Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-04-12

his duty TO 60 to Salome and expostu-
late with her for associating with people
who were not good enough for her.
'You mean Dunlap" she said quietly.
why amt he good enough for meE'
He is vulgar, loud in dress" an
swered the poor lawyers clerk, in a
mean coat and leaky boots, and he has
no education"
Neither have l." she retorted. 80
that don't make any i~nferiorty."
Il believe you'll marry him, he burst
out.
"He has asked me to" said she.
'And you will marry him?'
do you want 10 marry me-?
They looked into each Others eyes, and
he, vhipping himself into a fury, tried
to make himself believe that she had
treated him badly. while his conscience
told him that the bad treatment had all
been on his side, and that his neglect
and i'll usage had driven her to assert
herself in the only way she knew Of.
MARRY him for all l care" he shout
ed and left her.
he had never seen her from that day
10 this. He did not know if she had
married; he only knew that he nev
came across her.
At first this silence irritated him, but
he was not the one TO give in. Let her
come TO him, but he would not go to
her 70 see blame in her eyes, and by
seeking her MAKE that blame righteous.
Then he went deeper into his work
grew cumulative of the men around him.
He refused to think of Salome, and
dreamed OF her at night.
When he was thirty and over, with a
small clientele, he me the lady he mar
ned two years later. Her social position
was irr~eproachable: she wa companion
able, sympathetic, even tempered and
wealthy. His married life had been
phenomenally calm, and the daughter
that had been born was his idol. No
wife could have been better and truer
than his had been: no woman could
have more carefully brought out Of a
mar the good that was in him. There
was not a moment when he might re-
greet any step he had taken since his
marriage.
Before that? Well, scarcely regret.
ne had done his share Of fOolishnessi
but then ''the man who has never been
a fool be sure will never be q wise man
Sail, association is much, and when a
man is 90 years Of age he may be said
to have reached his perihelion, and will
/ look behind him at the path up which
he has come. Men of 80 having made
a success IF life, earned the acclaim OF
the world. nicely provided with the
goods OF the GODS. not unIrequently IN.
Guiding a lovely That's" often think OF
the lowly home of their childhood
which has been anything but a refresh
ing memory while ambition beckonec
from the heights; frowsy boys will b
a~ffectionately remembered, extravagant
"reminiscences will begin, monuments il
native towns will be thought Of, and q
tender desire 10 lie at last in the humble
GOODNESS Of the green old churchyarC
beside the perhaps neglected mother
and father.
The Judge was past 90 years Of age
There was a life his wife knew little Of
a life his wife and child would smile a
if they knew Of it. His fingers wer,
white now and soft, no longer gnarle'
from hard manual labor, and his tonguI
volubly took up the language and mad
L sonorous or simple as he willed.
Was it vanity that now and then mad
him wonder if there were people in tina
village who recognized in the ''puisne
Judge the hard scrabble boy Of long age
Did the place look as it used TO? Why
he believed, he was sure, he knew ever.
- A. - amnNA sud oil the oil
landmarks even now. And then tn
little girl of hat far off timel 1t ha
been calf love, to be sure, but, let hir
acknowledge it or not, he had loved he
as he had loved no one since. For ha
be gained another love like hers? Hs
he not loved her when she stood befor
him and asked him if he wished to maj
~ her? Had he not 30 wished? Ha
he-
What -nonsensei 1t had all been boy
ishness, veritable childishness. She wa
, probably a grandmother by this tins
the consort Of Mr.. Dunlap.
) Dunlap Had the nance of the accuse
; man whose case had been before hiI
; tins week led to these "Reminiscences
What would his wife say If she kne'
T what was passing in his mind? Yet di
I he know what was passing in her mins
8 Had she thoughts he never dreamed o
tender thoughts of the young love TIN
10 last forgot
}, BE glanced at her as she sat there !
. tAs Amplitude Of her mature charms an
maeni6cence Of apparel, her stin IN
ayes rant uDon ls fare. No. her u