The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1889-03-14
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>a-ay iua, Ael Led one OF zine polite
/ who bad dl,mouutgd to tbc door OF
itbc wooden She'd atwhish Doc badte ii
standing. Phoebe followed them aua
. iookiu. ll. saw WHue'- head resting
upon some withcrci gra,- covered by
I q handkerchief Ills ewes were star
/ ing up at the slauuug boards of hs
wreteh he'd bcd-clamber but it was
manifest that he was unconscious oi
everything about him.
The my ,trry il easily explained, p"
said Mcli-h, when he had withdrawn
his visitors from the shed. although
/ it may prove a little disappointing 10
YOU gentlemen. ON the day LETT DR.
Buffers, had gone some distance
with Fullerton. when / resolved to re-
turn there that might have an eNpla-
nation with member of his family.
Il believe it concerned me-" inter-
rupted Phoebe.
Il had not gone very far when |
heard Fullerton calling for help.
Coming back. found him dragged
from hi, horse and being attacked by
a Mexican, who had already taken
his pistol, from him. alighted and
went to his assistance, but only at the
moment when his foot slipped aud |
saw him going over the precipict.
The next instant | had flung over the
miscreant TO follow him, a, thought
BUT ! was mistaken, Fullerton had
caught the bushes, or had been caught
/ by them, and while his strength lasted
was safe. TIp was. however, too low
down for me 10 get him up again Sc
AIN / could do was 10 descend by mean.
of the projections which broke til,
/ eyenues, of the c>carpmeut, helping
him to lower himself as | did SO
/ When be was at the bottom he had
tainted, and what with theexcitcmeuf
and the wound, DE had received from
/ the Mexican. he has been in a fever
ever since.
"IIow have you lived :" asked on,
lot the police >u~piciously.
Upon the provisions that I wa.
taking back to the ranch. Luckily
some quinine in my pocket was Of all
vantage to the wounded man"
"Why did you not GO forhcp: VIII,
did YOU not return to Doctor Butler
and ask hisadvice>'
MY horse having thrown off tn,
,addlc-bag- hmi boltod / could NO
. leave sick man alone while Iwalkc.
twenty miles. / have seen no on,
since / threw the Mexican into thl
stream. Funorton'- horse ran ava!
before mine did.
To verify MeIli-b'- statement. oul
of the police with Diego, followed th'
stream until they came TO The body @
the Mexican. which had been chcrko.
IN it, course by the guarded root, %
an old tree
With a little disappointment I'll,
Texan police acknowledged the posi-
biliy of Jack story, and at Phoebe
suggestion prepared q litter onwbicI
to carry Fullerton to Dr. Buffers res
idcuce.
Jack rather envied him thar Ion,
fllne.- al GaIfn House. Pbuba how
tercr left lie nursing o. her sister
She Sid not mean 10 make Mcui.l
.ieaua a-aiH indeed Size had dom
81 first Oh sll quite iunoeeutly. and on
By ia trgite 10 -a Emma
/ When Fullerton began t0heetnva
le-reut be also found himself aoa
4 ing appreau'yoocthe terio b.
slowed on him 5g he Younger NH-
|Bu.ler ia fact, De was SD wpr
Tat himself for ever having pretere,
tH.r elder sister .hat-welI a-be.
/ Emma 20 forgive him, ana She did,
Both the young gentlemen have sole
! their ranches and taken farms in Can
/ ada. preparatory to getting marrict
Immediately and Or Butler has re
i solved TO move Montreal way himself
I tie has never told Mellish the suspic
ions be had when be drove his girl
70 the precipice that overhung III,
Friar'- Prairie, but certainly thing
looked as black for him as circumstan
/ jal evidence could well make them.
THE END.