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Street and Smith's New York Weekly : a journal of useful knowledge, romance, amusement, & c., v. 49, no. 50, October 6, 1894, [Incomplete, copy 2].
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
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9 January 2014
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Newspaper
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English
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1894-10-06
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New York : Street & Smith
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New York Weekly. Dora Tenney, the pretty telegraph operator; or, She fell in love with a soldier / by Mrs. Alex. McVeigh Miller. She fell in love with a soldier
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New York (N.Y.) > Newspapers. Popular literature > United States > 19th century > Periodicals
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vk CAPTIVATING NEW STORY, BY BERTHA M. CLAY, ENFITLED “A WOMAN'S WITCHERY, ” BEGINS NEXT WEEK.
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4 . ‘Vol. 49. “Three Dollars Per Year .
Two Copies Five Dollars No. 50, .
/ . OUR COUNTRY, ONLY ONES 1 that is was comuetry on the part o :
. pretty telexraph of erator. he mond fos . .
/ . be Davin Kawau Koa Derselt ehearhy. oa
— " ly wooed cla Lie wean won,
. Long may thy v, that, after 8, few days, he renewed oo
|, Abowe thy true and Yeave, Pat 35 gain ignored -~- .
‘col an 7 -..
ia eo
enrajting the conceited a liter.
Dora was, in fact; secretly bored by his
palpable ‘admiration. ‘The spoiled beauty
ad conquered so, many, willing hearts
t 8 not prize her trophies. ‘Tb
Mas ono, alas, sbb could never, sin, worth |
ali the rest, to her capricious fan: i
Those brief moments with the haudsorne, . [{
Beloved tn
‘Nu toon will dee
titer.
In the loneliness of the
SONNY
a wo ovo, tow wll
sci
wo el
Dora often dreamed of the
. For thee out lor che en
Wotore thy sole so sireat fom eae we “Se aN r
Thy telds, whore pl e was married, ‘of ret would
Beyond our fon ni hee iovely eyes. "Then fe would dask . #
Gites fro vo away, ery, scornful i
. © pin yeh faa ‘How losing ty .
loro our Nortitiani hills, an lid wy telogiaphy operator,
Our tivvlots a mi shinple country girl, prob: ft
” ‘Our howes ably not hal retty aa L ‘hire .
arsivoras mens the ay, fave had “any pied of clewent lovers, and
Ft fev ta wajee mr . q <a ‘a scorned then! all, I am ashamed of you, - r
Cree Pari iN Ny Dora Tenney !? Te
im mountains Ear a And she id, faithfully, to forget, the ot
. re frota Wave harms bandsom sr, devoting . .
her new duties through the ‘Saye Moat
Land ot the wrinito illo! spending the evenlags in her quiet Board-
‘ Laniot Ladustry's mil house, ing and wondering what
an they thought at fhoniovof her fig Lo
Xew rat ble, tre, tyranny and injustice. :
Thy sony, where'er thoy be, he bad left a litle note for her mother, ye
‘urn loving hearts to thee,” pinned on her pillow, and in it she i
AS to woot wat. written, bitterly. thee ‘they had driven ter vo
frou home ith their eruelty, but, that a
mt of momar she forgave thei, since they, would never,| fo
©. tani of mommory . ‘see their Penden nat azain. ‘The . st
Eis sala ayicht ceasily |. fy 2
ivg, Se fin tasers “foo. u
andi inserting scarey] 7
. rded persovals in leading .
ojo blue aun geay. Zing hef to return, something, pens : 5
fat coum ‘then in the dread
Laud of the prairie wea, had rasbly destroyed her life
Lani o te robuat tvs, When. Dora had started. to. cross the
ho Weat : trestle that fateful dawn, she bad in her |* .
fright dropped her satchel’ into the stream
Lan that ran below. ‘The current bad carried
Tamt of the flowery fea it far away, and some fishermen bad aftei
Tan of the bivst!” ward found it in the river
the contents were quite valuable, :
these honest men had advertised theit , :
- urcouney ents find in the benspapers, and. the Tene .
