Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-02-06

will do their duty
When the 'widder Of the diseased
was brought back the speaker, Who
had some Of the elements % q dip
lomat in his rough makeup, said
| to her: Mum. the citizens of this
here camp has told me to tell you
that you have thar sympathy. But
sympathy wat amt got any linin'
to it, nor no buttons, nor nothing,
won't tote you very fur, so the citi-
gems have told me to give you the
following, with thar specially re-
CARDS. Don't say nothing Just
take it and 60.
The speakers following was o
belt full of gold. 1t was his own,
but Bret Harte, or whoever he was,
told me that the speaker lost moth
ing by it.
That night the committee waited
Oh the speaker and informed him
that they had complied They
had dug up the diseased, put a
rope around his neck, and swung
the body off a limb. And when it
had danced around so many times
they cut it down and put it back
into the hole and 'kivered it up
knee deep
The speaker grunted a disappro-
val. He said nobody would know
but what the diseased had died
decent What's the use of putin
a mark on a man if you're going to
rub it out. That amt the way they
done with Cain. You amt got no
right to change the law as it was
made by him. And the speaker
turned his face upward and pointed
in the direction of his gaze.
The head man of the committee
apologized by saying this was the
first case of the kind that they had
handled and that they would do
better next time. They were ex-
cused and returned to camp.
In the course of a few weeks
another woman came into camp and
made inquiries of a man about
whose death she had read in the
papers.
What was he to you, mum?'
asked the speaker-the man in au-
thority-the court.
Nothing she said in a girlish
voice, now, but he was once my
husband
who broke the split!' The
speaker saw she did not quite un-
derstand. who done the separat-
ing, him or you, and was thar any
legal proceedings in the case?'
DO you mean il we we're divorc-
ed:'
Il reckon, mum, you've got onto
my meaning. Yes
There was never any divorce.
He went away from me when was
helpless and when my baby was
days old, and | never saw him
again. but / heard he was here, and
then they told me about his dying
here, and have come, as you see,
in the hope that he may have left
something for his child. God
knows | wanted nothing Of his
If you will excuse me, mum, the
court would like to ak you one ques-
ton, hoping it won't hurt your
feelings, what's already bruised too
bad. Do you ever have the hys-
tericks, or do any fainting?'
She OWNED his meaning. Il
have stood a great deal,' she said.
Go on. / am not afraid to hear
anything
Said like q real lady. You've
got sand, and it's all gold.' replied
the speaker, touched by the woman's
heroism. What / wanted to az
you is, are yen No. l or No. q
which comes first:'
For a moment there was no sound
save that of the leaves ss they were
famed by the winds of the noun
tains and Of q musical gurgle Of q
crystal stream that broke into pearls
against the rocks in q canon. The
woman's thin, white hands, as
transparent as the petals Of Q rose,
clasped her forehead. Her eyes,
blue like the cloudless sky, closed,
and a low sigh like that which one
hears sometimes in the evening
wind, escaped her thin lips. She
was carried out Of the room, but the
speaker never knew whether she
was No. /. or No. 2.
Il reckon he said, as he piled "
| the flowers OF that strangely beauti-