The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1914-04-10
A Honeymoon Hold-Up

parenty disinterested animal, of course, had to
listen. ITS another case of mans nhumanity to
man, old fellow" he said, "for here am within
few miles of the sweetest girl on earth, and
l might just well be in Europe" Just then
he, in the distance, caught sight of rider. APP
preaching him There seemed something
strangely familiar in both the pony and rider,
and his nertness gave away to instant vigilance,
as he set his pony at rapid lope to meet the
approaching figure. Sure enough it was her, and
as they drew up alongside, she greeted him and
said: Were you surprised to me, Mr..
Benefit"
yes most happily surprised"
Aunt Emma had one of her bad headaches this
morning and | was lonely over at the ranch and
knew that you were lonely out here, SO | con-
cluded to come out and ride fence with you
for couple of hours"
During the next three weeks Frances Owens
rode fence" with Jim number of times. Then
he was relieved Of his station and given another
one which brought him into the home ranch
Several of the cowboys possessed good voices
and there were occasional evenings of music up
at the ranch house. Jim and Frances were both
dearly in love with each other, but Jim knew
that while Frances father, David Owens, was
kind to the boys, he gruff and overbearng,
and, if Frances showed any decided regard for
any one of the boys, he would most certainly be
summariy discharged While no outspoken ex-
preston of love had been exchanged by them,
they had become Frances" and Jim" to each
other. There secluded little nook
the well-house that they both agreed about the
incest little spot earth to meet for
sional chat, unobserved by any prying eyes, and
evening they came to the mutual conclusion
that future existence without each other would
satisfactorily signed and sealed. Jim told her
that he never ought to have spoken of his love
to her because of his precarious financial condi-
ton. But Frances told him that she not
fearful of his not succeeding in life and that any
how she knew of it without his telling, and that
if he had not told her very soon, she would have
seen to it that he did. The very next evening,
however, those meetings were brought to an
abrupt termination, for as they were bidding each
other good night, Dave Owens suddenly appeared
on the scene and fearful outburst of parental
wrath ensued. They both attempted to remon-
strate. but Dave Owens would not listen He
turned to Jim and said: "You get your time,
young fellow, and hike out of here in the morn
ing. When the time comes for my daughter to
health and good looks. That goes with you for
all time"
i'm left the next morning without having
opportunity to say goodbye to Frances but he
determined to her again in the near future.
He knew that the owner of the adjoining ranch
disliked Dave Owens intensely, he rode
there and laid his before him and
readily given job, for the rancher welcomed
the opportunity to help anybody do anything
that Dave Owens did not like, and went so
far to have his housekeeper ride to the
Owens ranch and arrange a meeting between
Jim and Frances, unknown to anyone. Jim had
written a letter to Frances in which he stated
that he expected to go up and work his mine
and that he hoped for success in short time,
and that if he succeeded he would try to induce
her father to change his mind The letter was
written with the sole idea that it would be inter-
cepted by Dave Owens-as it was so that no
espionage would be exercised over Frances and
thus prevent their meetings. Nearly month
followed and they had met number of times,
when Jim said to her. Dear, I've got about
enough together now to give me start, and
am going up to the mine tomorrow"