The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-02-27


image rs He had created II. The deep
blue eyes were eloquent with tender
ness and truth: the dOwny, dlinlhy
checks reiOlent with graceful deliCacy.
AS Lord Cleyp had told MIR. Quent-
helm, Lucy had lived with the young
man whose life she had saved ON the
prlirieS all these years, and the earl
hau spoken the absolute truth when lie
had said that they had lived together as
brother and sister.
Her father and cousin had rendered
| her no further assistance than carrying
the wounded man To a temporary place
Of shelter, in a tumble-dOWn and dis
Used tTapper's hut, on the further Sid1
"t an incline on the opposite | ot the
EUlcl. ana on Il spur of the mountains.
totally distinct from that on which
both NaClane'S and AShlandS raOlnS
were situated. BY these means. II by
LncyS silence, they were sure OF oO-
tanning, at least, sufficient breathing
time 10 secure Il large amount of gold.
ana 20 be able to fly East before til"
1~Trugiug arm OF the rough border law.
could reach them. Not very far from
t"o broken down trappcr'S hut lived III
jll!rr retirement IN old Sioux half
II, named MakaSapa. who, like eY-
...l.rIv else in that country, would
E.,t' died to help Lucy. The old man
=. .ska hardly any English at all. al
f.,nugh his father had been Il rough and
ready Scotch trappcr. who, somehow or
other. years and years before, Il
HDrut a few hunting seasons among the
DacotahS. and had disappeared with
cut che least further inquiry about the
fate Of his wife and child. But Lucy
was fully cOnv"rsIut with most u IN"
Indian dialects Of the surrounding
tribes, ana had no difficulty in securing
the Old half-hreedS skilled assistance
in the dressing Of Herb2rt'S wounds.
ana also in securing his secrecy on the
subject. .
Weeks passed thus, and the girl bare
ly left her charge for Il moment. When
the wounds began to heal and the flick
priny life became stronger. when con
seriousness returned and the danger OF
accusation grew more threatening, the
Machines paid hurried visits To the hut,
with CHASTITY pale faces, inqulr!ng
about the patients condition, and with
Llnd-set teeth yoWing that they would
uI.el their job If the wounded mans
absolute silence could nOt be obtained.
( They had struck a great lode OF gold i'll
: the meanwhile, and had stored
away Il big pile of the precious
! metal ready for sudden flight.
Again ana again Lucy stood
deteTminaly III front of the man who
already owed her his life; over and
over again she dared and detied her
savage relatives. She went even so
| far as to order them out of the hut AZ
| the pistols mouth. Little by little the
Maciaues came TO accept the danger
Of the situation, and to prepare for all
e~vpntullitieS.
They had buried Dick Ashland in an
I out-cf-the-way spot. where nobody
would have thought TO look for him.
! They removed all traces Of hloodshed
from the gulch bottom and burned
their gore-stained clothes. Thus they
entertained the hope. by desperate I'M
Dudeuce, to he able to braZen the mat
ter out until they could retire and dis
appear in the great thriving East.
Great was their amazement, and
equally their relief. when Herbert, on
recovering. recognized neither of them,
nor Lucy; when he seemed to wake,
as from Il dream, in which all the rem
iniscence of the bloody fray was swal-
! W ulFE t'As II lat 1iA y
Of that terrible night and OF all per
sons and places, seemed TO be gone
from the young mans mind. they look
ed at one another in grim ana half
frightened stare, as if the relief which
had burst upon them was too SUR to
be real. But the hours and the days
drew on. and Herbert'S condition re-
manned the same. In fact. at that
tfr,, is,sc - rpnnlnrE was 1hSplu.A'
acts of the morning were obliterated
by the events of the afternoon, and
the poor young fellow could not carry
his reCOllectionS from one day to the
next. This surprising dispersal of
their fears changed the plans Of the
Maclanes, and they urged Lucy to re-
turn TO the parental cabin, and TO
share the immense and ncwly-fOund
wealth. But the girl was firm. She
wOuid not again live with her guilty
father and cousin. She would rather
die a hundred times than touch a red
speck of their blOod-staincd gold. She
! would leave her relatives to explain
the circumstances as best they might
hut she would move far away from
them and devote her life to the care
ana recovery of the man whom they
had so daStardly assailed and injured
She gathered up her belongings, anC
those ~bequeathed to her by her dea(
mother, and having persuaded Mika
sapa to join his fortunes to hers, the
!, two set out with their now fairly re
covering patient To the rrairies nortl
of the South Platte, where MakaSap;
soon found them Il home with some
friendly Sioux.
AS Herbert became stronger hi
memory Of actual occurrences i'm
| proved, and he was able to remembe