The Call of the (Cumberlands —— i ———— By Charles Novll ok | AR EE A—" eT Ta ART —— With Illustrations from Photographs of Scenes in the Play (Copyright. srs, by W. | Want & Cod 14 * CHAPTER XV-—Continued. In two days, the grand jury, with much secrecy, returned a true bill, and a day later a considerable detachment of infantry started on a dusty hike up Misery. Furtive and inscrutable Holl man eyes along the way watched them from cabin doors, and counted them. They meant also to count them coming back, ‘and they did not expect the totals to tally. + = ® *® ® * * Back of an iron spiked fence, and a dusty sunburned lawn, the barrack-like facades of the old administration building and Kentucky state capitol frowned on the and railroad track. About it, on two sides the Kentucky river, sprawled the town of Frankfort: sleepy, more or less dishev- eled at the center, and stretching to shaded environs ef colonial houses set in lawns of rich bluegrass, amid the shade of forest trees. Circling the town in an embrace of quiet beauty rose the Kentucky river hills Turning in to the gate of house enclosure, a man, who to be an easterner by the cut clothes lked slowly up the walk, and passed around the fountain at the front of the capitol. carried him direct to the trance the administration and, having rotu 2, he fice of the executive for an interview with the “Have you an appointment? retary asked The visitor bling a brief inclosed it in it street ol the state. of main en- of the paused a in entered the moment ecre and a governor. guite, the ghook his head note on a slip of paper, he an envelope and to his questioner “You terion me send must ness,” pardo seeming but if you think the mys he said, let in that note I will see me” Once more the secretary studied his man with a slightly puzzied air, then nodded and went through the door that gave admission to the of- fice His ernor executive's excellency opened the envelope T aisturhunce, As far as he was demic interest, to survive a trial. He was at present able to hold the Souths in leash. If and permit matters to take their “And now, Mr. South” suggested i | i ! sorbed listening, “there is one point Since in the end the whole thing comes back to the ex- it ‘as after all the crux of the situation. You may be abie to render such services as those for which you volunteer. Let us for the moment assume that to be true. You have not yet told me a very im- portant thing. "Md you or did you not kill Purvy and Hollis?” “1 killed Jdollis,” sald Samson, as though he were answering a question as to the time of day, “and I did not kill Purvy."” “Kindly,” suggested the governor, give me the full particulars of that affair.” The two were still closeted when & second visitor called and was told that his excellency could not be disturbed. The second visitor, however, was so in- sistent that the secretary finally con- sented to take in the card. After a glance it his chief ordered admis- sion. The door opened and Captain Cal- lomb entered. He was now in civilian clothes, with portentous news written on his face. He paused in annoyance at the gight of a second figure standing with back turned at the window, Then wheeled and the two men rec They had met be 11 At and jeans and butternut Callomb’s face fell in recognition surprise He ralsed hls brows ingly “Rough-looking “Mountaineer?” “No, sir. New Yorker guess. Is there anything suspicious?” “1 guess not.” The governor laughed “Rather dinary note, him in.’ Through governor South Fra that came hills. Then, back, he tur a welldrs ineEpi ring sort? he inquired extraor his eastern red off across to the window ga the hills of nkfort, from the hearing a movement at his ned, and his ey took in gsed figure with r features down oy He picked up the and, for the a moment, stood ’ messa them comparing with the in. There nd some irrecon- between the two seriousness name “nd th man who had ent seemed to be in his mi cilable diction With glightly frowning the executive suggested: Thi says that you are South iat you with ge contra a 5 note and tl re pardon “My The slightly Your papers do not have yet been indicted word Samson want to see pardon South.” ference Mr own, sir.” to a Whose it, governor raised his brows airdon what? report The that for even you yet” with a slight emphasis ‘I think I bave been indicted within the past day or two. I'm not sure my self.” The governor The impression continued he to stare had formed of the Wildeat” from press dispatches was warring with the pleasing personal presence of this visitor. Then his fore head wrinkied under his black his lipe drew themselves sternly “You have come to me too soon, sir,” he said curtly is a thing to be most cautiously at all times, and certainly never until the courts have acted adjudicated cannot ecutive clemency.” Samson