Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-01-12
The prisoner sighed SO deeply as tt


again draw her attention.
You're very porely. If you'd only
eat
Milly-Milly Jane, called her Aunt
Narsy from the kitchen. What's gone
with the child?
l must go, she said; but as she
put out her hands to return, he NOV
ed suddenly and restrained himself.
Milly Jane, he whispered, don't you
forget your brother Ned. Don't you
stop lookin' for him One of these
days he'll come back-he may need
you wus'n you do him.
The constable and Uncle Scion bus
tied into the piazza, and Milly, with
words ringing in her ears, went into
the house.
Better stay all night, said the gate
keeper.
No, l must keep on to DanvilIe,
tonight. [ always feel safer when
I've got man under lock and key.
The buggy rolled away. The blind
girl wondered at herself; that she
had spoken SO freely of her brother
to stranger. But somehow that
pore boy made me think of Ned, she
reflected. God amt hard-hearted.
He'll fetch my brother blackstone
time.
At the little town of Scooby, in n.
Carolina, young man lay in Jail
waiting for his trial. He denied his
guilt, though he owned he had led a
wild, unsettled life. He told straight
story about the horse he was charged
with taking, but was not believed, as
the animal itself could not be found.
One day stranger rode up to the
court house, went in and asked for
the sheriff. Taking that officer aside,
he said:
This boy you have in jail here is
not guilty. He hired that horse for
me; but you haven't got the nag
back yet, guess?
No, we haven't; but
Look outside and see if that is not |
jhe animal.
That certainly is Jim Forster's
horse or its shadder, said the sheriff,
somewhat perplexed. The lad told
straight tale, but we didn't know how
rue it was.
Just so; but he is clear. If any
)ne is to blame, it's |. I'm ready to
Day all costs and charges.
Well-but who are you?
Here are the papers that will prove
Who and what | am. You see there
las been some oil boring going on
lown in these hills, and | was sent
Town from the North by rival COM
,any to watch things. | layed round
Iuiet for a month, when they made
trike. l was thirty miles from rail
II telegraph, and had to get there at
nee to send the news. SO | got this
ad, whom none of you knew, to hire
he best horse to be had for love or
money. Then | took the horse, paid
i'm off and we parted. When 1 got
o Knock Ridge, the nearest station.
found [ would have to keep on to
| left the horse, wrote
Jack to Forster and went on by rail.
IeXt [ read in the papers that the
orse was missing and the poor boy
q jail under a charge of taking it ;
o back / came to Knock Ridge,
ound the horse and here l am. |
uess my letter must have gone
7rong, as no one had been to get
he nag.
These facts being proved, and all
harges paid, the youth was at once
eleased. Then the stranger, whose
anne was Derrick, took the boy
side and SAID:
My lad, I'm sorry [ was the means
f getting you into this scrape, for I
on did me favor. If you care to
o North with me and buckle down
D steady work, I'll put you in the
'ay of making a man of yourself.
I'll go, said the lad, on one condi- {
on. :
1 hope it is a good one.
SO do [, sir. I've been goin' down {
i'll md l know it but the other day
met some one who has always be-
eyed in me through thick and thin. {
l go with you it is only to come !
ack by-and-by when I've done some i
hing to show her-God bless her
that she was right.
The shrewd Northern man looked !
uzzled, but soon smiled and held s
ut his had. {
| see no harm in that. Only stick {
} this resolve, and you'll come out t
II solid yet.
1t was winter at the toll gate.
With bad weather and worse roads, t
le tolls decreased and things grew '
arder. Aunt Narsy, feshy and n
ute helpless did little else but wor- a
'. Uncle Solon's view of things =
as more gloomy than ever. If Mill s
; did not despond, it was because
hope time failed to Danish, and s
faith reason could not destroy. |
-ad she been as the wise are she
light have learned to despair; but I
eing in many things like a babe, !,
ne worked and waited, and was not II
nhappy.