Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1881, Page 6

A STORY OF AUROKA. Strange Adventurers of a Nevada Mining Camp Heroine The place kept by Tom Adams in Aurora, in was quite the finest establishment on_the coast outside of | San Francisco, where the hardy team sters could lose at anyjone of a variety | mos what money they did not spend at the bar. And, ‘indeed, 1t well-deserved ‘ts reputation. Nota single rafter or beam could be seen inside the hall, all having been cover- | ea with cotton cloth neatly tucked on, | and the cotton itself being embellish- | ed with wood-cuts and lithograph wed, too, some of them, This w held by many to be in the nature of painting the lily, but as times were usually flush, Tom Adams, ‘“Jolly| Adams,” he was generally called, held that even the unadorned lily was not sod cnough, Tho patronage his | place reeeived certainly bore him out | in hi wrently extravagant ideas, | for “Adams’ place” was the centre of | traction for not only the oldest in- | habitants—residents for over two years, some of them floating population, prospectors, in- vestors and teamsters, as well, But | neither the choice quality of the whis key, the cloth walls, nor yet the va- viety of zambling ganies run by Adams’ partner, that genial and successful faro | dealer, Mark Turner, constituted the | chief attraction of the place, Adams’ | daughter, a tall, slender, b young woman, upon whom oy in the camp looked with the sincerest admiration and respect, actually car- ried drinks and cigars from table to table, The customers of the place — most of them, at least - thought noth- ing strange of her position there, be- ing the proprietor's daughter, and generally reported to be the intended bride of Mark Turner. Adams’ daughter could have constituted her- aself QUEEN OF THE CAMP, if she only had a mind to, but she appeared to have a mind quite the contrary. There was no wonder ex- pressed, as I have said, that she should be there; in fact, there ap- peared many reasons, considering her relations to the proprictors, why she should. She was the only respecta- ble young woman in camp, excepting poor Jim Johuson's young widow, who took in washing and mended miners’ clothes, since her husband was kliled in the Real del Monte tunnel. Having no companion of her own, it was natural that she should seek the society and protection afforded her in her father's place, from eight in the evening until midnight. At the latter hour she was taken home by her father, who then veturned to onter- tain his customers until daylight. The only wonder, then, that found expres- sion regarding her was that, while she readily responded to all orders for drinks and cigars, she never made any acquaintances, and appeared not to see any one in the room. To be sure, her big eyes were frequently much awollen and red—perhaps from the to bacco smoke —and that might account for her inability to see and return any |\ of the good natured nods of r tion. No ove of the customer Ler first name, and sho was variously called: ““Say Miss,” “‘Sissy,"” ““Young Woman,” and “Girl.” A" miner had once asked ler name, and she had turned away so apparently frightened that before the unlucky ‘miner could explain that he only asked so that he could name a promising quartz elaim after her, he was 50 badly used up by @ dozen men who had heard his most audacious remark, that when o renclied Carson—for which place he | loft by next day's stage—his story | that he had fallen down a lhundred- | foot shaft was veadily belioved, That night when Adams took his daughter to her room in the hotel—a rooni, by the way, which the camp firmly be- lieved to be a little bit finer than any- | thing in dan wcisco, as it was known to be carpeted, and had cur- tains over the window and A LITTLE MELODECN in the corner, imported at enor nse as to frieght, from San Fr that night, not a word was said by either father or daughter un- #il they both entered the room, “*Good night, Kate,” “Good night, father.” She turned up her faco to be kissed, and lhe saw streaming down from her oyos, ““What is it, child?” he asked, and the most frequent visitor at Adams’ place would not have recognized in his tender tones the voice of jolly Tom Adams. The girl turned from him suddenly and threw herself on her bed, sobbing: “‘Oh! father, it will kill me, Why can't you let me go away! Why do you mako me go to that “place. ~ You can'’t care for me—your daughter,” “Don't say that, Kate, don't say that. It won't be much longer, When T am square with Turncr and wmado a littlo money, wo will go back; go buck east to the old home wh. ur moth- eris—is