Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-06-07

once been stopped The men were
armed always and the women
trenbled when they saw borsenen
riding toward them
~-HOar money or your life,' ~1s
their word, and they kept IL
"'If ne should meet the highway
men ? said my mother, but ! Vas
lot afraid ] did 10; care whom
we met or What happened 70 ne
We rode away from bone in the
bright daylight, sod We stopped
for dinner and 70 change horses ~
an inn; then we rode Oh again Il;
would be night long before we
reached London. / 50; in the coach
With ny head on nv mothers
shoulder, thinking Of Just one thing
Cecil and our parting. Should
/ never see hin 2yAin-never, never,
never! II be knew where vas.
would be lot follow ne and cArry
me OF BY force! Could / DO: so-e-
bow Lei him know, and escape from
ny suntis hose in London, and b
married, 50 thai DO one could par
rs,
-Ob. Twas 50 niserzble-so mis-
cradle. Nothing ike making pl8as
that can come 20 nothing, and burst
Ike bubbles when re have thought
them out, f0r Eretchedness-
The Safternoon faded out, and
the SUI SET, and I ssE nothing Of IL
The moon rose.
See Eha; q lovely moon = said
ny mother.
"But ] had LOT cared 10 look 81
the moon since / saw her over the
ysrden-wan that night, my lover on
1ne side and / on the other. All.
ne.
Rumble went the coach, crack
vent the whip. d
Suddenly there was q tumult.
" Gentleman cried the guard
gentlemen, I'm afraid We are to /
ave some trouble here. See to
our weapons, gentlemen ?
''Tben the coach came to a stand. {
@The shrieking women chung to-
ether.
"Four masked men rode to the j
cor. The cOachman and guard L
~ in a ditch one of the gentle /
len was bound, the other was old S
nd lame. They were rifing his 4
ockets while he screamed. They g
'ok out a gold watch and a purse, d
is snuf-box with diamonds on it. 0
hey had already the others money.
"Tben one-tbe largest, the il
fgure-bent over Us.
MAMMA began to scream.
"The lady who sat next to her p
inted. Il
1--WE could not see the mans face, l
r be was masked, and we were in 9 :,
e shadow Of the coach. u
4" Something shines on your fin p
r. be said; Get me see it. - :.
"He caught at a chain on which III
wore locket with curl Of Ce- "a
Is hair. Sd
Don't take thatv / cried. "
mt take thaty G.
81 clutched it. Our heads were y
re together. saw his chin and ca
juth under bis mask. At the
me moment my face was thrust on
% the moonlight. vo
" ANY, / heard him whisper to w
nself and | knew Cecil. 70,
Meanwhile something had hap =
ned. Two gentlemen had ridden II
the one who had been bound -
s free. For once the tables had
en- turned upon the robbers. -
Then one had ridden away
D were bound, and one lay bleed
!. The last one was Cecil. An
Il knew now that my father had
been wrong. Cecil was even n
rse than he thought him. He ~
5 a highwsyman, a bad man, and 50 t
companion of bad men-a
ature who cut purses on the All
bic road.
They were not all ignorant men,
sc highwaymen, by any means. y
ny had good birth, education -
manners. Yes a bad, man ! earl
how could l hate him all at '
'el I understood that my faith .a2m
lad been right in parting us but =
Sc lips had kissed me-those q
dis held mine. -
The ladies need fear no longer
one Of the gentlemen. Those
ows are in no condition to mo-
them.
Then he said lnnen didn,A aau