Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-24

spread over the woods. And one night
stronger blast than usual swept
through the house and carried the note
from the table to the floor, where,
whirled into crack in the flooring, II
slowly rotted
But, though the sting of her fathers
rcproach was spared her. Salomy Jane
had no need of the letter to know what
had happened, for as she entered the
woods in the dim light of that morning
she saw the figure of Dart gliding
from the shadow of pine toward her
The unaffected cry of JOY that rose
from her lips died there as she caught
sight of his face in the open light.
You're hurt" she said, clutching his
arm passionately.
mo" he said, "but wouldn't mind
that ef''-
you're thinkin was afeared to
come back last night when heard the
shootin, but ! did come" she went on
feverishly. II ran back yere when
heard the two shots. but you were
gone. ! went to the corral, but your
boss wasn't there. and thought you'd
got away"
II did get away" said Dart gloomily.
II killed the man. thinkin he was hunt.
In me and forgettin I was disguised.
He thought | was your father"
"Yes." said the girl joyfully. "he was
after dad, and you-you killed him."
She again caught his hand admiringly.
But he did not respond. Possibly
there were points of honor which this
horse thief felt vaguely with her In.
Their. Listen" he said grimly. 10Th.
ers think It was your father killed him.
When | did 1t, for he fired ut me first,
| ran to the corral agin and took my
boss, thinkin | mout be follered.
made clear circuit Of the house, and
when fred he was the only one. and
no one was follerin. come back and
took Off my disguise. Then heard his
friends find him In the wood, and
then another man came through the
woods while ! was hidin and found the
clothes and took 'em away" He stop
ped and stared at her gloomily.
But all this was unintelligible to the
girl. dad would have got the better
Of him ef you hadn't" she said eagerly,
80 what's the difference?"
"All the same" he said gloomily, 81
must take his place."
She did not understand, but turned
her head to her master. "Then you'll
60 back with me and tell him ALP" she
said obediently.
YES" he said.
She put her hand in his, and they
erept out Of the wood together. She
foresaw thousand difficulties, but,
ehiefest of all, that he did not love her
as he did. She would not have taken
these risks against their happiness.
But alas for ethics and heroism! As
they were Issuing from the wood they
heard the sound Of galloping hoofs and
had barely time to hide themselves be.
fore Madison Clay, on the stolen horse
Of Judge Boompointer, swept past
them with his kinsman.
SIlomy Jane turned to her lover.
And here ] might as moral TO.
manccr pause, leaving the guilty. pas.
slonate girl. eloped with her disrep.
utable 10. sr. destined to lifelong shame
and misery. misunderstood to the last
by n criminal. fastldious parent, but
nm confronted by certain facts on
which this romance Is based. A month
later a handbill was posted on one OF
the sentinel pines announcing that the
property would be sold by auction to
the highest bidder by Mrs. John Dart,
daughter of Madison Clay, Esq, and
II was sold accordingly. Still later by
ten years the chroniclcr of these pages
visited certain stock or breeding
farm In the blue grass country. famous
for the popular racers 1t had produced.
He was told that the owner was the
best Judge of horsetiesh In the coun.
try. "Small wonder" added his in.
formant, "for they say as young
man out In California he was n horse
thief and only saved himself by elop-
Ing with some rich farmers daughter.
But he's a stralghtout and rcspecta-
bic man now. whose word about horses
| can't be bought. And as for his wife,
she's n beauty! To see her at the
| Springs, rugged out In the latest fash
| lon. you'd never think she had ever
| lived out of New York or wasn't the
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