The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-12-22
THE EXPULSION.


paternal joys. If selfish motive had
been at the bottom of his sudden late
demand for his daughters society in
the west; IL he had fancied that IL would
impart a trifiing zest to his jaded ex.
istence to have youth and beauty neai
him, and increase his popularity with
his brother mine-owners at critical
time, he had been properly disappoint.
ed in the sequel The cloud of suspi.
cion that rested on the mine had never
lifted; the time had not been suited
to an exchange of hospitalities, even
with beautiful young daughter TO he
introduced to the society of the camps:
and all the brightness Faith had
brought with her to the Big Horn, and
that promise of adaptability that her
father had welcomed in her, had been
extinguished under the burden of him
self and his elderly tailings which she
had taken upon her virgin conscience.
1t was simply keeping a recording an
gel in the house for his sole and per-
sonal benefit; one who wept, perhaps,
but never dropped a tear" upon the
page where her fathers slips were un-
falteringly set down. The grief of his
angel had never interfered with the
strictness of her record. 1t was pre-
posterousl He smiled with sardonic
enjoyment of the joke that he was TO
be reformed, at his time of life, accord
ing to the maiden aunt" school of
training. But il was also beastly an
noyance; il sent him often to the So
ciety of those familiars which he kept
under lock and key in his sideboard
closet. With his daughter presiding,
conscience-wise, over personal habits,
and with Darcie Hamilton Investigate
| ing his business management, il was
| no wonder that frail-minded old gen
tleman, with a rather darkling record,
should have gone off somewhat in his
| temper. Heaven and earthl was he to
be baited by childrenP
He had said to Faith that she could
not go, without extraordinary precau'
tions for her safety, in the excited state
| OF feeling at the mines; but this had
been merely for the purpose of re.
minding her that she was not quite mis-
tress of the situation-free TO repudiate
her father, and depart from him when.
ever he should have paid for her ticket
eastward. AS fact, she was not hall
so anxious to go as was he to have her;
he did not desire her presence in his
house, either as monitor or as witness
any longer. She had seen too mucl
already, considering her general intelli
gence and her uncompromising way OF
| locking at things. She must go bacl
to the east, where in short time sucl
frank incidents as the ordeal of War
and the ambushing of Darcie Hamilton
in the taInaracks would appear to hel
ac incredible as the nightmare visions
of fever. And that she might no
unwisely recall her visions in speech
he had, in that last painful interview
in the library, taken measures TO max,
her very tired of the subject of Darci,
Hamilton. On this point at least h,
was easy.
AS to Darcie, that young gentleman
had been vastly busy at the manager
expense; he had formulated some dan
gcrous discoveries; incidentally h
had made rapid love to his daughter
Between business and pleasure he ha,
been going very much at large. Blu
he had been careless, as the too sure
footed are apt to be. If the Big Horl
directors chose to send their younge
sons masquerading as honest miners
into the Occur d'Alene, they must pos
them better upon the local institutions
"Monkeying with the buzz-saw' wa
pastime for children compared with
conflict of opinions with the Miners
union in the summer of 1899. MI
Bingham proposed to shift his persona
responsibilities frankly upon the union
If Darcie should never reach Londol
with his verbal report (the document
were in Mr.. Bingham's hands), and a
international correspondence, tran
scending questions of business, shoul
ensue, the manager was prepared t.
wash his own hands, and to point t
the guns in the hands of his irrepress
ible allies of the union. The trade
unions have thus suffered always, an
ever will suffer most, at the hands O
their so-called friends.
And now we come to the last seen
before the close of the war-the de
portation of the "scabs," including
few non-combatants, among whom wa
Faith. Recording angels, recorders G
the truth of any sort, were not in de
mand at that time in the Coeu
d'Alene; the victors proposed to recor
matters to suit themselves.
fro BE Continued
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