The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-01-08
"GUNNY" AND DUMPS"
Their Story as Told by the Girl
from RedhOrSe.

June 20.-l ind myself more and
more interested in him. II is not. / am
sure, his-do you know any noun cor
responding to the adjective hand
Some?'-one does not like 10 say
beauty when speaking of a man.
lie is handsome enough. Heaven
knows; / should not even care to trust
you with him-faithfulest of all pos
sible wives that you are-when he
looks his best, as he always does
Nor do | think the fascination of his
manners has much to do with it. You
reconect that the charm of art inheres
in that which is indefnable, and to you
and me, my dear Irene, j fancy there is
rather less of that in the branch of art
under consideration than to girls in
their first season.
He seems to know everything, as in
deed. he ought. for he has been every
where, read everything, seen all there
is to sce-Somctimcs / think rather
more than is good for him and had
acquaintance with the quecrcst Peo-
pie. And then his voice-Ircne, when
! hear it, actually feel as if ! ought To
have paid at the door, though, OF
course. IL is my own door.
July 81 fear NV remarks about
DIR. Barritz must have been, being
thoughtless. very silly. or you would
not have written OF him with such
lcvity. not TO say disrcspcct. Believe
me, dearest, he has more dignity and
seriousness (of the kind. / mean, which
Is not inconsistent with manner
sometimes playful and always charm
ingl than any of the men that you ana
/ ever met
And young Raynor-you know
Raynor At Montercy-tclls me that the
men all like him, and that he Is treated
with something like Difference every
whore. There is a mystery, tOo-somc-
thing about his connection with the
BlavatslIy people in northern India.
Raynor either would not or could not
tell me the particulars. j infer that
DIR. Barritz is thought-don't you dare
to laugh-a magician! could anything
be finer than that?
July i6.-The sJrangest thing! Last
evening while aunt was attending one
of the hotel hops Il hate them Dl.
J:Irritz called. 1t was scandalous. y
;ate-I actually believe he had talked
with aunty in the ballroom, and
learned from her that / was alone.
had been all the evening contriving
low to worm out of him the truth
in Scpoy. and all of that black bust
ness, but the moment he fixed his
eyes on me, for ! admitted him. I'm
ashamed to say | was helpless !
.rembled. i blushed. I--oh, Irene!
irene, ] love the man beyond cX-
nrcssion, and you know how it Is your
self,
Fancy. l. an ugly ducllling from
Gedhorse-daughtcr they say, Of old
Calamity Jim"-ccrtainly his heiress,
with no living relation but absurd
old aunt who spoils me a thousand and
fifty ways-absolutcly destitute of
everything but one million dollars and
a hope in Paris daring to love a god
like him. Mr. dear. 4 l had You here /
could tear your hair out with mortifi-
cation.
July l7.-That little wretch Raynor
called yesterday. and his babble set
ne almost wild He never runs down
that is to say, when he does run
down a score OF regulations more or
less he does not pause between one
reputation and the next by the way
he inquired about you, and his man
ifestations of interest in you had. /
must confess, good of genuine vrai-
semblance-
Mr.. Raynor observes no game laws;
like the death he would inflict if SIAN
ders were fatal, he has all seasons for
his own. But l like him, for we knew
one another at Redhorse, when we
were young and true-hcarted and bare
footed He was known in those fair
davs as '.Gigr es," and 10, Irenei
can you ever forgive mel was called
.'Gunny" God knows why; perhaps in
., al of i'm
forrs; perhaps because the name Is an
alliteration with ''Giggies," for Gig and
/ were inseparable playmates. and the
miners may have thought it delicate
compliment to recognize some kind of
relationship between ms.
Later we took in third-another of
adversity's brood who, like Garrick
between tragedy and comedy, had n
chronic inability to adjudicate the rival
claims Ito himsclf) of frost and famine.
Between him and the grave there was
seldom anything more than a single
suspendcr and the hope OF a meal,
which would II the same time support
life and make it insupportable-
He literally picked up precarious
living for himself and mother by
.-chloriding the dumps" that is to say,
the miners permitted him TO search the
heaps of waste rock for such pieces of
pay ore rs had been overlooked, and
these he sacked up and sold to the
Syndicate mill.
He became member of our firm -
''Gunny, Giggles q Dumps thence
forth-througS my favor. for / coul
not then, nor can now, be indiiI -c-t
to his courage and prowess in defend
ing against Giggles the i'm a
right of his sex to insult strange and
unprotected fcmAle-mysef.
After Old Jim struck it in the Calam
ity and ] began To wear shoes tc
school. and, in emulation, Giggles took
To washing his face and became Jacl
Raynur, of Wells, Fargo Il Co, and Ole
Mrs. Barts was herself ''chloriiied' e
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