The Newtown bee., 1900-01-26

sultation and advice, personally or by letter. '
 for all communications are confidential, and let happens. They might take notion to hunt roun' yer some, but they'll not be apt to fin Ye of ye keep close, ,"-with- which she left him.
 Wearied with the.unwonted excitement. Dolly reached her home, relieved to find no one there; nor did any one appear, that day. She spent the afternoon roam ing over the mountain side with her rife, bunting, as she ususlly did, but with 8. purpose now of discovering if any one of the gang were on the fugitive's trail, or in the region. She found nU evidence of the srch having been shifted to this spur, and became convinced that he had eluded them, and if so, it would be 3 much easier matter to get him off.
 She meant to get him { fl; she deter mined to save him some way. Fl dunno jist how I'll do it,'' she said to herself, as she sat alone that evening studying over the difficulties of the task she had under taken. 1T dunno how I'll do it, but they shan't hang i'm, they shan't, even if they ketch i'm. I'll stop lem somehow. I could es easy. let lem hang pap, fur l know this man ain't done nothin,' an pap-''She put her hands over her face.
 HNo," she went on. 1T couldn't tell on pap. All day I've felt like hated linn, but couldn't give i'm to 'em." She could decide on no plan, but felt she must act according as events shaped themselves. The next morning early she was startled by loud Hello !'' and going to the door, found old man Terrell sitting on his horse by the spring.
 "Mornin,' Dolly. Yer pap iE?" he said. Dolly shook her head.
 1T lowed he wouldn't be to home: s'pose he's out on the hunt with the rest. When'd he start ?" he asked as he rode up to the door.
 "Yist'day mornin,' fore daybreak, ,
 Dolly answered.
 "Any one long O him ? he asked. "Mace Stewart" said Dolly.
 ',An' I reckon they're like the rest, jist 8 rompin' 'roun' oyer them spurs an gullies up trail, stid CT maxim fur the forks like they'd orter."
 Dolly answered truly that she did moi know where they had gone.
 "Well, I've sed all the time he'd make fur t'other range an git of kentry. He can travel fast agin that away but the rest O lem would hang on to lookin' up yer, an now they've missed m sure al
 shootin'. Racket sticks to it yit 'etche'i roun' yer som'ers. Sed his boy seed $
 man crossin' the ridge yist'day." .4' sss Dolly felt 6 cold chill creep over her., but she answered readily, sI wuz hunt
 in' most the hull day yist'day, all over the ridge, clear to t'other crick. an never seed sign O no one."
 "I knowed how 'twas,"' 'grumbled the old man. II tol' Racket ever one et steps out fdoors now is seein' a mar som'ers. Bin dozen farms, an nothin in 'em 'cept to keep us chasin' here an yon, whilst he gets clean off. Howsum- ever, they've greed at last to go down to the forks as they'd orse r done at fust. They're all to meet at Hank Smiths fast as they kin git roun.I We 'specs lem all thar tonight. Ef yer pap comea in, jist send him along in & hurry, ,--ihoughteT T happen to see Jim myself" T 1T i71''<s Dolly promised to send him slong at once, and the old man rode { if still grumbling. As soon as he was out of sight Dolly began nasty preps ations fer a long tramp. She fortifisd herself with B good breakfast, and put upa lunch to take with her.
 sHe's got to git eff to-night,n ehe mutt tered ssIs'll pc the best chanct he'll hey. Most of lem I'll be down yon, an' if we start afore midnight he'd orter be out whar it's plain sailin' by day break, an he'd be miles ahead of lem even if they fiad he's gone that away. I'll go over the mountin' to-day an find the best way O. gittin' the bosses down to the e1 trail. T Taking rife and ammunition she get fl, and for hours threaded her way over ridges and gullies, down bluffs and through thickete. her keen eyes noting landmarks to help her on the night trip. t.It'll be powerful rough, an slow travel in the dark ahe muttered, as she came at last to the gentler and smoother de- cline below.
 ca her way back she shot 8 couple of squirrels in evidence of hunting, for she rather expected her fatber would stop. even if Terrell had seen him. So when she came In sight of the house she was not surprised to see him and several oth. er, men about the spring while the horses were cropping the grass. Draw ing long breath and biacing hefaelf to cot l, natural action. she sauntered along, swinging her squirrels, her rife over her shoulder.
 |a Hello, Doll, 7 her father called as sbe came near. II lowed you was out
 huntin'l Seen anybody whilst was