Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1905-11-24

money-I'n never believe i'll!
"You liev' cried the father. enraged to
the verge of insanity.
Instantly the strong young man crap
pied with his aged parent, and clutchlng
him by the throat forced him into the
chair upon which he had been sitting, |
shouting:
take that back, fatherl Take that
back or I'll choke the breath out OF your
body"
Like lightning the mother wrenched his
strong hands from her husbands throat,
and fiinging her arms about his neck
held him as in wise.
"Joe-my darling baby, for mothers
sake don't lay your hands on fayther
He's wrong, but remember you are young
and his son, and something is due to
old ager'
"For your sake, mother, l will desist,
but | leave this house, and never shall
he see my face again. If l stay 1t will
mean-murder!" And picking up his
hat he left the house, striding rapidly
down the hill, going in the direction OF
Elizas home.
At the click of the garden gate a
pretty, demure looking maiden, clad IN
a pink frock, ran down the walk TO
greet him, but started in dismay at his
flushed face.
Taking her into a small grove adjoin-
: ing her home, unmindful of wraps, they
/ wandered almost to the roadside, ne DIT,
, terly describing the scene just enacted
at his home, she tearfully listening
When her grief had spent itself she
a raised her tear-wet face from his shout
| der and gazed steadily towards the road
. way.
Look, joe" she whispered, see tina
q MANI
= By the roadside stood a pony, un
q bitcned. and close beside him, seate'
upon a fallen tree, was a man with
Y blue stocking across his knee, intent
rifinR its contents. Joseph Sloan IN
v stantly recognized the homely safe /
10 which his father had kept his money. Ill
n breath came hard.
n ''Ranchman Jack, who supplies tn
% village with cattle from TeXas| ne
n breathed. "He has followed father an
is stolen, not only the market money, b'
all father has-let me CO." and he III
2u clasped the young girls arms herce
from his neck
- There was a scream of terror. 1T
I'd man looked up, and noting that he ha
of been observed, leaped upon the por
os and dashed down the road.
no "Joe. don't follow that desperate
he il may mean death if you hunt him
10 Again her arms sought his neck.
10 Pushing her from him he fiercely erie
nm Hunt himl I'll hunt him into
gravel Good-by-explain to mother
90 and he went like the wind in the dire
-er ton of the village. Two hours later
60 pony was found upon the green, grail
ar upon a patch of half-frozen grass b
he the ranchman had taken the first tra
out for Texas.
I'd Two years passed, and far away
in the plains Of northern Texas, a wea
ct. exile is leaning upon table He
GO alone in the wilds, and yet is not l
he attended. On the table, close at hal
the lay heavy rife; in his belt glittered
are ugly looking dirk, while at his f
in crouched a trusty bloodhound. I
nm mans head dropped and he murmui
IRIS YEARLY:
HE 1.-TWO years next month since / stt
Of ed my search, and yet no trace of q
I'D man who has wrecked, not only
md happiness but that of my mother 9
nh Eliza. Strange l can find no trail
her him here in his own holdp'
sba A fierce blast almost shook the
nk- house. but he felt secure and paid
Iish heed until the dreary, sobbing wall
,ice a hungry wolf fell upon his ears. Th
asst was an ominous scratching between
beams, and he knew the pack had req
how ed his dwelling. A low snarl and
cry of a human being in distress sn
and his ear. Quickly going towards oh
into In the beams he saw sight that
and most stilled his heart beats. In fl
Of his hut a human being was y
face down upon the ground. The wo
and had freed him, and overcome with FIR
nov he had fallen from his stronghold
their midst. The back of his head
and CORY.
The man in the log house waited
mn sec no more. Forcing the gun betv
for the beams he fred continuously at
ave beasts of prey. until their leaders
,rst'' dead and the others in fright took to
ter forest.
that Throwing wide the door, he drai