The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-01-06
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1 Romance
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days, when people really travelled.
Nowadays" said member of the par
y. people don't travel They step IN
to an elegantly furnished apartment.
go TO bed and the next morning wake.
up at their destination. Formerly when.
one stepped into stagecoach, heard.
the drivers whip crack and was jolted.
along iumpy road day and night for a
week-iiiat was travelling. Besides, the
acquain'ances. attachments, weddings.
that resulted from being SO closely
thrown tcsether-I tell you, there was.
romance IN stagecoach travelling"
Would you like to hear one of them.
romances." asked graybeard in the.
corner, removing cob pipe from his.
mouth.
The advocate Of the stagecoach looked
somewhat taken aback; the others all
called for tie story.
1T was a.ore the Union Pacific was
built, and ! was goin' to Frisco by
stage. i got into the old wood and iron.
and leather trap, thinkin' was the
only passenger. and TUX the back seat;
but, lookin' up suddenly, saw one Of
the pertiest gals, a-sittin' on the fore.
seat, a-facin' me. We ever see. She had
head Of faxen hair made into a rope
braid long enough to hang jayhawk-
er with, her chaeks were a rosy red,
and her eyes were like the twin lakes.
back of Georgetown. Colo.
WAL, now, 1t wasn't to be supposed
that |, a gay bird of twenty-five, was
a-goin' to ride with hull middle seat.
between me and bloomin gal OF nine
teen. 1t wasn't more'n half an hour
afore had her on the back seat, with
my arm around her waist to help her
over the bumps. She fought mighty
shy, lookin' sideways out'n the Off win
der, and KEEP tellin' me that oughtn't
to make love SO student and all that.
All the same, she 'peared TO like II. and
l KEEP 1t up. / noticed that she looked
worried, and when tole her how /
loved her and would give my life for
her she 'peared to doubt me. Then
when swore I'd kill any one who
dared lay finger on her she got conf
dental and told her story. She said She
was a-teein' frum brutal stepfather.
who was pursuin' her OH Il trumped up
charge to git her inter lis hands. In
that bag she said. I've got some of the
forum my poor father left me, and if I
can git to Frisco I'll find his old lawyer
and be SAFE
Il Jest pulled my weepon around and
told her had six bullets fur that step
father.
when we was a-pullin' up to the
fust relay to change bosses we saw n
dozen mounted men waitln' The gil
turned pale. Say I'm yer sister, she
gasped. One of the men rode to the
stage door, poked cooked revolver in
at the winder and looked us over.
What's yer name?" he asked me.
Thomas Winter
"The gal?
My sister, Mollie Winter
HE turned away, and I heard him
say to the others, He amt aboard
Then to the driver: We're lookln' fur
one of the gang that robbed the s.
bank. Haven't seen no skulkers on the
route, have ye? The driver told him he
hadn't and drove on.
"'What luck fur you 1 said to the
gal, mighty pleased that they hadn't
troubled her 4 reckon they're in the
pay o. yer stepfather and made n pur.
tense of lookin' fur the bank robber.'
Reckon they was,' she said, a-trem-
blin'.
".And IL they had searched yer bag
gage and found yer FORUM they might
"a thought We was in cahoots with
the robbers and a-helpin' 'em away
with the plumber
at would "a been dreadful embar-
rassin',' she said, shudderin'.
~ TUX her in my arms and soothed
her. She just laid her head on my
shoulder and sobbed. When we'd went
about five mile all Of student she up
and said she was a-goin' to git out. I
tole her thought she was goin' to find
the lawyer at Frisco, but she said she
was afeared they'd be after her agin:
she'd better hide fur awhile afore goin'
on. 1 wanted to stick to her, but she
said she was under obligation enough
to me and wouldn't hear OF It.
II well remember that partin'. 1t
was evenin', and new moon was
helpin' out the twilight. We stopped
the stage, and both got out. There was
no one near but the driver on the box:
nothin' but the forest on all sides. L
TUX her hand. and ! said:
81 swar I'm not goin' to desert the
gal love in this cowardly fashion. I'm
a-goin' to stick to yer through thick and
thin, and the mex party as stops yer II
have to face my shootin' iron.'
"a student change came over her
lin'a'ments.
'Ye bloomin' galoot,' she said. pull
in a revolver from her petticoats, yer
goln' on with that coach. and I'm goin'
in different direction with the bank
plumber! I'm no gal; I'm man. and IL
ye don't get into that stage mighty
quick I'll bore hole inter We, sartinr