Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-02-23
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HOW THE GIRL PROPOSED. :
''oeVer Took the F,,rn Must Take 4
Her, Too.

- "laalI- suns N-"-..--'
-"i as The eve could see. the desolate.
'~Feaed waste of the Australian scrub
plain broken only by q belt Of trees
To- the southwest
To emphasize the loneliness OF tne
scene, one solitary Twins creature
maa making his way toward the belt Oh
trees.
Jim Leyland had walked twenty
miles under th2t blazing sun. ana -.,o
TASTED neither food nor drink SINE "'
ed
I'm was realizing for The nrs1 l-i1o
he was "a failure. and more '-,-'-
..--. he was mally pa love WIN ' -.
who treated him as hardly oa l-, 9-
with ,he cattle De had lately aao D-~-'
his charge
Jim Leyland was younger SON.
without even q youngers son '-
-on. After leaving school DE hao i.' -'
60 nome. enjoying alb tlc pleasure o- -
country ito
When he was "a years of age MS
father was killed by fam ln ,Ae A'-,
ing leld. iIis death WAS followed ny
tle disclosure of tEe fact taa. 81 success
Sion ol losses bad swept away Oh. 'tV
vision he had made Cor his younger
son.
The heir to tbc estates. which were
enabled was @ dissip2tci man a'o.,'
town, without spark of generosity P"
his nature. and Dee declined .o S1'e '.-n
q penny Am uncle bad paid ms
sage t0 Australia. and n aoJlu'h. ..''
placed iu his hands the magnificent SUN
or $3.50 To- commence life with there
Naturally. Jim made his way to ..1
diggIngs. butt after lorr years spent ''
vain pursuit of gold he decided Jo
try something else
He left tbc gold fields and set out TOT
che coast. ON his way he came TO
farm. held by a man named James
Thompson. and finding him no wan. OF
another hand" offered his services
which we're accepted
0f q buovanJ disposition ana ever
Inclined to- look AT the BRIGHT SIDE OF
things. he did not feel his position us
Pm amy sense degrading. but me ".
rival OF Maud DevereuN changed o-
this
She was the daughter of Thompson
ONLY sister. aud ON the death OF hei
parents within few months or eecu
other had decided 20 come ont 10 hel
uncle and make trial, at amy rate TOT
time Of life in the bush.
Jim had promptly fallen m love VIII
her Now. Miss DevereuN. though pos
eossinE MANY lovable characteristics
WAS imbued with q cons.derae ID
amount o' pride which had been ln
creased doubtless by the insulting man
rer in which her fathers family had
treated her mother.
She had lot been Ions az the farm
before She had learned something o
1ir's a0tecedents. and being new J'
colonial life. felt nothing but contemp
fo-a man Who having been brought uI
,-, gentleman. could De content WIZ
ED, position of a farm servant
0- +woorthree occasions cattle Whlci
,-,e~s under Iim's especial charge hal
been lost and not recovered NV
,f-r- Tho first loss DE- had eNefclSe'
more than oT yfry care. anu yo..S,
oueutly. he cons.lderao-y p,.1, .o
TI s-l.-Tuy al -'e1-1iS ,.
Al FIRST he thought the cattle hal
ei0orlv strayed away. but AFTER liil'
t.-s s,,sriciors we're aroused. and event
mann, fastened ON one OF the hand'
..-,.r r.udsou. who lived n hDl a
----s 5ts-erce from tine farm. and VINO
.,r charge of the cattle ON % ldc
-r land Immediately beyond THAT Io
-t-., kim was responsible. He had
.srera1 occasions. observed q SJiah
.-.~ Inn Hrdson's company and ne oe
IN snsDoct chat the stranger ha'
-.-,etb,nq to- do with the disappear
once OF the cattle.
rr, bad however. been unable 20 fine
-.-.birg to verify his suspicious, an1
-.-l,- after The third loss. Ihompsoi
es0r for him and told him tha
.. had better seek employ nenl eise
where. .,.. ,,o~,i,,,
.a day on which our story opens
.r what had added 90 jim leeill-@'
.-iaf and humiliation was the l"c
.,- Miss DevereuX had been preseu
-, bad eventually reached the bell
,.- and having found a conven
.ter-ered thicket threw himself
-t. grornd. and. i'm spite OF his oll
-s~ thoughts. fen asleep. 49,
r.. ,-faf had exhausted nlm' am,
-r,., lasted several hours. anc
,-- blye lasted longer had not inc
,i-., .,ornd him been broken by tn'
.f mems voices. ON openlns
so - De found it was almost dark
--7 souslv rose, and. peerln2
.b, bushes me saw number