Show WINNING OF NELLIE by AUGUSTUS GOODRICH sheri HER WIN hands handa up u pa hector vay nas than alarmed I 1 our nien faced him in tho the rued tucky mountain path whom he had accounted acho 1 no as ills his friends lie ho was to accustomed to thu cipul mandatory aam of tha group however hoever to hesi heal tate lit at tho the older given mh h what la Is the troit blo lo he asked quietly ii ouli although ill hough he bo did not like tho the glint in the yea of the leader ender of the lie coterie nilson vance sit down don on that lock directed the batern iader of the tetto wo we have hing to say bay to lo you but obeyed tho the grim four foamed a menacing half circle about jilin him two tuo of them con untied to hold weir revolvers low bied but rendy ready for instant action lie he had ben bem so BO freo familiar and ancl chatty at alth ith vanco vance an anil his companions for avei weeks that he could not analyze tho chango change that had come over them ills Is this a hold up or a court of in he be hai ha aided with a faint knille ian its a court of justice and a af fatir replied vance ro state tho the case briefly you pur porting to bo be a boung business infill inan from the last cast camo caine out hero nearis a month ngo ago your health my imy letters should persuade you that I 1 am the genuine broko lightly and again with tho the smile it looks looka different now declared vance you welcomed as aa a temporary emp guest at tho the home of my tousin uncle you took an interest Inter in my cousin nellie his daughter that was waa nob odys business bual neBB except hers hero and your own HU althou gli I 1 suppose some borne of the young follows around here would like ilke to have seen you gone when a roan mans a aquaro the vances filat him right when hes a spy what do you mi un by that de banded waith and sternly just ahat the wo broke V rr I 1 I 1 r 1 I FV F V I 1 r r 11 I 1 k P j the celend d steed Wave mid up reared in a now new volt vocie e and ft a figure atrue came into vios ato from a copse apai b ahe alili the nian man as ialo dale NN buds lie ho knew that lie ho as aa in trouble llie fellow was wa a distant re lit he of the and the brother brallior brolli or of a notorious outlaw for eats protected by his bid friends from the ian la dilo dile aoda vitta an old re but suitor of pretty nellie lot the past ivock ook he had bad rien er met NN without A a 11 scowl and a CO 1 I say bay you aie a spy declared woods wooda facing balth alth lle icely a and nd tacho men inen know it you lost a coat vello bathini ilni in the creek I 1 found it and in a secret pot poi kot ket I 1 discovered this N held to the eyes of th astonished it badamo of 0 tho the goy secret sonvico I 1 I 1 never saw it before declared aliat wont do snarled enabled woods you have come here under false pre bences to get a lew clew to the hiding biding place of my hunted brother friends he be added to vance and the othora others we As aie nonfat mca but we stick to our friends in trouble and my brother must bo be protected I 1 demana thlu mans life as the penalty for his spy py ing into our affairs there was silence and bowed beads hector kuen knew that hla his fate was sealed lie thought of the wild roso beauty nellie whose bright tender nayo aya had won him to linger in this wild district lis ills clear glance swept the faces before him speech would be useless lie he must act it if he would save his life the men stepped aside in low toned consultation waith saw woods draw out his bis revolver just juat beyond the iloise a horse grazed IN ith th a spring wah gained his feed fact and dashed towards the tha animal fie hi as aa in thu the ead lip in a the horse made a bound along a narion ledge skirting a deep ravine I 1 bang bang with a an in unearthly as y sc ream the splendid ste steed ed wavered d up reared pierced at a vital part the tha brave animal swung to one side horse and rider went hurtling over the edge of the narrow footpath die clig appe appealing axing amid depths far below the pursuing coterie d th tb edge of tho the ravine thea the it in I 1 I 1 rd down in III milnee lil dilo woodi said to with a of nf nel lie vance I 1 that ends the nian man ahn hn earne between I 1 ine inc and my lovo love I 1 it was aas bourn afterwards ter warda libil i a form with tattered and dla dis ordered attire emerged from A remote between two walls orrock of rock leading from the ravine it was as hector lie HP h had id es ee ped afati a teril ble empei dimce alie horse had conf cone to the bottom of the tully lie had sunk stink a few rods down into a biest of dens enveloping vines hail had clung to safely front from the view of his pur auers until had left the spot lin not clineb up tip the fiade was wai too aioo precipitous but foot b foot he lot let himself down until he reached the bottom of the ravine this thio progress had been accompanied by danga dangerous falls and contact with pointed rocks ahe 1 he moon was up when he be emerged irom from the ravine lie was at sea as an to or direction ills his only thought now was aas to get out of the district beffie being overtaken nellie would come to him at some point of safety when lie he wrote rote to her ter later explaining everything it was in the early houis of the morning the moon was just sink rink ing when lying in the road before him he made out a human form it was that of an old woman she had apparently been making her way from one point to another of the desolate district when she had sunk flunk from ex 1 halation she was insensible and waith could not arouse her what shall I 1 do lie he questioned himself it is dangerous for me to delay but I 1 cannot leave this helpless old woman to die like the truo true man he was I 1 thought only of the unconscious charge on his hands handa and the hours houn paused parsed on tie he discovered a deserted hut at a little distance lie canted the old woman thither gathered up try dry grass crass for a bed and made her as comfortable ns no he be could she revived somewhat Bome what but was still incoherent from her wanderings decided that she had started to visit a rela tive and had bad got lost and old ago age find and exhaustion had brought her to the ebbing state of vitality for two days gathered herries berries nuts whatever he could find to give sustenance to his bin charge she avas vas gradually rallying her nth even at the risk of coment across any of the woods band I 1 must get word ord to others to care for her as I 1 cannot he decided lie he had not gone halt half g mile from I 1 the old hut in search of some ome other habitation aben hen turning a ledge of at bolks he faced a leveled revolvers revolver dale woods behind it so you escaped 9 be hissed out what lucar scarcely for another I 1 have found you march walt wait demurred waith an old woman whom I 1 found two days ago lies vety III in a hut near here try and do something for her I 1 will go 90 where you will then my mo moth theil ci were vere the first words of woods as ho hd gayed upon the face of the old woman it was after woods knew what he oed to fp the men he bad sought to destroy that he handed note he be had written ritten to ta 11 I 1 shall remove with my iny mother to some borne other part of the country he said you have acted ohp ahk man more than that tor for the sake of that dear old woman T take ke that letter to the vances I 1 have confessed sed all my cowardly treachery good bye and it was thus that hector great nobleness nobl enesH or soul won nellie copyright ropy right 1114 by W 0 chapman |