Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-31
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| tobacco and carousing seamen.
| There was never any wor1en-folk around,
! except old Bowen's wife. a pale, scared
| looking woman, who cooked the meals and
| at times dealt out the fiery drains TO her
! husbands customers; but this never hap
| pened except on rare occasions, for Ross,
| their only son. usually tended bar and
! kept things up straight and tidy.
| Ross was nearly 20 now brown, ruddy-
! looking youth. handsome and lthe as a
| young savage, lie had heard nothing but
| ruieness and profanity all his life, and
had never seen but two real ladies in all
these years; these he had by some chance
| more ago. They had soft white hands,
! sparkling with Jewels and spoke SO sweet
ly to him he thought they must be some
He had just been reading the Arabian
Nishts. an old seaman had lent him the
book. and they seemed, he thought. just
Ike some of those ladies In the fairy tales.
He had always gon. barefoot, winter
ana summer. and as unkempt as his COM
! panions. but since that day he had taken
to wearing shoes and brushing back the
long curly locks Of his blue-black hair.
one evening. on entering the smoky. low
ceiled parlor, what was his astonishment
to find on the one hard settee one OF the
same beautiful young women. looking as
white as the great bunch of water lilies
lying all unheeded at her feet. His mother
to her face
she is coming to. now" she said. Ross.
help me to carry her upstairs"
Moss obeyed. carrying her tenderly him
self In his strong n ms. and laid her on the
meanwhile
Endora Lapham was her name--a Boston
helrtSs. she was accompanied by an elder
ly lady. her aunt. It seemed.
"Endora would cross over here" she ex-
pla,ined' We have been stopping at the
wanted to see these Wild cliffs once more,
s.he said Just as we We're about 10 land
IT you had not heard our cries, my good
woman l fear she must have drowned
Its a dangerous sea, even in the best
Ct weather, Ross replied. Il wonder you
I'VE really did not know. and then had
no idea II was so far; it looked such 1t
Endora was worse the next morning and
was no help for it--they had been obliged
TO stop at the miserable place.
Point, and contrived in various ways to
lishten the disagreeableness of their sur
roundings.
savage has" exclaimed Endora one day
after Ross had come in, setting n basket
made of sea shells and filed with mosses
He was certainly n now revelation. and
she watched his movements from the Win
dow with listless interest as he pushed off
his boat from the little cove in front of the
The next day Ross went over again to
the Point, and when ne came back YOU
could scarcely have recognized him; Ger
about him now: in a suit of brown tweed,
and his feet-remarkably small and well
sensible, stout boots; his hair also had re-
ceived attention.
way byS a4 you lft them cut tSS your h har
you looked SO like some Spanish prime, or
Gneftan 6ef9rs e X9q h2ys 9gite spoiled
enough to sit an hour or so each sunny |
por n wSrre Ross Sasr a%ays the carried
her. smothered in shawls and wraps
Then Ross would often read to her, from
.1ty sN, FNnrr n n
mances as the house afforded. He had a |
fine, musical voice ana Rad read phemnarka6igg peans sng
few as he could obtain. had been his only
solace all these years.
He always went out in his boat in the
Hsh. for which Endora had expressed a
preference, cooking them for her himself,
and the wild game he e. shot 10. as well i:o,o,,. :.
said Mrs Leroy. one day, watching him
a and % mh6e a4 china wn the houss aorded ''on
She dli not know that Ross had SNUG |
gled these over from the Point the day aft
"!t"s the lads own savings" the mother
Poor Poor ROSS 4 Wild unrest possessed him
those days to be something different and |
all az once took possession of him regard |
ing his surroundings; IT seemed as though |
his eyes We're hut Just opened and he had
How She must in her heart despise him. |
he thought, wild. untutored as he must
appear to her. He scarcely ate or slept in |
Then "a another fear haunted him; the
fear that they might be robhed-or worse, |
There were men coming and going who |
had been known to commit far greater |
eT Women nan Xnd 'nf tbey Foppf had money With them
he knew for he had heard them talking |
OF it one night, at the table, and he mo-
He shudIered to think, how easy It would |
be for, them beth to be 10 tfounIa, No, droWgnssd
resolved to watch as he had never watched
before.
when they We're both out, examining the
rusty lock on their door,
TO Stm two s2e hapsss Rs whs SGy
are here, under our care i Will be oyer
averted his eyes and shullied away with
After that he. always slept on a mat IN
the little corridor that opened into their
MIS-, Leroy Endora's aunt, often teasea
surprise Endora grew crimson; her face
"Hc has magnlfcent eyes and the grace
of prince of the blood" she said half to
Yes he was a man now, neither rough
how he had changed, hoping 10 please her
II was an unwise thing to do, We admit;
many such she would often sit with him
in the, old-fashioned parlor and read or re-
S 5 rshnysom and whittier bS hear
and these We're his especial favorites
gagged, a half tipsy sailor came up behind
their chair and put his hand familarly on
her shoulder In an instant he lay on the
iloor, where Ross had felled him with one
furious blow; he left swearing vengeance
That night she said to him:
Ross, you ought 10 leave this place; /
should go away, find an honest sweetheart
and lead different life. This Is all un-
suited TO you"
drawn with pain. She had stabbed him TO
the heart, and, womanlke, knew II only too
Her aunt urged her TO 80 home.
You are quite strong enough 10 bear the
journey now" she said. Why do you
llnger in this placer
And Endora dared not answer, even TO
her own heart, or say why the place was
no longer distasteful 10 her; and she prom
ised TO go the next day, But she did not
go the next day, nor the next week.
Ross did not ask her TO stay, though he
was very wretched in those days, realizing
only too well how mean and rough his
life was, far different than hers had ever
been. or ever could be.
He knew that Daniels had been lurking
round waiting to revenge himself upon him
for the blow he had received, but he had
no thought for himself In chose days, only
on the last day but one before Endora
had announced IL as her positive intention
TO leave the place, he had rowed the two
ladies' across 10 the Point to do some little
shopping at one or two small stores the
village Afforded. Endora had had her