Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-05-29

was of white heat. And sleel y they
pl0dded on, sea. ching f'' Il bro.,n big
enough TO east ty7o sqaa4o-,, { sha'c
They had no ne. rs OF ,elling tin
other than by the sun bar ,oo irl knew
Che secrets Of the snu and knew it was
ID O'Clock when FIN, pale, calm face of
Hong Foy looked no hers with duE.o
pitc and b. sank in Swoon.
Hurredly the j uncovered his head
and saw fol ., iIsJ time tho great,
iaccod, raga aoie made D. that Don't
spa, Nrown by nor father. The iron
had dug deep, but the Chinanan had
plastored the wound wit, nc clean
waste taken from the Toulouse and bad
wrapped his cue around it, Maggie re-
garded the hurt with little bit of We
manly horror, and then she thought OF
how her lover had walked al that night
through the sands with his head wreck
ed by her fathers effort and had not in
timated that he was injured at all.
He is worth it, " said Maggie. And
tenderly she dressed the wound, wash
ing it with the precious water Hong Foy
fal carried in the great bottle. "He is
W. II.
vou would have to guess nc tho
smalirs 70, 1T Of that awful Journey 60
out on the southern Pacific o. the place
where the temp yratrro is normally ut
I 140 in june at .ock in the day
! time, whore the all is SO hot that II
curis itscf up, where the alkali is baked
! into powder iinCr than he finest powder
I known t. medicine nd without the
/ slightest breath # wr @ agitatc it Sits
aud sc&ttors ahout over tho face Of the
earth, being drawn up by tho sun just
a. You have heard of water being drawn
up Ii viii he 40 unpleasant ride TO
Tud, for YOU V' Sc your coat ut
Ogicu snd ,t a l-ut along the right
q Way with rAl persistence, until in
inc j. idle of VII desert you will be
ois4lacc and viii belong in the samo
epoch as Adam and Eve, but you vii
Il mink OF Adam and Eve, for the
lived where water was and grass and
trees ana blossoms, and it would ,nake
Yea usan 80 h'nk II those as you look
a. Jut Jn The Writing blue lines OF
r. Htains millions OF miles away
Auutains which you see here this mo-
A -
s-giu. And beating, beating, beating
With 70 J. ght that makes your head
yhunp is the great world consuming
eur.
Yes if You would like to guess about
Ma1.!o and Hong Foy-the crippled
Hong Foy--,lld their IL days parching.
famislliuu agonizing journey until they
walked out Of death and into green
line of paradise which ran along Il clear
river, yar must 20 there and do it for
yourself And at the end Of the ioar-
nc,, il YOU oven. gct 70 Che end of it.
perhaps you viii fall iamtug aud
deatniike at the margin OF the stream
as Hong Toy did. 81 perhaps Won win
drop on your knees and pray as did
Maggie
1.-THE only thing i'll the cabin, 70 said
Graves, (which plainly was not made
out Of the Things hcroabout is great
bottle, which is apparently for water. l
wonder where it came from
81 don {, sad the driver Of the
water wagon. "What | want to know
is about that there humpy loollin camel
beast chat fac boy met Us On. Tell me
where that thing came from and III go
home satisfied. "
"They don't know themselves, " said
Ford THEY only know he came in
here one day, and the woman says he
was sent hy God TO help the Chineo
haul wood III winter time, but the Chi
naman insists that he was created out |
49, ,11
gather in talking TO him, as a special |
Gift cf his joss. The boy says nothing
[ consider that beast the greatest object |
lesson III tho cancellation of religious
disputes that ever struck, for while |
holding these different views they don't |
quarrel about HIM. The real explana-
ton is probably that he is the offspring
If some OF those came.s the United |
Siatos government bought over from ,
a rica several years ago for use in tie
Arizona amy posts, but which turned /
ont failure and were let loose 20 roam |
Vhcto obey ould.
~ eupposc," said Graves, that you |
VII say ia your report that the rcd |
headed, half Chinese kind is the natural |
child Of The desert:"
Eyes If this land Of heat a.,d hard !
shin is ever TO be pcoplod, think that /
Will be the breed for it!''
Did it ever strike you said Graves
70 Ford. after they had got back TO civ
ilization, ''how that Chinese friend Of
yours and his wife and child out there
in that desert are SO fond Of one anoth-
ol'?"
Graves" said Ford, "tho word
'lorc' Away seemed 60 me to b- sort
OF sicl,ly one for a grown man to use
in talking TO another, but do you kno'v
tlat is what [ would call that case?
don't think [ d say fond. "
81 don understand it at all, +" Graves
observed.
'WoL you know there's no rule for
chat kind OF thing, old man. Love is
something you can't cipher ont liLc
vour latitude and your longitude. -
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