The evening world. Newspaper, May 14, 1902, Page 9

The characteristic short sto: hy Bret Harte, which begins Z day, will be completed in th instalments . “{ xnow,"” anid the Colonel, toftity, “that tt waa | 112" nome gold candlesticks to the Atinston Church. ‘That|hush—but It was clown gone, ‘Then the hull things would have only been human nature, and business—ef | flashed upon him with a cold shiver. The old held by a grant from Cherles the Pith of Spain, Just | He had stopped, gazing with an odd superstitions ‘ag my property on the James River waa given to my | wonderment at the Colonel, as {f overcome by this not | he'd had any during them flush times—Dut people by King James of England, sah!" very remarkadle colncttence. The Colonel overlooking, | This kinder pugzled thom; they tackled the 1 “Phat ex us may be," aad hia companton in lazy or totally oblivious to ite somewhat uncomplimentary | nixgers—but It was all ‘no sabe” They tavkled an-| fon! ‘Tho olf man had made a sirike in that indifference, “though T reckon that Charles the Fifth | significance, simply said: "Go on! What about him? rmanea k \if-preed Kanaka, who, except | the half-breed had discovered his secret and murd of Simin and King James of England ain't got mite!) | “Well, ex T was sayin’ he warn’t tn {t, nohow, but | the priest, was the ouly man who came to see him| him, throwin’ him down the well! I¢ war no I Inhty sweet on the darter! man that he had seen, but the ghost of old Bobrient hadn't. | bein’ found dead In the well! the goin’ away of ons—his | hait-breed and the girl! the findin' of that slum THE SECRET OF SOBRIENTE’S WELL. By BRET HARTE. i to do with what I'm goin’ to tell ye. Ye see T wax) kept on hls reg-lar way when the boom was the big- | und wae supposed to be 4 hore long afore your time, or any of tho boys that |ext. Some of the boys allowed It was mighty onelvi | it they didn't Ket even the color outer him The Colonel cermtied the remaining contents of! hev now cleared out, and at that time the hastenda | for him to atand off like that, and others—when he re- | ‘Then the first thing we kiowod was thas old Sodrtente | glass at a slnale gulp and sat up, “It's my Op was found dead in the well!” + sal, that Raintree had that night more than his a & Smith.) the decaying hostlery of Buena Vista with Is desul- ~ = = ——— ’ Vv. to theeye| ory custom and few Ungering Impecuntous guests 3 in the well, sald the Colonel, starUng up.|allowance of corn juice on board—and it's only Of the. moat | Here, too, his off Virginia ideas of h THE COLONEL AND LARRY. “Tae well ou thy propahty? WOHabE, KOH, hat he Gidh't aeo'a tow Dineen i snme time. But —s (Copyright, 1598, by Stre itallty were against his financial sucess; he could not dun or ‘sald his companion, “The old well that wastand xky blue enakes at th turn from his door those unfortunate prospectors afterward shut wp. Yours was dig by the inst te | tins got to do with that wanderin' tramp? no doubt that Bue- | VOM the ebbing fortunes of Buena Vista had lett Jack Ruintree, who allowed that he didn't w They're al! the same thing, Colonel—and in my ha Vista was | Sttanded by his side. take any Sobrionte In hie reg-lar key and water! | opinion that there tramp ain't no more alive than | played) oue? TRIKE Col. Swinger was sitting In a wicker-work chair on | ) Walt ‘The haif-breed Kanakea « 1 out—after the |that figger was." ing i Ghia mh the veranda of his hotel—eipping a mint Julep which | old man’s deach, and so did that darter or niece, and | “Rut vou were the one that saw this tramp with was the old hiltete | Ne held In his hand, while he waxed into the dusky the church to Whom ol Sobriente nad left this houre | your own eyes? retorted the Colonel, quickly, tl aistance, Nothing coukl have convinced mim that let It to Raintree for next to nothin, you never before allowed It was a xpirit phe