Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-04-23

THE Scribe will do everything that
can be done. Honest. now, did you
think this trial could be pulled off
without me-"
But there can be no trial to-day"
why not?"
did dream the courthouse burned
last night?"
III you did We are all dreamers
alike"
Then how can YOU hold court?"
I'VE have gone back to the time
when church and state were one and
tnseparabe. and court convenes at 10
O'Clock sharp III the Westinghouse"
he said.
Louise was looking white and mis-
cradle
you are not contemplating running
away. are you?" asked Gordon. This
is unusual weather-really.
She looked at him with a pitiful
smile.
Il should like to be strong and
brave and enduring and capable-like
Mary. You don't believe it, do you?
It's true. though. But | can't. I'm
weak and homesck and cold. ought
not to have come. am not the kind
You said it, you know I am going
home just as soo1 as this court is
over. ! mean it..
There was no installing that. Cor
don bowed his head His face was
white. 1t had come sooner than he
had thought.
All the records OF the work yester-
day had been burned. There was moth
ing to do but begin at the beginning
again. 1t was discouraging, uninter.
esting But it had to be done. Dale
refused positively to adjourn. The
jurymen were all here So the little
frame church was bargained for. II
the fire-bugs had thought to postpone
events-to gain time-by last nights
work, they would find themselves very
greatly mistaken. The church was
long and narrow like country school.
house and rather roomy considering
the size of the town. It had precise
windows-also like a country school
house--four on the west side, through
which the fine snow was drifting. four
opposite The storm kept few at
home with the exception OF the people
rom across the river There were
enough staying in the town to fill the
room to It's utmost limits. Standing
room was at a premium. The entry
was crowded. Men not able to get in
ploughed back through the cutting
wind and snow only to return present
ly to see if the situation had changed
any during their brief absence. So
all the work Of yesterday was gone
over again.
So close was the pack Of people that
the fire roaring in the big stove in the
middle of the room was allowed to
sink in smouldering quiet. The heavy
air had been unbearable else. The
snow that had been brought In on
tramping feet lay in little melted
pools on the rough flooring. Men for
got to eat peanuts and women forgot
to chew their gum-exccpt oae or two
extremely nervous ones whose jaws
moved the faster under the stimulus
Of hystoria. Jesse Black was telling
his story.
Along toward the LIST of last July,
took hike out into The Indian coun-
try to buy a few head o cattle. |
trade considerable with the half
breeds around Crow creek and Lower
Brule. They're always for sellin' and
If it comes TO a showd down never bag
gle much about the lucre-it all goes
for snake-juice anyway. Well. landed
at John Yellow VOLTS shanty along
about noon and found there was 9th
ers ahead of me- Yellow Wolf always
was a popular cuss. There was Char
lie Nightbird, Pete Monroe. Jesse Big
| Cloud and two or three others whose
mugs | did not happen to be onto
After our feed. we all strolled ont to
the corral Yellow Wolf said he had
bought a likely little bunch from some
English teller who was skipping the
country-starved out and homeslck-
and hadn't put EN- on the range yet
He said r was the English Teller
hand dealin's Yellow VOLTS always
treated me white before, so I bar
gained for this here chap and three OF
four others and then pulled out for
home driving the bunch. They fed at
home for a spell and then ! decided tc
put 'em on the range. On the way
fell in with Billy Brown here. He
was dead set on havin' the lot to fill in
the chinks of the two car loads he was
shippin so | up and let's him have
em. | showed him this here bill-o'
sale from Yellow Wolf and made him
out one from me, and that was al
there was to 1t. He rode to Velper
and turned on my trail"
It was straight story, and appar
emily damaging for the prosecution, II
corroborated the attestatlons OF othel
witnesses-many others. 1t had q
plausible ring to It. Two bills Of sale
radiated atmospheric legality. II there
had been dirty work 1t must have orig
inted with that renegade halfbreed
Yellow Wolf And Yellow Wolf wal
dead He had died while serving {
term in the pententiary for cattle
rustling, Uncle Sam himself had Sc
the seal upon him-and now he wal
dead This insinuated charge h'
could not answer. The finality of i
seemed to set its stamp upon the peo
Pile gathered there-upon the IL gooC
men and true. as we'll as upon others
Yellow Wolf was dead. George VII
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