The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1900-11-03

Don't mind anything these Injins
say, they don't know. They may
some day il they have your luck and
mine, but they're in outer darkness
just now. What train are you going
out on?"
Blenkinsop told him and then
turned to receive the congratulations
of the other two, who seemed to have
changed their minds il they had any
intention of being ocular.
About two o'clock the next morning
the sleeping car porter reused Blen-
kinsop from sound sleep to give him
a telegram marked Important" As
soon as the young man realized what
the porter wanted a sudden fear shot
to his heart and he tore open the yell
low envelope with a trembling hand.
But the message was dated from Chi
cago, not from Denver, and he pro-
ceeded to read it with feeling of re-
lief. 1t was signed THE Gang" and
assured Blenkinsop of the gangs pro.
found sympathy.
81 suppose they mean it well,' said
Blenkinsop, "but 1 wish / had them
here, all the same"
He lay down, and in the course OF
an hour managed to get to sleep
again. At five o'clock the porter
awoke him with another telegram.
This one exhorted him to cheer up
and bear the ceremony like man.
At breakfast third message was
brought to him. 1t reminded him that
he would be expected to wear white
shirt at the wedding. At intervals OF
an hour or two throughout the day
kilograms kept arriving and all the
other passengers looked at Blenkinsop
with awe, believing him to be the
president of trust or somebody OF
almost equal Importance.
But all this was none of Waubeek's
work. He was content to leave such
trivialities to Todd and Sperry. The
schemes of revenge that he was pom
dering over were dark and deadly, yet
they were all abandoned in favor OF
one that chance suggested.
Blenkinsop brought his bride back
with him to the boarding house and
Todd and Sperry forthwith became
her devoted slaves, but they could not
forgive Blenkinsop for his Indifference
to their gibes and his careless refer
ence to their kilograms.
1t was Todd who first introduced
Clara as an element of discord. One
day he said to Sperry in whisper
that Mrs. Blenkinsop plainly heard:
81 wonder what Clara will say when
she hears that Dick is married."
It was evident that Mrs. Blenkin-
sop was agitated and Sperry coughed
as if to call attention to the fact that
she was close to them and said some
thing aloud The next day there was
another mysterious allusion to Dick
and Clara and the day after that some
more. Mrs. Blenkinsop could stand it
no longer.
'Who is Clara, Dick?" she asked.
"Clara? Clara, who?" said her hus.
band. innocently.
didn't you know a girl named Clara
once?'
II don't know, I'm cure. might
have known five or SIX"
mo, but Dick, don't laugh, because
I'm in earnest. Wasn't there one Clara
that you thought great deal of-be-
fore you met me? I've heard Mr.. To6d
and Mr.. Sperry talk about her. Tell
me about it, Dick; won't mind
much"
"I'll break their blamed necks," said
Blenkinsop, savagely. Don't you
know, my precious. that neither of
those fellows could speak the truth if
they tried? They're just trying to fool
you, that's all. No. there never was
anyone but my
That explanation served for time,
but Sperry and Todd persevered, and
were delighted when Blenkinsop took
them aside one evening and gave them
large-sized piece of his plain, unvar-
nished mind. They gleefully told Wau-
beck about it and Waubeek wrote
"Clara" in his memorandum book. A
few days later Mrs. Blenkinsop Gale d
| for her husband at the Office. and there
met Mr.. Waubeek for the first time.
She was predisposed in his favor, for
Dick had told her that Waubeek had
only recently been married himself.
at has steadied him Gown. too" he
added. "Waubeek isn't like those 9TH
er two lunatics, and when he says any
thing you can generally bank on it,
I'm very glad, indeed, to meet you,r
said the bride, with bewitching smile.
"Dick has told me so much about you
that feel as if / knew you quite well
already"
Dick grinned in an embarrassed way.
but Waubeek laughed pleasantly and
seemed to believe it.
"If Dick has talked to you about me