The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1900-04-03

tough LuluS 10 IOTSeC, anu we were Ue-
ginnin to wonder how long we could
hold out, when one mornin we seed
| the Girl Of Wild Horse Rum She was
a-comin along our trail at the foot Of
the mountain. 1t was evident that she
didn't know that the Indians was there,
but knowed they was out and was
comm to warn us in general way.
/ GAS soon as we seed her we did our
best to let her know that she was ridin
into quick trouble. We started a
smudge with blanket and fired cou-
pie of shots to attract her attention.
She saw we was on the top Of the
mountain, and she knowed we was
there for our health, so she turned and
| lit out
| "The Indians seen her about that
time, and they took after her. She had
good two mile the start. but her pony
had been on the road for some time,
| and it was gettin tired. Still there is
lots Of spunk in good mustang, and
we all hoped that she would get away
all right. AS she went down the valley
we could see that she was not headin
for the Run, but for the stage station,
which was good 20 mile away. We
was doubtful about her pony holdin
out ag'in the fresh ones of the Indians
for that distance, but there want moth
in we could do to help her, and so we
staid where we was.
"It seemed to make the Indians kind
of wrathy to have had her comm round
that way, and they began takin chance
shots at US. They didn't hit any Of us,
but they made us lie low where before
we had been standin up and movin
round pretty much as we pleased.
"All the rest of the day we didn't do
much but wonder how that there girl
had come out of the fix she was in. 1t
was all done to help us, and we know
ed it, and that made us feel like we
was responsible for her. Wonderin
didn't do no good, but we was still at
it when we heard a shot down the val
ley. 1t didn't come from where the
Indians had camped and we lighted
fire as a signal like. When the fire
blazed up, there was some more shots.
''It was kind of dusky in the mornin
then, and we couldn't see well, but we
soon made out about 80 men comm up
the valley In a minute we seed they
was white men, and then we knowed
we was all right.
1--WE come down from that mountain
the Indians was gone. They had va
moosed durin the night When we
come up to the men, we found they
was lot of freighters from the sta
ton. The girl was there, they said.
She had beat the Indians out in the
race, but she was in pretty bad shape,
for she had one bullet clean through
her, and another had broke her arm.
Eve went to the station as fast as
we could. When we got there, we seed
there was nothin we could do. 1t was
too late for anything but to tell her we
knowed we owed our lives to her. She
was too weak to say anything in an
swer when we told her. So we just
sat around and wet her lips when they
got dry and tried to do what we could
to make her easier.
"She seemed to know all that was 60
in on, and one Of the eastern men
thought it might make her feel easier
if somebody prayed So he, bein the
only one who knowed much about it,
tried it, and we all kneeled down. He
told us how we all knowed that the
girl was dyin because she had give her
life to save ourn, and he told the Lord
that we hoped that, if it was possible,
he would fix it so that she wouldn't die.
SIT was good prayer for man who
mint in the business professionally,
and it seemed to do the girl good, for
when he finished and we got up there
was a smile on her lips. But it was
the last smile that was ever there, for
she was dead
1--WE buried her under cottonwood
across from the station and not far
from the stage road Then we put the
rocks over the grave, for you can't tell
what sort of creeturs are round here"
They gave up the old stage line years
and years ago, and the old adobe sta
ton has fallen down in parts, and the
ruins ere roofless and forlorn. But the
grave is still there. and every freighter
who passes along the old trail and
knows what the pile of stones means
lifts his sombrero to the memory of the
"Girl of Wild Horse Run" Exchange
The Lady and the Teeth.