Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 13, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 January 1883 — Page 7

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THE BALLET-QIRL.

With complexion like the rose Mid the mows, Due to powder on her OOM,

I suppose, Hhe whirlsupon her toes In abbrevviated close And exhibits spangled hos«

To the beaox. When the cruel time bestow* Adipose, Fairy parts and all those

She outgrows, And murmuring goes To the Tery hindmost r*ws, To pirouette and pose

With the "crows"

When life frayed and faded grawt, Like her bows, Hhe in garrets siu and sews

Furbelows Till her weary eyelids close In tbe peace of death's repose In she reaping what she sows?

Heaten knows. —[Lippincott for January.

Colorado Bill.

BY HARRY WARING.

"Hurrah! Come hera, Bill, if you want to do your eyes good!" The speaker, handtome and manlylookiug, in spite of the yellow clayatreaks adhering to his bronzed face and long flaxen beard, clambered up from the trench in which he had been digging, and leaning on his pick, awaited an answer to bis call.

It seemed as if his words were uttered to the winds, and that no one but himself was the tenant of that lonely valley, which stretched from a northern fork of the Sacramento far into the fastnesses of the giant Sierra Nevadaa.

On repeating his call, a swarthy but cheerful countenance, surmounted by a felt hat, emerged Iron* the edge of another trench some little distance off, nrrd a pair of light brown eyes peered cautiously over the mound of dirt. "Hang it, »eorge, what on earth do you mean bringing a fellow up to the top of this hole in this style? When I heard you call, I thought it was nothing less than Injins or claim-jumpers. It's not so easy shinning up wet clay with nothing to hold on by except your nails so say what's troubling you, old fellow, and I'll save six feetof climbing bystaying where I am."

He glaaoed at George, who still rested on his piak, and saw that his comrade's usually calm countenance was working with a strong nervous excitement he vainly endeavored to control. Struck by the change, the tall miner fairly leapikl over tbe dirt-hill surrounding his trench, and in another moment was by his friend's side. The latter silently pointed to his own excavatiou, down which Bill eagerly gazed, and there saw a hollow receutly filled by an upturned boulder, but now disclosing numerous uuggets of a dull yellow metal. "A golti pocket, by Jove!" he shouted, frantically embracing his partner. "There's the end of our toil at last. Why, George, that's fortune, fame,everything!" "It may be to you, Bill, to me Mr has but one meaning, and that's—Nellie."

George Hanson, the last speaker, had left New York nearlv a year before with his young wife, hoping to And in San Francisco the employment that dull times and filled positions denied him in the former city. Some time previous to his departure be had secretly married Nellie Waters, the wilful and spoiled daughter of his employer, who, when the voting couple presented themselves before him announcing their unioa, coldly shut the door in their faces, with the declaration, "That as it had Beemed proper for them to take such a step without any consultation with him, he would leave them to act with similar independence for the rest of their lives." All their entreaties could not shake the •Id man's stern resolution. George was at once dismissed from his situation and after vainly endeavoring to obtain another, he sold a small farm he had lately fallen heir to, and with the proceeds started with his wife for California.

On his arrival he found to his dismay that all the avenues to remunerative employment were more completely tilled than in Now York and after recogniilng a preacher who once enjoyed some celebrity In that city in the act of wheeling a barrow full of bricks along the wails of a now building, followed by a well-known Philadelphia lawyer staggering undor a hod of mortar, he concluded that his »wn capital, a somewhat superficial knowledge of bookkeeping, was decidedly at a discount, and that he would havo no harder work, with a proswet of more success, iu the role of an honest miner,

Nellie, too, seemed so discontented. Of a sclflih and luxurious nature, accustomed to every enjoyment iu her fathers house, where her lightest whim had been a law, she was tired of this hand-to-mouth mode of living, and despised the rigid economy which George was daily forced to exercise. She Ion—1 again for the gay dresses, the round of pleasure and excitement, that she now began to think she had foolishly giveu 1 4 .4 JA up. George's sad countenance and despondent forebobing* were wearisome to her and when at last he rented two small but cosy rooms in a pretty little house overlooking the bay, and. giving her nearly all the remainder of his small means, told her to be a good girl for the next six months, the selfish woman, though secretly delighted, wa» for a brief space moved to tenderness, and actually shed a few tears, which he devoutlv kissed away, and departed with the resolve that he would win fortune for the dear girl who thus mourned his

To him she was the same loving woman who had given up all to share his lot. Trusting her thoroughlv, he had seen no change, nor did be how day by day she grew disgusted with the plain matter-of-fact poverty she had wedded, forgetting the strong affection that would dare danger and death for her sake.

