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—_—_——. es —EE ar ee . — a ——— adopted daughter, Czarina, as her child, Bridget O’Brien?’ ‘* Yes, she does!” ‘‘She speaks falsely. Listen! At the time of my great misfortune I, too, had a daughter less than six months old. had learned that, after Esther’s flight, you were going to adopt her in- fant out of pity. It wasinthe charge of Mrs, Bowen, who lived in the house with me.” ‘She still lives,” ‘¢Then she can prove what lam about to say. Give heed to me! Theinfant, Bridget, died sud- denly, and a plan tosave my own child from suffering and neglect occurred to me, 1 pleaded with Mrs. Bowen, and she yielded, Secretly we buried little Bridget, and my child was put in its iace. It was taken by you and reared by you. he Czarina King of to-day is not Bridget O’Brien, but Carlotta Armitage, my child!” Perham stood dumb with joy. ‘Neither you nor your sister had ever seen little Bridget, although you had promised that it should be cared for,” added Armitage, *‘ so the deception was easy. How wonderful are the workings of fate! When Czarina gave aid to the poor old man upon whom was the lynchers’ brand, she little suspected he was her own father. I knew the truth, but kept silent until I knew, half an hour ago, that Esther had claimed her as her child. The claim is false, as can be prov- en by Mrs. Bowen.” Sheriff Quinn approached. ‘¢ We have got to put Mrs, Bastion under the influence of morphine,” he said. ‘' She is rav- ing likea madwoman. With all her faults she fairly adored David, and now that she knows him guilty, by his own confession, of robbin the stage and killing Judah Mardwin, she is al- most insane. Her crimes have fearfully recoil- ed upon herself.” A hand touched Perham’s shoulder; he turned and saw Hall Pembroke, “Tt is over,” said the blacksmith, quietly. ** Another hand than mine has slain Mardwin, and I am free from the curse. I feel sure that I shall never feel a murderous impulse again; never see the red mist, the pointing finger or the pantomimic command. I thank Heaven that I am a free man again!” The minister wrung his hand. ‘* You do well,” he fervently replied. ‘* Your thanks are due to the just Providence which watches over us all.” ‘¢ And to you,” Pembroke added, deeply; ‘‘ to ou who struggled with me when I was help- ess!” ‘“{ am glad to have helped you, and have done my best, but the result has been with a Higher Power that, as we read in Holy Writ, ‘will render to every man according to bis deeds.’ Out of sore tribulation have we all been led, and peace abides with them who deserve it.” ‘“‘The way has been rocky,” Kit Jameson agreed, ‘‘but the path has grown smooth, and we may all call ourselves lucky to a prodigious degree.” The situation at Si Gotch presented sharp con- trasts that night. To Mardwin and Harring- ton, cold in death, there was only awe-inspiring silence and oblivion; to the Bastions there was humiliation, grief, gloom andfear, They had sown the wind and reaped the whirlwind. To Hall Pembroke, Jessie and Mrs, Hollis in the cottage, there was happmess, deep and abundapt; and in the parsonage, to Czarina, Mr. Perham, Kit and Giles Armitage, there was perfect content, though confusion had not yet left their minds. Not yet could Czarina realize that the old man of the Pits was her own dear father, but not a regret filled her mind. b Ten years later. ‘ David no ion Ls pi tesa rhage pis