• A L_: i on her horseback ride, a few paces from him, ascending the BAKING ACHIEVEMENT, ied came Lolu running home in fright, as if hill by a path known to them * I I From Peopl«’« Homo Journal. he knew of the misfortune of his I “It’s all folly to think that th- I mistress, with a note fastened to ransom will be there to-night if i CHAPTER I. ' ever Twenty fi Ve his collar. ever »a, ’s, ” said one. “Twenty-fi BY EMERSON BENNETT. This note, when seized and read, thousand dollars in gold Is not made known the fact that Lolu together in a hurry, and it " i Lolu Brandon was eighteen and Brandon would be held ten days 1,11 '* i ot surprise me if it never came at beauty; black hair, long, tine, a and in great profusion; black eyes, for ransom, in the sum of twenty- all, let alone getting there to-night.” “I think the captain made the n.riling, tender, and softly shaded rive thousand dollars in gold, to be bv dnypim lashes; an oval face ot ¿^posited on Eagle Peak l>v not price too high, ” responded another olive hue. with tinted cheeks and uiore than two men and one donkey, voice. rose bud mouth ; a temp r amiable, ■ w,thin the time specified, on penal “That’s my opinion,” joined in a u disposition loving, an intellect i ty of death to her if delaved, third sp*aker. “If the f«ther and ‘•Heaven have mercy!” cried the bright ami sparkling She was the • I his friends are not able to raise the cattle distressed father; “ I’ve not got the full amount,[of course they’ll not (daughter of an American i....... - T~t-_ — <-3 7%. n <*> 1% zr W«1 r x-k-#- 'r8‘,er< ,airl.v w»‘11 b» ilo, who had IIieang to 8ave my poor darling! come at all, and then we’ll not get anything.” “ If I pav her ransom may 1 have F t XJA A IASI £A>V V» married a Mexican lady and settled ion the Texan side of the Rio j her for my wife’’’ selfishly ques-| “Ten thousand would have paid well, and that might have been tinned Hiram Stockwell. | Grande. Lolu Brandon hid mar.v suitors, “Ifshe isn’t rescued I shall go' raised perhaps,” obs- rved the first It is first claim in every rvs|»»ot. The proprietor having been raised in the business knows just haw to conduct it Meat at retail and ~ whole \ , ............. ....... - I some quite wealthv, but her heart s. mad!” cried the father, wringing speaker. 1 I I choice who! ess . or more, and at \ Driers i • was a young American , . his hands; “and as I’ve not got the “Lieutenant Pedro was of that sale price» ’ I ou can buy • by • the quarter, tortone to make. ‘power to as low hi you would have to pav ranchers Beef.Pork,Mutton, Sausage I had his fortune w save her ......... myself, . - I'm con i opinion, and said so to the captain, Charles ll give her for | who was to> stubborn, like he al- ( >.i hs Grayson had hid cotne cam- to t> straine strajne j u tc say ¡ I’ H. tie. K. A. M atthes , Proprietor Eagle th it spirit of ad w t jfe tl, whoever restores • her ... »____ wavs is. to change his decree ” - gle Pass with that to home ” friends friend9 ” venture which often takes enter- gn anj 1 “‘It will come,’ I heard him siy miles 'prising persons hundreds of — Overhearing this, Charles Gray- ‘The girl is beautiful, and has got from their native localities in search son felt his heart sink with despair. at least one rich lover, who’ll pay of that something they seldom find | He had not the money to pav for the am >unt rather th m have her to content their restless natures her freedom, while to head a force killed. Charles Gra* son, though he had in pursuit of the outlaws, even if he “She’s such an innocent, sweet* not to far found ri.h-s fancied lie could do that, would only result in kind of a thing, that it would seem had discovered the only human her destruction, however they might a pity to butcher her!” being in the wide w »rid, in the trim, subsequently l»e discomfited and “That’s true for you, Juan; and jheautifil person of Lolu Brandon,. punished for their crimes. I hope. if she's doomed, it will not t'Siti-f« tie craving* ,».’ his mvilv So the young lover withdrew with fa|l to my jot to put an end to her! r> b*art; and to _ake her his wife, a sad heart and downcast look, and “l’(j rathfcr gjve up |Dy next ghare b the whole story and n a ure h»r again-t rivals, now i. s wealthy rival watched his de > of p]un(jer ¡han be picked out for about , beea«* his |y ŒV*Œ à Clk.'Wcw Tert. SaM by graccn erarrvtere. .»Ubvut her father's •auction. Charles Grayson |iu his despair- after the speakers, W>«M- Mr irai Mi ■»■■e Nu»» W «a Meate r«E& Now. «.lea young Gr»ya>n ap- ing un- i strolled out i-t the village They reached the top of the ac- ■ p ied to Mr. B.-v doa for hie daugh­ into the country, and soon found cliyity, where there was a great ter*» hanJ ne was informed that himself buried into a deep, dark peaked nwk. which had suggested ■ »erv «ere three other suitors w»»od, the same in which i his be- . vhe nanie of th-t elevation. I ibrad of h:m. and that before he loved Lolu had been riding . when Here, after the wait of an hour (the LatbecJ should make a final captured by bandits and a consultation, one of the three foev«»' - dsc> on, would co .suit his While strolling al»out, plunged i was sent back to the general ren- ■ daughter I i>r mvther. and take ihr atwounl «• into almost crushing dvj-ciion, the deIyous n anv :u»p rtant matter* into con idea came to him to h-.rrv away to Gra'r ti determined if [»o?sible extra. ridwewiMa. him to h irry away to E »gle Peak, Io k ilo* this man and fii.d where A* I a « G*ayson knew that at conceal himself in that vicinity, th • t.iirw.- iptive was concealed '¡east « mm of these suitors. Hiram and see wnat might ooim* < f I'm.- r.cingof him through the 1 St«»ckweo, was a waahby ranchman, In this in-««!, to decide was to th ck w . ki was rend -red compara be frit alu> ■*: certain the decision ac\ and w.th a quick examination ti -iy t-.i-," oy his carrying a -mall would be aga.n«l biuise.f and h •ths trusty revotv-r and «•«wie- la-.u-rn, woose giimm r now and ■ '»aronre Much U-p-n-s.d in evo* knifr he s< I ofi al once xii : then became a sure guide. quence Eagle Prak was seven milts dis­ • Il never occurred to the anxious A» X.lery mar no time fix«-d for tance on the other side of the K o f l|ower that there was anv danger the verdset to be given, but a paai Grande: " «» - . n.-x , p. frj n the ’outlaws, tiw req•»»« that be would >f*ain i tro u Exgl-* Pass would proi»ably till once l.e chanced to find himself 1 2** troai swing l>Ju again till all . »e watched by the captors •»! Lolu, on the verge of a precipice, where .•hottld he settled, our anxiou« k»vei her lover started in a different di another step would have plunged I The Best Re’.tr:? Gxi •? t* M * foawd hiwMrtfUM a j round him down to certain death on the M^f the v^m victi m of.mi«er- of a nn*ee- % • • " • ♦ A Y.wiv of «ter C A* ; sharp rocks below; and then, while so *»> to approach it o*i the s.dr nh from the towp groping his way back to safety, the n>cd Wltbtbe trttiblr nr«» ihlt Ewdoned bv ìTATTSME t, In thi« manner he reach'd the light got so far away from him that . L a 4« Kra: out ruling a • : EDUCAR RS ud lr. acclivity a »out du«k, he nearly lost it altogether. STU?ENTS e*«rywMr». il hllW way froa* bome. bad teev» a . J : *d begun to ascend it. for no It was perhaps two miles from captured and arrwd off by Mexi- p rp - that hr could have declared. Eagle Prak, and up the ste»p sides Mas •nxt'e-ei Sv -e a Scats «* Fe~ • «•a bar « ;*• th- r than that it seemed as if he ot a wild, rocky gorge, that out fr-XiM That t « a V »ritaMa H* r»n tefesr father's ho«««- f . M thus somehow be nearer the t rave adventurer traced the light tnev»***•*»• «* Far’». Stattw* further irks*E<«uui tlea Twat» r< the nwwit« r. • re step« and listened. HF. »u 4 understand, and were only Tv BE COXTWVBU. rviytMw «4 the I i Li'.* bad :«r»w cap*cred f w nwe bjwr*. I