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F on ee 2 oe eee mem eyes and pallid face; arose and looked fully at the man he had wronged, and then fell back— dead: This unexpected event caused a break in the revelation, but when Doctor Mundee had said that life was really extinct, the politician’s re- mains were removed to another room. It was the old story; heart. disease, great.excitement and death. The remainder of the revelation need not be i in detail; but Barranca Bill explained files Howard’s career after his deceit began. He had added to the original fortune of Ce- phas Brown, and, in the West, bad become a man Of some fame, but he did not forget that there was a possibility of his being deprived of his false honors and wealth, and from this grew the idea which placed Agatha, the Cricket, in his household, Remembering the daughter of the real Brown who had been left at the cabin by the river, he argued that if his mask was ever torn off, be would not only have a means of stemming the tide of vengeance, but a hold on the Brown fortune if he could marry the heiress; and having no fear that the real Agatha would ever eppeer, he conceived the idea of putting in ber place Agatha, the Cricket, to whom he had taken a fancy. The result was the marriage and her introduc- tion into the household, but before she appeared on the scene she had been near Comet Camp, under his protection, and the drama witnessed on the cliff by Barranca Bill and Gentle John was but playfulness on Brown’s part when he surprised the Cricket admiring nature. e blood on the rock was presumably that of a goat killed by a hunter. aving already traced.the fortunes of the genuine Agatha by means of her narrative, we have only to say that the real Cephas Brown did not perish in the Mississippi, but how he was saved must remain an unsolved mystery, as that period of his life between his injury and his appearance at Ramred Bar, where he came to be called Daddy. Gray, always remained to him, : The blow dealt by Miles Howard had injured his brain, and it was not until twenty years later that he was’ cured by Doctor Mundee’s skillful surgery. Then all his early life was clear and vivid, and it did not take long to establish the fact that Agatha, alias Helen Neville, was his daughter. Once more in possession of his mental faculties, be could take up the thread of life where he dropped it, and he was no longer simple Daddy ray. We need not linger over what followed. Luke Gridley, baffled and cowed, and forever shut off from the Brown fortune by the terms of the divorce, was allowed to go, and he went so thoroughly that he was never seen at Comet Camp again; but Hecate, stubbornly held by Deputy-Sheriff Gentle John for her cruelty to Helen Neville, saw fit to commit suicide in her cell, and so ended the career of the Witch of the Weeping Willows. At Barranca Bill’s earnest request, Gentle John allowed Horace to escape, but his career was fearfully short. The next Seat two bodies were found side by side outside the Camp, lying where they had fallen after a desperate fight. They were those of Horace Lincoln and Abe Neal. ; William Lincoln felt sorrowful over his broth- er’s wretched end, but the world was no loser when the man of many aliases went off the stage. ‘Agatti: the Cricket, took courage and laid claim to the fortune of her dead husband, but Barranca Bill threatened her with arrest for other crimes until she consented to sign a paper acknowledging the receipt of all that was due h er. Then, furnished with fifty dollars for expenses, she shook the dust of Comet Camp forever from her feet. Honest George, of Ramrod Bar, expressed some sorrow that the slayer of Square Rob had died by other hands than his, and then settled = to work like the big-hearted man of honor e was. - We have saved the brightest scenes for the last, but the reader scarcely needs to be told how the real Cephas Brown, wholly free from the troubles of the “Daddy Gray” days, re- sumed his own and was happy in the love of his daughter, Agatha; nor how that rising young surgeon, Lewis Mundee, prevailed upon her to forget her widowhood at the end of a year and become his wife. : In the sunshine of his love, her old life seems scarcely more than a troubled dream. . Vivian mourved for her father, but in Bar- ranca Bill’s endeavors to make her burden less theavy, it came about ‘that they fell in ‘lové as “young people will... Hans Vedder and Katie qrere: present at their wedding—and, so, was entle John and Bad Lung. ey “Ef I mightraise my warble,” said the deputy- sheriff, “‘I should say ther ranks 0’ single men are thinnin’ fast. Ali down but nine! I feel lonesome, but Bill isa‘lucky man. Miss Vivian beats ther best bonanza o’ ther silver diggin’s.” Barranca Bill, the Revolver ee ee. eee eee’ DN eee LL Ee. eS ie = os Lung. ‘‘Gal muchee nicee. Me goee to alley | now; mebbe "Melican man wantee playee; me setee ’em up!” ‘‘ Wait for ther refreshments, Bad Lung.” And the Heathen waited, It is time for us to go, however, and we will | only add that Comet._Camp has enjoyed a good | reputation ever since the fall of the Weeping | Willows, and that her people still point out | their greatest man in the person of Barranca | Bull. | THE END. Waverley Library. Mrs. Mary R. Crowell. ason Turner. Bartley T. Campbell. A Brave Heart, By Arabella Southworth. Besste Raynor. By Wm. Mason Turner, M. D. THe Secret Marriace. 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