Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-05-22
fonnd thn. I was not % be talked over

That night | wrote TO his mother. ana
days afterward | received her
answer. II was the most lneoherent
Y have ever read. She begged 70
hear from him. took the letter 10 him
and he read ii and cried like a baby
Harry" | said. go over to the tele-
graph office with me and send a tele-
gram TO your mother. Tell her that
you will write 10 her"
No. he couldn't do that. either. He
would write TO her al once, instead.
Harry" | exclaimed, remember
she's your mother. man. You've been
dead for seven years and now your
alive. Telegraph to her. Think how
she must feel
If You won't wire her, WILL" ! said
at last. You'd better come over % the
office and see what | have 70 say"
started of and he came With me.
begging me not to telegraph all tae
way over When we got TO the Office
wrote out the telegram: Letter re-
ceiyed. He has read Il and Will an
swer."
Then he became feariuily afraid that
! would write TO his wife. ! assured
him that would not for she was doing
nicely. 1t was the mother that ! want
ed to help. the woman who had been
such a good friend to me and who was
nearly heartbroken. told him that ne
would either have 10 send Tor his moth
er or send her a certain sum o. money
each month. | did not care which he
did. That was the only compromise
that | would make with him. Finally
he promised solemnly that he would
write TO his mother and send her some
money.
One afternoon he called around TO see
me at my place OF business and pro-
posed a drive into the country 70 see a
piece OF property that he said he
owned.
| consented TO take the drive with
him and we were 70 start about 2
o'clock. but Harry fooled around. 50
that IL was almost 3 when w did nn-
ally get started. lie drove a handsome
pair or horses to q light buggy and we
went slowly out OF town 70 the piece
OF property that he wanted TO show
TO me.
II was a long, lonesome drive. On
the way out we talked over his Ieav.
ing home and once or twice he made
the remark that | Was the only per-
Vol that knew where he vas. HIS
mother. he said. had not heard from
him. She only had my letter % show
for Il. He asked me about bis wife. IL
she was pretty still and how she waA
getting along.
She's prettier than ever. Harry" |
told him. And she has a tine position
and a responsible one. She has saved
up considerable money, too"
That seemed 70 interest him greatly
do you think she'd come out to meEt
he asked.
We'll. | don't know. Harry" I said.
We drove IN out to the property. II
had grown late BY the time we had
started home. We arrived at an adobe
cabin on the way back. Two Mexlcans
came ont OF IL followed By an immense
dog. Harry got out OF the buggy and
standing at a distance OF fifty feet
from me talked Spanish TO them. or
course I couldn't understand them. But
as ii got later I grew impatient.
Harry | called. We're going home.
now "In a moment" he answered.
NO. we're going now" He knew by
my voice that I meant 1t and he came
over to the buggy and got ia. We
drove slowly away. Il was then quite
dark.
Harry never wrote to his mother. IA
I found out afterward. She told hs
wife and the boys where be was, bq,
It went no further. Finally Mrs. Evans
raised money enough 10 send her zee.
ond son to Los Angeles. When he ar.
rived Harry would do nothing for him
I got him a place In an elevator and
later on In a real estate Office. re saved
every penny he earned and after max.
Ing a lucky sale or two sent for bis
mother. She came out and brought
the other children with her.
They bought a little cottage in ger
Diego. All this time Harry had no
helped his mother to my knowledg,
to the extent Of one cent. He had writ
ten to his wife. but she had declined /,
come to him. She said that the triI
was a long and tiresome one and easieI
for a man to take than a woman. /
he wanted to see her she would NEE
him on his arrival, but she would no
go to him.
A few months afterward he dIsap
pesred again as completely az he hai
seven years before, and he has neye
been heard from since. The mygterl
will probably never be soIsed. Yet i
murder will out" some day we vii
know why Harry Evans acted as h
did.-From the San Francisco Chron
ic1e.