Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-05-22


f1ance, "what do you think received
by express today?,,
''What?'
ga glass bottle picked up on the !
coast near Atlantic City containing 4 !
message.
"Big storm? Shipwreck? Vessel sink
ing? We are all lost?'
'Alore than that. I've had lover l
didn't know of. Read it." And she
handed him bit of paper on which
were scrawled her full name and adj
dress and
In few minutes this vessel will carry
us all to a watery grave. wish you to
know that there has been one who has,
unknown to you, loved you devotedly.
But he will die as he has lived without
revealing himself to you. FNrewell.
"Well," said Joe after reading the
message, edo you suppose it's genu-
ine?"
Something tells me it ISL
"What?"
II feel-I-somehOw it seems to me
that had this man wooed me we would
have
t'Would have'-
"What a noble, good man he must
have been to love me at distancey'
"Noble, good man, ell? TO love you
at distance! Will you kindly ex-
plain?"
"Why, there must have been some
reason why he couldn't declare him
self. His great heart bore the load
without permitting me to share it,
"Then why didn't he keep on bear
ing it without mixing you up III this
way?"
''Ie knew woman's nature. wish
You knew it as we'll. A woman re-
ceives her greatest compliment in the
love of a good man,
'You mean Il noble. good man. Don't
leave out the noblc''
"This man must have been noble,
good, self sacrificing man."
'Where does the self sacrifice come
in?'
"Why, if he had told me of hise love
would have loved him. We couldn't
marry and''-
"How do you know you couldn't?"
"Why, what other reason would there
be for his not
''I.ots of 'em. The chances are he
was beneath you, probably some cab
driver who once drove you somewhere
Or
"Joseph!''
"AIore likely common sailor, With
his arms and breast tattooed with an
chors."
''You are simply showing your envy
OF one who was doubtless your SUI
perior."
cat any rate, I'd have more sense
than to keep my love a secret till q
few minutes before I was'to he launch
ed for kingdom come"
"You haven't that nobility Of soul tt
understand this mans nature. HI
would not speak till what he sail
would not make me suffer-till i
would he only sweet for woman~t tt
hear
"Nobility of soul, eh? I haven't mo
bility of sbul. And this jman-howl d,
you know he had a soultat all? How
do you know he isn't myth? Some
body may have been playing a JOKE
on YOU"
. Zone who would play such "a joke
would have as little soullas the, mytl
he created
Joseph looked sorely troubled.
ut seems to me-" lie said presently
''that a rival has sprung, up-a tsolood
less, spiritual. heavenly. noble. good
unselfish"-
"Heroic.' B
"HerOic. Any more?"
"Why do you sheer atshim?"
Sim not sneering at him. Hest sim
ply a manufactured man, one who ha
been built up out Of pure sentiment
with sentimental arms, legs, head
hands,"
"Who created him? Not I! I,neve1
heard Of him till receivedthis bnl.
and last message"
"At any rate, he has replacedi me
I'm going to say farewell. I'm going
to give way to your ideal hero"
"You should strive to beslike him."
"Like him! Do you suppose I'd wish
to he like man of tissue paper, with
nothing inside of him but gas? He
isn't even gas. He's vacuum
''There's no substance in the. angels .
''There are different kinds oftangels.'
II do believe you hate him."
II! Hate him! I'm perfectly,indiffer
ent to him, confound him.
The girl burst into a merry laugh
She laughed for five minutes, lholding