The Red Cloud chief., 1893-08-25
Written for TIE CHIEF
What's In u Name.
by BILL
CHAPTER X.

IFS piiVhhS |
our fellow mortals need no longer be
maintained, and that it would be more
to our liking to be known 10y our true
names, and so now signed hotel registers
as in days gone by when we stood fair in
our community as Bill Willoughby and
Dick Nailor.
No one,.I presume, can fully appreciate
our feelings when, for the first time in
several weeks, we could, without fear,
sign our names in the strong, round
school boy hands so familiar to our.
selves and6riends.
We now wrote our parents, telling |
them Of our adventures, and. among
other things, asking them for counsel
with reference to our future course.
To all our letters we received answers
so full of good advice. and 80 fraught
with loving consideration that our young
hearts were touched as never before
l had always looked upon my mother ms
being among the purest and noblest Of
women, but not until that particular
time had discovered that in n point of
intellectually she surpassed thousands
/ of more pretentious women.
4 | here had what seemed to me a reve.
%lation; an insight into the qualifications,
q both native and acquired, Of that be.
loved n who had given me my being,
Z and had guarded my every step with a
watchfulness akin to that exercised by
n guardian angels over the lives of limo.
n cent babes, and Of those who have be.
come stricken in years. and az such are
o simply waiting to be gathered to their
fathers.
Indeed. | now for the first time began
1t to appreciate fully my own guardian
IT angel mother. And | give it mere as my
(. firm conviction that, in innumerable in.
a stances. the child does not fully compre-
bend his true relations to his mother
rs until some calamity has bcfallen him,
and his mothers counsel and ripper judg.
I'd mcnt have helped to sustain him in his
o. hour of need.
beg pardon for here copying a letter
at written me. while Dick and | were still
It. at Ottawa, by my mother:
m MY Dear Bill: You may meyer know
RS this side the grave what a consolation
en- 1t is to me to know that you and Dick
lie are at last beyond the reach OF those
M whose determination il was to punish
rs. and degrade you. Now that this infor
,s. nation will not cause sou unnecessary
alarm, ] may as well tell you that large
cir sums OF money have been expended in
n" your pursuit; and last, but not least OF
,Iy all, those who were thus hot in the pur
las suit engaged the services Of two of the
Int most disrcputable men in the state who
lie. with guns. and a couple Of huge Cubar
we blood hounds. were hot upon your tracks
,re and near at hand the morning you left
elk Detroit for Canada. | seemed to have
at strange prcscntiment, that night, o
:. your impending danger. and could no
close my eyes in sleep, but sat alone il
my chair until near morning. Before
od my eyes there came a sort Of gray mist
and dimly outlined therein ! could sc,
ng a huge train bowling along, now among
the hills and then gliding swiftly, ye'
at me beyond the train to a dark forest
along which lay stretched out the stee
off rails over which the train would sooI
zen pass with its precious freight of souls
ks among whom were my precious boy ant
his friend. besides many others, all un
he conscious OF the deep plot being laid To-
Ids your capture.
a There | beheld two dark faced villains
led one of whom was deliberately swingin.
nut a lantern across the track AS a signal L
nnt the engineer to stop his train, while tn,
the other villain stood behind a clump O
ard scrub oaks holding by the collars tw,
,od ferocious blood hounds.
ME Again ! saw the train as il came Gid
mt. ing on, and through the window of on,
nil. OF he coaches | behcld my boy and hi
to friend, as they sat apparently withou
to fear, and seemed to rejoice at the pros
pect Of their speedy dcliverance from al
ass. danger being near at hand.
we | sat spell bound for a moment, an,
then as by some superhuman effort vhicl
| shall never be able to explain. | threy
my arms about the neck Of the engineer
and, pressing my lips close to his eal
asked him il he had boy. He starte,
. up, looked at me in establishment. IN,
IL answered in the affirmative, and at tina
very moment leaned out Of the cab win
" dow, gazed along the track. and was jus
in the act of bringing the train to
u" stop, when flung my arms again abou
his neck and with "A wall, cried out il
Try, all the anguish of my overburdene,
h's soul: IF, then, you have Il boy, o, say
my only son by needing not the sigma
cen FOR your train to stop"
eks So louI was This wall Of ooorv ~,
Nv " NtS WIN Null VI uGoIlN Ills
burst from my lips, that your fathel
ven who had been asleep in an adjoinin
10 room, came hurriedly to my rescu,
:, fearing as he afterwards told me-tha
shl some calamity had bcfallen me. You
ing father, after ] had related to him IN
IL" strange experience, tried to laugh m
into believing that ] had been nslce
and dreaming. But ! know, my dcil
,m boy, that ! had not been asleep. | kno,
i"'' that it was all IA reality.
,;oL Now, ] cannot explain this phcnomc
wv" non, and perhaps may never in this lf
be able to give a satisfactory solution c
the mystery, but | do know that tn
whole transaction was real. ] than
'"!' God that | do believe that there are cel
o,o tain conditions, when complied will
e"' that make it possible for one spirit G
,o mind to go out after that Of a loved on,
,ht and save them from impending DANCE
III lnnn.r pnnninn fropn m nppot,r, On.