The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-10-14

major had spoken so reassuringly
merely TO help him keep up heart.
The night passed. and another bright
summer day dawned, and In the Car
tersyille jail there was one prisoner
who had not slept at all. Each OF
those long and heavy black hours had
been an age to this prisoner to whom
jail was so new.
AT noon furious windstortn, ac-
companied by much vivid lightning
and binding rain, sprang out OF the
west and began to sweep the country.
side and out of the lowering wet gloom
there came one to deliver BIZ Dale,
He was mountainesr, young and stall.
wart and strong. and about him there
was much of tina, certain English fine
ness that was so striking In his father.
He entered the low. square building
of brick and ssSne and stopped in the.
center of the corridor, where he stood,
while water ran frOm bis wet clothing
and gathered In little pvds at his feet,
and looked to his right and to his left.
Dale saw MIN, and cried our In sur
prise
Caleb"
Caleb Moreland walked straight, his
head up and his shoulders back, a
splendid picture of yirile young man
hood, to the end of the corridor. He
gripped two of the doors hated bars,
bars that had long been worn smooth
by other human hands; he pressed his
smoothly shaven. sunburned face
| against the iron, and smiled.
How are We a-feelin' by this time,
Bill? It's some hi Of place, amt
| it?',
Dale took a step toward tllu. We'll,
queens boudoir is nicer. What are
you doing here, Cale?'
i've come to set you free said
Caleb MoreIand.
Dale stared unbelievingly. "But
that is impossible, Cafe. How could
you set me free2
Call Tom Flowers, and I'll sight
ye."
Dale called, and the officer came i'm
mediately. Caleb Moreiand turned
from the cell door and faced him.
1--WE come here to own up to the
KILN o. Black Adam Ball." began the
young hillman.
He swallowed, went a trife pale un
der his tan, and continued bravery:
| "Bill Dale thar, he never done it. ]
am the one at done it. Bill he shot a.
| Adam, but he missed-Adam had done
shot at Bill fust, y'onderstand, Tom
But didn't miss. l don't never miss
I'm a plumb tombstone shot. They
allus rules me out at any shootin
match. I'd ha' owned up to 1t yeste'.
day, but the thought O Jail bad me
skeered bad. jest CANT let as good
a man as Bill Dale thar suffer TO a
thing l done myself. So you let him
out, Tom, and put the right man in
thar" ..
Flowers had good heart, and this
touched it. But he was not very much
surprised.
"Tell us about it, Caleb" he re-
quested. .s...
| Caleb looked toward Dale, then he
faced the lord of Cartersville's little
prison again.
well, shuriff, when / seed Bill Dale
so off toward the trustle by hissei
and alone, knowed right then he was
In danger o. bein' laywayed by som.
o. them thar lowdown Balls and
cherokee Torreys. So l decides to
foller after him and gyard him, With
out him a-knowin' anything about Il
which same | done. When he me-
Adam Ball"
He broke off abruptly.
go on" urged Flowers.
II reckon won't" smiled Caleb
and his eyes were still twinkIing, 81
reckon l won't do no more talkin' les;
now. Yes. | reckon the proper p,ac,
TO me to do my big talkin' is in the
ro'tehouse at my trial. Lock me ur
will We Tom?"
; wen see," said Flowers.
/ Forthwith he dispatched a deuuty
FOR Judge Carter and Mainr Bradley
, who FASTENED to the JAIL
t An hour later Caleb MureIand was
the occupant of the cell at the end Of
the whitewashed corridor, and Dale
was mounting his hay horse Fox f.
t ride back into the heart of the ever.
: lasting hills. He arrived two hours
: after nightfall. The MoreIands wer.
: glad to see him, and the Iittleforth.
| were glad to see him. There WAS ,-.
| lotcing there in the hroa.' valley rnst
2 lies between David MoreIand. mn,,n.
S tain and the Big Pine. Everybody ~,
| been expecting him, and many w.,,,
me pairs of eyes that had been wates
f ing for him. He found himself sno
= denly wishing, with Tightening at has
D throat, that his father could knnS
I how much bigger and how much bs.
:. Ter 1t was to be thus esteemed tb.,
|, to he wealthy.