Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1907-04-27

"Well," cried Cyras, who looked upon
the whole matter as an excellent joke !;
don't you know me asain!'
You must be twins ~ exclaimed the
perplexed man.
Not at ALL" said Cyras. I'VE are
brothers, but not twins. I'm two years
older than Mr.. Charles Baumgarten.'
"Sir," said the jeweler, turning to
Charles, "allow me to ask why you did
not explain to me that you had brother
who bore to you so remarkable a like
ness? 1t might have solved the mystery
Because | never thought of him at all
in the matter; l did not know he was in
England. OF course, Mr.. White, you now
exonerate me-"
'As if every one did not" exclaimed
Cyras 1.-THE trouble, Mr.. White, has
arisen from my careless habits. We col
onists are proverbially careless, you know
Making no memorandum of the date, l did
not know the bill was due. l have been
spending most of the interval in Paris,
where time flies, one forgets how quickly.
1t will be all right now, and your bill
will get paid without your troubling to
protest it."
They next called upon the holders of
the bill, the Messrs. Jephson, who in their
turn were equally surprised; the elder
cynically remarking they might have had
the wit to know that Cyras was at the
bottom of the mischief. And then they
went back to Pump Court, when Charles
had ordered a substantial supper for
Cyras' benefit.
Then Cyras grew confidential. He spoke
of certain fair daughter of Mr.. Jansen,
the second partner of the New Zealand
house. She and Cyras were privately
engaged and he declared that if he could
only win her he should throw carelessness
to the winds and become as steady as Old
Time.
''Her mother well born English wom-
an, favors it," observed Cyras. "She
thinks there must be any amount of lat
ent good in deans son. Mr.. Jansen OPP
poses it; not that he objects to me per-
sonally, but on the score of my want of
prospects. He told me point-blank that
he would give her to me were 1 able to
become a partner in the firm"
1.-THE difficulty is money, 1 suppose,
Cyras?"
Just so. Four thousand pounds. They
would give me a small share in it for
that sum-"
And you have not got it?"
Il have never saved anything"
And what of the young lady herself?"
II only wish it rested with her ~ an
swered Cyras. "She would soon be mine.
All, Charley, if 1 could only encompass
that partnership, it would steady me for
life. If l have to part from her-well,
1 don't think l should care what went
with me, or what the end was-perhaps
ruin"
Charles was silent. He remembered
how passionately he and Cyras had loved
each other as boys, although Cyras did
put upon him and tyrannize over him (;
and he asked himself whether he should
give up his own marriage for time, and
save his brother. He had about two thou
sand pounds put by; part of it he had
saved by degrees, part had come to him
by recent legacy. If he gave that to
Cyras, his own marriage must be delayed,
but he knew Mary would wait for him.
1t would be a grievous disappointment to
both of them, but should disappointment
be placed in comparison with his friend
less brothers welfare-hs welfare in this
world, and, it might be, in that to comet
The other two thousand would no doubt
be managed among them-possibly by
Lord Avon.
"You have not told me her name,
Cyras."
Anna. Anna Jansen. To me the pref
test name in the world. All, Charley,
if you only knew her"
TO be continued.)