The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-28

I pdneu windows elone brilliant light
which illumined every nook and corner
Of the apartment "A Valley City physi-
Clan was bending over the young school
I teacher.
"Where IS the hre7' asked Maguire.
Then the occurrences OF the night
crowded back upon him. He looked out
toward the meadow. He saw shaft q
fame quNering into The air for a hundred
/ feet Ii sprang above the top ~ the burn
ing derrick The structure toppled and
fell blazing 10 the ground. lt lay there
T kissing and writhing.
Around the burning well sWauncd Val
1 lex Citys volunteer fire company.
stream of water had heen turned upon
the flaming iet The driller and his mates
We're trying To- persuade the fremen that
I their work would pc Of 20 avail
Fools Foo,s" matterfd Gracious Ma
I guire, ''They might as well try % stop
the progress of man who has never
said fall
He turned painfuiiy m his bed. II that
T shaft Of fire he saw Jun red building,
surrounded by a diiapidated fence Tie
beheid the faces Of Tie idiots and the cpl
4 leptics with whom be had spent his child
hood. They faded away and his gaze fen
upon a ragged boy bending over rows OF
1 young corn. He saw the face Of "a white
haired man whose smile WAS gentle and
whose look was kindly and benign then
a youth sleeping beneath the counter OF
/ a dfN goods store Nhe print-idue "a
shelves disappeared He beheld congre-
CATION coming from a little white church.
I There We're grave faced women IN al
paca gowns and men in suits Of shiny
broadclOth.
Hes not family sou know" they
seemed to be saying. Then there ap-
peared a pretty girl a Marguerite with
hymnal and golden braids, She smiled AZ
him and passed on.
Mcguire leaned Ids head upon bis hands
and looked nxedly a. the darting JET
] which 10 him meant riches. prosperity
and power The sullen roar of the gas
/ was to him the sweetest minstreisy.
Then there came 20 him an overwhcim-
Ing sense Of guilt he saw before him
: the image of man whom he had
wronged
"a have reached the goal he said, "but
Z al what a cost All these years / have
worked that might ask her 70 b. the
wife Of man who had obscurcd mean
origin by success. To-day ] am a leper IN
her sight and FL the sight Of Godi
lie remembered now that while be had
i0iied and planned she had grown further
away from him He seemed to hear
again the words which Ellen Spencer had
/ spOken "a him months ago. They were
standing beneath the old elm a the loot
OF Hunter street
I you are amulMuur eHt was sag tih-
There are times when I hear that you
forget that there Is no true success gained
at the sacrifice Of the highest ideals.
In The light OF those words am his rea-
I snning became bare sOphlstry What II
hc had agreed 10 give Peter Frobisher the
fun value of his land and oi the deserted
homer by whose plot had the farm be-
come fallow ground and the new house
anaulatag IL WAS true that FroniSher
would have laughed al him II be had told
I him that the farm might become au Ohio
[ Golconda Even the state gcoiogisf bad
I sneerfd and told him that the stratiiica-
tion of Mneo couniys rocks made his
belief utter foolishncss.
Whether the rock strata would permit u
or not. Gracchus Mcguire had staked
everything On his belief Every cent he
had in the world every cent be could bor-
row. had been sunk in hole IN the earth.
I n am further from real success said
I Gracious Mcguire "ihan the end 81 that
tubc in the ground Is from the pure air
and the sunshine.
on the edge of The group gathered about
che well Do saw a clrriage. Two women
walked around the winding path toward
the front OF the house. He recognized
Ellen Spencer and BIER mother
Gracious Maguire leaned forward and
took a letter pad from the table. With
hlndaEed fingers Doe painfully wrote. u
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