Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1898-08-10

Accompa lied bv guide we got intt
one OF the cages and descended seyera
hundred feet. Wren the bottom was
i@ched, we were shown through sew.
eral dark lanes, where men aud mules
were at work taxing out the black
diamonds. Miss was very much
interested in what she saw, and when
we emerged from the mine she thanked
me again for my kindness IN inviting
her to accompany me. When We got
back to the depot, we learned to our
disappointment that the train was an
hour later than it was at first reported
This would make it supper time and
after. l suggested supper, and invited
the lady to go back up town with me
to get something to eat. She would
go, she said, but not as my guest, but
on condition that I permit her to nav
Tor her own supper, and she gave as
her reason for this our short acquain-
tance' OF course I preferred to pay
Tor the suppers myse +. but 1 appreci- |
ated the fact that the young lady was
correct in the position she took, and |
permitted her to have her way in the
matter.
1--WE went up town and into The best
restaurant the place afforded: and
while we were eating she told me of
her home, her parents, brothers, sis
ters, her school life, how she had
taught school in her home district
arther down in the state, all the time
% ladyllke and modest and calling me
Mr. McConkey' with such frankness
nd simplicity that my conscience would
ardly stand still and permit the i'm
osition to so on, but it did, fact that
II regret the longest day live.
u told her enough falsehoods and .
FINANCES then and during that evening
make good sized book. Told her
wv had been in China and South L
Irica; how 1 had writer accounts of Il
travels for the New York Herald: g
w l had been with Stanley; how .
d made coffee for that distinguished la
plorer and drew maps for him in m
trip up the Nile, and how was at &c
1t time writing a series OF articles on 1t
nsas subjects. tn
4 was more extravagant with my I'll
relations than usual, and it is no res
'tism to say that the young lady co.
very much interested-in fact. she de-
delighted. We returned to the rig
ot' the train was soon ready, we Tor
aboard, occupied the same seat of
rse and kept up lively conversa- dol
until the whistle blew for Alma. Ger
re L was to get of. l was sorry. ign
she said she was. 1 must forget Was
ty country schoolgirls and 60 back 81
y work of talking shop and she to out
prosaic life ct books and studies plai
g devil pr IptsC me again. Would and
write? Sne would be too glad. So "
Is arranged, We shork hands, and hott
of. Of course I wrote her. WHY sand
1t did not matter if I were get retu
ready to marry the sweetest little brin
an in the world. A few letters a dc
d do no harm. and
'wo days later I wrote her an in all n
ting letter as possible. She an 81
d promptly, directed of course, to coun
McConkey. Why had 1 not son
er the truth? Her letters were me o
friendship and gratitude, and | ing,
see an occasional glimpse of
hing like admiration for me
ng in between the lines. 1 waa Pc
that I had lied to her, for 1 re- squar
d her very much and wanted her 600.
ect me. But you see l couldn't | to we
mySelf In this matter. We south
Twice week. Two feet il
later my business called me whole
ahattan. 1 wrote the young lady est pc
would be IN Manhattan on a GER From
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