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By DAVID ANDERSON
Author of “The Blue Moon”
Copyright by The Bobbe-Merrill Cay
CHAPTER XIV—Continued.
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The tracks had been made by a boot
much worn and frayed. The man that
made them must have been large and
heavy, for his boot heel had dented
deep into the floor boards, and the
length of his stride indicated him to
be little, if any, under six feet, The
profusion of tracks, together with a
number of haif-burned matches scat-
tered about the floor, indicated that
he had been there some time-—possibly
several times,
The woodsman found himself won-
dering what manner of man he could
have been, and what hls purpose. And
why did he bring a lamp instead of a
candle? Lamps wére none too plenty
in the Flatwoods, Again there came
over him that strangely disquieting
premonition of danger—Iintangible; int
definable; deadly deliberate,
Everything pointed to the conclusion
that the cabin's unknown visitor would
come again—probably with the night.
The lamp on the box, the blanket ready
to hang over the window, were not
without a purpose. What that purpose
might prove to be could only be con-
jectured—possibly horse stealing. But
no, or why a lamp instead of a candle?
He glanced up at the loft—except
for a few boards lying loose and scat-
tered about upon the joists, the cabin
was open to the roof; he looked
around into the dim far corner back
of the door—it was half filled with
a clutter of rubbish, broken boxes and
the like—but no tracks led that way.
Using the greatest care to conceal
his footprints, he opened the door,
stepped cautiously out, closed it and,
after a critical look about the sun
rounding weeds and bushes, slipped
away up the side of the timbered bluff,
through the woods and back to his un-
finished chores,
After a hasty supper, he drew out
his revolver; bent over it a brief but
thoroughly competent Instant of In-
spection by the candle; tried the trig-
ger-pull; twirled the cylinder; dropped
it back in the holster; blew out the
candle and laid his hand to the door-
latch. The warning of the mountain
girl crossed his mind
closed the hearth of the cook stove to
hide its light: opened the door softly
and stepped out into the gathering
night toward the dead woodchopper's
cabin,
The cloud-bank had dissolved in the
west when he again reached the lil
omened hovel and the sky was hang-
Ing out its stars-—the big ones already
out, and the little ones coming.
He again crept down the wooded
face of the bluff and, under cover of
the fallen oak, festooned with the wild
cucumber vines, stole up to the chink
in the wall and peeped between
logs.
of its unknown intruder,
After listening Intently for
the door, pushed it slowly open and
entered. As soon as his eyes grew ac
customed to the gloom, he saw that the
room was just as he had left It a few
Not daring to venture out on the
risk hiding his trail by stepping in the
tracks, he reached up, caught one of
swinging from hand to
concealed himself behind the old
the exertion had opened the gash, and
he could feel the blood crawling down
his side.
There is something depressing, fear.
some, about entering an old deserted
house—espedcially after nightfall. And
this was the cabin of dead Henry
Spencer. Few flatwoodsmen would
care to go near It-—much less Into it—
at such an hour.
Jack watched the last faint light
from the west dle out in the smudged
window--so foul with clay that he had
not been able to make out more than
the bare outline of the face that had
peered through it a few hours before,
He knew the bats were darting about
in the cabin, for the dark was alive
with the click of thelr teeth. A
screech owl shivered his lonesome
wall from an upstanding branch of
the fallen oak.
The woodsman half started, listened
closely, smiled. The sound was genu-
ine—it was a screech owl.
The low wash of Eagle run, lapping
the rocks In its shallow bed, came up
across the lonely road; the melan-
choly note of a whippoorwill carried
down out of the woods,
A sound fell upon the night--the low
swish of weeds in the yard-and the
woodsman grew tense and stand.
There followed a gugrded footfall;
hand fumbled’ over the door. It
opened; a heavy step creaked the
sagging floor; a form bulked huge
and black In the gloom; a hand and
arm passed across the window and
hung the blanket Into place,
A match seraped-—one of the old:
fashioned kind that sputter a while
before making much light—the chim-
ney of the lamp was raised; the match
lald to the wick. Out of the dark
flared the powerful form and truculent
face of—Black Bogus,
After a somewhat close study of the
tracked floor, he went around on the
other side of the lamp to the ruined
hearth, lifted up a loosened slab of
stone and felt under it, M
Apparently what he expected to find
was not there, for he swore, put the
slab hack, rose and slouched across
the floor toward the rubbish heap. The
man hiding behind It crouched still as
one of the cabin logs and fingered the
pistol butt at his hip. But the ruf-
flan only rummaged out an old box,
carried it back to the light and sat
down,
Drawing a short pipe from his
pocket, he filled it from a grimy to-
bacco sack, lighted It with another of
the sppttering matches, and, with the
alr of A man quite at his ease, began
to smoke,
As he smoked, the bitter lines of his
face relaxed a trifle, and Its half
haunting resemblance to a face that
dwelt—and would ever dwell—in his
memory again stole across the mind
of the watcher.
But Black Bogus had not smoked
long until it became apparent that he
was anything but a man at his ease.
Every sound outside received his
strained attention, and when not lis
tening, he smoked viclously,
At last he
felt of his elbow where It had rested
the
arm across his knee, bent forward
and seemed lost in thought.
Shifting his pose after a time, he
straightened, put away his pipe,
reached Into the Inside pocket of his
faded coat and drew out a thick
bunch of greenbacks--a handful
bills that appeared to be an assort-
ment of tens and twenties,
The woodsman guardedly
As he did so, his knee accidentally
jostled the rubbish heap.
With an oath Black Bogus chucked
Bogus,
the window, a8 heavy
revolver balanced in his band, his eyes
sweeping every nook and cranny from
which the alarming sound might have
come.
