Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-04-02

road; you needn't be afraid of my cutting
up right out here before folks / won't
say but what | want to. The man
wouldn't be a human who could love
girl as love you, and see her bright eyes
and pouting lips so close to him. without
wanting to- There! Hold on. Don't
start off that way! / won't do anything
Thunder. We're almost there, and at
that gait we wouldn't have FIVE minutes
more to talk"
Come along. We can do our talking
tonight, without setting other folks talk
ing to-day. There's a whole lot of people
coming down the ridge road, and on the
rise of the hill behind us are two men,
and | do believe one of them is Rufus
! Goldie"
Hetty's keen sight had correctly identi-
fed the distant horseman as Rufus Col
die, and if she had taken a second look,
she would have known equally well his
companion, who was none other than
Simeon Mulveil. Rufus lived at the con-
stables house most of the time, instead
of staying where he properly belonged,
| cite County, near Uniontown. The two
men not only harmonized well in char
acter. but had business relations which
brought them into close association. Null
| veil, who was a widower, owned a good
farm and a sawmill-the latter an inner
| itance from his wife, to whom it had
| been left by former husband. Rufus
nan the mill. on shares, and also did some
work on the farm when the head of water
was too slack for saving, or lumber not
| in demand. Hence, he and Simeon,
| thrown much together in their hours of
| labor, had got into the habit of each 9TH
| er's society, generally went abroad in
company and were as nearly friends as
| it was possible for such natures to feel
! friendship. There was secretly between
| them at this time, however, good deal
of jealousy, for each knew that the 9TH
err was a rival sutton for Hetty Mulveil's
hand That feeling would probably have
separated them, had they not been link
| ed by the bond of common hate for John
| Cameron, whom they instinctively recog-
nized as the one destined to carry away
| the prize from both of them.
Following and spying on this ride to
! church, they saw, and CRASHED their teeth
| at seeing, how closely the black horse
and the bay mare moved along together
and how slowly they went.
I'D like to put bullet through him."
| growled Rufus Goldie.
$50 would 1; but l wouldn't like to
be hanged for it." snarled the constable.
you're always afraid of the law"
"The laws something to be afraid Of"
"No; not the law, but getting caught"
"The law has tarnatiOn long reach"
''It don't go as far as Il gun, though
between man and man."
It'll go far enough in John Cameron's
case to suit me-"
do you feel like speaking any palmer
to-day than you did yesterday about
that?"
Il don't mind telling you, but You must
keep it mighty close, for if he got word
of it before l am ready to jump on him.
he might not be there when | landed"
I'm not likely to do anything that
would be much good to him."
'Well, it's just this. l saw in the pa
per, about two months back, that there
was a robbery of silver spoons from a
house over by Canonsburg somewhere.
l read all such things because it's my
official duty but my memory isn't good
and / can't recollect names well. That's
nothing though. | can go over to Wash
| ington tomorrow or next day and see the
| paper. And I'm just as sure as that I'm
alive the spoons we saw yesterday are
| the stolen ones. feel it in my bones so
| could swear to it"
But how are you going TO prove he
stole Them!
Il don't have to. If l find them in his
possession, it'll be for him to prove he
didn't steal them. Even if he gets off
he will have been put in Jail anyway,
and that's enough. Hetty Mulveil isn't
likely to marry any Jail bird"
Rufus WINGED, though ne said nothing.
For reasons best known to himself ref
erences to Jail birds grated on all there
was of sensitiveness in his being.
Yes" pursued the constable, If find
it's all right when l see the paper, as I'm
| sure I shall-I've got them initials mark
ed down, r.. W. B. or r.. b. W. aId
one or the other is bound to be right
I'll get the warrant for him at once. But
l won't SCI re it until Thursday, Training
Day " Salf the county will see him
taken as a thief"
Rufus started with the impulse of a
sudden thought, looked fixedly in his COM
panion's eyes for Il moment, and said in
low tone of suggestion rather than of
inquiry.
And if he resists arrest?p
The constable clenched his jaws with a
snap:
Then something bad may happen to
HMM perfectly legal way"
! The two Scoundrels grinned at each
other in sympathy, shook hands and rode
on at a liyelier pace after the couple, who
had by this time disappeared under the
grove surrounding the house Of prayer.
Ito be continuedO