D. P. Carr and Deputy Sheriff Muse learn-

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hand they had fallen. The two couples occupied their respective rooms during the night. Several times passing persons heard the girls protest and beg to be left alone. The parties occupied their rooms until 6 o’clock on Saturday evening, when they made prepara- tions to leave. D. P. Carr and Deputy Sheriff Muse learn- ing who the girls were, questioned them as to whether they had been married. They replied in the negative. Deputy Muse took Staples to task in the matter, when the latter in his bully- ing way said “that he would shoot the belly out of any d — d s — of a — b who dare say there was anything wrong.” This aroused the ire of the little deputy, who sets no special value on bullies. Muse struck him, and reading the riot act to him in a quiet but determined tone, brought the half-drunken beast to a peaceful standard in short order. In the meantime Ed Birch, who was a friend of the family, had heard of the disgraceful affair and had ridden out to the round-up and notified the unsuspecting father. The heart- stricken father hurried to town to take summary vengeance upon the villains.