Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1907-08-02

temper. and was determined to go
to jail as meekly as a lamb. Mean
while. the Inhabitants heard of the
expected Incarceration of their favor
lite, and insisted upon his defeating
the schemes Of his enemy by resist
Ing, according to law, his unjust de-
mands; but Walter, with a good
natured smile. said that he trusted
all to the ways of Providence.
Next morning Walter, altogether
unconcerned about his apprehension,
went forth to take his walk In the
green fields, according to his Gus
tom, although 1t might be to take
his breakfast in the old Tolbooth,
which frowned upon him as he
passed. He wandered little way in
the country, when he thought he
observed two men slipping along
behind a thorn hedge, as II they
wished to escape detection; and, i'm
PEELED by curiosity, he slipped along
the other side of the same hedge
upon his hands and his feet. and
having seen the men deposit some
thing in the side of a neighboring
dixie, sQuatted down as II he had
been shot dead, and lay there as still
as death until the men went away.
Up then rose Walter, and going
cautiously. looking around again and
again as he crept along, he came to
the hole in the dixie, and having ex-
amined it, found lying there a large
bundle of bank notes, amounting to
no less than $500. Putting the money
into his pocket. he, by one leap, got
to the middle of the road. when, hav-
ing folded his hands behind his back
and struck up a very merry tune,
he continued his walk. with a slow
and comfortable composure which
was pleasant to see.
Several people passed him; and,
as he was never heard to whistle be-
fore, they wondered nightly that
simple Walter should whistle so
merry tune, and more SO. on the
morning. of that day when he was to
be put into prison.
When he went little farther, still
whistling and sauntering, with a very
easy and pleasant carelessness. whom
does he meet? Why, no other than
William Harrison, flying along the
road like mailman. calling out II
any one had seen two blackguard-
looking men on the way; for that his
shop had been robbed during the
night and all the money he had in
the world taken out of it and carried
away.
Il saw the blackguards. replied
Walter. They're ava doun by Glib
sons Loan -yonder, as fast as If
messenger wi a hornin' and caption
was at their heels"
And he again whistled his tune
circumstance that struck Harrison,
who had never heard him whistle be-
fore, with as much surprise as his
announcement; but he had no time
to wonder or reply, and away he shot
like pursuing messenger while
Walter walked into the town and
opened his shop, wherein he deposit
ed the $500, and proceeded to serve
his customers with as much sim.
plicity and good humor as ever.
The news of the loss sustained by
Harrison went like wildfire through
the burgh, and every ono wondered
that man who owed so much money
should have had SO large sum as
$500 in the house at one time, and
it was suspected that he intended to
fly the country with the money as
soon as he could wiring the false
debt out of simple Watty.
Every inquiry was made after the
robbers, but they could not be traced:
and now Harrison. made savage by
his loss and the allusion made by
Watty about the messenger, got his
caption from Edinburgh by a special
messenger, and sent to apprehend
Walter for the false debt.
II have a caption against you,
Mr.. Wylie," said the messenger as
he entered. will you pay the debt
or go with me?"
IF you'll wait" replied Watty,
with the greatest simplicity, It'll I
weigh this pund o. sugar to Jenny
Gilchrist, I'll TAX q step WI ye as
far as the jail"
And, proceeding to serve his Gus
toner, he INDUCED in some of his
dry jokes in the very same way he
used to do; and, when he had fin-
ished, called up his wife to serve the,
shop, and walked with great COM
posture away with the messenger to
that place of squalor and sQualid
misery.
He was in due form entered In the
jailer's books, and deposited in the
old black building as a jailbird,
where, If he chose, he might whistle
as gayly as he did in the morning
when he went out to hear the larks
singing in the clouds, to which eeles-
tial residence he had so Unexpectedly
accompanied them.
The news soon spread far and wide
that Walter Wylie was in prison, and
many efforts were made to get him
to pay the debt at once and gum Esss
liberty; but Walter knew hinessf
what he was about, and, having thus
ascertained how far Harrison would
go he sent for a writer, and, having
given him instructions and a part %
the $500 TO pay his expenses @cA CUT
In few days on what the hnz1c1f
men Of the law call suspenf - - 2
liberation.