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

After few hours Bill came. LII!
miners proposed to 60 to the railroad
station for physician and such delica
c;es as mining camps do not afford. Bill
accepted the proposition in regard to tht
dalicacies, but insisted that be himsel
would be nurse and physician.
Under his rough but gentle, care tht
boy rapidly improved, and at the end Of
the week Bill called the two Halt.Moor
men out tor little talk.
"Hev yer got any plans bout this
kid"
Both answered that the, lad not
They left everything to him.
"Well, then, I hev; an Pm goin' to
say to you two what I've never said to
any man for more'n thirty years. When
they wuz all goin' to Californy, in 49,
wanted to go too. I wuz kid, then,
Younger than this un. I lived in York
State. There wuz on'y one ONE
Mother uuz a widow. She didn't want
me to skip out, but I stole seventy dol
lars-all the money she had-an' lit out.
l wuz goin' to 20 back in year or two,
with thousands O. dollars, an make the
old lady comfortable for the ba 'ance O.
her life But somehow I didn't git back.
Bimeby word come she died Nv a broken
heart.
"Ther' amt been many nights since,
pards, when I wuz sober, that l amt
seen her; an, pards, so help me God
that night on Red Mountain, she went
with me from the cabin at er-line,
an all the while, back k'ards an for'ards,
she walked beside me, an helped me
pack that ther' trail, until ye came.
Then she went away. / could never
done it alone pards-n never
s'Well this kid wuz clear-headed ut the
cabin on t'other side, an him an me
talked an talked. We've talked here.
An, you see, he was clerk or sumthin'
in bank, back in Ohio; an there wuz
money stole! They took him up for
stealin' it.; but somehow they couldn't
prove it on him, an had to turn him
loose. But many people said he stole it
all the same, an he couldn't bear tho
disgrace an 80 come to the mountains.
His mothers poor. What he got in the
burned bank wuz all both on'em had.
Since be come to P'eblo he's foun' out
who did steal that money. But he
hain't got sinner to go 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. I hain't got a pesky
relation in the world. an if l 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 b stake
fur me; an then, ye see, if do good
thing for his mother may be it'll count
again the internal meanness did to
mine. SO we'll take him down to Hay.
den's, an one O. you can stay with him
an t'other 90 up with me to Leadville
an get some money an draft-I've got
her name an whar she lives-an' then
we'll come back an send him home, an
send the draft to his mother. Dyer
sect"
Three days afterwards they put Little
John in sleeping car, with ticket and
City dollars in his pocket, and on tho
same day draft for ten thousand dol
lars was mailed to his mother in letter
of remittance signed "An 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
man in gambling house.