Mohave County miner., 1891-02-07
MARGARET is MYSTERIOUS, VERY.
Reporter Knows Ali About Her Except
Why Her Eyes Are sad,

Margare. Is the name of a girl who
| face is always solemn. and her blue.
| spiritual eyes tell ii seems to me, that
she is not a stranger 10 suffering.
Why is she so solemn and so solitary7
That Is what should like to know.
have been her neighbor for three years,
and have been playing the detective
assiduously. bat to no end. / have
given up the struggle. IL makes no
difference to me now whether she reads
this or not; and besides she does not
know me, even by sight, although |
have dogged her footsteps from her
employers millinery store, near Union
Square. 10 her home, noting every look,
every turn Of her head, every move
mcnt Of her hand.
Indeed, know the exact color OF
her hair. her three dresses, and when
she got them. / have given her my
seat many time on a Sixth avenue
car,
Yet she does not know me.
She never notices anybody. but slips
with murmured thanks into her
seat and reads.
II is almost three years ago that ], as
reporter, sought the number Of her
residence and visited her late one even
Ing In her plain little llat. She bad
beon followed by some human beast.
and. with cruel wound in her pretty
head. had run into her hallway. She
did not scream. The villain. some Mr..
Hyde of the streets of New York, fed
around the nearest corner into the
semi-darkness.
Margaret. pale. and with her eyes
more appeaIingly beautiful than they
ever have looked since. lay in her small
single bed. Her luxuriant brown hair
was all undoBe and lay about her pale
face.
Sitting beside her was q big, good /
Epgiishwoman, who lived ON the same
floor front.
After good deal OF maneuvering
succeeded in getting the English
woman out into the other room. We
chatted there in u low tone for a long
time.
She told me that two years before
Margaret had come there to live. She
brought her furniture, including car
pets. which she put down herself She
had always kept her little home as neat
as any Ia town. She never had any
callers. She even did her own wash.
ing and ironing, as well as her cook
ing.
looked around for books and ia.
pers. j found several copies of Rar.
pcr's Bazar. ''Tennysou's Poems"
Bible, copies of New York evening
and Hawthorue's Scarlet |
Letter"
The English woman told me she
seldom was invited to come into Mar
garet's apartments. The woman did |
not understand Margaret, aud had
never succeeded In attempts TO draw
her into conversation about herself,
Piaued by the mystery. | resolved to
make every effort to get Margaret's
history.
Policemen, neighbors. customers at
place OF employment her
employer, eight different grocers, and
4 dozen corner fruit merchants have
old me all they know about her. |
nave watched her hallway night after
night. ! have called on scores OF peo-
pie who have the same family name as
lers.
What have discovereda Where she
ives. how much she eats, how fast she
walks, how often she buys new article
IT clothing. her favorite grapes, the
ize OF her shoes. the pose of her nose,
he twist OF her hair. how early she
appears in the morning, when her lamp
5 extinguished at night what she
eads. and that she never goes TO
hurch. / also know her age and ,
where she was born.
She was born 10 Waverly place. near
he Church of st. John the Evangelist
md | can give you the number she
ave to the census enumerator IL You
wish 1t. II
But cannot account for the bcauti-
u sadness OF Margaret's eyes-eycs
nat make me feel that ! should most
'illingly take her load of suffering il
y that means they could be made big,
lue, and happy like those / see 80
ften looking out OF the faces OF other !
iris. Shall ever have the opportun-
yp OF course not. lam married
Y. World.