COPYRIGHT CHAPTER XVIII. fies Himself. left him Captain Thorne Justi After the Wilfrs me rest he hea in street, the heavy trampling of had for two women d stood motionle and then Searcely 48] a down mo nt, sat had rd shouts far « to ’ fer vearily he done so utside directic cries ns, orders He rose a indow. The ing louder and the foot distinct. Men were aj rapidly, he co 1d running at was walked over to the w Were grow steps proachi that could they As } iad gore the ng ho ise they were be? What flashed into found Bprang and window tal with tell tows mind It ther Ispicion hardly Thorne leaped across through the other A pedes Washington on it his lodgment upon burst when the x > is ty front into the long room bust of a of the Thorne Guard, is Here.” “Sergeant Captain | was standing between the windows. As Thorne sprang back from the win dow, he knocked against it. It fell to! the floor with a tremendous erash. He stood staring a moment toward the window, listening while the noise | of the running feet died awap in the distance. It seemed that he had dis tanced his pursuers or eluded them for the time being. It could only be for a moment, however; he had other | things to think of. Well, that moment would be enough: it was all he re quired. He turned to go down by thé boy. It is hard to say which was the more — ———— Ammo South America Has ‘Discoversd Excellent Way to Cope With the Universal Pest, In South America, where the snake pest Is a very serious preposition, they are now using snakes to catch snakes, Even in the most civilized parts of Brazil over 1,000 persons are killed annually by snake bite. The mongoose, which proved so ef: an JAM GILLETTE mses man | surprised of Thorne at ing Wilfred, or Wilfred at Thorne's | pearance The latter's face was coming rapidly, His was and he had the hunted look of a man at the Neither at other Rn the two Bee ap was pale, he vered Was { bareheaded with | desperate end of his resources anything { Thorne | He sought fred seized “Halt!” brow co sweat, spe very fH fl rst sald to the who first recovered to pass by the boy, m hi Mi he cri d; moment!” gas wili ith shook him: weak grasp of the and EO W he elf wounded loose room “Halt, He shouted again with painfully boy He sank ov 3 y and leaned for ons oO Then the felt a n down on hia } ad against yught h a desperate Thorne iid us helpless hier over Dim porch house, the the to recover battle: strength y fearful while It was Ed plied to } ing into surprised sho Ca Pe yo ith Varney who first is frantic the room to see Thorne Her heart leaped in of him, she wraith or tell said “He gO, my take one look they send Where is he? Miss Varney? re summons by hurry- She much WAS as as he was to see her her bosom stared at vision untruth, coming shot in this brother Henry at his dead me the same Can't you te Is he in at + sight and him as You would at a wouldn't a ne an you ? to Thorne, her hour a closer was room an I'd 5 eo like to before Wi II me that house? Edith head a him toward ip his and t much the looked fittle, shook her away from horne threw ire of despair As he at his face, and moved the table hands in a gest urned toward the window Wilfred, having recovered from a little, called out again The ¢ did ro, his faintness “The gnard! Captain Thorne! This time his frantic outery swered At last they the wretched man. He from the window and faced the girl scarcely less wretched than he, laughed shortly “They are on the scent, you see.” he said; “they'll get me in a minute: and when they do, it won't take them long to finlsh me off. And as that'll Miss Varney, leten thing We a soldier's death, the scaped prisoner, was an upon to one die in roar us, under the flag we love. No, not ali! daredevil, desperate the hazardous schemes of the service. We fight our battles no comrades to cheer us on, ten us, If we win, we escape with work, alone, our lives; No sol with forgotten! These were orders, Miss Varney: tonight, agd 1 don’t want you to think my fective in Jaimales’ and elsewhere, ia of lttle use here. Necessity Is the mother of invention, and nature and ered something which It is hoped may eventually exterminate the dreadful pest, The discovery is nothing else than a “beneficient” snake which is harmless to man, and which kills and eats the poisonous species. The mussurana, as it is called, is a thick, muscular snake about four feet long. It is possessed of an ime | i { for one moment that Y¥ am ashamed of no, not for one moment The sourtd of heavy feet lired called again, | two In the room confronted er, the man erect, and the woman, too A strange palin was In her heart. At was a man, but before she in answer to his {fm- ne room filled with near: the drew while each oth er here word sergeant,” sald you." sald the ser- "There's your hand him prisoner,” man, over to “You are my His command reinforeed by others, nd his squad, the Pi chasing wis of Matson and Guard, through Arrels a some of Ovosl who the ford, Thorne this juncture, breathless, the drawing-room, thrusting been streets Atl and company algo the came in in rapidly, way “Where is imed tri pon 1 asids his in he?" he “Ah!” he eried exela umphantly, horne, standing soldier an by the rounded him, have “Young Varney, here, took him " gaid 1) Stack ize 8 cours * . Al thelr Two gh H here” cried the sergear OOK arms! ay Where men quickly Attention! you take the prisoner find a Across Stack v acant ? 