Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-13

FEBRUARY 13, 1910.

talkin' of whe-say, looked like had washing hung
out. Seemed like the draught had rz my hair up too
' Nothing like it seen, continues Struthers.
4 II call it The Winning Card or AT Bay or
something like that Feature it as typical klondke
card game II give you two-page wrteup Why,
it S the greatest thing ever did!
90 4 IN sorry says Morrow, thoughtful, but you
musn t run it.
what! says he and I thinks ooh, Lord There
goes my only show to get perpetufed in ink.
- L can t let you it. My wife might see it.
g Your wife!' says 1. Are you married, pard-
ner?'
& Yes, I'm married. and his voice sounded queer.
L We got a boy-too, see
''IIe took locket from his flannel shirt and opened
it. A curly headed, dimpled little youngster laughed
out at
for in the other side woman-and, gentlemen,
she 1rdS a woman When I see her it made me feel
bushy and ashamed. Gee! She was sumner.
just stared her till Struthers looked my shoul
der, and says, excited:
90 why, it S Olive Troop. the singer'
g Not any more, says Morrow, smiling
''Oh! SO you re the fellow she gave up her art
for? I knew her the stage
Something way deep down in the man grated on
me- but the kid lookin at the picture and never
noticed while hunger peered from his face
90 You can t blame me, he says flnaly. she q
worry to death if she that picture. The likeness
is too good You might substitute another face on
my shoulders; that can be done, cant itE
90 Why. sure dead easy, but II not run it at all
if you feel that way saws the artist
|'Then Morrow resumes, you II be in Denver this
fall Struthers eh? Well want you to take letter
to her She II be glad to old friend like you,
and to hear from me. Tell her IN well and happy,
and that II make fortune, Tell her. too, that
there won t be any mail out of here till spring.
''Now, don t claim no second sight in the matter
of female features: ain had no coachln not even
as much as the ordinary being raised bottle, but
| We studied the ornery imprints of men thoughts,
over green tables and gun bar Is, till | can about
guess whether they We drawed four an invite
to funeral I got another flash from that man l
didn t like though his words hearty. He left,
after, on the last boat.
- Soon as ever the ground froze we began to sink.
In those days steam thawers WASH t dreamed of, so
slid wood down from the hills, and burned the
ground with fires. It's slow work, and we ddn t
catch bedrock till December, but when we did we
struck it right. Four feet of ten-cent dirt what
she averaged Big? Well, I wonder 1t near drove
Morrow crazy.
''Bly, old boy, this means II see her next sum-
mer!'
''Whenever he mentioned her name, he spoke like
man in church or out of breath Somehow it made
me feel like takn' off my cap-forty below at that,
and my freeze terrible willing since that winter
the Porcupine
''That evening when I WASH looking, he sneaked
the locket out of his shirt and stared at it, famshed
Then he kissed it, if you might rehabilitate such
scandaous, hold dfast-for-thecorner performance by
that name.
90 Il must let her know right away, says he How
can I do it?
% We can hire messenger, and send him to Daw-
son. saws l. Everybody in camp will pay five dol
lars letter, and he can bring back the outside mall
They have monthly service from there to the coast
He II make the trip in ninety days, so you IL get
news from home by the first of March. Windy Jim
will 60 He'd leave good job and warm camp
any time to hit the trail Just hitch up the dogs,
crack whip, and yell Mush on! and he II get the
snowshoe itch and water at the mouth for hardship
ssNr OF being house broke and tame myself, ain t