The National tribune., 1892-10-06
Mai. Doll was white now.

Maj. Doll was white now.
"Wbere did you get the riug the girl took !? "
demanded the Queen of Sheba. Where did you
get them, / say?"
She came on, her eyes emitting strange sparks
of fire. and her whole person in passion.
Bring that man forward, and cover the girls
shouldersi" continued Leons. Maj. Doll
shall tell where he got the rings; he shall con-
fess how they fell into his hands, or shall tell
the story myself"
In another moment, such was the Queens
authority in Sheba, Maj. Doll was marched out
until he stood before her with less than 10 feet
between them.
"You will not tell, eh )" said Leona. "You
will not confess that the unknown man killed
near the mines carried those rings--once his
wifes-to this camp? Maj. Doll, you knew
who that man was; you marked him from the
moment he entered Sheba; your hand sent
him to his death before he could meet once
more the woman who for years had believed
him dead. When stood by the corpse in the
cabin, which / had illuminated with my match
l recognized the man to whom gave the frst
love of my hssrt. / saw there, cold in death,
the husband of the Queen of Shebs | lived
over in those awful moments my faithlessness,
my elopement with whom | followed
through the mazes of sin, to become at last
Queen of this wild camp. Gentlemen of Sheba,
am the widow, once the wife, of the man killed
earth the murder / have worked in secret
The arrest of this young girl gave me my first
clew. She stole from Maj. Doll rings which /
once wore at the altar; she stole them because
they were her mothers rings. / ask that man
how they came into his possession. Will he
answer"
Mexican Dick had almost dropped his whip.
The nervous hands of Maitland were powerless /;
his face had tho hue of the winding sheet.
He evidently saw that the tables had been
mpletely turned, and by the woman he had
almost won She the wife of the man found
dead in camp? She the mother of Milly, the
waif? He gasped when he looked at her, and
saw no mercy in the beautiful eyes.
Suddenly the Queen of Sheba sprang 70 the
girl and casped her in her arms. She tore
down the dress aud looked at the tatsooed
cross which Mexican Dick had previously ex-
posed; then she stfagtened up and faced the
crowd.
"You can whip me for this chIld's crime,
but your accursed whips sha'n't draw drop Of
her blood "
The next moment bat went soaring toward
tho stars. Another and still another followed
it, while the Majo stood aghast amid it all.
"Hooray for Sheba's Queen =" cried some
one.
Hang the murderer, without judge or
iury!" shouted Others.
The arm of Leona went round the waist Of
Milly, the wsif; sine led her from beneath the
tree, and the men of Sheba saw them cross the
plaza, the fragile figure of the young girl
shielded by the stronger arm of the avenging
mother
For a moment all was still; the last cheer
died away, and the two, thus strangely reunited,
entered the home of the Queen of Sheba, there
to tell one another the story of their lives.
And when the sun came up and peeped over
Dead Mans peaks, To- it looked down upon
something swaying in the wind that rustled
the leaves OF the Tribunals tree, and the ends
of a long mustache dropped over chin as
white as the SHOWS which in Winter crowned
the crest of the old mountain.
1t had been Shebs's most eventful night, and
from it Leons the Queen was lost in Leona
the mother.