Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-07-22

alarm and a watchdog. Arising
and partly dressing, l took my re-
volver, and, stepping softly out in
the hall, approached the wiadpw
where / found Ah Lee standing.
"'What are you doing here g
demanded.
'Come to lookee see. Think
heah some mans hoppee out the
window said he, blandly.
sWell,' said l, fyoN go down
stairs and fetch me a glass of water
and a lemon to my room.'
"sAll liteI, me will,' said Ah
Lee, as he glidcd down ahe stair
way. As soon as he was oat Of
hearing l took hold of the. wiadom
and telegraphed
"sYunker is awake and coming
upstairs. Go hale in the hall
close: till he comes back
"sAll right answered she up-
stairs window.
"sKeep quiet down there. Yum
ker is up here talking to the old
one. Hide in the library till he
comes back and goes to bed
"'Does he suspect anything 2
came back from downstairs.
"sNo,'" l answered. He is
telling the old one be is going to-
Frisco early in the naozniRg.-
Hide /! He is coming down stairs.
"sAll right came back, and
arousing Mr.. Stamford, told him
how matters stood, and we de-
scended downstairs and turned
tue key Ia the Library door. The
heard the click Of the
lock, and, becoming frightened,
raised the window to jump out !;
but ] leaned out OF the hall window
and ordered hisn back. For an
answer he turned and fired a: me,
the bail grazing my check aud
Sitting my ear"
Here the narrator pointed to a
long scar on his left check and his
cut ear, and continued:
"The next moment l fired, and
the villain fell headlong into the
garden. We thcr returned up
stairs ard secured All Wing, from
whom we stripped the paint and
other disguises, revealing ono Of
the stage-c-ach robbers. ALI Lee,
whom we f.s&nd in the garden dead,
proved to be the other one.
"The ladies now made their ap-
terribly frightened, and,
ere an explanation could be given,
rushed to me, her face pale
with fear and catching me by the
arm, cried
"'Oh, Charles, are you hurt 2
"tOnly a scratch, Blanche,' !
said, in low tone, but che did not
hear me, for she had tainted in my
arms.
''1'he next day we notified the
to whom we delivered
our prisoner and gave bonds for
our appearance, in regard to the
killing, from which the coroners
jury exoncrated MS by verdict Of
'iustifiable homicidc,'
cit was nearly noon before !
again saw Blanche, and then she
tried to avoid me; but, drawing
her arm i'm mine, l led her to
pretty supmer-house and said
"'Blanche, l love you! DO you
love me in return
"She hid her face against my
breast and whispered;
Son, so much |!
"1hree months afterward we
we're married, and ] never hear
rattle without thinking OF
the warning it twice gave me, being
the means OF saving a number Of
lives and gaining me lovely and
loving wife.
"This, gentlemen, is true story,
and you can repeat it as such with
out fear, for the names [ have
given you ale fictitious, it being
not necessary to give the true
Names"
Such was my fellow=passcnger's
story. Halt an hour later we part
ed, each going his own way. We
have never met eince, but, being
reminded of his story by a rattling
window, have endsavored to give
it Just as he told it, names and all.
Hampton told rather funny but
evidently true story ahont q Steu-
benville gill who iope on a narrow
guage road up in Pennsylvania
the other day. They had to pnt her
on a nail krg on platform car.
She sat criss GROSS, Of course. and
for over ten miles scraped the bark
IF the trees on both sides of the
road with her feet. A lanyard
man happened along and got over
forty dollars worth Of new ba, K
that was lying along the road. lie
offered the girl $500 year and
travelling expe nses to travel on