Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1911-05-12


\. The fun's all gone outen this we're.
count n said the 81 miner. .ss.sence*
the railroads has been bull there
Ehain,t no more excite romantic
Happenings and ali that hen We
travelled Il In these we're noun things In
stagecoaches there was ali sorts y Of:
things happenen. from loVemakin' Ito
hair raisin,. s
He took q long dat piece Of tobacco
out OF his mouth, bit of AZ piece and
resumed III. sSSs
IL, Eve seen all sorts Of things goin' on;
In stagecoaches. /: I've been held up
BY road agents half q dozen times;
been chased By Indians; seen d couple
that had never seen each other before;
start out In a coach Id the mornin' and
married the same evenin, a hundred
miles from where they started, And
I had a romance oncet. don't know
exactly what you scallba romance meb.
BY. What Is it7'', VI
Z. '"":Oh, where there's q lot OF love
going on" Y. ;.S$sf 3 II sd .5.s
That's it-that's my case. There.
was love enough to Spull the coach
without no horses. m was ridin' from
Cheyenne to Denver, and the only pass
senger. Right our on the plains among;
the prairie dogs, not a cabin in sight
nor tree, either, I sew a young wo-s
man a-footin' It along the road ahead.
I was sittin' with the driver and asked
him what he thort she was dom walk
In that away. He said he didn't:
know and didn't keer. Il: Like enough,
she'd ask. him for q ride and she would
not git it onless she paid her fare. \ !: 3
when we reached her she stepped
outen the road and looked up at us
sort Of pitiful. She was a young
thing-not over eighteen-though she
was purity TAIL, asked the driver to.
stop. He refined In. and l said to the
gal: @S 25.55ffee.:S. = 1. ":
" "'Want lift, miss? i .4.s4.. IS T. !.
I'd like one.' she said in a hoarse
voice. .coughin',. but I haven't any
money -, f. ...:...: Y, y
..".sGit up says the driver, says he.
But stopped him, tellin' him I'd pay
the gals fare to Denver. got down
and opened the door; She got In. I
follered her and set down beside her.
She was mighty 'bleeged to me for
payin' her fare and cottoned to me
right away. 49, ss 4 s 81 E E5ss3
"She had red cheeks and was purity
as a, pictur', all except her hair, that
looked as II it, hadn't never been
combed. twas ;tousled allf over, her;
forehead ! axed her &c she'd like sas
comb onten my safe bel for TO straight-j
en- II out. She .larfed and said that
! as the way ladies' wore their hair,
i axed her what ladies' and she said
ladies' from the eastern states, where
there was big towns. a * F' & . s$::.s
"Of course, she befn' under obliga-}
lions to me for. payin' her fare, we;
got on mighty fast. One thing led to
another, and we was thicker and
thicker with every relay. Lucky for,
me nobody got IN, though there wara't
much danger Of that, for there wasn't
q settlement between Cheyenne and
Denver. + pumps her to know who
she was, and finally she let: out that
she had been lady's maid to an off,
GERS wife at Fort ---.::s She was
|$goin' to st. Louis to see her mother
who was sick. She'd spent all her
money }stagin' it and was walkin' the
rest Of the, way. except when she
could git a lift. .zs # .. h VI 4 4
.4ssts.Well,: we KEEP gittin'' thicker and
thicker till at last ! begun to make love
like q steam engine. 4 Then when I'd
got through tellin' her how purity she
was and how 4 loved her I come
down ITO business and tole her. I'd
struck a hole up on Clear creek pan
min out 5000 to s.he ton; that was
mighty lonely and wanted a wife to
| help me spend the money was max
In. $S .:S 81; s
| S.'She said she wouldn't give mp her
sick mother for no gold mine and was
|5goin' right on to. St; Louis. l tried to
coax her. but 1t didn't do no good.
| She at shy after that, and the shfer
abe fit the more l tried to persuade her.
hen we got within about ten miles
\ Of Denver she opened the door and
/ was goin''s To- GIT out, but ! TUX hold
OF her and held her. She turned round.
and ] never see sich a change IN any
one In my life. She was Just boilin'.
/ s u beg yer pardon. | said. II didn't
Intend TO insult You. y was just goin'
| TORY onct more 70 get you to listen
4 90,
4 You keep your hands off met she
]shollered inS q different kind of q voice
from before m goin' to GIT ont OF
H the coach, you bloomin' idiot, and 81
/ y0u try TO keep me I'll knock you into
the middle OF next week. IS Is:S
was wonderful how that love that
i had been sWellin' up in my. heart like
4 a balloon collapsed and was aSsinlsin'
il down like the outside with the gas an
i ont of it
\ no air yoil, and what you dom
i Id them toys q I hoilered.
Il don't care now who knows they
A won't foller me this far. I'm a de,
serter from the th infantry, station