The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-30

| DdooS' SANITATION, ." n l m powerful grub
struck" The wilder promptly led the
/ way 10 the living room, where the three
| sat down to supper. Dabbs had begun to
/ feel an odd sense of comfort stealing
] over him; he could not explain why, but
! IN some mysterious way he felt that all
would yet be right, and he ate with his
usual appreciation of the ''widder'sn
art. After he had finished his meal he
sat smoking on the little vine-clad porch
/ overlooking the valley. Starr was by his
! side, one hand in his, the other stroking
his face and head while she talked to him
| and petted him as one comforts d child
AS the sun sank behind the range and the
western sky blazeG with color the girls
heart was filed with5 intense indignation
! that the home her father had wrested
| from the Wilderness should be torn from
him in his old asa, when it was dearer to
| him than ever #AS the short twilight
deepened into night there was sudden
clatter of hoofs down the trail, and a
horseman in all the bravery of the cow
boy lover dashed up to the horse rail.
"HOwdy, Jim" said Dabbs in answer to
his visitors salutation. - lite n cum er
long n hev supper"
He'd gnaw Already" returned jim;
| ''whar's tn gal2" Starr had disappeared
at his appearance.
80, here be, " she answered from the
| inner darkness of the house; I'm goin'
| for bresh across tn range, Jim n yer
ken cum"
"All right" was the laconic response,
| I'm clinch the blueskin fer yer"
| He returned in a few moments leading
| the pony and found the girl kissing her
| father d-by-something so unusual for
! her to do that he wondered silently as
they mounted and rode off up the white
| trail in the dusk. Their ponies Hoped
easily side by side and Starr told him of
| the outcome of the suit for the ranch.
Jim was the son of a neighboring stock
man and had tidy bunch of cattle him
self. He and Starr had been sweethearts
since she was II and he 16 and they were
to have been married the coming Christ
mas, but the girl insisted that she would
not leave her father now. Jim argued,
but to no purpose; she would not marry
| him unless her father could in some way
regain the ranch.
"But how kin he?" asked poor jim, all
argument exhausted; "hev' yer anyplan,
Starr"
''Uv cou'se hev," she replied loftily
"but yer'v' got to hev lots o sand to jine
in, Jim Bulger.'
whats yer plan? I'll jine in-never
| fear" answered jim.
She bent toward him and whispered
close in his ear a few rapid sentences.
The man Strengthened up in his saddle,
his face was white and his voice husky as
he almost shrieked, BY, yer don t
mean it, Starr"
She faced him calm and pitiless, her
! scornful eyes looking him contemptuOusly
through and through.
You can bet | do mean it, Jim Bulger,
but we don't want no towards in this yer
deal, n / reckon kin count on Pete De-
Bar ter help me out, !" and she turned her
pony's head as if to leave him. He was
at her side in moment.
mo man on tn range dar' say that to
me, Starr, n yer know it, he Kissed, as
his hand caught her bride close to the
bit; I'm in this yer deal ter tn turn
can I'm wild yer, JIM she whispered,
and as his arm went round her she kissed
him full on the mouth.
The up stage, carrying two or three
passengers, the mails and the company's
| treasure box, was due at DabbS' at $3.50
o'clock, but that night it was late, for as
it neared the ranch, just at the top of a
steep grade, there came a stern voice from
the roadside: Hands up! Throw out
that box-both of EN-, dummy and tn
right one-no foolin'-drive on'-and the
deed was done.
jim Bulger and Starr returned from
their ride just before the stage pulled up
at the Office, and they led the search for
| the highwaymen, but there was no trace
of them. The dummy lay in the road
where it had fallen, but the treasure box
disappeared. The dusty trail, trodden
by innumberable hoofs and foot prints,
told no tales, and when the company S
detectives came up from the city they
were quite as much mystified as any one
else.
The company offered large reward for
the capture of the robbers or the recov-
cry of the money. There had been d
large sum in currency in the box that
night which was sent up to some men who
were buying a great mining property, and
the company did not like the idea of
making it good. Weeks passed; abso-
lutely nothing in the way of a clew was
found, and the company had concluded to
write the loss off their books when very
surprising thing happened.
The president of the CON! any sat In his
private Office one morning when one of
their most trusted detectives entered and
asked permission to introduce Miss Dabbs,
the daughter of the old chap up country
! that they had had so much trouble with
The great man was pleased to think that
one bucolic mind at least had been i'm
pressed with a proper sense of his impor-
lance, and he pulled out his chest, but
| toned his coat across it and ordered her
| to be shown in. Starr entered as nom
chalantly as though she were accustomed
| to interviewing bank presidents every
day in the week. She took the chair
offered her, and placing a small valise on
the table opened it and gave the president
of that company a surprise from which
he will never altogether recover.
There was the stolen money-every dol
lar of It'll
The girl refused any reward save the
return to her father of the ranch and i'm
mlmity from publicity. The matter was
| to be a secret to all save herself and the
company-not even Dabbs was to be told
of it-and no questions were to be asked
as to how the money came into her pos
session.
The great man willingly promised, and
| Starr carried away with her letter to
her father which was a promise to him
from the company to put the deeds con-
firming his title to the ranch on record
within forty-eight hours.
There was a wedding at Dabbs' on
! Christmas day, and the brides gift from
the company was check for the amount
of the reward offered for the recovery of
the stolen money. The amount of that
check, with interest added, stands to Mrs
Jim Bulger's credit TO this day in the
company's bank at San Francisco.
Rich, Red Blood
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