Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1899-07-29
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,tt ~ a. t,Id iii r,cn yos thi,
a,,d ,,ool,,,, tLo,,,rh his voist measure
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li,, .u;,I.. ~ ,.,it ,r,s ~ rtt1r (iri-
! ,,, m, da,+,r ,,bo b,d inst driven
,,,a,. ~, IT. I,rn,,,,b,,n fornd him inter
ns,t% Observation-Disclosures of diseases
L,t dIl ,,o+ ros,nct hin, IIr was coming
ro,,,,Ii,. ~ tbn cr,L If his luvurious though
snr,n,yh,+ disordrrI, Iifc There was no
| ,iisnr,,,r IN H. ,,o,,, IIis collar sIcnt undis
t,rLnL .,,L tho,, ,,cn.ur,d his whisky
t,yicc - d,,, in a Graduated class and they
| ,,,,.,r NlIcJ rho tumbIrr moro than half
f,,1, hnca,,so his bnnd shook badly His
TWO Main niccrs I,rnt his bousr for him
and iyonId inherit if when he died They
| fn,,ud li,,, occasionally had tcrnDrrcd and
.I,,..,,., - ,i++1,,' ,cc,,,tric h,,+ nrt I'm with
IL bcc,usc bn was so III Whenever he
c,1ind n,,c IN. tbc name of thr other ar for.
cot botb names rs sometimes hnppcncd
nowadays thrv slinncd ont of the room.
oigpIcd in tbcir hondkcrchicfs in the mas
sorc and came hack with their faces com
rnsrd
This afternoon nfter the doctor had ponc
bc sat contrntrdIv smiling inf the fire He
nrnl11lilitV
would NOT last m,,cb LONGER and on the
whole he was heartily clad of il. Suicide
would he scundnlous-hc did not dream of
it-hut death was welcome enough. Aft
or all. there was no more fun to be had.
He decided to set about his preparations
for leaving
He found Ethel In the drawing room.
! She was the older Of the two nicccs.
81 want Won to got nv llcvs for me, Ar
mes " l,..qid bring them to the study. :"
She vanished to got the KEYS and TO
LAUGH because she had been called Agnes
by mistake. When she got back to tho
studv he had dranpcd ont an old deed box
which stood in one corner of tho room and
nlaccd If beside his chair in front of the
fire. "I-nlock il, he said.
(which kew" she asked.
"Don't know"
She tried several. unlocked :t and was
nbout TO raise the lid
"Icayo 1t aloncV" he snapped out
"You can 20. Don't interrupt me for u
eo1ple of hours. l shall be busy
Whom she had gone he oncncd tho box
and bcgan on the letters first. The box
bclorond to his Romeo ncriod. which had
hccn excessive and varicgatcd. The old
wreck had been handsome once. Some of
The letters he read How all these wo-
men had ndorcd him-for n time, or half
a timcr Tbcv wcrc unoucstionnhly letters
which he did not intend to leave behind
him for the ucrusal of the rirls Soon tho
big fireplace was mass of charred paper.
He observed making the cxncrimrnt for
the first time in his life, that a woman's
satin shoe does not burn well, Hair, on the
other hand. burns cyccllcntlv. The black
hoir he Remembered distinctly, That
was Doro's Emilv's had hccn dark hut
not so dark as that. Dora was associated
in his mind with thc river Thames. He
rccorniZCd that the lump of dccavcd ycrc-
tntion round which the long trcss was
wound Ind been riverside forgetmcnots.
Yes, he had loved her with q great part
of his heart for nearly six weeks. The red
hair. frankly red. WAS Kittv's. What
wonderful skins he thourht to himself.
these red haired women hadl He looked
auxiouslv in the box TO see if there were
any more letters of kitty's left by chance
Thcv wore letters which moro than the
rest, needed the ordeal of fire. What IA fool
her husband was and what IA pity it was
that she drank Bah, the whole thing
disgustcd him. Every souvenir was full
of poison, and the remainder of the con.
tents of the deed box were pitched on the
fire in handfuls without further cyamiua-
ton. When all the rest was burned, a lit.
tie cnyclopc. which had nuttcrcd away on
the floor hv itself, attracted his attention.
He pickcd II I'M. In it WAS n curl of alb.
solutcly golden hair. Now whose, he
Thought TO himself could that have been;
At this moment Ethel oncncd the door
and said brightly. GIVE brought YOU your
hecf tca uuclr ;;
"Git omit" said unclc
When she had vanished. he resumed his
cx,Iniration of that fascinating golden
curl Itv2. NOT Nnrinu's. She had LIGHT
hair. but hers was strniohtcr and not such
n deem gold Besides he had burned Mar
ian's hair already with the letter which
had nccomnonicd il when she sent if tC
him Could If have been nnybody that he
met nbrondy He had travelled n GOOD dca,
when he rot tired of English women, but
Mt thnt ncriod he remembered, he had
found il impossiblc TO fall in love eyccp,
with fine mystic tyne with dark hair anc
owes IT. was n nrrttv curl The hair wa,
likr sum silk and nnliI,r tho other sou
vrrirs that he had DESTROYED if did net
awaken i'm him tb, least frriin0 If dispust
, If ruust hovr h,rn some rare idyl nossibl,
tho one niece Of roctrv in II life which haG
noon grossly m,trriniistic
In sncnt , GOOD dr,I of timc in III,
coIrrsr Of thc next few weeks in mcditat
in,, over THAT curl of ,,oIdrn hair and h,
ir,,,,innd thin,,, ,bnut II Trn minnie.
I,trr no wnrId forgrt ,chcthcr no had inn
-, !, 1890. ~ ~ III.