had come forward and identified the
roperty as the belongings of their lost
aught
"Aiter this, they could not doubt Dora’s
A handsome young soldier sprang forward, aud at the Imminent peril of his life, dragged her from the dangerous position to one of safety. fully, belloring: that lovely, wiliful Dora fF
Pras dead, and their ambitions and erueity |,
bad driven her to desperation. "They -
which sho had pased, that she seemed almost in) again,?” she cried, feverishly, and just then the| ceased to hope for her return, though the river r
Snother ‘world! than’ tli, “Frembling “and ‘un-| conductor and hgincer of” the train that bad | uever gave up Mer body. :
erred, abe could oly cling, to “him, sobbing, |stopped on the other side, came up 5
while He murmured, soothing! aut the damage they bad unwillingly done CHAPTER VIL. :
* 9 “Do not be alarined "The dang ‘They were overjoyed to find her alive ‘
gory tnd Team won carry yon ¢ acre be bridge well, and et coated to her wish to. £0 “q LIGHTSOME EYE, A SOLDIER'S MIEN.”
2 GTR to te’ telegraph oflc, where gi tht sem }e train; so. when her rescuer Te-| erie spring-day was oll of a flutter with Nags, “A
HE PR Y TELEGRAPH OPERATOR. Jeeves suctatis.* tir withvo momen and thodocton, | “FASURIEALe'haatog' le mate | fo
ss * | cd be marie acrow the trestle, carrying ber | he fount the Lilo beatty gow ‘airs .
his stro , bub directly, th - Tho wogknts bad slunk out of alee tu their rays, 4
OR. tier agent and sath “oficial, wh —_ Anil te Dylcoules wotued wich the rely anid the
. itnessed Dora's rescue, cal we Be
: mith A haud-car. ‘They ‘al mounted, nd CHAPTER VI. The days lipped by, ringing the date ‘ot the
b OE y BOW = 7 veyed Dora to the office, where sho was pliced to great Columbian Celebration, and all New Yor!
SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH A SOLDIER. rest on a lounge, [4 ite hiner "ren, ANEW ADMINER: fas agog with excitoment. For days, Little was
they fussed over bor like old wou is “Married { married | and not to met talked ot “but the anticipated gran tutary
x brow and hands, and giving her Pai ‘of wine Jaita dreaiu, oF oan ithe para afore it took place, ‘fe, Fike
IRS. y very 6 pale, ¥ Several days before it took place, Mr.
Author of “Sweet Yi 7 ” TRS ALEX, Me cVEIGH MILLER, fo fainthy how van fd 1 Lee fit tite painof her bruised) Bohohl our pretty heroine, within a week after | vited Dora to be bis gompanion in witnessing: the
athor of “Sneot Yiutet, jan, My Lillian,” “The Senator's Bride,” “Little Coquette Bonnie,” and aching arms, hor fight fray mo, instalod as ely raph brent pageant of the da;
So The telegraph agent wuraed to the two young| operator in the Wall stiect olllce of Air. Florian nas stp ‘and chagrin, sho anys
. pun Pa , > mon, saying, gravely Fiske, broker. he hohor, with smiling civility, saying that she :
(*Doka Tusyey, Tum PavtTy TeLRGRAPU OrERATOR” was commenced last week.) oy ae Ronpht t to iave our wives here, and | pa Wd seacbed New York without further | had promised to go with her lant as i
. . we the doctor, too, for she scenus ta have hada terri-| adventure, audan advertisement ia the colurnns | daughter
CHAPTER V. ~ Bounding wilily forward to the vergo of the ble shock,” Can't “for them, br. Chaiey, | or the New York World, had soon secured her & S Only two women!” he said, contemptuously.
“pora’s GRATITUDE.” trestle, he shouted, loudly as Butler ‘aud eai't welt eave tho oie?" position, 80 that she cou! ‘upon the fancied | “Why, you, can easily excuse yournelé wy then,
Oat a ‘Hallo? “Of course I will, Cameron, for 1 know she] rosy path of a working~ ‘an He leaned over the desk, his eager eyes devour-
‘eTyutderin down fo m midi town, Dora's frightoned eyes followed the sounds, saw | needs better care than rough men can give,” and| "She did not guess how far her grace ing the tlower-like face, where the color deepened
about the miane— him, aud she heard bis stentorian voice, es sboutings Dora’s splendid hero ga‘» one long yearning look | had gone to gain for ber the position eee Me warmly, as back on him, saying,
a sr a anywhere, et outside the rai down flat on the into her pale, lovely fac, end lett the office. Florian Fiske. quietly and Bee atv q
ee er sides projecting ties! Cling to them with all y Dora had beard every word, and a bitter pang mployer was a bachelor, of about forty,| ‘I never break aera with any 0:
Koln ie a mi pas | pierced her tender heart oy rich, very pool! Sookting, @ great admirer St} She did not rear the mad paricns ats “haa
‘Vans wid Carrhae ‘nthe 7 like the voice of an angel to the despair-| So he was married! He had gone for his wife sex, and a well-known man about oma inspired in the brok ide, .
