The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-04-10
ALLIES ASPIRATIONS
Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co..
BY ANNA HELLMAN

NY STORY TuO. CO..
was not to be broken up in a few DAYS
nor weeks, as he discovered. And the
next month he went back to Colorado
alone, in anything but a cheerful
frame of mind.
Allies father expostulated mildly
once or twice, and her sister Henri
eta lectured her soundly, for she
knew that 1t was not every day that
the right man falls in love with a girl
Henrietta's handsome young hus
band had closed his eyes forever on
this world during the springtime oi
their lives, and although electing to
travel life's journey henceforth alone:
she desired for her sister the happi
ness that had been hers for so bIie1
a period.
After Roberts departure Allie did
not appear to find the usual pleasure
in her various fads. Somehow they
seemed less important than formerly,
and her plans for remodeling the
world were in danger of falling
through, when one day as she returned
from delivering a lecture on Higheg
Ethics before the Ladies' Aid society
her father entered the room with a
newspaper in his hand and asked her
if she could be brave
! Instinctively her thoughts flew tC
Robert, and she held out shaking
hand for the paper
| 1t contained short article with
glazing headlines, telling that the
! mining camp of Cripple Creek, Co...
had been almost entirely destroyed by
fire. Several lives had been lost and
many lay at the point of death.
The fire department had proved in
adequate to contend with the flames,
and the miners had turned out bravely
to help. One, the superintendent OF
the Anaconda mine, by the name Of
Robert Hobson, while trying to rescue
some children from the second story
of the Palace hotel, had fallen through
and was carried out almost lifeless.
That was ALL Not word to tell
whether he died after that or not.
MY God, save him and forget mel"
gasped the girl, sinking to the floor
and burying her face in the couch.
A moment later she was on her
feet again; her eyes heavy, miserable,
| but resolute.
Father, l am going to start for Col
| orado tonight! If you cannot go with
me, Henrietta will"
And Henrietta did. In a few hours
they were in Pullman on a west.
bound train. They left it for stage
at picturesque Manitou on the morn
| ing of the third day, but Allie had no
eyes for the grandeur of the noun.
tains; the long journey was tragedy
to her.
All day long the stage, going at a
moderate pace, BETTING the severe
grades Of the primitive road, literally
climbed into the recesses of the Rock,
les; traversed deep canyons, and
chung to narrow shelves cut on the
side of the rocky barrier. Toward
evening it dashed noisily down the
side of steep mountain and rolled
into charred, blackened, smoldering,
forsaken-looking place, with only a
few isolated cabins left to mark the
once fourishing town of Cripple
Creek.
In the tent which served for the
stage Office, the sisters learned where
the invalids were being cared for, and
thither they went. When they
reached the entrance of the shack Al
lie sank down on the rough step. 81
cannot go another step, Henrietta,
she said >
It was not necessary, for just al
that moment the door opened. and or
the threshold stood a tall young mar
with bandage across his forehead, {
scar on one cheek, and his right arm
in a sling-a pitiful-looking objec
truly. l.
Allie sprang to her feet "Bob!'
she cried.
Henrietta strolled away to inspec
the ruins. 49,.
Dearest" Hobson said, when eartl
and heaven had once more assumed
their proper relationship, your aspi
rations will be realized after all.
am badly in need of nurse, and a.
soon as I'm able to travel we vii
take Henrietta with us and visit tn,
Philippines-on our wedding trip, 20,
know"