The Grenada gazette., 1888-06-30

courage. but just interfere with her
millinery il you wish to upset her SELF.
control and wiring her soul with an.
guish.
"Now. hold up your hands!' shouted
the captain. All hands went up. and
we assumed the attitude Of the min
lister at the closing Of his sermon
when he says: "Now let US pray"
tom. come around on this side.'
commanded the leader to his CONF
rade
Tom, in endeavoring to obey orders
and at the same time keep his cooked
revolvers aimed at u.s. stumb bled badly,
waving his firearms around with q
looseness that caused little drops Of
cold perspiration to trickle down our
spinal columns.
Get down and unhitch your team"
was the next order to the driver. who
obeyed with promptness that was
admirable.
"Tom. attend to the passengers; &C
through that man." indicating the
inside passenger.
Now. this was passing the bounda-
ries Of the romantic and getting
serious Your correspondent was not
at all frightened. but she suddenly
remembered she had important busi-
ness in Lakeport and really could not
afford to be fooling away time in this
way. She wanted to 60 home. She
reached for her watch to see what
time it was when sudden sense Of
the position of things caused little
chills to wander around in various
places over her. and instead Of taking
out her watch, she let go its moorings
from the second buttonhole from the
collar of her dress, and allowed it to
slide down into the mysterious depths
unmolested. She thought Of her
mother. and of childhoods days in
the classic land of Missouri, when, in
order to train her up in the way she
should 60 that mother found it neces'
sary to clear almost half an acre 0!
hazel brush just back of the house.
switch by switch. Those days seemed
positively heavenly. Couldn't she say
something to these men, TO change
their minds about going through the
passengers OF course, go through
that woman's handbag was going to
be the next order Think of all the
mysteries of a lady's toilet being
exposed to the cold gaze of the un'
sympathetic road agent! Think Of the
perfumery bottles, powder-boxes, cold
creams, etc, left to perish by the
roadside. A wild. desperate resolve
came in with the thought Of her
mother. That mother had never in
her life been to Lakeport, but she
would like to be if she knew what
pretty place it was, SO your CORE.
spondent pipcd out p'eadingly:
Please, gentlemen, let us go on. j
rsre sick mother at Lakeport wait
ing for loe. She may be dead before !
can get there
The dea- old mother, by the way,
enjoys excellent health, but she would
have been dreadfully sick could she
have seen her child at this moment
gazing into the depths of three gun.
barrNs aimed at her head So it was
not as huge lie as it might have
been. although pretty large and un-
usual Tor a newspaper correspondents
Al this point the driver added his per-
suasive voice. and our guards. may be
thinking they were consuming too
much time, gave him permission to
''hitch mp and drive on which order.
you may be sure. was obeyed with
cheerful dispatch, the pistols and gun
keeping us in range until we had |
turned the first curve in the road. |!
which took us out of sight Of ON,
friends.
We drove on in silence for som,
time. Then the Santa Rosa man
growled out:
This is the way to get to Lake Coun
ty, is it?'
Whereupon your cores spondent, who
represents Lake County whenever and
wherever she can do SO, snapped
back:
Please re member that this thing
in Sonoma County; they al.
WAYS do occur outside Of Lake Coun.
tvs borders"
Again silence reigned for another
mile or 50. when again the Sonora
County man ventured to speak-this
time TO the driver:
well, and what did become of your
pesky lizards. anyway"
And how does it seem to be .'held
up? Why, it seemed TO me that the
Lick observatory had got away from
its rightful position. aud that tall lead
er was just aiming the big telescope at
my head. while Tom was keeping
up the procession with two of the
smaller glasses. Since writing this
letter news has come to Highland
Springs that the pursuit of the rob
bers from Cloverdale resulted in the
killing of the constable and one of the
the one called "Tom." All,
misguided fellow! was the game
worth the candlep" San Francisco
Examiner.