The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1899-07-07

wv" Wv Nhihhn hho VIII H'N w WIN
at once"
Time enough for that when she ia
well enough TO SEQ Mira. Hail." re-
turned the squattcr. Women like to
chat together over that sort OF busi-
nesa. always find"
There Is something very odd about
that young chap with his soft voice
and his shy manner" Mr. Hall thought
as he walked on to the shed. Ills
wife sunons from bad eyes. too. yet
she can do nccdlework-has a nervous
complaint, and evidently is not anx-
lous to be invaded wonder what
Pshaw-its only my fancy. suppose"
A few weeks passed by. and shear
Ing was thing Of tho past. The sta
ton hands had settled down into their
ordinary routine Of work. and the ex-
ira men who had been employed dur
Ing the busy season had passed on to
md similar Jobs elsewhere
ut il very strange" remarked Mr..
Hall one day to his wife. that one
never sees Mrs. Baynes. What can
really be the matter with herr lie
tells me that her oye-sight In 40 bad
that she cannot bear the light"
THAT Ia odd" replied his wife. FOR.
II her eyesight Ia 90 bad. how in the
world does she manage TO hem these
handkerohiefs 30 beautifully l never
saw better work In my life"
well. that Ia curlousl" interposes
Jack Hall. And shutting herself up
too 30 peraistently In Bayncs hut
makes no end Of gossip on the station
A fellow asked me yesterday when I
was over at Bumberra whether II waa
true that we had a maniac shut up
here. II gossip OF that sort Ia the talk
OF a place fifty miles away we shall
soon be getting a fne name for our
selves here at Redmount."
"oh. a. for gossip. you'll ind that
everywherel" remarked his father.
And. after all. Tom haynes Ia the
smarteat cook I've had for many a day.
and n pleasant enough fellow. too. now
he's got over that shy sort Of manner
which he had when he first came up"
Perhaps he Ia jealous OF the other
mon. father" suggested Mary slyly.
"and does not like them to look at
her"
That's possible" replied Mr.. Hall.
81 remember a man on board ship once
who kept his wife locked up in her
cabin for three months. and carried all
her meals In 10 her himself"
/ what n brute" cried Mary. "Dc
you mean TO say he mover let her out
, 1t all?"
4 "only at nighttime in fine weather
a and then he marched her up and dowr
the deck for only an hour or two
, Even on these nocturnal occaaiona she
was 80 thickly yelled that nobody
. ssuld re-, a glimpse OF her features"
}, Perhaps she was 'pig-fared lady
q that he had married for her dollars, y
4 sald Jack: "or she might have commit.
!, ted some crime. and he was helping
, her 10 escape. A murder perhaps
4 Good gracious. Bayncs. how you made
|. me jump"
CHAPTER vi.
As Jack Hail was speaking. Tom
Baynes happened 10 be passing the
A open door with an armful OF plates
a and dishes. and these he suddenly is;
a fall with crash upon the ground.
. Dear me-" cried Mrs Hall, how
dreadfully careless OF you. Toni How
! arc We to replace them7 What could
you have been thinking aboutY"
4 81 am 30 very sorry. ma'am," he re-
. piled. IL must have slipped on some
Il thinE-I really don't know how" and
he leaned up against the veranda-post
looking as though but for that support
|, he would have fallen down.
a well, there-don't look so scared
\ mani" said Mr.. Hall good-naturedly
( "Plek up the pieces-why. the lad
a looks quite frightened. There are
!. worse accidents than that at sea-ay
;. and on shore. too. for the matter oil
/, that"
4 Baynes did as he was told. but he
had turned white to the very lips. Al
. he walked away with the broken
: crockery in his cooks apron. no TO
. peated 10 himself
, "Ay. and on shore. too. for the mat
, ter Of that"
After few months Mrs. Baynes' re-
. tirement ceased TO excite much curl
! oslty. She was an idiot, she was too
ugly TO face the daylight, she was any
thing that could possibly be suggested
, whenever her name was mentioned.
but Baynes was voted by oil hands TO
/, be an obllging fellow and capital
cook, so the men soon ceased to worr,
him about his wife.
One day Baynes asked permission "a
be allowed to repair and occupy an old
. hut which stood In bit OF neglected
garden upon the hillside some two
; hundred yards or more from tho mems
| quarters. Mr. Hall told him he might
, DO az he pleased, so. with the assist
! anco OF one OF the men, he took pos
session OF the place. and very soon
managed to make It snug and COM
! Portable.