Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-26

your gold! Where is the precious bags'
gold for the sake of the girl.
It's on the ground there, said to
Balser Hand it to me-
I'm carry it, said the girl. Balser
handed her the bag. and l said to him:
Now you go ahead as fast as you
wish, and We'll follow as fast as we can.
No. I'll stay with you, he responded
but why you want to take the girl with
us is more than l can understand
"You have no need to understand l
answered holly. You mind your own
business and 60 your own way, and we'll
take care of ourselves!
az wouldn't leave you, Tom Andy
Bill, said Balser, if knew I'd be full of
bullets before sun-up. Then was sorry
/ had spoken angrily.
more on the Michigan road, travelling
toward home at fine pace. We left
our wagon and harness in exchange for
the girl: Balser thought we had made a
poor trade; but l was more than salts
fied.y Later on in life IL But that's no
part of this story.
TWELVE hours afterward Balser and
L two mud covered, half dead speci-
mems of humanity alighted in front of
my fathers cabin on Blue. Perhaps you
think we were not glad to get home
Rapid explanations followed, and l was
not quite sure that father and mother
looked on the girl and wagon trade with
all the favor that it found IN my eyes;
but after the mud had been washed from
Mab's face, and after she had put on one
of nv sisters dresses, her beauty shone
with such luster that mother kissed her.
when l told mother how Nab had
saved Our lives and our gold, the dear old
mother kissed her again, and told Nab
she should be another daughter in the
house A great deal of rapid talking
followed, and our adventure with the
robbers was told with all the exciting
detail that could furnish. The gold, of
course, was mentioned frequently, and
after little time father said:
"Where is the money, Tom Andy Bill
"'There it is said /, pointing to the
sack on the table.
Father lifted the sack and said, It's
powerful heavy. Did you get it all for
the furs7'
YES answered
Then he united the mouth of the sack
and poured out-a great pile of bullets.
NAB looked at the bullets. Her big
eyes opened in momentary surprise, and
then she sent forth the merriest peal OF
laughter you ever heard.
'"Don't say word,' said l, and to tell
YOU the truth it was hard for me to keep
from laughing You see, we had brought
home the girl, and l thought that any
sort of exchange for her was good trade.
"Balser walked up and down the room
for a moment, and then said with deter
mination, Wen go back to the swamp
and get that gold Just as sure as live,
I'll do It'll Well have it within a month!
81 hope you're right, said l.
WIE did go back with posse of twenty
w five deputy United States marshals.
The Government wanted The Wolves un-
der an indictment against them for hav
ing robbed the mails Balser and l got
our gold, being able to identify it in the
little sack in which we had received it.
The deputy marshals captured great
deal of other gold and plumber, all of
which was confscated.
"Old Polly Wolf and the two women
captured in the swamp were taken to
Cincinnati, where Polly died in jail. Even
though she was in jail, more than hum
bred miles away from Blue River, she
made trouble for me that resulted in the