The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1907-01-12

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banged open and my chum. Bill Morse.
flung himself into the room, slammed
his vallse on the floor. threw his hat on
the bed and, cursing himself MS the
greatest fool alive. dropped Into
chair.
For two weeks had been envying
that fellow. Engaged to pretty girl.
who had not made the common mis-
take OF being born OF poor parents. he
had gone to pass whole months va
cation In the same Connecticut village
where his sweetheart and her mother
were staying.
was too surprised TO do more than
stare at Bill In astonishment
This morning" said he. alice and
some OF her girl friends started up the
mountain for hen picnic Mount
Riga, the people In Salisbury call It.
wish II was big hole In the ground.
About 10 decided to take walk and
accidentally meet them. took
roundabout way, because there was
sure TO be more or less glggling when
4 Iluut lily NiicaAtit's Ht t%%~~e~t @tf'
nicely II was managed" ;
Here Bill helped himself to my first
best pipe and heaped few more bless
ings on his head.
.well,p said he after few strong
pulls at the pipe. II soon reached
cursed little hill which sat up against
the mountain like a pimple beside
mammoth wart. and perched on the
side OF the measly bunch Of dirt was
an enormous rock-left there by gla-
cier, I suppose. The day It was drop
ped there was cold, but the day Bill
Morse found II was still colder. Climb
Ing UP TO the lower side and leaning
back against IL, took look around.
Just then some one set Off n blast or
they began cannonading or Mole st.
Nicholas. Anyway the Jar seemed 10
shake the hill, and that stone moved. !
braced myself against II instinctively.
The motion stopped. and then came
one OF those flashes OF intelligence for
which am famous. as you know. old
man.
You have seen schoolteacher take
his class into the yard and demon
strate that one boy can keep a ladder
upright by looking out for the center
OF gravity. etc, and that 1t takes them
all 10 stop It's falling when you let II
tip. oh. / knew all about itl Bill
Morse knew. IL let that stone get
started, It would crush me, for II was
so broad / could not spring out OF the
way. I bored one shoulder into the
double dyed thing and finally twisted
round so as to face it, worked my way
to the edge, the cold sweat standing
out all over me, and jumped clear
Things were dark for a moment, but
soon Strengthened out and looked to see
where the rock had fallen. II hadn't
budged"
was going to ask BIZ II he was an
CRY. but he had jumped up and was
kicking his vallse around the room.
and thought It was unnecessary.
"Bob," he cried between the kicks,
words are poor things. agree with
the man who said language was In
tended to conceal your real thoughts"
After few more kicks and fresh
pipeful Bill resumed: II rushed round
10 the top OF that Internal rock. deter
mined to push II over II II didn't In
tend to take drop itself. moved 1t
about an inch, and TO do more than
that would require all OF the kings
horses. Oh. but Solomon was wise
one! He said oil men were fools
That stone, Bob, was a rocking stone
When realized what Ii was. won
dered why Solomon had not mention
ed me particularly. l began talking to
the stone and was Just beginning to
do myself and that beastly chunk Jus
tice when that hen picnic came scream
ing down the mountain side. They
had seen the whole circus. Alice gasp
ed out. ooh, W-Will, It's too fu-funny"
and then put her hand to her side and
absolutely shrleked with laughter. /
gave her one look and then told her a
plain truth that know she'll never
forgive. Then / rushed back TO the
hotel, got my things, and here am.
It's all over. I'm fool, and n wretch
cd one, my boy"
| agreed with him. but didn't men
ton II. Then the light was turned out
$3.50 W 'AAA'a ths nAtHts OUi u0iA
think Bin did. He moped around the
house and ate precious little. The
landlady was sure he ought. TO see
doctor. III / tried to cheer him up, bc
only scowled and cursed himself.
Connecticut, the big hill, the little hill
and everything except the gIrl--a
mighty sensible girl, too, as you will
see. for few days after. as was
entering the house. out rushed Bill as
happy n man as you would want 10
meet. He had received note from
Alice and was on his way TO see her
This IL what she said:
Dear will--we reached home today.
told mother I simply would not stay there
another hour when found you were not
coming back DO como and see mo and
bring your forgiveness with you. I know
was Just what you said. "a bianked
silly fool" for laughing 90. and II you
had not BEEN angry you would not have
been sure enough man, and would not
have cared bit for you. Az II IL. love
you more than ever. Yours only.