Wichita eagle., 1889-04-05

ssBurrows was standing up, bit OF light
plank in his hand, his long, black hair flying
in the wind, looking beautiful and devil
ish; the girl was done screaming now and,
shrunken into the bottom of the boat, was
kneeling there, her face hidden in her
hands.
cit seemed certain death they were go
ing to, the boat without . guide, amidst
those rapids and those rocks.
"Walter Woods had ridden to the place
on horseback on his own blooded mare
Bessie He took in the whole at glance.
and while others were thinking he acted
was galloping along the shore, keeping up
with the boat and watching for chance to
save Miss Birdie
burrows saw this and it must have
drove him mad He seized the unresisting,
fear-paralyzed girl in his arms and yelled
that unless Woods and those now following
him halted he would dash her into the
water with himself and they should drown
together. And he meant it.
"Then Walter Woods hand went to the
front of his Mcclellan saddle and the old
six-shooter came from its holster strapped
there He didn't pull his mare hair, he
just raised the old iron tn at he knew so
well, brought it down to line-crackl and
Mr.. Burrows one arm dropped from about
the girls body, the boat swayed, rocked
more and turned over.
"Woods sprang from his horse into the
food, grasping the dress OF the insensibe
girl; Burrows was swept against the up
turned boat and chung TO it, not, as it seems,
to save his life. but for revenge; he man
aged to secure slight support from it even
in his wounded condition; he drew bis pistol,
not yet rendered useless by the water, and
took deliberate aim at the overburdened
man who was struggling in the boiling
waters. Woods and the girl he risked so
much to rescue would both have been lost
had not others dashed in and brought them
to land, not before, however, the bullet of
the Texan had lodged in the young soldiers
back.
"Birdie Stoddart was soon revived and
carried away from the scene. Walter Woods
lay an inanimate form upon bed OF leaves,
water and the wound had left but little Of
life in him. Two doctors who were Of the
party were exercising their skill upon him
when some brought the body Of Bur-
rows and laid it also there. The des-
perate man had abandoned the boat after
firing his shot and deliberately resigned
himself to death by drowning.
1.-THE surgeons he'd cut the upper clothing
off Woods; they stripped Burrows now to
make some effort to resuscitate him. Some
one called the attention Of those present to
the remarkable likeness of the two faces,
now cold in death, a likeness never noticed
before. In the moments lull from action
caused by the discovery, Colonel Martin
Watson joined the group. The strange
similarity of feature seemed to affect him
more than others, and there was some
thing else-upon the bare arm of Walter
Woods, as it lay at his side, was strange
monogram in the blue mark of india-ink of
four Ms.
"Wlth trembling limbs the rich man
stepped to the side of the other corpse and
stripped from its right arm the covering,
and az ain the blended four NJ s met his gaze.
"These were-these dead Jumps of clay
now-had been his sons, the sons he had de-
serted, had forgotten willingly. They had
come, unknowingly and unknown to each
other, to lay at his feet, dead.
s.When that emlgrant ship went down
some kind hands took from the crazed
mother her babes, but they were separated
through life and united so strangely ID
death, and thus their father found them,
or they found him.
'sThis acorld my boy, is so little that such
things dlacays come back to us.
''Walter Woods and Dart Burrows
Mark and Matthew Watson they really
were-are buried in Gods acre behind
our church. Birdie Stoddart's grave is
near by; she never rallied. Fright and
cold, caught in the river, some SAID, has
tened her death; others think she found
she had heart and that she did not care to
live without Walter Woods.
Martin Watson stopped building on that
mansion; he lives now as he has lived ever
since that terrible day, stunning his fellow
men and forsaken by all No doubt he
would gladly die, but his punishment is to
ltUe.n ALEX. DUKE BAILIE.