The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1912-02-16


me all about II, They dug up tho
bodies, but niver thing did they fint
on 'em--not a paper. nor a dollar
They'd bin robbed all roight. The
ovid Ginerai swore loike wild mon
all the way back Tommy said, an
the 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
gone away trapsing after a singin OF
dancln' gyurl called Christie Maclaire
She was supposed to be ayther al
Topeky or Sheridan. A frelghter told
the ovid man she was at Sheridan, an
so he started there overland. hopin
ter head oh Black Bart Oh reckon
we could towld morn that"
what do you meant"
why shure, honey, what's the use
tryin' ter decave me? Didn't Jack
Keith, wild his own lips, tell me ye
was Christie Maclaire?"
"But I'm mott I'm not, Mrs. Muir
ply. don't even know tho woman.
II Is such a 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 didn't only | sup
posed hs finally understood. But /
want you to believe. Mrs Murphy
| am Hope Waite. and not Christie
MaclalreY
It's little the loss 10 ye not ter be
her, an oi'm thinhn loikely Jack
Keith win be molghty well plased ter
know the truth. What's Black Bart
so ayger ter Kit hold av this Maclaire
gyurl ferH"
Il do not IN the least know. he
must have induced me to go to that
place In the desert believing me to b.
the other woman, Yet he said moth
ing OF any purpose; indeed, he founc
no opportunity"
Mrs Murphy shook her head dis.
paragingly
1T was shure some divliment," she
asserted. stoptly Hen be up To-
some trick Wild the poor gyurl; OF
know the loikes av him. shure. the
two av yen must look rs much aloike
as two pages in pod Loikely now.
It's twin sister we've goti"
Hope smiled, although her eyes
we're misty.
oh. no; Fred and were the only
children; but what shall | dol What
ought to do?"
The Irish mouth OF Kate Murphy
set firmly. her blue eyes burning.
ats not sthrong OF am on advisin,"
she said. shortly. but II It was me
ord be fer foindin' out what all this
nix-up was about There's somethin
moighy quare in Il It's my notion
that Hawleys got hold NV thin papers
av yer fathers. The ovid gint thinks
10. too. an that's why he's so hot
afther eatohin him May the divil
me av OF know where this
Maolaire gyurl comes in. but oill bet
the black divll has get her marked
fer some part in the play. What
would OF dor Be goory. ord 20 to
an foind the Gineral an
III him all know Maybe he could
piece It together. and guess what
Hawisy was up ter"
Hope was already upor her feet,
Ter puzzled face Frightening,
"Oh. that Is what wanted 10 do.
mt WIS not sure 4 would be best
low can ! set thete from herel"
"Ye'd have ter take the stage back
% TopeEy. loikely they'd be runnin'
hrains out from there on the new
'oad. TIN be aisy fer me ter foind
'ut IRON some av the lads down be-
ow."
The only equipment operating into
Sheridan was construction train,
With an old battered passenger coach
COUPLED TO the rear a squad oil
heavily armed infantry rode along, as
protection against possible Indian
aiders, but there was DO crowd
board on this special UP, as ali
work had been suspended
N the line indefinitely. and most OF
he travel therefore. had changed to
he eastward Tho coach used had |
partition run through II, and, as
Don as tho busy tEainmen discovered
aides on board, they unceremoniously
rove the more bibulous passengers,
rotesting into tho, forward compart.
lent This left Hope In comparative
eace. her remaining neighbors quiet,
aciturn men, whom she looked at
trough the folds OF her veil during
be 'iong. slow. exasperating Journey
ientally guessing at their. various oc-
upauons. II was an exceedingly Nedi.
us. monotonous trip. the train slack.
ming up, and jerking forward, appar-
ntly without -slightest reason; then
OCCASIONALLY achieving full Nstop,
lille men, always uIider guard, went
head to nx up some bit OF damaged
'ack, across which tho engineer
AIRED not advance. At each bridge
,anning the NUMEROUS small. streams.
ainmen. examined the. structure be-
IRE venturlng forward. and at each
-op the wearied passengers grew
ore impatient and sarcastic. a per
'ct stream OF fluent proianlt, being
afted hack wheneHer the door be
'een the two sections CHANGED to be
II aJar.
Hope was not the only woman on