The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-12-29

TWO or three moving figures were seen on
the river tank-watchers of the night
guarding against any sudden rise Of the
stream liable through the breaking of dams
above and letting down the vast body of
"backwater,' fluid avalanche which would
sweep before it like chaff mans frail con-
structions-
Iroused Mr.. Rankin and returned him his
horse, which he put in the stable with the
remark that yesterday was probably his
benevolent day, which would account for
my return alive. But the next man dies" he
added
Broener returned late In the day. What
a different man was he to me from yester-
day. Despite the uncertainty regarding
Blanche, l sympathized now with the Moor's
ruling passion. Jealous! Yes, and Jealous
of Broener. All of him that had previously
attracted me were now as so many wea1ors
turned against me-brilliant weapons, too.
and used by skilled hand.
He noticed the change in mel cannot say
In my manner. had rather state it that he
felt change-something between us-com-
ing through those fine interior senses which
feel and sense thoughts, as the outer ones do
material things
"YOu seem out of sorts, " he said.
laid it to a headache-that convenient
beast of burden which bears so many lies!
"Young man." said he that evening, ''were
you ever in lover
II suppose So" 1 replied 'They say its
part Of the programme along with whooping
cough and the measles
well, F" he rejoined, 81 believe 1 am, so
far as l am capable of being. At all events,
I've found woman who l think can hold
me-"
"May ask who she is!"
''Oh, yes. 1t is the girl you saw last night
playing the wife to Iago."
Silently we puffed our cigars simultane-
ously for few seconds. A cigar is a great
relief to ''throbbing heart" was never
conscious of uch action of such character
on the part that organ, and use the phrase
as covering good deal of ground applicable
to these peculiar situations. said:
"Will you think I'm inquisitive if INQUIRE
If you have known her longm
"Not at all l made her acquaintance a
few years ago in New York boarding house
kept by her aunt, whom she was visiting.
met her, strangely enough, Oh my recent trip
to San Francisco. She had Just come out by
the Isthnus with the company you saw l
recognized her on the stage in San Fran
cisco.n
ais Brown her real nameTn
No"
I dared not ask the name. Broener re-
sumed after pause:
THAT girl puzzles me- 1 can't make her
out. Probably if could should not be so
much attracted to her find that mine is a
nature always demanding to fathom-see
through-women, and ceasing TO worship
then when seen through"
FELT then q CLEAN of comfort. If it was
Blanche Seton, more than hoped that Broe-
ner had no shallow depth to fathOm. Yet l
still feared him. He was to me deep, diaboli-
cally deep, and powerful too.
perhaps you've met your match at last,
ventured to say.
well, l hope | have. | need-a match
Excuse me-" he added "I detest puns and
punsters This was an accident. She's a
strong character-self-poised, self-reliant, i'm
passi0ned on the outside with boiling depths
below, which no one has ever yet brought to
the surface-at least, judge so. She's miles
beyond the people she's travelling with. They
see and know of her only as much as she
chooses to show-a tenth, perhaps only a
twentieth-only what they're able to see and
appreciate, or what she allows them to see
Good Judgment, that. No use in showing any
more cards than you want to use-in any
game"
''Do you call hers game, too?' asked.
GAS look on life and people-yes. Yet
possibly with her, thus far, an unconscious
one as to motive. What some call nobility
of character, is so well expressed with her
that am content to admire it without too
deeply analyzing it"
''You fear, then, you might find the base
metal underneath the gliding"
''My boy, don't care to put myself on
that train of thought If pursue an flu
sion, want it ever to remain one."
Iforbore from asking if he knew her real
name. Broener's indefinable manner said to
me, plain as words, "Hands off!
II shall go to Marysville next week." he
said after a pause. 'The company play
there on the Goth"
"Well, thought to myself, as crept into
my blankets, "Marysville, love and mystery
on one side. Pratt, hatred and more mys-
terry for Bull Bar on the other 1 seem to
be a fulcrum for events t. ;eeter on"