Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-05-15

alton Tor him. he had been honestly
'raised,' he said, by good and loving
parents In the State of Missouri; had
passionately loved young girl in the
town where he lived, and his description
OF her was 60 pretty and so vivid that
declare it brought into my mind that
other girl who was waiting for me down
in the Wallamet valley. To get the
means to marry her he resolved to 90 to
California. He went was successful,
and, full of joyful anticipation, returned
to find that she had married another
The man, the husband, had played them
false, told the girl that her lover was
dead, and married her himself. When
he came out of the brain fever which
this news gave him, he was invited to an
evening party in the town. To this
party came his love and her husband
and when he put out his eyes to welcome
her their eyes met, and both knew then
how they had been betrayed. From that
hour the man took to evil ways, and the
first victim was the false husband. He
became desperate outlaw. Once again
he saw his love; he met hex in the streets
of Sacramento; she was married again ;
and she turned from him with cry Of
aversion. Yes, he might be desperate
man now, he added, but he had had his
trials. l suppose I should have done
society benefit had I shot him as he
sat there, but did not. Perhaps you
won't believe that / felt sort of pity
for the fellow, but I did. Well, morn
ing came at last. Isent Edwards to get
the door open, and escorted my visitor
out, telling him that there was not room
for him in that part of the country, and
that he had better suit it for another.
"And did he?"
81 suppose so, for he never attempted
to modest me again. Not long after l
heard of his death. He met his fate
east of the mountains"
"And what of that pretty amazon,
Joseph? l am sure she was almost as
good to you as guardian angel, coming
Oh horseback to give you warning"
"Was she not? And I had returned
it by behaving SO unhandsomely to her!
But now, just ask you, would it have
been proper to let her come in on that
weeks visit, and a young man with a
reputation?"
cat any rate, you did not. But have
you ever seen her since?"
"Once; it was in Frisco. She was
married and staying at the same hotel
with nae. Her husband was tall, DASH
ing man, what with you would be called
a gentleman, and very wealthy. She had
been lucky, you see. l knew her as
soon as she came into the dining. room,
and in few minutes I saw that she
recognized me; but she did not take any
notice and neither did I. She told me
with her eyes that she remembered, but
there was an appealing glance in them
which l interpreted rightly. After din
ner we got into conversation, the
three of us, just as strangers will do in a
hotel, and found the husband very
intelligent, well-informed man. In part
ing got just word aside with her. Il
am glad to meet you again, and thus l
said. 'Hush!' she answered, Il thank
you for your reticence. In the past of
a life that has been composed of ups and
downs there is generally something or
other lying on the memory that we
don't care to recall or proclaim to the
world."
~, "And about the young girl in the
Wallamet valley?"
II never found her." replied Joseph,
plaintively. "Truth to say, never
started fairly to look for her. Perhaps
it is as well.'