The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-04


she had deceived so many others.
But these two were not making love.
Devarges had arrived quite ac-
cidentally. having been engaged by the
Donna Dolores Safvatierra to find out
about the holders of the Conroy milne.
Ramirez. hiding behind a tree. was
held suddenly In q mighty grip. He
was jerked backward to see the eyes
OF Gabriel Conroy looking into his.
When Mrs. Conroy returned to the
house. she had but one thought. 1t
was to coax Gabriel to 60 East with
her Immediately that he might not dis
cover her true character. After all her
years OF intrigue for wealth. she had
come to this--that for love Of q simple.
rude man she was willing to give up
everything else.
To her surprise she found Gabriel
with his old miners pack. His clothes
were his old rough miners blouse and
boots. When he saw her. he began
apologeticaify: This contains, ma am,
only my old dudsf I'll open Il EFF you
say so; but you know me we'll enough.
ma am. to allow that III take nothin'
out of this house or didn't. bring into
She tried sto.sAy something. but her
voice failed. He went on: ..ee
II was on the hiil this fnornin'. I
seed ye with stranger. Them seed
q chap dodgin' around behind the trees
spyin' on ye. laid my hand onto him.
ana he stayed" III
= There was something so unconscious
iy large and fine in the slight gesture
Of the great fellows hand that his
wife was thrilled by It.
"Wot thet man said to me, bein' flus-
tered and sayage-like along o. bein'
chicken hard. amt fur me to say. That
II wuz the truth, I read in your face
now, ma am. I've drawed up a little
paper here ez I'll hand over to q law
yer, gfvin' you all as had here or
ever expect TO have. don't agree with
that Mexican that 1t belongs to me be-
cause II was given to my sister Grace
by your husband. And II that child
Is alive, don't think that she'd tech
1t either"
She wanted to throw herself at his
feet. embrace hts knees and beg him
to stay with her. But she could not
move or speak. Al the door he turned
once more. and her heart beat as It
had never beat before in all her adven-
turous life. But all he said was. fall
tefingly: arts
wherever I'VE been, rye aiwuz kept
a place ready for Grace. II she should
ever come here. I-I--shouldn't like ye
to turn. that innocent, unsuspecting
child away from the house tibet she
might take to be mine. Ye needn't let
on, about anything that's goneEbut
Just take her in and send for me.
Lawyer Maxwell will gin We my ad-
dress"
She held out her arms and began to
speak. but he was gone.
At 10 o'clock on the second night
after Gabriel's departure he sat beside
the Sheriff of Caiaveras county. a
prisoner in the upper story OF the
court house In e-Horse Gulch,
charged with the murder of Victor
Ramirez. who had been found under
the pines with knife In his heart.
Men had seen him throttiing the
Mexican: others had seen him leaving
his house soon afterward dressed in
found dead next morning almost in the
spot where he and Gabriel had been
seen. a posse followed at once. They
caught up with him at the next settle
ment and he returned quietly.
During the next few hours mounted
men began to drop into the town and
the word was passed around that the
Vigiiantes had arrived. No one knew
that their coming was simultaneous
with some telegraphing that Mr.. Dunn
ply had done. when he heard of the
murder
One by one the sheriffs posse left
him. At last the sheriff sat alone with
his charge, deserted but defiant, be-
hind barricaded doors with pistols in
his belt and no hope in his heart, with
only one idea---to die behind those bars
in defense of his prisoner, whom II
was his duty to keep for trial
Suddenly he said: Listen! They
are coming"
Gabriel nodded and said TRANQUILITY:
Don't you do anything ez will git We
into trouble on my account. But II We
do-feei obligated. why. I'm with We.
I'm thar! You understand met"
There was a roar and rsuh at the
door below. From the landing the two
yield bit by bit. Gabriel gathered all
HIS strength and pushed the long
heavy courtroom table down the mar
row stairway as a barricade. AS the
door fell inward he dropped beneath
the table ana waited. The lynchers
rushed upstairs. stopped a moment at
the barricade and then swarmed on It
As II by it's own volition the long table
reared itself on end. staged a moment
and then fell backward with its human
burden on the heads below.
The modern Samson stepped back
calmly into the room. The two men
barred the great door again AMI ran
for the gallery under the skyiiRht with
a rope by which they intended to lower
themselves down the rear of the build
ing from the roof in a desperate effort
at escape.
Suddenly they reeled and pi.ohed
against each other The heavy. chan
.felIer fell with n c-a-h r.n-'or =,