The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-09-01

nice place, n 4 am enJoyin II ac-
cordingly. We are about a mile from
the village and the road is good and
Miss Laura and 1 drive over twice
a day. Miss Laura lets me drive sum .
times, but she's afrade lie get the
horse-his name is the Dook-out of
the stile of driving that women pre-
fur. And when | titen up on the lines
and the Dock strikes a lively clipp,
she says, steddy, Tommy: and then |
have to pull him in. But she is a nice
girl NOTWITHSTANDING. She had the pref
tiest brown hair, and such depe darke
eyes, and such a sweet way of speak
in. And they have a butiful home. It's
on a hill and you can see miles around
it. From my window | can catch site
OF the lake thru a gap in the hills.
It's a very nice lake tho not depe
enuff to drown me-and Lauras father
1t. They say he is pritty rich.
Mr.. Rumidge-he sells books inthe vii
lage and lets pou borrow them for
too sents a day-says Laura's father
Is a village Creeses. 1t tells about
Creeses somewher in a book and he
was the richest man in the state. bur
| think he is dead now. | CESS you
must have beard about him. He was
a HISTORICAL carackter. l wish you
were here Brother Jim. We'd have
CARTE times. Laura's most as good as
a boy for havin' fun. Thare | heer her
calm. The Dock is a a-champin' on
his bit and waitin' impashent at the
easel gate. That's the way Laura
talks. She most as good as a play
actor. Aunt Emmyline says Laura is
rcmantick. So / must close. Write
Just as soon as you hear from papa
and mamma. From your loving
brother.
James Thornton rising young at
tcrney, smiled over this epistle and
laid it away carefully in a pigeonhole
OF his desk, whence it would be taken
and inclosed with his next letter to
the absent parents across the sea.
There was a long gap between
brother Jim, aged twenty-seven, and
brother Tom, aged twelve, and this
gap had seemingly drawn them closer
together. To brother Jim. Tom had
never seemed the aggravated nuis-
ance that little brothers usually ap-
pear in the eyes of older brothers.
jim had looked with amused toler-
ance on Toms widest pranks and as
for Tom-well, there we're few heroes
Of childish romance that did not sug-
gest his clever Ing brother. And Tom
had been left in Jim's care while the
father and notoverstrong mother went
abroad for the latter's health. 1t was
a hot summer and Tom was conva,es-
cling with a severe case of measles,
and SO Jim thought It wise to pack
him off to a little village that nestled
in the woods of the upper Hudson.
where he was sure to receive the best
VI SaAS ~ NA1 AOAlC ia a ouDCIduDl-
ated ~bookkeeper of the firm OF which
James Thornton was the newly adj
mitted junior member. And it was
from Bookkeeper Barclays home
that Miss Laura Garman had fairy
kidnapped him. True, she wrote a
model letter to Jim, in which she re-
qCested the loan of his young kins-
man, but before his answer could be
received she had him installed al
Greycrag. and in a position to add his
petition to hers.
He was such a delightful boy, she
wrote and he would make the hours at
Greycrag seem so much less lonesome.
Saving for the presence of a maiden
aunt she was quite alone there, her
father and mother having gone to Cal
ifornia to take an invalid sister of the
latter. Besides she was sure the alti-
tude of Greycrag was quite certain to
hasten the return of Tommy's
strength. She hoped this was not TAX
ing a liberty, but she had never seen
a boy who charmed her quite as much
perhaps because he reminded her of
a little brother who had passed away
in his seventh e
What could Brother Jim do? He
wrote a qualified acceptance of this
letter of invitation. She must prompt
~ return Tom when she tired OF him.
She mustn't tolerate him If he proved
to be rude or manageable. And he
would ask is as a particlar favor II
she would at once communicate to
him any infraction OF conduct of
which Tom might be guilty. Being
so very much the youngest Of the
family" he wrote, in conclusion. Il
fear that we fail to realize how thor
oughly he is spoiled. No doubt you
will find this out very soon. The
moment you do. kindly return him
IN Mr. DarolaU 10 ba laft until oalIaH