The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-09-24

on the waiter by hersidc, ssaying as he
did so, sEhere.a child Z that will REPAY
the damage. Do. not,let them ch1de,
you, Then he sat down again, not
giving the girl another thou ht;;Wiile
! was in fever Of excite ideh BE, Wishing
She could have seen hat I had wit.
messed, and half pted I t0call him
back from his oWn. thong lits 70 take a
GLIMPSE of her; but she was gone as
.quietly as. she had come, without his
regarding her al, ali. zss
"a You ask me, my friends" he said,
at length, = TO contribute my quota to
the evening ssentertainment, butt am
afraid Twill only hesgiving some Of
my own sadness instead, which almost
humans me to night i am d married,
man, although have no wife, Four
years ago, when only twenty-on1e, I
took for my wife one Of the daintiest,
5loYeiiestl girls.---7but I will spare YOU
my rhapsodies; every man marries the
fairest and the best. We came.on our
bridal tour to Europe, andsfrom Paris
we started to the ri renees; coming
through the valley, we were SO Charm.
ed that we stopped here, in this yery
house which is shell tering us now, and
spent part of our honeymoon: That
month isl like looking back on heaven.
only to thinkof it. Two more months
were spent III travelling and then we
returned to. America. Ne furnished
9 lovely cottage just -ontof the city,
planning and arranging the whole un7
tillitwas like an exquisite picture.
My days, of course, were spent in
town, and was fearful at first that
my darling would be lonely; but she
said 1t took all The long quiet hours to
realize her, bliss. r. AS for myself, 1
could not tell my love in words. /
loved the breezes that famed her
cheek, the sunbeams that. kissed her
hair. She, with her midnight liaiif and
eyes, was gentle and sweet ds the
zephyr; while j, with nv fair COM
splexion, have all tho fierce INTENSITY
Of ct a Spaalnliard !, and my sbeautiful wife
was nv very heart 5 lifs.5 a
! heard alittle gasping SIGH, which,
no oneJse emed to catch buE myself. and
right sby my sidcStb pretty peasant
girl was hall skneeling, half crot icchlno
in the shad low. I. didsfi0 know whence
She came or how she got there; her
face was pale. and her,large dark'eyes
burned like Goals of fire., rs she watch
ed the speaker. ~ 1850 s55.:
81 went to the city,n.he continued,
"eVery morning at nine, returning at
i've tn dinner, We had lived -four
months only in our dear home, when
one day as Is sat Of the desk in nv
Office sud- emily a entiment came
over me that some great trouble was
hanging over me, s mud Il could not
shake itOf.s know now that [ made
my own trouble; T did not think 50
Their. was so dispirited that I did
not take lunc heonJ OF, all and the. first
train out that afternoon Went home.
AS I walked up the graveled path and
on the low yeranda, I heard
voices inside Through the falf-closeid
blinds Isaw my wife in earnest .ne CON
versation with q gentleman. She had
often told me that she s. liked fair men
this man was fairer than myself.
His hair was palest faxen, and his
skins as white as, q girl 81. HIT e you
must not doubt my love. i heard nv
wife say, for 4: do love you as well as
I did III the Old days. and some day I
shopeIwe may be ab lie TO let bhe world
.kno hon I saw her Irvine
her arms around his neck and kiss
him againand again. ' &ss 4,
.'It3Was my own bro th er. came in
a faint Whisper rom tha..au ivering
lips II the girl BY my side, who seemed
10 be speaking her thoughts u con-
ssciously ;is E::
q might as we'll have been turned
ed into Stone, s he went on <; 81 could
not move or speak;jand I stood there
watching them. All 1 my fierce pas
SONS were reused, yet + did not strike
him down. i wondered at myself.
My whole soul was filed with scorn3
and loathing, yet Z left them together
and passed out the gate once more.
Mechanically I turned toward thecity,
but i did not know what | was doing,
for I was Grazed. i walked mile after
mile until, night comingto ,sI stopped
instinctively before a hotel. The next
.tal}inghar that i Wisl,as sIar an, v vacpte
the house, Isl 81 was fl. rents Inclos.
mo m1onIsYsfor Her iimmediate necos-
sites, SI tod iier never {|to5 dare cross
m nv Il again or her blood would be
upon her own head. II didxnot say
anything ofwhat II had seen, SO my
darling did not know why she was
ndemned. did i1oLSgO to nv office
AGAIN for q week feeling sure that
she. would seek me !. there. Then /
went back to nv business once more
cold and immoyahle IA iii announcement
But the blood IN nv veins; 81. fire.
There, M As. As { s..exnecsed !, 1 sniteons
letter, from nv q Wife, y 3 Sic had visited