The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1910-11-01
CHAPTER V.-Continued,

II have heard papa say that life is
short and the tenure of Office uncer-
tain. | can remove you at any time
| please. Now do you understand that
this is a serious business? There's
likely to be lot of trouble, and no
time for asking questions, so when l
say it's so it's so.'
ITS So" repeated Ardmore do
rilely.
Nov, here's the sheriff at Kildare,
on our side of the line, who writes
to say that he is powerless to catch
Appleweight. He's afraid OF the
dark, that man! You see, the grand
jury in Dilwell county-that's Kill
dare, you know-has indicted Apple
weight as a common outlaw, but the
grand jurors were all friends of Ap-
pleweight aod the indictment was
only to satisfy law-and-order senti-
ment and appease the Woman's Civic
league of Raleigh. Now, papa doesn't
i mean | don't want to offend those
Appleweight people by meddling in
this business. Papa wants Gov. Os-
borne to arrest Appleweight in South
Carolina; but I don't believe Gov Os-
borne will dare do anything about It.
Now, Mr.. Ardmore, | am not going to
have papa called a coward by any
body, particularly by South Carolina
people. after what Gov. Osborne said
of our state"
"Why, what did he say"
"He said in a speech at Charleston
last winter that no people who fry
their meat can ever amount to any
thing, and he meant us. can never
forgive him for that; besides, his
daughter is the stuck-upest thing
And I'd like Barbara Osborne to tel
me how she got into the Colonia
Danes, and what call she has to b'
inspector general of the Granddaught
ers Ct the Mexican War; for Tv'
heard my grandfather Dangerheld sa!
many a time that old Col. osborne
and his South Carolina regiment neve
did go outside of Charleston until tn
war was over and the American arm.
had come back home"
Gov. Osborne is a contemptibl
ruffian." declared Ardmore. with dee
| feeling
Miss Dangerfield nodded judicia
approval, and settled back in her chai
the better to contemplate her neN
secretary. and said:
| ,.,,tfap-that
wrote before he went away, stron
letter to Gov. Osborne, complainin
that Appleweight was hiding in Sout
Carolina and running across the stat
line to rob and murder people
North Carolina. Papa told Gov. o.
borne that he must break up the Al
nleweight crowd or he would do SOM
thing about it himself. It's splendi
letter: YOU would think that even
coward like Gov. Osborne would d
something after getting such a lie
ter"
"Didn't he answer the letter.
answer it? He never got it! p
ma didrt send it; that's the reason
Papas the kindest man in the worl
and he must have been afraid OF hur
ing Gov. Osborne's feelings. He wro
tbe letter. expecting to send it, b.
when ne went off to New Orleans
told Mr.. Bassford to hold it till he g
back. He had even signed lt-ye
can read it if you like
It was undoubtedly a vigoro'
enistle. and Ardmore felt the thrill
ire rhetorical sentences as he rea
The dignity and authority of one
the sovereign American states WI
represented here. and he handed II
raner back to Miss Dangerfield
tenderly as though it had been u
original draft of Magma Charta.
"It's a corker, all right"
81 don't much like the way it enc
n saws. right here"-and she bent fe
ward and pointed to the place und
critic,sm-''it says, Trusting to 20
senss of equity. and relying upon
continuance of the traditional frien
shin between your state and mine,
am. sir. awaiting your reply, We
respectfully. your obedient servan
low I wouldn't trust to his sense
,nvthing and that traditional trier