nodded. “Quite true.” admitted, “If 1 nounced that I had come on the matter of a pardon, it to state some business and that seomed the briefest way of putting it.” “Then there is something else?” “Yes. If it were only clemency | should expect he to be chiefly important to myself point of fact, | hope to make it equally interesting to you me a pardon in a fashion which vi» lates all precedent, or whether | sur. render myself and go back to a trial which will be merely a form of assas- sination rests entirely with you, sir. You will not find me insistent.” Then Samson launched into the story of his desires and the details of conditions which outside influences had been powerless to remedy-—be- cause they were outside influences. Some man of sufficient vigor and com. prehension, acting from the center of address itself to ex Ld he exclaimed. that | ‘You here, South!” I thought you promised shouldn't find you want to meet you “Nor 1 you," Bamson spoke [ supposed you'd be rakin Neither of them was for the n the least who stood quietly Merriweather Callomb, img come here late. God wouldn't have had this r for anything under no choice Y« two counts, each der.” The officer took step toward the center of th His face was weary, and his the deep disgust and fatigue that come the ity of perform hard duty. “You quietly me slowly. gz the hills.” oment to the looking out atien attention oernor, “1 sent on wanted to before too knows, heaven. Mu are g£ OCCU eaves [Ye ndicted on ing you with mur 8 room eyes wore rom necess are under -arrest,” he added d yon nd ME “Now, God, I've back let them you're man useful to the state.” by and the got to take murder you, have i CHAPTER Xvi. ™ or ie * enced by than had been influ. watching two as they by what he had heard to me, gentleman,” he sug uietly, “that you are both over ny presence.” He turmmed tw more the Your coming, Sid, unless it was pre- between the two of sou gince | know you, | know was has shed more light on than the testimony of a SOs After all, I'm =till which not the this matter dozen witnes the governor.” The militiaman seemed to have for gotten ence of his dictin- guished kinsman, and, at the voice, his away from the face of the man he had not wanted to capture, and he shook his head You are merely the head of the ex- branch.” he sald. “You are as helpless here as | am Neither of us case) the exist i “There's the rub,” he protested, read- ing aloud: “ “The military shall be at vo The governor glanced down to the next paragraph and read in part: “*“The governor may direct the com to report to any one of the following- named officers of the district in which the sald force is employed: Mayor ol a city, sheriff, jaller or marshal.” ” “Which liet,” stormed Callomb, the honor roll of the assassins.” “At all events" derived from Callomb much tion as to SBamson South which mountaineer himself had “South gets his That is only a step. 1 wish make him satrap over his province. and provide him with troops to rule it Unfortunately, our form of ment has its drawbacks.” “It might be possible,” ventured the attorney general, “to impeach the sheriff, and appoint this or some other suitable man to fill the vacancy until the next election.” “The legislature doesn’t meet until in is one chance, is a sick man. die.” Let us hopes he may thé room over Hollman's fanity read a communication Frankfort, announcing the pardon of Samson South. In that episode, foresaw the be their dynasty. looking on, and their regime survive the spotlight of serutiny. “The fust thing" Hollman, curtly, * damned soldiers own business later, them watchin’ us to lle mighty q The outside world was could not iaw-loving declared is to get rid of these We'll attend to our and we don’t Just uiet Now, we for a spell teo- heaven with the After a conviction, but a pardon won't don't eee that you anything, Crit.” “1 don't know yet what I can do, but I can tell you I'm going to do some thing,” said the governor, "You can just begin watching me. In the mean- believe | am commanderdn- chief of the state troopa.” “And | am captain of ‘F company, high blood. pardon, to stench you can “As your superior officer,” smiled the governor, “1 can give you orders. I'm going to give you one now. Mr South has applied to me for a pardon ly, 1 doubt my right. Certainly, | shall not do it without a very thorough sift tion of the necessities of the case as well as the danger of the precedent. and for the present vou will parole your pris oner in my custody. Mr. Bouth, you will not leave, Frankfort without my permission. You will take every pre- caution to conceal your actual identity. You will treat as utterly confidential all that has transpired here——and, above all, you will not let newspaper men discover you. Those are my or ders, Report here tomorrow, after