The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-04-26
"DAvE."
From the William.port Breakfast Table.

DAVE"
From the Williameport Breakfast Table.
Engine No. . LETT the round house,
moved slowly out of the yard aud
down the track to the depot plat
form, where she was to take the
southern express over the Western
division. the trip being . twenty
four hours run.
It had suited the handsome man
who stood 1t the throttle to make the
magnificent engine, of which he was
20 proud, and which was noted for
its speed, almost creep down to daty
this morning, and it required no
stretch of Imagination on his part,
and he rather liked the fancy, to think
that it was tho leade1 weight of q
strong mans heavy heart ct bore
her down and impeded her progress
90 wonderfully At times.
Yes, be Was indeed proud of his en-
| CINE, and hs loved it - thing en-
dowed with life. She had been far
three years now in perfect sympathy
with the wild, untamed spirit of un-
rest that had taken possession of him.
When she had borne him flying across
the country. it had seemed to him
that her speed must outrun this sor-
row, that had robbed life of it, sweet
ness, and made him seek companion
chip of the thing hs knew was life
les in preference to treacherous
humanity, and together they would
leave that sorrow in the distance for
behind. And again he had loved it
% . thing that perhaps was bearing
him to bis death, and would merci-
fully relieve him of q burden he had
borne in silence for three years, .
burden that was no light thing to .
man Of bic nature, but q long and
keen torture. Az she turned that sharp
curve around the mountain she might
rush with maddening fury straight At
the head Of another who had dared
to usurp her path, and in her deter
mination for sole possession wreck her
own beauty and her masters life in
her mad struggle for victory. She
bore him over long bridges that
eroaned and crsaked a. though in their
agony they should burst asundsr and
let their weight fall into the water BE-
low aud swallow all tho trouble and
the miserable heartachs with the life
that was only burden. She carried
him past many scenes. She bad shown
to him in one flying trip. psnury. toll,
wealth and case; the corpulent
capitalist, with An air of supreme in.
difference resting bis foot upon the
box that was the sole possession Of
one human being, and was perhaps
the foundation Of aftertime success.
while the quick witted boetblack who
in coming ysau might succeed him.
knelt 1t bis feet and worked with
will that hs might transfer even %
small q portion Of the great mans
wealth as the struggling pennies that
lurked in his pocket into bis own
possession and add them to bis little
store. She had borne him past fields
ripe with golden grain. and she had
let him have glimpsss OF the dark
blue violets that lifted their sweet
heads above the cast-of garments of
the trees that shaded and sheltered
them, like q beautiful beggar maid
who 10 all the fairer when attired in
the quaint. old fashioned dress of some
wealthy patron. turning his heart ,
sick at the sight that brought before
him 90 wildly q pair of ewes that
we're not less blue nor beautiful. that
had looked into his 30 tenderly in the
springtime Of his prosperity, and
even far into the summer, but with |
the first cold draught of autumn air
they had vanished he knew not where, |
leaving instead of the tender ex.
preston and winning smile that had |
ever greeted them, the hard lines |
around the lips that were 30 com.
pressed as almost to repel one. As
the sun prepared to bid adisu to those
it had delighted through the day, she
had hurried him past scenes she
seemed t. know were painful, little
cottage farm houses with arches over
the gates, above which clambsred
roses in wild profusion and beneath
which young girls sometimes leaned
to watch tho flying express, girls even
fairsr and more graceful than the
Towering vines above them, whose
complexion seemed of the delicate
maiden blush and moss rose com.
binsd, with violet eyes and long
ringlets Of brown tied With blue, and
she had uttered shrill, wild CRY, a.
Of agony, that found an echo in the
heart that felt % grateful to her for
doing what be could not do, and be
bis lips tighter and looked
away from it oil to the setting sun.
his life could 70 - quietly
md peacefully, and feeling sure it
would 30 quite - unregretsdly as the
light that would come again on the
She had shown him all phases of
ife, but he failed, in what seemed 10 (
- her chief object. making him By
he contrast with others more CON. /
sntsd with bis own lot.
When hs might have been hurried /.
4 q moment from time into eternity.
hs had borne him safely on. and at
hs end Of their journey he had {
topped down from his seat, and
lking his snowy handkerchief from {
D inner pocket, he had unfoldsd it ,
nth aspark Of gratitude, be knew not =
'hy, making his heart warm toward q
Or, and wiped the polished brass !.
'hicb adorned her, until she had q
semsd to stand more erect, and glow q
nd culver and fash smilss in thu f.cs d