Wichita eagle., 1890-02-02

Then we are all right. You dld a
good thing, marin, when you brought
that document said Samuel Dale.
Now, Mrs. Tyler, am going TO help
| you through with this matter All
| you've got to do is to mind orders.
feel deep interest In il, for worked
alongside of your man last summer, and
I'm bound TO see that he has justice done
him"
81 want to know, Dear! dear. Why
didn't you say so before, sir: And /
| misdoubting yoa all the while. hum
bly, ask your pardon, sir. And.so you've
known him all along? Only to think
of it! Then maybe you can tell me
what carried. him off You see the let
ter don't give any particulars. How did
| the disease take him. SIR
| There was curious expression upon
the young mans face, but he answered
her gravely:
lie was hard sick with it, marin,
| when l first knew HIN"
Not dangerous, SIR
.'Well. yes: l called him dangerous
| the first time l ser eyes on him"
Il want TO know! The poor dear.
And vet he worked all summer, you
! say? l s'pose he kind o pined away
gradual 1t was an inward disease,
wasn't it,
.sClear into the heart, marin, and
worked outward"
Lord massy, Did he have heart
disease: Jerushy Ann Billin's, that was
Aunt Martha's second cousins child,
she had it awful. They said she used
to have trembIin's and hutterin's and
clay cold, corpsey feeling the heft of the
time. And she grew weaker and weaker,
and her heart kind o. melted away IL
side Of her. Did my poor man have any
of these symptoms"
well, no, it worked inst the other
way with him. As near as could Judge
from appearances, marin. the heart in
side of your husband got to be as hard IS
neither milestone"
Poor man! How it must have hurt.
Couldn't the doctors do nothing TO help
him?'
"Mrs. Tyler" said Samuel Dale, SOL
EMMY, i've heard tell it was easier for
black man to change his skin, and
wildcat her spots, than for fellow to
get cured of that disease. And your man
had it hard. If a way could have been
found to take the old heart out of him,
and pat new one in, it might have done
the business; but the doctors in these
parts amt up to such tricks"
Ibid he die easy:' she asked in a trem-
bling voice.
There, don't you ask any more ques-
tions, Mrs. Tyler, and keep cool now.
You'll need all the pluck you've got,
shortly. Do you see that square house,
with tall chimneys, at the top of the hill?
That's Peter Barclays. They are looking
for me, but not you"
He drew huge silver watch from his
pocket.
ct is time we were there" he said;
and to his companions great discomfort,
and the imminent peril of the precious
freight they carried, he urged the old
white hor5s TO a gaHop.
Up the hill they went at a furious
pace. The rapid motion was relief to
Samuel Dale in his excited state of mind
Perhaps he had restrained himself to the
utmost limit, for after glance at the
box containing Mrs. Nancy Tyler's tes-
timony to departed worth, and at that
estimable woman in her widows weeds
at his side, he no longer refrained from
giving outward expression to his salts
faction.
He shouted to his horse and piled the
whip without mercy. He whistIed and
sang, and brought his broad hand down,
first upon one knee, and then the other,
with resounding blow. a neighbor
called to him halfway up the hill.
Il can't stop" said Samuel Dale. I'm
going to funeral, and therel be no fun
till get there"
Then he laughed long and loudly at
his unseernly jest. y small boy cleared
the road to let him pass, and ran in TO his
mother.
"Sam Dale has been gittin' awful !
drunk down to the Corners, mother"
he reported. Hes laughin' and sing
in, and drivin' old White like mad. |
He's got woman with him, and her |
bonnet most esff. HF11 hPT F.tlT- UVin /
ana She hoidIn on 10 the seat win Dotn |
hands"
He drew rein at Farmer Barclays !
front gate with suddenness that nearly /
pitched Mrs. Tyler out of the wagon.
$50 into the house without knocking"
he said. land wait in the entry till call |
you. 1t won't be long
He drove his horse into the yard ss
one of the wedding guests came from the 1
stable
''Take hold here, Seth Wilson" he
cried. There's precious bit of stone
work in that box that wants to be han
died careful. Its going to see daylight,
too, in just half minute"
He was running for a screw CTiver and
a hammer when Susie Barclay, in her
wedding dress, with white flowers in her
hair, came TO meet him.
"Oh. Samuel. has it come: Have you
brought the wedding loafy'
Il have brought it." he said, "but,
Susie Barclay, your cake is dough
He could not wait TO open the box in
a regular way, but when few screws
were loosened by the strength Of his good
right arm he burst the cover, and with
great noise Of splitting wood the slab OF
white marble was brought 70 view.
At the sight Samuel Dates excitement
reached It's height. Brandishing pieoe
of the cover over his head he danced
around the open box, and u his com