The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1886-05-27
AN ANGLE OF MERCY GAVE
WARNING.

W tAANANA@NS'
, About twelve years ago Mrs
George Sherman, living with be
husband on farm in Western Kan
: sas, was left with little boy fou
or five years Of age, and q half-bree,
Indian known as Jack, while he
husband paid a business visit I,
Ellsworth, thirty>fve miles away
} Jack bad been with the family two
years, and though at times moros,
and sulky, ho had always prove,
faithful. Sherman visited Ellsworth
to got n largo sun Of money sent OF
from the east by brother, fol
whom ho wrs to invest it. Tht
subject had, of course, been tnlket
over between him mud his wife, bn
neithor Of them had the least idef
Jack suspected tho nature Of the er.
rand
Mrs Sherman could use firearms
and ride horseback, and WAS brave
hearted, solf-roliant woman. She
had u navy revolver for her protoc.
ton, though as "A matter of fact she
would have smiled at the idea OF
any danger coming to her. The
country was clear OF lawloss charac-
ters, two or three savage dogs we're
at hand to take care Of strangers,
aud Jack could be depended ou with
bis carbine in case OF necessity.
Sherman went away on horseback.
1t would take him the best part of u
day to reach Ellsworth, as he had to
make stop en-route. He would
DO detained there day, and would
reach homo, leaving az he did on
Monday morning, on Wednesday
morning. This was based on tho
calculation that he would leave Ellis
worth on Tuesday night aud rido all
night. II was in the latter part Of
June, with beautiful weather and
good ronds.
Nothing ont of the usual routine
occurred until Tuesday night--that
il, Mrs. Sherman observed nothing
to rouse her suspicious, although
she afterword recallod several
strange incidents. For instance,
the husband had not been gone 90
hour whom one of the dogs howled
in the most dismal manner, and
when tho half-breed sought to quiet
it, the animal showed bis teeth and
seemed revengeful. 1t was remems
bored, too, that Jack appeared in
dependent aud defiant, and when
the wifo gave him orders he took
his own tiGe about oboying them.
lie slept N the stables, Hnd ono Of
the dogs generally kept near him,
but when night came on the first
both CANNES were determined to
sleep in the farm house, and both
we're admitted. Ii was tho same on
the next night. On Monday night
the brutes seemed to heer some ono
walking about outside, but Mrs,
Sherman gave the matter little
thought, believing the noise to be
occasioned by a loose horse.
On Tuesday night she went to
bed at 0 o'clock, having seen that
everything was secure, and she had
scarcely dozed off before she began
dreaming. The dream began with
the arrival of letter from the east
that money was coming, 1t was in
the evening, and husband and wife
talked the matter over as thoy sat
near an open window. This was
just what did occur 10 reality, but in
her dream Mrs. Sherman saw tho
half breed orouched down under
the window outside to listen. She
saw him creep away in the darkness,
and rerlizsd that he was in possos- |
sion of the secret. She dreamed
that her husband rode away to Els
worth just as he had done, and that
after he bad gone victous-looking
half-breed, with a scar on bis left
check, came to the stables in the
night and had q long talk with
lack. She could not hear what
they said, but their looks and &C.
tions indicated evil. By-and.by
they left the stables, and she saw
that Jack had his carbine and the
other revolver. They won't down
The road toward Ellsworth, abou,
Two miles, and halted at a ford.