Not many of the few females then in San Francisco were suitable intimates for a voung and friendless woman, and even 'the two or three which George countenanced as friends were frivolous, unprincipled women, concealing their real character under a lady-like appearance and some little refinement of manner—dangerous companions for a voung

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and more dangerous for a wife who tad to weary of her husband. Yet George Hanson recked little of this on that bright morning when he left his house for the Sacramento steamboat wharf. Although be bad bidden her good-bve. he could not resist taming f«»r a last look at tbe beautiful picture he was leaving. Nellie sat at the •window, her unbound flaxen hair waving in natural ringlets over her shapely Khouldem. Her lovely

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ethereal expanse above, glanced roguishly and lovingly toward her husband, yrbo felt a momentary pang in kuving

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so much beauty alone and unprotected in a city which even then was a byword among men for lawlessness and vice. "Still, she loves me." he thought, "and that will keep her from every temptation."

He looked again before turning the corner. Again the same picture of girlish innocence and beauty. She kissed her finger-tips. He waved an answerluff siitnal. How often &ft6rw&rdj whon nearly exhausted with travel or worn oat under & hot sun while toiling in the reeking pit, did he remember that look and gained renewed strength for his laborJ

For George fondly loved his wife, imagining that her foibles were the mere whimsicalities of a child deprived for the time of its accustomed plaything, and he hoped that the acquisition of wealth would cure her fretfulness, and make her once more the affectionate girl he had wooed and won, He forgot that the love which requires to be thus bought is never worth the price.

He pushed up tbe river, with no definite purpose as to the manner in which bis dreams of riches were to be realized. When he reached Sacramento City, he did what he saw tbe other miners around him doing. Having purchased his mule and equipments—a small canvas tent and mining utensils—be followed the daily procession' trailing across the plains in search of the El I)orado which was to renew his youthful dreams.

From tbe far-off hills of the Nevada every wind that blew toward the Pacific was laden with rumors of new $old discoveries, until men began to believe that the upper canons of the Sacramento and American Rivers were the source of the golden fountains whose sands had been so thoroughly sifted on the alluvial plains below. It-was whispered around that men whom none would hitherto trust for the bare necessities of life wore scattering gold with lavish a hand. As if to confirm all these reports, from time to time some stalwart borderer would lead his horse, jaded with long journeving and staggering under a heavy packsaddle, through the embryo city streets, revolver in hand, and two or three of the same guardian weapons protruding from his rude bait. It mattered little if tbe swarthy stranger's gold disappeared like dew before the sun beneath the melting influences of 'the fascinating monte or keno for when the potent drugs of the gambling-hell had deadened his senses to all besides, he still retained a knowledge of the locality where he bad obtained his scattered hoard, and informing the listening crowd with drunken stammer that there was "plenny mo' wher' 'at catre from." again sought the new diggings, there to remain until a too plethoric purse suggested that its unusual weight could be as easily lightened as the last.

With scenes like these daily enacted, it is no wonder that the tide swelled strongly toward the Sierra. Under their influence, thither George Hanson wended his way, only to find that the crowd before him had prospected the desirable places. After trying some unpromising diggings with indifferent success, he repacked his mule and journeyed still farther up the river, until one evening, nearly six months after his departure from San Francisco, tired and fevered, he pitched his tent in sight of the snowy summit of Mount Shasta, that towered in the far distance above all its lesser rivals of the Sierras.

Tbe next morning when he opened his eyes, fie was tow delirious to recognize the form which bent over him as that of Colorado Bill, the miner whose delineations of gold-hunting and Heavy betting in the Saoramento Botel had insensibly given the direction to his own wanderings. George was down with the terrible miners' fever and had not some kind providence led the footsteps of Colorado Bill to bis bedside, his Bearch for treasure might have had then and there a summary ending.

Colorado Bill—thus called fram a brief residence on the great river of that name in Lower California—despite his rough exterior, shaggy beard and somewhat dissipated habits, possessed a warm heart. He at once took up his abode in George's tent, nursing the patient in the intervals of work with the patience and tenderness of a sister of charity.

Hanson came to his senses after a

his obligation to the tall miner who had stood like a guardian angel between himself and death.

Colorado Bill, on his part, was pleased to think that what he considered nothing but mere duty was so well appreciated. His wandering habits had not utterly destroj'od a certain refinement of feeling consequent upon a fair early education, and he therefore longed for a companion other than one whose friendship invariably manifested itself by the mysterious production of four aces in a game of draw poker, and thus showed designs on his dust incompatible with the professions of a Pythias.

