The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-06-29
to tell his story and stumbled On III

What happened them"
est went back to the camp, salo
Maitland I'VE loaded NeWbold on
mule and took him with us; ne was
SO crazy he didn't know what was
happening; he went over the snootlng
again and again in his dellrlum. IL
was awful"
did he die?" .... ....
81 don't think So" was the answer,
but really l know nothing further
about him. There were some good
women in that camp; we put him IN
their hands and l left shortly AFTER
wards"
AZ kin tell the rest" said old Kirk
by. KNOWN more about the noun
tains than most people hereabouts
led the men that didn't go back with
Bob an Newbold to the place were
he said his woman fell, an there we
found her, her body leastWays.
"But the wolves?" queried the girl.
He'd drug her into kind OF a
boiler and piled rocks over her. He'd
gone down into the canon, wien was
something frightful, an then climbed
up to were she'd lodged. We hao
plenty Of rope, hayin' brought 1t along
a purpose, an we let ourselves down
to the shelf where she was lynn.
We wrapped her body up in blankets
an roped it an finally drug her up
on the old Injun trail, leastWays L sup
nose it was made afore there was any
Injuns, an brought her back to Ever
green camp, witch the only thing about
it that was green was the swing doors
on the saloon We got parson out
| from Denver an give her Christian
burial"
rs that all?" asked Enid as the old
man paused again"
Nope"
ooh, the man." exclaimed the Wom-
an with quick intuition.
"He recovered his senses so they
told us, an we'en We got back he'd
| gone"
"Where?" was the instant question.
Old Kirkby stretched out his hands.
Don't ak me- lie said, he'd jest
gone. / amt nevd seed or heerd OF
him sence. Poor liakle Louise Rosser,
. she did have haral time"
eyes, said Enid .'but think the
man had a harder time than she. He
loved her?''
I sit looked like it." answered K1rkby
.If you had seen him, his remorse
his anguish, his horror said Matt
land. ''you wouldn't hare had any
doubt about 1t. But it is getting late
In the mountains everybody gets vi
| at daybreak. Your sleeping bags arr
in the tents, ladies': time to go t.
bed"
AS the party broke up, old Kirkb,
rose slowly to his feet; he looke'
meaningly toward the young woman
upon whom the spell of the TRACED
still fingered, he nodded toward tn
young brook, and then repeated nj
speaking glance at her. His meanin
was patent, although no one else ha
seen the covert invitation.
Come Kirkby," said the girl !
i, quick response, you shall be my e.
5 cort. l want drink before turn il
No, never mind" she said, as Brat
] shaw and Philips both volunteered
mot this time
!, The old frontiersman and the youn
), girl strolled off together. They sto
q ped by the brink of the rushing to
rent a few yards away. The no1s
s that it made drowned the low tones
r their voices and kept the others, bus
preparing to retire, from hearing VIII
they said.
That amt quite all the story, MI
Enid said the old trapper meaningl
There was another man..
t. What" exclaimed the girl.
d "Oh, there wasn't nothin' Wrol
II with Louise Rosser, witch she W
1t Louise Newbold. but there was
other man; l suspected it afore, thai
III why she was sad. Wen we found h
ID body knowed it"
Il don't understand"
I'd ''These'll explain" said Kirkby
drew out from his rough hunting &C
a package of soiled letters; they we
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a tied with faded ribbon. You se
e- he continued, holding them IN
as hand yet carefully concealing the
n from the people at the fire. wv
ly she fell off the cliff-somehoW
1T mule lost his foot1n', nobody ne'
knowed how, leastways the mule
nd dead an couldn't tell-she struck
a spur or shelf about hundred L
ul- below the brink; evidently she v
Sc carryin' the letters in her dress. +
Of bosom was frightfully tore open
I'm the letters was lynn there. NeWp
didn't see EN-, because he went 40
to into the canon an came up to
us shelf, or butte head, Were the o.
was lynn, but We dropped down
s." was the first man down an got
ey Nobody else seem me, an there a
ire no human eyes, not even my WI
tty that's ever looked on them letters
els cept mine and now yourn."
rn You are going to give them
me?"