The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-06-18
eyes. Pm here: what ia it?"

Don't you forget to send that
thousand up on the stage tonight
to Logtown. Tom saws there's
at least $4,000 in sight. Charley
Motley is a school-marm, and don't
know it. Don't forget now. Good-by.'
Franks pretty eyes and mouth
spread wider and wider as those words
came out OF the wonderful little instru,
ment.
"For goodness sake! who is he talk.
! +; ing to- Oh-h, yes! why it must be to
Frank Downey, the express agent at
Bokey. They've been talking togeth.
er and Downey has stopped and
switched my end on. Motley is a
school-marm, is he? There's $40, OOC
in sight and Charlie don't know it, and
the money is going up there on the
stage from Bokey tonight. Oh, dear!
what shall lido? I'll 60 up there. ]
will. It's only eight miles, and it's &c
from Bokey. It's S o'clock and the
stage gets there at g."
The sun was yet very hot, although
almost down behind the hills, and the
trail was steep and rocky; but Frank
pushed on. muttering to herself when
she felt so tired she was tempted to
sit down and rest:
Tep Thousand dollars in sight and he
don't know it, eh? Well, he shall
know it, and havesall the credit OF the
discovery, too. There, now!"
Just as she reachedthe roadside and
was about to push through the chap.
arral which here reached to her shout
ders she heard the rumbling stage
coach coming around a bend close to
her. With a despairins resolve to 60
in at least with the stage if she could
not before it, she pushed her closed
parasol through the bushes and waved
it to the driver, shouting at the same
time, hoarse from her excitement:
"stop! stop!"
But, to her establishment and
dismay, instead OF stopping the driver
reached down into the boot, and, with
a "cuss yer, take it'll" threw a heavy
box into the road, and flashing his
fourth hand into a run, disappeared
down the canon.
Poor Frank crouchedd down into the
chaparral in despair.
"Oh, dear! I haven't walked there
and I've lost the stage, and poor
Charlie-oh, Gear mel"
The spirit OF q genuine California
girl is not easily overcome with de-
spair, and Frank was q genuine Cali
fornia girl, and she las not to be beat
en- until she was. She got up, pulled
her black veil tighter over her moist
face, and bravely started on again to
Logtown. 1t was not far, and not a
half hour elapsed before she saw the
lights Of the little camp scattered
around in the canon below her. !
Breathless and painting she hurried
to the tavern. "A great crowd OF men
were excitedly swearing and threaten
ing on the porch. Some were in the
street, clinching saddles on their
horses, and in their midst stood Black
Pete, the stage driver.
"Don't l know" he was angrily
shouting. II tell yer twar only mile
back, an ther cuss showed his shoot
ing-iron right under my nose. Why
didn't l run fer it? Thar war TWO NV
EN- thar as sure as fgtin'."
Pretty soon, with a yell and whoop,
twenty men galloped up the road with
a suggestive BLOCKING rope danglingfrom
one OF the saddles.
Poor Frank FASTENED to find Char
lie. She found him sitting disconso-
lately on the back porch.
"Why, Frank, what in the world are
you doing here?"
"Oh. Charlie, have you sold that
mine yet? Am I too later"
"Too late for what? Sold it? No,
and don't believe l AN. That man
Bonn sent the money up by express
and q load agent got away with the
stage tonight and the money went
with it. Idon't believe he'll risk an
other thousand on a played-out mine.
"Oh, goodie!" cried Frank. Owe
got here in time. Road agent. Oh,
that is too rich! Oh, dear, Ishall die!!"
and Franks voice ended in a high
squeak of laughter. Road agent?
There wasn't any road agent at all;
stopped the stage to get on and the
driver threw a box at mel"
No sooner had Frank told her story
than he caught her in his arms with a
wild shout.
About two hours afterward q file OF
disconsolate, disgusted horsemen
wendell their way up to the tavern
with u Suggestive rope dangling
from one OF the saddles" and a box
containing $1,000.
1t is sufficient to relate that Charlie
did not sell his $4,000 in sight"
but, on the contrary, received a much
larger sum-sutficient, in fact, to make
him a happier man financially and
matrimonially.