The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-23
The Female of His Species
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Ion stop in Denver too long after
you cash your check, Tom. Don't drink
Win strangers, and keep away from
sne variety theatres" / advised as ]
landed Tom Graham the company's
check for $1,000 i'm payment for his
Pipspect, the Bald Hornet" l had
taken fancy to the youthful discOv-
erer of the mine and felt il nv duty
warn him against the pitfalls of the
hners modern Jericho.
Doht you worry about me, Mr.
bradford; ] guess 1 can look out for
the money all right" he answered earn
estiy. 1t means a good deal to me.
~ never had as much before in my
ne, and l don't guess no derned Ora
nam that ever lived did ethics. They
were all poor, my dad his dad and
his dad. II a Graham ever got any
money he couldn't keep it. Why. had
5000 once" he went on impusively, land
biowed IL in-jest naturally blowed it
In; worked hard for il, too" Then he
paused. examined the buckle on my
horses bride closely. and added irrele-
vanity, you didn't get no SLOUGH of a
bargain on the Horn for a thousand, 1
tell you"
1T looks like fair prospect; we are
satisfied. If you are. What are you
going TO do with the price,"
DO" he said a dreamy look COM
ing into his eyes. "Do?" Why, l am
going to get twenty acres of land, I'M
der a ditch down on the Pitcketwire,
where l come from. and go to raising
alfalfa. It's a sure crop, and there's
more money in il than hay. l know,
because I have ranched before, and
right down there, too. That's where
/ saved up the $500 1 was telling you
about Did it in two years, and paid
a pretty stiff rent. l tell you, MI.
Bradford, those were the happiest days
/ ever see, all filled with sunshine and
horses-and things like that, instead of
powder. smoke and a hole in the ground
Ike this. I want to get back to it.
md stay back / am tired of hammer
ing a drill all day, and thinking and
thinking like you do in tunnel. After
all, a farm is the only place for a
white man to live"
II guess you are right about that.
Tom" 1 said, though l don't care
to live on one myself. But if you
liked farming so well, why did you
quit?"
''Oh, 1 wanted a change" he STAN
mered with reddening face. you see,
j was going To get married-and then
i didn't and that always breaks a fell
low up, you know. Seems like he's
got to pull up stakes; nothing else will
do him. I did, and blowed up here;
thought I'd try a hand at prospecting
kinder wanted TO be alone. You know
how il tsp
Not exactly from personal expert
ence: tell me about it,"
. "Oh. there amt much to tell; ii
wasn't anybody's fault, except my be-
ing a fool Graham. She kinder changed
her mind, in all, and married another
fellow more suited to her than me. He
was educated way up. and she had two
In,
both good-lookers. 1t was all right.
you understand; l amt kicking. 1t was
we'll enough for us TO think lots of
each other when we were growing up
together-kids is liable to do that: and
] guess it was all right for us to get
engaged when we sot a little older
that's natural; and | reck'n if the
Gulf road hadn't built through here
thar spring. we would "a sure enough
got married-but it did. so there amt
any use talking about it,"
81 don't understand. Tom" I said
sympathetically. How did the build
ing of a railroad interfere with your
MARRIAGE
Easy enough: it brought in a lot of
college fellows 10 lay out the road
different from us. you know, and one
of them, John Cameron. boarded a
spell at her house. He was a little
bit the niftiest thing you ever saw.
He knew how to wear his clothes and
whiskers. and he could talk Ann Arbor
like a book; and play the piano-why,
he could claw ivory most as good as
Mind Tom himself. When he and Mel
Ne got to playing duets l knew ii was
all off with me. He wasn't in the
house three weeks until she quit calling
me Tom. Why. I tell you, the first
time 1 ever heard her say Mr.. Gra-
ham 1 looked around trying TO locate
the geezer. and then il came with a jolt
that she meant me- and YOU bet thar