crimes. He esca attem robber get money for flight, ane was Sos dead, hice Bastion, too, escaped trial for having the stolen letters in her sion; but a stroke of apoplexy suddenly ended her miserable life. Pansy was given per- mission to leave; she went, and was heard of no more, Mardwin and Harrington were buried at Si Gotch. The confession of a subordinate revealed the fact that the bank had been robbed by Mard- win, Harrington and their men, and of the sil- ver plate, which was put in Pembroke’s shop to ruin bim. Sheriff Quinn was triumphant. He had stood by the blacksmith in all his troubles, and when the truth was known, the worthy officer was ed asa Western Vidocg. At present he is Mayor of Si Gotch. Pete Jordan lived to drive the stage man years, and ever time he came in from a safe trip, Con Byrd insisted upon “ washing the dust cut of his throat.” Hall Perbroke was taken down with brain fever, and his physician declared that the trou- ble was coming upon him when he had the im- pulse to kill Mardwin, The case may rest on this medical opinion, though it did not explain the temptations of his ancestors. The black- smith recovered; he married Jessie; they have lived happily ever since; and Pembroke, now eee sSsSsSsS9a9ananananananasss a tM UHH] HtHRTCEES ee ee ewe —_— Saddle-Chief Kit. free from every trace of gloom, has never had an impulse to barm any one. Czarina abandoned her position as a man- hater, and when, at the end of a few months, Kit Jameson asked for her hand in marriage, she did not hesitate over her reply. She came Mrs. Jameson, and has never regretted the step. Mr. Armitage recovered a measure of bealth and still lives with his daughter; and he and Perham—now a retired preacher—are the best of friends, Mrs. Granger and Harp Moy re- mained in the family as servants, and they, from their position, agreed with more preten- tious friends, that no kinder persons ever lived, nor any couple better suited to each other than Czarina and Saddle-Chief Kit, THE END, Beadle’s Half-Dime Library. BY FRANK DUMONT. 120 The Branded Hand; or, The Man of Mystery. 127 Wtild-Fire, the Boss of the Road. 140 Blue Blazes; or, The Break o’ Day Boys of Rosky Bar, 171 Ebony Danyj or, The Rival Leagues, 185 Evil Eve; or, The Vultures of the Rio Grande, BY TARRY 8ST. GEORGE, 80 Roaring Ralph Rockwood, the Ranger. 44 Rattling Rube; or, The Nighthawks ef Kentucky, 59 Old Hickory 3 or, Pandy Ellie’s Scalp. 108 Daring Davy ¢ or, The Trail of the Border Wolf. 166 Hickory Harry ; or, The Trapper-Brigade’s Spy, 172 Thunderbolt Tomy or, the Wolf-Herder, BY ALBERT W. AIKEN, 11 The Two Detectives; or, The Fortunes ofa Bowery Girl. 76 Abe Colt, the Crow-Killer. 79 Sol Ginger, the Giant 7 raeper: 268 Joe Buck of Angels and His Buy Pard. 447 New York Nat. A Tale of Tricks and Traps in Gotham, 458 New England Nicks or, The Fortunes of a Foundling. 464 Nimble Nick, the Circus Prince, 498 ‘I'nos Ted, tae Arizona Sport. + 510 Cool Colorado, the Hal!-Breed Detective, 518 Cool Colorade in New York. BY JO PIERCE, 897 Rob o’ the Bowery ¢ or, The Prince of Mulberry Street 415 The Vagabond Detective; or, Bowery Bob’s Boom, 452 Hotapur Bob, the Street-Boy Detective, 460 The Lawyers Shadow; or, Luke’s Legacy. A472 Jaunty Joe, the Young Horse-King. 494 Surly Sim, the Young Ferryman Detective, 504 Five Pointe Phil. 509 Jack Jaggers, the Butcher Boy Detective, 516 Tartar purer or, Five Points Phil’s Menagerie. 