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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.
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Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
Date Added
1 December 2022
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Newspaper
Language
English
Publish Date
1894-10-06
Publisher
New York : Street & Smith
Alternate Title
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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Office,
Rose St. N.Y.
Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Serond Class Matlor
Three Dollars Per™ Year
Two Copies Five Dollars.
No, 50.
Brothers wo stand,
fect land ao ly won,
By noble
We sity
ro acl
‘hoo!
Gita from above!
We love our Northland hifa,
Our rivnlets aud rilts,
‘Our homes
Tarn "ovine heart to, he,
Soot maid,
0, tnd of momory,
Upon ty aie rg;
°, £ love muito,
Tho blue ad gen.
Laud of he praia oot
Laud of the rovust fro,
Tan of te West!
Land of the inland sons,
Land of the prairie brooze,
aun of the flowery team,
Land of the bloat!
6,tand of many a
From land of ioe and om
‘To land of snmimer bloor
For you, for me,
DOR
‘ (“Dora Tessey
makes 00 matter who
@ never stopped th
Se he same—
With, vans and earria
w her face,
Tiooked in her 6
While
‘orokee
‘Tearing
midway the horrible
of the dim gray dawn,
for whom there
ope in in the blackness of her
a lovel
id he
tion ‘an
too close upon her, sod its
reverse the st kes and s
with horrified ey:
tattered
without avail.
i—ran on across the tre
oe it could st see what
wrought.
But yet—oh,
been saved! Saved
man had come out of the
as the first trembling oft
coming of the train.
o splinters
dismay.
op
. CHAPTER V.
“pora’s GRATITUDE.”
“Thundering down to a midland town,
tthe nawe—
or we te or anywhere,
For a slozon miles on either side;
Wervore goin unio and a quarter 9 1
rn tie
‘i horro
yes and
Down, ow the Ine, on the very rail,
ht ws ot hell trom
down on her with their devilish
‘And deafening din, as of giants’ hanimers,
‘That smote ina whirlwind of dust ands
Death, in one of its most horrible forms, star
Dora Penney in the face, and no escape seemed
Pes
A
A handsome young soldier sprang forward, and at the imminent peril
SHE FELL IN LOVE
TENNEY,
THE PRETTY TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
OR,
WITH ‘A SOLDIER.
ALEX. McVEIGH
Pik Pretty Tes
peed too
and
‘aster
telegraph
mors,
woke.”
WILKINS.
in mine,
ur Wild wheels
in was rushing down upon her, and she
soot there, shrieking and wringing her hands,
le trestle, in ‘he awful solitude
loomed creature,
ecmel ot the faintset spark of
despair.
er shrieks attract the uginoer's ation.
they could not avail! ‘The train was
reat to
top. He saw her, indeed,
and signaled the guard to put
on the brakes, \ me the whistle yelled, and they
into sparks, but:
“tthe wait sprang dovrn upon. her,
GRAPH OPERATOR” was commenced last week]
iC . MILLER,
Author of “Sweet Violet,” “Lillian, My Lillian,” ‘The Senator's Bride,” “Little Coquette Bonnie,” etes
Bounding wildly forward
trestle, be © shouted, loudly:
Dora's frightened eyes followed the sounds, saw
him, and she heard his stentorian votes, shouting:
outside the rail! Lie down flat on the
proktting ties! Cling to them with all your
might !’?
fe was like the voice of an angel to the despair-
in
“A moment before, she had believed herself ut
terly alone and forsaken, be: fond, ‘human help.
‘That loud, ringing voice tiled
hope, inspired her with bey That
rigtg command,
a shudder of fear, as the locomotive
struck tive {rst she dragged henelf over the
rail, and lay flat’ onthe projecting ties,
‘of the dread abyss olowe clinging
clin rith, pot weak, white hands, but sre
upheld “by ai powers, for what woman's
rare availed against the shock
Toar aud rumble of. ti
Strength “cout
and r
benumb her
“But lose a botind fhe fain, had followed aman
swiftly as his ing could carry him,
‘He reached Bort ‘n ‘tig very ry last minute of grace,
as her arms were relaxing their frenzied hold on
the rough ties, and ina aninute more had drawn
her toa place of safe the ‘center of the
track. He held the unconscious form in his armse
marveling at the wondrous beauty of the fair girl
he had saved from a terrible
Hier form trembied in his clas, and her glori-
ous brown eyes unclosed ai m the face of
ito [a'xplouddly bumdsome young man tale strong,
peen | athletic, and with the dari, dreamy eyes, and
1°
thank Heaven!—sweet Dora bad
as by a miracle!
noffice just | ties ik
he earth announced the
the slender, Fitlish figure
tant
on the “jrostlo, heard’ her sucks of horror and
raven-bia hero of her girlish
to the
are saved, girl. You clun:
es like a baron a the train nd I
came to your assi .”” he murmured, tenderly,
end almset without Taiowing what he was ‘asin
he pre is lips to her pallid brow, and Dora
uttered no remoustrance, for she waa
and confused by the horrible experience through
to the verge of the| ble shoc!
as
| her rescuer had taken
which she had passed, that
Mnother world than’ this,
nerved, she could ouly tin
while he murmured, soothin,
‘« “ot be. alarined. The odanger is all over
dT cai across the bridge
to the telegraph of fy wi ere you can rest and
get over your agitation.