141 tam the hall” anid Were Mrs. Var vy “where th sewing Ecrgeant lowed the orward Wilfred fol ness.” sald the former ’ that latter, 1 will he remarked out HOP air gets as they play marched the 3 to Howard, exciter afraid he night Caroline Mrs killing sur hi gaid nent is gO Varney; “thia him: I am the will hard] with vive in mn now Very well, ee slowly and mother,” the in geald Edith, go now the the ght appalling uld convict him, Was no What had he not ashamed of his work. It and involved and noble sacrifice, becuuse it made the gr demand; and they would shoot him like a mad dog “Oh, Ged!” she whispered: “if some would only find my heart as up standing window, looking thinking thoughts shoot out into strange They him, th« said? wo ro hope. WHER was the highest duty the highest ut eateat bullet well” 4 a CHAPTER XIX, It who 80 happened had that thrust old his closet, whence they had him a short time before, in their haste, had falled to lock the door upon The negro, who had listened for the click of the key in the lock bad at once known of their careless ness So soon as they had with drawn from the room, and their search them to other parts of the he had opened the door cau- tiously and had made his way toward the hall by the drawing-room, which felt instinctively was the place where the exciting events of the night would soon culminate Thorne's entry and the circum stances of his apprehension had been so engrossing that no one had given a thought to Jonas, or to any other part of the house, for that matter, the Jonas 8011 back in satiable appetite for volsonons vipers, and it ean tell of the approach of one in the same way that a pointer will | “scent” game, When tackling its prey, which is frequently considerably bigger than itself. the “good” shake | assumes a lethargic air as if it were giutted with food and could not fight | Seeing this the bad snake immediately | attacks. This is just what the other wants; for, being rendered by nature com pletely immune from the poison, it [and he had been able to see every thing through the hanging: He a quick-witted old negro, gnd he kne of course, that there woult verdict given by guch a had assembled Now | who composed the court be detailed to carry sentence The long with stacks of guns ven under the of Corporal Mategon in Arrel it, bad gone to the There was nothing to attract Every gun was thers guarded A of a battalion | Federal riflemeg had put the Confed | erates of { dred Apons, the for Wan court-martial ’ the as men would of ne cessity out own filled fdier « room Every gol o} tLioge command gford's d« i partmer tial ! terest court-mar else of In house un them: in the in that roon recent capture of into Dossession a few hun breech-loading we not of test and most cartridges in in cardboard shells, the south possessed had been distributed companies in garrison { mond, and ft Of the secret se provost ia attern the approved these but guns were stilt] than any | rifles 1 | the Li 10 80 happened j men vic gau {the guard ha {| of i . " y of them. Every gun i i of this pattern Young 1 his body-servar i often gone { During the wa: ited hin i amp, " ne giared the depay Edith Varney tld he see her other side « When He Finished, He Had the Bullet in His Mouth, very intelligent negro any ordinary circum his devotion to } masier ar would have been absoliutels had bect mistress mie wit? nd ihe ry ’ many ‘aptain ¥ave and nice And he person tinged freedom a had assisted fon worne, by hia pl prisoner { TT easant addr had his he himself was deeply ally that the young man shot ished his attempt about the success of the won art concerned CEs iid not be for io bring Union cause it to be his own caus a double motive t freedom of his principal possible ich Jonas fe Therefore he had secure the if it were in As he stared th listening the the room had sed-—-a thought ished aside the por { he had concealed himself, a tered the room by back door He moved with cat-like swi i the of the He kuelt down by nearest gun, which lay across the { er three, awiftly opened the | plug. out the cartridg lat it a moment, put tie ‘ his mouth, and crunched white teeth down upon it. When he | finished. he had a leaden bullet in his ! mouth, and the cardboard shell in his hand. He replaced this latter in the chamber and closed vreech plug A smile of triumph irradiated his sa {ble features The gun could | fired, but whatever or whoever stood in front of it would be unharmed He had not been quite sure he could do this, but the result of his { experiment convinced him All the i other guns were of the same charac ter, and, given the time, he could ren der them all harmless. waste time in reflection, but started in with the same process on the oth ers wi o any way at pyramids of of conver the hall fortunately came him He tieres with which ® guns to ham i i aation | the from ACTORS door been 3 | Cle to nd en the iftness in direction first stack of ized th oth bre of h is 4 it, Be «fn rifles drew looked end of it in hik strong the every cartridge. (TO BE CONTINUED) irds of a Feather. tured Michigan, Lem-—Yes, the Michigoose now the same rights as the Michi gander brain mpliismi———— Promoters Asleep. “1 don't understand it at all.” said of progpectuses, “What's that?” “The north pole has been discov ered all this time and nobody has sent me any circulars advising me to get in on the ground floor, while it fe be = [LAW IN EFFECT Be | | Measure Makes Some Radical Changes In Working Hours REST PERIODS PROVIDED Commissioner Jackson Hopes to Have Co-operation of Employers in En. forcing Provisions—No Woman to Work More Than Six Days. 5 v at Worx LY Gniraciors flood- iature ir 3 ie op the warning act of Since the act t any, on ing such work had cently because of the water ’ Right here in Harrisburg com mission saved the dam and river wall contractors $2500 by telling them days in advance that a enough to carry away cofferdams ery was on its way down the river. This sum is 25 per cent. of the total appropriation made by the act. 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