Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-29

was so prosecuted by that horrid old
Merkly that | couldn't stand it day
longer, and when we arrived here among
white mentor | could not hear of white
woman,-I cut off my hair and ran away
in your clothes, fixed over just little, fol-
did not dare go in my own, as | was sure
that fend would have found me and
brought me back. He thought me wholly
in his power o, you don't know what a
villain he was. / am sure he removed you
from our wagon that you mightdie. | did
not suspect it then, and he never raised a
hand to save you. o, dear, dear, just to
think of it-and was SO sick myself that
was helpless
"Neds fingers were twitching as though
he would like to get hold of Merkly.
Well, well, you poor girl, you have
indeed suffered said George, 'but we have
you safe, now. You fell into good hands,
1 should judge, if you were sailing under
false colors'
"'Ohl yes, indeed, indeed I did, said
Phil, but tell us, George, about yourself.
How did you happen to come here?
"'Well | was removed from that wagon
to be placed in another for more comfort,
it was said; l was very low, and did not
notice what was being done. Soon, how
ever, man came to me, looked me over
carefully, and asked what wagon | belonged
to, and where my friends were. / said
most of them were dead. The whole train
had for weeks been in a kind of panic, and
| have no doubt many were positively
buried alive. My new friend said: "You
will recover, if you are looked after a
little" and he cheered me up by his kind
ness. "The train is moving on, SO | will
take you in my own wagon" and he lifted
me in, and nursed me up for a few days,
where / soon quite recovered, though not
fully, until we arrived among the mount
aims, and | owe my life to Hubble-he
was more than brother to me-
HUBBLE said Ned; why, there is a
Hubble living near u.s.
"'He is the same,' said George, i was
looking for his partners csbin-Gaines, l
believe, is his name-when | became con-
fused in the snow and came here. Hubble
worked with me on the Yuba, but at the
earnest request Of Gaines, who is a rela-
tive, believe, came here few weeks ago
| could not come with him, but promised
to follow as soon as possible, hearing this
was on the emigrant road, where would
be more likely to hear something of Phil
if she was alive
"'And now,' 1 said, 1et me interrupt
you awhile. 1t is not surprising we should
lose our heads, but | am quite sure we
have not lost our apPetites, so we had better
have supper now and the remainder of the
story afterward.'
awhile we were dishing up Phil disap.
peared but just as we were seated at the
table she appeared, dressed in a real, gen.
uine gown-calico, it is true, but fairer in
our eyes than any of silk we remembered
to have seen before. Dear, dear, there wa:
another surprise.
SIT was hid in the bag with the Other
things said Phil.
dyes said George, 'and l venture the
hair is there Also
"Indeed, it is said Phil, with must
cal laugh, "a girl of eighteen is not going
to lose sight of such head of hair a.
that
$50 we had stranger at table after all
but if that was not a genuinely happy
meal it is impossible to have one. Poor
Phil, she was too happy to eat-but l an
sure she did not regret it. The venisor
was delicious, and the quail pie grea
success, and the crust-that never, never
could have been made by boy-we were
sure of that.
$50, Phil, PHIL said Ned, you played
it very fine all along. But, dear me, what
thick-headed fellows we were.'"
The old man hesitated.
"Surely, that is not ALL" said.
"Well, not quite, it is true. We per.
suaded George to come in with us, thereby
enabling US to install Phil as chief cook
for the winter; and if Phil, the boy, wa.
all we could wish, Phil, the girl, was 8
treasure. Ned ana were both agreed OF
that, but long before winter had gone il
was very evident, to even my dull mind
that while she was quite willing to cook
for three, it would be, perhaps, more
agreeable to her tastes to cook for bu
one, and, unfortunately for me, that one
proved to be Ned, and | suspect the scamp
did his best to stimulate her tastes in thai
direction.
$50 when spring came they left the
mines, George accompanying them, but
determined to leave the mires only with {
fortune, and l still adhere to that de
termination"