He got off into the hills, and made his way up to Monterey." "And the child ?" asked the Padre, with a sudden and strange asperity that boded no good to the penitent; "the child thus ruthlessly abandoned--what became of it ?" "That's just it, the child," said the stranger, gravely.

"Well, if that man was on his death-bed instead of being here talking to you, he'd swear that he thought the cap'en was sure to come up to it the next minit.

That's a fact.

But it wasn't until one day that he--that's me--ran across one of that crew in Frisco.

'Hallo, Cranch,' sez he to me, 'so you got away, didn't you?
And how's the cap'en's baby?
Grown a young gal by this time, ain't she ?' 'What are you talking about,' sez I; 'how should I know ?' He draws away from me, and sez,'D--it,' sez he, 'you don't mean that you' ...