Show l lIL II Sort t Story tori 0 tb Day jj ill I If f HOW THE GOSPEL CAUGHT IT THE TUE c 10 Continued from trum yesterday I L I What killed the officer did dill I he queried the captain fixing his stead steady t gaze coze on the now flushed d countenance of or the stor story teller I r No fiNo it was his daughter Lil I he didn't kill his daughter did he I No uNo not but It was touch an nn an go with her her- You see she was cornin home front from a n. ovet over at Bud Moodys Moody's an she props proposed d to her sweetheart what was waa with her that bela 03 as the they was near the still sUlI she would put on his l ng coat an hat hui nn an slip down clown to b be n a re an skare her father an she him good Hood and plenty t When he picked her ber up she eho had done I an blood was stream In from her arm Jim felt sure he had kilt kill her 4 but he be She come to after aCter he bathed her t temples In the branch She had bad only a Cl slight wound In her wrist The rhe thought ov or kuhn his only t daughter the life plum out ov him he was a changed d man May Ia I never buy another pair o a 0 new plou lines if If his hair didn't turn them ashes In Inside ov twenty four hours Nex ex da day he lie made a bonfire t ov o. all his outfit poured his liquor In the branch and has been a preach ln In ever since Straightening out his lila two six of ot sinewy frame lie he planted himself l squarely In front of ot the teller story-teller end and gazing gazing- point blank at t him demanded i brusquely you oU the sweetheart with LII Lil the night she mared her father Wai Wal al yes s. s captin replied the tho little man confusedly shaking the ashes oft off his cI clrar ar which had gono gon outI outI out I thought so 50 said the captain confidently You hOU are arc Dart Bart Aver Avery from Wai Walkin Horse creek creel up un In iii Rabun un aint you ou runts me said the historian glancing up in open eyed wonder l not unmixed with wilh suspicion What mout be lie your our name captin For reply the tall man flashed from Crom the inner innet rt recesses c es of oC his coat an ugly looking long nav navy revolver and covering the now Aver announced My h. h names name's Jule Julo Johnson John the Marshal from Atlanta with a warrant for tor your our arrest Stand up UI youre you're my prisoner A grip arrested a backward movement of or Harts Bart's arm lIe Ho struggled to his feet fret crestfallen The rho long IonS expected expected ex ex- hal had happened d. d The rhe thought thou of oC being cau caught ht 50 so completely off orr guard b stung stuns him to the quick For Kor a moment 1 but ul a moment only did h ha entertain the thou thought ht of ot resistance A knowledge of or the dare devil character of ot the man an mannow mannow now confronting him In hand had convinced him of ot the folly tolly of ot re re- re lIe He would submit the thc charge Marshal he asked rapidly recovering recovering- his hs self pos session and looking Johnson in the CC eye Walt Wait till I get Jet your gun SUn and Ill I'll read It to you ou said the officer reaching around Harts Darts waist to a buckskin holster and drawing a shining blue s steel eel self cocker Youre arre arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar re rested ted for tor the deputies anti and two prisoners on that Allen raid up at Burton Durton I knew that whenever your old pal Jim Parker preached at Friendship you'd oud be on hand to hear him That explains my being here today todar a Wall Marshal you ou made a right guNS guN'S said Dart Bart brightening up Pears lak Ink I come to the right church but got In the wrong TonS pew The clicking of or the steel handcuffs completed an nn arrest remarkable alike for Cor Its decisiveness and quick action So quick Indeed was It th that t no one OrlO In the groups oU s lounging among the trees paid an any attention to the transaction and as officer and prisoner pris pris- oner topped the rise in the red mud road leading leading- Into town there camo mo a n. breeze wafted to their ears the prophetic words of oe Jims Jim's peroration Be De sure Bure your our will find you OU out Sunny Sunny South |