The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-06-18

spike thrown by her father. Inc IRON
had dug deep, but the Chinainan had
plastered the wound with the clean
waste taken from the Toulouse and had
wrapped his cue around it. Maggie re-
garded the hurt with little bit of wo-
manly horror. and then she thought Of
how her lover had walked all 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 il, 1" said Maggie. And |
tenderly she dressed the woun1, wash |
ing il with the precious water hong Foy |
had carried in the great bottle. He Is
worth il. "
If you would have to guess at the |
smallest part of that awful journey go
out ON the Southern Pacific TO the place
where the temperature is normally at
l4O in June at II o'clock in the day
time, where the air is so hot that IL
curls itself mp, where the alkali is baked
into powder finer than the finest powder
known to medicine, and without the
slightest breath of air TO agitate 1t Sits
and scatters about over the face OF the
earth, being drawn up by the sun Just
as YOU have heard of water being drawn
up. 1t will be an unpleasant ride to
you, for you will leave your coat at
Ogden and your raiment along the right
of way with great persistence, until in
| the middle of the desert you will be
| disgrace and will belong in the same
! epoch as Adam and Eve, but you Will
| not think of Adam and Eve, for they
| lived where water was and grass and
trees and blossoms, and il would make
| you insane to think Of those as you look
ed out ON the writing blue lines OF
| mountains millions OF miles away.
Mountains which you see here this mo-
ment and which are gone when you look
again. And beating, beating, beating
with q might that makes your head
thump is the great world consuming
sun.
Yes, if you would like to guess about
Maggie and Hong Foy-the crippled
Hong Foy-and their IL days parching,
furnishing, agonizing journey until they
walked out Of death and into green
line of paradise which ran along clear
river, yor must go there and do 1t foi
yourself. And at the end OF the jour
ney, if you ever get to the end OF IT,
perhaps you will fall fainting and
deathlike at the margin OF the stream
as Hong Foy did, or perhaps you Will
drop on your knees and pray as die
Maggie.
1.-THE only thing in the cabin. +" sait
Graves, (which plainly was not made
out of the things hereabout is grea
bottle which is apparently for water.
wonder where il came FROM"
~ don't" said the driver OF tn
a water wagon. "What / want to know
+. is about that there humpy lookin came
beast that the boy met US ON. Tell IN
where that thing came from and I'll &
4 home satisfied
"They don't know themselves, sal
Ford. "They only know he came 1
1 here one day, and the woman says n
was sent by God to help the Chine
J. haul wood in winter time, but the CHI
4 | naman insists that he was created ou
il of the alkali or something, from what
: gather i'm talking to him, as specli
q gift of his joss The boy says nothing
10 l consider that beast the greatest obJe'
,. lesson in the Cancellation of religion
d disputes that ever struck, for viii
n holding these different views they don
+ quarrel about him. The real explains
d ton is probably that he is the offsprii
n of some of those camels the Unite
e. States government bought over mo
re Africa several years ago for use III q
,e Arizona army posts. but which turn'
A. out failure and We're let loose 10 ro;i
<. where they would.
W II suppose said Graves, THAT "
Is will say in your report that the re
i. headed, half Chinese kind is the natur
Nv child of the desert?"
l. Eyes II this land of heat and hai
~ ship is ever to be peopled, l think ID
he will be the breed for it!'
a. did il ever strike you, said GRAY
in TO Ford after they had got back to Ct
II ilization, chow that Chinese friend
o. yours and his wife and child out the
bt in that desert are 80 fond of one ano'
Il. er?''
I'M "Grayes," said Ford, ''the We
m love always seemed to me to be s.
in | of a sickly one for grown man to
en- in talking to another, but do you KIN
he that is what would call that case!
don't think I'd say fond. T"
ter 81 don't understand it ut all. Gra
,pt observed.
mt "Well, you know there's no rule
10 that kind of thing, old man. Love
ch something you can't cipher GU.
led your latitude and your longitude
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