Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-05

Dave was big man and didn't " ant
any dog TO help him in a row, but some
how / felt glad that he had that But.h
Just at that time got instruction from
headquarters to keep a sharp watch on
Jake-that was Sadie's younger broth
er's name-because it was a cock-snre
thing he had had a hand in burglary.
The chances were that Sam, the Old
er brother, was in the business, but it
was not so certain, or, rather. harder
to prove. L couldn't give the thing
away to Dave, for he might have told
Sadie, and then. again, it was my duty
to keep shady. Sure enough. Jake was
hauled up. Sam wasn't to be found.
There must have been the deuce to pay
in the tenement. for L came across
Sadie in the street that night, and she
was reeling so that at first lost heart
about her. thinking she might have
been drinking. She seemed dazed for
awhile: then l saw she had been rough
" handled. Somebody had given her a
dreadful beating. Her lip was cut. /
made up my mind that no one but q
man could have bruised her so. She
couldn't talk. she didn't even groan,
nor cry, nor sob. like women do when
they are in pain. ] don't often do that
kind of thing. for 1 ought to have re-
ported the case at once. What did
was to take Sadie home to my wife.
Sadie was so stunned and stupid she
didn't seem to know or notice any
thing. When my wife laid her down,
Sadie kind of revived. It's queer what
women say sometimes. What Sadie
said was: Don't let him see me-
Don't tell Dave. 1t isn't pretty, black
eye. 1 wish were dead
Now if you think that fine ladies
have n corner in Mysteries, it isn't so.
Sadie had them good.
Don't tell anybody who treated me
so," she said.
'.'Twasn't the old woman?' L put
in. But she wouldn't say who it was.
She was dead shut about that.
''It's all over with me all over
between Dave and me-" And then she
began moaning for the first time, and
crying as if her heart would break. Al
have disgraced and ruined him. Dave
is decent and good and honest. and
God knows l have tried to be. Don't
tell Dave. What's to become of meP
If Dave knew he would kill him; not for
striking me; can stand that; but, oh!
can not stand the horrible things he
called me-"
"Who is Dave not to kill? who called
you names, Sadiep'' 1t might have
been mean on my part to ask that, but
my mind was on business. l felt sure
that her brother Sam had beaten her,
that hounds idea being that either
Dave or Sadie had given the clew to
Jake's capture.
By and by she quieted down. Then
said to her: This thing has got to
stop. Break up the whole concern and
move away"
"And mother?''
"Move her too, them" said.
al would, but they took my last cent.
They pawned all my poor clothes, and
the nights and nights 1 sat up sewing
them! have no money"
''Sadie, will lend you ten dollars.
When you are married YOU can pay
me back, or may be Dave will
Married! married! That can never
be. If l were man like Dave, and
was eating my heart out about girl.
if found out her brother was a thief, l
would let her rot before 1 would make
her my wife" Sadie had flashes like
that.
ats the beating the poor thing has
got," said my wife, ''that makes her so
wild"
We were kind of afraid Sadie's nose
was broken, and my wife took on more
about that than any thing else, for my
wife knew how handsome the girl was.
Presently round came the ambulance
surgeon-a young. s&ylarking. jolly
chap that always had been nice with
me-and 1 told him the whole story,
and he looked over the girls head and
said the nose was o. K; but her eye
was that badly ''bunged' it would take
may be three weeks before it would
come right. You have been there
yourself said he. and the cut on the
lip he'd fix, and he did. and he said
THAT for toughness the girl beat pine
knot" And when my wife told him
Sadie had had Mysteries, he said: That
was the correct thing for her to do, for
a good conniption lit now and then was
an Al safety valve" Then knowing
that the bridge of Saddles nose was not
fiattened, it was amazing how my wife's
spirits rose. My wife is not-what is
that you call itP-an imag-imagina-
tive woman, but she took down look
ing-glass in Saddles room, which pre-
tended did not notice.
1t didn't take long before Jake was
sent up for a term of years. That hap
pened when Sadie was still with us.
Bless you! she was that stiff and sore
she couldn't move for days. She kept
fretting about her mother. 1t was