The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-11-19

Wilfred turned to him with a frank
smile. "Brick-it's just awful! It's
what comes from depending on some
fling you've no right to consider a
sure thing. | never thought of this
owe without I.ahoma in it. How did
she get acquainted with A%nnabel-and
with my b%rother"
1T come about. son. l see at once
that the bunch Of 'em was from the
big world. come home and told Bill.
.Thcm's the people to tow Lahoma out
into Iife.' says |. So they invited her
TO spend the winter with them. the Sci
liners did. and show her city doings."
YES. but how did it come about?"
Nothing more natural. ! goes over
to their tent and l tells them Of the
curiositirs and good points of these
mountains and gets EN- to come on a
sort of picnic to explore. SO here they
comes, and they gets scattered, What
with Bill and LahOma and me taking
different ways They liked Lahoma
first time they see her, as a matter Of
course. And so that Miss Sellimer she
gets separated from all the rest. and
shows her a dandy hiding place where
nobody couldn't find her, and l shows
her what n good joke it would De to
pretend to be lost. So | leaves her
there to go to tell her crowd she dares
EN- to find her, Are you l%istening:"
'Of course"
We'll. while she was setting there
waiting 10 be searched for Of Il sudden
a great big Injun in Il blanket and
feathers and red paint jumps down be-
vide her and grabs her and picks her
NJ, and about as quick as she knew
anything she was gagged and bound
and being bore along through the air.
| reckon it was a terrible moment for
her. Now. there is a crevice in the top
Of the mountain that nobody don't
never explore because its just a crack
in the rock that amt to be climbed out
OF without a ladder. So the lnjun car
ries her there and lets her down with
a rope that it seems he must of had
handy somewhere. and he puts out. and
there she is in Il holler in the mountain.
not able to move or Cry out no more
than if she'd been captured by a regu-
J lar highwayman.'
Wilfred stared at Wilcox in com
plete bewilderment. Wilcox chuckled.
There was q terrible time remark
ed Bill.
Dark was a-coming on before the
party got plumb scared" Wilcox con
tinued. but they brushed and combed
that mountain looking for the poor lost
lady, and as l tells 'em she's abiding
joke till midnight catches 'em mighty
serious. 1t must of been awful for
pore Miss Sellimer, all bound and
gagged in that horrible way, but it
takes heroic treatment to get some
cures. and 50 Lahoma went with 'em
to spend the winter"
"But the Indian
Needn't think about him 40 more
son; We got no more use for that lnjun
Well, on the next day LahOma is look
ing everywhere. being urged on by me
and, 10 and behold, when she t.
that cre%vice-lOokcd like she cOuldn'
be induced to go there of her own will
but it was brung about tinally-wha'
does she see but a tomahawk lying
right at the edge what must have beer
dropped there recent or the crowt
would have saw it the day before. i
come to her that Miss Sellimer is
prisoner down below. She looks. bu'
It's too dark to see nothing. Not tell
ing nobody for fear of starting up false
hopes, she gets a light and lowers it
and there is that miserable youn. wo