The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12

a larger ufe-perhaps as empty ana
amiss.
Her Homeric deeds are still sung in
! the valley. In his epic called Arizona
! the late JethrO Triggs has it thus:
Not hers the part to dilly-dally
When left alone in the BuCkslIin Valley.
Amid circumstances calculated to
make one blanch
She run the ranch.
which is true.
But this is the way Of it all. Nelson
had gone right out Of her life. but his
influence persisted. There is no deny
ing that for possibly six weeks her
brother did well enough. Then, one
day, she woke up to find the boy gone
irrevOcably gone, without word or sign.
The result of this detection was to throw
| Virginia, a girl of 10 and mainly con-
vent bred. incontiuently upon the world
Let it be understood more clearly
She had no money nor the prospect Of
any, and no property but eighty acres
i'm Door trim and some hundred head Of
cattle. Previous to coming to Arizona
Virginia had lived as other young girls
from whom the haTshCr things of life
are excluded And she found herself
alone now. i'm what To her was a Land
of DisilluSiUn. a life stripped of the
Tefinemeuts which made it bear8blc and
whore the great crude forces of nature
went about i'm their uakedness.
Hers was not a stiff-necked family,
| for all the houors it had taken. Hored-
| ity counseled her to yield, to give up
| the unequal struggle. Distant relatives
/ i'm the east would receive her she knew.
and at the cost of mere independence
! she might buy kind of ease
Instead, the girl set herself to work.
| 10 learn strange things, 10 wrest the
original grUdging heritage that mother
earth owes her children. She made out
| tO employ help and eventually To- pay
| them, though the first year was q year
| Of drought and she sometimes went
/ hungry. It is true she might have given
/ up, after all, but for a sum of money
/ that came to her in an envelope bearing
/ a Mexican pOstmark and which she
/ used after great hesitation But after
| all, it was the original genius latent i'm
| her till the call of need Four years,
/ and she had grasped success. A neat
! new house of WhiteWashed 'dObe held
/ the place of that earlier house. I'm
/ her fields, where the alfalfa made a
/ thick green carpet, decent well-kept
! cattle browsed. She had put little
/ money i'm the bank and had a kind of
/ companion to live with Ter.
Far and wide, too, she was eNtClled
[ for her beauty and character. And
men wished to marry her, until it was
a distinction even to have seen and
/ talked with her. Amid circumstances
! calculated to make one blanch'-iuclud-
/ ing the dismissal of Jethro Triggs him
self who, with no greater sincerity than
other suitors, had larger amount of
/ ready-made Gin distinction 10 tailor
/ made) English at his disposal-she had
| run the ranch" indeed.
One day d light wagon drew up before
/ her place. n veritable dragon of a
woman land this was Nirginia's COM
/ pauiOn) had observed its arrival from
/ the porch, where, seated with Ostcusible
/ needle work it was her wont of after
/ moons to sweep the road both ways
/ with her eyes as if she were the out
post Of a citadel. This woman made out
the two men in the wagon; the one a
fine erect figure Of a type she profess
siOnally condemned. But for the other
/ he represented nothing, speaking in
terms of activity and positive deeds,
. for he lay at full length OH q kind of
portable bed, and it was discernible
even at a distance, that death had writ
/ ten an option on his features and was
The well man stared at the place Will
an undisguised wonder and approval
But as he came up the walk of tn,
house, his expression changed to ont
of doubt; and doubt spoke i'm the form
of his question.
The woman answered him curtly
Yes" Miss Lane lives here" she chal
lenged. She was a person both homes
and stupid, possibly faithful to an ex
IRENE. And one idea at a time was tht
capacity of her mind. Miss Lane live.
here" she repeated, but nevertheless!
| you cannot see her.
"Will you tell her" said the other If
is her brother who has TetuTned2"
You are not her brother"
That is true. He lies down below
in the wagon"
Sir" replied the woman, 7 am no
to be imposed upon. The young man i!
dead these two years. 1t was printed III
the papers, consequently there can bt
no mistake. Lane was drowned i'm the
surf off Mazatlan and his body wa.
never recovered"
Suppose, for the sake Of argument
that the papers were wrong"
"Then I should be sUppOsing what
| were a very great pity. ] have heard
what kind of a brother he made. Vir-
ginia Lane was we'll rid Of him."
Suppose" the other persisted quite
| gently, part of what you say is true
| but that he did not drown as reported
! Suppose, in fact. that he wandered ar
| OUtcasJ through the Mexican states, a
/ miserable prey to excess and sickness
/ an object of pity to Americans i'm that
| country. Suppose but lately he ap-
| peaTed before me who, like others. haC
| supposed him dead, and that he had
| come a long way afOOt 10 find me, fOl
he knew that he was near his death
And he had done very in all his life
| which he did not try to disguise-mere.
" begging that I should take him back
that the hand of one ne had greatly
wrOnged might touch his in forgive
ness"
/ Edgar Lane is dead" said tn,
woman.
7 am William Nelson" said the 9th
er. will you take that name to Mis-
Lane?"
Il know of no William Nelson"
The man bit his lips with yexatiou
Then he heard the sharp cry of dogs
1t came suddenly TO his ears. that pc
Culiar half whine, half bark Of de
lighted beasts laughing for JOY. From
around the corner of the house appeared
two collie dogs and a girl. She wa
a blooming figure of health, her bress
aheave from recent exercise, and tn,
dogs were leaping before her i'm tn,
antic expression of their love
The girl stopped suddenly and an arm
raised in play fell slowly to her side
and she went pale as death, seeing Mel
son. and the wagon i'm the road.
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