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Show I VOL. HI Heber Wasatcii Countv, Utah, Monday, August 22 'nil 1892 No 7. theheber herald. you got there ?" Says I, as honest as could be, handing him the picture, Thats the woman Editor and Manager. A. Hatch Jr, ' Entered at Heber Host office, as sec- I hope will be my wife, some da).' 44 Your wife! says he, as he took ond class mail matter the photograph. 4My stars! That's Nancy Stwart! and glancing upward I saw bill staring at the picture with his SUBSCRIPTION PRICES face as white as a new One Year. ,..$1.00 Then thrusting the likeness into his Six Mortlis. C . . $0.50 pocket, hissed through his clinched Three Months. ...... . . $0, 25 teeth, No, Tom Baxter, she will never be your wife! and, turning, he sprang up the steps out of the forecasle before A WATER. gaff-top-s'- l. -- ........ v DUEL UNDER was bad: in 65, when Bill and I were working together on a wreck, just inside of the Chesapeake Bay. between Cape Henry Light and Hampton Roads. 'Ve had come down from New York, and were pretty spruce young chaps in those days. Now it .seems, although ne ither one knew it, that we were both thinking considerable of the same girl. We had been aboard a wrecking schooner about of-u- s two weeks, when one Sunday I was overhauling my things in the forecasle and was just taking out a picture of the little one that I'd left up home. Bill came along and looking over my shoulder says, Hullo, chum, w ho have . 4 could stop him. As you imagine, Lwas broiling mad and supprised as well. I. followed Bill on deck, and saw' him sitting" on a water cask with both hands up to his face. I approached him and touching him on 1 the shoulder, I asked as gently as I could for the return of the picture. As he looked up to me the express-iomo- f his countenance was that of a maniac; his fea tu res 'VeTe distorted whir either anger or anguish, I know not . which Come, come I said after a pause during which my chum glared vacentiy at me. Give me back the photo' graph The answer I recieved was a blow, and dowfn I went with Bill on top I S' |