SYNOPSIS.
The scene at the
CHAPTER Vi. (Con nued.)
ave rn the thi t
Murrell with
Yancy can
Slosson’'s
siatinn
covela
ern unobserved
ay
feelin’ like sleep,
get to
Mas'r Slosson
show me cham
thal sald.
a tin candle
candle in it and led the
passage back of the bar
ted a flight of stalrs and
narrow hall This |
the back
pushed
stick with
s 14
of
open
yo’ chamber”
and preceding his companion in
the r placed the candle
hair
The moon was risiug and Hannibal
he open window and gianced |
For a moment he considered the |
night, not unaffected by ita beauty, |
then, turning from the window, he
moved his bundle and the |
foot of the bed where they would be
his way, kicked off his trousers
biew out the candle and lay down
Yancy had become more and more |
convinced as the evening passed that |
Murrell was bent on getting him
drunk, and suspicion mounted darkly |
to his brain.
“Have a drink with me!” cried Slos- |
gon, giving way to drunken laughter. |
“The captain's dropped out, and 1}
‘low it's about time fo' these here |
festivities to come an end I'm
thin g some of going bed my-
self,” sald Yancy. He kept bis eyes |
fixed on Murrell. He realized that if
the latter could prevent It he was|
not to leave the bar. He never shift-|
ed his glance from Murreil's face. |
Scowling now, the captain's
blazed back their challenge as
thrust his right hand under his coat
“Fair play—I1 don’t know who you
are, but I know what you want!” sald
Yancy, the light in his frank gray
deepening. Murrell laughed and
a forward step. At the same mo- |
Slosson snatched up a heavy
from the back of the bar and |
dealt Yancy a murderous blow. A
single startled cry escaped the
Scratch Hiller; he struck out wildly |
as he lurched toward Murrell, who
drew his knife and drove it into his |
shoulder. Yancy dropped heavily to |
the floor,
How long the boy slept he never |
knew, but he awoke with a start and
a confused sense of things. It was
evidently very late, probably long
after midnight--but where was his |
Uncle Bob?
He sank back on his plilow Intent
and listening. A chililng terror that
gripped him fast and would not let |
him go, mounted to his brain.
Where was his Uncle Bob? Why |
didn’t he come to bed? Memories of |
{dle tales of men foully deait with in |
these lonely taverns flashed through
his mind. |
He slid from the bed, and for a
long moment stood cold and shaking,
his every sense on the alert. With
infinite caution he got into his trous- |
ers and again paused to listen, since!
he feared his least movement might |
betray him. Next he secured his|
pack, and was ready for fight,
Encumbered by his belongings, but
with no mind to sacrifice them, he
stepped out upon the shed and made
his way down the slant of the roof to
the eaves. Ha tossed his bundie to
the ground and going down on his
knees lowered his rifle, letting the
muzzle fall lightly against the side of
the shed as it left his hand, then he
lay flat on his stomach and, feet first,
wriggled out into space. When he
could no longer preserve his balance,
he gave himself a shove away from
the eaves and dropped clear of the
bullding.
to oom, on a}
went to t
out
rifie to
out of
to
to
eyes
he |
eyes
took
ment
clud
iN
a Ad TE Ra la
Comansny
goor
iimself
open
prone O1
3 Fs shadow «
1 him At the san
dark figures
corner of the
st distinguish
some heavy burden bet
that they staggered
moved,
They
two came (rom
building
that they car-
ween them
as they
passed out of sight, and
Hannibal crept
the tavern. He
breathless and palsted,
of
sure!
heard a
surely it
Iater
lane, to disappear
he distant sound
splash-——
the
was a
men
in direction otf
tavern Hannibal peered after
His very terrors, while they
hed and tortured him, gave him
desper 1 of courage. As
two men, be started
wward again He reached end
field, climbed a | and
a deadening of timber
ng wet gr he found
had dragged the!
ached down and swept
the came up
the
the
them
Wren
ate Kind
om hid
1 tae
the
the
corn fence
ass
men
fo
iro Once
palm
little
the
of
the white mis
which the
light
following the
men He em
Elk river,
with its ghostly
was
that
by the
he was
ban white
woods
k of the
beat
an he
rent
of the iid’'s
gazed out on
was hurrying on
secret Then the
of hls loss seemed
him and he was utterly
ghook him, and he
dropped on his knees, holding fast to
he stock of his
“Uncle Bob—Uncle
back! C
wailed miserably
gered to his
about, he saw
jug-out, made
0 It was
ing branch
grapevine
enrt
that
its dreadful
comprehensio
verwhelm
late Sobs
rifle,
Bob, cot
back!™
Presently he stag
Ag he glanced
Rimost at his feet a
from a single
sec An overhang
by a length
me
ant you come hie
feat
ired to
off across the deadening In the direc-
tion of the tavern, he crept down to
water's edge and entered
canoe In a moment, he had it
from Its lashing and the rude craft
was bumping along the bank In spite
of his best efforts the
Then a favoring current
swept it out
the the
free
with paddie
caught it and
toward the center of
stream,
CHAPTER VIL.
On the River.