and scarred! jy was not performing a serious part of hia duty as T don’: seo what all that has got to do with that |) “Exac: T saw it whar a minit afore nothin’ nth . Esai toua | Notel-Keeper in this attétnde, even though there were wandering tramp," sitld the Colonel, who was by no] been standin’ and a minit after nothin’ stood, es, over who#e! yo travellers expected and the road at this hour of means pleased with this history of bis property, Larry Iawiktns, with a certain emphasis, “it denuded surface the | the duy deserted. On a bonch at his ade Larry eT tell A few days after Raintree took |t over |warn't @oln’ to ray it to anybody, and T warn't goin’ stass had begun to! Wawkins stretched his lazy length, one foot dropped he was lookin’ round the garden, which old Sobrieme |to give you and the hacienda away. And, es | ‘ spring again In At~) oy the veranda, aml one am occasionally groping had always kept shut op agin strangers, and he fines |know Raintme's story, I jest shut up my head, “laeehe ApeauaQecnee eae éE iaiingicateeiay RLU under tho bench for his own tumbler of refreshment. & Jot of arted-up ‘alumgullion’ (a visolt coment-like | you kin bet your Ite that the mau I saw wasn't “ | ened by sun and rain and worn into manas: ike: dite Apart from this community of occupation there was ic of gold-w bal ted Leal ri weer the borders vin’ mant . | Se enaganyy there mare che ter or areas Tike Eulne| apparently no interchange of sentiment between the Shtaibedar suse aelie Wa OI mia, snaibaen aking’ it for We'll see, mah!" auld the Colonel, rising from ia” | Graver aid the pocle of alveriralton, ten deatiare| Balt. ‘Tho allence had continued for some moments, erttlining. Wall, Raintree ain't no 001; he allowed jchatr with hin fingers in the armholes of his cake | Shining, glazed ‘cement ‘There wel ttc oneness | When the Colonel put down lle glass and saned tho old mam wasn't one, either, and he knew that |walstcont, “af he ever intrudes on my property again | pmebaen. ators froma Ghee tieaeinal a oats earnestly Into the distance, slume nt on” wasn! t worth no more than mud for any | But look yar! don’t ye @o sayin’ anything of this te Ih a eee (ake Se) ee oho none “Seeln’ anything?" remarked the man on the bench, Rood it we ld Jo the garden, So he put this yer to- 1 know what women are! ; had been taken and conveyed to the newer seitle-| who had sleepily regarded him wether with Sobriente’s good luck, and allowed to him-| A fatnt color oame into Larry’s face; an enimetion — NSE Eat Rt eel oka eg eCaR peusings So," said the Colonel, “that ts—it'» only Dick Rel Unat the old vovair hud been secretly gold washin’ [quite different to the lazy deliberation of his previous — NEMaReSPRMaN cnleeeettar c ackamith’s shop, the | Ruggles crossin’ the road. UI the while he seemed to be standin’ off agin 1:1 | monologues shone In his eyes, as he aald with @ oor: post-office, a plonecr’s cabin and the old hotel and Thought you looked a Ittle startlod—ez ef you'd| But where was the mine? Where abt he get the |taln rough respect he had not shown before to his |: fatare erect aalysinpsertea the general desolation. | goon that ar wanderin’ stranger.” gold? That's what got Ratatree! Me hunted att | ocerpa “That's why I’m tellin’ ye, 6o that ef he © ie USES RE Ee Femoteness of prosperity | “When 1 see that wandering #tranger, ah.” anid over the warden, prospected every part of it—ye kin | happened to see anything and got skeert, ye’d know ‘ar beyond the other having been a wayside Span the Colonel, decisively I won't be gittin’ long in this | weo the holes yet—but he never even got the color!” how to reason her out of It.’ ish-American posada with adobe walls of two feet In] yer chyar. I'l let him know {In about ten seconds fe pavaod. and then, us the Colonel made an impa- S-s-s-efi!"" sald the Colonel, with a warning: A young girl had