Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-16

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| souuu VI hu unnuslcal DELL WAS heard
IN the distance down the gulch, some
times clear and distinct, as the wind
waited 1t to the hearer, at others flint
as the echo of its own discordant noise.
| Everything, however, was lovely in the
mountains. and the bracing breezes of
June. coming from their home amid the
snow, brought the color to the heck and
an elasticity to the step which was well
calculated to make the old feel yoano
again and the invalid to gain new lease
ON life.
ClanR. elang, clang. the sound comes
nearer, and now up the steep trail from
behind wooded promontory the long
procession Of burro train approaches
with slow but sure gait, and files onto
the mesa, where, beneath a clump Of
pines, halt Is made and preparations
begun for the MONDAY meal. With the
pack tram, consisting of some thirty
,burros, which were conveying provisions
to the mining camp of Montecita, which
was still some miles farther up, were
several hOrsemen, or, more properly
three horsemen and one horsewoman,
mounted on sure footed ponies. This
one woman formed a curious and strih-
ing picture as she emerged from the
pines and came into full view. Her
flushed cheek and bright, sparkling
eyes, together with form that was
grace itself. was a something that was
rarely seen in that latitude. Yet in the
face WAS the expression of stern pur
pose, inhexitle ~ iron and as lasting as
life itself.
"Ain't you most ready to give up your
wild scheme. Mollie?" asked one of the
men rs he assisted her to dismount.
Never! so long rs there is a breath
within me-" she answered, and wild,
vindictive light shone from the eyes erst-
while so gentle and almost pleading in
their softness.
Just as you please, sister," he said;
"but / think only trouble can esme
Of it."
"Trouble will come" said she. fiercely.
"but 1t will fall upon the heads of the
guilty who have caused it,"
The pair then finished the rude meal
furnished by some of she store OF can
ned goods forming the load Of the pa
tient burros, who We're cropping the
scanty buffalo grass with the s,me Gu
joyment as II la the blue grass regions
of Kentucky.
Finally the signal was given to re-
mount, and, every thug having been re-
packed, the trail was RESUMED, and the
SUI was gliding only the higher summiis,
leaving the valleys III son her shadow,
when the camp WAS at last reached. Ihe
brother and els or cisinounted befor.
the la get cabin in the chmp, which was
the large st one In which strangers could
find accommodations, II rough board
bunks covered with buffalo skins and
blankets could be call, d sucs. Howev
er. the cabin boasted AN inner room,
into which the lady was shown. and
where shs could at least be pr.vlte II not
particularly comfort BILE.
The next morning, as soon as break
fast was eaten, the brother saddled the
ponies of both and they started mp the
guich. After going perhaps some three
uliles they reached a cinmp OF pines
beyond which there was solitary caoin.
Bidding the man, with an imperious Air,
to remain there within ctil, she rode
strail hit TO the door OF the cabin, d's-
mounted and entered. just exactly what
transpired within was never known, only
that after some fifteen minutes OF walt
ing the brother heard the report Oh Two
shots from revolver and the scream .,
a woman. but 30 demouiac that IL seemed
as though & was caused by legion of
| fiends in chorus. With = horrible ap-
pre- hension of what had occurred he
| tremblinely rode to the door. and, en-
tering, bebeld n fearful scene. There,
welterine in his gore. was q man who
had hardly reached the prime OF hfe,
aud vet handsome in his coarse miner >
suit, with his head supported by the wo,
man Mollie, who was rocking it TO ana
fro and singing horrible lullaby, the
burden of which was: Now we'll get
married: you won't run awsy again, VIII
you, poor dear7" The brother saw u
all--she had killed the man WHO nad oe-
traved her under promise of marriage
and was now a raving maniac. he rode
back TO the can't. for assistance, and she
was with some difficulty taken from the
dead body amid her wild cries, and the
next day sorrowful return journey was
made, and poor Mollie Ware IL nov an
incurable and raving maniac II the asy
lum at Pueblo.