Martel ncross the trest, g ber
ight forte in his strong arms, bu Sires the
telegraph agent and another ‘official, who h
i assistance
t she seemed almost in
‘Tremmbli ng ‘and un-
sobbing,
Fost on a lounge, in a little inner room
they fussed over’ her like old women, bathing her
and hands, and giving her sips of wine from
® "spoon. Sho. lay ves weak and pale, sobbin;
faintly now and then, frou the pain of her brui
and aching ai
h
"The telegraph “agent turned to the two young oe
men saying, gravely:
“*Y thinle we ought to have our wives here, and
the aoetor, too, for she seems to have had a tern
Mr. Chainey,
‘mow she
weeds better ve," and
Dov 8 splendid hero gave one long yearning look
into Tovely face, and lett the oftice.
‘Dora bad Keard seers word, and a bitter
pierced her tender heart.
‘So he was married! He me for his wife
to attend her—he, the Hero who had caved! her
from death, the’ only man she had ever met
whom she had felt in the first nomeut she looked
in his eyés bat she quid adore, A low, strang.
it
, and she
fegbiy on eran “in nurtngs
ree am better well, “T did not want you
to send for her, “pi £0.
They t thought bs ‘was going out of her mind,
she ely, but she struggled to her
eare that yougit mea cau
pang
feet, repeating
“+E mst go? I must go! Is there another tr
soon for Boston?
‘The greatest repugnance to seeing the wife of
n possession of Dora; for,
alas! in the first moment when their eyes met, she
bad loved him.
‘And the pure, te pressed on her
brow bad sRornal to her sledge at” nut
Teovas sudden, unbearablofangarish: to. know thine
ihe was the husband of another.
She could not, could ‘uot meet, in again, not
even to thank him for saving her life. She inust
hurry away, and try to forget the brief blissful
moment of ‘love at frst sij
So she turned to thea: wget and nd sad, feverishly:
“T must return to can.”
(There will, be another: train in twenty, min-
utes, miss. They ran hourly, and the last one
was an time. But you are not well enough to
go yet.”
in
“Ob, yes, yes, I am, Please, signal, the next
the gentleman who
Tk him for mo, please; for his
Tell him, please.’" Dora choked, and
in token of—Dora’s gratitude.”
“Won't you tell us the rest of your name for
him, miss,” please?
“No, no—it ‘loos not matter, We'll never mest
of his life, dragged her from the dangerous position to one of safety,
again,” she cried, fevetishly, and just then
conductor and ehgineer of" the fain ¢ that had
stopped, on the other side, came. m
pout the damage they had ‘unin done
hey. were, overjoyed alive ‘and
well, and gladly acceded to her ‘wish to 20. ba
em to the train en her rescuer re
turned presently with two ¥ women and the doctor,
he found the little beauty gone.
CHAPTER V4
A NEW ADMIRER,
“Married | married! and not to mét
Is ita dream, or can it be
That the tte is Vound forever 1”
Behold our pretty heroine, within a week after
her ight from home, installed as a telegraph
operator in the Wail street office of Mr. Florian
, broker
Dora, bad. reached New York without further
adventure, api an advertisement in the columns
@ New York World, had soon secured ber a
upon the fancied
ess how far her grace and beat
had gone. to gain’ for’ Her the postion with Mz,
rian Fiske
Her employer was lor, of about forty,
very rich, very good: ‘ooking, ‘a'great admirer of
the fair, Sex, and a well-known man about town,
He fai nly gasped ‘ith delight, “when he
behold the daly Beauty of “Doras and engaed
her promptly, at nce of what
he would have given 4 2 a fer na
‘And he encouraged all her
and bore, with all ber mistakes,
soot nat ii irit in naginable.
dainty beauty, her hi
iid efforts,
the most
‘All the while,
bred
he was st her’
and adutiration.
Some curious questions had elicited from her
fhe information that, she hud been, thrown sud-
dently on her own resources for a living, and he
fancied that she had been bong up in-style and
as indeed the
bo hard. for hier to return to it
with that lovely face,” he thought, and suddenly
he became conscious Of an overmastering passion
tho beautiful aLemployee whom he had not even
{Bown a ores
Her, beauty and charm thriited | im with a
fooling that no other ‘woman had
ie about her, and, to show her
thove deliente atvontione a man pays e0 the woman
he admires, and secks for a bride.
@ fate from which she bad fled, again seemed
fo menace Dora, for to ber, iu" her youthful
bloom, the forty yea seemed slmost as
Chivas stxtysyenr gtd dfaleolm. Sbe regarded hin
as quite old enough to be ber father, therefore in-
possible as a husband.
