The Lehi banner. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1891-1917, 1899-01-07


81 stand awhile longer. Well, when the
MORTGAGE was due sold the COW and took
como Of Che money you left me TO live on
and paid the six months back Interest.
Now he says as the mortgage IL due he
must have his money and VIII foreclose ]
tried all the companies and banks to Dor.
row tho money 10 pay him, but they all
say that 5000 is too big a loan on the place.
they won't loan over $3.50. and he won't
take "a second mortgage to secure the
other $500. Yet " does seem hard, when the
place ought to DO worth three times 1850.
I've tried every way TO sell It, but can't
get no one 10 give anything above the
mortgage. Everybody knows II Is mort
gagged and are waiting 10 buy II at sheriff's
sale. Rhoadcs knows this, too. and now
he says II viii save US lots OF trouble and
costs II we will give him quitclaim deed
and surrender pcaccable possession I
bcggcd him to walt awhile, but after he had
learned you had gone out TO the mines nc
said he would not wait a day; that yea
wert on "a wild goose chase, and, dear hus-
band. he even in.lmatcd that he believed
YOU were never coming back to us. That
made mo angry and may have said things
10 him that ] should not, but could not
help II. Now. dear husband. cannot
stay here after having sold the COW. there
Is nothing to do here, you know, except
washing and ironing and house cleaning.
and ] am not strong enough for that. Mrs.
NlfuUONs VIII take BESSIE ana let nfr nClU
Wlth the housCwofk and go TO school, and
| Will sen the chickens, pigs and furniture
aud take little Charlie and go TO Cleveland
to try to get sewing or something. II will
be. oh. so hard, but It cannot be helped
Now. dear husband, do not worry. we VIII
get along some way. Remember the words
Of the prophet; once ! was young, but
now I am old, but never have seen the
righteous forsakcn or their seed begging
bread. Now. dear husband. take care OF
your health, ana II you do not find anything
out thcre soon, come back to US. we miss
you, oh, 80 much. Every night Bessie
praya Tor her papa. way out in The Mines
ana that be may find something rich. You
may DC sure that ! echo her prayers. Write
as soon as you get this, dear husband, for
1 cannot stay here long.
Your loving wife.
MAGGIE"
Thls letter was passed around; two
or three started 10 read 81 aloud, but
they broke down. and It was silently
passed from one TO another. II was
well for Mr.. Rhoades that he was not
In camp.
He told me all about it," said Sam.
They was five acres in the home place
that he got from his fathers estate
close to town, an he bought five more
joinin', moftgagin the ten to make up
the balance OF the money. He'd a.made
il all fight, but times got hard, an first
one, then another OF them got sick an
he had to keep on a-mortgngin'. He
see he could never pay out, so he come
out here TO see il he couldn't strike
IL, lcayin' nearly all the money they
had with his wife. an this cuss Rhoadcs
sayn' that he'd let the mortgage stan
anuthcr year, now-dern him. See that
stain thcrc2 That's from bunch OF
apple blossoms that was I'm the letter.;
he lowed they must a-been from the
yellow harvest trees back of the gar
den. poor cuss. Take kcer of yer
health, dear husban',' an him a-layin'
Hat ON his back up there in his tent,
without money enough for Il months
grub. Come back soon 10 us'--hum-m.
Look here, pardners, let's answer Bees
sizes prayer, an show this Teller
lihoades whether minip' is chasin' wild
geese ur not. Mebbc Sans dern fool,
an | know he amt got much money
but he can rustic. I'll go purity nigh my
pile on it--there's so; who's all in on
it?" and he slammed two POS and 10
on the bar. 1t was just like Sam, and
whoever heard an appeal like that go un
answered in mining camp? There
were 30 men In the room, and every
man saw Sans ante, and those that
did not have that amount borrowed II
from their friends. In n few moments
$3.50 in gold lay piled ON the bar
SANS eyes glistened as he counted tn,
money "Eyerybody's In on the game,
he said; won't he be paralyzed? Now
PARTNERS, every one of you come down
and see what he has to say"
mo nonsense, Sam; you take II down
an tell us what he says tomorrow"
mo, I'll be derned II | do. Some o
you fellers got to come along. i ain
a-goin' to play this hand alone any
longer" so three or four of us wen
with him. Well, there Is no use going
into details. What would you or any
other man say under the circum
stances? Finally he wanted to give III
note or send a mortgage back as Sc
curity, but we laughed at him, and al
of us crawled into our blankets TIM
night conscious of having done some
thing that might balance something
else on the debit side of the recording
angels ledger. lie was too i'll to trave
alone, and at last, after repeated urg
ings, Sam was induced 10 nccompan,
him.
"You can bet your life" said Sam
that III give Mr.. Rhoades the camp
respec's."
Not long after that my partner an,
l left the gulch and drifted into Cripple
Creek. One day when court was il
session we dropped in to see how a cour
organized under the code operated.
"Weil, III be d." muttered my part
ner as he pointedto the prisoners dock
There were two men in IL, Pyrites San
and the tenderfoot The air seemed I,
grow suddenly close in the courtroom
and we went out.
At noon we went down TO the Jail
and were allowed TO see the prisoners,
"Ilello. sam; how's Rhoadcs2"
"lIcllo, hello; how's the boys down a
Tough Nut?" and Sam and his part
ncr grinnCd.
Look here, sam, you done the cam
up i'm good shape, and you know WI
won't squeal, but tell as aboutit"
"Sure; but then they amt nothn' I,
tell; this is my pardner, an there wa
no fever, no Rhoades, no Maggie, NJ
Bessie, no Charlie, no mortgage, NJ
farm, no COW. uo--no apple blossoms, NJ
nothin', but jest me an him"
AN 80 FOOLS said my partner, as "
went out He made Il brief mental cal
| culation then said: "Sam was Their
/ three months an his Dar,dncr one an