The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-10-11

A posse consisting of a sheriff and
three men were climbing a canyon in
Colorado. The canyon came to an end
a few hundred yards above them in
pocket, from which there appeared to
be no egIess, the sides being perpen-
dicular.
81 she men eame to q little
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the boiling mannfain stream ziezse
doMp the canyon a woman. slat7s
ternly, i'll favored creature with tous-
sled hair, was standing beside board
supported by stakes driven into the
ground just outside the door washing
dishes.
as this Jaycox's cabin?" asked the
sheriff
Eyes. What dye want with him?"
Were prospectors and have heard
that he has struck paying dirt in a
hole hereabout. We wouldn't mind
putting up some cash to work it If 1t
looks WE'LL
Better have nothin' to do with Bill
Jaycox. He'd get yer money, and you
wouldn't get anything"
The sheriff pricked up his ears at
this, wondering If the woman could be
used to help him land a man wanted
for horse stealing.
"Oh, that's the kind of man be Is,
Is it?''
"There hain't no meaner galoot than
Bill Jaycox on this side of the divide.
He's treated me brutal ever since
come yere to live with him. As soon
as gifts these dishes washed I'm goin'
to dig out and leave him to git on
alone. There's nothin' mean about me.
I'll leave things to rights"
whats he been dom to your
'Look a-here," said the woman, pull
ing up the sleeves of her dress and
showing on her arm recent bruise,
then pulling her dress down over her
shoulder and showing another bruise
on her back. "What dye think of
that?''
Up to this moment the sheriff feared
that the woman was playing part,
with view to aiding Jaycox to get
away from them, but this evidence
that the man and the woman were not
living happily together convinced him
that he had found her at an opportune
moment TO make her useful. Doubt
less she wished to be revenged for the
brutal treatment she had received, and
an appeal to her cupidity as well would
help the matter. The relationship be-
tween Jaycox and the woman was
common one among certain rough per
sons who inhabited the mountains at
that day. A woman, usually Of very
low grade, would take up with des-
perado, live with him as long as she
could stand his cruelty, then leave him.
"Do you want to make some money!
asked the sheriff, pulling handful OF
glittering gold pieces from his pocket
and exhibiting them temptingly. He
was watching the woman's eye and
saw coyetousness in it. If you'll turn
Jaycox over to us I'll give you ten of
these; they're SIS each.'
''I'm powerful bad off for money"
replied the woman thoughtfully. II
dunno where I'm goin' to get bite to
eat when I leave yere end there's
nOrnm 10 taKe with me. + suppose
you wouldn't pay before you git jay
cox, would yep
mo. / wouldn't like to do that, but
II you agree I'll give you one Of 'em to
bind the bargain"
The woman held a yellow dish in her
bands Miping it and thinking. "Ef he
hadn't said Whist he did to me before
he went away wouldn't do it,
where is hep
up there motioning in the direcE
ton OF the pocket.
SIS there any outlet?"
Zone. Only he and me knows it,
Suppose you go to him, pretend to
make up your quarrel with him and
bring him back. Well hide and take
him In"
Il don't know as 1 kin find him."
"Oh, yes, you can Just as soon as
we git him I'll give you the rest OF the
money"
The mention Of the gold appeared to
decide the woman.
"He may be up the canyon, and he
may have gone down. I'll go up, and
II i uOA uAo I'LL ~ 0OWhs Any
way, I'll git him for you"
Putting the dishes in the cabin, she
started of. Most of the time she was
hidden from their view, but at times
they could see her climbing over a
rock Half an hour passed and she
did not return. From the cabin they
could see any one who moved out Of
the canyon, and one of the party was
deputed to watch. Presently they saw
the woman passing down. They hail
ed her, but instead Of replying she
simply waved her hand to them and
passed on.
An hour passed, and the sheriff, be-
coming impatient, started with his men
up the canyon. There was no egress.
When they had gone as far as pos
sfble they saw their quarry sitting on
a stone smoking a cob pipe. They
called on him to surrender, which he
lid.
by thunder" exclaimed one Of the
men who had approached the horse
thief with pair of handouts, "it's the
woman
And SO it was. She had exchanged
clothes with Jaycox, and it was he who
had passed down the canyon.
do you think, sheriff." asked one
of the men, "that 1t was put up job
on us from the firstw
mo; don't think that What l
think is-weil, you never can tell just
what a woman Is going to do. She
doesn't always know herself"