The two friends were so well pleased with each other that they made common property v* ith everything, and struck a compact that each would share with the other any good fortune which might befall him*

Up to the morning on which our story opaus, the location selected had not been equal to its promise. For many days they had toiled with pick and spade, but beyond a small quantity of scale-gold worth but a few dollars, their exertions had availed them nothing. When they had turned in on the prewding evening, Colorado Bill had given vent to his feelings. "It's too bad, George," he had said. "We'll try the hole one more day and if we don't come to the dnst, lot's git."

And now Ibeir highest hopes were realities yet to the two men the dull metal on which thev gazed bore different meanings. To Bill it was simply the agency through which his rollicking animal life found its natural expression. orge, wit* faith, it ahd happiness for Nellie.

To George, with his strong love and undying faith, it meant hope for himself hi

Tbe shades of evening found them five hundred ounces richer than when they had commenced work in the morning. At this rate^-thongh, of course, tbe first day's find was generally the heaviest—they knew that a handsome

competence was only a question of a few weeks' labor. So thev worked steadily a fortnight longer. Then their provisions ran low, and Colorado Bill suggested to George that it might be better for him to run down to Sacramento, or perhaps farther, and lay in afresh supply of grab. "Ttell you what it is, George," he oonnued, as tney sat on tbe hillside in the warm autumn evening, "you've set me thinking with what yon told me about Nellie. More than three months since, when I was down in 'Frisco, I got acquainted with a pretty little girl under somewhat singular circumstances. One afternoon, when I had been thinking of tbe idle, shiftless life I led, a melancholy stole over me. I couldn't get rid of it. To shake it off, 1 started out for a walk, and after strolling about some time, thought 1 would like to take a look at old ocean, and so wandered down the Cliff road. All at onoe there was a tremendous commotion ahead—carriages whirling right and left, while between

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'If you mean Lascelles' thrashing,' I replied, 'I owed him that on my own account and then I went over my little story aboat Goo^e Flat. "I never saw such a change as passed over her face when I told her that. "'A gambler!' she almost screamed. 'Mr. Norton always said that he was one of tbe most prominent dealers in ban Francisco.' "'So he is—at the cards,' Ianswercu 'but his name's Lascelles, not

So it was resolved that Colorado Bill should go down to the metropolis. George had not heard from NeKie for a long time, but this circumstance gave him no uneasiness. He thought that in his wanderings her letters had miscarried, and in their present isolation there bad been no chance of communication with the outer world until now. Ha therefore sent along letter to her by his comrade, containing an account of their unexpected good luck, with a promise of soon coming in person to San Francisco.

In tbe mean time he worked long and steadily in the treasure gulch, and day by day added to the pile of yellow dust safely cached in a corner of the log cabin which they had built for their greater protection.

One evening, nearly a month after the departure of his comrade, and when his return was daily expected. George having finished bis frugal sapper, ascended a small knoll behind the cabin that overlooked the beautiful valley beyond. The setting sun flashed a thousand gold and crimson tints on the snowy summits of the Sierras, that rose in the north and east cold and inaccessible as the icebergs of tbe frozen zone. In the vale below, tbe temperature was warm and pleasant and for several evening past George bad gone up the hill, and from thence looked down tbe valley, hoping to see some sign of his returning partner. Hitherto be bad been unsuccessful, but now, as he gazed far down tbe winding course of the brook, he thought be saw Bill's mule on a rise of ground in tbe dim distance, slowly plodding its way through a space of five blasted treetrunks that gave an open view of tbe traok. It was so far away, and tbe twilight was coming on so fast, that be was not altogether certain it was his partner but he knew tkat, thus remote from all civilization, tbe owner of tbe beast

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them all rose a cloud of dust coming nearer and nearer. A puff of windfrom the sea cleared things up, and thsn I iv two homes streaking it like lightm ug toward me. A lady neld the lines, «aa a white-livered cur, without giving uer a thought, tried to save himself by jumping from the carriage. I npv |r saw such a scornful look on a wonvu.'s face as was on hers when she saw tu it. The man scarcely touched the gro id before I sprang to tbe horses' heads, id succeeded in checking them after tnjy had dragged me a short distance, 't he lady never seemed a bit afraid, only a ier I had assisted hei to alight she hatuiod me her riding-whip. "•If yon will give that craven what he deserves,' saia she, pointing he man who was now coming up,

