Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-07-24

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The Toulouse and thought Of his love
making, he wepi, and weeping Maggie
found him. Hong Foy bad not dreamed
oflhe future, and had not expected the
coming Of the girl lie had expected TO
sleep IN the Toulouse that night and
be beaten again ia the morning But
Maggie had planned The best part Of
her plan was that she had brought
huge bottle, and Il mad water in q we
will go that way" She .aid pointing
out into lhe desert
Isis not 30 bad % walk ai night
through the desert IL Joa.a'e sure you
wili have shade go which 10 res the
nex day Bai the so DAY came and
as Maggie and Hong Foy looked about
them all they saw was what couple Of
aois q a piasterer. box u lime sce
Far, far, far away. round about aud near
II eas white. And &c was 80 fiat that /
they seemed to TOOK zap out of basin |
70 brim which was white and blue,
and the alkali and the sky nestled so
close to each other and the ssy arched
over as though Il were the roof OF the
plain Ia such wise that Maggie thought
they might as we'll have been impris-
oncd In the shell Of a huge egg-only It
would have 70 be the biggest egg and
biggest she'll ever created, and there
would only be room for one such like in
the world The sun was beautiful in the
early morning, and there were roses in
the desert east just as there are roses IN
the east Of the orcherd land The sun
looked on them with friendly rotundity
for an hour, and then he fro. ned and
The frown was of white heat. Sleeplly
they pIodded on searching for a brush
big enough to casttwo feet of shade
They had no means of telling time
'ther than by The sun, but the girl knew
he secrets of the sun and knew II was 10
''clock when the pale, calm face Of
long Fey looked into hers with a dumb
'iteousness, and he sank in a swoon
lurridly the girl uncovered his head
nd saw for the first time he great jag
ed, ragged hole made by that bent !
pike thrown by her father, The iron >
ad dug deep, but the Chinaman had
iastered the wound with the clean
'aste taken from the Toulouse and had h.
raped his cue around It Maggie re-
arded the hurt with little bit of wo- =,
ianly horror, and then she thought of p
ow her lover had walked all that y.
ght through the sands with his head l.,
rocked by her fathers effort and had y,
~ intmated that he was injured at all
Gle is worth IT," said Maggie AnG al
nderly she dressed the wound, wash. Il
& 1t with the precious water Hong In
~ had carried In the great bottle ale III
worth It." do
II you would have to guess at the
lallest part of that awful journey go oh
[ on the Southern Pacific to the olace
lere the temperature is normally at tn
, In June at II O'Clock in the day time. sol
Iere the air Is so HOT that Il curls itself vo
where the alkali Is baked into pow Oh
{ finer than the finest powder known
and without the slightest
ath of air to agitate 1t Sits and scat 81
5 about over the face of the earth be- r
drawn up by the sun just as you have -,
~ ~ ""''' oe'"s o'""" up u WIZ are
an unpleasant ride to YOU, for YOU ,,h
leave your coat AZ Ogden and your mo
nent along the right of way with r
NJ persistence, until In the middle of
desert YOU will be a disgrace and
belong tn the same epoch as Adam -
Eve but YOU will not think of Adam -.
Eve, for they lived where water was
grass and trees and blossoms, and Il
Nd make YOU insane 10 think of those
on looked out on the writhing blue 49,
,ntalns millions of miles away.
'ntains which you see here this mo-
1t and are gone when YOU look again. ~, 49,
beating. beating, beating with a ~,
ht that makes your head thump is "
great world consuming sun N d
IS, il you would like to guess about for
gle and Hong Foy-and their - lev
$ 'parching, famishing, agonizing his
ney until they walked out Of death offe
into green line OF paradise which Mr..
along a clear river, you must 20 tax &
g AMI 90 II for Yourself And at the bets
of the journey, Il you ever get to NJ
end Of L. perhaps Won will fall faint RICH
and desthlike at the margin OF the with
am as Hong Foy did, or perhaps YOU man