The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1900-01-06

dixie with a COM Of gold seekers, a
year before. He left her with just
enough money to live on for a year,
expecting to be home by that time,
with fortune, of course. She would
have gotten along very we'll, although
she was in "a strange city, but she was
cheated out of most of her money .nnd
could find no work-indeed,3 by th;lt
time she was not:strongs enough to.
work if she had had any. to- 4do.s She
had no relatives to whom s,sIle could
apply and SO was living. on hope that
her husband would send her money or
return. sS5E:Sa.4 s5s 3s 4 .3.%est*.s.,
+ 1T had been so long since she sheard
from him that she feared he was q cad. &
I tried to cheer her by telling her how.
uncertain the mails were, how easy it
was for themsto getlost, and told her:
believed he@was on his way home.
+ Then begged her to borrow money
from me, enough to last her through
another month. and to keep up heart
until her husband came. It was the
greatest compliment I ever received
when she accepted, the money, tooI
me by the hand and said I was tr5syS,
honest man and a friend whose frie; a.
ship she considered it an hono:E3to
| have. I -.:, .- IS js
90 We'll, it was three weeks TO tAdsHay.
when she%Egot her letter She sa host
/ tainted when handed it to hep land
|: shut. the door quick. But When came
around. the next mail; she was waiting
sfor~nfe. with her face fairly bea1ning.
|t"He's On his way!' she said, joyfully,
and ll::isoon be here I nearly
|: Shouted for felt so glad, and I
watched every day to see if the poor
girls hopes had been realized. A
week later, when T blew my whistle
on the block she came to meet me
leaning on the esarm of a very fair
looking young fellow who looked like
he couldn't make enough over her. She
introduced him as her husband, and
my hand almost aches yet from that
|. young Klondiker's grip. He told me
that. he couldn't half thank me FOR my
Kindness to his wife, but he wanted
me to come up to the Avenue hotel
that night for dinner and let him try
of course by their going to the Ave-
nue. knew he had struck it rich, but
l. wasn't prepared to hear of the great
wealth he had brought home nor to
listen to the, wonderful tales of ad-
venture and hardship he had to relate
When I got up to go that night he
~ 'Millie tells me that She would
have died of starvation if it had not
been for you. never can pay you for
this, for Millie is worth more to me
than all the gold in the Klondike put
together. But I can pay you back the
money you lent her, and with that
he handed NE check for $1,000 Then
she grabbed up handful of gold
pieces from a bag she had and pressed
them into my hands.
And this is the interest," she said,
laughing, and crying together.s
1T didn't do any good for me to
protest; they just made me take it all.
I make a good living and have only
myself to look after, so I'm going to-
get my little woman a monument that
will make her smile, if she can look
down and see it,
He brushed some tears from his
eyes, jumped up and, saying abruptly:
Pm off, good-by," disappeared in
the building.
Queer fellow, that" grumbled the
reporter. II wanted to ask some
questions. But I've got a good story
out of him all the same"