Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1891-08-15

wait till the time of your widowhood
was past. You made the disdainful
charity of this concession to the
usages of the world. When the two
years had rolled by you would engage
yourself to me-you would marry mo.
Touching scruple. truly! | was in
earpest-you were not, 1t was a
piquant role for you to play and you
have shown yourself consummate
coincidence. You, for whom love was
nothing but poetic aspirations ethereal
dreams, flights into blue distance; you,
whose siren voice, with its vibrant
melodies, sang to me the delights Of
an infinite ecstacy, of an ideal journey
into the blue heaven like the winging
of birdsl
VERY well. behold your dream!
| Here it is realized and you are going
to live in it until it kills you. See,
now, you are caught in trap of your
own invention. For it was you, last
night who had the idea of buying this
balloon from the aeronaut who was
going up in it. and of travelling through
air with me. A caprice of
the season. was it not, to
fifty finish our New Years
festivities? Il was my vengeance that
you offered me. have seized it. And
now deliver you to another venge-
ance, that of the azure Knocked at by
your poetical lies. TO that of heaven
scoffed at by your sacrilegious irony!
',Ah, they viii cruelty .ayenge them
selves, those impossible judgesi Do
you know what punishment they will
infiict on youa
''One day two adventures of the
air-too hardy made the trial They
were found in their basket, rigid and
frozen. their faces swollen and blood
running from their ears. eyes and
mouths.
Behold the end that awaits you!
Soon, my charmer. red foam will
heighten the carmine of your lips, red
drops will simulate coral pendants
from your fine ears and your beautiful
eyes will weep tears of bloodr
The young woman stoad erect, con-
vulsively shuddering. You would
not do that, Oliver! 1t is too horrible!
| cannot die that frightful death!n
Oliver folded his arms across his
chest. Il would like to prevent it
now said he. 'but have no longer
the power.
She sprang upon him and tore from
him the knife he still held in his hand.
But with that, she cried, lone
ought to be able to cut that accursed
canvas. She looked up at the globe
of gas above them.
Try it. said Oliver. coldly. Cling
ing to the cordage she put one foot on
the edge OF the basket and tried to
raise herself by her slender wrists. But
she turned giddy and fell back pant
ing. The knife. escaped from her
hands. tumbled over and over through
the air. She paused moment-col-
lapsed-crushed.
See. f" said Oliver. mockingly, .the
noon sun heats the balloon and hurries
us along. We shall soon arrive now.n
He threw back his head, looking at
the sky as if hallucinated.
Suddenly, while he was speaking,
the young woman made a gesture of
delight, despair frightened her face.
Slowly, softly she carried her hand to
her pocket and drew out an object
which she held from his possible view.
Then she quickly raised her arm and
two detonations resounded.
You reckon without your host, my
dear Ohyer!" she cried with laugh OF
triumph. "A good Californian never
travels without her revolver, and she
is rightr'
Pierced through and through by the
two balls the balloon began TO fall.
Oliver leaned over the basket-rim.
$50 be itr' said he. I'VE are over
mid-ocean. Blue for blue, we shall
still die in the azure
The balloon was visibly losing gas.
The swiftness of its downward course
was startling, Oliver himself suffo-
Gated. closed his eyes. And in the
silence of the empty sky the balloon
pursued its dizzy descent.
Mr. DEAR OLIvER-I have just heard
about you. They tell me you are better.
] am glad. l am recovering also. Ger
tainly you viii learn this with pleasure.
/ have rewarded the fisherman who
picked us up in dead faint, both OF us,
and brought us in his boat to shore. Here
is poor devil who can say without meta
phor that his good luck fell from the skies
Travelling, my friend Is decidedly too