The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-09-07

ing in the door of Beulan SANDS Of
fee I faced the fiat desk at which she
had sat the afternoon when l first saw
that hideous result of the work of the
System" | could almost see the lit
tie gray figure holding the afternoon
paper. In horror my eyes sought the
floor at the side of the chair in search
of Bob's agonized face and uplifted
hands. AS | stood for the first time
in the middle of Bob's handiwork,
seemed to hear again those awful
groans.
"Jim," Bob said 81 have a haunt
ing idea that some day Beulah will
wake and look around and think she
has been but a few minutes asleep.
If she should, she must have nothing
to disabuse her mind until we break
the news to her. | have instructed
her nurses, one or the other of whom
never loses sight of her night or day,
to win her to the habit of spending
her time at her old DESK l have told
them always to be prepared for her
awakening, and when it comes
they are instantly to shut off the rest
of the floor and house until l can get
to her. Here comes Beulah now"
Out of the nursery came laughing,
happy child-woman. In spite of her
finely developed, womanly figure,
which had lost nothing of its wonder
full beauty, and the exquisite face and
golden-brown hair and great blue eyes,
which were as fascinating as on the
day she first entered the offices of
Randolph & Randolph; in spite of the
close-fitting gray gown with dainty
turned-over lace collar, could hardly
bring myself to believe that she was
anything but young child. With an
eager look and happy laugh she
went to Bob and throwing her arms
about his neck, covered his face with
kisses.
Good Bob has come back to play
with Beulah,' she said. "she knew he
would. They told Beulah Bob had
gone away to the woods to gather
pretty flowers. Berlah knew If Bob
had gone TO the woods he would have
taken Beuiah with him. Now Bob
must play school with Beulah." She
sat at her desk and opened her child's
slhonl-buok With mock severity she
said, Bob, cat. What does it spell?''
Fer half an hour Bob sat and played
scholar and teacher by turns with all
the patience of a fond father. With
difficulty l kept back the tears the
sad sight brought to my eyes.
For the first year of Bob's marriage
We saw but little of him at the office.
The Exchange saw less. He had wan
dered in upon the floor two or three
times, but did no business and seemed
to take but little interest.
THE Street" knew Bob had mar.
ried the daughter of Judge Lee Sands,
the victim of Tom Remnants cold
blooded Seaboard Air Line DEAL 9th
erwise it knew nothing of the affair
His friends never met his wife. Oc-
casionally they would pass the Brown.
ley carriage on the avenue or in the
park and, taking it for granted that
the beautiful woman was Mrs. Brown.
ley, they thought Bob lucky fellow.
1t seemed quite natural that his wife
should choose seclusion after the aw-
full tragedy at her home in Virginia
But they could not understand why
with such cause for mourning, the
exquisite figure beside Bob in the
victoria should always be CARRIED in
gray After while it was whispered
that there was something wrong in
Bob's house lold. Then his friends
and acquaintance ceased to whisper
or to think of his affairs. With all
New York's bad points-and they are
as plentiful as her church spires and
charity bazaars-she has one Offset
ting virtue. If dweller in her midst
chooses to let New York alone, New
York is willing to reciprocate. In her
most crowded fashionable districts a
person may come and go for life.
time. and none in the block in which
he dweils will know when his coming
and going ceases. When New York
err reads in his newspaper of the man
who lives next door to him, murder.
ed and his body discovered by the gas
man" or the tax collector, the butcher
OF the baker, as the case may be, he
never thinks he may have been remiss
in his neigh6orly duties.
There is no such word as neigh
Dor" in the New York city dictionary
1t may have been there once, but
if so, it was long ago used as stake
for the barbed-wire fence of exclusive
keep-your-distance- nd-we-keep-our-dis
we-know-younes 1t is told
of a minister from the rural districts
an old-fashioned American, who came
to New York to take charge of par
ish that he started out to make calls
and was seized in the hall of what In
civilization would have been his next
door neighbor. He was rushed away
to Bellevue for examination as to his
sanity. The verdict was: Insane
Had no letter of introduction and was
not in the SET"
Shortly after the first anniversary
of his wedding Bob gave up his office
with Randolph & Randolph and open
ed one for himself He explained thai
he was giving up his commission bust
ness to devote all his time to personal
trading With the opening of his new
Office he again became the most active
man on the floor. His trading was
intermittent. For weeks he would not
be seen at the Exchange or on "the
Street" Then he would return and
after executing a series of brilliant
trades, which were invariably success
full, he would again disappear. He