The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-30
Stories Of an inland State.

| When they had neared It Mrs. Sweeney
pointed it out and said:
There's civilization, my dear. You viii
learn to dispise it. Now we win change
names"
Change names?" asked Misty Dawn IN
| surprise.
That's what said. You can't get into
civilization with that name of yours with
out being laughed at They don't name
'em that way. If were you I would re-
tain Dawn for last name and then add
Clara or Anna of Jenny to it,
| Misty Dawn was interested.
How would Rosa Dawn strike your
asked Mrs. Sweeney.
| Misty Dawn shook her head.
| How wonld Myrtle DawE-Miss Myrtle
Dawn sound?''
'Oh. like that very much"
Then you're Miss Myrtle Dawn from
now on
Misty Dawn repeated her new name sew
eral times.
Now" continued Mrs Sweeney. 'PIl
| have to be rugged out"
| You, Mrs. Sweeney"
Yes. / suppose I'll have to go back to
Daisy Durrant''
WAS that your name once?"
YES. I'll have to take it again. I guess
| there's no indictments against that. Hence
| forth I'm Miss Daisy Durrant and Lord
| help me-
But aren't you Mrs. Sweeney" asked
Misty Dawn.
mo longer" said Mrs Sweeney. Its
Daisy Durrant now
Misty Dawn would have asked other ques-
| tons but Mrs. Sweeney stopped her with
| dissertation on civilization:
'I'll tell you what, Miss Myrtle Dawn
civilization is great thing if you strike it
| on the sunny side. But there is a side of
| the street where the sun never shines and
Lord help US who dwell there. The gen.
! tlemen in Washington spout and the re-
| lgiouS people pray and the choirs sing, and
| they all do you a powerful lot Of good. if
! your parents were all right in the first
place and you was laugh right from wrong.
l can see it that way now. l can see c.v;li-
eaton when / get little ways off from it,
But put me in it and I'm Daisy Durrant
ard / ask no odds of any one and I tell
EN- to shoot their prayers and their laws.
I know Daisy Durrant like a book. Throw
her in a crowd and she doesn't take no
dust off anyone's wheels"
They drove into the town and Misty
Dawn was put off at the depot and Miss
Daisy Durrant showed her to place in the
waiting room.
Daisy Durrant believing she was leaving
her charge forever left Misty Dawn's
money with her and went away.
Misty Dawn expected Miss Durrant
back, but Mrs. Sweeney did not expect to
come back.
I'm Daisy Durrant already" she said
as she drove the wagon away. Il can feel
be just like 1 always was, asking no odds
Of anyone and waltzing with the devil. 1
mustn't go back to that innocent young girl.
/ won't be a fit guide any more. I'm Daisy
Durrant and I'd do her up just for the
sake of mischief. I will not return to her.
Let her shift for herself, poor thingw
Mrs. Sweeney drove up to livery stable,
a story and half affair with a prodigious
frame front, reaching high in the air.
A man came out and took charge Of the
team and she went on down the street.
She passed up a fight of stairs and flung
open a door, There were several tables in
the room she entered and several playing
cards scattered about on each. Al one table
man was sitting, his head dropped upon
his folded arms.
BILL" she cried.
The man arose. He was very tall with
dark eyes. heavy brows and the hair on
the back of his neck shaved circularly with
great precision.
Mag" he cried. where on earth did
you come from?'
Where do you suppose? How do you
stack up?''
"All right Where's Pete?"
'In Jail for selling whisky to Indians"
he -ar1 f0r ~
What's the sense of a man playing against
bigger thieves than ne is, and the deputy
marshals can give Pete four aces every
night in the week and beat him.
''Bill,'' she said. do you love me as
much as you used to-"
II never loved you, Mag" he said.
That's a lie," she answered.
Same old tongue, Mag. Had your break
fast?"
mo Nor I don't want one"
Going to win by a pout, eh?'
Shut up
'well. 1 love you, Mag. Are you salts
fied?'
Shut up
Say. Look here, Mag. I'm going north
this morning. How'd you like to go along?"
"Oh, Bill" she answered "I feel it all
coming back now. You was always rehec-
tive. BIZ, and I can talk to you. I've been
living with Pete down there in the terri
tory and you don't know how good a part
ner I made for him. 1 kind of got TO love
the quiet of the little sod house and the
chickens and the horses and to sit with
Pete all alone in the evening. But when l
come back here I'm the same old Mag. I
can feel it coming now. / want whisky,
Bill wan. to gamble and fight and dance
and make the old world spin. Bill. have
YOU got some Equor?'
you don't need liquor" said Bill.
But do. I want to bowl up and paint
the town. It's civilization. Bill. that does
it. There amt any frowns or jeers or avoid
ances down there But there is here. Civil
zation's got me down and want to kick
and founder and squirn and let it know
don't care
Bill smiled. He understood perfectly. He
handler her a bottle and she drank linger-
ingly.
1--WE haven't time to get breakfast" said
the gambler. We'll go TO the depot and
get on the train and fast for an hour or
so''
Bill she said. "Tve got team down
here Go and sell II and blow her in. Poor
Pete, I wish he was here
a little while after Miss Daisy Durrant
and her friend BIZ came 10 the depot. Mis-
ty Dawn, now Myrtle Dawn, saw them.
but Mrs. Sweeney. now Miss Daisy Dur
rant. gave her a glance which froze her.
Shall we buy tickets?" asked Daisy
Durrsnt.
We'll. you are honest, Mag" said the
gambler. ''Of course We won't buy tickets.
Pay your fare and let the conductor have
a chance 20 knock it down Notice. Mag
how l accented chance What are you
dong there2''
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