The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-31

After o few hours Bill came. Tht
miners proposed to 60 to the railroad
station for physician and such delica
cies as mining camps do not elford. Bill
| accepted the proposition in regard TO tht
delicacies, but insisted that he himGel
would be nurse and physician.
Under his rough but gentle care The
boy rapidly improved, and at tho end o.
the week Bill called the two Half.Moo1
men out for little talk.
"Hev yer got any plann bout thi.
kid ?"
Both answered that they had not
They left everything to him.
well, then, hev; an Pm goin' tc
cay to you two what I've never said tc
any man for more'n thirty years. When
they wuz all goin' to Californy, in '49,
wanted TO 60 too. l wuz kid, then
younger than this un. lived in York
State. There wuz on'y one o'me
Mother wuz widow. She didn't want
me to skip out, but l stole seventy dol
lars-all the money she had-an' lit out
| WIZ goin' to 60 back in . year or two
with thousands O. dollars, an make the
old lady comfortable for the ba 'ance O.
her life. But somehow didn't git back
Bimeby word come she died ~ broken
heart.
"Ther' ain't been many nights since
pards, when wuz sober, that I ain't
seen her; an, pards, so help me God
that night on Red Mountain, she went
with me from the cabin Mt timber.llne
an all the while, back'ards an for'ards,
she walked beside me, an helped me
pack that ther' trail, uutil ye came.
Then she went away. / could never
done it alone pards- never!
"Well this kid wuz clear headed at the
cabin on t'other side, an him an me
talked an talked. We've talked here.
An, ycL see, he was clerk or sumthin
In bank, back 10 Ohio; an there wuz
money atole! They took him up for
stealin' it; but somehow they couldn't
rruse ii OF him, sn' had to turn MIN
loose. But many people said he stole it
all the same, an he couldn't bear the
disgrace an 80 come to the mountains.
His mothers poor. What ne got in the
burned bank wuz all both on'em had.
Since he come to P'eblo he's foun' out
who did eteal that money. But he
hain't got sinner to 60 back with an
set himself right. That's how he's here.
"Now, pards, I've got nineteen thou
sand odd in the Leadville Bank, paid in
on my Belden sale. hain't got pesky
relation in the world, an if git my
hands on that money I'll likely blow it
all in. So I'm goin' to send that kid
home. an give ten thousan' to his moth.
er. The balance is big enough stake
fur me; an then, ye see, if do good
thing for his mother may be it'll count
again the internal meannees did to
mine. So we'll take him down to Hay.
den's, an one O you can stay with him
an t'other go up with me TO Leadville
ah' get some money an draft-I've got
her name an whar che lives-an' then
we'll come back an send him homo, an
send the draft to his mother. Dyer
ee?"
Three days afterwards they put Little
John in sleeping car, with ticket and
fifty dollars in his pocket, and on tho
same day draft for ten thousand dol.
lars was mailed to his mother in o letter
of remittance signed can Unknown
Friend"
Two hours afterwards Bill Lewis in.
suited respectable stranger and pro-
voked fight at the railroad station, and
before morning was arrested for cutting
q man in gambling house.