The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-03-15
A Nentralized Calamity


the trouble was in the optic nerve and
she would eventually lose the sight Of
both eyes.
She had a lover. She could not at
once make up her mind to tell him
what had occurred. what must ineyita-
bly, separate them. He had gone to
the gold fields to seek his fortune.
Young, handsome, full of yigor he was
a perfect man. She, prior to her mis-
fortune, had been a perfect woman.
and as yet she stili appeared to be
physically perfect No one suspected
the slow impairment of her vision. and
so long as it was confined to one eye
she could see objects as distinctly as
before.
He wrote that he had bought claim
that was proving very valuable. With
in few months he would return to
the east for the purpose Of organizing
company to work the property.
A month passed.
He was sinking a shaft over vein
that was widening and growing richer
as it descended.
Another month passed.
He had been offered a fortune for his
claim, but still thought he would go
to the east for capital to develop his
mine himself. Then for time there
was cessation of letters, at the end of
which he wrote that he had been Ill,
but was recovering. There was a mel
ancholy tone to this letter that she at
tributed to his recent illness. She was
troubled and wrote him to tell her all
about himself, the cause of his illness,
il his mine had after all proved value
less. When he wrote again he made
no mention Of his disease, but said that
the mine was proving all that had been
expected.
After this there was long silence
that troubled her greatly. None of her
letters were answered. Then one day
came huge envelope in which was a
certificate for large number of shares
of stock in the Eureka Gold Mining
company made out in her name. She
flung the paper aside and seized let
ter contained in the same envelope.
She started as IL stung-not at what she
read, for as yet she had read nothing,
but at the discovery that her blindness
had extended to her other eye. Her de-
sire to hear from her lover induced her
to read the letter, before which there
was a blur. He announced in few
words that the prospected marriage
between them could not take place.
lie had transferred to her half his in
terest in his mining company. If she
declined to accept it her refusal would
break his heart.
Here was misfortune piled on mis-
fortune. That she had at her disposal
fortune did not in the slightest de-
gree palllate either of the Ills from
which she suffered. The certificate OF
stock lay unheeded The mystery in
the case she thought little of. She
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