The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-02-02


Lijah n Ike n Budd Wayne airylti
drunk an hev determiuated ter Bm,
yere n do some hurt to somebody II
hearu 'em talkin'." ~
Rufe took his gun down fromlh 10
wall. "
"Ain't they satisfied with the vericIt
glen agin met" he demanded grihyI.
"Let 'em come, theEr n
But now there was another sound T.
fore which the girls face grew sr
still. Yet what would her brothers Id
Budd Wayne be doing on horsebbki
And these were the sounds OF hoses
hoofs. They were near the door how.
They stopped. Rufe went for'ard.
Some one called out OF the warm, ans,
parent darkness. Idelia, all her spsee
guickUncd, recognized the voice. OH,
merciful intercession of Providucei
This was no other than Rick Martin. th,
constable of the district, out win 9
posse OF one on somo official Grand
probably connected with horse tkeO,
drawing rein at the Persons door ID ask
some information about the road. To
fly to his horses side aud pour dat 9
statement Of the intention OF Blidd
Wayne s1d her brothers was with Idelis
the work OF a moment.
can bein' ez they air dancin' drunk
they ANT ter be holdan properuly
'sponsible," urged her unsteady toaes Ia
extenuation.
The constable had made up his mind
that he was on the wrong track tonight
as to the pursuit of the horse thief. But
here was At OCCASION where there might
be trouble, and, IL so, it was his duty to
prevent it. He accordingly dismounted
aud, with his companion, entered the
house.
But Rufe Pier;on, while all thia
colloquy was going Oh in the windy
darkness, had stood by in silence. Tho
girls trembling eagerness, her sweet
distraught eyes, had begun to mear
something more to him than the mere
Christian charity, trying to keep fellow
creature from harm which he, IN his
lovers perversity, had construed he
seeking him out to warn him In the first
moments.
"Dod.rot the luck. I've been O,
blind ez buzzard from the firstl'
thought the mountaineer, with a blaz,
of blissful light bursting upon him
And he forgot to follow the constable
into the house.
"Ideely," he said, barring her wa,
and speaking close to the little shaw
she had pinned about her head, T was
'lowin' ter-morrer ter go away from
hyar an nuver KEN back. An et v
csyn't tole me ther word thet ye al
minded ter love me I'll do it yitl"
Whatever the girls reply at this Juno
ture would have been may not be told
for she aud Rute became simultaneously
CONSCIOUS of the approach Of her brother
and of Budd Wayne.
When that ill-conditioned party 90.
tered the house tho irst thing Of which
it was conscious was the presence Of tb,
go.
"i Ua' uns belts" pa up ,er s;Ivssla'
irons, said that parsonage, easily.
Budd Wayne, less far gone in drink
than the Tennent brothers, had taken in
the situation, meantime, in his own way
and with his own interpretations. He
on Idelia with fury in his eye.
"Ie war you uns es warned the corn
stabler'
"Come, now, shet up!" drawled the
"We uns don't want no
tighin' an no quarrel!n
But the rival suitor was not to be ap.
peased.
"This yere air goin' ter be onder-
stood ter wunstl" he shouted. "Ideely
he'd or good ez promised ter marry mo
an her brothers air willin'. An want
ter know, the case bein' ez it air, of she
air goin' ter plot aud contrive agin
me an ter talk on, stidder me, within
er man thet hev done her wrong in ther
face of the whole mounting"
Surely, had not Rick Martin had firm
and powerful grip, that would have been
Budd Wayne's last wordl But quick as
was Rufe Prisons spring, the ''consta-
ble's hand was Us swift. And then, too
stranger to see-Idelia's tongue-tied,
maiden modesty, her lovely shyness, had
suddenly dropped off of her and given
place to boldness as lovely, all alight
with emotions hitherto suppressed.
"Rufe Pierson amt ner done me no
hurt" she said, looking with blazing
brown eyes from one Of the men to the
other. "An'-an' / loves himl An il Il
air talkin' of marryin', ye air, dosen't
low to marry nobody but-himG"
"Waal, ye better gin yer cornsarnt,
Lii an Ike" said the constable good.
to the brothers whom all
these developments found in a dazed
condition. "When gal hev sot her
mind t'aint no sortern n use ter so agln
her."
Then to the rejected aud scowling
Budd Wayne he volunteered q jocose 70.
minder of the fact that:
"Thar war other gals down ter ther
cove an up ter the mounting"
Budd Wayne was already striding
away in the teeth of the strong, rough,
warm west wind, clearing the field for
the fiery and more daring lover who
oh, woman's wayl-had won the prize