The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-05-11

lips. he demanded 70 pe IeG OUT OIL Tue
house. denouncing me as murderer and
robber. To all his rawlings / had but one
answer, to be quiet. to obey me and he should |
live dare to disobey me and he should die
He sat there cowed, On the opposite side C. OF
motion. Then / told him what knew; that
/ heard who he was and what he intended to
| do. With that he broke down utterly, or pre-
tended to DO 80; cried like child, declaring
that now he knew my pluck, and was the
first man ever to get the better OF him, he
loved me like a brother. All the same, love
or no love, he had to sit where he was was,
and ! In front Of him with my rifle on my
knees. There was long night before US; he
could have no liberty In It, and the restraint
was horrible to him. One moment he laughed
uneasily, the next cursed, the next cried. II
was strange experience. was IT not 10
pass away the time asked him to relate the
history Of his life. He said he would, but
would first of all just shake hands for the re-
spect he bore me. Touching my rifle signif-
cantly. pointed to the stick lying across the
hearth-place between US. That's your
boundary line, my man. said |; don't GO
him into fit of sulenness."
'What came OF it T.
eve must have remained In this position
until midnight. Several times heard slight
sounds outside the fort, but, though he too
listened, he dared not respond to them; he
could do nothing. After while these sounds
ceased his associates, rightly Judging that
something or other had gone wrong and spolt
the scheme, had no doubt made off, tired OF
waiting. The fellows head was bent, his
| chin resting on his breast his shaggy beard
spreading over it like mantle. He suffered
, martyrdom BY and by We got to talking.
but did not relax my vigilance for an IN
slant. Once started on his own history, the
| subject seemed to have fascination Tor him.
He had been honestly raised, he said, by
good and loving parents In the State Of Mis-
, souri,: had passionately loved o young girl
/ III the town where he lived and his deserlp-
ton Of her was 50 pretty and vivid that de-
clare it brought into my mind that other
! girl who was waiting for me down in
t the Wallamet valley. I9 get the means ear,
: to marry her he resolved to go. to Call
8 fornia. He went, was successful, and,
full of joyful anticipations,, returned to
t find that she had married another. The man,
tie husband, had played them false, told the
girl that her lover was dead. and married
6 her himself. When he came out OF the brain
:. fever which this news gave him, he was in
. vted to an evening party In the town TO
4 this party came his love and her husband
j and when he put out his hand to welcome her
4 their eyes met and both knew then how they
d had been betrayed. From that hour the man
d took to evil courses. and his first victim was
: thesfalse husband. He became desperate out
| law. Once again he saw his love; he met her
y in the streets Of Sacramento; she was mar
s ried again; and she turned from him with
a a cry OF aversion. Yes, he might be desper.
d ate man now, he added, but he had had his
d trials I suppose should have done society
It d benefit had | shot him as he sat there, but
It felt sort of pity for the fellow, but did
J. Well, morning came at last. | sent Edwards
9 to get the gate open, and escorted my visitor
8 out, telling him that there was not room fol
e him and me in that part of the country, ane
y "And did he?"
Ie II suppose So, for he never attempted tx
y modest me again. Not long after heard o
: his death. He met his fate east of the noun
70 tains'' M1
q "And what Of that pretty Amazon, Joseph
W am sure she was almost as good to you MS
1t guardian angel, coming on horseback to Civ
r. you warming
d 'Was she not? And / had returned 1t b!
" behaving so unhandsomely to her! But now
le Just ask you, would it have been proper t
a. let her come In on that weeks visit and
le young man with reputation
N SAT any rate you did not. but nave yO
* ever seen her siRceY
I'd "Once; it was in Frisco. She was married
is and staying at the same hotel with me. He
ID husband was a tall, dashing man, what witt
you would be called a gentleman, and yer.
wealthy. She had been lucky, you see.
On knew her as soon as she came into the dining
1t room, and In d few minutes | saw that sh
d; recognized me; but she did not take any nc
eyes that she rememb ered, but there was a
appealing glance In them which interprete
" rightly. After dinner we got into converse
CT ton, the three Of US, Just as strangers will
LS- ia HOtel, hUu O. SOA -
i'd teIigent, we'll informed man. In parting
w got Just word aside with her. I am glad t
or meet you again. and thus said. Hush
she answered, I thank you for your ret
cence. In the past of q life that has bee
IN composed of ups and downs there is genera
st ly something or other lying on the memor
v that we don't care to recall or proclaim to th
i'd world"
It, "And about the young girl in the Wallams
ed Valley2"
as 81 never found her." replied Joseph, plair
~ lively Truth to say, l never started fairl
ed to look for her. Perhaps it's as we'll