The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22

She and / are covering each others
tracks. But / don't want 30 smart
and good looking a young lawyer as
that going home with Mr.. Conant. |
will 60 and do your business, but |
will cry quits on all the obligations
you tell of if you will lake Mr..
Conant home"
"Well, you need not be concerned,
Dana is just married; and he met
Miss Nancy alta teachers institute two
years ago, and she snubbed him, l
reckon, from some things he asks of
me. 1t amt every girl that takes TO
a stranger in preference to one she
has always known"
went of greatly pleased. l got
my witness. turned the fate of the law
suit and was continued as deputy
sheriff, and made good thing of it,
and when l mustered up courage to
ask Miss Nancy-the most terrific
prisoner that ever took, and l have
handled some of the worst-she
laughed at me and told me We
were engaged when four years old,
and it had never been possible for her
to marry any one else. And Nancy
thought So mnch of Nellie. too, and
late we had often ridden together.
That day, | had been of on the
hills serving summonses Oh foot, as it
was too muddy to take out a horse,
and when / returned to the hote.
where boarded, met Mr.. Gookins,
who dragged me to the table where
my dinner was ready, and said, 81
want you to start at once for Queechy.
have three thousand dollars against
the Green river wooden factory, and
they are shaky. The Woodstock
bank has six thousand, the Wood
stock sheriff has just driven through
here, and l suspect has gone to attach
the property, and l want you to get
ahead of him. Mr.. Hammonds
our sheriff, is engaged, and beside,
he says you are the only man that
can out drive Sheriff Dyke"
"How long has he been gomez"
"About an hour"
"Not about, but how long?"
can hour and seven minutes, and
at the rate you are going, you will be
ready in three minutes more"
land you expect me to gain seventy
minutes in twenty-four miles on old
Dyke?"
at amt twenty-four; multiply
the length by the depth and it's forty
eight miles. and your mare can gain
it 10 that distance. / told the hostler
an hour ago to rub her well and water
her, and give her small feed of oats,
and have her all ready, and there
she comes, and she'll make it like q
bird. Do the best you can. If you
can get the start Of Dyke l will
double your fees. If you use up the
mare l will give you eighty-five dollars
for her and you get another for
sixty"
"Do not start too fast" said the
squire. Nellie was very fond of a
three minute gait when on a mere
drive; but she knew as well as l
when business was on hand, and TO-
day she started at ten minute gait,
and in half mile made it an eight,
then a six, and then a FIVE, at which
she kept it. Whenever l came to a
hill I sprang out; the light gig came
up out of the mud. and loped along
by the side of Nellie, and at the top
sprang in and went on, without stop
ping. In sixty-6ve minutes we were
at the livery stable in Corinth. "Mr.
Drake" ! called out, "give me
Clifford, in a hurry, for a drive to
Queechy."
"Sheriff Dyke, of Woodstock, has
taken one Of my horses and engaged
all the rest for the day." he replied.
A cold sweat came over me. The
tears started. / knew Nellie must go
on till she dropped. / was bound TO
use every effort of myself.and property
in the duties of my Office, and Nellie
was my only property and must be
driven at her best as long as she could
90, if never drove her again. A
pail of water stood there, the meal
bin was close by. stirred double
HANDFUL of meal into II water and
gave il to Nellie, and we started on.
We had gained forty minutes on a
tired horse and had thirty to gain on
fresh one.
But Clifford, his best horse was Sill
in the stable, and so was another
grand roadster. There were two in
the buggy ahead and it was not a
light one. Nellie had watched the
track that led to the livery stable,
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