The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-01-14
4GGtUENNNY Y AND DUMPS,
Their Story as Told by the Cir
from Redhorse. #

from Redhorse.
June 20.-I find myself more anc
more interested in him. 1t is not, an
sure, his-do you know any noun cor
responding to the adjective hand
SOMEONE does not like to say
beauty when speaking of a man
He is handsome enough, Heavier
knows; / should not even care to trust
you with him-faithfulest Of all pos.
sbe wives that you are-when he
looks his best, as he always does.
Nerd do ] think the fascination Of his
manners has much to do with it. You
recollect that the charm of art inheres
in that which is indefnable, and to you
and me, my dear Irene, fancy there il
rather less Of that in the branch of ART
under consideration than to girls in
their first season.
lie seems to know every thing, as in
deed, he ought, for he has been every
where, read everything, seen all there
is to see-sometimess 4 think rather
more than is good for him and had
acquaintance with the queerest PEG
pie. And then his voice-Irene. wher
hear it, / actually feel as IT, ought tc
have paid at the door, though, Of
course. it is my own door.
July 81 fear my remarks about
DR.. Barritz must have been, being
thoughtless, very silly, or you would
not have written of him with such
leyity, not to say disrespect. Believe
me, dearest, he has more dignity and
seriousness (of the kind, / mean, which
Is not inconsistent with manner
> sometimes playful and always charm
. ing) than any of the men that you and
] ever met.
And young Raynor-you know
Raynor at Monterey-tells me that the
men all like him, and that he is treated
with something like Difference every,
where. There is mystery, too-some
thing about his connection with the
Blavatsky people in northern India.
Raynor either would not or could moi
tell me the particulars. / infer that
DR. Barritz is thought--don't you dare
to laugh-a magician! could anything
be finer than that?
July 16.-The strangest thing! Last
evening while aunt was attending one
of the hotel hops Il hate them) Di.
Barritz called. 1t was scandalously
late-I actually believe he had talked
with aunty in the ballroom, and
learned from her that was alone.
had been all the evening contriving
how to. worm out of him the truth
about his connection with the Thugs
in Sepoy, and all of that black bust
ness, but the moment he fixed his
eyes on me, forI admitted him, I'm
asham ed to say l was helpless. /
trembled ! blushed. Lob, Irene!
Irene! l love the man beyond ex-
preston, and you know how it is your
self.
Fancy l., an ugly. duckling from
= Redhorse--daughter, they say, of old
Calamity Jim"=-certainly his heiress,
with no living relation but an absurd
old aunt whospoils me thousand and
fifty ways-absolutely destitute of
everything but one million dollars and
hope in Paris-I daring to love q god
like him! Mr. dear. II hadsyou here l
could tear your hair out with mortifi-
cation.
July 17-That little wretch Raynor
called yesterday. and his babble set
me almost wild. He never runs down
that is to say, when he does run
down 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
liestations of interest in you had, /
mast confess, good of genuine vrai-
semblance.
Mr.. Raynor observes no game laws;
like the death he would infiict If SLAM
=" ders were fatal he has all seasons for
his own, But ! like him, for we knew
one another at Redhorse, when we
We're young and true-hearted and bare
footed He was known in those fair
days as .Giggles, land lot Irenei
can you ever forgive mel was called
Nnnnyn God knows why; perhaps in
aunsfon to the material of my pima
-iores; perhaps because, the name is an
- ALTERATION with ''Giggles," for Gig and
4 We're inseparable playmates, and the
miners may have thought it a delicate
compliment to recognize soHe kind of
relationship between us.
Later we took in third-another of
adyersity's brood who, like Garrick
between tragedy and comedy, had a
chronic inability to adjudicate the rival
s.4,. CLAIMS Ito HIMSELF of frost and famine
between him and the grave there was
seldom anything more than a single
Suspender and the hope of a meal,
which would at the same time support
lille and make it indispensable.
lie literally picked up a precarious
hying for himself and mother by
,chloriding the dumps" that is to say,
the miners permitted him to search the
pay ore" as had been overlooked, and
sneSe he sacked up and sold to the
Syndicate mill
lie became member of our firm =
funny, Giggles & Dumps" thence
'ofeh-thfough my favor, for ! could
= not then, nor can now, be indifferent
70 ms courage and prowess in defend
ing against Giggles the immemorial
= rignt OF his sex to insult strange and
unprotected female-myself.
After Old Jim struck it In, the Calam-
% and began to wear shoes to
4 school, and, in emulation. Giggles took
=. "a washing his face and became Jack
haynor, of Wells, Fargo a Co., and old
Yrs Barts was herself ''chlorified" to
fathers, Dumps drifted over to
- Juan Smith and turned stage
mtyer' and was killed by road agents.
Why do tell you all this, dear? Be-
cause it is heavy on my heart Be
,aase~I walk the valley Of humility.
DeeaaSe l am subdning myself 70 PR
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