Just appeared in the doorway, « the place and |now stood leaning egainst the central pillar thet stp: Snexpenianced traveller there was tlent gesture, went on thickness that shamed the later shells. of half-inch | that 1 don't harbor any vagrants prowlln’ about like i plank, which were slowly warping and cracking Me] poor whites or free niggers on my property, sah!" Hight, Just before you dried pods in tho oven-like heat. “AM the sidme T Kinder wish ye did aee him—for when Rointree was get in’ just sick of §, he happened | ported {t, with one hand above her head in a lagy et) The proprietor of this bullding, Col. Swinger, | you'd be settled in your mind and I'd be easier in johe walkin’ inthe garden, Ho waa puzzlin’ his brain | titude strongly suggestive of the Colonet! Y een looked upon by the community as # person minc—ef you found out what he was doin’ round yer—| “WHAT DO YOI MEANT" THE COLONEL SAID, TRSTILY. | agin to know Now old sobriente made his pile, when all |Indolence, yet with a grace entirely her own, as remote, old-fashioned and inconsistont with| or ye had to admit that !t wasn’t no livin’ man.” == —— — | of a wudenst he eawsutiin'amovin’ in thebrushbestde | it overcame the negligence of her creased and e te. He wes | tusea a big pile for his huclenda and the garden that! the house. Me calls out, thinkin’ it was one of the | yellow cotton frock and unbuttoned collar and @ug=— gested—at least to the eyes of one man—the If Ife was an old! “What do you mean?" said the Colonel, testily,| belonged to a man called Juan Bobrle | factng around in his chair that kind of fool that he took no stock {n mining; | ran right Into the gold-h plantation on the James River, only to find the} His companion also altered his attitude by dropping! whon the boys were whoopin’ up the place and find- | him and driving him out slaves which he had brought with him freed men] tia other foot to the floor, sitting up and leaning lazily | ing the color everywhere and there was a hundred | hod a pretty darter or 1! to be driven by] forward with his hands clasped. men working down there in the gulch, he was either | cept for his partickler ot ing lede—war for lynching | boys, but Kot no anawer. Thon he goes to the bushes the wettlement. But as he] and a tall figger, all in black, starts ou, afore him. |and clinging of the jasmine vine against the outer) ”” Myin’ with him, and ex- | Me couldn't see any face, for tts head was covered |column of the veranda. Larry Hawkins rose baila! dness toward mining, was) with a/hood—but he saw that it held suthin' lke a big | wardly to bls feet. ges im think it] "Now, what are you two men mumblin' and ¢ome present progress ag the house Its Virginian who had emigrated from his deca when they touched California roll = Worthern progress and “smartness” out of the larger] "Look yer, Colonel, when you took ¢ place I felt} ridin’ round lookin’ up the wild horses he owned, or | kinder peaceable and perilie—they though? better of 1. cromm clasped agin tts breast, ‘This mate no call to tell ye all T know about It nor] sittin’ with two or three lazy peons and Infine that |'Things went along like this until one day the boys | was one o’ them prtesty—until he looks agin and sees |Mdin’ to each other? ‘You look for all the world it wax carryin’,)but a pickaxe!