The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-04-29

existence till but now they had ignored, |
and their dancing, by the way, though |
a trife moro energetic than is fashiona-
BILE, was not bad.
For time all went swimmingly,
though the demoralizing features of So
cial democracy grew upon Harry when
he asked Charley to dance with him,
only to be told that she had already
promised more dances than she expect
ed to perform.
A new quadrille was just forming
when something happened-in fact,
good deal happened all at once, OF so
near it that the effect was the same, and
now sympathize with Carlyle in his
despairing sense Of the inadequacy of
narration, which must proceed by Sc
quences, to the task of portraying his
tory, where things are always happening
simultaneously. 1t is like trying to
draw house with one line.
Mrs Peytee was standing up to dance
with tie bridegroom and was near the
4 open door. AS the preliminary
saueaks Issued from the fiddle man,
in her own phrase, 'lunged" through
the door, threw an arm violently around
her waist and-was knocked down by
the bridegroom. Mrs Peytee was not
the woman to throw away any cards fate
in the course of the game put into her
hands She flew into the arms of the
colonel, who had risen precipitately from
his seat by the fire, crying piteously up
on him, her Cousin Charles, for protec-
. tion. One of the young Hardness, not too
sober himself, alas recognized in the in
toxicared intruder his long lost brother
in the Texas penitentiary he had been
when last heard of-anl, suddenly fired
. by that ardor of blood relationship al
ways SO easily awakened by those intrud'
, ers known as "kin by marriage" be
fell upon the bridegroom with blows
The brother rose and proceeded to take
: his own part as we'll, and i'll seven sec
: onds from his entrance all the men II
: tho place were in one wild melee, ant
> the women were huddled together as ia
: off as they could get, some screaming
: some fainting, while Mrs. Harkins ant
Dade, stirred by different spirit, loud
ly called upon Art and Bill and "you,
7 Hank, to be ashamed of themselves, AM
= to stop their "scandalous" behavior, in
y terspersiDg their adjurations with sever
y comments on the male sex generally an
individually and with some very SCUM
abuse of the whisky, which was indee
at the bottom of the trouble There wa
h something comforting to the other W.
/, men in their accustomed air through a
1t this, but even their wrathful equanimit
70 broke down when the sound of pist'
Of shot rang ont. 1t was fred by the your
is ger Harkins boy, who only aimed at II
a. wall and was merely carrying out b
re youthful ideas of what was fitting.
is A few minutes before the row begs
Of Charley had stepped out of doors wi
r. the other young man to look ut Il
re moon. She was so tired of him that 81
le- had then invented an errand to get r
ct of him for five minutes and had Sc
as him to look in the buggy for supposil
lis tious fan. Just as the shot was fired s.
or appeared, white faced, in the doorwa
lis much nearer the indistin2uishab,e col
batants and peacemakers than any OF t
other women:
tie $50 back, Miss Charley For Goo
an sake, go awayp' Harry cried out,
n" voice saying a deal more than his wore
but Charley didn't go back. She on