The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-03-12

tones, and when | came around they
would pretend 10 be- talking about the
weather or something Of that kind, had
used them all pretty well, aud they hated
TO leave me, hut they We're getting un
easy,
''one day toward shutdown, when was
aeout ready to give up myself, young
Mexican couple, who were bound for
Sonora, struggled into our diggings good
d al the worse for wear, They had been
~ in Colorado, and had started for home
with ateam and driver, but the Indians
had get Oh their trail, killed the driver,
and stolen the horses and wagon, The
travellers managed to get away while the
driver was holding the savpges at bay, and,
lying in hiding until nigk;fall, they had
worked their way on foot into our camp,
The young woman was one of the prcttiest
girls ever saw She was about sick abcd
when she arrived, hut the next day she
was around rs clipper MS anybody, and
the boys were making themselves very
agreeable. Says | tn myself This is II
special diSpenSatiun ui Providence III can
Keen the girl here for awhile there will he
no trouble ubont the boys; they'll stay
too never heard word Of grumbling
from them that day or the next,
~ was n little afraid lac greaser would
get Jealous and knife SoDthody: hut then
thought If he does the rest of the boys
will finish him, and then we will have the
girl anyway The Mexican seemed
anxious To get away, hui made one eX.
c,1pa u, ,I unpt lpr fpI t,pl halyinu In M Tirht
away, and one morning he was missing,
He had sloped during the night, leaving
the girl to MS. Well, she was pretty well
cast down for awhile, but | explained TO
her that probably her husband had gone
on to get horses and an escort, and that
he had taken this course because he
knew she would have objected TO his
going alone. This faint hope seemed to
give her some comfort, and the rest OF the
boys fell in with me, and it became the
settlcds conviction about e.camp that
he would be back presently. She liyened
up some, and the boys made themselves
very agreeable. When two weeks had
gone by and nothing had been heard Of
her husband she insisted on being taken
home, and offered usanyamount OF money,
which she said her father would pay, il
we worild>eScort her over the border |
began to fear th2t her husband was never
coming back, and, to tell the TRUTH had
a still stronger suspicion OF something
else; so | agreed to Sttrt with her the
next morning at sunrise, and told the
boys to be iii readiness. That afternoon
we heard unearthly screams up one Of the
| gulches u ways, and several OF the boys,
running up with blancled faces To see
what the matter was, found the little
woman beside a new made and very shal-
low grave, into which she had dug far
enough to discover the body of her hue.
/ Ia,, A., ib.. tharn pUl
she sprang up quickly, and. drawing
revolver shot two Of them dead before
any of MS could find voice. threw up
my hands and begged of her to dc3st,
and when some of the boys grabbed their
guns1 pulled mine and made them put
them up. Then | got her back to the
cabin, disarmed her, set one trusty fellow
to watch her, and called the others up
into the gulch We uncovered the dead
man and found two builet-holes III his
back.
@ Who put them there ? said 1 sternly
| to the men.
"'The two men whom she shot. they
answered"
"'Impossible says 1. How could
| she know p"
"'She didn't know She just hit them
by chance said one Of the patty. We
| knew when they did it, but we didn't
| want to say anything about it, They
| thought TO rob him and run off with hef,
| but she seemed to be afraid Of them more
than Of the others
We'll, got kind of tired of that place
after that, and when | got things ready
| to take her home / packed up my own
| things also, md as we set out | says to
| the boys: Good by, old men. You can
work the claim or not, just us you please.
1t amt likely that III! ever be here again.
And l never did go back. They SUNK
away after awhile, too, and I've heard
| that nobody has ever worked there since
I took the girl home 10 her father, and left
her there. She's there now. Yes, / see
her occasionally. In fact, | don't mind
telling you She's my wife, and has been
| for two or three years"
| The stock raiser pulled quart bottle,
with an outline Of Pixies peak blown in on
one side of it, from his overcOat pocket,
! took drink, passed it on. and when it
came back to him took another drink and
/ said pm pretty much newcomer in
| this country. Most of my life rs a cattle
/ man has been passed in western Kansas
| and Nebraska, where ! know every inch Of
| ithe land from Medicine Lodge to Fort
| Robinson. Your story reminds me OF some
thing that happened in northwestern Ne
braSka about four years ago Old Man
Norris owned big ranch out there, and
| when he got his house bIi!t he made his
! two daughters go out and live in it. They
were delicate girls, and il was n terrible
place to put them. Indians were roaming
around freely and the white rneu they saw
were u good deal more savage than The
Indians. The girls had been fairly cduca-
! ted and they had tastes which made their
life on the ranch extremely irksome. One
I of them was romantic girl who saw a
possible lover or knight in every man who
came along, white or red; bat the other
refused to be interested in anything, and
before very long sckened and died 1t so
happened that u young Indian from Fort
| Robinson, named Lone Grow, was at the
| house on the day of the funeral and, sec
ing the young girl in tears, he spoke 10 her
| pleasantly and sympathetica!ly He was
pretty good looking fellow, if he was a
| fedskin, and when she galei upon his
| stalwart frame and handsome features
she took as much interest in him AS he in
| her. He managed to get around that way
frequently after that, until it became the
I talk among the cowboys that the girl had
an mjun lover. The white men often
talked of resenting his familiarity, and
on one occasion, when a few OF them had
good deal of whisky aboard, they tried
to maui HIN, but he threw one Of them
against tree and broke his leg, and cut
another one in the lip so he can't talk
plain TO this day
Finding that things were approaching
crisis, Mr. Crow proposed and was &C
cepted. AS the facilities for getting mar
ried were not very good, it became neces-
sary to ask the old mans consent. At
first he stormed and swore, and threatened
to whip the girl and her lover He ordered
the girl to her room, and told the Indian
that il he ever came around that way
again he would brain him. This made
! Crow ugly, and, after good deal of talk,
he attacked the | man and gave him the
worst thraShing a white man ever reCeiv d
from an Indian The girl hearing the
disturbance, pet <ed i'll at the door AMI
gave Crow a word ui encouragement.
When the old man sp'r;l her lie yelled:
:. Liza, ! cnyci Take the savage away
before kill him, can't make him under
stand
Liza r;.n up and, setting Grow by the
arm, led him Oft Whcn the old gentleman
got up and recovered his breath, hr sad
'Iou cnt have him, Liza i,rl IN enc comii-
ton, and that is that The miserable cnss
wears Cnitei States clothes and leaves ne
alone. want peace il; the finally. but il
he ever jumps on me actin III carve him
into saIdwiahs,'
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