Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-12-27

at the unwontoned cares from such
lips,
one by one the days Of that week
shpued by and the woman still re-
nained with the Bigharts. 1t was the
day before the departure Tor America,
all business having beer satisfactorily
transacted, when Mrs. Bighart, laying
her hand kindly upon Mary S shoulder,
said:
'Do you know, Mary, I've been
thinking that | don't see how I'm to
spare you, am I've talked it over with
Tom, an the long and the short of it
is, my dear, il you've n mind to go
along with us, I'd be glad to havey you.
The children they've took to you so,
an YOU see, out west in them clearings
it's goin' to be a Bit lonesome, without
neighbor, barring perhaps three
miles. I'm sorry we're not able to
offer much wages at first along of the
expenses we'll be to a gettin' there, but
your bit an sup and an odd pound now
an agin you'll be welcome to-"
Like one dazed, Mary stood listen
ing to the kind offer, then, with deep
worderment in her tones, she said:
"You are asking me to share your
home, knowing nothing OF me? My
God! had but met such women as you
in the past!"
Five years had come and gone since
the day when Mary joined her for
tunes OF her helpful friends and pros
| perity had dawned for them and her.
Toms and Jacks log cabins were the
| envy of their less thrifty neighbors.
! At first Jack had boarded with the
/ Bigharts, but after awhile it occurred
| to him that he, too, should like
/ home OF his own-a wife to share the
| good luck that had come to him. And,
as the months slipped into years, he
| learned to know that there was but
1 one woman for him, the woman he had
/ saved from death. While Mary, when
it first dawned upon her how dear
she had become to this simple, God
fearing man, was seized with an inn
pulse to flee from the shelter of the
happy home that for three years had
been hers, but her strength failed her.
. sic EOull LOL 81 easily uDEOOL SUCH
tightly riven ties. For Jack had be-
come as part OF her very being.
1t was only for his sake that she
thought OF going away, because OF ths
sacrifice she deemed it would be put
ting upon him if he should wed her.
Something OF this she tried to tell him
when he asked her to be his wife, but
he would not listen; he was satisfied,
he said. Then almost desperately she
begged that he would hear her, and
shielding her face with her hands she
related TO him with pitiful pathos the
story OF her life before his path cross
ed hers, holding back nothing from the
bitter degradation OF the past. With
tears streaming down her cheeks she
implored him not to Judge her too
harshly. She who had never known
a mothers care; never had q home
until he came into her life
Pityingly as he might have soothed
a little child, Jack gathered the strick-
en- woman to his arms, saying:
"Mary, that old life is dead an gone,
buried away this five year back; let
it rest. Together we will start afresh.
II ye love me ha' ma fear 10 the fu-
ture, lass"
What woman could have resisted
such faith? And so there was q quiet
little wedding and Mary became Jack s
wife, and went to dwell with him in
in the pretty log cabin he had built
'agin that day"
For two years not q cloud had come
to dim their happiness. Yet some
times Mary became possessed with a
wild fear that it could not last. One
, day in her husbands absence she saw
a man approaching the house. There
was something strangely familiar
, about the saucy, devil-may-care all
/. with which the stranger sauntered
, along, but not until he stood within
few feet OF her did it flash upon hel
q who this man was. A smothered CRY
!. escaped her, and convulsively claspinl
, her babe she hastened to enter tn,
! house. But the man called out.
: ''Here, | say, carat We give me {
i bite OF sumat? I've had a eoodisl
i walk and I'm about dead beat.
q White as death, she turned and facet
i him, when, with an oath, he exclaimed
!, as il thunderstruck
y "Moll! by all that's blue" Then
insolently laying his hand upon he
"
: think ye'd kicked the bucket. It.
! rather overpewerin' to have We turi
. up here in this unexpected fashion
You might offer me chair, Pm think
= in, after our long separation" Me
a Ahanically Mary stepped aside and lie
Sthe man pass into the house; there
! fiinging himself upon seat an
\ chuckling amusedly. he continued:
eyer seem to be pretty well fixed
4 but yer always was lucky devil.
if suppose you've got suthin' to eat i
i the house?"
i Placing some eatables before til
n man, Mary at last spoke, the word
? seeming to come with an effort, as sh
= said:
4 eat what you will, then go. NJ
:. husband will be home shortly and i
!. must not find you here"
i. "Ho, hol is that the way the win
! lays?" calculated the man, with
= wink.
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