Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-03-08

9Iorena; land I've been in it three
weeks, and not had one adventure
vet A man gets no show at all in
travelling nowadays. Hellol here
comes somebody in a hurry
Very much in a hurry. certainly.
seemed the sturdy Spanish peasant
wtao had just appeared on the top of
the steep ridge above the boys head
Asr he was leaping from crag to crag
=sss recklessIy as a wild cat. and at
times even swinging himself over
some deep cleft by the bough ola
srse, as if in such haste that he had
UR time to think of such a trife as
the chance of broken neck.
But in this case it was ''most haste,
worst speed, for all at once a large
Stone gave way beneath the Span
Ezrd's feet, and he came tumbling
5Ipadlong down into the road amidst
- Whirlwind of dust.
Harry, whose sympathies were al
ready enlisted in favor of a man
capable of such feats of strength and
daring, flew to the spot feeling as if
lee had really met with something
I7sze an adventure" at last. But
when hereached the fallen man he
stopped in sheer amazement.
And well he might. The man
whom he had seen bounding along
the ridge had had long gray hair
and beard; he was quite sure of that,
or he remembered wondering that
=gn old man should be SO active. The
fE8ir of the man before him was short,
thick and black as night, and he had
no beard at all.
Meanwhile, the stranger had man
aged to sit up, and was wiping the
blood from bad cut on his forehead.
xn doing so he discovered the loss of
MS false hair and beard, and met
43nCry's eye fixed wonderingly upon
him
well" asked he, fercely, answer
ing the boys glance with defiant
stare, Edo you know me?'
NO, and don't want to know
yOu, ;" said Harry in broken Spanish,
rather nettied at the mans imperi-
Gs1s tone 81 suppose you'rea SNUG
sser by your Disgusting yourself that
way"
Yes, | am" replied the other, with
"A strange smile. "Are you going to
give me up to the police?"
Not Il'' cried Harry. tits not
the style of US Americans to give
sIGay n man who can't stand up for
himself"
1.Ah. you're an American them"
said the smuggler, looking curiously
sBE him. 'Well, if you are willing to
Ez'lp me, I'll tell you how you can do
n Give me your arm as far as the
chapel of st. James, about half
atIae down the road-for | find I've
sgsxMfned my ankle too badly to walk
s8fone-and then I'm all right"
Come along, then" rejoined Har-
ry, Offering his arm"
And the strangely assorted pair
81 forth.
On the way our hero told his new
TREND, who seemed in too much pain
ep talk himself, that he was travelling
Through Spain with HE father, that lie
hsd picked up in Mexicc what little
Spanish he knew, that his tour had
hitherto been provokingly bare of
adventures, and that the one thing
IA the world which he most desired
WIS TO fall in with gang of real
ssssanish brigands.
At last they reached t1e chapel,
and then, at peculiar whistle from
sf1s smuggler, five wild looking horse
uas.z, with long guns on their should
erS, started out of the encireling
fIziekets, one of whom led by the
bride fine black horse, on which
they at once mounted the crippled
Snaniard. not without casting more
Sisan one puzzled and suspicious
look at the wondering boy.