The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-05-31


dining-room, aud they were, Tor the most
part, weeks quiet, delicious joy. Since
reaching California I had not before
known rest, aud it was so grateful 90
my weary, aching bones and sinsas.
I'm the half-dreamy lauguor of my
Idle hours I almost forgot % worry
about Gerald, my husband. Indeed
there was fascination in him Tor me
only when I was iu hi. presence. And,
as ] both feared AMI loved him when
ever 7 was under his Influence, 7 also
hated him with uniefnable hatred
/ You may reconcile the paradox 60 you
can, good reader; acsuowleire chat I
cannot d1 it. But I was determined to
save him from the calows. Winter
would soon De over, and tbe spring term
+ OF district court was to conveneat Sacra-
meuto, where MY husband, under
change OF venue, was TO meet his trial
Thanks to my French cook, who
really understood his business well,
thereby disproving the fallacy that none
but women are cooks by nature, my
table was so well supplied during my
illness that my patronage had not fallen
OF, and the very substantial receipts of
my business not only enabled me %
keep clearof any pecuniary obligation
20 Mr.. Lillienthal, but 90 lay by CONF
Portable sum with which % carry my
self aud husband through the exciting
and expensive litigation in store for u.s.
was almost ready 20 take my de-
pauure, and had arranged 90 leave my
cook, Antoine, in charge Of my business,
before I mentioned my purpose 90 SIR
Lulieuthal.
"Why DO you want % save your hus-
band, little woman % be asked, kindly.
This was receiving the news OF my
determination with better grace than I
bad anticipated.
"Because right wrongs nobody, and
Gerald g. not guilty"
My laudied shrugged his shoulders
and CALCULATED q significant "ugh."
OF know the case looks dark, 1Ir.
Iiiiien,hal, but ] also know, no matter
what else my husband may be guilty Of
doing when intoxicated, that Doe iii not
commit that murder What Tam re-
solved to DO fer him Z would willingly
DO Tor you OF any other innocent man
under like circumstance
CHOW do you know DE im't guilty @"
"By my inner couscisusnessr
"AbsurI."
"IDu'I believe he's innocent if tbe
fact is clearly proven, WON'T you?r
'Yes."
"Ihen, you have only 90 watt"
Seeing that was thus determined,
aud confident of success. my landlord
interposed no further audible objection,
yet the shrug of his shoulders spoke vol
umes of contempt tor what I knew he
conceived TO De my "woman's wlims"
left Nevada City by q conveyance
scarcely more comfortable tbau the
racking mule with fsx-brake rait, upon
whose maueled back I had ridden in
such exquisite torture during my jour
ney thither. But my beast lhls time
was a gentle pa''rey, of easy gait and
good condition, and the saddle and pan-
uiers for my children were far more
comfortable than the ueverto-be-lor-
gotten ones I had used before.
The trails along the mountain sides,
where I am told railroad now runs,
was intolerab,y steep, slippery aud zig
zag. To this day cannot imagine why
our uecks were not broken. The break
ing mp OF the winter, which, even in
California, is not always mild iu the
mountains, had caused a mixture of
snow aud sleet % mlngls with the
c.ayey soil, forming slippery s.ush
through which my paifrey dounlerei,
frightening the children, and sometimes
halfstarliing myself
Bot 7 was as stolid and reckless as
trouble and disappointment could make
me- But for my children should have
east myself head.ong down some one OF
The innumerable guiches that every
where opened friendly though frightful
gaps TO receive me.
All, mel
The dangerous portion of our ride wal
over at last, and confess I was not @
little relieved when we emerged upon
the open plain where spring, lovely
siren that she was, las smiling iu On,
lap Of expiring winter
To an my travels I have neyer seen
. loveiier landscape than the one thai
slopes downward from the Sierra Ne
+ vaias to the Pacific Ocean. True ther,
. are blemishes hera and there ike Oh,
. fat site Of Sacramento, where mosqui
toes are the chic. production, and tb,
! sitting heat Is at times almost uneudur
able; but the vast area Of billowy acre.
D. age over which The waving grass bend
, gracefully; the live oaks, spreading thei
e vernal arms abroad iu the purple haz
p of the shimmerisg air; The tall pines
o clothing the distant mountain side
- with their blue-green verlure; the wind
s. ing gSacamentoaud modest san JoaquiI
Q rivers, boriered with their fringe o
70 willow foliage; the undulatiug noun
s ,ains, with here and there o snow-peal
- towering high; and far,her on the bil
j. lowy ocean, breathing forever the mis-
8 crcre Of the spheres-ah, nature has no
@ where been more lavish of her gif,
ID than there.
remember noting au this as w
-e amoied through the biliowy plain, an