The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-07-12
NUMBER 43.

sort of fellows they were, felt sure
they would kill me al once if they saw
me, and should never even have the
chance of warning my grandfather
! How horrible it was to cling motion
less to the boughs, while they lay below
munching their cherries, and growing
to esch other now and then.
At last they got up and stumped
awa5. AS soon as they were out
of sight, / tumbled out of the tree
more dead than live. looked to the
right and to the left, scarcely knowing
what to do. 1 was not nine years old,
but l felt that L had not time to go
and frighten my grandmother with the
story-that better aid must be sought.
The factory itself was far away; before
l could get there on my own feet the
tramps would. perhaps, have killed my
grandfather.
Farmer Rosen, our next neighbor,
Penny's but Mrs. Penny and the chill
dren. Oh, what should dol
Suddenly I remembered Lawyer Lobb
in the village, and to his Office I flew at
once. How long the way seemed
how horrible it was to know that time
was flying; but / reached it at last.
Lawyer Lobb was at his desk con-
versing with Judge Barker when few
in, and they listened to the tale told
with open mouths and uplifted hands,
and when had finished they started to
their feet.
you're bright little fellow, Billy"
said Lawyer Lobb, sand reckon you've
saved your grandfather's life, and lot
money into the bargain; he'd never
have given up without fight It's all
right now, Billy; go home to grandma
The tramps will meet more than they
calculated on meeting"
But clasped my hands together.
81 can't 60 home" said. 81 want
to go and help save grandfather. I
couldn't go home; it would kill me-"
IAN right, Billy" said the old
Squire. 'You shall go along O. me
darned if you shan't."
Never shall / forget that ride through
the wood path, single file, behind the
Squire on his old gray horse. Never
shall 1 forget how we stood there watch
ing the old rolling mill and the tramps,
who came now and then to the black
ened doorway and peeped over the
pieces of broken machinery and piles
of rusted shards to watch for their vic
tim; or how at last we heard the wagon
wheels in the distance rumbiing along
slowly; how there was pause, and we
knew that our scouts had warned my
grandfather; how he came in sight at
last; how, with a pretense of unconcern,
he passed the mill; and how from the
dark building the two hideous forms
crept softly after him, with their pistols
In their hands.
ssOh, does he know, does he know?"
] whispered to the Squire, in an agony
of terror. ''Why don't they 60 to
himp"
..Look, Billy said the Squire. sand
don't get scared"
There were two men behind the
tramps now, treading softly as they did.
A moment more and shots were fired,
and there was a struggle. ThenI saw
the tramps lying handcuffed upon the
grass by the roadside. and grandfather
standing up in the wagon with his hat
off, and his white hair blown about by
the breeze.
.'All right. Run to him, Billy, said
the Squire, and the next moment was
clasped to his heart.
We went to the factory in a grand
cavalcade, with the tramps bound
hand and foot in the wagon. There
they left the money and went on to
the jail.
was hero for that day and for
many days afterward at home, and my
grandmother read me some good relig-
ious lessons on the text: s.f you had
gone with grandpa that day."
'.If / had not gone to eat the black
heart cherries. :" said to myself; but !
never uttered the words aloud. IN z.
Ledger.