Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-23

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have been easily discovered that there
was q serious difference either OF opin-
ion OF sentiment. and possibly. indeed,
of bo'h, between Tom Miles and Alice
Rogers as they walked under the
cedars along the ragged, new-made
path that ran alongside the Beaver
creek In the sellSirk mountains lit
tie westward OF siN-Miie creek station
ON the Canadian Pacific railway
The great line threading the CONT
ncnt from ocean to ocean had not long
been completed. In fact. the lnst spike
had been driven Into the last sleeper
at Craigeilachie. far away over the
mountains. just Ave month"; before But
the trains were running regularly
through from the Atlantic TO the Pa
ciiic. and Vice versa, one train day
In each direction.
| The scenery amidst which they We're
walking was OF n sort to suggest to.
minds less prcoocuplod than theirs
4 thoughts OF anything rather than heart
] burning and personal dinercncGA on
/ either side OF the wide valleys OF the
| Beaver which opened IN front OF them,
. the huge mountains rose clothed with
a dark forest up to their middle hcighta
hllh AutiA SNAlNu AWAY III NANtA FlANN'
{ clad slopee up into the sky, against
which the bare rocky peaks. TOO steep
and Hereby wlnd-swcpt Tor the snow
to cling to them. stood sharply out
lined IN the awful serenity OF tholr un-
! approachnhle altitude Down the val
ley the Beaver river rolled thick aud
turgld, its waters only lust released
from the long grip OF winter and above
their heads tho great pines and ccdnrs
lowered Eomhre and stil and stately,
ana the whole Scene was lust relieved
from the oppressive loneliness OF the
wilderness 10y the smoke rising from
the chimneys OF the dozen or 80 wooden
houses clustering around the station
aud the trestlo bridge which carried
the line In n long, sweeping curve
across the river to go climbing away
along the side of the northern range
up TO Bear creek, nearly two thousand
feet above the river.
But Tom and Alice Just then had no
eyes for any OF the grandeurs that ma
turc had lavished upon this wonderful
region. They Were looking inward, not
outward, The eyes OF both OF them
Were turned downward. and saw moth
linz but the path. IT, indeed. they saw
that They were lovers. and they were
In tho middle of their frst serious
quarrel, circumstance which would
have warranted similar uhllvlousncss
to the beauties OF nature In people far
more sugcn ptlble 10 them than they,
FOR they were Just an everyday youth
and maitcu belonging to that sturdy
pioneer class that forms the vanguard
OF the army OF civilization IN It's In
vasion OF the wilderness.
They knew little NJ the comforts aud
stu less at the poetry Of ne, and to
them the world was just place 20 live
aud work In, perhaps also to love ana
. marry H. but Just now that didn't
seem SO very likely as It had done a
! day or two back. Tom was working on
the line and Alice was helping her
mother who was generally believed Ia
be a widow, In spite OF the lack of
direct testimony on her own part, "a
/ manage the little general store which
supplied the wants vi the little COLONY
OF workpebple that the building OF this
section af the line had concentrated
for the time being at SIX Mile Greek.
( They had been walking OUT fot
g., about six months, aud formally On
/ gagged for three but just now 1t looked
, as though the engagement was Eulnl
1 to have q termination worry different
O from that which both of them had u
/ their hearts, and despite outward seem
ing. honestly and fervently desired,
n The cause Of the difference was
70 commonplace. hut none the loss ef
+ fectual one. A party Of three sur
I Veyors had been located for a llttl'
p. over fortnight M SlN-Nhio Creek, ln'
\ one OF these, good-looking young Eng
1 lishman, whose town ways grn,cd sore
e ly ON the simplicity Of Toms NOR
:. primitive nature, had committed TN
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ID 81. ,t,,n Cronl burind In Inc heart Z
10 ,hat ,ni,htv wiidcrness Of rock an
forest and mountain, II was a very Al
IA r,'re,, matter Ana 40 Mad arisen nj
staf" Of effnlrs which was now und,
e. s,,cb ecrious discusgibn.
aTau vou what IL ls Tom" sal
rs Aiice with a ouick. eldelong. upwar
,,i,rIo aftcr an ominonalv iennth
~ muse 'qtis no good us going on wit
n, ,his foniisbncss
.'yvhnt fooiisbnesFY" Intcrrupted To-
~ suddenly. with lust n little break