News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-08-27
Copyrlght, 1912, the Bobhs- Merrill Company

all at once. II 3 sure IdCC ina
widow was plenty busy, and what with
Singing that emetic at the patient
and gently introducing the lady to the
kitchen cupboard, wall, l declare
didn't have a dull moment. Then dis
tant shots brought us all up standing
"At last!" Billy shouted, they're
off"
who's OFF,"
Father and his men-escaped while
KEEP you in talk, Fooled, Jesse!
Fooled l fooled you to the eyes Il!
My fathers Larry OFlynn. Captain
Larry O'Flynn, captain of the out
laws!" My, there was pride in that
lad! He sat on the table in the dusk,
lighting to keep awake, rubbing his
eyes with his sleeve. Hes give me
leave to join, and I'm hitting the trail
tonight-hitting the trail, dye hear?"
His eyes closed, his voice trailed off
to whisper.
Outside l could hear rider coming
swift, and Dale's voice hailing, Jesse!
Jesse!"
"Jesse," the lad was muttering, Gift
his stock, and his woman, burn his
ranch, and put his fires out-thatsh
the way TO-"
Dale had stepped from his horse,
and stood in the doorway, making it
dark inside. "Where in blazes are
Fou?"
Look" said I, and Dale watched,
for the boy, dead pale, was lurching
from side to side, his eyes closed, his
lips still moving.
"Only drugged," said !. "Who let
them robbers escape?"
"Ransome Pollock" said Dale.
"Who else?"
"Dave."
FLOWS his poor tooth?" says 7, and
Dale explained he'd been dubbed.
Young O'Flynn rolled over, and went
down smash, so that l had to kneel,
and try if his heart was all right. 1t
thumped along steady and give no
sign of quitting.
81 had to-" said I, "old Whiskers
yonder is the widows husband, and
father to this boy. He's clear grit,
iron"
where's the widow?"
Resting" l heard horses come
laundering out Of the dusk. Robbers
broke south?"
"Yep."
"Hev they crowd wings?"
"Nope."
"Can't swim the Fraser?"
"Bottled?" said he, cheering up.
"Some," says I. mot corked yet.
You want to make line here quick,
from the foot Of the upper cliff to the
edge of the river, and each man make
three big fires. Then post half your
men to tend fires, and the best shots
to hold that line with rifles. Them
robbers has got to break through
when they knows they're cornered.
Here's your boys, Iron. Git move
on!"
"That's so,'' says Dale, and in two
shakes of a ducks tail he was throw
ing his men into line. Meanwhile the
widow, wild and lone, had flew; so
that left Kate without help, her job
being coffee to keep the boys awake
till we'd daylight to corner the rob-
bers.
Men watching on a strain like that
get scaTy as cats, so by moonset some
of our warriors would loose off guns
at stumps, trees, rocks, or just be-
cause they felt lonesome. After the
moon went down, dry fuel got scant,
30 that the fires waned, and some of
our young men must have seen mil
lions of outlaws. When at last some
thing actually happened, it was nat
ural that Ransome should have adven-
lures. He wasn't built for solitude,
and when he seen a flag wave from
behind a bush he called the boys from
left and right to bunch in and corrobo-
rate. The flag KEEP waving, and pres
emily two more of our men had to join
che bunch because they couldn't shout
their good advice, lest the robbers
hear every word. was away to Apex
Rock, Iron down in the canyon, and |
these blasted idiots talked.
OF course old Whiskers knew that !
antelope will always creep up to in
spect any waving rag. Before the ex- !
element was properly begun he and
his robbers slipped through our broken
line.
If Ransome has time to aim he's |
to the neighbors, but since |
the odds were a thousand to one the |
gun would kick him as far as next |
I'd have bet my debts he |
wouldn't hit the party with that flag. !
Yet that's what happened. He got the |
widow O'Flynn.
With one heart-rending, devastating (
howl she went to grass. and she did !
surely SHREK as If there was no here |
after. Murthered in the limb she was, !
and as l left to follow the sounds of |
them escaping robbers, didn't have
lime to send carpenter.