The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1899-01-12

trees. Silence; and piercing sweet o
voice Of rescue in the dark distance, the
bugles sounded;
"Attentioni"
1t sent the blood TO the hearts Of all
who heard that midnight call, Darcie
thrilled, and was himself again in that
moment of strong excitement. Faith
broke down like a child. and wept. A
word at last had been spoken to which
even anarchy, red-handed, paused 10
listen. That brief order would carry
through the night;,it would fly from
camp to camp through the mountain
gorgcs. aud every man who caught but
the echo of that word would under
stand. Those who will not heed the
voice of law. or soften TO the stiller
voice Of kindness, must pause at last
when the bugle sounds:
attention."
There was no "weddin' in Spokane"
as Mike had generously predicted: but
there was a doctor in Spokane. which
was more to the immediate purpose.
The wedding was some months later.
when the war was over, and the trials
were over. and the technicalities Of the
law had done much to retract the ring.
ing lesson which the clear-voiced
bugles taught. The mines had resumed;
Mr.. Frederick bingham had resigned"
and was investigating the Keeley cure;
and Darcie Hamilton was sent over ms
manager of the Big Horn. This time he
did stop in New York long enough to
protect his claim TO the virgin lode he
had located. under trying circum-
stances, the previous summer in the
Occur d'Alene. (The name of il was not
the Black Dwarf) But the complca.
tious between that early, rash location
and the subsequent patent under law
would make another story, with a very
different scene-setting. The family
discussions. in Durcie's opinion. were
far worse than any miners war. lie
never knew on which side his best
friend would turn up. His mother.
for instance, was innexiby against
him, while his father, the most positive
of men, was inclined especially after
SNtlhR dlNn iOON hklbh
the young mans adventures in the
Coeur d'Alene as very much what
might have been expected, so why make
n row about thing that was a mistake
all around? Darcie by no means con-
sidered that any of it was mistake;
| but IL his father chose to call IL so. and
| to give his consent ~ his wishes on that
understanding he was willing to yield
the point, in name. Bat Faith declined
! to go to England, into n family that
| gave her SO cold welcome. Therefore
Darcie, came to America as manager of
| the Big Horn, and the intrepid young
| pair went westward on their conquer
ing way. and left age and opposition be-
| hind them. And IL they have disap-
pointed each others high expectations
of happiness, the fact has not rs yet
transpired to the knowledge of their
relatives.
| Faith celebrates in her letters the
wonderful wild flowers of the Occur
| d'Alene. the grandeur of its mountains.
the softness of its sudden spring. Other
| persons maintain that the spring has
been very late in the Occur d'Alene this
year. Her aunts wonder II the climate
has changed. Something has changed
the girl has found her heart of youth
again, and with it the courage to be
| glad. The premature, crushing ex'
periences of the year before, its shocks
and shameful surprises, have taken
their due place in relation to larger
experiences and more vital discoveries
She has parted with one sacred illusion
but she is fortified against that irrep
arabic loss by deeper knowledge ol
life and its inevitable shortcomings
Greater Joy than hers no woman. she
believes, has ever known. She cannot
look to have all the joys, and all the
strengths, of a woman's perilous life oi
the affections.
Her mother she lost before she ever
knew her. A father she never had; b,
died the spiritual death before his chile
was born. The body of Frederick Bing
ham still walks the earth. but his sou
will never becured by the Keeley or any
other mundane cure; it expired too
long ago. When the will is dead, the
man is dead. His children can only
mourn him, and pay what respect the,
may to the dreary remains.
Darcie has his enemies in the Coen
dAlene. but he has also his stancl
friends. Mike is foreman of the 3i,
Horn in place of Peter Banning, de
posed; and Kitty Tyler, now Kitty Nc
Gowan, makes the surly Big Horl
kitchen a realm Of perpetual sunshine
She is spelling her young mistress TO
whosoever her successor may be wheI
she and Mike go to housekeeping in thu
fall.
THE END.