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gambler in California, and the at, who cleaned me out of six months ust one night on Goose Flat with 1M.. led dice. The rascal knew me at once, and commenced to feel in his breast-pocket, but I had him covered before he cwuld draw. I knocked his revolver out of his hand into the sea, and then gave him a horsewhipping that I guess will refresh his memory before he dices another another green miner. He slnnk away toward the cliffs. At tbe lady's in vitation, I teok a seat by her side. Shu did not say anything until we got clear of tbe crowd which now began to surround us, when she commenced: "'How can I sufficiently thank you for what you have done for me?' "'Ob,' I answered, 'I'd stop ahorse for any lady.' 'It was not that—I meant the other thing,' she exclaimed, with a scornful gesture in tbe direction Lascelles had

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and I'm sorry if he's a friend of your*.' "She laughed gayly. "I don't generally ask gentlemen horsewhip my friends, so makeyourstj.i easy on that score. In San Francisione cannot make such nice distinction* among acquaintances as in the State-. But as for that man—Norton or Lascelle .i —I hate him!' '•By Jove, George, she spit out these words like a wildcat, but in a minute afterward she was herself again—all smiles and she so saucily tossed her little head, all covered with beautiful curly hair, and her blue eyes looked so bewitchingly into mine, that I found myself fairly in love with her." "You have good taste,' Bill," interrupted George "Nellie has blue eyes and enrly hair. But was that all ^ou saw of your beauty he continued. "No. She asked me to come and see her. I went two or three times, and tried to find out more about her, but did not lean*«ttuch. Whenever I began to question "her, she would pat my bearded mouth with her little band. "Sh—'shl' she said 'we might make each other very unhappy were we to tell everything we had ever done.' "The long and short of it, George, was that I acted as I suppose many another fool has done before me. I asked her to wait until Fall, and told her when I had made another pile I would come down and marry her, if she would have me. 'You marry me!' she cried, with an unnatural shriek of laughter that made me almost repent my proposal. "'Yes, if you don't think yau'retoo good for me.' "Her eyes flashed for an instant, and she looked at me very hard. Seeing I meant what I said, she suddenly softened "'Bill,'she replied, 'I never «ould be good enough for you. I hardly know what may happen before fall. At any rate, if you are of the same mind, come back ta me then.' "I was so angry at this short dismissal that I did not even bid her good-bye, but tore off my buckskin belt, full of double eagles, and dashed it on the table' 'There's something for you to remember me by till fall,' I said, and rushed into the street jbefore she could say anything further or prevent my going." "Just like you, Bill," exclaimed George, when his companion ended— "the best friend and the truest to man or woman but I hardly like the looks of things. What business had any woman Co be driving with a man like Lascelles? She—" "Stop, George!" interrupted his friend, in a husky voice "not a word against Mary! Remember she said that Lascelles was only known to her as the merchant Norton. I'll marry her if she'll have me for, George," said he, geutly. "I feel toward her as you do to Nellie—I love her." "Then'God give you all the happiness you wish for!" earnstly answered his mate. "Amen," replied Bill, reverently. "So you see, George" he continued, "that it's about time for me to go down to 'Frisco. I must see Mary, and it will only take me a few days longer."

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By this time tbe twilight was rapidly eoming on, but before leaving his post, George looked again in the direction of the the trail. Did his eyes deceive him, or had a deceitful mirage evolved from the haze another mule, the reflection of the first There, indeed, was another mule, and trailing over its side were the long folds of a woman's ridinghabit. His neart gave a 'great bound. There was something in the manner and gesture of the fair equestrienne which even at that distance seemed familiar to him. Could it be Nellie, so tired of waiting, that she could not resist the opportunity of thus surprising him There was no mistaking the other rider now. That was Colorado Bill. George could see him as they rode up from the vale below, laughing and chatting with his companion, ana carefully turning aside the long branches which interposed themselves in the pathway.

George, though half ashamed of the emotion, felt angry with Bill. Somehow he could not oear to think that any other than himself should be so attentive to Nellie.

They were now directly below him, though the trail circled the hill for more than a mile before it paused at the door of the cabin. Could that indeed be Nellie? There was a certain something— a strange feeling oncoming evil—that repelled him the more he gazed.

A harsh, weird laugn, shrill as the nighthawk's cry, floated up from the valley below. He breathed a sigh of relief. No that woman, with her bold strident mirth, could not bo his wife, his timid, gentle Nellie, who always seemed to shrink from any action that belied the modesty and attractiveness of her sex. "It must be Bill's wife," he thought and he determined that the pair should have a hearty welcome.

