Daily Kennebec journal., 1901-09-07

ne went down the path and loft
MaoSe picking raspberries and feed
ing them to Jules. In half an honr no
was at the hotel in the village and had
ciuered Il lunch basket filled. While
ne was waiting for ii on the stems or
the hotel the young fellow who had
peen knocked into the bushes by hin,
tne cay before passed. Pierre recoy
ni9ed him and grinncd saucily. The
ftilow said nothing. but walked around
H" corner of the village store and
sprinted for the house of q deputy
sheritf. Ten minutes after. Pierre was
under arrest charged with assault and
battery and was standing in the mid
Gle Of one of the granite cells OF the
county Jail listening to the shooting
| II of the great locks on the door.
That is what | get for going out of
NY way tO help out an outlaw and a
smugglcr." he exclaimed in whisper.
'"turse that loutish farmer. l wish I'd
broken his head.
L And then lie sat down on the stone
ledge 10 think it all over. Here he was
a.prisoner in jail, and his father and
Isether had no idea where he was. His
! tender heart smote him as he thought
tdear little mother Marie cry her eyes
geut
\? He was the apple Of her eye, and he
knew il.
= Matige. waiting for her lunch beside
tsthe lonely woodroad with no company
but her mare and the i'll looking tame
1bear listened to the whip-poor- wills
| "a Hing to each other and the thrushes
I repeating their weird evening hymns,
! ana -lew nervous. She walked lit
/ tie distance UP the road to where there
was = rustic bridge with great stone
Z hagS underneath.
She stood here looking down into
the black water of the brook and won-
derinr what the manly little country
lad would say if she told him that she
WIS a smugGier. Probably he hated
the liquor business. All country boys
do
they may grow up to drink. to be-
come Desutten fools and waste their
glorious lives in the most eXtravagant
manners. but Vet While they have the
bloom on their cheeks. the peachy
bloom of entire innocence. they hate
the liquor traffic as something foreign
ard wicked.
AnG AS Madce thought of the good
ness Of this boy the honesty aQd man.
hood that shonc through every action
and motion. she was sorry that she
WAS in an illegal business. For the
tim" being she was ashamed of it.
She walked back slowly to the bars
whore the mare stood. Jules walked
at Her heels. The moon was commenc-
in. to appear above the top of the hill.
and tor the first time a suspicion that
al was not well With the boy flashed
through her mind.
Putting her finger in her mouth she
whistlcd long and loud. There was no
answer Finally she turned to Jules
and said.
Jules. IL boy. why doesn't h" come ?
Where il your master. do You sup
Inse?" Jules looked at her myStitied.
She, led him over to the bars and bade
. him smell the ground. The creature
$ understood ana went amblnc off up
i the road toward the village. Hy that
time the street was deserted and only
II no.v and then a light glcamcd from a
house windoW.
o Tho farmers were most of them
asleep. and the only men and boys
y awake We're sitting around the stove
q in the store. as if ii had been winter
telling stories.
Jules slipped through the darkness in
q the street like one Of the shadows till
81 u" was in front Of the hotel ana then
8 followed across the common to the lit
y tie stone Jail. Horc he cam" against
tie high WOODEN picket gate in the
T fence around the Jail and could so no
farther.
= He wondered what the littl" building
Twas ard why his master had gone in
There was a smell about tie place
that did not please him.
lie scratched at the gate and ther
shook il. Pierre inside heard it attlt
= and crrpt to the window. \ minute
his old friend.
Jules Jules" Re cried. Jules rur
and get The girl Tcll her to come here
:, , Hunting, old fellow, Hunting
Jules knew what hunting meant. r
wuuld have .cnt him scurrying off fol
pierres father if he had been neal
I home. But in this case he did til,
rext best thing. H. ran pell mel
through the village. soaring an limo
u cent old COW who was asleep on "a lawn
l. and down the hill 10 where in tn
moonlight Madge paced up and doWl
Il anxiously waiting
II The bear came UP out Of breath anf
:, excited. He tugged at her skirt ano
| by every motion and sign he coulC
!. make showed that he wanted her t.
follow him. So taking Smuggler Mel
along with her. and walking with th'
bride in one hand and the other grip
- ping the hair on Jules flat head. sh
went up to the village.
The deputy sheriff was preparing 70
bed when it occurred to him that hi
new prisoner might not have had hi
supper when he had nabbcd him SO un
:, tremendously.
This troubled him. for he was soo'
hearted man, and not a all cruel.
:, To be locked up in Jail for simpl,
knocking down a man who had at
" tackled a woman was bad enough, tn
sheriff reasoned. but to be made t
-. stay there all night without anything
to eat was worse. So he got his key
and lantern and started for Tie jai
which lrnc only a faw yardc fk0n1 tb