Mower County transcript., 1908-02-19


passed. The old stage driver decides to
work close to town in order that he may
be able to keep fatherly watch over the
young woman.
CHAPTER V1.-Stella receives "Uncle
Billy with kisses for he brought her a
Viola Bernard, dasEhler Of hotel land
lady.
CHAPTER VTI.-Vincent visits society
circles Of enemies of the Central Pa
elnc railroad, learns their secrets and
Tetnrns to Stella in the California town,
stSa. Each showing signs Of love for the
CHAPTER vi.
4 pesp iRao Paradiee.
In 0aa TraAcisco altss three years
e exile AlkSsd found . home. JuAgo
hsrnon made him welcome - . soa;
aa1 Alfred aid not stay loag saoash
10 discover that other yoxng men
shared with him the judges fatherly
attitude.
Mrs. Harmon was child-huagTy
woman. no longer young In years.
though her heart would never forget
IS. A favorits, social authority and
leader, she launched Alfred Immediate
ly and successfully among the people
he most needed to meet. Posing ~ \
Boston stghtseer, he was accepted
with hospitality known only In Ken.
tucky and in Old San Francisco; and
he found no lack Of alluring eyes and
smiles, albeit every woman was
belle.
Society, fast and feverish curious.
fascinating, opulent, was the speediest
vehicle by which he could arrive at
his purpose; for society in San Fran
cisco was still too new to divorce
itself from the golden enterprises that
made it. His success astonished him.
self. Men whose intentions he ex-
pected to learn through patient;
acumen talked openly of their affairs
with the railroad men, Even women
made OF the Central Pacific railroad
and it's projectors a continuous joke.
Alfred wondered. He could not then,
as afterwards, realize that, to every
thOrough-gOing San Franciscan, Cali
f0rnia was but a storehouse, kitchen
garden, at most tribute-bringing
suburb OF the gay city by the Golden
Gate. Nothing outside mattered. To
them the sand-duned cusp, struggled
over with it's himsy, gibbous houses,
was as truly the whole world as ever
was the Eternal City to old Roman.
$50 secrets fell unearned into Al
1red's keeping Red lips told him tales
AntN hAi q
prize. Business men, talking glibly
Of inland transportation, dismissed the
tE2nsmontane railroad with a yawn,
yet went wild over the delusion Of San
Joaquin valley petroleum. And Alfred
drove, sang, dined, danced merrily to
his goal; and bade goodbye to his
entertainers the very day he read
Phinsas Cadwallader's name on the
Lick house register.
He reported in Sacramento, received
instructions, and incidentally COM
mendation. Hastily he made the
jasmine-hung San Francisco to ice
bound Carson City. And the second
day after leaving salt water he swung
into Sally BIS to find Stella away,
across the gulch, watching in a house
OF mourning.
All the way from Sacramento, while
the little steam bantam bumped over
the unsettled roadbed, Alfred had re-
hearsed his expected interview with
Stella. He did not admit his love; he
had no right to it. Friendly interest,
the duty of courtesy to one so forlorn
A4d so placed in his care-those were
2ll., His own eyes must prove the
truth of her letters, which told scantly
of her good health and fine situation.
Hedwould sit by her side the short
Hour before the stage left, hear in de-
taif Der Afe in California.
s,Safly. r, saw his disappointment,
and came, quickly to his rescue Go
With my Viola, here; she'll show ye.
You. can make the house across the
xulclp inxl5 minutes. Mr.. Sacket was
killed .by a;iblasti the other day, you
know, an 1Stella's ben with the widder
ise4ce ,sn Bit: Bit: wifi stay with her; an
yt1{44'hh. Stella can talk T. heap fl half:
hour. - !. walk. this Way. an', tal9W; az
yen still; have, "a quarter. hour fur yer
dinner .feresthe stage leaves 1; Billy
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