The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-01-23

drew the IN away. Sorrel never
s',r'n; evidently he heard nothing.
anu i'rn'ntrse, trembling All over.
turned about and ercpt back through
w" darkness 10 his cabin. Little Trick
was sleeping quietly, and again he
whispered MY God.' IN utter aston.
'snmrnt He stood moment looking
=, net peaceful face and great sense
~ what he might have been rushed
over him. lie stopped over the sleep
ing child and big tears slipped down
ms bearded checks upon her pillow.
NO little thing" he said. brokenly.
Tor your sake couldn't be haft No
matter what comes Of Us or the nine.
! couldn't be INIT" and he set the rifle
IN a corner and went out. and for half
the night walked % and fro on the
mountain side, struggling with the
problem.
Tut the next morning Sorr.l Sam was
gone. and the water running through
the slnicc into Braintrce's mine. Not a
trace Of sorrcl was found. save one
damaging and dreadful thing his hat.
torn in shrcds and spotted with blood
near the upper gate Of the sluice. lie
had been killed, murdered. was the
general cry. Were there not traces Of a
struggle there among the rock% And
who could have done the deed but his
enemy, Sol Eraintrce? The excitement
spread through the Basin like fire.
a few disscnted. Grizzly smith, a
miner who had been chewcd up once by
a grizzly down on the Feather river.
was one. Of these. .'Mebbe hit was d
bar as carried him Off" he suggested.
"Er mcbbie two bars fit over Sorrcl's
hat where he drappcd hit. an tore an
trompcd hit up that way"
"Oh, you're ole fool,r said Iii Munson.
who used To- work with Grizzly down
on the Feather river. you don't know
nothin' but bar since We rot bit WV.
look al il. Amt the water runnin' in
SOILS sluice where the law said II didn't
belong? An amt Sol Eraintree the
oncrieSt cuss ever come into the basin9
He'd ~ lief kill anybody that crossed
him is he would RATHER"
yes. AM seed him comm in 70 his
cabin last night nigh % midnight" de-
clared Whisky Evans Of Sunkcn Bar,
''an' Id Just like TO AK yc. Grizzly
Smith. where he'd bccn?"
"Out gittin' dram like yrsclf,
s'pose." growled Grizzly.
mo. he wasn't; he's too cusscd mean
an stingy fer that. scoifed Evans
"Oh. shet np." roarcd Munson. "Git
a rope. Wen see whether things like
this ken he did in these diggin's or not,'
In half an hour ,hree-fourths Of The
miners Of Kattlesnakc basin came
pouring down into Sol Braintrec's
mine. Nunson had rope, and all were
excited and many the worse for liquor
Braintrec was sitting on a rock appar
emily lost in thought. lie got up and
looked at the crowd Of men. and a
little patch Of color came into each OF
his swarl,y checks.
What 10 you fellows want?" he
asked.
I'VE want you, Sol Brain.ree." said
Munson. IAN we'd like 10 Ak We whar
Sorrel Sans gone to. a. how il comes
his waters runnin' in here whar the
law said II didn't BELONG
That's what been strdyin
about said Braintree, quietly. Il
didn't turn il in. an don't know whats
come of Sam"
'sY'r cusscd liar,- said Munson, all
vancing In an instant he lay sprawl
ing among the stones, fclled by Brain
trees knottcd fist.
IF any more you fcllcrs hcv speeches
like that 70 make y'd hest 81 outside the
pit 70 make EN-. | reckon" said
Braintrcc, steadily.
At that moment little Queer Trick
came in among them. Squeezing her
curly head and chubby body past the
big legs Of the men. she emerged in the
ring beside her father Looking up
into his pale face, and up at the seowl-
ing malevolent visagcs Of the men about
him, she saw that something was wrong.
'.zis is NV Papa Sol, she lispod-
opening one Of his fists and taking hol
Of one Of his big. soilcd fingers; ''hc's