The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-12-19
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When he founl the bird had ao,
lister turned grim as death. Go WV 4acA.
60 down." said he, ''and brine oown, Daal
whip" Deempster strobe dow ~" a.'i my doQ
returned Immediately with th., stairs, ani
laoment after they had burst ooa, whip. A
'oom. Poor Jeannic! She lad oS''eanniss
Ill. but she pretended to sleen oVerhsari
"That'll do" roared Mao Ai;s.o.
,ut o that; none OF Your h,,mbuy ,.;., Cons
And nc sent tie whip flying or ",.u me-"
ears. Nv hers is shes tell ms, appc 9 be,
tell ms. you young Jezebel, or ra Iass You!
liver out Of ycu!" cut tn,
The girl spra lg from h,r hal
fronted him, with her teeth 81, ."i ana Con.
agiare. Then, folding her arms aa :, ler EYES
Cut ava, but de'il a word You'll s sue said
Jeannie" s'' QUITO
''Curss you, then; take that-,ra j,
roared ths Infatuated father, AZ ha 'natF
whip writhing into her tenler tl,,h SG ~ tas
nately tho girl hal thrown herself , eortu
be- in her coche>. a cil Gun, sta,., p'u 10,
she probably ow,l ht.' -. Ma! wiz, "aicn
AacAllister. plie,l the wi,in until sh.'A rage,
down senseless. Ths. D,,mpstsr o ;!
| vened. 'n1es'
| ''1t's no use whipping a. dead don 3,
be. "D--n Ter: there let her lie, ~ r., sasa
gone north by the mail: we haven,+ -aeyfa
ment to lose. I'll gang and see tho n, a'e
ready while you get dressed "o'se'
Half an hour later q coach o,a
| horses, with two Positions, ware =. 'oag
door. Both men examined tn. nr;n;s. 'as
their pistols. both fillcl their a,srs go d
spirits, then off they went through ths wv, :'.l
and the darkness, 'sa'
When the chase commenced Tho lov.,,,
barely two hours start; their dest irs aaa
was st. Andrews. immediately ~, A. .S'
arrival they were to be married nv n ,.s s1et
clergyman, a friend and fellow st,dsn. y
Curly's. As they sped through tn, n;sa W
what were rain, storm or tempes, 70 t5sus,
Their arms claspcd round each oth.r .''.
kisses ON eaca others lips-they wr s' !.
Heaven! The horses were strono mi ,.' ~
trained, ths postillions We're wiry AMI in "sA
fnt:gable-on ON they went, little dre ,m ,asv
that they were already being hotiy ,n..ai1
At last dawn struggled over the Gran ~.
II was dull, gray morning. the .a.i ~,
came drlzzling down. Ill III. ,ulsr,v,"
vain to emerge from tai. mist. Whar mo.
terrell thats The love III their h,arts mai,
sunshine enough to illumine tle uDiyers
At this ,ncn',.,t they pulled up. Curlv
alightel eagerly. Imagine his constsrnation
w.,n ...l.scoverel thy had arrived. not
at Qua .e Were he intended to cross thu
Firth o. lay l.y Broughty ferry, but at
mi :erabl, fishing village miles and mil.,
!,lyber up in the direction Of Perth! Tn
truth wal. after cha lgiI- h,rss at Forfu
the poor postillions, soaked through ami
through, half blinded by IN, rain ,nl slees
and wholly 70 e IL by too frequ mt rotation,
of mountain dew" had take, a wrou,
turning and lost tneir way in the dark. To
reach Dundee was now impossible, for the
horses were thoroughly blown, and the pos.
tillions refused to budye another foo:. T.
make matters still pieasanter, the storm,
which had lullel for moment, now burst
into hurricane, the sea leaped mountains
high, aud At this point the firth was abs.
lutelv impassab They must wait tho CO..
satiop Of the storm. Alas! that waitingl
II they were only ct the other side, tia
holy words once said, all the fathers and
lovers in the world could not unsay
them. Anyhow, there was no help for
it, 50 they rested all that day at thu villag'
inn.
It was day Of doubts and fears--adayot
delicious hopes and desperate anxieties With
al poor Curly's follies he had tho heart Of
man and tn, instincts of gentleman. Al.
though he had told the innkeeper that Flora
and he were man and WIFI, vet, lest tho
breath Of Islander should hereafter faint her
namo, he slept that night at the ferry houss,
scarcely close his eye; for impatiencs AMI
/ on~fhkx, EINN, chn slant ANu
dreamed she was in Elysium.
Meanwhile, the irate father AMI thu angry
lover encountered midway ON the journey
to Inverness Mr. Ballantyne. factor to The
Duke o. Athol. who was driving posthast'
to Aberdeen. He had come By the direc:
route on the highway, and had changa
horses where the mail stoppcl two hour
before. The fugitives were not among tDa
passengers. Of that he was quite certain, anu
it would have been impossible for them
to have reached Inverness by am ctne.
conveyance without hi, encountering them
on the road. More than that, he bal
teen at the theatre the night previous
when an apology was made for Curly, "n'
had been nnounced, STRANGELY enough 10
the part of Tangent in ''The Way to w
Married" It was alleged by Johnston tha'
Mr.. Campbell hal disappeared at a nc.
men,'s notice, ami gone no man Rne"
WHITTIER"
With curses both lou l and deep MacAlls
ter and Decmpster retrac,l their steps n aux
returned to Aberdeen in company WIN na,
lantyne; th,n, changing horses they '"ra''
their faces toward the south.
CHAPTER ".
ON THE TRACK.