Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-04-07

AAe AIaoe a clean
all right"
And then we hurried on as E.
We could, 1t becoming harder OH
time because the snow was Nj
away the tracks.
Now 1t led us downward again
| where, do you think? Right haoI,
the road not quarter of a milo g
where we had taken it. and thai
the end!
Dead-beat and disguised We nv,
| into Forest Hill late at night or5
most the first man we met Voc y
Pape. He was in his usual tough \,
for the express-receipt he had was .;
ply at owners risk" ne being ma
to afford insurance. We all felt so1
because he was a bully good folIN
and couldn't afford the loss.
Poor as he was though. it was
who, from his nearly empty poke i
in the first dust to the contribution
raised that night in the Miners, :.
light for the widow and the little an
We took it to her the next day RiN
the sheriff and I, and gave her Il
heartbreaking news that there was,x
a chance in a thousand for our ars
recovering the little fortune she h
lost and which would have made h
independent. It seemed like a MOI
cry to take her name and address
The only satisfaction I felt that Id
was when l learned that the Gent
Annie people who had jumped Bill
claim had also shipped at their ov
risk and couldn't claim a cent from ri
express company That looked III
Justice! We started the widow n
and headed for home, when away N
went on another chase.
Incomprehensible as 1t seemed Blaci
Bart had got across the canon som.
way and had stuck up the Placeryilll
stage. He must have gone fast anil
been making a wholesale Job, WI
thought. Everybody went wild. wi
were small army, with Bill Pane II
the lead, when we joined the PLACED
Vile boys and started in to scour thai
country; but it was all useless. BlacI
Bart got away again.
Just as Christmas came on ton n
us we did get one good piece of news
Bill Pape got decision from thl
higher court giving him back the Gen
tie Annie, and the fellows who had
jumped it, with all their men, wert
marched out of the camp without
friend. We all stood around not say
ing much when they went, trudgins
down the road in sullenness, knowing
we hated them and were glad they
had gained nothing for all their Ell
fort. They had even lost what they
cleaned up, and the road-agent was
the richer Bills Christmas-eve cele
bration was a bowler that went down
into camp history, and we let him
know how glad we were that it had
come his way at last.
But now here's the funny part about
all this. On Christmas day got my
poke back, unopened, and this note;
For certain reasons which aren't any Of
your business, I don't want your money
SO I'm sending it back. BLACK BART.
1t was sent from Sacramento. had
to go down there about New Years to
meet my Fan Tan owner, who sold me
a partnership and gave me a good
time. We tried to get clue to Black
Bart, but couldn't 1t was in the ex
press Office that l went digging
through my pockets and happened to
run across the widows address, and
it being the holidays, and l feeling
kind of holidayish, thought I'd call on
her.
I found her all right and almost
the first thing she said to me was:
Look here. l want to show you some
thing 1 got a few days ago"
And then she fished out a note and
l read:
Dear Madam: I don't rob widows when
I can help it. The Gentle Annie cleanup
was good enough for me. I'm sending
back all I took from you, but don't tel
ANYBODY. BLACK BART.
Say, you could have knocked ne
down with a pine-needle. The hana'
writing was the same sent me, anu
her money had been delivered by d
messenger. I tried again to find TINS
philanthropic stage-robber, but WaSteU
my time.
When I got back to Forest Hlll .
told Bill Pape, and he said he guessed
he'd take try as he wanted that Gen'
tie Annie dust if it could be touna' ~
away he went. Well, he kept gong
to Sacramento all winter and up "
the time when the spring came anu
the snow melted
Early in the summer went u 9 ,,t
Francisco for some things | couiOn
get in Sacramento, and while IheI'
got a letter from Bill asking me - I,
bring some supplies up for hLn,
did, and on the day I landed IN Foio 1;,
Hill went out on the sunni up ca
through the trees to Bills caoln S ~
called him outside with HVlo'lH
there!" 4,iro
"Bill." I said, there's some'nlnS
mighty singular about this no'S w.
sent me-" apIacs