The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20
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There was once Il village Of very na 40
reputation, indeed II was supposed 70 =.
A Z roLbcr.s den TIT was situated hisn
~, a. lin mountains. Some times masked
men would break into houses In the vai-
les and take everything valuable Men
I would arm themselves aud follow tsie
q robbers to their village, but nothing was
) ever found and the village folk was YER!
V Indignant ut being searched for robpefs.
5a and thought 1t d shameful way ior y
quiet village to be treated.
+ Sometimes children would be stolen anu
put to ransom. An old man that always
3 carried OIL the communications lived III
n the wOou and II the ransom was pau "
Inn the child WAS Always brought nome
ny MIN w.lnn two days. S
On ouy an t.le cnnulcn IN the valley
went up the lnuunta,,I " pick the ICY
Yes Rtiil,. grew l.e.e 30 .iiiln.S. MI III.
Ono little s.ri nulLeu ATE Kals sOt
= lost IRON the utiiets early al me uu!, W.
Us IL Was 50 eaiiy ana 3they re'e s oo.le
STAY an ua! n.ute ~ n.y. ~ - ny
mex. ,.a.. with ueIrics VI mincn liiere WIS
% lale q patcn near. <Al.cr aMiliie sac 90
4 uowii to rest and Went sound asleep.2 she
uwuhe 10 ma nerselt surrOunued ~ arm
cd men,. Wnen they saw she Was awake
the leader SAD to one Of the men, IN,
take the gal to my old woman ana tel
keep her there until the scplch Is over
3! Jlin said ''come along gal. aiinu taxing
her manu- nearly dragged her up the rousii
nluunraln sue untl they reached the w,
laee An the women and children stared
at her as she passed and some of them
shouted ''wllo you got, Jln. but he ohiy
scowlcG and nastcned her along u Il
stone house of better appearance IMAM me
otchrs. The woman, who came to the
door looked frightened and said, is any
thing Inc matter, Jnn7 What dId you 80,
come back FOR; And then seeing Elm nsur
her nothing was the matter ana cav
his message and left. H.. 4o,p
Mrs Villain, the Captains WIFE e; ~ LOON On,
Gracies hand, led her}a little furlner ~.
the mountain and they came to a e I,
that was straight up and down. MIS- s: .o wlai
lain looked among the vines thac GOV sn =, eu
the hill as II she was searGn!.s iOs have
been a spring, very hard and sudoeiliy q
door In the cliff flew open and the woman snu,
pushed Oracle in and the door sllut ias.
and she was a prisoner. n, ~
SIR" was so dazed Mt first she did no, hot
notice where she was, but after az .. T., -
she looked around and saw she was e. III \
. az I ha,es Of valuable things and In one, one
o ~ new Vas a pile Of masks and dark IAN IAN
terms. Oracle stayed n the caye o, rery
days. Mrs Villain brought her low crac,e
x mai her father and a ct OF .frlends l,"n
been to search for her. nag ~. s tnd
back home much distressed tlnt .heS i i,nt
mot found her. she also to, ~, ~, " ia the
Village and lock her UP IN her house, ~.
t,,a nresent. Oracle thought AWNING
would be better than the cave ana so ste
accompanied her back to me viL IA hor r.
3nlea sure The old woman carried hst ~
her house and locked her up In a St .I e
room that WAS under ground ana a.. ,. tne
light she had came from one niue VII
dow nearly up to the ceiling. co., ~,
Cracie was very mSeraDie. oit ~.
nor know what they We're going 70 d9
With her. She thought maybe they Wo9 ~
w. lar Robbers might be Cannibals 1or
nil she knew. She thought u only, ,,. s s.nt
go nnd Pun home and If she did II AZ
nirht nobody would SEQ her. she KnS|
t,ew- aid no. have the least notion SIG
woul ttry to get out so theS "o' i' ~
watch her. ,ho took off
hor shoes and Stockings and ,tr cd to climb
the wall 1t was a rough stone wan anu
not5very hard to climb and she Snt VI
t. the se,,n wn no window h e'' wasn't but te
way from lie ground the room was SO
fa~ under Erourd. -, fo,,nd
So she Jumped to tho earth ana Io'.,lu
tho patch going down the mon ,' ~ 10 e,e
valley and went on down as4hara rs rre
.n,,,d M rho moon was 90 bright she
could sec almost as well rs CO., 80 sne
z ro. 50 relv home and her friends were
reiored to hnve her back 49,,
rho next dav all the mon armed the"
selves md went IN to the Vil''Ge anu
taLinc nrisoner the first man the" cure
across 4hcvtc' him they kn"" 2 u a..', !!
the r, VI r-l 'r. 10 di'Nf Nv" 'h'n, "
AZ orco l,,av would choot III, dnah. lie
r-cr.na tr.m I'D .~ov "ccov"-"d MI the
.o,ar rood ond toot oil tho ,>,nn nrron-
srs o,,a r,,t a, on, In i,'i ror ,'ro So that
was the end Of tho rohher gang.