The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-03-24


misr was simply Mamie Manning. the
admittej belle Of the little frontier set.
Element, she and Len Hawley had been
lovers That was before the man who
now sat beside her had come into her
life, and, a. she and the man she had
discarded sat together for the first time
In months, neither could refrain from
thinking Of the past-of the quarrel, 90
trivial in its beginning, that had eaused
them to drift 90 wide apart that recon.
Citation was impossible,
As for Len HRwley, when he had
heard Of her engagement TO another, he
had determined to forget her by gather.
ing together the little property be had
and beginning life anew elsewhere. It
was hardly year since the engagement
that bound them together had been
broken, and already, he thought bitterly,
she had fallen into the arms Of another.
Some said that when Mr.. DunsmieF,
the rich mine owner, had first exhibited
an interest in her, she had sought the
opportunity to discard Hawley. Much
as the latter may have felt his loss. out.
wardly he appeared Indifferent he
could not believe that she had simply
cast him aside for money, and when the
palmer spoken portion Of the community
In referring to the marriage intimated
that after all 1t had been merely q mat
ter of bargain and sale, be would have
told them they lied bad 1t not been for
showing how deeply the wound still
ranked. OF this woman be could never
think aught but good, Strive IS he
would, he felt that he never could cease
to love her. He would not blame her
for what she had done. Who could tell
what her motives had beenI Might she
not have loved Dunsmier as she had in
the past loved him-perhaps even moreS
He only wished that she would be happy.
As for Dunsmier himself, he had
never liked him. In fact, there were
very few who did Selfish, ovprbearing
and INSCRIPTIONS, Dunsmier loved
money as he loved nothing else on earth.
To him it was a god, to be deiRed and
worshiped above all else. II was his
boast that with money anything could
be obtained, and when he had first be.
gun to visit Mamie Manning, during her
engagement to HRwley, his arrogant
display Of wealth, as well as his i'll con-
ceAled contempt Of those OF less means,
had incensed Hawley SO much that the
quarrel that broke the engagement en-.
sued, and Mamie had been pleased to
charge it to his jealousy. After that It
was easy for her to defend Dunsmier,
and then the drifting apart had begun,
until she stood at the altar as Dunsmier's
bride.
From that day Hawley had determined
to leave the country. he had gone for
the last time 10 look at the house which,
during their engagement, Mamie and
he had planned and Of which they had
superintended the building. As be went
from room to room he thought Of the
many times they had gone through them
together, planning for the future and
dreaming dreams that were never to be
realized. For the last time he had
locked the door, and, taking the key
from 1t, had cast It from him. Some
how he could not bear the thought Of
giving it into the possession Of another.
That had been months ago, and the
house still stood vacant As the buck
board passed 1t In the early morning he
unconsciously noted how the six months
had changed 1t, and he wondered II the
woman behind him had noticed it. 1t
was to have been their home. For near
ly two years 1t had been the one theme
OF all others that perVaded their talk,
and now-he would not think Of it,
though. After all 1t might be for the
best. He would leave it behind him as
she was leaving 1t, and in his old home
in the east he would strive to forget it.
In the company Of the dear old mother,
whom he had not seen for years, the
memory Of the woman who had entered
his life only to mar 1t would in no time
pass away. How, though, would he ex-
plain to his mother that this woman, Of
whom he had written so lovingly, who
herself had called her mother" in her
many letters during their engagement,
was now the wife Of Another-that, after
all, she whom he had thought so true
had proved false? He could hardly bear
to think Of It, Somehow her presence
this morning-her blue eyes and brown
hair, which he had so often kissed and
caressed-had opened afresh wounds
that he had thought healed, and try az
he would, be was unable to put from
him the thought Of the love that had
once been theirs. he stroye to think Of
home Would there be many changes
to be seen? How glad his mother would
be to see him! Thank Godl after all the
years Of absence, he was going back
with enough 70 make her last days ones
Of ease and plenty. He would never
leave her.
She was the one Of all the world who
would understand what had befallen
him, and who would know how to sym
pathize with him in his sorrow. How
good and true had this old mother been
10 him-so different from the woman
who had given him up for the money Of
the man whose name she bore. Through
all his thoughts, though, ran the mem
Dry Of their courtship. He could smell
above the sweet scent Of the pine, 80
heavy on the mountain air, the same
faint perfume that had always been her
favorite, and which he had grown to
love and regard as almost a part Of her
existence. He wondered how, after all
that had passed, 1t could still find favor
with her. To him it brought only pain.
In vain he strove 10 forget II all by lis
tening to the objurgations hurled by Jose
at his horses whenever that individual
kl,oYohk he dakaakad any dianoafffnn -
sllirk on the part Of any Of them,