The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1892-02-01

actor After repeated efforts | sue
ceeded in getting a chance as a ssupe
in one of the leading theaters, anc
soon began to have more importan
parts assigned me.
''But | did not find theatrical life as
congenial as l expected, and besides
that my love for Emma Garrison was
drawing me back to my native village
with an almost irresistible power OH
how beautiful she was! No wonder l
worshiped the very garments that she
wore, and even the flowers that her
slim, white fingers touched!
$50, at the end of two years, re-
turned, only to find that perfumed
dandy from the city was making every
effort to win the girl l adored, and APP
parently with good show of success,
as he was a handsome and dashing fell
low. / soon found out that he was
pitiful coward and sneak at heart, but
of course Emma did not believe me
when told her so. She only laughed
at me and said that Twas jealous.
Jealous! Yes, l was jealous. Who
would not have been with the hand
and heart ola girl Like Emma Garrison
at stake? But in spite of that l knew
Harry Claymore was miserable pol
troon utterly unworthy of even enter
ing her pure presence.
when this man found that l too
loved Emma, the manner he assumed
toward me was not to be endured He
at once saw that he was ahead in the
race, and so felt malicious pleasure
in torturing me.
. i am going to call upon Miss Gar
rison by invitation tonight, said he to
me, one day with self-satisfied smirk
Don't you wish she had invited you.
too?'
no; I don't I shortly answered
as turned away. 4 don't want to
breathe the same air with such, pitiful
sneak as you are
" You had better come, anyway he
called after me- Il think she is quite
fond of me, but should really like the
opinion of disinterested person like
yourself
81 did not reply to the cutting taunt,
but made up my mind that if l could |
keep Harry Claymore away from EN-
ma Garrison's side that night | would |
do so, and l rather thought could.
among the souvenirs of my theatre
cal life were skull mask and suit of
black tights. l took some white cloth
and cut from it outlines of all the prin-
cipal bones; these sewed upon the front
side of the latter and so produced a
close imitation of the human skeleton
upon It's dark background. That night
l put on my CHASTITY attire, wrapped
myself from head to foot in long
black cloak, and set out for the home
OF Emma Garrison.
There was small cluster of trees
near the house, through which l knew
my rival must pass; and beneath their
the shadows were deep and
gloomy Conceating myself among
Them patiently watched and waited
Tor his coming.
1T was only short time before I
heard quick, light footsteps approach
ng, and throwing the enveloping cloak
vide open l rushed toward the advanc-
igure with deep and hollow groan.
The pasteboard skull that concealed
ny face and the skeleton lines upon
he tights cleaned white and CHASTITY
gainst their inlzy background, and the
noans uttered were appalling, even !
0 myself.
The figure stood stone still for an
Instant, then it sank in heap on the
round with an awful shrek that will ;
cho in my soul until my dying day. l :
nrned and fed from the spot as an ex- !
tied throng poured from the door of
lr. Garrison's house with lighted :.
and began searching for the :,
uthor of that wild, unearthly cry I'M !
CINE my surprise and CONSERVATION I
yhen l saw harry Claymore among |
lem.
"a moment later they were bending :.
yer the figure PROSTATE in the road, T
nd by the lights they bore l saw to :.
~ horror that it was the girl | adored Z,
-ho was lying there, writing in terri {.
lie commissions and with the froth of n
gony flying from her quivering lips. Il
he had been detained at a neighbours
lat night, and had terrified the dar-
ng of my heart with my ghastly APP
rel instead of her cowardly sutton as =,
had intended. u
'She fingered along for several days y
awful agony, but she passed rapidly =.
ON one hysteric fit into another, IL
rielling with an insane terror all the IL
me. Then / was told that she was ID
,ad. Told, because that very night g
as captured and found while making
e most desperate efforts to approach !
v ST. icken darling's side. From that th
rrible time until now, how Ing I 81
low not. have been kept constantly be
der lock and key, and without a
end or comfort in the world. ar
Yes, they told me that my darling in
Is dead. Dead while so young, so W
so good; and l who loved her sp
th an all-absorbing love had been W.
e cause Of it. Dead, and without ce
c word of forgiveness to him whose gu