The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-09-29

: place WIN stream and set aDOl
with barbarous mountains, Ballantra
threw down his pack, Il will go n
further" said he, and babe me ligt
the fire, damning my blood in term
not proper for chairman.
told him to try to forget he ha
ever been pirate, and to remembe
he had been a gentleman
Are you mad?" he cried. Don
cross me herel" And then, shaking
his fist at the hills, ITO think" cries
he, that must leave my bones in
this miserable wilderness. Would Goo
| had died upon the scaffold like a
gentleman! This he said rantine
like an actor; and then sat biting his
fingers and staring on the ground, a
most unchristian object.
| took a certain horror of the man.
for l thought soldier and a gentle
man should confront his end with
more philosophy. | made him no re-
ply, therefore, in words; and pres
emily the evening fell so chill that |
was glad, for my own sake, to kindle
a fire. And yet God knows. in such
an open spot, and the country alive
with savages, the act was little short
OF lunacy. Ballantrae seemed never
to observe me; but at last, as | was
about parching some corn, he looked
up.
Have you ever brother?" said he. |
BY the blessing of Heaven" said |
/, mot less than five"
Il have the one" said he. with q
strange voice; and then presently
He shall pay me for all this" he
dded. And when | asked him what
vas his brothers part in our distress.
What! he cried, "he sits in nv
lace, he bears my name, he courts
~ wife; and l am here alone with a
ahmed Irishman in this tooth-chatter-
lg desert! Oh, have been a COM I
ON guilt" he cried. ,
Inc explosion was in all ways so
reign to my friends nature. that I
as daunted out of all my lust sus-
ptibility Sure, an offensive exnres-
On, however viyacious, appears a
small affair in circum-
inces SO extreme But here there
d strange thing to be noted. He had
~ once before referred to the lady
Tn whom he was contracted That v
s when we came in view of tba
yn OF New York, when he had told
; II all had their rights. he was in
" IN sight of his own property. for sc
S. Graeme enjoyed a large estate ia
the province Al
ma this was certainly a natural w
aston; but now here she was 95
ned second time; and what is =
ely Mt to be observed, in this very
lth, which was November. al. and fr,
elieve upon that very day as we lje
among those barbarous mountains re.
brother and Miss Graeme were IT
rled. | am the least suDerstitious No
neh; put the hand of Providence
ere displayed too openly not to he
arked.
day
ne next day and the next, were inc
ed in similar labors; BaIlantraa +bo
4 deciding on our course nv tho VIII
hlng OF coin; and once. when tho
-postulated on this childishness two
LAD an odd remark that I have
I forgotten Il know no better n
said he, ito express my scorn inr,
imam reason" l think it was the NJ
day that we found the hodv Of
rlstlan, scalped and most abom. vol
y mangled, and lying in puddle ~
S Dlood, the birds of the desert
ming over him, as thick az Aies u0i
20 1iioo' war;
'annot describe how dreadfuIlv
sight affected us; but it robbed N
o"s'n ana all nope for fore
'orio. The same day, and only otbe,
e AFTER we were scrambling over miyt
t OF the forest that had been -
'a,iantrae' VINO was scalp
ahead, ducked suddenly behind shou
en- trunk. joined him in This chan,
+ whence we could look abroad heart
1t being seen ourselves; and in new:
''i u 'ne next vale, beheld a tions
war party of the savages going Artist,
'oss our line. 70 ~
A'-en' DC the value of weak his tt
on present; all naked to tbe that
D'a'Aeu Win grease and suet, be sa
W WIN "nite lead and YER pearal
according to their beastlv tion.
They went one behind an. ..Tb
Ike string of geese. and .t > Whit