buried” Jolly Adams’ voice trembled as he bent over his daughter, and piteously looked at her trembling form, ““Why can't you let me stay in my room until then. 1 shall die if you make me go there any more,” “You can't stay hero alone, eve- nings, girl,” ho said hesitatingly, “Jolnson’s widow will sty with + me. She is a good wownan,” “Well, T willsee, Kate; 1 will speak to Mark Turner to-night, “Mark Turner!” The erect and stared at herfather in a way that made hin turn s cyes away, *‘What has Mark Turner to do with me?” MARK TURN Adams did not answer and the girl continuedafter a pause, speaking more softly and putting her haud on her father's arm “Father, what has Mark Turner to do with you! You #ay you don't like this horrible busi- ness. I know you don't like to sce e in that place. I know it was Mark Turncr who got you to come here, and who persuaded you to wake we go there, What does it all mean, fa- ther?” Adams looked up an instant, then averted his eyes again and, speaking uneasily and hurriedly said: ““There, girl, don’t ask we such questions, 1t will be all over protty soon and we wnulsu away—goawsy from Turner.” “Father"—Kate stopped crying and her face was hot and flushed —'‘Fu- ther, there is one thing more. Why have you let him say he is going to but for tho| | the tears |t girl stood | have kept me under and us has said that nd you know I warry me? 1 kr | You know 1t, too. would rather be buried with mother than to be his wife. Does he say that | just to degrade me, only to make me more niserable? He must, for he knows it can never be Jolly Adams had to choke back something in his throat before he| said, trying to speak 1 y but whining almost “Kate, don’t talk that way, Promise me you will never ask me what nolt Turner has | on your father, and U'll try to let you | stay in your room evenings, Promise | your mi o father that, Kate, and 1 will make Turner act right | He did not wait to hear his daugh ter's reply, but hurriedly left the| room. ‘*Make him do right,” he re ‘ veated, as he walked back to his cus tomers, “‘As though 1 could make him do anything, and he could not make me doanything he wants. 1| wish lie would get in a row syme night | and get shot With this charitable | wish Adamsentered his place, nodded | pleasantly to Turner, who sat back of | a faro table, surrounded with f:“} vorish players, helped himself liber- | ally to wiisky, and ordered the half drunken violinist to “play something ively,” and was himwelf quite what Jolly Adams should be, his customers all thought, consideringhis high social | pomtion and worldly prosperity, Tt was soon after pay-day and the faro table had a long game. It was eight oclock in the moming when Turner announc earnings in a canvas bag and left the table. The losers sullenly left the ble and joined the few winners in a drink. The day bar-keepers had come on duty, two or three blear-eyed tramps were washing up the floor for their morning cocktails, as Adams and Turner left the place. **What luck, Mark?’ asked Adams, as the two stood on the sidewalk, blinking in the bright sunlight. Turner tap- ped hus coinbag and laughed signiti- cantly as he said: “I'don’t deal faro to lose, nowa- days.” “You're a good one, Mark. good bye, I'm going to bed.” THE INTERVIEW, ‘“‘Hold on, Tom, T want to talk with you.” The two started together down toward the hotel and Turner continued: “What did Miss High- and-mighty have to say to her papa, last night!” Didshe give the old " gen- tleman a moral lecture, and caution him about that very bad man, Mark Turner! What did she say, eh?” ‘‘She didn't eay anything,” replied Adams, nervously, ‘‘You lie! She did. I saw it plainly enough when you came back and spoke to me so sweetly, What did she say?” ““Well, she don't like this life, and you know it well enough. 1If you want her for a wife 8o much, I should think you would want to keep her a lady. ““That's just what ails her. She's too much of a lady now; besides, she helps the business, The men drink twice as much when sho waits on them and the more they drink the more “Well, they }vluy 1f you were not as much of a fool as they are you would see it too. “Lots of good the drinking and | playing does me.” “Well, it will do you good. I'll give you an interest in the business pretty soon. But that ain’t what I want to talk to you about. I want yon to keep that high-toned surveyor, Russell, away from her. She'll get spooney on him, and he'll try to mar- ry her, thinking you're so rich.” Adams winced. The poor wreteh loved his daughter, and really in tended to let her escape from Turner, Clearing his throat, e began: “Now look here, Mark, you mustn’t be too hard on me and K 1 don't sce any use in your martying her. Why don’t you mar anyway/ B o girl aint cigh- teen years old, and can’t mary with- out woment in minazement, and then said, \\mu a bratal laugh, “You object! Well that's good. — Perhaps you want | me to give her a chapter out of your life. Perhaps you want mo to tell her a stor out— “‘Hush!” exclaimed Adams, *‘here she comes,” o8, and with that Russell; T k that fellow will disappear some b Katoand a man dressed plainly, but much better than a miner, passed the twe men without speaking, Kate carried a basket in her hand, and the man had & surveyor’s instrument on his shoulder, “She is only taking some sewing to the Widow Johnson, and he is going to work,” said Adams, deprecatingly, in answer to Turner’s blaca looks, ““You; but I notico thoy always hap- pen to at about the smme time,” re- plied Turner, The two men walked on up to Ad- ams' room, next to that of his daughter's, When they were seated, Turner said ow 1 propose to stop all this, Adaws, “Howt? “Easily o liex, and rig h; 1 propose to marry It aday, too Adams turned palo and trembled, Tc was some time before ho spoke, and then it was with a dosperate tempt ot decisivencss, M Turner, you can not marry Kat You have ruined me, made me a low, miserable wretch, afraid, almost to look my daughter in the eyes. You od me as a {tool, and T have submitted because | because you know about George Mar- tin's death, 1 was no more to blame than you, and you got the deed to | that mine," Turner sat perfectly still for a mo ment, and then said, in a slow, dis | tinet voice, you have concluded to ubject at last. Very well. I'm sorry ‘“"j““' No one knows about tho deed but wyself. But that makes no | difference, "It is proverly signed oyer to me. 1t happens, though, that some one beside myseff knows who | did fire that pistol shot,’ i "l uever meant to fire the 1 Mark. You know that, Adums, desperately, THE MAKTUN MURDER, Turner | the interruption, “You remember that George Martin lived hor d was the most popular man incamp, I'mafraid it won't be pleasant for you if the np.-lc story 1s kuown, Of course it will please Kate, too, Good-by, | Adams jumped up aud eaught Tur- istol, interrupted hingly, | had forgotten. She ha i “Game closed for the | in a tunnel, which he was able to carry I night, gentlemen,” poured his night’s a- | vious a strike had been made in the her woman, | happiness® or - that is, if 1 sliould object ” | With a pitiful assumption of cheerful- Turner looked at his companion o | ness, suid: *| what we were talking of last evening, went on without noticing | THE OMAHA I)AlLY BEE: ATURDA - [ner by the arm, “Hold on, Mark, | his pocket, selected a paper, and said, wait and lets talk it over. Tl talk to | “You needn’t have made such a fuss Kate about it, eirl. T would be afraid to Turner langhed disagroeably. This | use this certificate hero, anyway. I kind of a meeting always ended in|don't believe its worth rauch; haven't just this way. | even taken the trouble to hunt up the When the two men entered the ho- tel, Kate left her companion to run back to her room for some article she d heard the whole conversation through the cloth and paper partition, and when she re- turned to Russell was so white and scared looking that he asked anxious- ““What is it, Miss Adams? What has happened {’ She told him what she had heard. Poor child! In her miserable loneli- ness of companionship she had met Russell at the hotel and made his ac- quaintance; reluctantly at first, for she had seen him occasi ath- er's place, and recognizing him as something much above his surround- ings, felt in his presence a burning sense of shame which it took time and | all of Russell's tact to overcome, He had learned her whole life, saw the helplessness of her terrible position, conjured schemes for ler rescue, sym- pathized, and of course fell in love married, they agreed, just as soon as he could soll his interest in a promising claim He had waited for her that morning to | tell her of A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT. The mine he owned a third-interest in he held and prospected through work on by the considerable wages he earn- ed as a surveyor. On the night pre- face of the tunnel. Tt was in the most favorable portion of Last Chance Hill, and a party of capitalists he had taken out'to see the rich ledge cut into, had offered 100,000 for the whole claim. There was the trouble. He owned one-third of the claim only. The other two-thirds had been owned by a man named George Martin, who was murderad in San