And, absorbed at first im her secret sorrows and
hor new duties, she gav. to the
broker's auliniratione When fe ‘eel eveloped
fully in an invitation to Xttend ra with
‘im, ther declined the offer, politely.” but with
hat lito alr of frortines Dora knew
how to impart to her manner.
‘urprisod and chagrined, the broker withdrew,
but a berious study’ of the matter, conviueed hint
the | ceased to
Thaniiers hae dalicate. retizonce, fu’ keen elricalty
eonvit
is was coquetry on the | the
a sae ies eh
rset cheaply, Sho must he faith-
oved before
ems with cola ‘or lurtesy, Surpris
enraging the conceited lady-killer.
Dora was, in fact, secretly bored ty his
parpable admiration, "The spotted beauty
ad conguered so. inany willing Iearts
50,
that she did not prize her trophies. There
was one, alas, she could bh
©) da el
from that awful death upon the rails,
Temained in Dora’s memory, with thrill
ing persistency: ‘She felt that she could
Ine Joved him fondly, even madly, but
x the irrevocable tie that boun
auother:
In the loveliness of the dark nights,
Dora often dream those fev moments
ith Nscuer and when she awolke
From Sine thrilling dreann to remember
t he was married, tears of grief would
Hit her lovely eyes. ‘Then s ste would dash
them away, iB
vtiow aly | an losing. py: heart to
eo poor country telegraph’ operator,
Tharried to some simple country girl, nS
vbo
And she ica, faithfully, to forget the
handsome stranger, devoting herself to
her new duties through the day, and
pending the ovenings 13 ber quiet Board:
dering what
Be Rociht at hone of her fight Yvon
tyranny and injustice.
She had left little note for her mother,
pinned on her pillow, and in it she had
Written, bitterly, that they had driven her
from home with their cruelty, but that,
she forgave them, since they would nexer
eur ‘omg
ed Dora again, The
or
anand
feat the
anit suicide,
ter searching, for and wide, for the
nidosiag ‘gir eed inserting’ ‘Sorefully
personals in leading papers, beg-
het to return, something happened
firmed them in the iat she
haa we destroyed her lit cr
ore had ‘started to cross
“Tho current had carried
itiaraway, ‘and some fishermen had after
ward found it in the riv.
As the contents were ie valuable,
rtised their
‘the Tenneys
4 denuited. the
the belongings of their lost
aU;
aie this, they could not doubt Dora’s
fate. ‘They mourned bitterly and remorse-
fully, believing. that lovely, wiliful Dora
and their ambitions and cruelty
had driven. her to desperation, ‘They
hope for, her resume, though the river
never gave up
CHAPTER VII.
“(4 LIGHTSOME EYE, A SOLDIER'S MIEN.’?
“The spring-day was all of a flutter with flags,
‘The mad chimes were beating like surf in the
The begears had slunk out of Bight in their raxte
And the bgleonies teemest with the rich and the
The slipped by, bringing ‘fhe data of, the
great ‘Coiamilian Celsbrations and all New York
Was agog with excitement. For days, little was
talked ot but the anticipated grand military
ara
Pigeveral days before it took place, Mr. Fiske in
vited Dora to. be his is companion in witnessing the
wet pageant of the
to hig surprise and chagrin, she declined
the bohor, with, bmiling civility, saying that sho
bad promised to go with her landlady and her
dau
By two women!” he said, contemptuously.
“Why, you, can easily excuse ouresll to them.”
fe leaned over the desk, his eager eyes devour-
ing the towers like ee where the color deepened,
Wavntly, as back from him, saying,
quietly and docsiv
“T never break ences ements with any one.””
She did not dream of the mad passion she had
inspired in the broker’s breast. On her side, she
folt a secret dislike, to. hinty and had decided. fo
secure anothe
aia not Like i attentions,
He rway from her, bitterly angry, but
more in love with ber han ever.
“Proud vii minx, to refuse, her employer's
admiration!” he thought, angrily and jealous!
for he did not baliove i hor sto
MT shall’ watch and see if my suspicions are
and woo be to bim who has won. her, favor:
have married her if she had behaved
rig] ht, Moe T ever lost my heart so completely
ber, he muti
ie tried the expedient of offeriny
and bon-bons, but Dora declined all, with
a Ba ‘hignity that disarmed his resentment.
Tay
her flowers,
cept such favors from her
‘ou seo Tam frank with you, Tam alone in the
world, and must guard my life with eonsummate
care.’
‘was on bis lips, at that moment, to offer her
histhand, to tell her that she need ‘not drudge
longer at the telegraph
red him, She hi
enh and he
im was finis! luctry or real indifference
‘iechted to wait litle fang not ris rejection
@ premature pro if he was
pationd the girl would see the wonderful advan-
Enge of marrying a rich “man like bimself, “No
pour girl, in her senses, would refuse such an
offer.
Meanwhile, came, the day of the Columbian
Colebration- |The beaker closed bi ofloe,
gave all his employees a bi 2 tonne a
Sexe and pretty sect suit of aask Diacr and went
employer,