The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-03-06

More IistIess than usual.
contemptuously The flash depend
in her eye. but she had had her say,
and sat down. The moonlight was
on her face and hair; her shadow lay
long and dark behind her.
Layina Ketcham made a gentle
wife; she gave up much for peace,
and at first she had loved her hus-
band; afterward she found out his
brute nature. Her nature was fine,
and she was true to him always, but
love was out of the question then. He
forbade her the use OF her books, and
In that only she would not obey him.
For a nature like hers to die men,
tally or even stagnate was impossible.
She was above him as the stars she
loved we're above her, and she knew
it, and he knew it also; he hated her
for 1t.
She was a school teacher, and as
school teachers did not thrive that side
of the mountain he offered her home.
and she accepted his offer, believing
him noble because of this generous
act, as women will believe of the men
they love until they have been proved
otherwise, when the sweet if rather
blind faith in them can never return
once being destroyed.
Her daughter inherited her nature
only in far higher degree, Her hus-
band knew it, and the neighbors knew
it. Never. however, did the girls
father know that her moth sr's books
were her constant companions; that
she lived in them and on them; that
nearly every word of theirs was known
to her by heart.
Betsy Glenn had been her mothers
schoolmate and friend. Betsy Glenn
taught Dolores with all the power she
W capable. She had long been dead,
but the seed she sowed grew ana
grew; some time it would ripen and
bear fruit.
Had her father known of this he
would have stopped 1t, from the first.
He did not know it, for he had never
taken enough interest in her to know
it. Had he asked her she would have
told him, but he never asked.
The jealousy he had already felt to-
Wdlu lib wiz IOI nCI lON0 III UOOA"
seethed, and scorched in his heart rs
he stood facing her daughter and his
She possessed not one of his traits !;
the mothers nature had deepened ten
fold in his daughter.
That night his comrades at the tav-
ern had told him of this; they taunt-
ed him with 1t; they laughed at the
GIRL Thnu
of them. Narrow natures dislike and
distrust that which they cannot under
stand. Young Green also had aroused
his fears. Green. had an education
he had asked where the girl obtained
her education, therefore she must
have an education. Tonight he was
assured of this.
He kicked the book contemptuous-
ly, and muttered, under his breath, an
oath against young Green. If ever ne
came there again it would be sorry
day for him.
Dolores said nothing
A sudden frenzy seized him. He
stopped and snatched the book from
the ground. 1t was an old astronomy
She had been reading the book, for
she preferred it to any of her moth
er's books, and wheel young Green
saw it the day he was there he was
much surprised, and promised to take
volume on the subject the next time
he went that way.
She thanked him, and it was the
nrst time she had thanked any one
since Betsy Glenn died. That was
two weeks before, and he had nc,
come again as he said he would, bu'
she watched for him, feeling sure that
ne would keep his promise to her, feel
ing strangely glad when she thought
OF MIN. She had perfect faith in him
Her fathers face was lurid as he
snatched the book from the ground.
HIS small eyes, close set were full
OF brute cruelty; the veins of his
Iorenead were swollen. In his hands
used to welding the heavy hamnItxi
the hook was a toy; his fingers
closed over 1t, and in an instant +
! lay In shreds at her feet.
For moment she did not comp.o.
mend what had been done; she looked
from the book to him and back again.
Ihen she arose; her face was whi.c.
and her eyes flashed. She looked at
him. and he covered before her. She
was tall and stately; he had never he
fore appreciated her dignity. Now he.
appreciated 1t to the full. The bool
was the dearest thing in the world q,
her, he could have wounded her Il.
no other way
Mechanically ne gathere up { \
scattered fragments and as she II.
out her hand for them he gave thc-.,.
to her without word, without e. +
glancing at her. For the time Z
was more than his daughter; IN
/ eyes were on his face, and her ST. Il
ruled his. Then they strayed a, i
to the mountain top yelled in haz,
The fire died out of her eyes:
hands, mechanically holding the
leaves of her book, fell listlesss
her side; her shadow lay long IS.
dark behind her.