The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-02

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 Little John was alive and warm.
 Now, pards, there's six O you. Ba- laam's pretty nigh played out. Shoulder the ends O them ere poles and strike for Caspar's cabin-frst trail to the left after ye strike timber. Balaam an I'll go back to the cabin an come over in the mornin'. You kin wait for me. I'll come, for I've learnt sumthin' at that thar cabin, an I'm goin' to see this thing through :"
 The six men took up the Inter, and Bill and Balaam went back to the cabin at timber line. They had packed the trail pretty well coming down in line, and so, without special difficulty, though slowly and wearily, they gained the sum- nit, and, the dreadful and critical fifty feet once passed, they felt that their troubles were ended.
 The next morning was bright one on the eastern slope of the main range. Low down in the big timber, nestled in a warm nook, with an eastern and southern exposure, was miners cabin. Already the water was dripping from the roof logs which overhung the front the pile of mineral specimens on the rude shelf ! OCoi0O tNS dOOI oPdihlCQ III lllC SQnSnlnG. the dog basked upon the chips the bur ros rubbed their necks together at the watering place the ire was snapping in the rude forge, and miner was heat ing and pounding his drills and picks Other men were sitting on the shafting timbers which were piled around, smok- 1 ing their pipes and talking of the sick i boy who lay within.
 Little John had already made his way to these strangers hearts.
 He was not delirious now. But he was pale, and wore a hopeless look that was pitiful No one of them thought he had yet come out from the dark shadow, and there was a sadness in their faces and a hush in their voices.
 After a few hours Bill came The miners proposed to go to the railroad station for physician and such deli caeies IS mining camps do not afford. Bill accepted the proposition in regard to the delicacies, but insisted that he himself would be nurse and physician. 1 Under his rough but gentle care the boy rapidly improved, and at the end of the week Bill called the two Half Moon men out for little talk.
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 Both answered that they had not. They left everything to him.
 Well, then, l hev; an I'm goin' ,o say to you two what I've never said to any man for more'n thirty year, When they wuz all goin' 10 Californy. in '49. wanted to go too. wuz kid then. younger than this un. l lived in York state There wuz on'y one O me. Mother wuz a widow. She didn't want me to skip out, but stole S7o-all the money she had-an' 1t out. wuz goin' to be back Tn year or two, with thou sands O dollars, an make the old lady comfortable for the balance O her life But somehow didn't git back. Bimeby word come she died uv broken heart.
 Ther' amt been many nights since. pards, when l wuz sober, that aint seen her; an, pards, so help me God {. that night on Red Mountain, she went with me from the cabin at timber line. an all the while back 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 il, alone. pards-never.
 Well. this kid wuz clear headed at
 
 talked an talked. We've talked here An, you see, he was a clerk or sum,hin in bank, back in Ohio: an there wuz money stole. They took him up for stealth it out somehow they couldn't prove i, on him, an had to turn him loose. But many people said he stole it all the same. an he couldn't bear the dis grace, an so come to the mountains His mothers poor. What he got in the ,i durned bank wuD all both on 'em had. Since he come to P'eblo he's foun' out who did steal that money. Bu, he hain't got sinner to go back with an set him. self right. That's how he's here.
 Now, pards. I've go, nineteen thou sand odd in the Leadvile bank. paid in on my Belden sale. 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 ,heusan' 10 his mother. The balance IS a big enough stake fur me; an then, ye see. If l do a good thing tor his mother may be it'll coun, asin the internal meanness 1 did 10 mine. So we'll take him down to Hay den $, an one O you can stay with him an tother go up with me to Leadville an get some money an a 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 see:'
 Three days afterward they put little i John in sleeping car. with a ticket and $50 in his pocket. and on the same day draft for SIo,ooO was mailed to his mother in letter remitNpce signed" An | Unknown Friend
 ! Two hours afterward Bill Lewis in- suited respectable stranger and pro- voked light at the railroad station. and before morning was arrested for cutting man m a gambling house. CAieaSo CayreHi.
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