Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 66: what you’re looking at

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68 OLD JUPE. CHAPTER VITIT. THE MOUNTAIN REVELATION. A MAN inclined to be bad would find plenty of encourage- mentin the California of early days; and Parcell was not an exception to the rule He became known as one of the m~" inveterate gamblers of San Francisco. Some weeks he ~ould be so flush of money that he could afford to scatterst every where, and his wife would have every luxury wh*” the city afforded. Again, he would be so hard up tbh Bryant would have to come to the rescue by paying Anp-tte’s hotel-bill. As soon as the rainy season shovld ¥ over, so that it was possible to attempt such an cuterprise, Luke intended to start off on an exploring expedition in company with a band of miners. It was not the desire to find incredible amounts of gold which animated him; it was the sad hope of getting away from himself. The wilder the excitement, the greater the peril and hardships, the more absorbing the fatigue, the less would he be conscious of that sharp, steady pain in his heart which was wearing him to a skeleton—which was growing so intolerable that some days he resolved to end it, by ending his life. This very carelessness of life it was which won him the reputation for extraordinary courage and cool- ness; dreading no danger, he thereby escaped much ; for, not only did the reckless fellows by whom he was surrounded stand too much in awe of him to quarrel with or combine against him, but the very perils of a rough life seemed to lose their harshness when attacked by one who cared nothing for them. The mining expedition which he headed fett itself fortunate in possessing such a leader, and was anxious for the day of depaiture. Annette looked upon it with secret chagrin, She had the pain of feeling that all her delicate flatteries and at- tentions never won from Luke a second thought, and of seeing the hollows deepen in his cheeks and about his eyes, without the power to alleviate one pang of the melancholy which commiclookks.conn