The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1896-10-01

me to chirk, l should up and said
back as I'd bin
Never heard tell O. nothln' like it
afore,' said the prison man. 'You'm
wan O. the Lard's own chosen fules,
If ever there was SIGH. Never mind,
Gude-by.'
That was the end of Bits notion.
He tramped 1t home to Meriyale. an
next day marched off to see the inn.
keeper an tell I'm how matters stood.
Appleb11d was in a sweet mood, luck.
lily enough, for win the hour he'd
sawld the rick what Bill had saved
for a fl pun note more'n he'd reckoned
to gete for t. But it made it harder
for Bill in a manner O. speakin', be
cause before he'd got time to bring
out his bit of noos, Applebird seq: All,
Bill Nogwell, you've come at the right
moment, my son. Here's five shillin'
fer e along O. saving the wheat stack
awhile since
bill, he spawk theer an then, wi'out
takin' the money.
What you seq be Fighter than YOU
knaws, master. l be your son. Me
an Polly was of a mind, an us mar
ried each other in Exeter yesterday
marning'. Us bant in no hurry. as
you'm so set again it; but us tho't as
theer weren't no harm In maxim the
future sartin, so us was married.
Aud Applebird sat back behind the
bar, an he was tn surprised to be
angry for a while. Then, arter he had
gEasped hold o what Bill had said, he
sent a stable boy for the policeman
an tongued Bill proper.
"'Ess, fay, l knawed you'd do that
COZ XIII h hn ,,, IA-I -s Nl1
drawed breath. I knawed you'd have
the law of me, an when l was to
Exeter arter we was married, Polly
an me went down to the Jail, an |
was for gwaine in theer an then to
save e. trouble, but they wouldn't take
me. You've got to me fust,
and then I'm brought up in due course
afore a justice, an he sentences me to
six weeks for marryin' a gal under
age. thot TO have saved e all that
confusion, but it can't be, they towld
me. So you'll have to go through WI
it, an l get six weeks
Six weeks, you damn young rip
bust out A%pplebird, sweatin' wi rage.
III have e theer for six years hard
labor, If lawyers can work it.
They can't SEE Bill. six weeks
Ill g%et-then I'll come back to Mcri-
vale
ut happened that the policeman
couldn't be found just then, an Bill,
sayin' as he would be at his fathers
house, went off. He waited till even
ing, but no policeman coined. Mex,
day he went to see Master Appleblrd
again; an the aud man tawld un to
get out the bar, but he said nothIn'
bout the policeman. An four follow
in 'mnrnins he went to knaw when
the policeman was comm. Then Polly
coined home an faced the moosic; but
you see, Polly was wound too tight
around her fathers heart for un to
cast her off or enything outrageous
like that. He stormed steady for a
fortnight, then the doctor from Prince
ton gave un q brace O. pills for his
vitals, an taYld I'M that anger turned
the blood sour II persisted In too long.
Meanwhile Bill went about his busl-
Ness, an KEEP away from the Hunts
mans Rest as though twas the gate
to perdition. That's wheer the janious
o Bill coined in-almost contrary to
human nachur. Then in the spring
Bills father died an twas found he'd
saved a matter of ESQ in silver. which
had took fifty year O. fuss-cuttin' to
do. But thssr It was, an when aud