The Delta independent., 1895-10-30

But / won't have him trailing of me
around, and if the pcrlice can't stop it
my umbrella will; so there! l won't
go into no courtroom for it, either"
Suppose you search the man." said
Oliver, smiling. II will make charge
against him of carrying concealed
weapons"
Louis resisted, with frightful pro-
family, bat the search was made, and
the result was a loaded revolver and
an ugly knife.
"a greaser outfit" said a stalwart
policeman.
You can keep him in jail a day or
two on this charge" continued Oliver,
"to give Miss Patten a chance to leave
the city. I tell you on my own ac-
count, knowing the man up at my
shooting-place, he is n dangerous char
acter. I had an encounter with him
once and found him an unpleasant
person to deal with"
The exasperated Frenchman was led
away breathing curses and defiance.
In divers gray eyes was q smile of
malice that Louis well understood.
He had paid up that rudencss and the
accounts were squared There would
free again; the man who laughs last
laughs best. just now Oliver was de-
cidedly amused.
I'm obliged to you, pcrlice," said
Miss Pattcn, rising and pinning her
shawl. but don't want you to think
as was in any mortal fear of De Res
taud's hired man. / want; for il l
can't fight men with their ov i weap-
ons of strength l can outwit EN-.
Good-by, Mr.. Oliver; I'm sorry my
family has brought You SO much
trouble. but / cal'late from now on
you've heered the last of u.s."
AS days heightened into weeks, and
weeks into months, without word
from Hannah Pnttcn or her erratic
niece, Oliver felt the force of her re-
mark. He was hurt and angry. At
least they might have sent him word.
De Restaud found his missing servant
on the chain gang after two days in
generation in the city bastiie. The
master clustered good deal. but fin
ally yielded to reason; certainly there
was law against q mans being
walking arsenal. Oliver. conscious that
threatened men live long, went calmly
about his business, often meeting De
Sestaud. but neither spoke.
DR.. John frequently discussed the
whereabouts of the Troublesome
lady," as he always called her, but
Oliver seldom spoke of her. IT, how
ever, fluffy Skye terrier ram up to
him in the street, he would look around
eagerly, and sometimes wave of
color would food his face, while his
heart Quickened. If something had
happened to her on the long journey
could he ever forgive himself? He
owned, with sense of anger. she was
sensclessly innocent and strangely
familiar; no doubt she had told her
story to everybody on the train who
would listen.
his friends Office in jaunty gray s,.:t
with immaculate creases and general
air of fashion and newness quite daz-
zling.
You must be going to be married."
laughed Oliver. "Why this state?"
"A trip east, my boy. want to
breathe the fogs of my native state.
My lungs are shriveled up. You never
suspected 1 was born in Skowhegan,
Me-; l never told you, it would have
been such background for feeble
jokes. Besides. what man would want
to say he was born in 4 place called
Skowhegan? 1 had to be born some
where, though, and Colorado is too
young for me. The Achorns are an
old family in Maine, and, though some
of us call it Ach-orns, like the old
way. Please, your joke now-grcat
oaks from little acorus grow"
I'm too startled, too dazed by your
decision You haven't been east in
fifteen years TO my knowledge"
Never too late to mend. Besides,
I'm going to Newcastle. l would like
to see how the Troublesome lady is,
and her aunt. like the aunt-good
old New England kind, honest as the
day, narrow, perhaps, but solid worth.
In another generation those old maids
will be as extinct as the dodo."
''It does rot seem to me the proper
thing to call on them when neither has
sent MS any word"
That's Aunt Hannah, bless her good
heart" smiled the doctor. "She looks
on you with suspicion, Craig, for Mrs.
Minny is married woman, and Gown
in Maine q married woman goes into
her tomb when the service is over.
Young girls may go to dances and
other village publications., but 4 mar
ricd woman's place is at home, doing
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