to her when she lifted the
precious thing TO dust it. All her mus
cles ceased action for a minute, save
those which seemed to draw her face
into an expression of surprise.
Somehow 10 found in himself an I'M
accountable inclination To remain an
other day. But he was well enough 70
travel, and could render no reason for
not doing so. So he went. | will not
say hat he left his heart behind, but he
certainly carried of with him the mem
DRY Of a scarlet jacket. \ few days
passed away. and be stood knocking at
the doors Of a medical school, which
proves hat he was really in for it. His
uneventful bur Studious history for the
following years it is not my pleasure
to record.
He comes out in due time, fun lledged,
with "all the world before him where
10 choose" East and West are careful
" balanced. For reasons best known 10
himself, East AT last flies 10 the beam,
and West gets him.
/ have nothing more than a suspicion
why he should have taken Shocking As
the starting point Of his travels when he
began TO cast himself about from one
Western town to another in search of a
location. NY suspicion is strengthened,
however, by the fact that he was seen
to leave the above mentioned place after
a single days s%ojourn with an unac-
c%ountably perplexed and dissatisfied
expression on his face.
Meantime Mary Beck had returned
to Illinois. just where she was no one
happened TO know. All that could be
a%seertained was that she "had gone for
Married?" indifferently inquired
DR.. 10, while his heart stood still To
hear the answer.
s'No." 1t was ''allowed'' that she
teaching somewhere. She and her
father had been suddenly called away
by some intelligence or other. IL could
not be sscertained that she was in cor
respondence with any one in Shocking.
One or two had known her destination
at the time Of her departure, but it had
faded from their minds. They could
not think of it now ''to save their ives
and 10 forbore, from modest scruples,
to push his inquiries. For. after all, with
his slight tenure on her interest, what
right had he to be searching her out As
il she were appurtenance or even friend
Of his?
To his credit, he went on with his
plans, and found himself settled in a
couple Of months. His starving ex-
perience was shorter than he could have
for a memorable sickly season
came on a the summer waned. Balefnl
fever floated on every breath, and if the
number Of physicians had been doubled
and their quality improved tenfold, they
could scarcely have kept the gaunt foe
st bay. Now was DIR. 10 in his element.
Now was body and brain busy day and
scarcely stopping 10 take needed
rest. Now did his hand and voice grow
gentler than . woman's rs he bent over
his stricken patients, and by the very