626 North River N at, the Pier Detective. 588 Wreatling Rex, the Pride of the Sixth Ward. 541 Jeff Flicker. the Stable Boy Detective. 551 Nick Nettle, the Boy Shadow. 559 Harlem Jack, the Office Boy Detective. 569 Brooklyn Ben, the On-His-Own-Hook Detective, BY BUOKSKIN SAM (Major Sam. 8, Mall.) 284 O14 Reeky'’s ** Boyees;” or, Benito, the Young Horse- reaker, 246 Giant George; or, The Ang’! of the Range. 275 Arizona Jaek; or, Giant George’s Pard. 297 The Tarantula of Taos ; or, Giant George's Revenge. 807 The Strange Pard; or, ittle Ben’s Death Hunt. 818 Fre alee Ker-whoo} or, The Tarantula of Taoa. 827 Creeping at, the Caddo; or, The Red and White Parda, 882 Frio Fred; or, The Tonkaway’s Trust. 844 The Fighting Trio; or, Rattlesnake, the Tonkaway. 849 Wild Wolfs or, Big-Foot Wallace to the Front. 857 The Ranch Ralidera; or, The Siege of Fort Purgatory, 864 Snap-Shot, the Hoy Ranger. 875 Chiota, the Creek; or, The Three Thunderbolts. 881 Bandera BIL; or. Frio Frank to the Front. 892 Romeo and the Reda; or, The Beleaguered Ranch, 404 Little Larfat; or, Pecan Pete’s Big Rampage. 427 The These Tratlorey or, Old Rocky on th Rampage e ee Trallers; or cky on the 442 Bluff Bill; or, The Lynx of the Tooke’ 465 Little Lone Star; or, The Belle of the Cibolo, BY J, ©. COWDRICK,. 860 R&ilver-Mask, the Man of Mystery. B69 Shasta, the Gold King; or, For Seven Years Dead. 420 che PDetective’s Apprentice; or, A Boy Without a ame. 424 Cibuta Johny or, Red-Hot Times at Ante Bar, 489 Sandy Sam, the Street Scout. 467 Disco Dan, the Daisy Dude. 490 Brondway Billy, the Bootblack Bravo. 506 Redlight al 4 the Prince ef the Road. 14 Broadway B Be Boodle. 524 The Engineer Detective 586 anergy by A Billy’s ‘ Difikilty.” 548 Mart, the Night Express Detective. 557 Broadway Billy’s Peath Racket. BY MAJOR E, L, 8ST. VRAIN, 292 Sancho Pedro, the Boy Bandit. 801 Leadville Nick, the Boy Sport. 812 Redtop Rube, the Vigilante Prince, 838 Brimstone Hob, and His Lightning Horse Quartette, 852 Tombatone Tom, the Arizona Boy of “ Sand.” 859 Duranirre Dave, the Young Chany ion Wrestler. 871 Kingbolt Chria, the Young Hard-Shell Detective. 880 Avalanche AIf, the Foothills Guide, 890 Jaguar Joe, of the Mountain Mail-Line, BY EDWARD WILLETT. 167 Aan Scott, the Steamboat Boy. 199 Featherweight the Boy Champion of the Muskingum, 228 Ozark Alf; or, Featherweight Among the Outlaws. 282 The Typo Detective; or, Weasel, the Boy Tramp, 205 Feurless Phil; or, The King of Quarteville. $11 The othe er! or, The Pride of Chuckaluck Camp, 822 Nemo, the Deteetive; or, Kit Kenyon's Vendetta, 840 Clip, the Contortionist; or, The Montana Vigilantes, BY CAPTAIN FRED. WHITTAKER, 1. ane Fea-Oats or, The tt ag ee Darien. e Dum or, The Daughter. 48 Dick Darlin ies Pony ete ng Waar m 150 Lanee and Ro or, The Children of the Chaco. 154 The Sword Hunters; or, The Land of the Elephant Riders, 159 The Lost Laptain; or, Skipper Jabez Coffin’s Cruise to the nD Poiar Sea, 200 The Boy Bedoulna; or, The Brot! { the Pl Pi Wahess Gehadiuhio... .. ee 249 wae omer, the Animal King; or, The Round the World anderer 265 The ger Tamer; or, Th {the aor Hinek Nick. heUlamn nue 895 California Joe's War Trail. 29 BY CAPT. J. F. ©. ADAMS. 84 Oregon Sol; or, Nick Whiffles’s Boy Spy. 46 Glaaa-Eye, the Great Shot of the West. 54 Ned Hazel, the Boy Trapper. 56 Nick Whilflesa’s Pets or, Ir The Valley of Death. 