Francisco a year before. Martin had gone to the city on business; Russell told Kate he had been led to gamble; lost all his money; turned over his certificates of owne ship to the gambler, and while playing with the money so obtained had” got into a quarrel, during which he had been shot. This much Russell had told Kate when she left him to return to her room. When she came back and told him what she had heard, both were silent for a long time, “Ido not understand it,” Russell snid at last. T went to the city when I heard of Martin’s death, but could find no trace of the gambler. Turner's name was not mentioned in the story Ilearned. No arrests followed, as the shooting was done in a big crowd and a general row, but the police broke up the place, as it had a very bad re- putation, The name of the gambler who got the certificate, and whom I could find no trace of, was Harry Marks, At the mention of this name, Kate started, and then said, *‘That is Marks Turner’s real name,” 1t was clear enough to both of them then, and the realization of the part Kate's tather had taken in the affair caused a long. awkward silence. ‘“Martin was a rongh man whom I was brought into business relation with through accident,” said Russell, finally. *‘He was a quarrelsome man, and in all propabilities started the rowin which he was shot. Perhaps your father was justified in whatever part e took in the affair. ‘But we must not think of that row. We must get that certificate from Turner, The transfer is of no account without my consent, a8 wo owned undivided portions of the whofe mine.” Russcl left Kate at the Widow Johnson’s, after some last words, in which the word “mine” occurred fre- quently, but used not as a noun, and in a manner which appeared to relieve the young woman of much of her Late that ternoon Adams entered lus daughter’s room, He looked haggard and worn, but 8 it would be well for y Mark. He is not such a bad man, Katie, and has money enough to give you everything you want. You could reform him, my child, T'm sure you could, He thinks o great deal of you, and tells me it hurts him the way you treat him, and if you only promised to warry him he would—T would let you stay home evenings, Katic, and aftera while he would give up his business. It would be better for your father, too, Katie,” THE GIRL'S RUSE, The girl could not look at her fath- {or as she said: *“I, too, have thought it over, father, and would likv to see Me. Turn , Katie?” g up in s ““Right away. leit her, and in a few | minutes Turner entered the room, He | | was a tall, thick-sct man, with coarse | red veins blotching his face, Most of | his heavy mustache was as jet black | as its roots were red. He was restless | and uncomfortable in the presence of | the girl over whom he supposed he had absolute control, | Without waiting for him to speak, | Kate said: 1 know what you want of | me: father has told me. I must| and, after asked her father, orise, moraing, 1 know what your poweris | over him. What T want before 1- 1 tlikely 'd do anything to| give my smlm-iu-h\w a bad reputation, | |15 it?" asked Turner, in a struggle to | rogain his case. | **But you have some kind of proof | or evidence concerning Martin, hayo you not{” | “No, yos; that is, I | kind of & paper of his.” | Kate trembled so much that she was afvaid Turner's suspicions wouid | be aroused. She forced herself t, | siile, however, and even laid her hand on his, as she said: | 1 know you will grant me the first | request 1 mako of you. 1 am s ightened about what I heard; and.. and, 1t seoms as if that paper some how implicated ~ father - and you Won't you giveit to me. T will know then that you really care something for me, and will fegl so much safer about father." | Turner laughed, thrust Lis hand in ! have some “Katie, I've been thinking about | ¥ claim, Likely it's jumped before this.” He handed her the paper, and a8 he did so he snatched her hand, closed tight over the certificate, and clumeily kissed it, and left the room, Her father came in soon afterwards and told her that she need not go to the place that night. Turner had said go. That night at 9 o'clock she aave Russell the certificate, which was simply endorsed in pencil. He went from her to the investors, At mid- night he met her with the fastest team in_camp, at the Widow John- son's, It was b o'clock the next af- ternoon when lier absence from the hotel was made known to Adams and Turner “They are in Carson by this time,’ said Turner with an awful oath. “Yes, Marks, and married, too,” responded Adams, with a faint siile. 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