Frank said that he would go and make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had as much as pa.

So then I promised to wait for him to the end of time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived.
'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your husband until I come back ?' Well, we talked it over, and he had fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek his fortune, and I went back to pa.
"The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico.

After that came a long newspaper story about how a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was my Frank's name among the killed.

I fainted dead away, and I was very sick for months after.

Pa thought I had a decline and took me to half the doctors in 'Frisco.