The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1884-05-22

repsAtiaa fer another hundred feet This
he had dose 10 bitiag blast and Slinaiag
ssov. never islierisg. never dispsiring Tor
six loag hours.
Bili's greeting Vas charscterisiic;
"well dose, psrdsi | kseva you'd
como. The hid vas better st the cabin:
ba, whether alive or dead new dsst
ksov. Look an see.
Little Jsha WAS alive and warm.
Nov. psrds. there's six . you. BA.
laan's pretty AisA played cut, Shoulder
~ eds o them ere poles, and strike isr
Caspsrs cabin. 6rsi trail 10 the left altar
ye strike timber. Balsam and TIL 60 back
70 the cabin, an come over in the mornin.
Ysu kin wait for ne. I'll come, for I've
learnt sumthia' At that thar cabin, an I'm
goin' TO sss this thing through"
The six men took up the littsr. and Bill
and Balaan west back TO the cabin at
timber line. They had packed the trail
pretty wsll eoming down il line, and -.
vishsss SPECIAL Ailnsslsy. thsaeh slewly
and wsarily they gained the summit, and
tho dreadful aad critical atty feet once
passed, they felt that their troubles were
sndsd.
The next msrnisg was bright one On
the eastern slsps Of the main range. Low
down in the big timber, nestled in : warm
nook, with an eastern and southern OK.
posure. was : miners cabin. Already the
water was dripping from the roof-los'
which ovsrhung the floor; the pile OF mia
sral specimens on the rude sAslf beside
the door sparkled in the sunshine; the
dog barked ursn the chips; the burros
rubbed their nscks together at the water
ing places; the fire was swapping in the
rude forge, and miner was heating and
pounding his drills and picks. Other
men were sitting on the shafting timbsrs,
which we're piled around, smoking their
pipes and talking Of the sick boy who Icy
within.
Little John had already made his way
to these strangers hearts.
He was not dslirious now. But he was
pale, and wore hopeless lock that was
pitful. No one Of them thought he had
yet come cut from the dark shadow, and
there was sadness in their faces and q
hush in their veises.
After o few hours Bill came. The
miners proposed to go to the railroad sta
ton for physician, and suoh delicaciss As
mining camps do not afford. Bill ac.
esptsd the proposition in regard to the
delicseiss, but insisted that he himself
would be nurss and physician.
Usdsr his rough but gentle care the
boy rapidly improved, and at the cad si
The week Bill called the two Half. Moon
men out for talk.
"Hsv yer got any plans bout this kid?'
Both answered that they had not They
left verything to him.
well. then, hev, an I'm goin' to
say TO you what I've never said to any
man for morn thirty yesr. When they
wuz all goin' to Californy, in AZ, wanted
to go, too. l Iwuz kid, then, younger
than this un. lived in York state.
There was only oas . me. Mother WAS
widow. She didn't want n to skip out
but l stole seventy dollars oil the money
she had-and lit ont l wuz goin' to &C
back in year or two with thousands o
dollars, and make the old lady comforta
Bile for the balance o her life. But some
how didn't git back. Bimeby word c0nt
that she died Nv broken heart
'Thsr amt been many nights since
pards, when wuz sober, that ! ain't sseI
her; an, pards, so help me Godl tina
night On Red Mountain, she went with
me from the cabin at timber.line, an 81
the while, bssk'ards and for'ards. sh'
walked beside me, an helped me pacl
that tksr trail, until yc came. Then sh'
vent away. could never have done !
alone, Paras--nsvorl
well, this kid wuz clear. headed at th
cabin on t'othsr side, an himan me talk
cd. We've talked here. An you see b.
was clerk or sumthin 10 bank, back il
Ohio; an there wuz money stole! The
took him up for stealth it; but, somehow
they couldn't prove it on him. an had !
turn him loose. But many people said h
stole il, oil the same, an he couldn't bea
the disgrace, an so cema to the mountain,
His mothers poor. What he got ~ th
dursed bank wuz sll both on 'em had
Since he come to P'eblo he's foun out VIII
did steal that money. But lie haint got
sinner 10 20 bsck with an set himsel
right. That's hsw he's here.
/ New, pards, Nv got nineteen thsusan
odd in the Leadvills bant, paid in on m
Bslden sale. hsin't get . pesky Relate
in the werld, an, il | git my hands o
that money, III blew il all in. 30 II
goin' 10 send that kid home, ~ give te
thousan' 10 his mother. The balance is
big enough stake fur me; an then. ys se'
il do good thing for his mother may !
it'll count agin the internal meaansss ] di
nine! So we'll take him down TO Hay den
an one o you can stay with him an toth'
70 up with me 10 Lssdvile an' get SON
mssey An . draft-lvs got her name q
whur she lives--sn' then we'll come bsc
, an send him home, an send the draft
his mother. Dyer see?
Three days Afterwards they put Lit
! John in sleeping car. with ticket sn
$50 in his pocket. and - the same dsy
! draft for sl0.0 900 was mailed to bis moth
10 letter Of remittance. signed 80 u
known friend.
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