The Carlisle independent., 1906-10-04

1 horizon was cleared
 She vaulted up into the saddle Not a moment did she have to spare Brutus leaped at the dig of her spurs and started madly down the road.
 Late as she had started, and consid- erable as the distance was, over hills and through swales, Maggie a little 1 before two o'clock in the morning rapped on Justice Carey's door.
 You noisy idiot" chopped the voice of the justice, who thrust his thin face out into the darkness, "'tain't time 'taint time! What do you mean! 'Tain't time, I say! What do you want? You don't want me now, you young scoundrel?"
 "Yes-now," said Maggie, as roughly as possible. Hurry up, or we'll be too late!"
 He disappeared and slammed the l door.
 Magic feared he had returned to his bed. She took out her pistol and was 1 about to batter the door again, when 1 the man came out, fully dressed. He chatteTed in the chill air.
 Where is m-m-my horse?" he demanded. Didn't you fetch me a h-h-horse? Do you expect me to get out the b-buckboard alone at this"
 Get up on my horse-it's the best l we can do, and the quickest way" in terrupted Maggie.
 She h0nctn1 tho roor actridp tho sad dle in a hurry, sprang up behind him, with the reins in her hand
 Where you - heading, young - man?" he said, disjointedly. This ain't the way to Tarnahan's Bar."
 No, it isn't" assented Maggie.
 Then what-what-wha do you mean? What are you doing? Here, you, let me"
 Be still." commanded the girl. You can feel my pistol against your back. You are not going to the Bar this morning."
 But the wedding" cried the old fiend; the wedding this"
 There will not be any wedding" she told him, shortly.
 He comprehended with pain, then. that he, the high and mighty justice of the peace "in and for said county and township" had actually been ab- | ductcd bodily. In polyglot moods, of rapid succession, he threatened, rant ed, reasoned with his captor, and en- treated that she permit him to go and perform the wedding
 Maggie was as grim as she was firm. Her horse was in a reeking perspira- | ton, but she could not afford to spare him now. Straight away into the mountains she rode. Three miles from Nicholrs she came upon the dim form of a shanty, in a lonely ravine, far from the travelled trails. It was all that remained of mining excitement which the hills had enjoyed. Here she forced her prisoner to dismount, after which she tied his hands behind him, compelled him to enter the shanty, and there secured his feet. in manner highly satisfactory to her self For the binding she employed a slender tethering-rope which she car ried n addition to her braided lasso.
 Then she shut the door on a mixture of threats, life sentences and pleadings and started for Tarnahan's Bar. She arrived there some hours later dressed in her own clothes.
 ''They had a great old time at the Bar" said the girl, concluding her story to her mother the following day Ed. Hickey rode around after poor old MT. Carey like rooster without his head, got horribly drunk, and you never saw Carrie cry so much in all your life when I told her about Mrs | Jordan's cattle She cried and laughed | together. I wouldn't have believed a l girl could be so happy to give it all i up-after getting all those lovely dresses and presents. Poor dear Carrie its funny she didn't know better herself, at first"
 But" said Maggie's mother, 'I hope everybody hasn't left poor, dear MT l Carey I'D there all this time, pining in that cabin"
 "Oh, mo-" replied the girl, "he got loose and came in to Tarnahan's Bar | by himself late in the afternoon. Aft CT he told his story, they got up a wonderful romance about daring young fellow who rode 70 miles, from Pizen, in the night, and stole the jus tice to save his lady-love from Hickey. Some call him Hickey's rival, and some call him Carries mysterious lover" l fCoDyriohf hy JoSeph R RowleS)