noon, and remember that you are my prisoner.” Samson bowed and laft the two cou sins together, where shortly they were evening, the three dined at the execu. had won back the conf his tribe, tod administration Samson of and enli He state been authorized lo militia « Organice ympany, and drill them, provided he could stand answer for their conduct. The f Souths took gleefully to that idea to able yout The idier idea of dis th led toons boy makes & ROOd sd he has grasped the For 1 squads and weekly the fortuitous « ten weeks yey dril daily in ple ame (oo pass leaving beh an unexpired lerm of Samson summoned has Frankfort returned, ion high sherifl, thom the reached Hixon, fow who two years, and Was tily He as we bearing igh ne there were men envied him his who cared to bet his oatt and none he would live That August orable one in Samson South was coming to flown take up his duties. Every one recognized it and one that without bloodshed standing in their only the blunt supremacy. flared and to take of office court Hixon day was a mem- to could pass last question of Hollmans, trench, saw feud had slept had South to his outposts of power across the wa of Crippleshin, That the sion as his a sought ters seat bearing commi the law only m more unendurable Sams had for troops drilling disci of his own company had progressed in along the waters of “Misery They were a slouching, unmilsary band of uniformed vagabonds, but they were longing to fight, and Callomb bad been with them, tirelessly them into rudimentary shape they were as much of the officer efirontery an sade called not on outside The and silence partisans ae state rifles The ovattle, if it came. would be as factional as the fight of 25 years ago when the Hollmans held the store and the Souths the court house. But back of all that lay one es- sential difference, and it was this dif ference that had urged the zovernor forms of law and put such dangerous power into the hands of one man. That difference was the man himself. He was to take drastic steps, but he was to take them under the forms of law, and the state execu tive believed that, having gone through worse to better, he would maintain the improved condition Early that morning, men began to assemble along the streets of Hixon; and to congregate into sullen clumps with set faces that denoted a grim, ate neighborhood were there, but their shaggier, fiercer brethren from remote creeks and covers, who came only at urgent call, and did not come without intent of vindicating their presence. Old Jake Hollman, from “over yon” on the headwaters of Dryhole creek, brought his son and fourteen year-old grandson, and all of them carried Win. chesters. Long before the hour for the courthouse bell to sound the call which would bring matters to a crisis, women disappeared from the streets, and front shutters and doors closed themselves. At laat, the Souths began their horses at the racks. they also foll into groups well apart. The two factions eyed each other somberly. sometimes nodding or exchanging greetings, for the time had not yet Slowly, however, the Hollmans began centering about the The Souths, now com- stream, flowed with to McHwer's hotel, near the square, and digappeared in side. Besides their rifles, they carried saddiebags, but not one of the uni pullding itself, ing in a solid equal unanimity tained, nor one of the cartridge belts, had yet been exposed to view, Stores opened, tory pretense of business, Horsemen led their mounts away from the more public racks, and tethered them to back fences and willow branches in of the river would not find them. dawn that gray when Captain Callomb had ler eabin, on around turn ol waited a quarter of a « was to command the militia that day. if the high sheriff should call Bamson went in knocked, and nily to the cabin Sally's slender, fluttering put both arms about him, a aa she looked into his fied, but tearless I'm {rightened, Samso: pered. “God praying all this day The been still and Mil morning had son South passed the . Sam the the road, and le He AWAY and fusta figure nd her eyes, face, were terri- : she knowg I'm going to “Sally,” he sald, back to you-—but, softly, if 1 close—"Uncle full I'm coming don't” Spies of very will, The farm | days are it out, and every rides coke furnaces, That farm you rich, il we win tod: “Don’t!” she cried, “Don’t talk he coal, will ht" with a that.” ays fig RASD. Hike “1 must, “it's made,” “If by an) v cl hould not come want you to hold Unele § McC and old Wile er to the must not privately still stand for They want must the He Held Her Very Close. you can come back-—if you but you must pre mise that’ i promi it was hal Samson South ie by side A dozen had not become soldiers, there, and, with no word, sepa rated to close about them in a circle of protection As Callc