Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-02-15

ado you love me, AIice?'
"She knowed she got ter answer
that question and she knowed
'twouldn't do ter have him come NO
closer, If she was goin' ter do her
dooty by her father. She never told
a lie in her life, but she looked at him
and she said it slow. like ez eff twas
a lesson she was sayin':
"'No, l don't love you; you must
CO.
"'Twas queer, but Stan o'lieved
her. A woman would 'knowed in q
minute she wasn't tellin' the truth,
but he trusted her as he would a an
gel, an he took her at her word
AN the gate hadn't no more'n
banged arter him when the old Cap'n
jumped right out o. a bunch o.
syringas an stood in front on her in
his tall hat, with his yalise in one
hand and an ombril in the other,
lookin' bigger, redder and more
cristlin' an ever; he'd been there the
hull time, AN heard every word; but
all he said was:
Good grill Done right! That's
the way ter serve young scalawags.
lie won't haveNo more trouble from
EN-; yer old ffther's come home ter
stay
AN so he had. He'd give up the
command O. his steamship, an there
he was.
"Well, Alice she took him inter the
house. an she give him his supper,
an mixed his rum punch fer him, an
sot by him when he drinked it; then
he wanted her ter sing fer him, an
she went ter the pianner an played
sung him his favorites-an' he had a
deal o. taste in musician all the
while there was poor STAINS despair
in face front on her, an you'd a.
thought even the Cap'n could IA
told her heart was broke by the way
she was singin'.
San Stan he went off an jined a
party o. naturalist fellers who was
goin' on three-years' trip to don't
know where, arter outlandish species
o. spider an caterpillers ansich. He
didn't care where he went ter; he
didn't know the difference tween
bein' man an able ter kite off when
he got hurt, an flourish round tell he
felt better, an bein' a woman an
havin' ter settle right down ter hum,
an make the best o things.
EFF a woman's GOT grit-an' she
gen'ally has-she'll go ter work, an
she'll pull through somehow; some
times it makes her sour an grabbed,
but more often she turns her thoughts
ter another country, where, eff she
can't have the things she missed here,
the comfort III be she won't want EN-.
.'A:l' Alice went on dom her dooty,
keeping things pleasant, an kinder
maxim it up ter the neighbors when
the Cap'n guarrelled with 'em; but
she grew paler and thinner every day;
tell she looked like a shadder o. a
girl; but she didn't lose none o. her
prettiness-she couldn't; longs there
was anything left on her twas 'bliged
ter be pretty.
"Well, after the Cap'n had bin
home n year or two he began ter find
it kinder tiresome; he'd done every
thing he could think on ter his place,
and twas then he took il inter his
head to buy his MONUMENT; that KEEP
him busy for months; he visited every
marble yard in the country fore he
found anything ter suit him. He
said his monnyment was like a poor
mans suit o. clothes; he wanted Jest
the right thing, cause it had got ter
last him.
stHe was pleased 'nough when he
finally got it sot up; he'd walk down
with Alice ev'ry Sabbath evenin' ter
see it, an he hadn't bin ter visit his
wife's grave fore sence she died; he
clean forgot ter have her name put
on the tombstone.
"Well, things went on this way tell
one day he was took with fit, and
went ter lie beside his monnyment,
and Alice was left ter take her Sab
bath evenin' alone.
"The minister had doubts bout
the old Cap'n's futur', and he told
her SO; but she said he want so bad
but she could love him, an she reck-
oned Gods love an mercy'd stretch
further'n ourn, an she couldn't help
hopin' He'd remember what a hard
life the poor old Cap'n had, an make
1owances fer him.
fThe minister he didn't say TO
more arter that; / guess he thought
eff the idee was any comfort ter her
she might ez well keep it, but it GER
tainly wasn't orthodox.
3" Twas bout his time Stan come
home, older an browner an harnsom-
erin ever. He was real shocked when
he heard bout the Cap'n, an more
still when he sees Alice in church.
He'd thought he'd bin dyin' o. a
broken heart all this time but when
he come ter look at her-not that he
s'posed thinkin o. him had anything
ter do with it-he reckoned twas
takin' care o. her father.
HE didn't go to see her. He
knowed he was cured, but still he
didn't want ter risk gittin' hurt agin:
he hadn't forgot what it felt like, so
he walked home from meetin' with
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