The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-08-30
Her Brother
BY ROBERT L. JAYNES
Copyright. 1910. by American Press
Association

stage one evenin' and put up at the
tavern. The next mornin' she come
into my store and tole me she'd come
out from the east to find employment.
She couldn't stenograph or typewrite.
II she could she needn't have come
away from home, but she could keep
cash account. sell goods and do any
ordinary work about the store. She
was a mighty trim little body, and
tole her she'd better git married and
let the other feller do the work; but
she larfed and said 1t TUX two to make
a match. TUX her in for help, think
in II she turned out as we'll as she
looked I wouldn't mind maxim TIA
other one Of the two.
But 1t soon appeared that she wasn't
goin' to turn out as well as she looked.
First thing ] knowed a feller came
into the store to see her that looked
like road agent They seemed to be
mighty familiar and did lot o. talkin'
in the back o. the store while was
engaged waitin' on a customer in the
front. When the feller went out 1
said to the young woman. says /:
"Rosy'-that was her name-"if you're
cahoots with a gang O. robbers the
sooner you git out the better"
"Oh. that feller was all right" she
said.
"Who is he?"
"Why, he's my brother"
"Your brothery' says, turnin' away
from her contemptuously. IF that's
the kind Of family y belong to. don't
think much of yer stock"
There was nothin' more said about It
at the time, but l done up a lot O.
tbinkin'. Fust off / thort I'd better
give the young woman the grand
bounce, but | didn't know whether she
was up to anything or not. and if she
wasn't so much use about the store-I
didn't have SO very much for her to do
but I'd got hankerin' after her.
Well, the next thing that happened
looked kind o. suspicious. | was layin'
one night on q settle In the back O. the
store when l heered somethin' rattlin'
at the front door. l jlst reached back
under piller, tuck my weepon and let
drive through the panel l heered a
yell an, goln' to the door. listened.
Not hearin' anything more. I opened
the door and by the light of match I
struck saw drops o. blood leadin' away.
calc'lated I'd hit some un' who was
goin' to rob the store.
Wal, this thing comm so soon after
the visit of Rosy's brother. 1 didn't
know what to think about 1t. ] noticed
when I tole her about 1t she looked
kinder quar-.
Hope he warn't yer brother" said
to her, an 1 thort she was goin' to
faint. Seem it bothered her to talk
about 1t didn't say nothin' more, and
after awhile she righted, though for
few days she didn't look very cheerful.
But one day the feller that she said
was her brother come In. He looked
kind o. white in the face. He talked
with Rosy awhile an went out.
Reckon yer brothers been SICK"
says, a-sympathizin' with her.
"Yes," she says, "he has"
"What's he do fer a livin'T
"He amt doin' nothin' jist now. I'm
tryin' to git place fer him. Trades
mighty brisk lately. Don't yer think
y need shippin' clerk?"
81 don't think / do"
1 wondered If she thort / was soft
enough to believe the feller was her
| brother and out of employment. l
reckoned he wasn't employed, except
when he was holdin' up a coach or
somepin like that. And I reckoned
she'd have to do lot O. coaxen to git
me to take in a man to work who'd
| tried to rob me and I'd winged when
he was startin' in to do it.
But we men are kind O. quar- IS well
as the wimmen. One day the feller
come into the store in a hurry. Rosy
was there and turned pale. He said
somep'n to her quick, and she p'inted
under the counter. He ducked just in
time to dodge the sheriff, who come
runnin' in with weepon in one hand
and par O. bracelets in t'other. Rosy
she stood up agin the counter right
where the feller wor hid.
Emmy one come in here" asked the
sheriff.
Now, I'm a-goin' to explain why we
men is quar- as well as the wimmen.
Rosy she give me jist one look. She
might as well have sent few ounces
o. lead at me, so far as my doin' emmy
interference was concerned.
"Haint seen no one" l says, talkin'
parrot-like, jest as Rosy wanted me to.
singular; / thort 1 had him cor
nered."
He was out in jitfy. and when the
danger was past Rosy put the feller in
a back office I had my boots in and
called me In too.
you're trumpw she says.
"And yer brothers the knave,"
says, replyin'.
She could scacely keep from larfin'
at my joke. But she didn't She tole
me the feller wor reely her brother,