The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-10-07


Louis asi.s.
20 + GIR rs TRIUMPH.
By Paul PAsTNER. 81.
The editor Of the SummerYille Daily
i: -Nes1s8 snatched up his shears, scut q
column d-a-half story from q city ex-
change, and sent E:its stairs to Nina
Kelsey to setup in Bourge for the
fourth page Of ssaturdn 8 Nssos. Nina
4 Kelsey aud . lady comp nion, some 525
years her senior, set al the ..pad ding,'
$of the Nesos the poetry, the literary
excerpts, and the \ stories. Nina set
most Of the stories. TWAS. some COM
fort 70 her young. romantic nature to
read them from the copy, Il Is she
worked atther case. drs. Sturd eyant,
!: her nlpanion. had slong passed the
age Of eminent; and she liked to set
the poetry and the ,briefer extracts, be-
cause,sin the: language Of the printing
office, this was '.phat matter and
with its frequent part graphs, and in
5gdented lines mad the Thousand ems''
go up faster. So both were satisfied
# q story came up, il was quietly PIN
ned to- Mina's case, while the poetry
and scrappy extracts went Into Mrs:
s6turd eyant's drawer
I Nina Kelsey was glad to get a3story
to-day, because she was feeling lone
some, In fact, she was suffering from
"a fit2of the blues. Outside IL was rain
ing, and the Sdingy windows sof The
fourthsstory room were all misty and
dripping, and the gray sky, just over
\ the brick block across the. street, could
4 scarcely be seen for the fog and the
rain was SO doleful there with Mrs.
/ Sturd eYant; who scare ely ever spoke "a
word except nlonosyl Liable ...yes' or
y in answer to Mina's questions.
So Whenathe little Office boy came up
with the copy Nina thanked him glad
and kept him pratAing at her case
until the angry whistle Of the foreman
lat the tube sent him rafting down: the
rickety staircase Then Nina turned
TO begin her task. First she set her
q comp posing stick with piece Of brass
rule, SO to he sure th at twas the exact
wild th Of the column, and then she
nrnted her stoo lsand took up the first
letter sof tho le st,off the i .story,
Hopele Cues t. ,,#ss lat was good -
4 something to swak her up. Asmile
sscTeptS over the pretty lips, and she
rapid finished the title and began to
work the story para graph by paragraph,
enjoying every sentence as she repeat
lit in the clicking type It was q
Il strange story. too, and fascinating.
b Nina gradually lost herself & III the
thread OF and once or twice she
reused with "a start to find that she was
reading faster than she ought, and had
left q bad tout to be corrected In
Il proof.
The story was about 8 young man,
who after having wooed and won sew
q srals charming but heartless bellies, and
Il having, fortunately learned his own
Y heart before it, was too; late TO break off
II lis Engagements how at last he made
70 vow that he would not rest until he
had found the ideal of his heart a
noble. self-sa crifoing. pure, loving,
S2loYely, and unassu ming cir; zone who
!. could look aaman in the eye without
COOL u specuI ating upon his marriage
ability. and who could accept his ad-
dresses, If agreea BILE, without scheming
j how to have al loophole Of escape IN
!! case his financial prospects should not
\ prove altegether satisf actory. n The
story described the Wande rings Of the
young iidealist; his lingering in public
places; fife faces that he knew, and was
attracted BY, and what they turned out
4 to cover. Once Sor twice his quest
seemed on the paint Of being Brought
u to d successful elise, but ialWays,some-
thing was found to be- lacking, and the
{ object Of bis growing e love faded away
In the eyer-deepe ming mist Of distrust
s and despair, until at; last the story clos
ed with o passionate eclaration: 1T
issYaini All women are false and fair
L and tickle. will turn to the friond-
ship Of true-h hearted man, and there
sock the tend and helpfulness
which had hoped TO find in lovelier
form. vi
IL was drawing toward dusk WHOM
4 Nina finished the story, dropped il: the
4 last period, and closed the line. She
laid down her coinpo sing stick, and sat
{ looking though fully out upon the gath
ssring shadows and the drifting rain.
life, too, had been 50 far; almosta
Il less quest, y but OH Of how differ
q ent d kind Left EARL in life, BY the
II death of 81 disco Lutte and spend thrift
father 10 supper hersel and an invalid
n nv hpi. mn aSflads had