The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1898-11-10
N.-CoNTINUEp.
Copyright. ISe., by Mary HalIock Foote.l


docs the lady wear number nines,'
says l, am does she shmoke the Seal o.
North Carliny| And | Civ her a wink.
"'G' long says she; for what do you
take meT
For somebody's darling says i,
and for nobody's fool. And l axed her
which av her FIRMS was wantin' Jack
Darcie.
do you think says she, confiden-
tial-like, that if the boys did want him
they couldn't get him?'
"Well, says /, him an me is workin'
pardners; whin they want him they
can have Mike, too. We goes by pairs,
like the cap and the fuse; if ye meddle
wild wan, yen likely hear from the
other
"Thin she laughed. DO you go
sparkin' in pairs p says she. 'ForI think
the lady business is not in wild the two
av yez.'
mike, what are you giving me now?"
said Darcie, sternly.
Its Gods trut' Tn givin' ye, in the
very words av her mouth--and maybe
/
that's not for me to mintion. | hrung
the word straight as she gev it me-"
what is the word? Who does
it come from?"
at comes from the parlor at the Big
! Horn by the way av the kitchen, which
is not always the safest way, thinks
l, but that's no business aY mine. And
whin / chaffed her about the lady,
she answered me plain, lookin' me in
the eye.
YOU'D betther not be monkeyin'
wild this message says she, there's
more in IL than you know. And If he
thinks we're putin up game on him,
tell him this The word is from her he
called the Mountain Lily"
mike" said Darcie, flushing, II don't
know what to make of this. Are you all
right, old man--honor bright? How
many friends did you meet down at
Pegleg's saloon?"
I'm as straight as a string" Mike
asseverated. "Ye know well enough
have no truck wild any o. that crowd
Faith, twould be as much as my life
is worth to be seen in town wild a jag
on. BY the cross-and l niver take me
oath on that but I'm tellin' the trut'-
I'm givin' ye the very words; and where
she got thin how should l know
Mabby you know yourself who's youI
lily?"
Where did you say l was to meet
her?"
"In a quare place entirely, yet not sc
onhandy to the mine. On the fringe o
the tamaracks, up the gulch, where "
niver will meet wild soul, passin' vi
or down; and by token, there's big
lone cedar standin' in bit av clearin'
If We go there 20 pluck lilies, I'm wild We
Darcie dear"
go along with your blarney! Wher
did she say | was to be there?"
"The hour is the quarest av all; be
chune half afther tin and eliyen o'clocl
next Chuesday night. 'Anunwholesom'
hour saws |, and great wish she mus
have for him, TO be pacin' the woods a
! that hourn
"Hut!' says she, don't you bescared
It'll all be proper, for she'll have me wiz
her,
"Thin I'll be there, darlin',' says j
You may bet on me. But me own no
ton av that meetin' is that We'll shmel
powdher before Wen get so much as ;
scent av the lily And she tossed hel
head.
"'Ill tell the lady he's afraid to CONF
widout little Mike to purtect him.
81 dunno fwhat he'll be- says /
nor where he'll be next Chuesday night
but where he is, little Mike will be. Anc
don't fail me- says l. for the joys a'
life is fadin' on me-"
mike, you've ruined me! It's lik'
your blazing impudence to answer my
messages for me. You will go straigh
back to your girl, whoever she is, ant
get another kiss, and tell her I'll b'
there if I'm alive and can get there; ano
you will not be with mel"
81 wouldn't put me fut on that roaC
again tonight for the kiss av peace il
! Paradise" Mike drawled.
Then j must go myself. Are 20,
sick? Are you afraid? What's the mat
ter with you?" shouted Darcie.
I'm thinkin' what size boots tn,
Mountain Lily wears. bet she wears
thirteens, and the print av her fut il
studded wild nails