Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-02-14

was sent right into my hands to be put
to death. / knew all the time it would
be sent to me 10 do the killing. He was
squirting up the alley on my own horse.
he snapped at me. My pistol did not
know how TO snap. See here"
And he showed me, hanging from his
saddle horn, that most loathsome OF all
object mans eye ever lighted upon
fresh scalp. 1t sickened me.
"ShameI" said /. "Do you call your
self q man to bring such thing into a
lady's presence?"
ut was rather mean to take the fell
lows hair" says Armstrong. II don't
believe Brother Bill would have did 1t.
But I felt orful ugly when l saw that
fat, low lived devil, and thought OF my
brother, dig, hui hearted man as never
gave bad word to anybody, and never
held on to dollar or q slug when ayry
man wanted it more'n him. Come, I'll
throw the nasty thing away II you say
So"
"Help me drag of this corpse, and
We'll bury man aud scalp together" l
said.
We buried him at the gate Of the alley
under great cairn OF stones.
"God forgive them both," said /, as l
flung the last stone, that they were
brutes and not men,"
'Brutes they was, stranger" says
Armstrong, "but these things is ordered
somehow. l allow your pardner and
you is glad 10 get that girl out OF Nor
mon camp, eff it did cost him horse
and both on you an all days tremble.
Men don't ride so hard and look so wolf
ish as YOU two men have did onless
their heart is into it,"
1T is indeed strange" said !, rather
thinking alond than addressing my com-
panion, that this brute force should
have achieved for US by outrage what
love failed in. Fate seems TO have
played Brute against Brute, that Love
might step between and claim the vic
tory. The lady is safe; but the lover
may have won her life and lost his
own"
Look here, stranger" says Arm
strong, part OF this is yourn," pointing
to the money belt, which, with the dead
mans knife and pistol, he had taken
from the corpse. Halves OF this and
the other fellows plumber belongs TO
your par ty."
I suppose / lookad disgusted; yet !
have seen gentle ladies wearing boast
fully brooches that their favorite heroes
had taken from Christian men dead on
the field at Inkerman, and shawls OF the
loot of Delhi cover many shoulders that
would shudder over dead worm.
"rm not Squimmidge," said Arm
strong. "It'S my own and my brothers
money in them belts. I'll count that
out, and then, eff you won't take your
pars I'll pass it over TO the gals father.
! allowed from signs ther was that that
thar boss Mormon had about tux the old
mans pie. Most likely these sinners
they won last night is some of the very
sufferins Sizzum got from him, It's
right he should hev 'em back.
acknowledged the justice OF this res
titution.
New" said Armstrong again, "you
want to stay by your friend and the gal,
so III take one Of tho pack mules and
fetch your two saddles along before
dark lights down. 1t was too bad TO
lose that iron gray, but there's more'n
two horses INTO the hide Of that black
of yourn. Hewas the best man OF the
lot for the goin, the savin and the KILN.
Stranger, I've ben buyin and sellin and
breedin kettrypidS ever since ! was
raised myself, bnt | allow | never seed
a horse till l seed him lunge of with
you two on his back
Armstrong rode up the alley again.
Another man he was since his commits
sion Of vengeance had been accomp-
lished. In those lawless wilds vendetta
takes the place of Justice, becomes jus
tice indeed. Armstrong, now that his
stern nuty was done, was again the
kindly, simple fellow nature made him.
! returned TO my friends by the
springs.
gave few moments to the horses
and mules. They were still to be unsad-
died. Healthy Fulano had found his
own way to water, and now was feast
ing on the crisp, short grass along the
Quite of the Champagne spring, tickling
his nose with the bubbles of gas as they
sped by. Sup, Fulano! This spot was
worth the gallop to see. Sup, Fulano,
the brave, and may no stain Of this days
righteous death-doing rest upon your
guiltless life.
Brent was lying under the spruces,
browsing with fatigue, reaction and loss
of blood. Miss CIitheroe sat By watch
ing him. These fine beings have an ex-
uuisitely tenacioue vitality. The happi-
ness Of release!h sundenly kindled all
her life again. As she rose TO meet me,
there was light in her eyes and color In
her cheeks. Her whole soul leaped up
and spoke its large gratitude in smile.
only dear friend" she said; and then
with sudden tearfuness, ''God be
thanked for your heroismw
"God be thankedr' / repeated. eve
have been strangely selected and sent
YOU from England, my friend and l and
my horse, the hero Of the day, from the
Pacifc-to interfere here in each others
lives.
at would seem romance, but for the
sharp terror of this day, coming after
the long agony Of my journey with my
poor Grant father"
"A sharp terror, indeedV'
"But only terror" and a glow OF
maidenly thankfulness passed over her
face. Except one moment OF rough
usage, when l slipped away my gag and
screamed as they carried me off, those
men were considerate to me. They
never halted except to dig well in the
sand of riverbed. learned from their
talk that they had made an attempt to
steal YOUR horses in the night, and fail
ing. dreaded lest you, and especially Mr..
Brent. would follow them close. So
they rode hard. They supposed that
when l was found missing, whoever
went In pursuit, and you they always
feared. would lose time along the emf