Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-01-16

aud sat dogn close AZ my SIDE, TOOK ms
string, and the old dog again thrust his nose
between his knees.
"You seo"-aud the man leaned over to
me, aud began, IN . whisper aud q sIrange-
ness OF manner that suggested that BIZ
mind was waLderug-'you see, we al
come from Boston together-GodffeT, mats
The Gopher, Wilson, that's Curly ana !:
rhings dida't go right With me there after
came away, so / just let them drii' here
Lost my 'grIp,' as they say didn't have any
SNAP sny more, as people call 1t. GODFREY
and Wilson got on very well, though, tlll
Wilson was killed
"rill The Gopher killed him?' added.
-"Well, nov, there's where j, -" said old |
| Forty nine, and he shuddered. 1hs dog too,
seemed 10 grow nervous, and crowded hi |
ugly head up tighter between the cid IN ms
| legs.
| InAriistie as il is, | must add that here be
sRsin handed me the string, sod, rising
aolemuly, vent deliberately through the
process of removing the candle and cou-
ten plating the contents Of the bottle. Again
1 dsehned his offer. was wondering il
What part of that wrstched cabin were The
bags Of gold.
The mao sci down, aud continued hi
story exactly as before.
"-here's where il is. Godfrey did not
kill Wilson. The Gopher did not kill Cur y
no more than did you. You see, Curly wa
young, bright, beAuslfli. sunny faced boy
that had been petted to death by his mother
aud house full Of sisters, and, somehos,
out here, he fell TO gambling and taking
bit too much, snd one night, whea Godfrey
tried to get him away from = game. set OF
D roughs got up . ro-, upset the table, and
Curly got kuifed BY some one OF the set
A who made rumpus 10 get . grab at the
money, Godfrey was holding the boy at the
\ time TO keep him from striking, for be was
! mad With drink. Poor Curly only said.
a Don't let them know il at home aud died
' in his arms. Every body vas a stranger to
!, every body then, and no one took stock 10
: that which did not directly concern him
n People said Godfrey was riRht-,hat il was
y . case Of seh-defense, and Godfrey never
said . word, never denied be killed him, bu
Ill went back TO the cabin. took possession o
10 everything, and had il oil his own way. H.
~ worked like a Chinaman, aud never tool
a any part 10 the miners meetings or any
70 thing Of the kind, and people began TO fps
or snd .hun him. By and by all bis old &C
,e uuaiutances hsd gone bu, me, and he Wa
,s ouIy known ~ This Gopher
a. Again Forty-niue paused, and The do
% pt closer than before, as If be knew tn
OF name Of his master.
70 Ouce more the man arose, lifted tn
candle. coniemp plated the beads in III
=. bottle as before, aud returned. He di
sv not cit down, but took up AID pulled bscI
N. the blankets at the end OF The box.
Of 81 thought as much, ssid "a myself
4. "The gold is hidden in the straw
A., Look at the u, " said be aud he thre'
al down 9 bundle OF papers aud held the dir
ia candle for NE TO read.
q, There we're huadreds OF letters, all writ
ow ten in foe steel plA,e lAdy's hand. som
addressed 70 Godfrey aud some to Wilson
"a, Nov and Ihen was que with = border I
,,s black. telling that some one ~ hoIne 0
NJ. longer waited the returu. Some OF the le
am ers | read Come home, CONS home
r, was ~ the bottom Of them all. l chauet
II. on one addressed 70 Wilson, OF q reeel
date, thaukInS hun with all q mothers 81
nd sisters tenderness for the money he had !
md constantly sent them through all the YES
Years. did not understand It, aud look'
r. up at Fory-uius. He btnt over me g.
mt at on the buuk beside the bundle OF letteI
ee with his candle.
the That was 1t, you see; that vas II. /
An Godfrey, that's The Gopher, Is dead, al
can send them no more money, nd AS "
81. ~ss a gong to the States, | thoukht b.
u hat you should drop 10 AID tell the t.
- families gently, somehow, that they We
~ both dead Say that they died togetht
'e' he sent them the last ounce he had u
week before he died, aud made me ia
- these letters to keep them away from t
Coroner. 90 that they might not know
address. and so they nigh; not know
nome that Curly had died long ago, a.
" lied a gambler. T.ke one Of the lett
49, sonV and thu. will tell you where th
-. are"
~ su' Again old For,y-nine resumed the to
70 string He looked toward The door, al
,u, when | had stepped across the sill, he I
=" DOT the light. and We stood together
D The old dog knew there was bat the Q
oD' pace for bis master outside his cabin
ae .och time, and, blind lsSding the bin
S'u thiiher he led him through the ds
~" -Scribner'S ''oRHy.