San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-15

was courteous enough, out MS zones
were cold and formal when he en-
duired if her breakfast had been sat-
isfactory and then gathering up the
wraps, and giving her his arm led
her TO where the stage stood waiting.
~ cannot tell you how grateful l
am for your kind attentions to me
Mr.. Maurice: /" she stopped, some
thing seemed TO rise in her throat
and check her words as the remeu-
brance of what brought her on this
Journey, so far from home, and alone,
returned To her. He was arranging
the rugs across her lap when she
tried to thank him, aud though he
made no reply, she little knew how
wildly his heart beat so near her, and
how he longed to take her in his arms
and give her assurance of his power
to aid in her quest, but he turned
resolutely away when her lovely eyes,
blue as the sky above them looked
into his and finished what her tongue
could not-turned away and busted
himself making her comfortable.
1--WE shall have but one passenger
beside ourselves, and he seems to
prefer a seat beside the driver"
Maurice remarked finally as he took
a SCdU DCSlNC lCI
care you going farther? thought
that is / understood Mr.. Clark to say
you resided here"
"Bonnyvill is my post-office address
and L have a house here, but have
an estate beyond-business takes me
to all part of the country. [ find l
can 90 with you as far as the Summit
House where you will dine, from
there the way will be without dam
ger"-He stopped, evedintly he had
said more than he intended, but she
appeard in no way startled and re-
piled:
Danger? do you apprehend danger
before we reach that point? from
whom, COL Nighthawk?"
"Well it is possible" watching her
curiously." You have heard of this
desperad as law-abiding people call
him. Have you no dread of meeting
him?n
II would rather not meet him of
course, but when I resolved to make
this journey, alone and unprotected
my chance of meeting him was among
the possibly unpleasant things L
might encounter, but | do not think
[ have really anything to fear if
what I have heard be true about
these men,
"What have you heard, may /
ask" 80 many different reports, but
the one L most rely upon, is, that
they never make war on women.
nor ever commit robbery unless to
take from the immensely rich. u
Then you do not consider taking
from the rich thief, and giving to the
poor so great crime?n Maurice
asked smiling as she hesitated. Do
you impute the train robberIes to Col.
Nighthawk's menu"
so cansshave no opinion as to that.
But, believe none of these robberies
have been proven against them.
But she added whatever danger or
annoyance there may be l must meet
it. [ would come, and | will not
turn back though death stands in
my way" She spoke earnestly, and
the pretty rosetint that came so readi-
ly at the least emotion, to her usually
pale cheeks deepened warmly, and
her lips closed more firmly, giving
a new character to her delicate face.
"You are right madam to trust to
the more human reports of Col. Night
hawk and his men, whatever their
crimes against the law, they never
wrong woman. You will be as safe
as far as they are concerned as in your
own parlor."
"Can you tell me anything definite
about this strange band of mon of
whom so much is said, and so little real
ly known? have had a peculiar inter
est in them from the first, L don't know
why, and I have never felt the horror
that all well regulated minds are sup
posed to feel when reading about
their desperate acts, and the severe
and often ludicrous punishment they
inflict upon their victims 1 am afraid
L have more often laughed at, and felt
in my secret heart that probably the
punishment was richly deserved-I
hope you won't think 1 am so very
notwithstanding again and look
ing with pretty appeal to her silently
attentive companion. [ have no
sympathy with crime, but 1 cannot
help feeling that there are persons
apparently above reprOach, lives so
carefully ordered that the law must
protect them, yet could the truth be
known, deserve the most severe
punishment. O, think there must
first be a sense of cruel wrong for
which there is no redress that leads
men to take the law into their own
hands"