The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-12-04
ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN.
Now He Came to Find Himself Alone
I'm h Cold. Cold World


Au Austin street ear stopped or . siding.
There was a long wait But one solitary list
less passenger inhabited the car. He gazed
out of the window at the gorgeous autumn
scenery on the sIdewalk-dry goods boxes
and peanut stands
81 wasn't brought up to whack q mule,n
said tho driver, suddenly putting his hea 10
at the frontdoor of the car, and adIress sing
the $ -litary passenger. G ET
nor said tho solitary one, interrogar
lively.
mot much. Ny history Is peculiar. Pm
a victim Of circumstanceLn
Yes" said the passenger. a~ffirmatvely.
Eyes. you bet. I struck the wildest and
most delirious kind Of luck. Ny father was
ono OF the solid msn of Jackson You couldn't
pry bin of his financial feet with jack
scr-w. BE was q wiiower. and l was his heir
apparent. But 1t wasn't apparent long. No,
tho ru-e-colorsd dream e~vaporatei. Just
about the time the governor could count up
bis $4,000. l Eel madly In love with q rat
Ting good lookin' girl, and tbs old man said
IL didn't quit paying ATTENTION to her he
would write a will which would make my
eyes bung out when I came to hear it read.
so told the governor I'd shift for myself;
go west and head out with the country, dig a
fortune for myself out OF a silver mine, or do
anything, everything, rather than be do
tated to In regard to affairs Of the heart. The
old man said that was all right, and I pawned
my watch, and other unnecessary jewelry.
and Lit by the light Of the moon. I toilsd
and moiled daytimes, and at night I world
put on an opera dress shirt and sit oil the
hotel piazza out In Leadville. There ] made
another mash She was the only, dried up,
old maid daughter of a mining store mer-
chant. BE had money to throw at the birds.
But the gtrl was homely. O-uml Don't talk
Her lace looked Ikea wilted pineapple hacked
by a c1rn cutter, and her every day, hope-to-
die t-ain't age was SO and a half sum
mers, including ten years OF steady drought
and one grasshopper season.
well, we were married, and tho old man
said; Bless you, my children, bless YOU and
gave US 500 for experience and a basket OF
sour sandwiches l resolved to go home like
the prodigal son, and see how the old man
was hxod for calf. / found out directly /
struck the old homestead. The old man had
actually married the girl l had left behind
me, and when she saw me she Topped right
into my arms and murmured: 'Henneryl Oh,
Henneryl do again behold my once true
lovei Where did you pick up that femalef
Then the governor snatched her out OF
that recumbent position too quick, but he
wasn't any .quicker'n my wife, who immedi-
ately lit on me with the rago of a Jealous dis
position, and tore out samples of my hair
enough to make q watch chain a mile and q
half long. Then she hounced out Of the house
and took the next train home, and soon she
got n divorce. The old man was hot in tie
box, too, about the way his girl wife IA
acted, and sent her home, and got a divorce;
but the upshot Of the whole matter was, |
was whip-sawed. the entire outfit shook me,
and l found myself out in the cold, cold
world, ~friendless and alone.
Cit up there, Samuoll The down car
passed US ton minutes ago."