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Show cottagers of eastern Long Islana anu v v I FOTRUE LOVE OE HIM. one? They won't let him work. Do you suppose any one around here' would hire him? They are afraid of him. They made a wild man of him and drove him to the woods. They've given him a bad name, and that's the end of it They must have a scape- ment Kipp took advantage of his only opportunity and dropped 30 feet to the bed of a brook below. The daring fellow was not hurt Orlando-like, he carved messages to his love on the harks of trees and afterwards after-wards wrote notes on paper which she left for him. She, in turn, baked biscuits bis-cuits and dainties and left them for him in the woods. One of the mes- committed single-handed parallel the dark deeds of Robin Hood and bis whole band of brigands. AngeUnelTOT-burg AngeUnelTOT-burg softened Harry Kipp-loused Kipp-loused heart bV love, and sh e has now exacted of him a promise to leve i the cliffs and jungle-like f orest has been makins his home and. with her as his wife, to commence ite anew ln a far-off city. She alotalns,n Kipp has not had a fair chance for he has never known a good woman to take an interest in him. Angeline is a tall girl of 18, as pretty - r,in rose. She first one afternoon saw , at the end of a cowpath the stalwart figure of the brigand, and on his shoulder rested the curly brown f head of Fosburg's daughter. Pickets watched the girl. The other day she started-up towards ; the clearing with a basketful of dinner. The posse followed cautiously in ones and twos. While Kipp and the girl looked into each other's eyes the posse surrounded the clearing. The brigand bulbed when he saw the trick, but the Sr screamed. "Hands up!" shouted f farmer. Kipp laughed again. There was a click of a trigger. The girl threw herself between her lover and the men. "You must shoot mo first, she declared stoutly. For a moment the farmers fell back, and in that mo- surrounded the clearing. . , , i r 1 1 , m il 1 1- Imlhl threw herself between her lover and fc XlJIfrfVV the men ' You must shoot mo first r . 4ilJ i declared stoutly 7Ma AV the farmers fell back and in that mo h.s j J sJufi I'i W'W, sa6es carved on the trees was: "Angel v5 v3 f ' xMtt 18 a or'Rand; she's stole my heart" rl'-,v., wv&t w K, ?n1 Thls 18 how tne 811-1 regards her r" ' i?'? ilhiTw A'lll' lation with the outlaw and explains JlliliillXii'llilt g"if h'g n uuaw- wb mad him HARRY KIPP. goat and they've chosen him. Even the children run from him; but he is Just as gentle and tender as they are, and in the sight of heaven, I believe, just as innocent "Frilly, now, has a man had a fair chaSS who's never known a good woman to take an interest in him? I cnet Kipp when, in calm the authorities, he came down f ro-n the mountains and proceeded to i er heart at the same time- hold! ng j up houses and people by dirk, as suited his fancy, the lro of Copeke farmers to the point ol instant action. Brand new WW rants were .worn out the old one. Lvlng become musty, the farmers med themselves with pistols rifle, end shotguns and started up the monn tain in search of Kipp- Ttey weren t wery successful. Occasionally their ef tZL were rewarded by h ear ng th. mocking laug-hter of the culprit ring through the woods, and once they his fac. which, moved by n Impulse I of derUtry he had th f t'm through a thlckt. After thre day.. Sc7poe was tird and A diacovory as made. Two boy. know the man he might have been and the man he will be when he goes away and gets a place and sends for me." And the girl is happy over the prospect of reforming the outlaw. sages carved on the trees was: "Angel is a brigand; she's stole my heart" This is how the girl regards her relation re-lation with the outlaw and explains how Ae has induced him to "mak. good": "If he', an outlaw, who mad him |