The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22


The words came from him in a feeble,
whining tone:
aNo. no, not that way. The leads higher
ep-mighty rich, too"
managed 10 get him or the shelf Fur.
sioer ! could not The only accessible route
rorne wound in places about projections of
f5e mountain several hundred feet porpen-
g}icllar above the foaming river, whore a
smnd man needed all his strength AID nerve
Ia keep a sure footing
t'Jhcn mint fellows are sharp. Jack Hill
ve1r, mind YOU bake your next batch OF
tyrnd clean through, Run a straw through
dough sticks If faint done; don't put pork
IN I'LL beans be boiled 50 you can squash
'ssni-else, hard as rocks
y, hs ramblel on. His words concerning
el,e mint people suggested TO me Broener's
remark a. 10 their curiosity regarding his
yrlA-iz asSavs aud their whereabouts Pratt
Eas evidently deliriou& ! thought to utilize
Tins wit wanderin. and said;
did the mint people senl Won up herer
"lput fresh salt on a birds tail, an You'll
s.st,h weasel asleep" was his reply Then
iErs mind seemed 10 leap into the old channel
Its rich-mghiy rich-and they can't hold
II all"
The thing 10 I've done was TO get Pratt to
gais cabin Evidently bis brain was affected
Try fhe wound lefs him and hurried to
Hllyesr
Their cabin was built "a thousands were in
thos 5sys-en envelope Of cotton drilling
about iiEli wooden frame There was 10
@Sxll Scor % knock against or any Other
method 10 rouse the inmates save by calling.
ri [ ii but Hillyea- seemed sleeping tDs
-ss,-r, nf TIE inst Al last. out of patieBcsa |
r.tris-d rock into the fraii structure. 1t
turs through the cloth Hilyear's reply was
z. dot rfich was 10; 10 lie wondered a.,
-g.8r he.sv--a sake, Hlllyear, don't fire! Its
II. Ire found Pratt He's hurt badly
rid
who's n1er asked Hilyear, after enc 81
ms IsEiois OF silence.
heard him cooking his pisa,L %,t'sI-
Holder. Come and help ne get j att down
cE TIRE mountain He's hung there with a
r-ass n ny head
@r. Huivear now re7J' 4sI into silence.
szxyw not whether ts " a, irwin, 10 frame an
sSea into a sslt.pS' or peerins out to get an
ain at me
Amt w comngT7 ! cried at last "Are
80 g'.nP % help me get Pratt down He'll
'5S RAJ re wa get to him
y w-dii-you-come - to -fnl-himT
ssuns at length from Mr. HillyearS lips,
WITH a sort Of c,ownish judicial gravity
Good heavens" ! said. "Will you stay
siberp all night and ask questions, while your
~urtner IL blaeling to DEATH Do you sup
nose I'd get out Of my bed TO stand and call
Rserr like fool for nothing@
What's the muSs.' cried n voice in tho
darkness h was Bill Setter who lived
about an eighth Of mile distant. He had
e-7rnc, rousel by the shot AMI the sound Of
voicrs.
give found Pratt badly hurt on Scrub
mountain, AMI am trying to get Hillyear to
tp,r me down Wi him Hyear won't be
Gr,c lac, and that's what's the matter"
'3jllyear, get up Don't be fool" said
fofter.
HiJlyear finally replied; "All-right! Tn
--Comin !" with an expression rs If he had
s-ad DO doubts a TO the commences of the
news and had but momcn.arily heard Of it,
Our party reached Pratt, whore had left
MIN with great difficulty we menag ii to
.rS-.y him down the mountain, His utter
Aness on thu way down all bore vaguely OF
mrrn hunting and thu last scene OF which
ha bal been conscious while in his RICH,
ya.ui 70 Setter, th'y were a publ To
yilNyrar knew not how much or how l,tl.
u.clning they conveyed TO myself they
0ele q source Of great uneaslue,3 They
l,rs frst on "a, secret OF our claim Mex.
,5ney rnight confirm a suspicion, which, if no
sl!yp1idy developed | knew was likely to b.
through the singular circumstances attend
dug my finding Pratt so far up Scrub mouu
f1iu in tba dead Of night. 1t needed but
sseri of his dclirious utterauco to max
known that we had quarrclcL
We left Pratt ia his cabin. Setter, who's
FROSTY was cyilgntly much aroused, said t
.s,, Just what expected he would:
"How did you come 10 find Pratt away u
tlaTrr
told Setter that heard Pratt's voice i
the night up the mountain, which was tru.
ssit not in In, sense | left Setter TO infer
? hnld that evasion was iustidnble under tn
circumstance rs not 50 much what W
ISB that may damage us as the construction
yli-ced on II by those 10 may be told to Tn
GniV way know of when certain question
slp asked that many people will ask 10 avol
evasion or untruthfulnos,, is TO say it. non
II your business That. as society Is no,
Srnsiitutcd and complicated, would be quit
slnIOssible.
Il wonder who shot himr continue
Setter.
"5hot himself. maybe" IrcpIiei
"Ouear business, anyway" was Setter
liial remark. rs he trudgel or home
saw ~ his manner that he was full ,
c7oriosity, ana being full Of curiosity woul
~ SION full OF theories as to thu cause ,
Prt1ls Lart aud that a. curiosity an
gf,sories aus contagious, ls would in u shoi
tlHs ino~rilate all Bull Bar with them.
Next day | visited Pratt His head ha
iSess hurt both by the ball and the fall al
flallet had gashel the t'Inple--not very deepl,
-!ke conclusion from the fall seemed TO ha,
EAast affected him That one or other
sf=-sc wounds had effected his brain was Yer
.,YsL4it without che pompous declaration
r.he physician who ba1 been summoned
chat effect