Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-02-09

man that'll turn his back on the girl
as loves him and go off courtin' Super
intendent Owens daughter he tin
ished CONTEMPORARY.
Faith faced him with flashing eyes.
mick Sanders. you're worse than |
thought you were! Howard Olney
took you into his cabin and nursed you
through a spell of fever when nobody
else would, and now you try to injure
him behind his back. That's your
gratitudev'
His eyes fell beneath the whitening
scorn of hers. OF the allusion to her,
self she took no notice, but she could
not help resenting the slur put upon
the man she loved.
you've no call to fire up for Olney,"
he said maliciously. Hes above court
in girl who makes her ivin' cookin'
tor miners. Besides, he's in love with
Daisy Owen, and she's struck on o.
ney'S good looks. It's bound to be q
match"
Faith again bent over her berry
picking that her tormentor might not
see the effect Of his words. She had
heard through her mothers boarders
about Miss Owens wealth, beauty and
accomplishments and realized that she
was mere nobody compared with the
superintendent heiress. What right
had she to hope that Mr.. Olney would
ever love her? Still. the hooking tones
stung her keenly, and, her basket being
filled, she said goodby and hurried
away up the rocky trail that led to a
dingy, weather worn cabin half hid
by the powders and evergreens sur.
rounding it.
Faith and her mother were alone in
the world. About year before her
father had been killed by an explosion
in the mines. 1t was Howard Olney, a
young schoolmaster from New York
turned prospector. who had risked his
own life to recover the body. They
could never forget this nor his untir-
ing kindness during that time of be-
reavement. It was he who had en-.
cOuraged them to go on with the regu-
lar routine of life. and from this sad
period Faith dated her love for the
young man. He had shack two miles
down Deer Fork. and most of his days
were spent prospecting.
Soon after Sanders suddenly return
ed, having been away several months
He had been "speculating." he an
nounced, and had brought back some
money. Nick had known the family il
Indiana. In fact. he had accompanied
Mr.. Austin to Colorado. He was a
crafty, shiftless fellow and did not
make friends amo5g the miners. In
deed. so unpopular was he that whe1
stricken with fever shortly after there
was no one to care for him except Mrs
Austin until Howard. to relieve the
Overburdened woman. took the fellow
home with him and nursed him back
to health and strength. Had it no.
been for jealousy he would have been
grateful as one of his selfish nature
could be.
Meanwhile Faith had wandered
down the canyon, unconsciously takins
the trail over which her lover had
passed an hour or two before.
II will give up thinking of him. she
said. STOPPING to gather a spray OF
wild columbine. II won't let his going
away without even saying goodby
worry me. Mother must not see that
care. for of course she'll hear that he's
gone. I'll pick some flowers as an ex.
cuse for coming and go home and live
my life without him. A woman's hear
must be strong for endurance"
Suddenly a wild cry burst upon bel
ears.
Help, help!'
The girl listened with bated breath
1t did not come from the direction Of
the mining camp. Still. it might be
one of the men had wandered dowr
the gulch and met with some accident
Again the call came, wild and ago
nizing, as though face to face with q
terrible doom. This time she located
the cry.
Some one has fallen into the old
shaftv' she cried. running swiftly il
that direction. This "old shaft led tc
what had once been a promising mine
but a subterranean stream that rose
mysteriously and at no regular period
rendered it so unsafe that it had beer