The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-03-11

| (E3& R4SAS MS8j whVt tnere were
xWMLEAAEeV more than -four
SNaSA. passengers the big
.SASSss<N. mud-wagon was
cIISH .'put on" This
.xt1sSaS>' was blackboard
-ssS"f day, for there was
! not single passenger. What was more
to the point, rs the Gold Butte Mining
Company regarded it, was that under
the drivers seat was box with ten
thousand dollars in the newest of new
| tens and twcnties in it.
The driver had looked very blue when
he drove his four mustangs from the
| where he took on very Hat
leather bag, which spoke loudly of the
incanacity or disinclination OF the
Thimblc Spring people for letter writing
over to the railroad station, where he
was to take on the box. Things were
going all wrong at home. That was why
his brown face looked SO haygard; that
was why he held so loosely too the
"lincs;' that was why he chewed sc
hard on the bit of "plug" iu his mouth.
'Such hard scratchin' I never seed
aforc" was what he hai said ~ he
had listlcssly thrown the mailbag inte
the wagon; "cau't git no decent job now
adays. Nothin' ter be he'd by prospect
iu'-tried tibet time an agin; Of | u.
anything it peters out inside of a week.
l might make u strike over ter Sand
Gulsch, but IT'S Il long way Off, au' me m
Silc an the kids hez moved so Often at
we can't raise nothn' ter move on now
| Why in Sam Hill did Sue hev ter git
that rlcun,a'iz jc; HOW, when wc's SO
hard up, an atore she weaned the baby7
It's a shame. Why cant Bill git some.
thin ter do9-srcat big, lunk headed
cuss. Ef he'd a brother, poorer'n a crow,
dye think I'd 90 an live OH him, an
live OH him, till thar warn't nuthin' ter
cat in the housea Sho, Zach Springer,
you're q blamed fool. Bill hain't done
that. He amt tor blame fer gittin' his
leg broke that rimc. Bills all right, but
he's onlucky. Been tryin' fur month
ter giea Job, an can't git in nowhere.
He's williu' ter work. He'd stan cpoch-
deep in the creek all day long wasliin
out tailin's CT he could make his salt at
it. Tried it for six weeks an didn't git
enough to buy pair O. gum-boots.
Whoa, Buckskin!
And then the box was taken on, and
the express agent had something to say.
That 'somcthing" was not to Zach
Spriugcr's liking. Ho chowcd harder
than ever on the bit Of plug, and sawed
the hard mouths of the mustangs by un
unnecessary yanking of the reins. It
was Il positive relief to be able at last TO
| whack his lash down upon the sides of
the nervous brutes and turn them loose
for tho forty mile run to Gold Butte.
Why had he needed lecture from a
hircling of the express company, and
why should that smooth jowled agent
have looked ut him with such dark sus-
picions
"Ihey think COS got stood up down
ter Black Rocks las time had a big
load o. gold, thet l need to be preached
to every time go out now with full
box. I'd like ter SEQ one on 'em hand
linz the ribbons when thar's u Winches-
ter lookin' at 'em with IN eye us big as q
bari head. Can't tell me they wouldn't t
give in! The sweet scented, calf skin
booted young ladiesi Thar amt man
among en-"
Zach Sprnger's indignation was now
in more complete possession of him than
had been his feeling of bluencss little
earlier. What he had delivered himself
| of just now was not what he would have
said had hc voiced his true sentiments
with reference to the express agent s
| lecture. in between the words rau the
Thought, that 'thcy" had suspected him
| of having u hand in the Black Rocks
robbery. IL h;Pd come to him before in
| what he called "lcft handed" way, and
| ne hud lad other outl arsts of righteous
Indignation, but uone in which the up
beaval was SO great as that Of the pres.
| ent. Had that been the reason tie stage
J company had cut down his pay to 'six%:y"
q month"; The chances we're that IL was.
| 1T was too blamed mean tor lot of
swine, like these people, to come il so
high haudedly over poor naa who only
wautcd his OVID. Wouldn't it serve
| them inst sight, if
ThG white dust of the desert rolled up
| from the mustangs boots in little puils,
| and sprays OF it, powdcry fine, followed
tho turn of the wheels halfway sp, there
| to bC caught by the hreezs and drifted
behind IN long cloud that followed the
blackboard like haunting spirit. Some.
| times, rs the light breeze shifted, it came
back upon the blackboard and its driver
like heavy thoughts on the conscience OF
| guilty man.
IL w"ald serve them just rightl Be.
| sides that, only think-ten thousand
What would the people down in Mexicd
or Guatemala, where he would fiy, know
or care ii somebody up i'm far of Neyad,
had dumped n box OH his blackboard and
gone back and got it after a few days
maybe week3 IL would have tn be
dark night, wouldn't it2 You couldn'
go and get box like that in the day
time and take it anywhere, for the whol,
country would be out looking for th
man who had it. Maybe month. 1ha
would he better. 1t would all blow owe
by that time. Let's see, would it2 Tel
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