Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-05-23

| thing, now at that. tils lie is a mar. |
vel TO me. and Dora is never tired |
of listening to him when he tells of
his life. He Is rich man now with |
his word as good as his bond. my |
girl is proud of her father, as well |
she may be.
"As to his brother he has not for. |
gotten him, but he lost trace Of him;
he leads a busy life with little time
for hunting anybody's brother. Long |
ago. when he began 10 succeed. he |
wrote to his brother Offering to help
him along II he cared to join him but
the letter was returned unopened. His
brother could neither read nor write
and had no correspondence. or else
was dead
las to Dora, she has had all the
teachers and masters necessary to an
excellent education; she Is an ex-
quisite musician; her touch on the
piano is like magic, and her voice is
soft and sweet, but she does not sing
now. Her singing used to be her
fathers delight"
A shadow fell over the face of the
nurse, ard she was silent for a mo-
ment. looking into the fire with a far
away express sion on her face
The bedroom door .apenes noiseless-
lyl, and she turned calmly in answer
to DR.. Dunwiddie's summons, every
trace of emotion gone. She left the
room for few minutes, and when she
returned her voice and manner were
quiet, as usual.
Dora draws and paints very WE'LL"
she said, resuming her seat and her
story; "she teaches several children
from the mission school None other
time is idled; she has her fathers am
bilious spirit, and her life is full OF
work in spite of the fact that this dis
ease is slowly eating her life away.
Each one of the children loves her;
she sometimes tells me, laughing, that
she has so many blessings she cannot
count them. To hear her talk one
would never imagine the nights l have
held her up in my arms that she might
breathe while she ccsnghed her beau
| tiful life away"
! Dolores leaned\forward; With lumin
GUS eye; for the time she forgot hei
father, and the dread awaiting for the
men to come to prove the malice pre-
| pense in the tanning OF the mare. The
world of which the woman told was
outside of her world; 1t was the world
of her dreams.
Silence reigned in the room for a
few minutes; the nurse arose and
drew the little half curtains across
the windows. When all was arranged
for the night, even to preparing a bed
in the corner on the settee Mrs. Allen
drew her chair up to the fire again,
and resumed her story.
Dolores face was troubled-her
thoughts had returned to her father, to
young Green and his efforts to save
her father somehow mixed with his
words lately uttered, of love and its
sadr ess; and Of the trial that was to
come off as soon as her father was
able to go to prove She started
at sound of the rurses voice and grew
white to the lips This did not escape
the watchful eyes of the nurse. There
was little that did escape her watch
full eyss.
"Dora's father did not know whether
or not his brother was living" she
went on. "That the letter had been
returned uncaled for, went to prove
that he might be dead; but he knew
that his brother had no friends out
side of the settlement and was not in
the habit of receiving letters. That
he could reither read nor write still
left II possible that he was living, and
when Dora made known her wish to
come here. TO gee her fathers old
home, arrangements were made at
orce We arrived in the town over
ne mountain yesterday. They are
topping at Judge Green's for the
resent and Dora sent me here al
nee when Mr. Charlie wrote for help
she said it was one of Gods provi
lences; that he had arranged things
or us and were only to obey"
The interest died out Of Dolores
eyes. She krew nothing about God OF
his providences; she had never hearC
either except as wan erinf
preacher stopped at the settlement OIL
his way through the moutains, ant
was jeered at by the men and listened
to by only a handful of women.
The nurse leaned back so that he
face was in shadow, but so that thu
girls face was full in her sight.
Dora had been in the town but I
day, yet size had found out great dea
that she wished to know. Every on,
in the town has heard of your father
OF You no one knew much excepting
Mr.. Charlie. He told my girl owe
and over what he knew about you