60 The White Indians or, The Scout of the Yellowstone, 70 Old ree bo Cabin; or, The Greenborn in the Woods. S81 Lightning Jo, the Terror of the Prairie. 85 Buck Buckramy; or, Bess, the Female Trapper, 247 Old Grizzly and His Peta; or, The Wild Huntress, 251 Light-house Liges or, Oseeola, the Firebrand. 257 The Lost Hunters; or, The Underground Camp, 258 The Scalp King; or, The Human Thunderbolt, BY GEORGE WALDO BROWNE, 86 Dandy Rock the Man from Texas. 90 The Dread Riders or, The Texan Duelist. 99 The Tiger of Taos; or, Dandy Rock’s Angel. 115 The Mad Miner; or, Dandy Rock's Doom. 181 The Golden Hand; or, Dandy Rock to the Resene. 164 Dandy Rock's Pledge ; or, Hunted to Death. 178 Dandy Rock’s Rivals or, The !!aunted Maid of Taos. BY PHILIP 8. WARNE. 67 Patent-Leather Joo; or, Old Rattlesnake, the Charmer, 175 Captain Arizonay or, Patent-Leather Joe's Big Game, 198 Captain Mask; or, Pa tent-Leather Joe's Defeat. 219 Dexpard, the Duellat; or, The Mountain Vempires, 888 A Tough Boy} or, The Dwarf's Revenge. 868 Little Tornados or, The Outcasts of the Glen. B78 Little Jingo; or, the Queer Pard, BSS Little Oh-my } or, Caught in His Own Trap, 401 Little Shoo-F ly} or, A Race for « Ranch, O08 Little Leather- Breeches; or, Old Jumbo’s Curse, 81 Little Ah Sing or, The Curse of Blood, 451 Colorado Kate. A Tale of the vlines. 480 Three Jolly Parda. G17 Jim Gladden’s Deputy. 627 The Jolly Parda to the Rescue. 647 Sandy Andy; or, A Geod Man Down, 656 Lariat Lil; or, The Cast for a Life. BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID. 78 Blue Dick; or, The Yellow Chiefs Vengeance. 87 The Land Pirates; or, The League of Devil's Island, 187 The Helpless Hand; or, Backwoods Retribution. 289 The Gold-secker Guide ¢ or, The Lost Mountain, BY EDWARD 8. ELLIS, 6 Bill Siddon, ee 8 Seth Jones; or, The Captives of the Frontier. 10 Nat Todd; or, The Fate of the Sioux Captive. 21 The Frontier Angel. 98 The Boy Miners; or, The Enchanted Island, 182 The Hunted Hunter}; or, The Strange Horseman, 254 The Half-Blood; or, The Panther of the Plains. 271 The Muge Munter; or, The Steaw Prairie Man, BY MAJOR HENRY B. STODDARD, Ex-8cout, 806 Neck-Tie Ned; or, The Dog-Out Parda. 846 Rapler Raphael; or, The Swordsmen of Zacatecas, S91 Kid-Glove Kit, the Dandy of the Rockies. B98 Kid-Glove Kit and Pard; or, The Gold King. 406 The Mad Man-Hunter; or, The Mystery of Goldew Gulch, 505 Powell’s Pardy; or, The One-Armed Giant. 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By Edward ereon. . 261 Fergus Fearnaught the New York Boy. By George L, Alken. 266 Killb’ar, the Guide; »r, Davy Crockett’s Crooked Trail, 298 Ned Py pe the One-Eyed Trapper; or, The Maid of the Cliff, By Captain Comatock. 5 | 817 Peacock Pete, the Lively Lad from Leadville. By Lieu- a! tenant Alired Thorne. } B28 The Sky We*ective; or, A Boy’s Fight for Life and Honos, By Maior Mickey Free. 850 Ked Ralph, the River Rover; or, The Brother’s Re- | venge. By Ned Bun tline. 865 Raltimore Ben the Beotblack Detective. By A. P. Morris, 8t4 Toreemss Tom; or, Ben’s Double Mateh, By George H, ore, 876 California Joe's First Trail. By Colonel Thomas | ie Hoyer Monastery. 418 Billy Bombshell, the Cliff Climber. By F.S. Winthrop, — 475 The Black &hip. By John S. Warner. Comanche Dick and His Three Invinetblea, By c enryv J. OmMAS. « S28 Wizard-Arm, the Dandy Sport. Arthur F, Holt, 582 The Cowboy Duke. By Edwin Brooke Forrest. ; 552 Ariel, the Athlete. 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