Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-04-25
HAWTHORNE EsMERAIDA COUNTY, NEVADA, APRIL 25 1884,

in the midst of her embroidered cush-
ions alone. Lady Dollydacks insisted
upon her taking the air in this way
every morning except Sundays, when
she accompanied her ladyship to church
to listen to the voice of the Rev. Charles
Honeymoon crying in the fashionable
wilderness. During her matutinal drive
Poppet performed the only duty ex-
pected of her. She brought home her
ladyship's daily supply of literature from
the circulating library in the carriage
with her.
Jim's fingers clenched the rail in front
Of him, and look of set determination
came into his pale face. She sat watch
ing the occupants of the other carriages
as they passed her, and was wholly OBJ
liviens of the admiring glances cast back
from them ut her. She was thorough
bred and knew it, and one fancied, look
Ing into her eyes, that there was coldly
critical air about them. Suddenly turn
ing away from gazing at her world, hav-
ing failed to recognize any one, her
glance for moment fell upon him. In
stinctively she shuddered back into her
downy wrappings and averted her eyes,
with startled look about the corners of
them. She was too proud to make any
sign, although in her heart she felt a
fearful dread of him spring up. His
eyes seemed to devour her, and the car
riage was delayed long enough for her
profile to burn itself into his brain. He
loved her, in his own vindictive way, at
first sight.
During the next fortnight he was in
variably at his place at the railings and
saw her roll past in her carriage every
morning. He had discovered her resi-
dence and knew all about her goings in
and goings out. He had even in some
extraordinary manner become possessed
Of her genealogical tree and had COM
mitted the names of her illustrious an
cestors to memory, a curious manifesto
ton of interest for one with his ante
cedents. There was some sort of
fascination about him, too, for her, as
every time she passed him her eyes were
irresistibly drawn in his direction for a
moment.
Jim had followed her carriage to the
library on several occasions. One morn
ing he was absent from the park and
she gave sigh of relief as she missed
his face. But he was waiting for her
outside the library, accompanied by an
other man, whose general appearance
at once placed him in the same evil
category as himself. The footman de-
scended from the box and went inside;
she remained without in the carriage
shivering instinctively with fear. AL
most Immediately Jims companion step
ped into the road and struck one Of the
restive and high spirited horses with a
stick he carried.
An alteration with the coachman en-
sued, and that worthy's attention was
distracted from his charge. In an in
stant Jim reached over the back of the
carriage and lifted poor Poppet right
out of her seat in his strong arms. He
strangled her cries with one of her own
silken wrappers, and turning down a
bystreet was soon lost in the intricate
mazes of st. Gile5.
She was abducted in broad daylight.
Her struggles were utterly futile; she
was lost to her world forever.
The turns of fortunes wheel are most
curious. Jim soon wearied of poor Pop
pet, and after a great many vicissitudes
she was at length obliged to perform
tricks in travelling circus. AS for Lady
Dollydacks, she was quite inconsolable
for the loss of her favorite poodle
Walter Blackburne Harte