the almost deserted that the se,” she reluctantly elded {-past n o'clock and llomb into Hixon from the of the fe Sidney Cs them mb's eves swem girects, so silent edge shook hiz head. As he met the sullen glances of the gathering in turned to Sam son "They'll fight,” he said, briefly. Samson nodded “1 don't understand the murred the officer, with perplexity “Why don’t they shoot you at once. What are they waiting for?” “They want to see,” Samson assured him, “what tack I mean to take. They itself out and they're cau tious, because now they are bucking the state and the world” Samson with his escort rode up to the courthouse door and dismounted fe was for the moment unarmed and his men walked on each side of him, while the onlooking Hollmans stood back in surly silence to let him pass In the office of the county judge Sam son said briefly: “1 want to get my deputies sworn in." “Wé've got plenty of deputy sher iffe,” was the quietly insolent rejoin. der, “Not now--we haven't any.” gon's volce vas sharply incisive name my own assistants.” “What's the matter with these boys?’ The county judge waved his hand toward two holdover deputies. “They're fired.” The country judge laughed “Well, | reckon 1 can’t attend to that right now.” “Then you refuse?” “Mebby you might call it that.” Sampson leaned on the judge's table and rapped sharply with his knuckles His handful of, men stood close and Callomb ca ght his breath in the hea~y air of storm-freighted suspenso. The Hollman partisans filled the room method.” de Ham “IN and others were © rowlling to the door “I'm high sheriff of this county now,” sald Bamson, sharply. “You are coun ty judge. Do we cooperate—or fight?” “1 reckon,” drawled the other, “that’s matter we'll work out as wo goes Depends on how obedient ye a slong. “I'm responsible for the peace and quiet of this county,” continued Bam. son. “We're going to have peace and quiet " The judge looked about him. The lo- dications did not appear to him indica tive of peace and quiet. “Afr we?” he inquired. “I'm coming be kK here hour,” said the new sheriff unlawful and armed When 1 get back 1 courthouse in a half “This 1» assembly who have business here.” ye buck,” suggested | Judge, yore job ong as ye ought Citizens “When Comes the counly ter try ter won turned and walked through FW EAS mn * he said, in a clear, far “there is no need of an congregation at this court iI call on you in the ide your arms or scal VOIOH, y to lay as s murmur which for an in ned to become a roar, but chorus of derisive laugh nt to the hotel, accompa mb. A half-hour later the k at the courthouse with companions. The yard 3 Samson carried his (ath in that half-hour a telegram, had flashed to advance yurthouse y had flashed company that form back b JAW Was Callou con of $ patt } the jail ell At eft which | vitory Another Generation of Fighters May Utilize Their Whiskers. Here Monroe The Russian has over al th armies, an tis whiskers, It has tangiement of whisk nothing can penetrats +, shrapnel or slugs. A idier's it the kind that passing gal that is a 9 Ww advan d tha army Ons that pot even Ivddite an whiskers are n und #e toss an with Are “wn d ith them he drives They when he falis on ven bend y to the ground wad them. he The danger is his head them in when back of other to the en armi best actics spirit and tri m, chilled difficult job a perform, after finished comb the shells out idiers Fifty years from now, when the next great war fought, it will question of rapidfiring guns; it will a question The world will ask which whiskers battle Nations will te money in buying guns and testing them They grow whiskers for national and they will test an army's efficiency by drawing up a company on the parade grounds and allowing a husky coal heaver to go down the line and hit each soldier in the face with an ax. Whiskers that won't make the ax bounce will be sent to the rear as up fit for the firing line. pi army las the The most ha ted Cross the engage fo sian ment, army nh fo of the s« an bullets is whiskers is long-range f of whis arms; be the longer was no big Historic Fainting Spell. Prince Oscar, he Kaiser's fifth son who has just returned to duty with the German army, left the fighting line witer an enga~emen’ in which he saw the officers about him siavghtered by Turcos and what has been pronounced » severe at- tack of hear trouble. In the Mexican war Brig. Jen Franklin Plerce of New Hampshire fainted while in action from the pai of an injury sustained when hig horse fell on him. This in cident--this unmanly fainting at a time when other people were getting killed-—waa ured unmerecifully to make Pierce a ta‘get for ridicule in later years when hn ran for the presidency ~sHartford Times. - AA Left the City Man Thinking. 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