At that tense instant a bat, darting
the rafters, biinded by
the light, dashed Itself against the
cabin gable and fell almost at the des
perado’s feet,
“Damn the thing!" he growled, plac-
ing his foot upon the half-stunned
creature and grinding it to death, at
the same time thrusting the heavy re.
volver Into his pocket and turning
back to the light.
He slouched down on the smaller
box ; took the money out of his pocket
again and began a close inspection of
Ten of the bills
watching him to be the newest
laid out upon the box.
put back in his pocket,
Then an astonishing thing happened
to the ten new bills. He took from
his greasy, wrinkled trousers a plug
of tobacco and snipped off a chew
with his powerful teeth; drew from
the side pocket of his coat half a
handful of what looked to be ordinary
black soll of rotted leaf mold; mols
tened It very slightly with tobacco
juice; rubbed a little of It on each
bill and scoured them between his
hands, rumpling and crumpiing them
in every concelvable way. He rolled
the corners between his fingers and
thumbs; bent the corners down : twist.
ed and scoured the bills as If he would
wear them out.
It soon appeared that to wear them
was the very thing he was attempting
to do, for as he worked them and
broke them In his powerful hands,
they lost thelr newness and took on
the look of bills that had been long
in circulation. He was making old
money out of new. Light began to
dawn on the man watching him.
An hour or more he spent at the
task, When at last it appeared to be
finished to his satisfaction, he exam-
ined them all closé to the light, bill
by bill
They appeared to pass the very
painstaking and critical Inspection,
for, with a satisfled grunt, he picked
up his pipe, relighted It and smoked
nervously.
Another hour or more he smoked
and fidgeted ; finally turned the lamp
low; strode to the door, opened it a
narrow slit and peeped out.
But apparently enough of the night
had not gone for whatever purpose he
had In mind, for with a muttered
grunt, he closed the door; strode Im-
patiently back and forth across the
he
The others he
floor a time or two; slouched down
upon the box and, without turning up
the light, again hunted his pipe.
It must have been well toward mid-
night, and the cramped position of the
man behipd the rubbish heap had
grown almost unbearable, when, after
many peeps through the narrow slit
at the door, Black Bogus blew out the
light and very softly slipped out of
the cabin.
The woodsmen rose, listened to the
low swish of Black ‘Bogus’ receding
steps among the weeds until there
carpe the creak of the ralls as he
climbed the fence Into the Eagle Hol-
low read. Opening the door with the
utmost caution, Jack slipped out and
stood listening—the steps had turned
down the road toward the village. He
closed the door and followed,
He had not ghadowed the renegade
far until it became plainly evident that
he was a very IAdifferent woodsman,
Sticks snapped under his feet, bushes
slapped back into place as he brushed
against them, and once or twice his
boot struck the grqund with a clumsy
thud, Clear down to the mouth of the
hollow Jack stalked him, He took the
path that led along the east bank of
the stream, and, when he came to the
fork, followed the branch that led to
{ the litte park.
The woodsman stole after him,
ing the path himself this time
i grinning dryly at the eompliment
| had pald the fellow the night before
iin thinking he might
ing of the frogs.
| of woodcraft of which
{ bad probably never dreamed,
tak-
and
he
| seat at Whispering spring
| shadow crept; again,
before, the man
among the gnarled maple
rustic seat,
The windows of the red-roofed cot-
tage were dark. The place lay serene
and peaceful, with no spark of light
alive to show that it was awake
{ the sinister
ing about It,
After an Interval spent in listening,
the hulking
as on the night
crouched down
to
maple reots lifted hands to
mouth again the lonesome wall
of the screech owl shivered out upon
the night. The woodsman seized the
nhiis
and
to "conceal himself In a
shrubbery much nearer
ventured the night before
Biack Bogus had given
clever Imitation of the screech
three times, and was on the point of
giving it again,
opened and
preacher, without his gl
with the gone from
ders, came out on the porch.
step that carried no
mincing nervousness
across the yard, The
the six-gun at his side
it belonged there,
He went straight to the sprin
down the dipper, making
ous amount of clatter
dipped himself a drink;
dipper: turned back
house ;
held out his band.
Black Bogu
his coat,
clumup of
than he
owl
the tall figure
asses
stoop his shoul
suggestion of
he came
white butt
as If
down
of
looked
3: t
a very obvi
in doling
hung
toward the
us reached
drew out @
bunch of bllis, without a doubt-
iald it In the walting hand
{| preacher put it inside his shi
! turned away; hesitated;
gtep.
of package,
The
rt bosom ;
came
“Bogus, be ready any night now
the hurried tones barely carried
man hidden in the shrubbery
& barrel o money in there
‘a’ believed any man would risk
much about ‘im, snd that old, out-o'-
date safe-—a horse jockey could open
it. It's all right slippin’ the goats"
he patted his breast—"in among
sheep like we're doin’; and It's lucky
we printed a-plenty down the river
off o' them new plates; and that
a great idea of mussin’ ‘em up
in
spit so's they'd look like old bills
devil "imself couldn't tell "am.
“It works, and we'd carry it through,
only for one thing-—-Warhope! He's
suspicious,
at the supper table, That's why 1 went
on that fool seinin’ spree-t' throw ‘Im
off ; and that's why 1 couldn't leave no
notes under the slab at the old cabin
as we'd planned. Where he got
clue I don't know, but he's got It, 1
had the devil's own time blindin’ them
hawk eyes of his this afternoon,
“Warhope [—and t' think Loge had
‘Im right at the point of a six-gun and
let "im beat "im on the draw.”
“An'
knife there in the schoolhouse,”
man among the maple roots broke in
“why didn’t y'u let me alone?”
The other whirled on him, and his
voice thickened,
{TO BE CONTINU ED.)
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