The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-11-21
CHAPTER XIV.
MISS AND I TALK THINGS OVER.

MASo AMI TALK THINGS Wv kN
After all, the story of Tumtledown Farm
must end with sigh. and not smile. Vanity
Hardware was taken to the hospital. where
for seven weeks she lay between life and
death. Suddenly she began to mend. Then
enc morning, when some kind person called
to ask after her. the reply was she had gone.
Where! Nobody knew. Neither doctor nor
chaplain could tell anything except that she
was gone. Whipped of, ! say, like tho
brazen woman she was, without thanks or
farewell, and no doubt she is now Turing
somebody into mischief with her wicked,
beautiful eyes.
So the story ends Think Of that selfish.
neartiess, scheming young woman, and how
she fascinated Willie Snow, and how near
she went to running him! Observe, further,
that the young man is now living respect-
aoly, with a reputable wife aiad two young
children who promise to grow up credits to
the village Then you may be disposed to
receive the moral of my novel of Tumble
down Farm, which is sound, it honlely:
II ever young man is in doubt what
course he should take in life, being pulled by
different reasons first this way and then that,
let him ask which is the respectable course,
and take that, and he will do well.
aud happy and prosperous to-day, and his
wicked sweetheart is list where she ought to
be-out Of sight and out of mind!
AS read that last word, young miss turned
to me. Until now she had looked out Of
window, which was way she had.
lis that alls'
THAT Is all, miss" I answered; enough.
too, thinx"
Miss only turned to the window again and
shook her head sadly.
1T was sorrowful end for poor Vanity!!'
"Sin brings sorrow, miss" Isaid; where
chapter first is sin, chapter last is sure to BE-
sorrow"
She did not notice that; her heart seemed
full-full to The very brinl.
Miss stood long time, looking out of win
dow again. and at last, TO my great surprise,
saw tear run down .er cheek.
"Oh. miss l said, don't waste honest
grief on such IA her."
but, .hs answered, in a broken voice, ~
wan:el VANITY to turn and live. believed
that ate: al she would turn and live"
"Ah, miss, Vanity was always on the
downward road; now slow, now fast: now
lau shinsS. now crying; always OH the down.
ward ronl'
mot always, doctor; Willie Snow could
have saved her at the first"
"AoW could the young man have managed
that. miss"
81 Loving her through ALL"
shook my head.
''Oh, dOct ~ she said, answering ma. 81
10 speai, do you under stand woman's
hartr'
",Iiss." said l, II don't think I do-not
:'.:"s ,thsr."
"4"cause. doctor, in the lowest depth Of
coy wonlan's heart there lies love. Love
=" save woman when nothing else cap
- Nilhs had but loved her on, Vanity would
have been saved am sure she would have
been savelv'
IA; You sec, miss" said for this no;nt
ccut not yieM-''Willie Snow WINS a 10.
slett"be Fc;lng man. 1t was not his Mao.
to TIC saving such as Vanity Hardware IL
Is married. miss, respectfully, and has +wo
children and steady, thrifty wife, and a
good income and good prospects,
And the woman for whom he nrom;,oa
to 1--we and die-oh, doctor, cannot hear r.,
think Of it. Iwish you had never told nv
the story ut all." "'e
swell, miss, said land confess that
si:l "a rs l spoke-''perhaps l ought at tho
beginning to have warned You what wss
coming at-the end.' "'
Yes, l spoke the word. But Was ,o,,,,,
60 mistaken in my life. The story Of van;t',
Hardware was not more than half tolS
Strange facts came to light years after s,,S
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