The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1895-11-01

/ know of anyhow, but there's II party
come N that wants to see him-Wants
g see him 1. bad, too. looks mt him.
my pipe, .''What for, mate p Oh, You
needn't be suspicious; It's a gentlemans
and a lady, s,lys he. s.NVlly didn't yon
say there was Indy before?" says.
might know the party, and again 4
mightnf; but ladies amt common. I'll
see, the lady, mute, anyhow"
went along Wit, him. though after all
picture right enough. but it wasn't our.
Dick; the picture wasn't to say 4 .shev,
Wy deyry" come to that, but it had been
meant for Dick once. It|was Dick with
a sort of light in his eyes that wasn't
there now, and the mouth didn't fall
shut by itself like Lone Hand Dicks did.
was shut. but he took me round by the
side into the managers room. There was
a man there and a girl-yes, she was only
a girl, I could see that, although she had
thick veil over her face. The man was
a swell. II
man?" says he. -. n ~
Not much," says l, short H.
He turns round on the CLERK angrily.
He doesn't know him by that name, but
he seemed to know the photograph you
gave me. sir the clerk said. The girl
stirred uneasily III her seat; the man
turned to me hastily: You know some
body like the picture? he said. IN
I looked at the girl: she seemed to be
listening eagerly. "WeH," said, Il have
for once"
We want to see him. r.
Yes says l. What fory' The man
looked ut me angrily. what for, my
man, and how does that concern you?'
"Wnll - savS ln,ssf ,irhtlv knnv,
nor don't know how it concerns you to
see him. - ~ss
The man looked ut me as fierce rs a
Goanner in tight place, but he didn't
speak. And with that the girl rose and
took a step forward. '.Oh, sir" she
bit as she spoke. oh. sir, you viii tell il
us, I'm sure. l must know; must see
him. She had clasped her two hands
together; they were small hands and very
white, and they shook as she spoke. It
was for no harm anyway, ! could have
sworn that much. Eyes, MISS says l.
n ut might e be the party, Or again it
III find him for you in the morning.
1T was lonely spot where we found
Dick, and not another soul was in sight
He was working in the bottom, the same
steady, logged, hopeless work that he'd
always done.
Aneie. Sdlu, stopping snort ana
looking for, miss?' We were standing
ut the edge of the trees, and Dick was
below us, and it might be thirty yards
away. She had said nothing as we
came along, but she had -trembled SO
much that the man had given her his arm
to hel p her. Now she seemed to pull her.
threw back the veil to look looked at
her then, and l tell you I could have
gone Oh looking. All, that was some
thing like a face-a face to think OH in
the dark, that was. She just gave one
look. and then sob. Stay here she
said, motioning the man back with her
hand. Stay here. Oh, George!''
with quick, smooth sort Of walk. She
didn't seem rightly to walk, only to CO.
and go quick at that. In Il minute she
was close to Dick. "George!' she said
only the one word, ''Georgev' The
word come up to where we were stand
ing, and | tell you it was sweeter than
music.
Dick lifted himself from his work and
stared stupidity around, as if he didn't
rightly know what it was. Then he sees
her, and with that he falls back STEP
like man dazed.
"Oh, George and she held out both
of her hands to him across the heap of
"Hitc Gay: SoMe Dach, George. Come
back. 1t is all found out. They all be-
lievc you now. You're cleared at last
cleared at last. Come back, George
back to me-"
He stood for a moment or two like a
man that had been turned to a stone
"Ceared!' he exclaimed, hoarsely.
cleared! oh, my Godr' Then he
clutched wildly at his throat, staggered
and fell-fell at her very feet senseless
She was ON her knees at his side l
started to run down the slope, and was