Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-02-07

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station His name may come back to
me. but his face | shall never forget
He had a revolver in his pocket, but
| he dared not lower hand | took it
out of his pocket and was to hand it
| up to him when got the chance. I'm
til then was to keep it under my
shawl. That was when / managed to
unload every chamber. These are the
cartridges l took out. and they have
been my mascot ever since
She looked years younger than she
had seemed even singing in the town
hall. but the lines deepened on the
bushranger's face, and he stepped back
from her pace. ~
80 you saved my life he said
"You had saved my life all the time
And yet l came to ask you to do as
much for me as had done for your
He turned away His hands were
clinched behind his back.
Il will do more she cried, "if more
could be done by one person for an
other. Here are Jewels" She stripped
her neck Of it's rope of pearls. "And
here are notes" She dived into a bu
reau and thrust handful upon him.
With these alone you should be able
to get to England or America, and if
you want more when you get there
write to Hilda Bouverie. AS long as
she has any there will be some for
your
Tears filled her eyes. The simplicity
of her girlhood had come back to the
seasoned woman of the world, at once
spoiled and satiated with success. This
was the other side Of the artistic tenn
permanent which had enslaved her soul.
She wotild@swi1fg from sone extreme of.
wounded and vindictive vanity to this
length of lawless nobility. Now she
could think of none but self and now
not of herself at all. Stingaree glanced
toward the window.
81 can't go yet. I'm afraid.
You shan't! Why should Xou?' 3
HsButHI# still fear they may not be,
satisfied DOWNSTAIRS I am ashamed to
ask it. but will yousdo one little thing
more forSme:" o. F5
INdff1c
at is only to make assurance doubly
sure. Go downstairs and let them see
you. Tell them more details if you
like. Go down as you are and say
that without your maid YOU could not
find anything else put OH | promise
not to vanish with everything in your
absence"
You do .promisef'
z Son mysliberty!"
She stood for a moment before OPEN
ing the door that he unlocked for her.
stood before him in all her flushed and
brilliant radiance and blew kiss to
him before she went.
The governor was easily found. He
was grieved at her troubling to de-
scend at such an hour and did not de-
tain her five minutes in all. He
thought she was in fever but that
the fever became her beyond belief.
Reassured on every point, Miss Bouy-
erie was back in her room but a very
few minutes after she had left it.
1t was empty. She searched all over,
the pedestals of tn" Bureau but Stin 4
garee was nowhere i'll the ROOM and
the bedroom door was still locked. 1t
was a second look behind the curtains
that revealed an open window and the
scratch of boot upon the white en-
amel 1t was no breakneck drop into
the shrubs.
SO he had gone without a word, but
also without breaking, his word, for,
with wet eyes sand a white face be-
tween anger and admiration, Hilda
Bouverie had already discovered her
bundle Of notes and her rope of pearls.
= There are no more tales of Stingaree;
tongue never answered to the name
again, nor was face ever recognized as
his He may have died that night; it
is not very likely, since the young mar
red man in the well appointed bunga-
low. which had been broken into eari-
erin the day. missed a suit of clothes,
indeed, but not his evening clothes,
which were found hung up neatly
where he had left them, and it is re-
grettable to add that his opera glasses
We're not the only articles of a market
able character which could never be
found on his ret,lrn There is none the
less reason to believe that this was the
last professional incident in one of the
most incredible criminal careers Of
which there is any~recOrd in Australia.
Whether he be dead or alive. back in
the old country or still in the new, or,
what gis lessa likely, in prison. under
some other name. the gratifying fact
remains that neither in Australia nor
elsewhere has, there been second ser
les of crimes bearing the stamp of
Stingaree: '~''i*~'<' tt.'+'t@"
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