Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-01-21
GLEN. THE OUTLAW.
Copyright, 1895. by tho Author.l
CHAPTER L
By OPIE READ.

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CHAPTER L
The people Of the Bald Knob neigh.
borhood, ON the Missouri Pacific rail-
way, couldn't understand why Glen
Holder should go wrong. His people
were surely honest, and certainly did
Everything that lay within the range Of
their ability to give the boy start in
life, but he went wrong. But not in the
tiresome, everyday manner, mind you.
He didn't steal horse, and thereby in
vite the contempt of the neighborhood.
He did not commit an offense SO COM
monplace and SO free from exposure that
q man of ordinary nerve would have
contemplated it without alarm. No; no
jumped on q pay car, robbed the pay
master and killed a meddlesome fellow
who ventured to protest or offer advice
or something of the sort.
What handsome fellow Glenn wasl
He was strong and Of rather good size,
but his features were as delicate and as
refined as a girls. His eyes were of that
peculiar blue that bespeak innocence or
deviltry, you can never determine
which, and his hair was long and in
clined to curl. Had he been reared in
the old atmosphere Of Italy he would
either have been an artist or a bandit
He had been morbidly restless all his
life, dissatisfied with the present and
feeling that the future had nothing for
him, and when his parents had bade the
world good night and gone to eternity's
bed he yielded no longer TO restraint.
The Missouri Pacific Railway COM
pany offered large reward for him.
The sheriff of the county happened to
want money at that time and said that
he believed he would 20 out and lead
Clem to justice. He went out on fair
ly good horse and came back in wagon,
and, while his friends were burying him
near old Ebenezer church, some one re-
marked that Glen always had been a
sort of independent fellow, and that he
was powerful slow" in yielding to
persuasion, Well, very noted man, a
great catcher of illicit distillers, said
that Glenn must answer for his crimes,
and, with few selected men, went aft
er him. Clem met them unexpectedly,
and-well, he still refused to yield to
persuasion, and when the fragments of
the argument were gathered up the
great catcher Of Illicit diRtiilers was Ia
beled and sent to his friends
After several other attempts had been
made the arrest of Clem Holder was re-
garded as an eventful but unenjoyable
undertaking. The young fellow lived in
the hills, rode good horse, and, in the
opinion Of many people who knew him,
was about as near king as an American
could wish to be.
For many years Glenn had been deeply
in love with Silla Garrett, a handsome
young woman, the belle of a hundred
country dances. She was cold piece Of
proud flesh. Your celebrated beauty
may be cold, but she cannot hope to
rival the imperial ohilliness Of the back
woods belle. The rough homage Of the
fellow, with his trousers in his boots,
inspires more Of contemptuous lofti-
ness in a baokwoods queen than the pol
ished worship Of the oourtier could pos
sibly inspire in a beauty celebrated by
two continents. 81
Silla did not tell Glenn that she would
not marry him. When he had actually
fallen at her feet, long before he had
robbed the pay car, and implored her to
be his wife. she had told him that she
was so poor herself that she could not
afford to marry poor man, He had
been kept 80 busy for time after he
committed the robbery that he did not
have an opportunity to call on her, but
several days after be had parted with
the great catcher Of illicit distillers he
rode up to the fence surrounding old
man Garrett's house and yelled, "Hello,
in therel"
Silla came to the door and exclaimed,
"Why, Glenn Holder, what ON earth are
you doin here?"
"Oh, I'm out payin up few calls
that happened to owe. I've been kept
pretty busy lately. ] used to think that
I might never get into business, but I've
had no cause to complain since took
up railroad work..
"Clem Holder, you ought to be
ashamed of yourself. +"
''Oh, I reckon it amt as bad as that !!
Idon't see why man should be ashamed
Of himself when he's done as we'll as he
can. In this life we ought to be censured