Betty stood under a& drippin
lla In the midst of a downpour
brel
VAUGHAN KESTER
Le (STRATIONS By DMELvILL
7, foe Bins Wray Crsmmany
ba | idde nly
tall,
familie
are they
ith that
loch
and
now,”
gathering
excep!
ice of
an
che
id continue
ma
bec
’ set 1%
more of the NN
Ww As
much
Men
pa sed
When phis
friendly inter me i
brother,
spoken
0 OAVE
any other days, dwin
was clos
four
there
of It all
twenty
reflected
New Madrid
her They
flood of
were
er a
his back
her
agal
discontet
uted
giad to have this
r=" he sald at
hensive sweep
and she opened
questioningly
said
augh. drawing a chair near hers
sitting down
rprise, gave him a
then as quickly
what
As
points of
tant headland
is that New Madrid--Oh, is It,
| Carrir she cried eagerly
she looked suddenly
light appeared on a dis
Mr
igton”?
“1 reckon so,”
| his 1 fon
But you
writ
re not looking!
“Yes. I am—1'm looking at you
you'll think me crazy,
presumptuous and all ths
| reckon
Mairoy-
\
CRE
AN IR
wish Memphis
H that
s map, and
this
cou Ue
wea
Wik
for ever!
are
Arringte
you
sald
4
sleeping
— .
AE ALF
BE rou
stretched |
fat legs
RUINS
' 3
path
an owl fom 4 Dearby
He yawned and
iimeelf sting out his
oxlen ding his
Dacs oming aware of that
be
iight, be
with the
the
ted him
thr
and
Then
as he od
him
and pow st
uncertain
his
bad sto
Tere]
mp
fore
eves
en up
hands
are he
Hannt
boy
Jemanded
Hazard,”
man quitted his
bal
The
Warne
ue
Well] am giad to know
Hannibal Wayne Hazard i am
um Price—Judge 81 Pries,
sometime major-general of
CODKTERE,
honors my fellow coun.
thrust me” He
ing gesture with his two
ad and bowed pounder
you,
Slo
ember of
w of those
have
weep
rymen
spon
nade a 8
hands outspr
The boy saw a man of sixty,
battered visage tol
Thete waa a
frost about his ears;
biue and
whose
d its own
whites
and his eyes,
prominent, out
tiling brows He wore
m-colored coat and tight
About his fat neck
stock, with a sug
ed linen showing above
was corpulent and un
4
story Spares
pale looked
from
a shabby
arab
was a black
gestion of soil
it His figur
wieldy
“You don’t belong in these parts,
do you?" asked the judge when he
had completed his scrutiny.
“No, sir,” answered the boy. He
off down the road, where
iightas were visible among the trees
“What town is that?
“Pleasantvilie—which is a lle—but
i am neither sufficiently drunk nor
under bee
plu
breeches
vid
Just
Have
you s0 much as fifty cents about
to a slit above their folds of puffy
flesh. Hannibal keeping his glance
on the man's face, fell back a
“1 can’t let you go if you are
1 can’t do that!” cried the
judge, with sudden vehemence. "You
shall be my guest for the night.
They're a pack of thieves at the tay.
ern,” he lowered his volce. “1 know
‘em, for they've plucked me!”
rested a fat hand on the boy's
shoulder and drew him gently but
firmly into the shanty.
a candle was sputtering in his hands.
He fitted it Into the neck of a tall
boy glanced about him.
The Interior was mean enough,
with its rough walls, dirt floor and
black, cavernous fireplace. A shake
down bed In one corner of the room
was tastefully screened from the pub
le gaze by a tattered quilt
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Peculiar,
“One o' de mos’ curiosest things
about a fool,” sald Unele Eben, “is de
way he'll holler and git mad if you
don’t let him show off his misfortune”
SNAPSHOTS AT
All Pennsylvania Gleaned for
items of Interest.
REPORTS ABOUT CROPS GOOD
Farmers
Churches
Worthy
Busy In
Raising
Objects
ness and Pleasure that
Pritiing w Lie
per, oat ;
Was loads
$3
the
and
axaminat
will
wall
cen
Peun
ton, has
caused
sieket fence
Adams
§lyearold son of Clarence Huff
resides al I at Riegeaisvill
1d was drowr
Villiam of Hollidaysburg
killed a “champion”
days ago. The animal
i i weighed 171
pois. It was raised Ly a
township farmer
walight calf a few
34 days
pounds avoirdu
Frankstown
was
Found
Creak
Stein, Cham i
land Valley brakeman,
bave been killed b>
train
dead
near Lel
of
yerablure
i
a
Because a
was awakened and gave the alarm
when a coal oil lamp exploded, and set
fire to the home of Mrs. Minnie" Bar
ger, at Carlisle, the family was proba-
bly saved from burning to death
A Gettysburg foundry has shipped
to the Daughters of thea American Re
volution of New York city two British
cannonscaptured at Yorktown in 1781.
Carriages were made for them at the
foundry.
fivayearold
daughter
H. Fuller Smith, of Fernwood,
sent to Media fall, in default of $500 |
bail, on the charge of stealing three
watches from Township Commission
er William Shepley, of Upper Duryy
township.
wal
John Joliat, a Frenchman who lives |
in West Mead township, Crawford |
county,
Lippert farm in that township.
of the purchase price, $1100, in silver
dollars and hall-dollars
tin bucket,
and the
Ex-Distriot Attorney John M. Rhey,
who has been elected
president of the Oratorio Society, was
Journal clerk of the Senate when the
old Capitol burned in 1887 and while
the firebrands from the ceiling were
dropping about him, he cooly made a
record of the motion to adjourn, tell
ing what caused the adjournment.
A bill for a Federal building at Lock
Haven, introduced by Congressman
W. B. Wilson, has been approved and
will be included in a favorable report
Ww Congress in Decowbes,
a
wk
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