The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-11-25

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men, Col. Dewey. f. -
"It's bound to be the best paying mine
in the gulch!'- he said, becoming almost
boisterous, and chucking his daughter
Felicia under her pretty, dimpled chin;
'beats the Last Chance entirely"
The Last Chance was rival mine on
the appesite aide Of the gulch, owned by
Q New York company a4d managed by
unexceptionable antecedents, who had SO
well manipulated stocks in Wall street
/ that tho higher powers, kpsWn a.
"heavy OPERATORS" had placed him in
command of the Last Chance, with un.
limited funds with which to operate.
During this time all went we'll y.': :...
Jack Mohr, in his wooing at the shrine
Of The fair Felicia, - -. ............
"sHs was pretty, with certain aashing
eeauettishness, O daring audacity of
dress and manner that was even more
fascinating than her laughing gray eyes
and saucy smile. ..""
| The productive issues of our country,
Joined to wonderful mechanical inven-
lions, have been the source of vast in
diyidHal fortunes. suddenly acquired.
A class Of Women has been developed
from these conditions, whose exravagant
luxuriousness of taste rivals that of the
famous empress who drank dissolved
pearls.
Felicia Dewey was ons Of these. Born
and reared in poverty, with this new
prospect of riches before her no fabric
was rieh enough, ne jewels eestly entRRush1
to satisfy her taste:
AS the prospects Of the Euchre began
! to REALIZE" she INDUCED In many secret
schemes that filled her thoughts by day
and night; schemes that would have
startled even the two reckless spectators.
who controlled it's products.
She fairly overwhelmed Mrs. Byrnes,
one day, by description of some of the
splend6ts Of q wedding tss!sasasss seaaH thaatt
she was planning:
Good landrF Mrs. Byrnes' generous
amplitude Of person seemed actually to
swell with establishment, as she listened.
81 don't see, for my part, how you ever
knew there were such things"
Felicia laughed, showing her little
white teeth, whose irregularity gave
piquancY 70 her smiie:
cts genius for spending money,
Mrs. Byrnes; it's like gift for music or
mathematics. 1 am not gifted In other
directions but 1 love beautiful things
just wait little and you shall see.."
One night Jack came to take her out
tQr q walk, that they might enjoy to-
gethsf z little Of that privacy so dear to
t tsTs Of tSs BaiHes
The night was dark, with but few stars
visible, tho Wind swept through the
branches of the trees, sustliag tho dry
leaves that chung there, and now and
| then the loud bark Of o dog broke the
stiffness.
Dull lights, scattered up and down the
gulch, showed the location of the differ.
ent mining camps; everything about the
village, istf.t IFS muddy, struggling
streets to its rottgh pfneboagd sna4tiss,
| looked barren and desolate.
The lovers strollcd slowly along
Felicia elinging to Jacks arm; their talk
as usual, about the ming,
II feel as if had never lived my true
life, jack" Felicia was saying. "EyeI
since my childhood have SO longed fol
| luxury, and we have been SO poor. Yor
have heard of the mirage, Jack, well, il
| is like that To see always before ones
eyes the loveliest lace, filmy and soft as
q cloud; lustrOus, shimmering silks, with
chat glow and bhhgh IKE Stars, silken fnr.
niturs and perflimed light, and then be
| chained to this
She waved her hand In scornfui gest
| ure, but Jack caught ID, and pressd it to
| his lips.
at shall be no mirage, dear; you shall
| have them all, and as much more as you
like we will go to Paris and astonish
those poverty stricken counts and shabby
milords with American ideas OF living.
| In month more the Eucnhfe Sssili he at
high water mark"
ITO PARISH Felicia gave soft sigh
OF rapture, sob, Jack! think think Of the bon
nets, the gowns, the laees-<n
She stopped short. In the dim light
of the dusk Jack saw her eyes, fixed in
dilated, wandering stare, a momentary
Inconsistencies that held her spellbound.
"Feliciar'
He caught her by the arm and shook
her, almost roughly, in his excitement.
She smiled, as the look of returning con-
seriousness came into her face.
"I've. been there, Jack,f She spoke
like one awaking from a sleep. ~ know
now what it's like"
"Been where:" asked Jack, in his be-
wilderment.
Jack put his arm around her to as
sure himself of her earthly embodiment,
| and held her close.
"You talk like that greasy Mexican
clairvoyant who LOCATED onr mine, Fe-
licia. What is the matters'
~ don't know any more than you do
But when your lips touched my hand, all
this--the village you, everything-faded
away, and was in Paris. And oh, auch
, splendor, such magnificense, Jackr,
He was determined to treat the affair
as a joke, though he had a healthy,
manlike horror of the supernatural, He
stopped down and kissed her.
"You can't brighten me out Of kissing
you in this fashion, Felicia. And its
very good of you to come back when
there are so many fine things to be seen
there. BY the way, did you see me there,
tooy" and he laughed at his own ques-
ton.
She shuddered, tremor of horror that
shook hsF frem head e to foot, and chung to
Don't ask me, Jackl Don!t-the hor-
ror of it will kill me! Take me home,
Jackr' -.
Mystifed, but obedient to her slightest
wish, Jack tupned abopt, and they re-
traced their steps, separating at the door
or the ByrneS residence; Jack 20 return
to his lodgings, Felicia to seek her cham
Der, had torgss its shabby stingipsss In
dreams of the Euchre mine.
Jack had predicted that one month
more would see the Euchre at highwater
mark. r'
But when the month rolled round, q
revolution had overtaken the Euchre.
Just what clever Wall street maneu-
vers had wrought the change no one
could explain, but Euchre stock, which
had beeit in demsnd ct fabulous prices,
suddeny declined.
The financial menageria had nnloosed
its bulls and bears on the track Of those
two innocent lambs, Col. Dewey and Jack
Mohr, and these nnsophisticated opera.
tors found themselves in q position where
they were glad to sell ont for paltry
thousand or two, to the Last Chance,
when the stock had deprecated to its
lowest point. The secret workings of
this deal were never exactly understood by
the pninitiated, but as soon as it passed
over TO the manipuiatipns of Jack Heer-
ing the stock went up again, shares were
sold at fabulous prices, and in q few
months peeripg found himself a modern
CrGsus. and suitor for the smiles Of the