Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-08-17
A ROMANCE.
ny jackson sturEes.

! and her daughter occupied the tw
back rooms on the first floor. Direct
over their apartments was our roon
and young man named William Ora
ham tried to make himself comforts
BILE In the back room Of the third nool
directly over that used as a temp0rar
home by myself and Eliza, my wife.
1t did not need very sharp pair o
eyes to discover that Mr.. Win Graham
was in love with Miss Emily Marvin
Eliza and understood 1t before man,
days.
One day when 1 came home a littl,
earlier than usual Eliza said to me:
Jack, l think there is something
very mysterious about Miss Emily.
was going past their room to-day anC
happened 10 look In and there sa
Miss Emily at her writing desk The
tears were streaming down her cheeks
and her pen was going like wild-firs
6he was talking to herself. When
got up stairs l lay down for a nap
Presently heard queer noise. First
l couldn't think what it was, but ]
listened again and then made up my
mind that somebody was playing on
the bracket below as II it were q
piano. have always said her actions
were very strange, and Mrs. Smith
says 80, too. l tell you Jackson, that
that beautiful young girl is crazy
stark, staring crazy"
As matter of course l paid no fur
ther attention to what l felt certa in
was EHLa's nonsense about Miss
Emlly's mind being out of order. But
one evening soon after entering our
room heard most peculiar noise. II
sounded like tick, tick, tick-tick.
tick, tick" and it came from a gas
pipe.
New, l must tell you that among
my earlier experiences in life l was
once telegraph operator. knew all
the dots and dashes and succession of
ticks and spaces between the tick.
that are equivalent to the letters of
the alphabet. And here heard them
again. l saw through the whole bust
ness at once, and as l did so | lust
lay down on the bed and laughed until
! was afraid l would have every but
ton of my vest.
Some one had told me that Will era
ham was a telegraph operator. He
mad evidently taught Miss Emily the
art, ana here they were communi-
eating with each other in the most sat
isfactory fashion, while everybody i'm
9gined that they were conducting
themselves like perfect strangers. /
tnen waited patiently to hear what
was being said. The conversation l
mad happened upon ran as follows:
HOW are you this eveningT'
"Awfully tired. And your
Fired, too. Mamma has been par
deularly exasperating."
Has she? Am l never to have n
tax with you again?"
it's" 'A
Il will; but 1t is dreadfully trying"
think somebody is coming"
"0h, dearl"
heard a door open and shut, and 1
knew that somebody had entered the
room below.
Wen, matters were going on in this
fashion when one day l began 10 think
that the lovers were giving a new turn
70 their conversations. One day
heard Emily say to viii:
There's no use; I've got to do it."
XIII her."
''All right"
But l hate to; and l can't think
how"
Shoot her."
NONSENSE
Al this point my wife came into the
room and she made such a noise that
could not hear anything more. But
not long afterward there were more
serious communications:
Dear, dear WHIP
What is itY'
me-" "oA help
VIII help you-with all my might"
Ihen tell me what is a good way tn
Kill an old woman" ~
Arsenic"
That won't do at ALL"
BLOW her up with gunpowder."
bit" ip me one
I'm die for YOU"
don't want you to die. want /
aer TO die, and / don't know how fo |
kill her." nv" 10
=, Wen, Kill her somehow, or she'll he
The death Of both of u.s."
HOW could these two innocent-IooL-
ng young people be depraved enough
20 plot the murder of a fellow beIno
u such heartless manner? And ubo
'ould the victim be? Who but The
poor old lady to whom Miss EmiIv
WED her beinR7
wen, at last matters came to a crisis
i was one summers night. AS Law
n bed heard a noise.
listened intently. Whether ~ was
prssentiment or not, don't know
,ut fell sure at once that sometime
lreadful was coming 1t did.
We made up my mind, Will" from
'eIow. ' Liohl
We'll, to do whatY
Just as you said. Shooting Ia tho
'est. She'll die instantly, YOU know
nd l won't have any morbid fare,
wells to go through. don't feel mn
0 such a thing-have never had anv
'ractice In just that line"
"Horriblew l thought. "PeonIe do
ot generally get any practice at muir.
ering their mothers"
N going TO do IL now. too Two
allied over 1t dreadful while. and
am going TO have it over bv mid.
lght. Then I'll breathe more freely.
mere VIII be nothing left but the mar
lage, and after that can rest"
All right; go at It," This from
Dove. DO II up brown. I'll help Won
pend the money"
| could stand it no longer.