The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-23
HOW SHE FOUND HIN.

Fe. We had taken up the last relsy o.
frisky mustangs. said goodnight % The
last sleepy hostler, and were dashing7
away into the darkness with the bose
Of the leaders pointed square toward
the City of the Holy Faith. We had
been under way an hour before my at
tention was attracted toward the dtive11]
He might have been fifteen and he.maF
have been seventy-fve. He was cdcked
and primed with ali the slang Of the
fronfier, which he interlarded with bits
Of lingo from the mines, quaint qtota-
tons hom the familiar poets and huthorS
lists, and when at loss for word br So
70 point sentence slung in a Latih g.
Spanish phrase with an inimitable pro-
nunciation and graceful wave of the
hand that signifed his utter disgust
3 mother tongue that was so paltfy Of
fitting words In an emergency. g
'.Now, let me tell you" he WOULD
remark, close on the heels of some long
and astonishing yarn; ''now let md tell
you what occurred to me one night Oh
the Yellowstone, or the Brazos, OF the
South Fork of the Canadian, or the Sea-
of Galilee, or other equally distant loSl
cality, and of he would gallop ht q
breakneck pace, keeping time with the
scampering team in front of us. Itwas
in the midst of this medley of astounding
adventures by field and food that heJ
spun the quaint little yarn that Is the
excuse for these paragraphs.
..One night out from Los AnimAs,
s:sS Is si s 5sfsiP5l I'ssas A salsIas sfHf
match at the off-wheeler, ga beautifuk
moonlight night, remember, one of
those nights, you know, Cap, when. the
prairies seemDklB aglow with nell
1owness, found when had mou4ted5
the box and unfastened the lines ffomS
outsSz oas 5s1f SLef9sz 9 sp:i Il pstisnoeI II
was woman-that is, / thought her AZ
woman when she drew herself up With
dignity as bade her . hearty .gpod
evening, and turned up her little nose
1T the ideae being accosted so farnil-
iarly by driver, but when said SOME
thing about the night being filed With
music. and the cares that infest the day,
etcetrs, etcetra, etcetra1you sayekEj
she turned aiHlsAf-cut, Thoroughbred
profile toward me and opened q pait of
the biggest, blackest eyes ever looked
SsSoniS sf Ssonsnt. & 6Te9sr. for
then she opened her lips to show Wo
rows of the smallest, whitest teeth rs
she, sent ont p peal of clildish lepghfer
thai pied dusnd rang al oser the
prairie. i
'.She had come from Boston, she told
sSe s' sa e15ssssd " %gst fsen; friend, "eI lie
dearest friend in the world she init
mated. with 3 proud little gesture, 'ahd
he lovesme 90 distraotfon VI / am not
alone, YOU Know. MIX IS with me, and
with him wouldn't be afraid of any
thing. Would Maxp Now who the
dickens is Max wondered, and looked
up and down and all around, expecting
to Neutrality-suspicious. I
hadn't noticed befopa Andjnst then 1
felt 4 coldf fwsf Haff thiag HoA eag% fst
Rs s1s Ss Sessa Il E Aad flS sslsss lss
around suddeulT-to seq he-hieRest,
blaekest Newfoundland stretched out
- And "A nog7iaf he tell you about
Jack You SEP Zach and always
chieTousy add ahsS * eFeI up and We
were married he was Just as wild as
ever. He got into some foolish eerape, /
and the people around there were all so
stupid and intplerant that he could
ossss E16s E1ass 1is sifs S aas g
Jack about something, and Jack didn't
saEs,t @ 81 .! ,hsT { EP{ yT11s gi.a hjH spd
hadn't the slightest idea where he had
goPef iSfgss RS tsssss Il En- sEs ssss Ss5
from Jack, and he had been having
such hard time, poor fellow, ana he
said Il he only had some money he gould
gofo the1aihss 3M& dig bts Of gold.
Il I.
as happy as two bugs in rug: Now,
esfi is gsss ES sEs Ssnss, sad
about as@ T week f hsH Hts iafssf ss came aaSs
from Arizona, and it was from Jack, and
he had been having more trouble, and
in " two - 49, f5sg .sssaid 9 put hir1 in
jail. can't understand why every one
Is so down on Jack So You see drew
al my m6he 1from the bank, md as /
was ifzz7d afs n7laM mf gffiitt mfscarry,s 7
just t8uShtft would BE safer TO b1ing
It M lf-vssA And 50 here ! am, and y and
thaf' S ~ = Bun NON II ibes glad to see
me lie dear old dafling and aEQn, 4
be SpiaaRfd when I get there TO face
those VIA s. ia afe. SO down on:
him. IN. i9as g = * e shsR s;4 theR ola
s eas e! ss : 4 Z as you s;;@ can g
Oh, woh fn Be picS. dEiaSer - : - = :
sltsreat atiHeuzenst,jI9 9housAk oJack
SeFmonri isfhsps roughest = 11esperad6 q siin
the Southwest and the biggest rascal
unhungl, sJeck Seymour vifeI She
hads69F 81 have BEEN he lEifs nfE thsl
old Nick Mflself And then j, hapDened
to think that the Sherfh
had f81Hl HIM q few. weeks before, and
thatif Judge Lynch didn' T tn him in
the meantime he s1ouid certainly swing
by due. process of ny, and ali ,theWives
in tkG-lor1dzn0uldnss q s4Te him ~ L am
afraid my face, even N the moonlight,
must shown Something of my hor-
ror tatlztheo ofhoughfy for 1lshe Peefed
curimlysinto itasndl grasped my arfn
withA little clufch as She Said. DO you
know Jack, driverP { Maybe you have
seen him He is tall and fair, and his
hairigsvers 80 fighf, and curls all over
his bead in fhe cuppingest Little tight iI
5i14 -. 3ssst e ssssS sss tSosss e ss ss;
your man and mine are one and=the
same internal scSp9d5sl, ~ R : BIT s;s e hfr !!
ssaa Saa ns9 s9%ssnia ina g Bsst e e
keep up TIE cpnssEs sEs4sipnf md lslsaed g @ e
&: !: he 4 ~ s|ssl is:s isss {
plumb aiS sSs sl.sr ssaaa6dE ssa64ddlE we 6sges 6drsgzs
into the little, fanch where we werett tto
change h6fses and breakfast noticed
. crowd aroun0 fbe sfelay honss losk
before we reached 1t; say n dozen men
$3.50 ~ -fber teeth, 'and horses a1p sad