The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1895-12-03

sincere and so saddening, bringing
those dear pictures out Of the past
and paralleling Gabe's virtues with
the exaoting conditions of money
lending, that for moment he was
quite unconscious of Gabe's going.
For Combe loved that younger man
as his own.
But Gabe, or Gabriel Case, as he
might have to write it on a bit of
paper before he got that 500, was
on his way to see Mead about that
very matter, and Gabe didn't write
out any promise to pay, because
Mead said no matter about that. In
fact, he was just bit emphatic
about refusing Gabe's insistenoe ON
giving a written promise to pay.
And his willingness to accommodate
was made so plain to Gabe, with SO
much graciousness and candor, that
to insist further Gabe thought would
seem ungrateful. So the house was
begun and finished, and then Gabe
brought Eva to take charge of it,
and there was a pretty little we'd
ding.
1t is the patient man rather than
the shrewd man who prospers in
material way, and shrewdness is
maybe only another name for pa
thence. The man who can wait gets
a good many things, if he does not
get them ALL And it is so in the very
rapid building up of the modern
American city, where in time outly-
ing farms become suburbs and sub
urbs become centers. And the course
of time is very rapid. A man will
say, Had l held on to my little land
when it was, in my Judgment,
worth but little, it would now be
mine when it is worth much" and
he deplores his lack of foresight.
And yet maybe this murmurer did
not calculate on the mean life of
the holder in the patient interval
from the little to the much.
Gabe was, or thought he was, in
the very slough of discomfort six
months after he bought his home.
Patience and foresight were not his
servants. He perhaps had all the
virtues but patience, and he did not
know that patience is more often
than not better than all of them be-
sides. Patience will sometimes keep
for man his home, and a man in
his home and the home in the man
make the man safe and society safe.
Gabe thought at this period of the
greater city still farther west, the
greater city that has overturned OBJ
stacles and overturned reasons; the
greater city that has crushed down
impediments and crushed out hearts.
Eva would go, of course, because
Gabe would 60 Mead S money, Gabe
hadn't forgotten that, but then he
dOesn' t need to remember it for six
months to come. This home can be
sold, little money can be cleared
from it, and another home in the
greater city can be founded. But
shouldn't he see Combe before tax
ing this step? For the time he had
forgotten that Combe had gone to
one of the territories, after handing
to Mead 500, saying that "Gabe
is a thoroughly honest man, and
will be as honest with you as he is
with himself. He will pay you that
money. He's not a patient fellow
and may make mistakes and lose
money, for he knows nothing of
how business is done, and so may
be n little behindhand with you, but
he'll not fail you. Trust him for
that I give you this money, with
this thought in mind, that you may
not be put out if Gabe should be a
little slow. When he pays you, and
he will, even though a little delay
might occur, then you can return
this to me if you know where 1 am !;
or if you don't it's no great matter. "
And it never was any great mat
ter, for there were men for whom
the hard lines, the cruelty and law
lessness of the Idaho miners were
too much. For John Combe was
with that wild rush Of men to whom
the star that blazed over them to
their eXultant
Gold! Gold Near the setting sun!
Goldl Gold! You need only come
To the glowing west where by cliff and stream
The treasure waits you in C9ur d'Alene!
paled and went out with the wall
for homo and back again from the
despair, want and pain they found
there.
"Gabe, dear, do you think we
have been as happy here as we were
going to be when we came away
from our dear little home away
back there? We haven't been, have
WEI"
Never mind, sweetheart. Come
here. Eva, and kiss me. Then / can