The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1884-10-01
ALL FORIOvE
The Story Of James Samuel's life

The Story Of James Samuel's life.
One of these stories, so prolific in the
West t-romantic in the extreme, full Of
love, jealousy, attempted murder and
happy finalc-hns just been made pub
lie in Denver, Colorado. The hero,
William Samucls, is one Of the wealth.
lest men in the state, and it is from his
lips that the story comes, corroborated d
by his wife and brother James. Four
years ago the two brothers lived in the
beautiful Chester valley, Pennsylvania.
Herbert Samuels, the father, was we'll
to-do farmer, owning splendid tract Of
land, where he dwclt with his wife and
two boys. When the latter were old
enough he sent them to school and then
to college. During their absence a
brother Of the father died and he took
into his family the dead mans child
Hattie. When the two brothers return
ed from college aged about twenty
three and twenty-five respectively, they
found their cousin, a beautiful girl Of
twenty years, installed in the house.
OF the brothers James, the elder, had
light hair and eyes and was Of quiet and
even demeanor, rarely, if ever, known
to be angry, and being general fnvorite
not only Mt home but throughout the
community. In marked contrast was
the character and disposition Of William,
tn, younger brother, who, Of a dark, al
most swarthy complexion, with hair and
eyes as black rs coal, was fiery and
quick to anger, and although naturally
all h,,1
counters, both while attending school
and since his graduation.
Since the time, three years ago, when
james and William finally returned
from college and found their lovely
cousin domiciled Mt their home, they had
both been violently in love with her
and both had made every man festation
Of the feeling. hut So far the cunning
witch had avoiGe showing the slightest
preference for either, treating them as
brothers athcr than lovers. This state
Of affairs rankled us q thorn in the
breast of the hot headed William,
whose feelings Of bitterness and jeal-
ousy toward his brother grew until
they amounted to almost positive hatred.
Time and again he sought quarrels, but
James more even temper prevented
anything Of serious character until
ono bright afternoon in July, when.
upon the return Of the elder. brother
md Hattie from ride, the younger,
who watched with ferocious, danger
Gus glare in his eyes rs his bro ther as
sisted his cousin to alight, then followed
him to the barn where he was unhar-
Messing the horses and attack cd him
with the most violent abuse, using cp-
ithcts so strong that he was Mt last COM
PEELED to reply in the same spirit.
Words were followed hy blows. when
William. blinded by passion, sized a
heavy wagon spoke and dealt his broth
or stunning blow, Telling him to the
earth, as the blood gushed from ghast-
ly wound i'll the head. At once rcaliz-
ing the terrible thing that he had done,
and believing that he had killed his
brother, complete resulsion Of feeling
came over him, and, casting n last hur-
ricd look ut the p-ostrate form and the
white upturned face, icS He'd. After
several days OF continuous travel he ar;
rived IN an obscure mining eatiptin Col
oradO, hoping that. buried in the wild
fasnesses of the Rocky mountains he
could shut out from his vision the ever
present horrible sight Of the face of the
brother slain by his hand. Entering
by feverish industry and hardest kind
of hard work to forget his one horror,
but in the dark rcccsses OF the drift in
which he was working, in tho gloomy
corners of the cabin in which he slept,
everywhere and always it haunted him.
In the meantime, alter a few months.
fortune with herr usual fickleness re-
| wardcd his labor. which had been per-
formed without any particular thought
OF hope of result, and the open drift
which had become q tunnel Of some
proportions, struck rich lead of mar
velous proportions and containing i'm
| mense wealth.
at once the almost unknown camp
| became famous. and his name all un-
| consciously TO him became almost as a
household word in all mining communi-
ties as associated with one Of the largest
strikes Of tho year. Fame Of this Kind
travels far, and even after time reached
the quiet farm in Chester Valley where
he had spent his happy childhood days
land afterwards wrecked his manhood.
! Ono day while in the ca;,e ascending
from the bottom of one Of his deepest
shafts, shadow cast over the top cause
ed him to suddenly look up, md the face
he saw caused thrill Of horror to pass
| through him, his hands relaxed his
grasp Of the rope and he had narrow,
escape from falling to tho bottom. Ar
irving Mt the top more dead than olive,
he gave one hnsty, frightened glance
| around him, saw the face again; and
swooned away. The owner Of the face,
tall and handsome man. evidently a
Estranger in the camp, sprang forward
and caught his falling body in time to
prevent it from being dashed to pieces
in the bottom of the camp, at the same
time calculating, ooh, William;" The
miner was taken to his cabin, and, after
the application of ,restoratiyesgslowly
reviycd, tsWhcrcsis it ?'' he asked, at
which the stranger slowly advanced and
said softly, Brother don't you know
me;' With q still half frightened look
in his wandering eyes the miner gnzed
againsat the face which had SO startled
him, and gradually realizing the fact
1 that IL yx,ac ron ltytnor Haoh on6 ghIooJ.