The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-06-01

This the girls considered Inc DesG
| joke possible. With shouts of laughter
they disentangled and picked us up.
But at sight of my face there was excla-
nation
"Why, Queen Log, what is the mat
ter2 Are you hurt You are as pale as
sheet. You look as if you had seen
a ghost. Don't stare SO, Dolly. do
speak. What is it 2"
I tried to speak, but, instead, burst
into a fit of nervous crying. The girls,
frightened and perplexed, thronged
about me. In the midst of their rapid
questions an awe-struck voice was heard
saying: "Where are the spoons l
put them just here. am sure / did.
And here is the very napkin they
were in.
"Oh," I sobbed, "those men took
them away
''Menl What men?"
Then it all came out, and the circle OF
pale faces and wide-open eyes which at
tended nv somewhat incoherent expla-
nation struck me as so funny that / went
to the other extreme of feeling, and, be-
fore knew it, was laughing as hard as
I had cried. "And you lay still and
never moved?" gasped Rosa. g How
brave / never could have done that.
I should iusthave given one scream, and
then I should have tainted away"
''That would have been truly ju-
dicious,' remarked Esther, dryly.
sBut the question now is, What shall
we do ?"
! "Do!" walled Rosa "why, get out
| e 4looao ,.xs1 E,xI woods foc wa
can, to be sure. Robbers and muir
derers [ never heard anything 80 aw-
fui. Why did we come? On, how hor-
rid it is not to have any man to take care
of you?"
Her alarm infected the boldest of us,
and / regret to say our progress home
ward partook of the nature of q STAN
pede. Mrs. Pendexter, who was rolling
out tea biscuit in the buttery, was taken
all aback by our sudden appearance.
sSakes alive want to know! This
does beat all - were her remarks during
our recital. "Such thing wasn't never
heard of in this country before. Ell
kins that's the squire. And the man
with the seventeen hundred dollars must
be young Mr.. bennett on the Brush Hill
road. He's a sort of stranger, you
know. Mr.. Pendexter was a-saying that
he'd sold out all his hay at a good price
to pay off his mortgage.
"Where is Mr.. Pendexter?" said
Esther, promptly. "He must go over
and give this Mr.. bennett warming at
once"
cts, is, u.s." clucked Mrs. Pendexter.
"He's off in the medder lot, two miles
away, and SOS all the rest. There amt
man about the place, Esther"
! "There never is, put III Rosa, des-
pairingiy. CT never saw anything like
it Oh, how horrid, horrid it must be
in the land of the Amazons can't
think why Joaquin Miller should write
poem about them
"How far is it to Mr.. Dement'S p
said Esther.
"It's good three miles, but straight
; road all the way. Right through the
woods. You can t miss it. "
Through the woods we all shivered ;
, but Esther went on bravely.
i every well. Amanda can harness
| the old gray, can't she? Please tell her
to, and I'll drive over to Mr.. Dement'S.
Girls, which of you will go with me-"
Nobody answered.
"Dony?"
eyes I said, with a sinking heart.
"I'H CO."
The girls wept and walled, but in vain.
"Don't be silly" said Esther. "Ot
course somebody must CO."
"Well, do admire your courage. y
: said Mrs. Pendexter, sand there's this
about it there amt no real danger.
They're always scared at daylight, .
speaking of the genus burglar as OF q
wolf. "You won't see your men again,
Miss Dolly, promise you. If I wasn't
sure of that, 1 wouldn't let you go no.
how"
Fortified with this, we set off, con
: cealing our inward tremors as best we
l might. The road seemed long, but al
last we came to pretty brown cottage,
with little lawn, flower beds, and al
air of taste and refinement new to us IN
that region. A handsome, sunburned
young man, who was cutting the grass
: with nand-mowing machine, came for
4 ward to meet us, and raised his straw
, hat with the unmistakable air of a gen
tleman. Esther explained our errand.
> Mr.. bennett listening intently, never
: taking his eyes off her face as she spoke.
ST am probably the person meant,
he said. "Atleast have the sum alluded
to in my house to pay debt which falls
due, next week" He paused, anC
: thought for moment silently.
"I wonder you were not afraid tc
drive over to this lonely place." he said
: smilingly.
"We were, little bit, perhaps" fal
= tered I.
> "Yet you came. How very good O
. you You must let me drive you back.
$ ooh, pray don't leave your house I'm
: guarded! These men may come, you
know"