Putnam patriot., 1914-10-16

part when she heard the tramp of men not far sway-one-twothres they came into sight and then turned to the left and sat down on the other side of the rock They were laboring men from the works. They had come there to talk things oye=.
 Miss Nettie had not come in contact with the foreigners every hour in the day for two years without getting a pretty good understanding of their Ian guage- What she listened to chased the tears from her eyes and made her gasp for breath
 It was all right to skip a pay day. There would be a double amount of cash to be brought from the bank the next week. They argued that the man. ager would bring 1t himself The four would be on hand to meet him on She path. and he was to be assailed and robbed Further than that, his body. livisg or dead. was to be carried to the old hut of a charcoal burner half a mile up the mountain. They would rob him and thereby rob their fellow workmen, but avariee has no cen science. After three or four days they could slip away from the works and divide the money and make a safe get away. In case the blow of the club did not finish the manager then and there he was to be left to recover or die, as the case might be When they had sworn a solemn oath of loyalty they moved away and left the girl al most too weak to walk home.
 What was her duty in the case? It was plain enough It was to give Mir Carlisle notice of the conspiracy, that he might defeat it and save the funds and his life,
 She would return to the office st once.
 No, she wouldn't!
 The manager had insulted her and humiliated her. He had forced her ts resign when there was not enough food in the house to last three days. He had cut down her salary. He was a prig-a cad-an insufferable egotist.
 If she returned he would sheer at her story and say that she had cooked 1t up in the hope o2 getting her place back He would ast her If she thought him a child to be thus taken in. And then he would swagger around and d. clare that he could look out for him. self against hundred Dagoes.
 No, she would not go back to be in- suited over again.
 The mother said yes, but the daugh- ter said no.
 It was not for either one of them to decide Next morning the girl woke up with a fever and partly delirious. She had worried for hours. The days came and went. The mother took no steps. and when Saturday came again the patient was not able to lift her head. So Sunday, and so part of Monday. Then news came to the house that Mir Carlisle and the funds he was bringing were missing. They said he had absconded.
 Just after noon. while the mother had run into the house of a neighbor to glean further particulars, the sick girl left her bed and dressed herself and disappeared. After a long hunt they found her in the old hut on the mountain. The manager lay there with a fractured skull and raving, and the sick girl had his head in her lap and was weeping The money was there.
 Occasionally a circumstance may change a mans whole nature!
 Mrs. Carlisle insists that that mar riage WIS a shocking thing, and that society will never receive her son 8 wife. but among those who don't care a copper whether it does or not are the bride and bridegroom.
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