The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-01

encouraging features. The lawyer could
not even tell her when Randall would have
TO appear in court for trial. 1T might be
year or maybe two years." he said, ''be-
lore the honorable court would take up
the matter She found the wounded man
and learned from his own lips that he did
not know who shot him. He had never
been badly hurt and he said that he felt
sorry for the Americana. Miss Brandon
| sought the jailer, who at first positively
refused to permit her to have an inter
view with his prisoner. II have my
orders, he said Il cannot let anyone in
to the prison but the lawyer or one of his
relatives mother or his wife or sister"
His sister will be here tomorrow" re-
pied the quick witted girl, and she walked
away Miss Brandon devoted the re-
malnder of the day to perfecting a plan
for securing the release of her lover
which might have been dreamed of by a
bold and daring Texan of the type of
Jack Hays or Ben Thompson, but there
are few men even of the desperate class
on the border who would have ventured
10 execute 1t. She looked about the 1T
tie village, where, fortunately, her pres
ence attracted little attention, from the
fact that il is located in the midst of a
cattle country frequently visited by vac
queros from distant ranches. Fortune
favored her designs by bringing her in
contact with Mexican, from whom she
die and bride and a good revolver On
the next morning the jailer was very
much surprised when called upon by
beautiful young girl, who appeared to be
in the greatest distress. She addressed
him with such mournful tenderness, ut
tering his own mellihuous language in a
tone so appealing and pathetic that he
found himself ready to grant the first re-
quest that she made without the slightest
protest. He led the way to the Jail door,
which he threw open and courteously in
Vited her to enter. acting as if he felt
himself highly honored and under many
obligation to the beautiful senorita for
the privilege of being able to do her a
service. The embarrassment of the jail
er afforded the girl an opportunity to slip
a note into her lovers hand, and she
says that they might have talked almost
openly of the plan of escape that she had
devised if the surprised young man could
have better controlled his trepidation and
the amaZement that he manifested over
seeing her enter his prison. She threw
her arms about his neck, calling him
brother, and whispered words of en-
coura cement into his ears. During the
interview she managed to drop several
significant hints, which she knew would
be of the greatest Importance to Randall
when he came to read the note that she
had given him. TWAS arranged, with the
consent of the jailer, whose humor had
Deen improved Dy a DOlIl6 OF wine OTQeF-
ed by the pretty visitor, that the young
lady should fetch her brother his supper
from the hotel Randall suspected that a
little army of Texas cowboys would APP
pear on the scene about that time. Ii
never occurred TO him, even after he had
read his sweethearts note, that she was
alone in the desperate enterprise. He
held himself ready to obey her slightest
hint the moment the Jail door opened.
Miss Brandon is silent as to one particu-
lar feature of her daring exploit, but her
friends believe that the lawyer or some
one in his employ led her ponies into an
alley near the Jail and perhaps held them
there subject to her orders. One can ac-
complish wonders with $40 gold piece in
Mexico.
When Miss Brandon entered the Jail she
invited the jailer TO step aside, saying
that she wanted him to help her to open
a bottle of wine She set few dishes
that she carried on the foor, and handed
the bottle to the thirsty Mexican. When
she stepped toward the only window in
the gloomy vault to secure the benefit of
a few struggling rays of light, she quick
ly handed Randall revolver, and wills
pered the word now
The Texas bounded forward like a pan
Their and brought the weapon down on
the jailer's head on the stone floor, bare
ly uttering a groan. To make sure of
keeping the poor devil silent they drew
a handkerchief through his mouth and
tied it fast at the back of his head, and
after binding his hands and feet they
walked out of the jail and locked the
door 1t was now quite dark and they
mounted their ponies and rode quietly out
of the little town without attracting the
least attention. When the sun rose next
morning they were little less than fifty
miles from that gloomy prison, and they
were about the same distance from Texas.
They might have reached home without
further trouble, but captain of rurals, J
who was guarding the famous free zone
against smugglers, received notice of the
escape of the Americana diablo, and he
hurried squads of his command to the
various crossings of the Rio Grande.
Just at the moment when the happy
lovers were congratulating themselves
over their good fortune they were sud-
denly confronted by six Mexicans dra-
goons. They turned aside into the chap
ariel, and although the Mexicans sent
shower of bullets after them they sue
coded in getting out of sight of their pur-
suers, and after hard TDle of some
hours reached the Rio Grande. Here
they were overtaken by another squad
of rurals and after exchanging shots
with them they boldly plunged into the
river preferring to take the risk of drown
ing rather than to be carried back to a
Mexican dungeon. The soldiers raiued
bullets about them and several dragons
continued the pursuit in the water. The
lovers would have easily escaped, but
ball struck Randars horse and disabled
him. The young man was forced to aban-
don his animal and in doing SO he lost his
pistol His devoted and brave little
sweetheart had no thought of abandon
ing the man for whom she had already
brayed so many dangers Drawing her
revolver she turned her pony toward the
animals tail she fired at the nearest Mex
lean. Then turning her horses head %
ward the Texas shore she threw herself
over on his rump and deliberately sent
one bullet after another in rapid success
sion into the faces of her pursuers. Her
friends are uniformed as to the result
of these shots, but they know that the
COURAGEOUS little girl brought her sweet
heart home, where both of them received
a warm welcome. They were married last
week. and it was altogether the biggest
wedding that was ever witnessed in
Western Texas. Randall Barrett says that
he has looked all through the big diction-