The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-27
How Captain Bosweli's Money
was Saved.

was Saved.
"Yo mast have some rare experience
to tell us, Mrs. Boswell said per
suasive Lieutenant Russell, while he
waited for the mail stage. "You
have been at this frontier post evel
since Captain Boswell was stationed
here ?''
eyes we have been here eight
years. she replied, with the rare smile
that gloriied her face. II have passed
through many trying ordeals here, but ]
really think that 1 had an adventure
in the East, before | married the Cap
tain, equal to any that l have expert
enced.o
"Will you relate it, and oblige us p
urged Russell. SD ms 10y
MRS. Boswell" said Dan, the irre-
pressible youngster of our party. You
| can become a heroine of romance if you
Wills a8t -
s.Thank you," said our little hos
tess. 81 don't mind accepting the
honor.n
Three of us were sitting in an inner
apartment of the small frontier hostel
ry. The bar-room was packed with
miners, and we had. chosen to have
our supper served by ourselves, as we
had appointed to go to Custer City in
company.
Mrs. Boswell was much below
the medium size, quick of speech, light
of movement as a bird and graceful as
fawn. 8
sit was in 49," she began ; 81 had
just made the acquaintance of Captain
Boswell he having some business mat
tiers to arrange with father, had called
at our place several times. Finally
there came a rare day in Autumn, and
he and father were closeted the greater
part of the day, oyerhauling papers
memoranda, deeds and receipts. My
father at that time was doing a great
| deal of business as an attorney.
SAT tea time father said to me
'Bess, you won't mind an evening
alone, so long as Thomas is about, will
you p"
".I said no, I r although there were
many robberies being committed in the
neighboring cities, private families in
the suburbs felt no fear. Our house
was a mile from the city proper,
and a half mile from neighbors either
way.
1--WE find,' he continued, that the
Captain has got to hunt up some more
papers concerning the estate before he
a give Baron a satisfactory title. We
shall go to Judge Whitcomb's Office, and
our search may be SO successful that II
O'Clock wiIl,ind us home again. Still we
may be detained longer. Shan't
l call and tell your cousin Milly
to come down and spend the night with
you 2'"
"'No-yes,' l contradictory an
swered. DO as you please ; 1 am
not timid in the least with Thomas
about
"sBut Captain Boswell is going to
leave $4,000 here un il he returns.'
docs any one know about the
money p
"sOnly ourselves
"sThen l am not afraid. Besides, you
are likely to be back before g~raveyards
yawn and thieves walk abroad
Thomas brought the horse round,
and, while father spoke to him, I touched
the Captains sleeve:
Where is your money left?"
sin your fathers desk in the library.
Then he looked with a tender, inquir-
ing glance into my face (how the little
wonan's cheeks flushed at the memory,
and said Little girl, if you are in the
least afraid, we will not go to- night, al
though it is absolutely necessary
81 told him honestly that / was moi
afraid. I never had that strata of tim
idity in my makeup peculiar to woman
kind and 50 they rode away.
81 sang about my work as l put
things in shape around the room, and
viewed the brilliant sunset without q
fear or care.
Thomas, our new man-of-all work
was very busy pottering about th'
grounds, tying up grapeyines and mulch
ing evergreens. 1 knewthere was som,
coarse aftermath upon the hill, thai
father was anxious to have put on tn,
strawberry beds, and, seeing Thomas g
up there with his basket, l tied a scar
over my head, took another basket ant
went up to help him.
"As I passed up the hill l SAW a ma
in the highway speaking to him. l hes
itated about going on. but the man mad