The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-02-27
FORTY MINUTES AT H0DS0N'S
BY J. L. HARBOUR.

VlnCeu JnaC she was a woman "OLIH
knowing, and | was glad that | was to
have her for fellow traveller during
what had promised to be an unusual
ly wearisome and monotonOus Jour
ney.
We were shut up in one OF those We
hlcles of torture, a Rocky Mountain
stage coach. Our destination was a
little mining camp called Aspen, IN
what Is known as the Gunnison coun-
try, in Colorado.
The day was rainy and cold. The
beauty and magnificence of the mount
ain pass over which we rode was lost
in low, hanging clouds and vapors
The rain came down steadily, and
sometimes a gust Of wind sent it dash
ing furiously against the two small,
square windows in the side of the
coach.
Mrs. Dauson and | Were the only pas
sengers. She told me that her name
was Amanda Dauson before we had
gone five miles over therocky toll road.
could not see her very plainly in
the dim light OF the coach, wrapped to
the chin as she was in a heavy gray
shawl, and wearing large and old
fashioned black straw bonnet, with
an antiquated black ribbon and a
bunch OF faded red roses on it. But l
could see that she had large and bright
black eyes; restless eyes they We're,
restless and alert.
Had the day been fine am sure Mrs.
Dauson would have seen all there was
to see on the road, although she may
not have had a very profound appre-
citation OF the beauty and splendor of
mountain SUBMITS, Of crystal streams
breaking their foamy waves over gray
boulders, of the lights and shadows in
every glade and glen.
She seemed to be of a simple, quiet
nature, with frankness and candor
Of speech common only to those whose
past life is an open book.
Before | had known her three hours
she told me something that almost
any other woman would have kept as
the saddest secret OF her life, she told
rne, that she was a deserted wife.
She did not say or feel that Jarvis
Dauson had deserted her, else she
might not have told her story so sim
ply.
She had a simple faith and trust in
all mankind, and such abiding I'M
bounded faith in Jarvis DausOn that
she said simply that lone thing and
another, she s'sposed, had kept him
from writin' an from comm home"
How long IS 1t since youheard from
him ?" | asked.
eth be nine years next May" she
said simply.
Before this she had said, eyes you're
right in sayin' that the mimi fever is
most an lncurable disease in some
men. 1t took my man away from me
fifteen years ago an | amt seen him
senCe.
Eve was Twin back in Ioway then
Times was most awful hard, an Jarvis
he got clean discouraged. Feared as
If ev'rything went agin us. Our farm
want a very good one; never had
BEEN fer the matter o. that. 1t was
in the river bottom an was allus bein'
overlooked or else all scorched up with
the heat; but me an Jarvis we mig
gered along on it fer ten years, an if
you'll b'ileve me we didn't have $50 in
cash to our names an hardly decent
buds to our backs when the ten years
was up; an we'd done the very best
we could do, too. They want a lazy
bone in Jarvis Dauson's body, an if |
didn't keep up my end O the row no
woman ever did. Jarvis Dauson
would say that for me any day
We'll, of course, | couldn't say
much ag'in it when Jarvis begun to
talk bout going out West-to Kansas
or Colorado or some of them places
an takin new start. didn't mind
goin' too, of course, benz I'd lived
most of my lite in Ioway an Jarvis an
me was married there, an my kin
folks bein' there the old state had
'sociations more or less dear to me.
But | was willin to 90 to the worlds
end with Jarvis Dauson, an | never
was wlllln' for him to go off alone an
leave me there IN Ioway to be sent fer
after he'd picked out place
But JARVIS was a real set man. and
when found out that he thought it
best Ter him to 90 on alone fust
knowed it wa MT no sort o. use fer me
to set up an say was gOin', too.
But | amt a shadder O doubt that
ii Jarvis Dauson had knowed how it
would all end he'd TUX me along fast
enough.
Eve hadn't no children. Never had
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