The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 7, 1899, Page 7

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Phil were a fireman an’ like to be an engineer wan day, but the | gre rs down Coyote Pass finished The Widow Carney eame out of her two-room shanty beyond the dump locking over a network of railroad tracks, across to the switehhouse | where Kathieen had taken Fergus O’Hare’s dinner. Nelly Carney was still little m than a girl. Her face | Was arch a sweet, her eyes bright, her hair blz and curly. The wind blew her calico dress away from her fine figure. “And yeu say that she’s a widow John Conover remarked to Fergus. Not long, I venture.” on him wan night whin they attacked the train. Company gives her the rint av the hoose thar, an’ she keeps boorders for meals.” That is how John Conover met Nelly Carney. He was getting ready to go to the mines. He had just come from the eastern states and had a claim up about Toby’s creek that his brother had left him when he died the year be- fore. He did not say much about himseif to anyone. He took his meals with the Widow Carney for a week or.so and bunked in with Fergus O’Hare. He said he was getting his outfit. Nelly Carney did some sewing for him and they sat together evenings, while little Kathleen slept beside them. One of these evenings John Conover seemed to be very thoughtful. At last he took a sudden resolution. “Nelly,” he began gently, “I'm going up to a rough place, but I’ve got a no tion to take you along.” “It takes two to make a bargain, Mr. Conover.” “Not this bargain. +I know you'll go dear. I’m only wondering if it will pay you. Jim always stuck to it, that creek claims were bound to pan out. If it does, you and athleen will be fixed for life. If it don’t, you might have a tough time. Shall we go down to the squire tomorrow, Nell?” Nelly took a night’s sleep on it and in the morning consented to go up country with John Conover. They were married one day, and set out the next, taking the little child with them. It seemed a shame to John Conover that he brought such a pretty creature to live in such a wild and lonesome spot. She was happy enough, appar- ently the same Nelly he had seen on the dump that spring day. The more he loved her, the more he brooded over her sacrifice of a home and friends among civilized people. He worked hard, and the next summer made a good find in a hole and sent her back to San Francisco with a small fortune and instructions to put Kath- leen into a convent, where she could have a schooling and be made a lady for the future. % * * * * Life in a hotel is a great educator. Day after day, Mrs. Conover went about, saw great plays, red novels, vis- ited her child and enjoyed existence. She received John’s infrequent letters with a positive alarm. Suppose he}; should send for her to return. She | could close her eyes, and see the great dark, snow-topped mountain wall, the rough cabin close under the shadow, the brawling waters of the mountain | | ra di “WE'VE NO TIME, THIN TO LOOSE.” torrent. In dreams she, heard the thundering voice of the wind among the pine boughs, the scream of the wild eagles—that was all. She missed John at first with all the passion of her impulsive nature; but, as time went on, the longing grew fierce, and she felt she would rather never return than to go now when life was so full of gayety and novelty. One day Fergus O'Hare came to see her. The colored servant told her with a grin, that the visitor would not write his mame on a card, maybe couldn't. Nelly flushed, for she knew that it was little time since she had been ignorant of card formalities. She id 1 him in her own showed up the sv and believe | nm in her | ‘Sit down, Fergus, You should see She’s a fine girl now.” warm-hearted way. Fm glad to see you. Kathleen. Sin, 2 okt S: Sa sat ' price | 1s laid it will be the iast one that wil = evidently at a loss what to say. He! shifted hts hat uneasily. “Nelly Carney, thot was, Oi moost; hurry my wurrd as oi’'ve Tim Blake in mee plac ii v | She stood erect in the spring sunshine, 1 eee conn ithe yard. Sve some wurrd of John Conover from a dirthy Chinee thot oi've befriended once or twice. He told me, Nelly Car- | mney, thot J as med his foined at last, an’ thot three ov the worst min in San Francisco are to be afther not only he’s taken alriddy, but it will be his life for his claim out there beyant.” Nelly Conover had risen. All the fine lady dropped from her. She ran to Fergus and caught his hand. | “Fergus, Fergus, ye're a friend, in- deed! Come away with me to John. Get Tim, Denny and Jerry and one of the other boys we can