He entered the cabin, spread the table, and made the best display of provender that his exhausted store would allow. The coffee-kettle hissed merrily on the embers in the fireplace, when he heard the clatter of hoofs on the gravel without. The door opened, and his partner entered with a lady, whose face was parly concealed by her veil. "Halloo, George!" he cried "I have brought my wife. Look at my pretty little .bird. Mary," he continued, removing the veil from her face, "this is partner George--George Hanson."

With a cry that echoed far and near through the canon, startling the wild •agle from hi eyrie and the huge grizzly from his lair, the lady sank senseless on the floor. Bill rushed to her aid nut glancing at his comrade's face, he was struck by its deathlike pallor. "George, my boy," he exclaimed, "in Heaven's name what ails you What's the meaning of all this "Bill, it's Nellie!"

He rushed to the open door the ring of hoofs sounded sharp and clear through the still night, and Colorado Bill was left alone in his misery. Yet only for a brief space. No sooner had the "bewildered miner comprehended the terrible truth than, utterly disregarding the cowering heap on the floor, he started in pursuit. For hours he wandered through the forest, but the flinty rocks and hills only echoed baok in mockery his call to his fugitive friend.

In the gray light of dawn Colorado Bill re-entered his cabin. It was tenantless. The sod was torn up from the cache that hid their gold-dust, and most •f it was gone. To Mary alone had he spoken of this secret hiding-plaee.* Its store of wealth had furnished many a theme of converse during their long ride to the Sierras. He did not wonder at its desecration nor mourn over his lost treasure. He knew that to such a woman any crime was light in comparison with the treachery that must have been thoroughly engrafted in her nature ere she could so coollytind deliberately trample on the trust of a man like George. For his own disappointment he did not care. Since last night all affection for her seemed dead. He only blamed himself for not tracing eut her antecedents before he had given her hia faith, and, above all, he cursed bis remissness in not following up a clue to Nollie's disappearances hen he found she had vanished from the place where George left her in San Francisco.

He went sadly back to his old labor. Day by day he washed out the gold-dust, ana mauy a time watched long and wistfully down the valley, hoping for the return of his lost partner.

They met at last. One noon, when Bill was eating his scanty dinner, he saw numerous dark forms flitting about from tree to tree, and gradually closing in around himself and the cabin. To grasp his gun and flee to its shelter was the work of a few seconds. He knew that successful resistance to the band of savages surrounding him was hopeless. But he had no idea of submitting to the terrible alternative of captivity and death by torture, and resolved to sell his life as dearly as possible.

The unerring aim of his rifle through the loop-holes with which the cabin was pierced brought many an Indian to the round, and evidently so dismayed his oes that their constant hail of bnllets against the hut slackened, giving Colorado Bill an opportunity to peer through a loop-hole ana reconnoitre the situation. Just then be fancied that he was called by name.' He looked toward the woods, and saw his lost comrade running toward the cabin. Tbe savages decried George at tbe same time, and opened fire upon him, while be returned their shots with his revolver.

Bill threw open the door as George stumbled heavily over the threshold, and in another instant secured it with its masssive aaken bar. A ball had struck him in the back, penetrating his lung, and it was with difficulty that he spoke. Bill carried him to hia old bunk, bit soon saw he was beyond relief. He lifted a cup of water to the lips of the dying man. "If it was onlT tbe fever again, George!" be said asthe tears rolled down his cbeek. "Don't take onso, old fellow," gasped George, feebly clasping his friend's band. "It's all right. I came bade again —to tell yon about—Nellie. I didn't want you to think^I hated yon—for that. I felt that night—I could have killed ou—and so I lied. I know you couldn't

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could be no other than Bill. His heart swelled with the thought that he would soon hear from his darling wife. He pictured her delight on receiving the news of his great success, and thought, too, now that Bill had returned, there would soon be an end of toil, and that with the fruits of bis labor Nellie should once more have all the luxuries to which she had been aocustomed. "How well," he thought, "she had deserved it, for her trust and her patient waiting!" and he resolved that hereafter he would gratify her every wish.

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She—wasn'i—worth it, Bili^

The wronged man had spoken bis last. Colorado Bill stood by the dead body of tbe only true friend be had ever known .and a

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desire of vengeance

He placed their small keg of powder in one corner, and snatching a lighted brand from the fireplace, threw open the door. The room was almost instantly filled with the elated savages. A dull, smothered report reverberated among the rocks.and once more unbroken quiet reigned throughout the valley.

Colorado Bill had gone to join his friend.

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