Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-10-02

TO the entreatles OF q ma n wanted
A kiss. Il will not kiss any uuan, she
said. but if | ever get ready to oscu-
late masculine lips | will look you up.
is the same. " said the sage young
sutton. las Il you we're to proclaim that
Won would never fall of a roof. but in
you ever concluded such a thing
you would select that roof over yon.
Such is the illustration Of the inabi-
ity Of the feminine mental purpose.
This Ozark girl had seen a real
until Jimpson came along, and
that is why she thought 50 much OF
him
Ten minutes after the yuung man
and his friends rode away Ileunie went
after them She rode by another path
"A shorter one through the woods.
Ii would be- noon before they would
reach the Mil. II the plant near that
place was seized the girl coujectured
that the three men. whom she now
felt sure were revenue officers. would
work back with their prisoners. taking
the other stills as they proceeded She
had a pretty good gun with her. II
was an old fashioned piece, but its
carrying powers were good.
If he has lied to me" she mur-
INJURED as she rode along. III make It
mighty hot for him"
At noon she reached Croom's mill
There was no one there. The girl
..l -. 49, b,rea opI lad tho ami.
NAL through the trees TO a quiet spot
where the trio Of strangers would not
likely go She was not far wrong in
her guesses of the purposes of the ST
Louis young mans visit. Jimpson led
the two through the break in the woods
into the clear patch that surrounded
the few houses there. IL did not take
them long to find the stillhouse. Its
door was broken down and the trio en-
tered. The native girl Of Arkansas
peered through a patch OF u~nderbrush
behind which she was secreted n
watched the proceedings.
As she looked at Jimpson she received
her first lesson, and perhaps her only
one, in mans perfidy. She thought
there could never be a wretch
in all the world. He had squeezed her
hand the night before and said some
thing about love. IL seemed rather
nice TO little Hennie 70 heal him talk
so to her. and now { look at himl She
cried a few womanly as she
watched the operations Of these men,
who seized all the utensils and destroyed
as much of the house as they could
She dashed them away as the trio sad.
died the horses and prepared 70 mount
Wen work back now" said jump
son. Il know Of several piants-the
ones | told you OF"
what about the Spencersf asked
Brown.
IF it we're not for the little girl there,
don't you know" went on the matter
of fact st. Louisian. Il would take EN-
this evening regardless of anything but
the law"
I'm get him for that, sobbed Hen
ME, going for her horse. IN get him
sure"
The three men rode ahead. the Ar
kansas girl following them at a SAT-
distance. One still after another wa
demolished. only the Spencer plant be
ing untouched. The men rode bacl
toward the Spring river. the girl com
ing closely after them The revenu,
officers reached the edge Of a CLEARED
place and dismounted. The Spence
plant was Just across the patch
They mean 10 rest the folks" sal
the girl. ian IN not let 'em."
The trio broke into the cleared piecI
Of land and started across il. Tn
clearing was a fourth of a mile wild
probably, and the girl knew that sh
could not do anything If she permitte'
the men to precede her, as it wouli
not be possible for her to come int
the clearing behind them until the
were well out of sight In the wood;
In the meantime they might seize tn
plant and shoot her brothers. Sh
urged her horse along, hoping TO ski
: the clearing and meet the officers 6
they left the path and came into tn
woods again. The latter were SLOW
= however, and when she got to II
( other side they were just starting acros
a Then it was that a happy idea can
[ across her mind She would brea
E into the clearing and, If necessary, d
D some shooting on her own accoun
I Her simple Ozark mind did not gra'
the dangers Of such "a move again
three armed men. She slipped fro
her horse. and quicker than a win
a broke out Of the woods. The men sa
her and stopped. She turned to Il
n woods and waved her hands. as If e
!. pecting help. 1t flashed across Jim
o sons mind in an instant that the ow
ers of the house over near Croom's m
had returned, found their plant d
4 stroyed and t once set out to give q
J. alarm. He pictured the woods full
= angry, armed moonshiners.
"Come on" he called TO Downs
and McHenry, and the three ran bac
.ard 70 fba trees behind them. Th