The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-19
g. GYPSY MAIDS FATE.

Grove road, then turn an GO SOU bout
shree-quarters Of n mile. Look sharp 10
the right side an you'll scc the hatteran.
Its q night hatteran. Some N us goes
down to the city To the thacyters an it's
dark like when we gets 'ome. That's
why we put il 'lonRside the way. Jus
foller IL an you'll see n Roodish knoll with
n strip ~ trees over IL. Under the lee q
skimpy timber you'll find us.
Well he movin' ON now short
y. The nights do be Res'in' cool like
" black was his waving hair. Shining
hlackcr still were his steady gazing. wide,
open cye~. His skin had q tinRe OF ORR
burned n hue OF swarthy red upon his
covered by n heard Of such silken quality
that IL needed no second glance tn reveal
Il the growth from u cuticle that had
never been scraped by the barber razor:
Hin, Sio %hn's .n wS, x; I'll SSo ~ ;d haassss az m acS
wear, yet bore not only the marks of dust
but the intangible something TINT bespoke
fine sofs felt, had the crown pressed out
ward in q rome shape and the broad rim
turned down, indicating that it's chief pur-
pose was protection from sun, or wind, or
air.
He had slipped from the big gray horse
ho rude without saddle and stood with one
halter hung over his arm. The animal had
turned 80 that Il. chin rested upon the
mans shosIlder and II regaIrsicd mo with
eyes MS steady Ms its masters.
"Yes, ] keeps King Dan," said the
9ypsy; noting . glance OF gnit di-
Sse' sn, t s;rn n'S i. . S,"s. ,r;cn never so Ken inns sell ns r me
lives. He know. MORN me. He knowed
you aforc seed You, He to
my ''' 'sens;on. IL fecis " sort o; sighted
when he ant noticed proper"
Thus Administered. I rubbed n hand over
forcIock. For both he and Philip Butler,
the omany Rye who stood before me.
wcr, old friends.
might m the tent beside Philip when a
rowing STRIPPING. More than one race had
won along some country road against
the other boys in the camp when
back.
put away boyish things. ! looked curiously
over man and beast for some signs of in
age. l could find them i'm
''You are both just the same. You are
] said, still fondiing the
horse and smiling. at the man.
"Only you has changed. Had You staid
by us as wc asked you.I should not see
the change i'm you had il come" answered
ne gyp-y, r~rproachfuiiy. But don't yon
you will an not doin' it," he added,
with the suspicion which il part of the
eastern nature, that generations Of roam
80 - osA $50 sHSs "asosAy
eradicatSsi.
N will comc.' ! promised.
1--WE bees all there. Leastways all that's
hes,," he added with a sigh.
who's gone 2"
''why, mother. She went when we was
spell in Louiaanny till we can ix a ~teady
Down side o she st.nleys in Ohio. where
frien's nohow. you nows."
Well did I know the bitter feud that had
f1r years wv, the great sypsy
hers several hundr,d souls. the great But
Ter clan of several hundred more, aud two
Tribe who had adopted distinguished Eng
lish names generations before they left
The soil OF Great Britain. 1 knew they
feeling of resentment against the DOM
Stanleys, who laid false claims tn
'upremacy over their race in this ountry
buried early this spring." continued the
Rom i'm the soft, half sinR-sonR tones char
Of hi: peculiar, clannish people
turtles before history existed. You idn't
know he WINS married? No, s'pose you
lie boo. as .encs the fsii Soa lsfs e "s. He H,
married one them Reynoldses girls what
was cainpin' long % us the susnmer you
samped with uS. You her
Distinctly, inde.si, did I remember the
Rypsy lass Sailie Reynolds. She still had,
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them marvellous beauty which is the endow-
ment OF the young Romany females and
which road and camp life NC soon de-
ytroys. No gypsy maiden sang like
handsome Sallie, and none played the
guitar and tambourine like She. I recol-
|ected we'll how the foolish young men
from the near town had swar,ned 20 the
camp 70 get . glimpse Of tho beauty. And
| remember. Too, the face Of one at once
sillier and bolder than the rest, Who
Dne twilight had offered an aiFront TO the
girl.
Remembered the flash, the sharp report,
cry. and how the audacious youth fell
the grass writhing in pain. His COM
panions rushed 20 him and bore him away.
There WIS an instantaneous stampede in
camp. The staples and poles Of the
eents were hastily removed. The
we're loaded, the horses baltered. and the
of the camp btokc into a
Fragments. each going swiftly
:. the hor.es fleet feet could carry IL i'm u
1 Rereut direction.
We all knew that Sallie had drawn the
from the bosom that the lawless
hand sought 10 defile and herself shot the
down.
No arrests were ever made. whether be-
eause the vtgilant officer failed to overtako
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GAranted.