The Newtown bee., 1900-01-26

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 He had always joined in the hue and cry against the thieves, and helped hunt them down, fastening the guilt, as she now found, upon any one who happened to serve the purpose of 8 blind to throw suspicion in anyway eff the scent of the guilty ones.
 Sue thought of her mother, of her care worn, sorrowful face. ssMam knew, she whispered to herself. ssThat wur what
 wus alters troublin her. That time we
 moved in the night, an' pap wuz in sech & hurry, never stopped till the horses
 most dropped he must bin mighty nigh
 bein' found out. Mann cried an' cried, an helt little Willie so clost. Hist thought
 twas mam's way. I didn't know nothin'. Poor mann, she wus cryin' most alters. An then Willie died, an pap tuk on so; but mann said she wuz glad he wuz gone whilst he wuz little, an allers thought she didn't keer fur i'm Ike pap did, but l know now, an, oh, I m glad. I'm glad, too, that Willie never growed up to be what pap is."
 l The sun was ehioing when she rallied ! auffi clently to get up and attend to her accustomed chores. She went about me- chanically In 8 dull, bewildered way, wondering how she should meet her fa- ther and not betray herself. The more terrible thought. the murdered innocent victims, she put out of her mind as far as possible. She tried to interest herself, but in vain, in the paper which only yes- terday was 30 absorbing. She had 8 strange feeling as of having entered 8 new world; her old familiar daily life seemed as far ( if as the days of her un- conscious childhood.
 1 Towards noon she roused herself to prepare some kind of food, for she had taken nothing yet. Returning from the ST ring with water, shes saw man at the kitchen door, leaning heavily against the
 wall flaming himself with his hat and
 panting as if almost exhausted. Ia
 moment she knew him there were the
 blue eyes and and yellow curla 80 like
 Willie's. He was the intended victim,
 and sbe might help him escape. .zs
 Instantly she was alert, all apathy and
 bewilderment dissipated by the hope of
 saving the life of this inrocent man. She
 sprang to him and pulling him into the
 room fhe pushed up, chair and motioned
 him to sit down and rect, and brought 8
 know ye. I'll help ye; ye mustn'G stop
 yer i; they might be back any minnit. 1Ye
 must go up the mounts, Ill take ye to 8
 hidin place ;ctake this loaf; go to that clump of bushes an wait till come.'
 She spoke in hurried, breathiess tones
 and pointed to thicket some rods back
 from the house.
 Impel'ed by her manner of fear and
 haste the man started at once without
 having said word, tearing the loaf she
 had thrust into his hands, ss he went.
 Dolly gave long searching look on all
 sides, but found no sign of pursuer or
 spectator; the cabin WAS so -hemmed in there was not much danger of observers.
 Then she set off on light, swift run down the trail to the bend; here she had
 good view for some miles and could ) have plainly perceived an approaching horsemen. No one was in sight, no ris-
 ing cloud Of dust indicated traveller, and she sped back as swiftly as she had come; and gathering up, hastily, a
 quantity of food and little tin bucket,
 she dAr5ed up to the thicket where the man was resting, still eating his bread With only an urgent "Come on,' she
 rapidly led the way through tangled
 brush and bushes, up and down rocky steeps, avoiding the more open places.
 Looking back presently with nod of en. [ couragement, she noticed how tired he was getting, and said: "We1I stop g minnit whenst we git over the ridge" , Down the other side, among the rockS and briars, she finally halted beside g
 great powder where the thicset darken,
 ed the day almost to twilight. She mo-
 tioned him to rest on the messy ground while sue leaned against the rock, out oi breath with their haste, and looked al
 him.
 "Lost?' she asked at length.
 [ He nodded, and said "I've been dodg- ing around nearly four days trying to ! make the station. l haven't had much to eat, and was SO beat out when came out at your house thought I'd try tc } get something and find out where was l knew 1t was risk"
 "'Twas resk," she answered. "The men left afore day light lookin' fur ye
 They'd not be fur eff if they knowed ye wus up this way. Ye could "a, made the station quicker crossin' t'other spur, B ? she added.
 "That's 1t" he said. s'I got turned l around somehow last night. | was hffaid was going in the wrong direction" ; ''Gittin, furder from it eg'ry step!' ejaculated Dolly. a sr -.> .- .... - f "How far is it ?" he asked. ,.....- .. t II dunno, exactly" she answered s' Tween 15 and 20 mile, reckon. But !, ye mustn't think of tryin' to make 1t now t whilst they're scattered roun' lookin' fur ] ye. If ye can lay low till they striko off to t'other range, ye may have chauct : The hoss thieves giner'ly aim to git if that away stid of up the station.''
 He reddenad, and said with some indig. F. nation, "But I'm not a--''
 | "I know,n she interrupted. ssBut !. ya've got the name, an ye'll git the game if they git a holt of ye. Come on, we 7 mustn't waste time. ,
 ] She led him on until almost two miles from her home; she stopped where a deep. precipitous ravine ran along the edge Of a bold, high crag. The ravIne was narrow, and skirted on both sides ,i with huRlana and hriars Wnrkino her