depend on. There's plenty of money. We will go faster than any one. Oh, Fergus, help ‘me, for old-times sake.” “We've no time thin to loose,” quoth Fergus. For that gang is away three hours too. Be ready whin I come w..a the b’ys.” | An hour or two later Nelly was ready. She had been to the convent to kiss Kathleen, she had dressed her- self in her coarse mountain clothing again. The next train north bore the Irishmen and Nelly to the little sta- tion where she had decided to get off. | It was by a short cut, rough and dangerous, that Nelly made up her} mind to lead her followers. It was | one by which John Conover used tc | secretly transport his gold. Several | times she had tramped with him up} and down the pass. She calculated | that she could arrive an hour or two | after the attacking party if they push- ed forward all night. A terrible en- ergy possed Nelly. Her eyes shone with terror and anxiety. Could they reach John in time? As she plunged onward in the dark she registered a vow never to leave John Conover again if his life was spared. Toward dawn the party sight of Toby’s creek. Nelly pointed with shaking at the hut near the mountain side. There was a light in the cabin. The party crept up stealth- | ily. Nelly crawled on her hands and knees to the back window. The sight | within froze her blood. John Conover j was tied and bound before the fire until he was perfectly heipless. men were torturing him, Indian fash ion, by applying burning sticks to h feet. He would not sign away his claim. Nelly drew back one second and Fer- were in gus took her place. A settled gray look came into the face of the big switchman. He motioned the next man and all drew their pistols. Fer- gus crept to the door, motioning Nel- ly to shelter herself. There was a sud- den crash-in of the door, three shots and a dash at the window. Nelly fir- ed the pistol that she held straight into the face of the man who came first. John Conover was always a bad- ly crippled man. He uad expected no succor, but he knew Nelly well enough to think she would never relinquish the claim only over his own signature, hardly then. He had resigned himself to die that she might have a fortune. the grave for It was a snatch from him. Everyone knows the Conovers on the two continents. The claim was one of the three best in California. Kathleen was such a fabulous heiress she could have married a dozen titles, but she choose a plain American. She had a young, half brother, who, strange as it May seem, was called Fergus from the start. He was a fa- mous athlete in an eastern college in the ’70s and married and English girl of family. Nelly Conover, a lovely, white-haired old lady, may often be seen in the picture galleries and pleas- ure gardens of continental cities, walk- ing beside the wheel chair of a genial old gentleman. She kept her vow. No time since that awful hour on the mountain side has she been absent from John Conover’s side. The Justice and the Horse-Race. On one occasion Mr. Justice Haw- kins was sitting at the Lincoln assize court on the morning of the day on which the popular Lincoln handicap was to be run. At the close of a case he turned to the jury, and, in the easy, pleasant manner which so rarely failed in its effect, he blandly addr ed the twelve good men and true: “Gentle- men of the jury,” said he, “it has been brought to my notice that there is an event of some lecal importance about to transpire this afternoon. I should be loathe to stand for a moment be- tween you gentlemen and your par- ticipation in your local celebration. Any expression of opinion, therefore, will receive my most serious consider- ation.” But the fish did not take the bait. The twelve honest tradesmen, torn roughly from their respective and respectable business by the strong arm of the law, wished oniy to get back to their work as soon as possible; so, after a few minutes’ deliberation, the foreman rose and announced that they had no expression of opinion to offer. Off came the velvet glove. “I thank you for your communication, gentle- men,” said his lordship; “the court is adjourned until 11 o'clock tomorrow morning.”—London Idler. Price of Gutta Percha. Gutta percha is now at the highest in in So short is the that cable people say that if this cabl« be laid until some new insulating ma- terial is discovered that will take the Place of gutta percha—New York pit — 'SEND_US ONE DOLLA lates s | Three | wins: If Dot had played with common soap What wreck there'd be to-morrow! Her hands all chapped, her uress past hope, Her toys a tale of sorrow. 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