Bisbee daily review., 1909-06-18
SHORT STORIES
 By Various Authors
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 The warden's leather strap feii on the prisoners white flesh and red | headed 64S, face downward on the l floor. a conyict holding each arm and ! ieg. writhed Tn agopy.
 Wing. the giant black trusty. the prison doctors stable boz. had seen 1t, and glitter of intense hate flashed in his eye as he turned away nut tering:
 "He tried to get away. Tonight I'm goin and I'll stay gone, or"
 'Oh Wing. Wing" called baby voice back of the trusty. and "Dr. Pills" the fve-year-old pet of the prison. son of the doctor. came run ming up to the black.
 The hunted gleam vanished, . soft light came in its place.
 Wing" fed the doctors horses. drove the COWS in from the pasture. hitched the visiting preachers mule to the buggy and left in direction of the prison. But he dodged into a side path lead ing toward the swampy creek, and stopped before a huge tree. He ! thrust his arm into a hollow and drew forth bundle. l It contained trousers, shirt. soft i hat. cheap revolver. some cartridges. a long knife. stale food and little money. The collection had taken him months.
 Soon. rock weighted, his prison gar ments lay at the bottom of . deep pool.
 Southward the Alabama river. north ' ward Birmingham. Skilled by virtue of many sham escapes" in evading | the stockade bloodhounds he waded into the creek | Free. Free, Before him the sweet smelling woods. glorious in dogwood blossoms and honeysuckle. Behind were prison bars, 7o-vear sentence and a beating.
 Wing" fondled his revolver. He would never go back,
 "Dr. Pills" had disappeared. Bedtime came at the doctors house and still no sign of the boy, The prison was alarmed. Likewise the village near, but no one had seen "Dr. Pills.''
 The stable boy was called for at the prison. The astonished reply was that when the count had been made the guard thought Wing" at the doc tors, detained as he sometimes was, after hours So Wing" had escaped. "Dr. Pills missing. too, Il Had he been murdered? Kidnapped Past midnight. Wing still keep ing to tho shallow stream. stumbled i. on
 l gained the most dismal spot In all tn,
 untrod swamp. and here he might res l, for day. then leisurely make hi! Q way
 Suddenly he stopped and listened |. He thought he heard a voice like th, :? vail of child. There, It cam | again. and so weird was it out ther r. in the swamp Wing heard his owl n heart beat. Q Again il came-a child weepin
 surely as sim gl He waded in to the bank. callin ,r softly. and instantly glad cry al s swered:
 "oh. Wing. I'm so glad, kne, 4. you'd come."
 '.Dr Pills, by" he mutte,ed
 To leave the child there he kne-
 meant its death. But 1t was not hi 's funeral. Should he take him bacl " himself to be beatene To serve hi v 20 years more? To give up his ire, lo dom for which he had planned s
 long
 Never.
 Please take me on your shoulde y Wing" pleaded the baby voice. ri h. So sfraid."
 "why'n thunder didn't you he D ie gan. surlily, but ended with: How le you gil heah2" nj ~I crawled up in the back of u ed preachers buggy and went to slee 1T. When woke up I was skeered awf re and just jumped out and started 5as as along the creek, an'-an'-that's all Ills ''lt was a pig trail. honey Pills. a
 hit don't go no whar. You never SC, eli dis path befo." he The first lights of rosy dawn sh ou athwart the low country and touch,
 the mists that f.ing low and whi vel above the creek. The hounds h. ou failed. Wing" was gone and T
 PlIs" with him. ut Tine doctor ard his wife were Ter side themselves with grief. af Suddenly the dogs whining in 1;
 yard sent up bay. and a nome lif- later tall. tattersd. wet, muddy a ri scTatchcd-up black. sleeping child
 his arms. staggered up the walk. t ,.t hounds knowing, him. leapins joyfu
 i about him. Doctor. warden. prison guar =. ndehbors, started with amazemc "a while the mother with a glad cry T
 forward. T fetch i'm back. missy" Wing m "a mured, and sank exhausted on steps. 'Tn take my whuppin'."
 But he never it.