The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1890-03-19
WHOLE NO. 2O17.

was all that Was lacking TO complete
Prices disco mfitnre, and It was some time
before he managed to reply IN ehokine
Seiee;
Yes. I was up rather late wanted
to see Watson. He cone back on the
train
Drunk agin, too heerd his scTeeeh-
in an hollerin raound-
a He wuzn't drunk when he come. but
/ the ore didn't work so-that is. II didn't
quite come up 10 the assayer's fggers, an
wstson's 50 techy an easy PAT cut by
anything't goes wrong, be got bowled up
little fore he knowed il"
~What did that air rock work, emmy
ways
ave aia't had il worked yet-ve wuz
-it-she don't work at all, said Price,
desperately, realizing the fntility Of fur
ther evasion. There wuz mistake
somewneres. There ain't no mineral in
that ore-tbe assayers sent Is the wrong
cer,if 'eate-we'se bl0wed ourselves in
for ali we got, and SO come TO say I
YOU wanted TO pull down your ante an
drop out fore the deal gees emmy furder
/ why, o course you can-out II
Mrs. Hawes's eyes fairly biazed, with
sympathy and love, doubtless, as she re-
piled That drunken no 'eaount Wat
sons been putin you az % this Hes
been a-pi7enin' your mind agin tie vim
| men folks Tole you wgz too ole Tor
We, did he? Been a-eggin' you OF fur %
leave me IN the lureh, alter everything
ready far the wedding. Tins Is some O
that Heely Monsters doin's but he don't
make it stick--yoa sabe that2 fou
thought wuz stuck on tha. ole grave
stun-quarry o youra. bat I'll Jest feel We
once fur lack. It's you | want, and y
hev' We, too, ef there's emmy lAw in Ari
zcny."
"Oh phenomena forever Incompetence
si0le Of the human heart
When Frice believed the woman Of III
choice was irretrievably lost 10 him, that
he could no longer hope TO win her, The
glamour Of the impossible endowed hei
with ali The charms fancy ever dreameo
OF. But when he found that instead o
losing her, she possessed him. body aHc
soul. at the very moment that his felicity
should have been the most complete ans
unslloyed, it was tinctured By yagn.
regret-the indefinable, intangible sens
Of disappointment which ever accompan
iesthe realizationo OF our cherished Ideals
This disappointment was heightene,
by the fart tina; the bride would not con
sent to Watson being present At the mar
riage ceremony. Price wonld have liked
to have his old partner witness th'
legal sanction Of his bliss, but tn
lady was inexorable and Price aequiesC
ed, q performance in which he va
rapidly acquiring proficiency.
/. The discordant clamor Of the ehariyaI
had long since been hushed darknes
had invaded The sidereal height
. and silence brooded over s.umber
ing Ariyaea The barkeeper Of th
r Fashion was jus; locking the door G
the establishment, and Watson. who ha
been compelled reluctantly TO abando
his location before the bar, cling to a
awning post, and inveighed against tn
folly of marriage and the wiles OF woman
Common horse sense, decencT. Ri
E gion, everythins's agin 1.-THE Bible
agin it, too"
"Oh, come of, replied the barkeepei
What's the Bible got TO say about il
/. What's the Bible cot TO say ab'at it
The Bible says iest eggsactly 'Misfor-
/ unss never comes single'-that's Wha
she says, an when the Scripshures col
: pers anything, young feller. you ca
player 10 lose every tine"
Ont On the desert the coyotes yelled ]
; derision, and far Off in the west the viii
lie Of a receding train faded lin-eri ngl
away into the silence OF the night-an
even so melted into air ali the glitterin
hopes founded on the Rise and Shine
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