The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-07-09
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oat and to wear wanted to do moro
than that, and this was tho only way
could see of accomplishing anything
else
Fherc may have been truth in what
She said, but it certainly was not the
whole truth. part thereof is that
she was deeply in love with the leader
of the banda aix-foot specimen of
cowboy skill and daring. II wac prob
ably n case in which love said come"
and the woman obeyed 10 did not
get off-as easily RS did she. for the jury
found, him guilty. but while he was
waiting to be taken TO the pen
Hentiary he escaped from tho county
jnil, as everyone believed, by her con
trivance and-help, and wns found con-
oealed in her room. He was retalscn
and Is now serving his time IN the
territorial penitentiary. Her evident
connection with his escape was winlsed
ut, because ofthc favorable imprcssio
she had made and the general belief
that sho had given up horse stealing
for good and intended to earn an hon
est living. Her eldest children were
adopted into good families and the
other two were placed In an orphan
asylum. A small sum of money was
collected to tide her over immediate
difficulties, and chance was given her
to try her Hand at houseworll She has
done so in good mnny households of
that region, and there is n CONSENSUS OF
opinion among those households that
Mrs. Scetts talents do not lie in the
domain of cooking and house cleaning.
Shells too likely to forget the weekly
washing while absorbed in the attempt
to paint her mistress portrait and to
let the dinner burn while She embroid-
ers sofa cushion for the parlor
For, i'll Mrs SCOTS education, Us
sometimes happened twenty years ago,
the accomplishment were not as much
neglected rs were some other things,
and her return to responsibility and
opportunity has revived the desire not
to get rusty.
She has always refused to give any
information about her origin or her
family, but it WAS recently learned that
Shells the daughter OF Unitarian clcr-
gynan in Ohio, and that her husband
was travelling horse dealer with whom
she fell violently in love, and that when
her parents tried to prevent their mar
riage she cloped with him and they
went to Texas. And TO This dav, not
withstanding her many trials and vicis-
STUDIES, Der wild life and wilder asso-
ciates, Mrs. Scott still keeps the dainty
figure, attractive face, gentle manners
and refined speech that must have been
the pride aud pleasure Of hor Girlhoods
home.
Did you really enjoy that wild life?''
the mistress of,a housshold in which she
worked asked het one day.
Eyes, did" she replied with some
hesitation. THAT fs, I did. after tbo
very first Of It, At fbsf.l felt Queer in
mems clothes ana itsecmea es ii every
BODY who saw:Ite MUST know at once
that 1 ses woinan, and was SO afraid
OF exciting suspicion and getting Che
boys into trouble. But soon began to
feel perfectly at home ip them, and as
soon rs felt confaente in my ability
to pass as man I began to like it. il
was SO free, and there was always
enough excitement and risk to
Keep your wits alive and your
nerves on edge. OF course it is wong,
theoretically, to steal horses. / knew
that as we'll Us anyone; but VIC ONLY
TOOK from those who didn't need them
as badly as we did and mostly from
those who we knew had been dishonest
to somebody else: ana = aidnt consider
II nearly SO bad .as huntipods o9tthtngs
that lawyers and business men do
right straight along and nobody ever
says word about. Besides, I could
make more money for my children
imam could sin any other wnyI bad
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