The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-12-01
ocopyriEnt 4 c. McclurE = Co. iSiA.
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ovid Gineral swore loike Q wild mon
al tho wav hack Tommy said. an
Tho first thing he did at Carson City
was to start huntin' fer Black Bart.
He was two days gittin' on the trail
Nv him: then he heard the Teller was
rome way trapsing after a singin' or
dancin' gyurl called Christie Maclaire.
She was supposed to be ayther at
Topeky or Sheridan. A freighter told
the ovid man she was at Sheridan, an
90 he started there overland, hopin'
tor head on Black Bart OF reckon
we could . towld morn that"
what do you mean?'
why shure. honey. what's the use
tryin' ter decave me? Didn't Jack
Keith, Wild his own lips. tell me -
was Christie Maclairs?"
But I'm not! I'm not, Mrs. Muir
phy. don't sven know the woman.
It il such . strange thing; cannot
account for it-both those men mis-
took me- for her, and-and let them.
didn't care who the man Hawley sup
posed me to be, but ! intended to have
told Mr.. Keith he was mistaken. !
, don't know why l didn't, only sup
| posed he finally understood. But
want you to believe. Mrs. Murphy
am Hope Waite. and not Christie
| M~aclairs."
'It's little the loss to ye not ter be
her, an Ohm thinkin' loiksly Jack
Keith wilr b. moighty well plased ter
know the truth. What's Black Bart
so ayger ter git hold Nv this Maclaire
: gyurl fer?"
Il do not in the least know. He
must have induced mi to 60 to that
/, place In the desert believing me to b
the other woman Yet he said moth
! Ing Of any purpose; indeed, he found.
no opportunity"
Mrs. Murphy shook her head dis
p~araginsly,
1T was shurs some divilment." she
/, asserted, stoutly. Hell be up to
5onas trick wild the poor gyurl: OF
know the loikes Nv him. Shure, the
two Nv ysx must look a. much aloike
~ two pages In . pod. Loikely now.
it's q twin sister we've got?"
Hope smiled, although her eyes
were misty,
"Oh. no; Fred and l were the only
children; but what shall ! do? What
ought l to dol"
The Irish mouth of Kate Murphy
set firmly, her blue eyes burning.
TITS not sthrong OF am on advisin',"
she said. shortly. "but II It vas me
ORD b fer foindin' out what all this
mix-up was about. There's somethin'
moighty Quare In 1t. It's my notion
that Hawley's got hold av thin papers
av yer fathers. The ovid gint thinks
go. too, an that's why he's so hot
afther catchin' him. May the divil
admoire me Az OF know where this
Maalaire gyuri in, but Oil bet
the black dfvil has get her marked
fer some part in the play. What
would OF do? Be goory, Old 60 to
Sheridan, an foind the Gineral. an
till him all l knew. Maybe he could
piece 1t together, and guess what
Hawley was up ter"
I, Hope was already upon her feet.
her puzzled face Frightening.
"Oh, that is what I wanted to do.
but I wal not sure it would be best.
How can l get there from here9"
"Ye'd have ter take the stage back
to Topeky; loikely they'd be runnin'
thrains out from there on the new
road. ItU be aisy fer me ter foind
out from some ~ the lads down be-
low"
The only equipment operating into
Sheridan was . construction train.
with an old battered passenger coach
coupled to the A squad OF
heavily armed infantry rode along, 10
protection against possible Indian
raiders. but there was no crowd
aboard on this special trip. a. all
construction work had been suspended
on the line Indefinitely. and most OF
the travel, therefore, had changed to
the eastward. The coach used had
. partition run through 1t, and, rs
soon Is the busy trainmen discovered
ladies on board, they uneeremoniously
drove the more bibulous passengers.
protesting, into the forward compart-
mont This left Hope in comparative
peace. her remaining neighbors quiet,
taciturn men, whom she looked at
through the folds OF her veil during
the long, slew, exaspsrating journey,
mentally guessing ut their various oc-
equations. 1t wa an exceedingly tsdi
Gus, monotonous trip. the train slack.
ening UP, and jerking forward. appar.
emily without slightest reason: then
occasionally achieving . full stop.
while men, always under guard, went
ahead to Ak up some bit Of damaged
track, cro which the engineer
dared not Advance. Al each bridge
spanning the numerous small streams,
trainmen examined the structure be-
fore ventuFing forward, and at each
stop the wesried passengers grew
more impatient and sarcastic, : per-
feet stream Of fluent profanity being
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