‘pon T naw lio rage, and tie Merron lit ing Di ora. fo attend her— hee the boro | who. hod saved “ber | He eal gasped with delight, w first | felt a secret dislik ot ban ‘cud } tad decided to
Fey wud ale Hhoked ta huiue, moment before, she had believed herself ut-| from death, the’ only ima’ she had ever mtet| beheld ‘the dainty beauty of Dora, ‘aad eugaed | secure snother situation as soon as possible. She
Devt on the te, ou the very rail, ferly alone and: forsazen: beyond human help, | whora sho bad felt he fist uoment she looked | her promptly, a far in alvanie of what | di not like his attentions
‘aa of heli frow our wild wheels | That Joud. mugtug voice thrilled ber, srt with in bis eyes hat she cvuld adore, (A low, sang: | he would have ST ea wat away from her, bitterly augry, but
Texting iowa on ber with thelr ope, ins ‘ith strength to obey that ling gas p passed he and she raised ‘herselt ‘And he encouraed ail her Best tinal ettorts, more in love with her thas an over. :
And ceateniux diu, as of ganesh Finging counmand ebly on her arm, Thureunng: and bore, with all takes, in the most] “Proud little minx, t her employer's
‘That eure iu a whiclwind of duet ith a shudder of fear, as the locomotive Lam better almost» wells ‘I did not want you oda vepint gna” ‘all the, hile, admiration !"? he tl ought, ‘angrily aud jealously,
struc the trestle, eho dragged | herself over the Ot id for her, or } sous tot hh a, vas studying b er high-bred | for he did not believe in in ber story of goin fo s08
rail, and lay Gabon the projecting ties. on the e7 thoughe sho was going out of her emia rotivenct Seat veccaie with wo women, Ho folt
Deathy in one ot its most horrible forms stared y verge of the dread abym below—elinging, | she looked so strangely, Wut she struggled to. het oh aes este tied, oa crioy feovinvet ta Phe bad a rival—that there was a
por Teno he face, and no escape secined cliugmg with both weak, white ‘bands, but surely fore! repeating curious questions bad elicited from her | man in the ca
uphel tt an ngelic -E Powers what jroman’s “ gust £0 et got Is thore another train then information that she bad boea thrown sud<| ‘i shall wate and see if my sus] clone are
ie strength cou eeainse the shock | soon for aly on ber own resources for a living, and . aid woe be to him who bas won her favor. -
"he ala was ee down upon her, and she ad rumble, of the train, os it shot past] The 1 grenton ‘repaguasice to seeing the wife of fancled that she had been brought up in style an Ss Pagult bave martied her if she had behaved 4
Thricking and wrioging her bands, {ler almost in, the instant that sho gained ‘her| her rewuer ba taken possession of Dora; for, luxury, aa was indeed the right, for T never lost my beart 0 completely
arenes “the horrible crete, in the awful solitude |retuge? But over, and there st she clan, alas! in ig fest moment when their eyes met, Teil, not hard for her to retura to it before,” be mutter i
! i dawn, a lovely doomed creature, | B2!£ over tho verge, or _bruived and bad lov with that lovely face,” he thonght, and sudden! ve egeriet of offering ber flow :
of the dim gray dawn, iy + | arns relaxing g their fatal ‘rcoascloue And the ure, tender kin he bad pressed on her | he became cons'fous of an overmastering. macion an bon-bons, but Dora, (teeting ued all, ‘ih 7
for whom there scemed not the faintsct spark of | new bezan to benuntb her tortured brain. brow bad see pledge of’ mutual love, for the beautifal enspioyco whoin he bud uot even ja qvity that disarmed his resentment. .
