. Muldoon had been up at dawn, and when we wakened he had already bro

es and dark-brown hair, and a habit of getting up when any of us did that ke

d gayly, over his coffee and mackerel. "It's a long time

gan Tish. He started and ch

wi

fe and two child

s all and drew

ry is known to you. May I ask-is it too much to be

rced or had lost them all from scarlet fever. Whichever it was, I must say he was not d

re in the glen-the outlaws, I mean. The red-

u?" fro

smith's the worst. He's just out of the pen-I got him a ten

. "You look as if you ha

at me an

's outrageous, the discount that's given to a criminal for behaving himself. He got-I thi

ry, observed that there was nothing like that in old times, and she would write to the governor about

at each end and the rest are covering the hilltops. A squirrel couldn't get out w

!" we c

ot afraid of you. As long as I stay in the cave here I'm safe enough, but let me poke my

ly silently

ave been a wonderful day to go on, but none of us thought of it. As Tish said, here was

the valley and stood, with his hands to his eyes, peering across at our cave. Tish was hanging some of our clothing out to dr

l. As we knew, her intrepid spirit had not quailed; but, as she said,

t. He played a very fair game, but he was on the alert all the time. At every sound he started, and

"Unless it's Naysmith," he said. "He knows me." From that to calling us Aunt Tish, Aunt Aggie and Aunt Lizzie was v

we were almost out of provisions. We had expected to buy eggs, milk and bread at farmhouses, and instead we had been shut

"If you want to be shot down in your tr

rmly as I had. Tish stood and look

But if I get my neuralgia again from wadi

e of solitaire. I went to the cave mouth with her and listened to the crackling of twigs as she slid down into the valley. She came into v

ner and was peacefully sleeping, with his injured foot on Aggie's hop pillow. Aggie and I sat on gu

nd a half and no sign of her,

mpered. "The outlaws have got her

I demanded. "Because she's

, that's why-don't tell me this isn't an outlaw's cave. It's just b-b

lieves Aggie, but it does not make her a cheerful companion. Eight o'clock and darkness came, and still no Tish. I went i

"What possessed her anyhow? To

ip pocket, and, going to the mouth of the cave, listened carefully. Everything was quiet. The cave and both sides of the valley were in deep

arly. He was peering down toward us, although in the dusk he could h

said. "I'd better move on before I get y

s. If you do arrest him, and he gets nearly all his sentence off fo

gun to his shoulder and aim at something moving below

d backward and forward among the hills. We thought we heard a yell from, the valley. Then the next second there was a faint crack from b

wled up to the cave and put down a tin pail full of milk, a glass of jelly wra

sh warned her. "That outlaw ch

od fright anyhow,"

igh

ou shot

talking about the

on the hill

d at me and I fire

ference Tish swaggered into the

-never before or since has she

lies from a surly woman and had come away again. Asked by Mr. Muldoon if she had seen any

and the red spot in each cheek. Manlike, Mr. Muldoon did not see these signs; he ate ve

a shot, Miss Letitia," he s

d Tish coolly. "Only for my

tful all evening, did not care to play whist,

mood, but not about the shot-sh

er right, when a shot struck a tree beside her. She was so startled that her finger pulled the trigger of her own rifle, which was pointed up

Modestine for the night Tish ca

nd bought a glass of jelly. Men like preserves. The woman wrapped it in a newspaper, and there is a full account of the robbery an

usand dollars for al

ionary dime! And if we don't get it Muldoon will! As soon as he can get about on his leg he'll cease being

hance to say, Muldoon jo

ed from time to time and I could hear Tish stirring

sleep?" I

got it all fixed, Lizzie. We'll take those

night, but I broke in