Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1889-11-23

blowing with the boisterousness OF youth
and health
Yes. sir; and we'd better hurry up. for
they won't stand tied much longer NV
eve. but it's dark aut doorsln
60 and tell Prof sCronin to be ready for
ms by the time We get back. Tell Pal and
Dave TO come on and bring the dark Ia tern
with you as you come back"
'All right, sir" and the young man went
out
Arthur Denver, left alone, slipped his
pistols into his pockets. looked all around
tie waitinR-room OF Westmoreland Col
iege. in which he was standing. whistlad
soItly part OF a tune In an abse mt minded
way, aud stepped out of the light room
into the darkness of the storm
The sudden transition from light TO dark
blinded him, but he soon saw the dim
lights in the far-off windows oh the college
aprlaitory aud discerned before him the
suaying branches OF the trees and the
rush OF rain drops across the ath OF
tight that streamed from tho window of
th room he had lust left
He remained standing long enough to
have developed some impatience- though,
u the wind could have taken oogn zanee of
tho face II beat against, IL would have per-
ceiyed that the mind was far away and was
noticing neither the weather nor the low
ering temperature--when simultaneously a
good -natured peal OF laughter and u clatter
OF horses' hoofs announced the arrival OF
his young friend with tho team He drove
np at dashing pace and refined hts horses
IN so suddenly 1t threw them on their
hannches- Arthur could dimlv see, behind
the restless horses. \ light spring wagon
and In II the dark and shadowy fgaTss Of
three men. He climbed In and took the VA
S4nt scat beside the driver At word the
nlettlesame stseds sprang forward and
sped through the darkness at breakneck
pace.
You will have to learn 20 be more quiet
ON expeditions of this sort, Norton said
Arthur Denver.
1T was not who laughed so boisterously
fnst before we came up with you,n replied
the young man
'lndeeds ! thought II was )"
No, sir. IL was Graeme.n
''Graemel The idiot What does he out
on such night as thlsY"
He be always out on these koind Of
noights, sor. spoke up one OF the men on
the back scat
Arthur Denver shrugged his shoulders
Are you sure you know the road Nor
tonY"
Been over II ever since / was child,
SIR"
And he did know it, for they few around
the hilisides over dangerous ground
enough In daylight without an accident
The rain still beat In gusts directly In their
faces smotherad impreca ion from one
or the other of the two men in the back
seat betrayed their nativity and early re-
ligious training as well as varied the
monotony by marking the passage Of some
particularly rough ehuck-hole or high
calvert They sped ON, winding among
the hills and measuring many q dTeary
lano before they stopped And when they
did halt. It as before gate that had over
O. a huge white arch dimiy discerntble
through the murky night The gate was
locked but IL Yielded 10 the open sesame"
OF broad key In the hands OF Morton.
Through tho gate the wagon passed, and
along the grayeled driveway wound ita
tortuous way among the habiiRtions of the
dead until IL came to n new-mada grave
Here the men hlighted, and while the late
occupants OF the rear seat shoveled away
al the mound Morton hiIched the horses
and stepped bEck To watch the gate and
Arthur skifully lit his pipe beneath his
great-coat aud smoked
Half an hour later tha same team was
making n return trip over the same road.
NTH passenger was now aboard But
this passenger lay ON the floor of the
wagon In sack
At the college gate Prof Gronin met
them
Have YOU got Alicef" he inquired ''You
had better put her In your room, Prot
Donver, TIL tonight; the lock IL broken on
the door OF the dissecting room, and IL u
will not ineonyenienos-n
moi ~ all