Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04

in the shadow of the orchard. Being well
acquainted with the location of the wires
by which her father had set a guard about
his house, she easily escaped into the road
way without attracting attention, and
joined young King in his newly painted
buggy. They took their time driving to
Eldora, the county seat, for neither clerks
nor clergymen We're to be looked for thus
early in the morning. The miles had
passed in peace, and Just at dawn they
drove up to the little hotel, which was
ample accommodation for the city's tran
sient guests, and asked for breakfast.
The landlord eyed them closely as he led
them into the paIlor, and asked them
where they were from. Young King was
not ready to make any admissions as yet,
and so in an equivocal way said:
ave are from the West" which was
strictly true, but not especially satisfying.
Breakfast was served them, and Just as
they sat down TO eat an officer marched in
and presented warrant, arresting run
away bride and groom on a charge of steal
ing.
King seized chair and swore he would
allow no man to offer an insult to lady in
his company, but crowd rushed in from
the bar-room. and both the young people
were hustled off TO jail, where they were
given separate apartments. The only in
formation vouchsafed them was that so
many thieves were abroad in the land it
was thought best to lock up all suspicious
characters. 1t was believed they were
members of burglar gang, and at all
events they would have to wait until per-
sons whose houses had been rifed could
come and inspect the latest captures.
But, if trouble had alighted on the ban
ners of young Lyle and his bride, the king
Of troubles had fastened the taIons in the
hair Of Herbert Aver. His daughters
escape would have been successful enough
had not some ill-starred thief made rash
descent on the old mans stable an hour
later. As it was, the moon had Just passed
meridian, when some laundering outlaw
tripped on the wire before the stable door
and knocked down tin and ironware
enough in the Aver bedehamber to alarm
a garrison. 1t reused the farmer soon
enough, and he dashed from the house,
shooting and swearing with astounding
emphasis until he saw MS stock was safe,
when he returned to the houseto dress and
pursue the villain. But among the mem
bers of his family who gathered to discuss
this first alarm in months no Agnes was to
be seen.
$50 wake the GIRL" shrieked the farmer,
as he danced about, trying to force a right
foot into left boot.
'She is not there" said the wife calmly,
as she returned to the room.
"Great guns and little fishes" roared
the farmer, backing around the room in
search of his .galluses.' He dashed up
stairs and tore open room after room, yell
ing like demon and demanding impossi-
BILE things of every inmate of the house.
hold.
"She has run away with that - Dem
ocratp shrieked the old man, as he came
crashing down the stairway. Glitch up
the roam horse TO the sulky-gow and the
hired man was in the stable before the
command was fairly uttered. Old Aver
rode that morning as he never had ridden
before. Horse-thieves be hanged He
would catch the girl or kill the ran horse
he didn't care cent which. Long be-
fore daybreak he came Gathering over the
bridge at the margin of town, and the
noise he made reused the sleepy night
watch. As the farmer refined his reeking
steed in front of the livery stable he was
placed under arrest and bundled into Jail,
the maddest man in Iowa
"Oh, I'll fix you for this Oh, you mis-
cradle donkey-don't know an honest
farmer from robber.o
'Why, aren't you horse-thief% asked
the Sheriff, as he gazed at the boiling cul-
prit and wondered If he had really bagged
prize.
''Yes, Pm horse-thief" yelled old Aver,
referring, of course, to the abbreviated
name by which his clan was known, "and
by the jumpin' Jehosophat, I'll remember
all this another election day"
sob, you're horse thief, are your" said
the Sheriff, treasured. "Nell, you go on
remembering. Pm pledged to help the
farmers of Hardin county against all
horse-thieves," and he went away in rising
hope.
At 10 o'clock the Justice Court wa:
crowded to the walls. A young man and
young woman had been arrested at the
hotel charged with some of the many theft:
with which the town had been cursed
They had come into the city in the gray
of early morning, and had refused to give
any reasonable account of themselves
The girl was pretty and the man was full
of fight, though he still refused to give &
word of explanation of his strange conduct
Everybody attended court and wished the
justice were less tardy. He came at last, {
sensible old man, knowing how the vote.
lay, and while he arranged his papers tn,
officers brought in young Lyle King anC
Agnes Aver, named John Doe and Rache
Roe in the warrant, and charged then
with larceny, asking that they be bount
over to the Grand Jury, whose delibera
tions they might await in Jail.
"Say," said a gaunt old man, just recov
ering from his first transport of rage at thu
awful indignity of legal arrest, what
these young people charged with?'
"Oh, some burglary" said the Justice
you keep still"
"But, my Godl can't keep STILL That
my daughter, Agnes She never stole
thing in her life And that's my neighbo
Reub Kings boy, Lyle. He'sa Democrat
but he won't steal. Great guns Yol
can't hold them for robbery. They've ruI
off to get married. Just hold EN- till l ge
out, but don's say they stole"
Lyle King was almost too crushed b,
the awful infamy of that hour in count,
Jail to lift his head, and he only stood be
side the girl to shield her from those Gu
rious, insulting eyes that marked he
beauty and believed her crime. But b.
thanked the old farmer with all his heart
and as the words of exculpation droppe,
from the nervous lips he turned to the Jus
tice.
you see how it is, squire he said
"and why didn't want to say a word
That old man tells the truth. Your peo
pie ought to know him. He don't oftel
leave his farm EXCEPT to chase horse
thief or lover"-this last with a glanc
of triumph at the pioneer-"but he's a