Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-04-25

off like humming bird, darting hither
and yon, so that it was impossible to put
a finger upon her, or to get so much as a
look at her brilliant and restless wings
But nobody ever tired of finding hum
ming bird at rest; and so Sam meyer gave
up looking for the opportune moment of
speaking his mind
Meanwhile, Lucky Dog Camp was hav-
ing fresh sensation. An organized band
of gamblers, robbers, and ''road agents"
had made swoop upon its property of
various kinds, and had succeeded in MAX
ing off with it. The very night after the
ride Just mentioned, the best horses in
Sam Rice's team were stolen, making it
necessary to substitute what Sam called
"a pair of ornery cayusses." To put the
climax to his misfortunes, the "road
agents" attacked HIM next morning, when
the ''ornery cayusses" becoming unman-
ageble, Sam was forced to surrender the
treasure box, and the passengers their
bullion. The excitement in Lucky Dog
was intense A vigilance committee, Sc
cretly organized, lay in waiting for the
offenders, and, after week or two, made
a capture of well-known sporting man,
whose presence in Camp had for some
time been regarded with suspicion. That
same afternoon his gentlemanly person
swung dangling from gnarled pine tree
limb, and his frightened soul had fled
into outer darkness.
Dolly Page, she turned ghostly white,
and then tainted dead away. Mrs.
Shaugnessy was very much concerned for
her friend, berating, in round terms, the
brutishness of people who could talk of
such things before a tender-hearted lady
like that. To Mr.. Rice, particularly, she
eXplated upon the cOarseness of certain
people, and the refined sensitiveness of
others; and Sam was much inclined to
agree with her, so far as her remarks ap-
piled to her friend, who was not yet re-
covered sufficiently to be visible. In
deed, Mrs. Page was not visible for so
many days that Sans soul began to long
for her with mighty longing. Atlength
she made her appearance, considerably
paler and thinner than was her
wont; but doubly interesting and
lovely to the eyes of so partial
an observer as Sam, who would will
lingly have sheltered her weakness in his
strong, manly arms. Sam, naturally
enough, would never have limited at the
event which had so distressed her; but
she relieved him of all embarrassment on
the subject, by saying to him almost at
once:
"Mr Rice, am sorry they have not
buried the man they hung so shockingly.
They certainly will not leave him there ?"
she added with shudder.
81 don't know-I suppose" stammered
Sam, ''it is the way with them fellows"
"But you will not allow it? You can
not allow itr'-excitedly.
81 couldn't prevent them," said Sam,
quite humbly.
'Mr. Rice" and her voice was at once
a command and an entreaty, ''you can
and must prevent it, You are not afraid?
| will go with you-this very highland
will help you. Don't say you will not;
for | cannot sleep until it is done. / have
not slept for week"
She looked so white and so wild, as she
uttered this confession, that Sam would
have been the wretch he was not, to re-
fuse her. So he said:
Don't you fret I'll bury him, if it
troubles you so. But you needn't go
along. You couldn't; its too far. and
you're too weak"-seeing how she trer
bled.
81 am not weak-only nervous. pre-
fer to go along. But we must be "cret, l
suppose? Oh r'-with start mat was
indeed nervous"
eyes, we must be secret said Sam;
and he looked as if he dh not half like
; the business. but woal6 not refuse.
4 "You are good rian, Mr.. Rice, and
thank Won and with that Mrs. Dolly
PAGE cauoht ap one of his hands, and
kissing if hastify, began to cry, as she
walked Quickly away.
"Dort cry, and don't 60 away until
have promised to de whatever you ask, if
it VIII make you well again." said Sam,
following her to the door.
Then call for me to take walk with
lou tonight. The moon is full, but no
one will observe us. They would not
think of our going Mere"-with another
Sunderland she slipped away from his
| OBTAINING hand.
| That evening Mr.. Samuel Rice and Mrs.
Page took walk by moonlight. Laugh
ing gossips commented on it after their
| fashion. and disapreeable possips after
their fashion. But nobody. thew believed.
saw where thew went, or what thew did
Yet those two came from performing an
of guilt and unworthiness very irritating
to endure, albeit from very different
causes. One, because an unwelcome sus-
plelon had thrust Itself into MS mlnd;
and the other
The ground of Sans suspicion was a
photograph, which, in handling the gam
blers body somewhat awkwardly, by rea-
son of its weight-Mrs. Page, at the last,
found that she could not render any as
sistance-had slipped from some recepta-
Gle in its clothing. A hasty glance under
the full light of the moon had shown him
the features OF the lady who sat twelve
PAGES away, with her hands over her face.
1t is not always those that sin who suffer
most from the consciousness of sin; and
Sam, perhaps, with that hint of possible
i nay, almost wickedness in his
breast-pocket, was more burdened by the
weight of it than many criminal about
to suffer all the terrors of the law; for
the woman that he loved stood accused, if
not convicted, before his conscience and
her own, and he could not condemn, be-
cause his heart refused to Judge her
When the two stood together under the
light of the lamp in the deserted parlor
of the Silver Brick Hotel, the long silence
which, by her quick perceptions, had been
recognized as accusing her, upon what
evidence she did not yet know, was at