ope in the blackw jer despair. Tot, close bebind the trata, bad followed a maa | It was sudden, ‘tubearaive Janguish to kuow that eck, precinte ‘your. kinlly. feelings, sit)” she :
‘duricks attract the engineer's atten-| Sty a8 bis bounding Limbs could carry him. | he was the husband of nother. Kifur beauty aad chaerus thrilled him with 2 look well” for a’ youn;
Would her shrieks at e § Ho reached Dora in the very last minute of grace,| She could not, could not met him again, not feeling that no other woman had ever aroused in favors from her employer.
tiou? Alas, they could not avail! The train was | as her arms were relaxing their frenzied hold on j even to thank hin for saving her life. She must | his heart. see Tam frank with you. Tam ‘alone in the
too close upon her, and its speed too great to tis Tough tes, and in s minute more had drawn | hurry away, St byte forgot the bei of biisdul | He began to linger about her, and to show her worl ‘and must guard niy life with consunainate
er to'& place of safety in the center of the | tnonient of love at tint si those delicate attentions a man pays to the woman.
everse the strokes and stop. He saw hey Indeed. tn rack, He held the unconscious form ia his arms, | 89 she turned to the ‘guilt, and said, feverishly: | he sitmires, and seeks for a. brid SS Te was on his lips, at that moment, to offer her
with horrified eyes, and signaled the guard to put| marveling at the wondrous: beauty of the fair girl) ‘*1 must ‘to Boston as soon as 1 ‘he fate from which uhe pad fied, again seemed | his ‘band, to tell ber that she need not drudge .
on the brakes, while the whistle yelled, and they | he had saved from a terrible dea Phere wil bo mnothie tear iu kwon, min {yo eoneats om whet in" ber youthful | longer at the telegraph, but fears of
tattered the ‘rail iuto splinters ‘anid sparks, but Be form trembled in bis cop, “and her glori- | utes, miss. They run pals and the-tast one | hioom, the forty year ol faa ke seomied almost as|terred him. She bad the air of a princes, this .
without avail, The train, sprang d her, eyes unclosed and rested on the face of | as belsind time. But you are not well enough to old as sixty ors ola Malcolm, She regarded him | girl, and he did not know whether her colines to .
andra 09 se the foo the otfer side: | a enaial handsome young man, tall, strong, | £0 yet.’” quite al fh to be her futher, therefore itn-| him! was finished coquetry or real indifference. !
2 it could stop © Me that Musaster had been |athietic, and with the dark, dreamy eyes, ‘and | “Oh, yes, yes, I am. Please signal tho ne: xt| powible as a busta, - Ho decided to wait a little, and not risk rejection ‘
Srrought. raven-biack curly of the kero of -her girlish train to, stop jor ae, “Ab the ieattettan who | And, absorbed ot fn in her woret sorrows and | by, a prenature provesal, | Burely, if he, was ‘
But yet—ob, thal J Fee eaulol Dora had | fancies. as so kind! Thank him for me, please; for his | her new duties, she jail attention to patient, ‘the girl would see the wonderful advan-
been save! irate? ‘You ary saved, sweet girl, You clung to the gorse Tell bimy please.” Dora choked, and tes adits When it ‘patent Movshoped Tage of marrying e rich man Tike hinself. No .
“Riman had come ot oe fi telegraph office just | ties like a heroiné til the train pasol, and I] tugged at a diamond fully invitation to attend grand opera with | poor (gir, in ber senses, would refuse such an .
the frat trent bio 6 earth aunounced the }came to your awistance,”” he murmured, 1 tetlerly, it to the ayent, and sai hia, she declined the. offer, veil ut with | offer, :
coming of the train. ‘and almost without kowing what be in token of—Dora’s. een that’ little air of frostines Dora kusw so Wwoll |” Meanwhile, came. the day of the Columbian
Yiotdar ive instant the slender, plrtish figure] he prowed is ies to ber pallid tow ‘and Dosa | et Won't you toll us the rest of your name for| how to impart to her manner. Celebration.’ The broker closed his ollice
on he tretle, beard. her shrieks of horror and] uttered ino remonstrance, for she was wo dazed | him, mis, please Surprise and chagrined, the broker withdrew, | gave all bis employees a holiday. Dora Monel
ot aud confused by the horrible experience through | "No, n0-it does not matter, We'll never meet | but a serious study of the matter, conviuced hint Heat aud pretty strove suit of dark blue, and went