The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-02
. e S S
ny BRET HARTE.
R RoF THE LUCK OF ROARING
OF THE ARGoNAUTs,"
n 'rHE CARoUINEz WOODS"

"IN NrHE CARQUINEz WOODS"
"MARUJAM," Ere.
Copyrighted 1885 By the author.
CHAPTER III.-CoNr1NUED.
Hbe case seemed more hopeless than ever.
- masterj knew that the man beside him
hi hardly prove as lenient to a second
- elton att his hand. But that very rea-
q perhars, impelled him, now that he
IN his id niger, to consider it more strong
n duty, and his pride revolted from a
ible tire at underlying McKinstry's con-
ces Nevertheless he began gently:
But are you quite sure you won't regret
you didn't avail yourself of this
In engagement, and your daughters
ito send her to some larger boarding
III in Sacramento or San Francisco.
III you think she may find it dull, and
tire of the company of mere children,
N she has already known the excitement
he was about to say "a lover" but
ecked himself, and added, "a young girls
eedosnp
#.Mr. Ford" returned McKinstry, with
e slow and fatuous misconception OF n
be- ldeaed man, when l said just now
kat lookin' inter that kan, peaceful
fhool of yours, l didn't find place for
kress. it warn't because | didn't think she
EIghter bev a place thar Thar was that
: ar wot she never mad ez little girl with
be and the old womaD, and that she
5puldn't find ez a grownd up girl in any
harding school-the home of child: that
Ind O. innocent foolishness that | some
mes reckon must bev slipped outer our
migrant Wagon comm across the plains,
II got left behind at st. Joe. She was a
tr6wnd girl fit to marry afore she was a
kild She had young fellers a sparkin her
[fore she ever PLAYED with 'em ez hoy and
krl. don't mind tellin you that it wernt
a the natur of Blair Rawlins' darter to
leach her own darter any better, for all
hes been a mighty help TO me. So if it's
III the same to you, Mr.. Ford, we won't
Ia * about grownd-up school; I'd rather
Eress be a little girl again among them
ether children. | should be a powerful
Eght more kan if l knowed that when l
has away huntin' stocks or fightin' stakes
with them Harrisons, that she was a settin'
there with them and the birds and the
bees, and listenin' to tham and to you.
kebhee there's been little too many scrim-
hayes goin' on round the ranch sence she's
been child meEbee she orter know suthin
nore of man than Teller who sparks her
Ind fights for her,"
The master was silent. Had this dull,
barrow minded partizau stumbled upon a
ruth that had never dawned upon his own
broader comprehension Had this selfish
Iavage and literally red-handed frontier
brawler been moved by some dumb instinct
of the power of geutleuess to understand
- raalc than ha2 EDy.
noment he was staggered. Then he thought
II CresSy's later hiltations with Joe Mast
srs, and her concealment of their meeting
rom her mother Had she deceived her
ather also. Or was not the father deceiv-
ne him with this alternate suggestion of
hreat aud of kindliness-of power and
eeakneSs. He had heard OF this cruel
, aSe of southwestern cunning before.
vi b the feeble sophistry of the cynic he
listrusted the good his skepticism could
lot understand. Howbeit, glanclng side
Tavs at the slumbering savagery of the man
)eside him, and his wounded hand, he did
lot care to show his lack of confidence. He
himself with that equally feeble
esource of weak humanity in such cases
,ood-natured indifference.
"All right he said, carelessly, "I'll see
What can be done. But are you quite sure
'Ou are fit to go home alone. Shall l &C
ompany youN As McKinstry waived the
digestion with gesture, he added lightly,
S If to conclude the interview: I'm re-
,ort progress to you from time to time. if
ou like
TO me-" emphasized McKinstry; mot
yer thar indicating the ranch. "But
traps YOU wouldn't mind my ridin' by and
ookin' in at the school room winder onct
d while2 Ah-you would" he added,
With the first deepening of color he had
hown. "Well, never mind"
You see it might distract the children
rom their lessons" explained the master,
emily, who had, however, contemplated
With some concern the infinite delight
which glimpse of McBinstry's fiery and
atuous face at the window would awaken
n johnny Fiigees infant breast.
well, no matter I" returned McKinstry,
lowly. "Ye don't keer, / s'pose, to come
Yer to the hotel and take suthiu's A julep
+ smashP'
81 shouldn't think of keeping you a mo-
nent longer from Mrs. Mckinstry," said
be master, looking at his companions
rounded hand. Thank you all the same,
iood-by."
They shook hands. McKinstrey transfer
ing Lis rife to the hollow Of his elbow to
fer his unwou ded left. The master
'atched him slowly resume his way to-
Tard the ranch. Then with a half uneasy
nd half pleasurable sense that he had
AIKEN some step whose consequences were
lore important than he would at present
nderstand, he turned in the opposite direc-
lon to the school house. He was so preoc-
apied that it was not until he had nearly
cached it that he remembered Uncle Ben.
\ It'll an odd recollection of McKinstry's
revlouS performance, he approached the
,hool from the thicket In the rear and
pped noiselessly to the open window with
be intention of looking in. But the school
ouse, far from exhibiting that kan" and
udlous abstraction which had so touched
he savage breast of McKinstry, was filled
nth the accents of youthful and unre-
.rained vituperation. The voice of Rupert
igee came sharply to the masters aston
he'd ears.
You needn't try to play off Dobell or
litehell on me-you heart Much you
now of either, don't youi Look at that
opy. If Johnny couldn't do better than
nat, I'd lick him. OF course it's the pen
1T amt your stodgy fngers-oh, no!
'r'aps you'd like to hev few more boxes
quilts and gold pens and Gillotts best
lrown in. for 2 bits lesson9 l tell you
INIT! I'll throw up the contract in an
Their mint There goes another quill
ustedl Look here, what you want amt a
en-, but a clothes-pin and a split nail!
ha- II about jibe with your dilikit gait.
The master at once stepped to the window
nd, unobserved, took quick survey Of the
ioerlor. Following some ingenious idea OF
IS own regarding fitness, the beautiful
ilgee had induced Uncle Ben TO seat him
NJ on the floor before one of the smallest
asks, presumably his brothers, in an atti-
lde which, while it certainly gave him
elbow room for those contor-
ons common TO immature penmanship,