Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-04-27

bonus for the privilege of paying the
Oalnamen, hut all felt, after brief
Inspection Of Miss Kenyon, that it
would not be safe offer to make.
Miss Kenyon took out her purse and
oFew from it a silver quarter.
-Four bitee, Missy" said the China
Why expostulated Rose, "yos
offered to carry it for % cents.
You heap lie, " retorted Wah Jim.
Me said four bitee"--
Jim Wah didn't finish. There was
loud, sharp report, and the China
man rolled over and over on to the
ground, holding his side and yelling
with agony.
Walker pulled off his sombrero, and,
boving with native grace, and holding
The smoking pistol pointed at the
ground, said:
Il beg yer pardon for scarin' yer,
miss, but no Chinese galoot can insult
. lady when I'm around.
For Rose Kenyon had given a star
tied shrek, and now looked as if she
asabout to faint.
The next instant, to the amazemeut
oiall the miners, she was kneeling in
The dust by the side of the wounded
Chinaman.
Jim Wah lay silent under the touch
Of her fingers, as she examined his
wound.
Hes not very badly hurt, after
al,' she said finally.
Jim Walker stood over her with a
shameiaced air and said:
no, miss; he amt very bad hurt,
thsfs sure. I'm ashamed of myself.
| ought to have done better. The
nslt time I'll make sure of killing the
noon-eyed galoot.
Rose looked up at him with look
oldisgust.
Then she turned to the others and
Ill:
Gentlemen, will some of you pick
qihis wounded man and take him to
isd in the hotel. No, sir, you needn't
oirto help, she cried, as Jim Walker
ssped forward eagerly. "You' We
3a quite enough already"
X I'm sorry, honest, miss, if I've
spur feelings faltered jim
sYalker, and there could be no doubt
Ilat he was sincere.
"And the Chinaman-are you sorry
50r him?" she demanded sternly.
'No, miss; nobody out this way is
\ Ter sorry for Chinaman.
"But he has life, sir. ="
$50 has a monkey or a rattlesnake. "
"But a Chinaman's life is human. ="
You're the first, miss, who ever
shid SO in Bang-up City. We hahn t
4een used to looking at it that way
Ill we know bout 'em is that they're
hore low-down than Injuns. 1 beg
Ter pardon for saying it, miss, but
vhen you've been here longer you'll
Ehink the same way about it that we
TO-"
''Neyer!" retorted Rose, with a
shudder. "If l thought that [ could
sver become SO hard-hearted by re-
Inaining here, would take the next
train East"
At this declaration the men looked
The vision of trim
pretty, dainty womanhood had JUS
fiawned in Bang-up City. Better
even that Chinaman should be may
pr than that she should go from them
Boys" proclaimed walker, "fron
this day forth no Chinaman is to b,
shot at. Do you hear?"
A chorus of alternatives came fron
the crowd. Then came gust o
sighs. 1t was difficult law to live III
to.
1--WE are losing time" cried Rose
'and the poor victim is losing blood
Take him on to the hotel, if yor
please, gentlemen.
From that day on, Jim Walker wa
In disgrace with the new schoolma am
For two weeks she attended tn
wounded Chinaman in all her leisur
time. At lastJim Wah was discharge
as cured.
1t was months before Jim Wake
could get back into the good graces O
Miss Kenyon. And when she di
once more condescend to treat hil
as an equal, the poor fellow was des
perately in love with her, felt that
would be worse than folly to eve
dream of declaring his passion to hel
"All over a cussed Cinnamon, too,
he would mutter.
One night in winter Rose Kenyo
sat all alone in her room at the hote
It was dark, but she had nc
ut the lamp, for she preferred in he
then mood to sit in the dark an
think.
Suddenly she became aware that tn
door opened, though it was dor
noiselessly enough. Her eyes bein
accustomed to the darkness, she W,
able to make out the nondescript figul
OF Jim Wah. He stole toward the tab
on which she had deposited h,
setchel containing her last month
salary.
The Chinaman must have figured {
must have known where the lit
satehel lay, for he went to it withor
hesitation. nieked IL mn and s4artad