The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1906-04-12
How She Met Tier Fate
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ea.r had met her fate at a dance in a
Es):,y'.. 4 thiT was the wife Of one who
k&sSpl fallen in love with her at seeing
s@xz4t' r,:a ac}.,>sS a back yard. The ex-
lsae&seGces were not especially startling,
sasSS we ywe"e growing tired of them
7gg1a@p Mrs. Perkins. a meek little wcm-
.ssiG >vi,:p had kent silent. was invited to
sg&ye i.i,i' fist meeting with her hus-
Sand
Oh always wanted to marry
s1sie::c y:a;ln. she said demurely.
'Al.d CID your
~'lt was this way: When | was
>zrirl nv father was engaged in mining
n Colorado. Needing a housekeeper.
55le seat for me to go out to him.
&-aveicd by rail as far as the cars
went then by stage. The coach was
.ful3 of passengers, and we all soon
got acquainted at least the others
kslid, for the conventional life had led
svas SC different from that of the west
What ] sat mum as church mouse. A
gaoung man in a white cravat sat di-
x-Betly opposite me-"
~FYour fate?" interrupted one of the
listeners
'''He talked very well, and after a
time many of the passengers were lis
aening to him. He had just been grad
stated at q theological seminary and
~was going into the mountains to preach
she gospel to the rough element that
.Sabounded there A small, quiet look
fsszag man beside me, with soft voice,
wouldn't say anything at first, but
finally gave the clergyman some In
formation concerning the class of peo-
goIe ne would have to deal with, espe-
,ecia7ly the toughs.'
AOf course couldn't but admire the
man who had given up the comforts
of the east to come to such country
10 preach the gospel to such terrible
,gseopie. He seemed glad to learn what
aase would have to meet and asked his
1nformer q great many questions. What
Impressed me in his favor was that he
didn't seem at all appalled, at the ter
ar1ble prospect before him.
while we were talking" Mrs. Per
=kins went on, ''there was report
ahead and the coach suddenly stopped.
"A man whose face was covered with a
Esandanna handkerchief put his head
9zn at the coach door ard said, Hands
mp! I didn't know whal to do, for
zach things were entirely new to me,
gSIt, seeing the other passengers put
their hands on their heads, / did the
axame. The man at the door had a re-
rano1ver In each hand, and was In ter
zror lest one Of them might go OF ac
g&.=identally, for never could stand fire.
.sesms nor people who handled them
aasarelessly."
Just the one for clergyman's
wife put in, one Of the women.
~'Then he threw open the door and
1Eold us all to get out. which we did,
@sa1Il keeping our hands on our heads,
sand stand in line. There was mask
ed man standing in the road pointing
Il pistol at the stage driver and anoth-
>ser man, also masked, waiting near the
coach door. The one who had opened
The coach door took a sack out of his
pocket and came down the line, taking
oar valuables and dropping them in
the sack. l was standing-it was all
tween the young clergyman and the
small man who had sat beside me in
zghe coach. l leaned little against the
CORNER for support. The robber got
GALWAY down the line when, finding
that his pistols were in the way of his
taking our watches and things, as well
RS holding the sack, put them in his
"a fh0 al
then me, and, coming to the man next
XEae, found nothing
Ss It's all in my boots,' said the vic
rim.
The robber bent down to search the
GGaan's boots. 1t all happened so quick
that | never knew how it did happen.
4 heard a crack right under my nose,
and the robber fell on his face. In
half a second there was another crack,
and the robber looking On jumped and
aIell backward. The man who was be-
Ing robbed had snatched a revolver
from the man who robbed him and
shot him in the back of the head. With
sthe same weapon he shot the next rob
'aer through the heart and started after
che third at the horses heads who ran
Into the bush beside the road The
next thing l remember was seeing the
terrible man who had done all this
Srxalling dragging the body Of the third
Erobber out of the wood.
well, it turned out that the small
imam with the soft voice was the quick
shooting deputy Of Boulder He was
the most awful man in Colorado, only
EIle was ON the side of the law instead
of the villains. He turned the bodies
over and looked at their faces with no
more equalms of conscience than if he
had killed a fly. He seemed to know
1.-TWO of them and said they were be-
sginners, as he had suspected from the
first. He returned us our property, and
ave all got into the coach and drove on.
ssUntil we reached the next town the
quick shooting deputy rode on the box
with the driver. The clergyman, poor
fellow, had a weak heart He was