Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1891-07-04

for al tlat. FROM the beginning of ths
case. the name had developed q certain
train of "reminiscences in the mind of the
judge.
He had spoken tonight to his wife Of
the time when he had come, poor boy,
from the country. Had the name SO
often heard in court for week past, so
often written in the papers under his
hand. called forth that anasion to his
boyhood? Which of US can tell what it
is that leads our minds back to long un-
remembered days, to incidents for years
relegated to oblivion? Is it that strain
ofa tune from the strident hand organ
on the pavement, the dip of birds
wing in the spring blue. the caught up
word from passer by-what is it?
When ne was a boy il the country,
orphaned. neglected, there was little
girl he had played with-Salo1ne. When
he was 16, with thought of the city.
and looked down at his gnaried hands.
that little girl had encouraged him.
When he said he must leave old associ-
ations aud go out into the battle of striv
ing millions, that little girl had smile
on her lips. but tear in her eye-for
she had been his companion SO long, he
had governed her thoughts so long, that
she could not realize life without him.
But he kissed her, and went to town to
feel himself tossed about atom no one
noticed, and dreamed of her and missed
her, and wished for her companionship.
When he found employment and had a
miserable room for home, he one day
went to that home. and there was Sa-
lone. After all, he was net SO glad to
see her.
"Grandmother's dead" she said, in
sort of triumph, land there's nobody to
keep me away. I've come to stay"
But this could not be, and SO he told
her, and she hung her head.
The woman of the house was ap-
pealed to, and Salome went out to serv-
ice, her half days of weekly outing al
ways taking her where she could see her
sole friend When he was IS he was
pounding parchment in an attorneys
Office.
''Be lawyer" she said, and he
blushed with vanity.
"Maybe you'll be judge" she said,
dilating, and he laughed at her.
"The president" cried she in glee.
But he did read la-1. and began to
find that Salome was beneath him. She
may have understood, for sh>- left the
kitchen for the factory, and took to read
ing inhammatory literature. Yet her as
sociations were not as his-how could
they be? She knew Haunting girls, her
every day co-workers; he saw well
dressed serious men every day Of his
life She knew few rules of syntax,
while he was daily studying the faults
of his tongue. Hc felt his superiority,
but argued that it would be cruel to
show her that he did.
He tried not to see so much of her, and
it puzzled him that this irritatel him.
the more so that she made no effort to
see him.
One day he met her when he had not
seen her for weeks, and was resolving to
look her up. There was young, florid.
ly dressed man with her.
She was cool and quiet, and how pret-
ty she looked to the eyes that had missed
her these weeksl The lawyers clerk
knew that he had made her realize their
relative positions She introduced the
stranger, calling him with an accent,
mister Dunlap" He who was to be a
judge experienced another pang and con-
siderable contempt for Mr.. Dunlap. He
was angry with her too, and after a few
words left the couple, conscious that the
gaudily attired fellow laughed at the
shabby professional struggler After
few days of vague restlessness he told
himself in tit Of inspiration that it was
his duty to go to Salone 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 me?"
He is VULGAR, loud in DRESS" an
swered the poor lawyers clerk, in
mean coat and leaky boots. land he las
no education.
Neither have l." she retorted. $50
that don't maze any inferiority."
81 believe you'll marry him." ne burst
out.
"He has asked me to-" said she.
"And you viii marry him?'
"Do yen want to marry meT
They looked into each others eyes, and
he, whipping 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 10 assert
herself in the only way she knew Of.
Marry him for ali care" he shout
ed and left her.
He had never seen her from that day
TO this. He did not know if she had
married; he only knew that he never
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 so to
her to see blame in her eyes. and by
seeking her make that blame righteous.
Then he went deeper into his work