The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-12-08

bhnp p~OhttcBf-wOuId consider herself uCky
and lave too much sense TO try and make q
mess Of a good bargain" .
"Bravai" says Crawford. There's the
kind OF woman ] should have married,
instead Of this terrible creature who makes
my life a torture. Have you no eyes 70 zoe
that Rosebud's glass is empty, my deRr9"
he says to Betty.
MY own foolish husband and my dearest
friend. Miss Jane, are against me- says
Betty. when she'd rung for something to
M our glasses. But you. Rosebud, agree
with me that women shOuld vote"
Sure, I was in a worse fK than that Paris
I was telling you Of. It is no harm o agree
TO any opinion. would have agreed with
both the ladies' IL I could. But thore / was
between the two women l care most to
please. and bound 10 displeese one. 1
could have said a word or two 20 Crawford
for enjoying the trouble he'd raised. But
what l wanted TO say to him 1 had to keep
till the ladies' left the dining room.
Don't your" says Betty again, and out
Of the corner of my eye | saw Miss Jane
looking do your
I'm reminded OF a story" Isays, sparring
for win and praying that the bell would
ring before l had to take the count.
Your father and l." I says, meaning
Betty's father, Of course. were going by
horseback over the mountains into Nevada
and We passed through a country the Lord
forgot when he was decorating the land.
You'd wonder why any man would go
there who could stop short or go further.
But once there had been a lively mining
camp right in the worst OF il.
sFrhnro ,aaa nnna khAn Tho Dnnraaf and
the LATEST had long ago deserted. for the
lodges tina carried the gold were what are
known az pockets. And the pockets were as
hard TO find as I've heard tell a wOman's
il. and az like 10 be without gold when you
found them.
WI were ~discoursing ON these things.
being fresh from New York then and
unused to them. and wondering how many
more times our pack animal could fall down
without breaking his good for nothing neck
when we hsard a shout
Even II u coyote had hoWlsd he would
have wondered what he was doing in such
a place. Bat a mani Then we looked at
each other well frightened. for We heard
n woman shout too. Twas a bit what you
might call hysterical and We were fair
amazed.
We'll. We soon made them out: q wild
man and a wild woman shouting TO lis.
laughing and beckoning TO Tie. where they
stood on a ledge a fair climb above our
trail.
Your father. my dear. was a man who
would go whore any man would 20 to relieve
trouble Or look for il. climbed after
him, AMI We came to those people nOne too
soon. The wOIua was clean collapsed
the man little more than a chattsring
madman. lie was only half dressed. The
roman wore u thing patched up Of -four
and potato sacks.
-'rwOuId distress you to know how
hungry. how wretched the creatures were.
yet tho man WAS laughing and trying to tell
us about his luck. and when the woman
spoke again il was with u laugh.
cit IL God and vim these poor creatures
need say your father. and soon we had
the stun on that pack animal and spread
out by a rock fireplace in front Of a bark
shanty. My. my. il did us good 10 SEQ
that woman quiet down and become
wOmanly again a. she took charge Of the
good things to sat. beans. bacon, coffee.
sugar, canned tongue and u bottle OF wine.
Your father would always nave It.
As We ate. and after when he man
had lone glOating over a two weeks old
Fresno paper and the woman had covered
her rags with one of our blankets. We got
their story. III give it "a YOU in a tablet.
the whole Of 1t would make a boos for
Miss Jane to write.
-He was a college professor chap in 4
place called Berkeley. A gentleman. If
you please. and she a lady. One day "a
doctor has to tell him to get ont and live
in the open air u couple Of years and he'd
live to he a good old man. Stop where he
was ami ned die in a year.
They had nothing. but IL was she who
said they would be tramps in the mountains
till he was well. They had been where W.
found them near a year. They come III on
those deserted mines and some old tools,
and he worked away. for the strength had
back to hiU. Now and then he'd
ind a little gold, and with that he'd tramp
twenty miles 70 a camp for supplies.
Blu for months before We met them he
found no gold. They lived-qs the Digaer
live. As TO food. os 70 clothes. as
to comforts OF any kind. az "a n~eighhors
they we're as hear q state oG nature "a YOU
might call il, a. any white people have ever
been. 1 hone so. anyway.
That very morning the man had struck
a pocket. We saw il. The gold was there
like fat on a stall fed steer. II looked
strange-with them hungry. ragged. utterly
helpless.
Your father m ! went back there in n
week with a couple OF pack animals for
them and the hest We could do at a mining
camp store in the way Of food and clothes.
You should have seen that good woman
when she came our of the shanty dressed in
the stuff va brought her. I've seen these
here Transformation genes in the theatre.
They were nothing to hers.
THAT night there was a big moon lighting
the dismal country ss kind md Friendly
like as il il had been the garden OF a kings
palace. We walked away a bit from where
the man had his head buried in the paper
we brought and the woman was tinkerinR
with some clothes.
But she came to us where we were stand
ing quietly there. looking down on the