Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1886-07-14
darkness of the west burned a low, re.

ISul.
There's your train. The station IS
just ahead. 1 shall walt here till see
that you get away" 1t was the Rrst
word that had been spoken.
She pulled her horses down to
walk.
81 hope" forcing herself to improve
the occasion, that you won't do it
again"
Get caught for horse-thief?"
pleasantly. ~ certainly shall try to
avoid it,
1t did not sound penitent. Miss Ali
son experienced revulsion of feeling.
"You had better get down here"
she said, severely.
He alighted slowly and with dilIi-
Guilty. Then he turned toward her,
and she saw his face pale in the shadow
Of Toms slouched hat.
" do not want you to think that /
do not know that you are saving my
life. and that not one woman in a thou
sar would have had the nerve to do
what you have done." There was no
question of earnestness in his voice
now.
hope you'll mend your ways, then.
"Will you tell me your name?" not
needing her speech.
"Mary Allison"
''Thank you." He turned and took
few steps away. Excuse me-" diff
IDENTIFY, forgetting his abandoned char
acter. He was at her side again.
"Haye you-have you''-desperately-
''any money"
Every little" quietly. "Take this,
then," dropping purse into his hand.
"And 1 wish you'd tell me-" with a
sudden impulse, 'did you take the
horSe?"
Upon my word, no."
She bent towards to him.
Goodbye" putting out a bare
white hand.
He took it with frank earnestnesS,
held it brief minute, and then the
darkness swallowed him up.
4 month later Tom wanted that coat
and hat, and failing to find them.
raised the usual masculine whirlwind
about their disappearance.
"Molly Allison, you're responsible!
Ii the country produced image-yen-
ders, l should say you had been making
a tradel"
She shook her head, but with the
color mounting In her face.
He came back from the station that
night with news.
"Visitors coming, Molly"
"Who and when2"
Rob Mckenzie. You don't know
Rob. He was a classmate of mine.
Res coming next week to spy out the
land. 1 haven't heard Of him since l
came out here"
Rob Mckenzie alighting at the small
sunny signal station one day in the next
week, found stylish appariti0n in
white dress and pretty garden hat
waiting on the platform.
"You are Mr.. McKenzie?" pleas
ant voice said. 81 am Mary Allison.
Tom sprained his ankle last night and
couldn't come.
Mr.. Mckenzie seemed rather quiet
young man. Miss Allison drove her
ponies and chartered away in the unre-
strained delight of having stranger to
talk with-or rather to-and some one
fresh from the good times that seemed
doubly good In recollection.
81 suppose everybody here shoots
more or less. Are you an expert with
firearms, Miss Allisonp"
They were sitting within doors In the
slight chill OF the October evening.
Tom answered for her.
"Molly says she can, but l don't be-
lleve it. An awful little coward is
Molly"
as she?" quietly. 81 shouldn't
think it,"
Somebody opened door incautious-
ly, and in the strong draft the light
went out. 1t was Mckenzie who re-
lighted it, and in the faint glow as he
bent over the rekndled lamp his face
came out with an odd effect against the
dark background.
"Oh, my!' in gasp from Moliy's
corner.
Mckenzie turned toward her IS the
lamp famed up. She was staring at
him with wide eyes full Of perplexity.
"Are you civilized beyond lynch law
yet?" he asked, irrelevantly.
"Why? a private grudge against
any one?"
zone likes to see all the peculiar in
stItutions of the country. Do you ever
hang horse-thieves, for ustance?'
"Te don't always catch them,
drily.
"Dld you ever miss coat and hat,
TomP"
"Molly gave them away" in slow
wonder at his companions drift. And
then, catching his sisters blank face:
"What have you been telling, Mary
AllisoD?"
"Oh, Tom, II gave them to a
horse thief, and / believe it was Mr..
Mckenzie.
Truth, Allison" And then came
the story. "There were two oil US
taken together. don't know who
they mlstook us for. l lodged the
mob and took to the timber. never
knew what became Of the other man" |"
81 suspect he is the one helped out
of the State the night l left you alone,
Molly"
Some weeks later Rob Mckenzie was
going through the ceremony OF lifting
a diamond solitaire on Miss Allison's
left hand index finger.
"Oh. the beautyl Where did you
get it?"
81 brought it with me-" coolly. :,
Upon my word, Rob Mckenzie!
And YOU took this for granted?"
81 made up my mind, one night In
September, between here and the Mis-
sissippi River, that 1 would marry
Molly Allison if could get her; and L
did my best"
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