Shoshone journal., 1921-11-04

affairs You are young You hav.
NON distinction in the service OF your
country. You have studied the prob.
lens Of the county and the state
Samson and Baker and Logan and
Browning agree with me that you are
the man for the place.
-As for myself. am going 10 he
married in a year or 50. shall have
10 give all my time TO the practice of
the law. am now in partnership
with stephen T. Logan and am slowly
clearing my conscience OF debt
have done what could for the state
and fJr Saneamon county. II hasn't
been much. want you to take up
the burden. If you can. until get free
Of my debts, AT least. By and by !
may jump into the ring again
Harry was glad to obey the sum-
mons. Soon after the arrival OF Mr.
Linco5n's letter his doctor gave the
young man what he called .an honor
able discharge" The magic OF youth
and its courage and of good air had
wrought a change OF which the able
doctor had had little hope in the be
ginning
In bis travels through the great for
est Harry had met David Parish and
Stephen Van Rensselaer,. ct whose
homes on the shore OF the ST. Law
renee he had spent many a happy |
summer day. Three years had passed |
since that fateful morning on the prai- !
rio 7-f~o.rrrb sl,a .,-fr-o-- ta bo1 1sxol j
in a comfortable hunters camp on the |
shore of Lake Placid. Summers he
had wandered with a guide and canoe
through the lakes and rivers Of the
wilderness hunting and fishing and |
reading the law books which he had
borrowed from Judge Fine of Ogdens-
burg. Each summer he worked down
the Oswegatchie TO that point for a
visit with his new friends. The his
tory of every week had been written
to BIN and her letters had reached
him at the points where he was wont
TO rest in his travels The lovers had
not lost their ardor. Theirs was the
love that hopes and endures and is
patient"
On a day in June, 1871. he boarded
a steamboat at Ogdensburg on his way
TO Chicago. He arrived in the eve
ming and found Samson at the home
of BIN and her mother-a capacious
and well-furnished house on Dearborn
street. BIN was then a little over
twenty-five years old. A letter from
John Wentworth says that she was
ian exquisite bit of womanhood .
learned In the fine arts of speech and
dress and manner"
The store had doubled in size under
her management and with the help of
ihe capital of Samson and Sarah Tray
lor. The epidemic had seized her
oward the last of her nursing and left
he marks of its scourge upon her. 1t
lad marred her beauty, but Samson
writes, 'the girl was still very hand
cme. She was kind of scared to meet 4
Harry for fear of what he'd think of
hose little marks on her face. but /
old her not TO worry"
''You are the smartest and Ioyeliest
ooking creature that | ever saw in .
ny life." said Harry after he had held h
Ter In his arms a moment. a
But see what happened TO me "
ook at my face" she anSsered. "
lit is more beautiful than ever" he Z,
aid. Those marks have doubled my o
owe for you. They are medals of II
lonor better than this one that | Q,
'ear. l want TO marry you as soon "
S possible. I've been looking for n,
'ard to that since | was sixteen" O,
Then | think I'll take you and D,
Harry you before you have chance o,
D fight another duel"
Il don't hear anything but love and &C
said Samson. We've been
iSsling down al our house to keep "
osiah from running Of and getting fl,
arried. He's engaged already" W
Engaged To whoms~ Harry asked.
40 Annabel Brimstead She's a m
tile older than he is. She laughed pc
him and promised 10 marry him ~
) soon as he was nominated for Pres cii
enr by all his friends She would in
,w yoie for him herself lie has gr
come good athlete sud the best ha
hOlar ia school. He has every %
~ and girl ln the village working ri
o him evenings ard Saturdays" SD
-What are they doingy Harry up
kea. ne
-Aaking those peviangled things
~ caii lucIfers. You can build a
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