Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-11-26

looking hands, lay upon her dress, | al
most held t0y breath In the presence OF
her beauty, and felt pang Of regret
when reflected upon the void 1t covered.
The band played softly somewhere in
the distance. No one spoke Then a
woman's voice rose ON the air a low, pas
tomato voice that sang, with great sob /
In the depths, some minor native melody. |
The peace OF the night was broken only /
by this waiting song II rose to throb- |
bing intensity and sank again almost to I
silence. IL was weird, unearthiy, /
strangely beautiful. II thrilled my very
soul and when IL ceased, suddenly as IL
had begun, il left me trembling Miss
| Carlyon shivered visibly, and Westhaven
bent instantly over her taking both her
hands in his own and then drawing her
shawl closely about her. The silence
seemed to hold fatal Significance. Il
| grew unbearable. / leaned forward and
spoke to Mrs. Westhaven. | said;
.'What beautiful voice and what
beautiful song.
She smiled quietly, and thought she
had not heard me. repeated my remark
somewhat stifiiy, and she replied, still
smiling;
~ did not notice IL. y
Westhaven drew himself up sharply
and Miss Carlyon's chair, upon which he
had leaned, rolled forward with dis
agreeable squeaking sound She laughed
, her little cutting laugh.
"The charm is broken she said, ''let
, us 60 I'm. -
babe them good night feeling un-
, !, comfortable. Mesthaven gave me his
hand, and we stood there fer a moment
looking at each other aud felt great
sympathy for him, for l realized his I'M
happiness.
Little by little my prejudice against
Miss Carlyon was aliayed. / use this
word advisedly, for l think it was never
,, quite lulled to rest. She was wonder
fully like Westhaven. II was absolutely
!, the same nature, differently clothed.
And, to do her justice, her views were as
. wide, her thoughts were as liberal, as
Far reaching as mans, and she had a
!. passionate energy OF feeling and purpose
= which occasionally rose up and struggled
: !, in her feeble little body and left her shak-
ing. could scarcely explain her feeling
for Westhaven. III it was love it was
love of most unfcminine nature. Calm
y and without caprice, unexacting, and, In
= certain sense, deferential, she showed
y with him neither the impatienee nor tn,
y mocking spirit which ruled her MOOD
!. !. with others, and accepted his utter devo
ton to her gently and gratefully. IL WA
n great pity he had not married her, re
!. Gected.
y Miss Carlyon was certainly improving
Q, She told me quietly one day that the Lon
G. don physicians had given her but few
~ months To live They tried everything
10 even electricity she said, laughing
m ''rhey do not in the least know what Ii
d. the matter with me a" she continued, IL
her little, sharp way. mo one does bu
ar myself, and | will tell you | am tn
"a Nervous Exhanstionist OF the sOciet
novel who has drained life and intend
We To die after an improved method Of he
r. own
er 'But you are not succeeding, I re
y! piled, with some warmth, for there wa
or something terrible to me in the way thi
en- young girl calmly spoke Of dying. "Yo
ISL are not succeeding in the least Yo
:, will find that your method win oufwi
- yon and work "A result Of which you hay
:, never dreamed, y
II She turned very pale and looked at nj
In frightened sort Of a way. When sh
:, spoke again IL wns nerNously, excited
n and Of quite different topi:. Sh
!. seemed relieved, too, when Wetshayc
! came into the room, and left us immed
= ately
y, II have some books from the east In
- box there ON the table; You must loo
- into the semi scientific ehatter-I en-
=. give il no more digaiiied title-in While
- we 80 often indulged. We laughed
=, good deal over the erratic, insane theorie
IN which the late advances in electricity ha
=. sent lik. SO many electric shocks, ov,
!" the world. and Westhaycn drew me OF
at some length ON the subject Of elet
~ trical magnetism rs applied To indiydual
~ ~ lie looked about for his cigar ease an
a 4
- ing few minutes for his return wake
- over to the table to have a glance at III
- - new books. There were two boxes npo
- =. 1t, one nearly concealed by u pile {
- papers, and this one | opened. Beneat
y" ~ layer of paper found several coils
~ ~ insulated wire and portions of n magnets
"h electric battery Nesthasen entered ii
- room and called 10 him
~ II ara in the wrong box y
10 He uttered a hoarse cry and spran
~ toward me- suddenly checking himse
- and endeavorng to master what nj
=, peared to me an unaccOuntable agit,
= ton Ills emotion WINS too apparent *
~. either of us TO completely ignore IL an
-. felt compelled to turn away and pr
-, tend 10 he engrossed in the contents
= !. the other box until he could recover hin
- self, Selecting IA magazine, | went avn
= Immediately, considerably amazed at N
= stupid mistake. Vet more puzzled oNs
:" the agitation il Ind caused him So sin
8. Pile discovery as TINT II finding in tt
- possession OF u man who openly avawe
:. - his interest in electrical studies an instr
= ment constantly In vogue among electr
- clans was not in itself sufficient utterly
~, confuse the possessor Hut then IVES
haven was "A queer fellow. lie possibl
= did mol wish me Ia know that he eNper
:, mented. or perhaps he VAS ineentin
~ something. And cast the whoie AHA
-. OFF my mind with "A laugh.
The next day neither Mrs. MesthAye
~ nor Miss Carlyon was ut breakfas
- Miss Garlyon was not we'll. Westhaye
~ said, and TO this attributed his mood
=, silence and strange excited manner. II
~ did not appear through the day, and, cor
- trary 10 my custom. | went 10 his room
n In the afternoon 10 inquire for the IL
valid | found the door open and wa
: entering the parlar when voice froI
- the inner room fell upon my ear. Wes
~ haven was speaking harshly and rapid,
- .'Come' 1t Is time Come | say
- 4 woman's voice, Mrs Westhayen
= faneiea, moaned and protested faintl,
- Another imperative command from Yves
- haven followed by "A curse. then Oh
- sound of some heavy body dragged a 1t
tie way across tile ROOM door shu
=, sharply aud all was still | turned an
- hurried from the room, conscious that
= had already stayed too long, thankft