The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-18
don't you give UNI to herr Lord knows she

needs UNI bad enuff."
Now look here, Cad" he said "thet's
tomtoolishness, an you know it; Mrandy
don't want fer nothin'. and she don't care about
hilaries, but most girls does, an l tell you
what, my second.A hev the incest buds o any
woman in town"
Caddie had put her shoes on again by this
time, and she did not propose to listen to him
any longer. 1t would not be wise to quarrel
with the bishop, but she had no desire "to play
second fiddle in no kind o music" and she
told him so.
"Haw, haw, haw," he laughed, II guess not.
Kin jest see the way my ole woman'll hev to
step around when you air Mrs. Burns. See
here Caddie, he added, as she turned to so,
want to talk to you, an you might jest as
wen listen now as emmy other time. You
Know Know your pa went prospectn' last year an |
furnished the gubb fer the trip. Well. he
found purity good claim; an now an eastern
compan s sent an expert out here to look at it,
an like as not they'll buy it. Well, one night
yer pa got. pretty full here in town, and L
got him to sign bill o. sale of the mine Now
he don't know nothn' bout the company, an
ne don't know tibet the paper he signed wuz
Dill o sale. I've got grubbin' on the mine,
ennyway, an I've got mines o my own an
money too, an l wouldn't mind givin this bill
O sale to you, If you'd be sensible, an marry
me, like your pa wants you to-"
II don't blieVe you've got no bill O. sale,"
said the girl, quietly; show me the paper
Her facewaS dark with anger. She looked
store, on a long packing box her glorious
brown hair had been blown loose by the wind,
her ragged sun bonnet hung by its strings
around her neck, her blue eyes were bright
with excitement, and her brown cheeks glowed.
The bishop looked at her admiringly as he re-
turned with the paper. She rose to her feet,
and her slight, round figure showed, even
through the clumsy pink calico, its graceful
curves. She moved round between him and
the open door of the stove, in which wood
fire burned. for the evenings are cold in these
mountain villages, and then, as he read aloud,
she suddenly snatched the paper and threw 1t
into the stove. lie sprang forward with an
oath, but it was too late, and when he turned
to look for the girl she was gone.
The next day Dick johnson rode up to the
saloon, and gravely announced to tho loungers
there that he meant to shoot old Burns on
sight, and that the said Burns had better have
his gun handy. Then the injured man began
to fortify himself with whisky for the approach
ing due duel
OF the crowd; II allus thought that you wuz
on tn the best kind o terms with tho bishop"
80, he's lived long enough, that's ALL" an
swered old Dick; IAN my arms air a-gittn
rusty fer want O use"
His enemy had been warned, Dick was
drunk enough to be dangerous, and so he
thought there was no reason for waiting any
longer, and, rising, he slipped quietly out of
/ the saloon, and walked over to the Coop.
Arriving there, he stood near the door,
watching the proprietor, until the latter turned,
when the hands of both men flew to their ready
pistols, and the shots rang out. The bishop fell,
andDick, who was a dead shot, stood calmly
looking at his victim. The murdered mans
wife ran in from her rooms behind the store
and flung herself down beside the body, with
heart-rending shrek. Then the men from the
saloon rushed in and stood around looking 81
iently at the bleeding corpse and at the poor
Wife, sho incurred tho dead man as sincerely
as though he had been the kindest of husbands
to her.
Her pitiful sobbing aroused the sympathes
angrily at the victor One man pointed signif-
cantly to a coil of rope lying on the counter,
but the rest looked at the revolver still grasped
in the fallen mans hand, and they shook their
heads.
Dick johnson saw and understood and he
quietly backed up against the wall drew anoth-
er six-shooter and proceeded to make his de-
tense lie told the story of the bill of sale.
You see, boys, he swindled me. Now. you
know, q man amt a-goin to be cheated like
that an not try to git revenge fer it, j give
him fair warnin', he had his chance at me
done 1t all up reg lar, an there hain't no call
fer hard feelin's agin me- I'm sorry fer her,
but you know ii amt my fault because her
man wuz scamp an needed KILN" His re-
volvers helped him to make his peace. These
men were not towards, but they knew they
could not take him alive armed in that way
and, besides, they thought his conduct quite
proper so he was promptly acquitted by this
informal jury, and he went quietly home.
Thus was rude justice done. Thus too, was
it that Caddie did not marry bishop, but be-
came Dan Williams BRIDE