The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1874-05-21

| day. do lot leave the settlement un'
| til five O'Clock Bnains will watcl
YOU when YOU leave here. Don't &C
70 DIR. Morgan's 5 till afternoon and you
viii get rid of all suspicion. Take
the east road when YOU start, and theu
if anybody is watching they will think
that YOU are going To the lower set.
tlement. Turn round at Wright's
corner. 1t will be dark by the time
you reach the Long Bottom. but there
is only one trail through the woods
You must ride through tonight OF
you cannot reach .Irnkinsville to NOR
row. God will help YOU, | suppose
if He ever helps anybody. which
don't more than half believe
Patty went away bewildered The
journey did not seem SO dreadful as
the long waiting. She had to appear
unconeerned to the people with whom
she boarded Toward evening she
told them she was going away until
Monday, aud nj five O'Clock She was
at the doctors door trembling les,
some mishap should prevent her get
ting a hors'.
Patty, howdv.' said the doctor,
eyeing her az tattd face sharply. !
didn't fni YOU y Barklns as eN-
pec.ed when got there tins morning.
Sick man did not say much Any
thing wrong? W hat scared you away !:
Doctor, ! want To ask a favor.
on shall have anything You ask.
but ! want you to let me have II
on trust, and as me no questions and
make no objections.
\ viii trust you.
! must have a horse At once ior a
journey.
This evening"
This evening.
but, Patty, | sad | would trust
you; but to go away 50 late, unless
II IS q matter q lie and death
1T IS matter Of lllc and death.
And you can / trust me-
1T is not my secret promised not
(" tell
'Now, ,Patty.l mu I break my prom
lse and ask questions. Are you GER
tain YOU are nol deceived: May 1T
there be some plot. MAY mt &c
with YOU? Is it likely that rohbel
should take any interest in saving the
life oi the person YOU speak Of
Patty looked little startled i
may be deceived, but feel 50 sure
that | ought To 90 that | will try to
go on foot. if cannot get a horse
Patty, don't like this. But can
only trust youi Judgment You ough,
not have been bound not to tell me.
1T is a matter Of lileand death that
| shall go. 1t IS Il matter OF lite and
death to another that il shall not bt
known tla, ! weit II Is a matter q
life and death 10 son and me boil
that YOU should not 60 with me
i, the life YOU are going To save
wo tn risking your own for: Is i,
only the life Of rohbe,: :
Il. is Il life worth more than nine
Ask no more qu, : ION, III have Bot
saddled for me Patty spoke as on
not TO be refused.
The horse was brought -, ~,
Patty mounted. " ! eagerly and hal
ilnndly.
hen will you be back
'.n time for school. Monday
| Patty, think aga = before you star,
called the doctor.
There no time think, sld Patty
as she rode away
Il ought to have forbidden It, the
doctor muttercd toh mseli halt a hun
dred tunes IL The next tortf-cight
hours.
" len she had r.den miie on The
road that led to The 'lower settlement
she tnrned an acute angie, and came
back on the hNpo.h'inse oi right
| angied triangle. Il may speak so
geomeiricallv. She 'ilus went more
than two mlles'to strike the man traii
toward Jenklnsviiie, at point only
a mile away from her starting place.
She reached the woods ~ Long Dot
tom Just as lhnkey told her she would,
at dark. She WAS appalled, at the
thought oi RIDING sixteen miles
through dense forest OF beech trees
III the night over BRIDE path. she
reincd up her horse, folded her hands
and offered ierNent prayer Tor eour-
age and help, and then iode INTO the
blackness ahead,
There IS local TRADITION Nti linscf-
ing in tins very valley ~ ohi" ~ re-
gard t" tins dark nie OF FATTY $.
know It VIII be thought incredible
but III that day marvellous things we're
not YET out OF date Tins legend,
which reaches me from the very
nelghhorhood oi The ocrlrrance, /
that, when Patty had nerved herself
tor her lonely and pc liouS I'D" ny
prayer, there came to her, out OF tht
darkness OF the forest, two beautiful
dogs. one OF them started ahead @
her horse and one OF them became heI
rear guard. Protected and comioitec
by her dumb companions, Patty rode
all those lonesome hours N that Wi,
derness hrldle-path. She came, al
midnight, to settlers house on the
farther verge OF the unbroken iores'