|two old women gossips, elties Into the mountains; to fx himsulf at last with | 1 didn't hay - of Ns face, upon an already im-]| pizen your mind by any darned fool ital in] hey heard. Ye know It was one o' them old Spanish | T think of it, pleudas!'” keem here with your slipped up on | that It wasn't no ero ectin' rich | He makes a fimp toward it, but tt vanished! He | pertinence and hod given | trupesed over the hull garden—-went through every rns I mout | was fed and looked arter by the priests. Gosh! now | noticed--parttelklerly the boys that ha it was mighty Uke you, when you firet thelr luck-—-that old man Sobriente w. r—thats curlous, too—ain't | had stocked a ranch over on the Divide the hopeless fat poverished settlement; to sink his scant ca | hopeless shafts and ledges, and finally to take aver” hy (To Be Continued.) ‘ Ur? 0} bowl or dish for mix-|and a vuke 2 sheets plain, 1 | Suite, 2 and § plece, from a leading manufacturer who had the misfortune to ei Be } pee cnowgh' to |aploed, and put together with dolly; or BY MME. bOUISE, |, #kite mits, by the wus, are more | cotton watsts on the laundry Wille shirt walst sults will be very popular,| meres © Sule, & ent Splatt, I TAVE BVEK BEEN AVAILABLE BRYORE. ¥ ‘without sloping. Cream sugar and | icing . + |oecoming than they were at one time.| For the girl who does not have tolespeciaily when the woollen walking Pe yr oee cae Sith ow ahoon, eri tne lwo Je! Ountortetman (important itemarotl are as long us they can be, | consider Inundry bills, pretty bot sen skirts bogtn to feel very heavy. A very SNA Unt tle erekag, Be } One, Tavo, Three. Four Cak dress is tie ghirt walat when made pret-[8i| doterve thelf name, which make |sible shirt waists of India lawn are nd- | prety design for a shirt watet sult eR ABS kd é © bisa ahaa 2 \ SIpRe NOFRAHACORMIDE Acayoreansl a ‘al we DUNE of Navy blue dimity with a tiny prieniy vetore adding, etther yoike | One Teva Three, Four Cakes} iiy'se materini aultable tor the season, L niore becoming than the shorter | Viable, A pretty design hay four ro ut ani w flounce ten Inches a fl enites Tratevorsinwetherc it and when attention te paid te the de.{fKirte were, Later In the ge when | of insertion down the front, having the! qnighea around the foot with a cluster tierce 4neteanit elrtier. @ One cup aumar, 1-2 large cup butier. |tuile, sch me eetart med etal thay these clogerwoven mntertais are too| lawn between ticked’ ih thhy tucks to| of fucks. and Join« the sicirt with two bee cron ot baking powder or one | PMNch ealt, 2 emmy, 1-4 cup milk, 12} are a 3 Neat amd pecoming | warm, my business woman readers will | the bust line. This will give «uMcient Dalfinch Ganda of piain bine dimity Pies of tartar aInlioiesialtotsddy (ours four, 1:2 )teaspoon baking nama he culs Musirate two stylish shire fd a friend in wash and tdfa alll | fulness for a preity blouse. ‘Phe black jae a yoke mude of fine tucks, which PiEhneor priordinaty alge atieet of | This must not rine very mich to be| waists of vi whlcti in) ai sal waists. Make the body with a little | buttons down thé centre, ander a row make a pretty fi * for the lower u ANOEY OF rich euty 7 ‘1 | I Goone cup of sugar. one-half of bute 17" 4s preay as a fine French flannel. These | ‘ 4 This ety! ny Fintsh Suit, upholstered two or three exga). Sift Hour tw - "y SMe wulutble at this season of| vl tigith Suit, woke dnrae' tines tor fine grained cakeand |} Fruit Cake. ; here, and are very nice to have! THRBE-MIECE SUITS, REGULAR PRICE £2200; FOR THIS SALE, ONLY, a little ata t when mixing. if © ‘ spends the summer far enough t ete thet te ott |one cy onuer tamer dpa pans Ont ee ene A Home Completely Furnished, $1 sifted the taattime add and gift with suit, 1 cuy molasaes, 8 cups flour. 1 tea- f yb ained in’ dainty é ere Tira and gode: fe’ useal aa oct tie aoueueey: Siobue AoE} tear lFeoturg aro a nat " | ‘The Gords Included Are Good Value at $140. List on peas!) add cream of ts ) the flour, etir 1 cum ralaius. 1-2 currants, 1-2 cup| alsts are both pretty, one hav- yp 2 soda in milk or water, whichever 18 chopped nuts: buke 2 hours very slowly ong yoke ¢ which fs ale 2 | Wayn becoming. ‘The band trimming t# UBINE | @.aw ms | used. Use baking powder whe: A with | ; eweet, milk always, ov can be U cold water. Use cream of tartar and | { Dream Sponge. soda together with sveet mili or cold IO er. 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