Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-05-02

"PrnH are uOU IlirP"
The word, came from him in feeble
whining tone:
Ne" no not that wav The leads highe
up-mighty rich. too"
mana ,ri to get him off the shelf Fur
ther could not The only accessible rout,
home wound in places about projections o
the mountain several hundred feet prrpen
diCular above the foaming river. where
sound man needed all his strength and nerv,
t0 keep sure footing.
Them mint fellows are sharp Jack Hill
year. mini YOU bake YOUR next hatch ot
bread clean through. Run a straw through
dough sticks if tain't done; don't put pork
in till beans be loilel 50 you can squash
'em-elsp. hard rocks"
So he ramhlel on His words concerning
the mint people suggested to me Broener',
remark as Ia their curiosity regarding his
quartz assays and their whereabouts Pratt
WAS evidently drliriuuS thought to utilize
this wit wandering and said:
Did the mint people srnl you up here''
Put fresh salt on birds tail an you'll
catch a weasel asleep" was his reply. Then
his mind seemed to leap into the old channel
Its rich-mighty rich-and they can't hold
il all"
The thing To he done was 10 get Pratt to
his cabin Evidently his brain was affected
| by the wound. | left him and hurried to
HiIlyear
Their cabin was built as thousands were in
/ those davS-an envelope Of cotton drilling
about a light wooden frame There was no
wooden door To knock against, or any other
method TO rouse the inmates save by calling
| Call | did hut Hillyear seemed sleeping the
sleep of the just At last, out of patience,
pitched rock into the frail structure 1t
tore through the cloth Hillyears reply was
a shot which was not to be wondered at
For heavens sake, Hillyear. don't fire. It's
me- I've found Pratt He's hurt badly"
criel
Who's meF" asked Hillyear, after one OF
his periods of silence.
| heard him cooking his pistol Its /
Holder, Come and help me get Pratt down
off the mountain He's lying there with
cash i'll his head
Mr. Hilvear now IelapSed into silence
knew not whether he was trying to frame an
idea into a sentence or peeTing out TO get an
aim at me
Amt You coming' l cried at last "Are
you going to help me get Pratt down He'll
die before We get to him"
'HOw-did-you come - to -flnd-himT'
came at length from Mr. Hillyears lips,
with a sort of clowniSh judicial gravity.
Good heavens" | said Will YOU stay
there all night and ask questions while your
partner is bleeding to DEATH Do you sup
pose Id ct out OF my bed to stand and call
here like a fool for nothingr
What's the muSsf cried voice in the
darkness 1t was Bill Setter, who lived
about an eighth of mile distant He had
come, rOuSei by the shot and the sound Of
voices
I've found Pratt badly hurt on Scrub
mountain. and am irving to get Hillyear to
help ME down with him Hillyear won't be
heve me, and that's what's the matter"
''Hillyear, get up Don't be fool" said
Setter
Hillyear finally replied: "All-right, Tn
comm = with an expression As if he had
had no doubts As To the genuineneSs Of the
news. ami had hut momentarily heard of it,
Our party reached Pratt, where | had left
him With great difficulty We managed to
carry him down the mountain. His utter
ances on the way down all bore vaguely on
quartz hunting and the last scene of which
he had been conscious while in his right
mind. To Setter. they were puzzle To
I1lllNtstT. 1 k1lt" not no" Ulutn OF now uItle
meaning they conveyed To myself they
We're a source of great uneasineSS. They
bore first on the secret of our claim Next.
they might confirm a suspicion, which, if not
already developed, | knew was likely to be,
through the singular circumstances attend
ing my finding Pratt 50 far up Scrub noun
tain in the dead of night 1t needed but
word Of his deliriouS utterance to make
known that we had quarrelei
We left Pratt in his cabin. Setter, whose
curiosity WAS evidently much aroused, said to
me. just what expected he would
How did you come To find Pratt away I'D
theref
| told Setter that heard Pratt's voice in
the ,ght up the mountain. which WAS true,
but not in the sense | left Setter 10 infer.
| held that evasion was justitiable under the
circumstances. It's not much what we
tell that may damage us aS the construction
placed Ou it by tho-e it may be told to The
only way know of when certain questions
are asktSl that many people will ask to avoid
evasion or untruthfulm,~S is to say its none
Of your business" That, as society is now
constituted and complicated, would be quite
impossible
Il wonder who shot himg continued
Setter
shot himself, maybe" replied
Queer business anyway" was Sefter's
fnal remark. as he trudged off home
| saw by his manner that he was full Of
curiosity, and being full of curiosity would
be soon full of theories as to the cause Of
Pratt's hurt, and that as curiosity and
theories are contagious, he would in a short
time inOculate all Bull Bar with them.
Next day | visited Pratt. His head had
been hurt both 10y the ball and the fall The
bullet had gashed the temple-nOt very deeply
The conclusion from the fall seemed To have
most affected him That one or other Of
these wounds had affected his brain WAS very
evident without the pompOus declaration of
the physician, who had been summoned, "
that effect