Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-07-28

II"
"No,p cried Bale; 'tyou never have."
.rWhen mans married." said the
other, s'he's got to let his wife have
something of a say about the company
he keeps. Now, sometimes you are
most extraordinary racketty chap, Bale.
You know you are. Selina's got a bit
of down on you, old lad"
Don't you trouble about me,
George" said Bale. 'I know what
Miss Rice thinks about me, and I know
what [ think about Miss Rice. We're
never likely to trouble each other"
"Whya" said the lucky lover, check
ing his walk suddenly and facing
round. "What do you think about
Miss Rice?"
"Oh!' cried Bale, ndon't let's have
any misunderstanding. I've the very
highest opinion of Miss Rice. She's
made up her mind that I'm q wastrel,
and she's let me see her opinion. She's
quite right, George-quite right. l
am a wastrel. I'm no fit society for
her, and if, as married woman, she
makes MP her mind as I'm no fit COM
panion for her husband, why, all L say
is, her will be done. I shall never
think the worse of her. lisa woman's
business to keep her own man straight.
Well, here's the Sir Ferdinand. Good
night. George, and good luck"
ssNot yet" returned George. "We
haven't got to the bottom OF what I
wanted. Try and be hit steady, Bale.
That'l bring Selma round; and I'd like
to see an old chum at the fireside now
and then. l don't want to lose you,
Bale.
ssOh, well! Well talk > that an
other time. Neither Miss Rice, as she
is, nor Mrs. Truman, as she will be,
wants me about her. Good night,
George. We shall meet tomorrow. "
How Bale Tolley, who had gone to
the bad this three years, went head
i.ng to the worse from that evening
forward, is not worth telling, and yet
was told in thousand households.
There was good choice of blackguard
society in the neighborhood for any
man who cared to seek it. Bale found
the worse, and played the uncrowned
king among it. His name grew to be
byword. Anxious parents warned
Sheir sons against him. Only the old
woman who had sometimes "moth-
cred" him in his lonely and miserable
childhood had ever a sympathetic
thought about him.
sPoor Bale!" she would say to her
self, for she hardly dared say tito an
other, Bale was so fagrantly sinner.
''He's got the very look of his father on
him. Itmight be printed on his back
and be no palmer reading. Ruined
daredevil. It's wrote large all over
him. But he's beautiful figure of 6
man to look at yet, an if iver child's
heart was i the right place, that ehild's
was when he was child"
George Truman and Selma Rice
were cried in church, but of this Bale
knew nothing, for he did not mix with
church going people. But George and
Selma were married, and that fac
came to his hearing. Except Selina
and her mother and Bale himself, nc
soul had an idea that it concerned him
in the least.
The married pair took up residence
in their own house after three days
trip, and George Truman went back to
the Office of the mining engineer who
employed him. Bale drove his engines
at the mine, the Three Crowns Yard
and year went by. Then the two
men met again, Bale in his laborine
CRIME at the engines, and George ii
his more respectable working gear.
"Hallo, Bale, old lad," said the
lucky man, chow art? I've come ts
have business look at things"