The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-07

Hau goou lodglnR and the best service OBJ
talneole. In the morning he purchased an
ootnt and plenty Of food. A man loaned
MIN mule They wouldn't loan me any
thing week ago. be said, bitterly. He
kne" they looked at him as one who had
struck It, He remembered how he had
leoKed envlously at just such figures. He
telt sort OF enmlty at the world, feverish
hatred or Carlisle. He hoped he might not
oreak down till accounts were squared.
he Went back to his claim and found il
richer than he dreamed. In q week he had
pack load OF silver that was worth s25 a
pound. In month be had enough for a
train. And he had only found the begin
mug OF the wealth. He had traced the ifs
sure to Its parent in the HILL and had salts
ned himself OF the richest find in Colorado
But there he broke down. de had Just
strength enough left to load the mules and
start back. He was weakened with hem
orrhage He was blinded and staggering
tie reached Denver leaning across one of
the sWaying animals and begging in Gods
name for assistance
They took care of him then. He was a
rich man. he was far more than that in
thelr eyes. He was fortunate. But he
tossed in frenzy of excitement, and called
upon them 10 hurry him home. 1t would
have been death to the man who stole a
dollar. They made common cause Of car.
lug for him. He told them freely, without
reserve, rapidly where the vein could be
found. He knew he could never come back
and keep bis claim. They struggled and
fought for the privilege of buying They
asked no guarantee beyond what they saw.
They knew he was telling the truth. Their
purchase money was worth more than the
ore he had brought away. He was hurried
to the train. He was hurried home. He
reached there unconscious.
Mary Albright had been bearing heavy
burden. She could not repay the money
her husband had borrowed from Carlisle.
She could not avoid understanding the hor-
rible alternative offered her. She could
not defend herself except by taking her
boys out from under the only roof tn ~ had
in the world. Sne did not hesitate in the
choice. She only planned to postpone the
evil day. She promised the money faith
fully Sept. l. In default she pledged a
foreclosure dearer to George Carlisle than
al tho money in the world. July
drifted into August and August was burn
ing away ia the torrid rays of a sultry
sun. George Carlisle rode past the Albright
farm day after day. He watched his boy
Winslow playing in the barn or in the woods
with Fred, the eldest son of his prospective
victim. He wondered why the lads we're
such insepara6le companions, ard thought
of the enmity that had always been between
their fathers.
Late in the month he walked across the
fields and tried to enter the house. Mary
met him at the door and warned him never
to cross the threshold. He pushed his way
into the house, and she shot him.
That day the news came that Amos
Albright had arrived sick and dying at the
county town, ten miles away. His wife aud
children had fed from the house which
could be home to them no longer, and
were hurrying to the station when the news
met them. She knew that officers would
oyertake her, for whether or not her shot was
fatal 1t was too serious to be forgiven.
She met her husband aud drank her great
soul full of his one caress, of his one kind
pressure Of pallid lips upon her own, and
then laid him down contented. He never
knew Of her trouble.
People in the little Illinois town know to
this day the persecution with which George
Carlisle followed this heroic woman; knew
that the money her husband brought her
was dissipated in fight he had not the
manliness to abandon. And they also know
the woman was escorted by half the popu~
lation of the township back TO the home
made sacredly hers by the defense there of
her honor, and that she was there protected
by them against the ISLANDERS as well as the
assaults OF her enemy until he went at last
"a tardy volunteer-into the army, and
fell with heavens curse upon him IN the
very first fight Of his life.
They know as well that the children of
these families grew up together in love, I'M
marred by the strife of parents, and that
between bold Fred Albright and Madeline
Carlisle there was bond, the stronger for
stormy days of youth. And closer than
David to Jonathan. nearer than Pythias to
Damon. drew the hearts and the lives of
Fred and Winslow; the boys who played In
the barn and the woods while poor, famish-
ing Amos Albright was fighting death at
the mouth of a mine. When they were
grown they went to Colorado together, and
found a city where were barren rocks in
war time. They found out then what all
Colorado had known for years, that the
Albright vein was lost. No man ever had
found it. They knew he had told the truth.
They found the silver he had cahced they
followed his very footsteps down the trail,
but in the insanity which must have come
OF weakness and excitement he had buried
his treasure too well. One by one men fol
lowed the search, spent fortune, and
abandoned it. When the boys came to
Boulder three years ago they easily secured
all rights, and began again the search the
others had found so latuous. Made
line, now for years the wife of Fred
Albrighty. was left at home, smoothing the
sunset road Of Mary's life In the very house
where George Carlisle had fallen wounded.
The boys worked together diligently and
confidently. They knew they would find
the 'lost VEIN" Others said: Hope you
will; we couldn't" They never left the
search for an hour. and never omitted an act
that would assist them. Day after day,
month after month, they hoped aud labored,
turning aside for no seductive smaller finds.
And at last they were rewarded. Right
under the house in which they had lived,
right down the center Of a rock as broad
and bald as an ocean billow, they found that
rift, aud it was filed with silver. How far
down it runs no one can tell. How it may
broaden or narrow no one knows. But tons
and tons of the ore have already been taken
out, and every ounce of it is worth dollar.
And it is sacred coin to them, for every
atom of it is hallowed by the blood and
tears aud hopes of hero.
SAM SMALL'S SERVICES.