THE SCR ANTON TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING APRIL 27. 1894. CHAPTER XXV. tltiioniih surprissd and confounded fy the sudden turn uf I'VcntH.Unclo Ben did not entirely I OSS his head. When he hcnrd the men crying out for revenge .nxl looked into their jiitileas fucts, be felt that liit last liour had come. And yet the devotion of tho old slavo was never better illustrated than in what followed. As a portion of the crowd started for the house, no doubt tally ex pectiui: to Bad Kenton thero, tho old man shonted at the top ot nil voice: "Com back yere cum back! Yo kin kill me if yo' wants to, but fur .iod's sake doas put yo'r feet in diit towel" "What's the ruattor?'' asked ono as Ihe fian came to a halt. "D& old missus am lyin in dai d( .il an all alono, an it hain't fitten dat yo' ihould so iu!" "Whir'a that Yankee? Whar'i the inl? Whar'i istevo Brayton?" was shouted at him. "Dun gone all dun pone!" he an swered. "It's je.-t liko 1 tulo yo' uo Lody in dar t ut do dead missus!" "Goon, go on!" yelled Ike Baxter, ' but look out far yo'selvesl The hull crowd of 'an ar' in tbsr, and they'll likely niako a flgfat fur it!" The men caoti r.-ly entered tho bouts, firearms held ready for Instant QSS, but at liio end of sevon or eight minutes they came out torjportthut"th. cussed old nigger" bad told the truth. "Dead! eh?" exclaimed Ike Baxter as they told of tho corpso on tho bed. "Waal, I'm eoin to burn tho house jt tho same, though Ittebba some of yo' tins will lug tht body outdoors fujt. Time 'miff fur that after wo it through with this old nigger, ltun he an up to that pot! Now, then, chain hiin "there! Yo' old Mack devil, but I'll make yo' suffer fur the rap yo' giv me last night! I'm g un to begin at yo'r chin and skin yo' d'ai down to yo'r heels! After yo've bin fkun we'll build a file around yo" and r ia,t what's left!" lie went to his saddle for a rawhide, oue be had eeemingly iroirjht along for theoccasion. When be retard d With it. Undo Bon was stripped of coat I vest ami his shirt torn away from his shoul ders. They w. r- g- ;ng to ink- h;- iif-. HOI nercifolly, ai f ne kills a savage beast by a ballet through the heart or brain, bat tiny would torture him tor hours p' th-ips. He could n- t tail to re alize this, lut he did not 1 g f r mercy, He simply shot his eyes and pruytdUod to give him strength to endure every thing for the sake of tb M in hiding down thl riad. lie would bo asked to betray them. His refusal would bring other tortures, but he would refuse, "Now, then, yo' black bound, whar ar' tho rect of the folks':" demanded Iko Baiter as he walked np Pi Uncle Ben and flourished the CTOel Whip. "Aye. be knows the exact spot whar they ar' hidin, and he's got to tell:" snooted two or three in the crowd. "Of co 'se he knows, and I'll hev it enter be on mighty quick!" replied Ik-. "I'm goin to give yo' u powerful li' kin. ok man, fur tho way yo' banged mo last night, but I'll make it a l etle eat ST it yo' II tell what they all Is bid away." "I has nuthiii to Hay. " quietly re plied the old man as ho looked about bin. "What! Vo' won't toll me?" "Give it to him! Cut his hide into strings!" y. lled tho crowd. Iko responded by ctrlking Uncle Ben about 2') blows across tho bare back. Each blow raised a welt, and us each ono fell tho victim strained and tugged t his lashings. Undo Ben bad been whipped tho night before, but that was more in tho nature of an assault or an attack by armed men. For the first time in his life he had been tied up and his buck bared. He felt tho sham" and indignity almost as much as the blows. "Yo' kin see what brung on this yiro war. " laid Ike as ho paused for breath. "Them air Yankeea was tellin our nig gers that they was jest as good as thar masters. Yen's n can: of it right yere. If le 'd bin my nigger, he'd bev bin as humble as pumpkin pie, but the Percys, who hev alius bin half Yankee them selves, brung him up to think bs on was as good as anybody!" "Hurry up. Give he un somo more!" yelled tho crowd. "Thar hain't no rush about it." re plied Ike as he flourished tho whip. "I wunt to make it last as long as 1 kin. It's a dod gasted pity wo hain't got IB or 20 other niggers yere to look on and tako Warnlu by his fate. I've ullus itched to lick a nigger, but never had the chanco befo'. Ar' yo' goin to tell ino, yo' internal old imp, whar that Yankee la hidtn out?" Undo Ben sim ply Shook bis houd. "Yo' hain't, eht" screamed Ike. "Then everybody stand back, fur I'm goin- I'm Roin to make the blood fly all over tho yard!" "Ktopl" Iko bad his arm railed for a blow when a figure passed hiin and halted beside Undo Ben. That figuro had pushed its way into the circlo unheard and unseen. Everybody stared in as- L I J "Stop" $hc cried. touishmont, nudfor half u minuto not a word was Bald. It was Marian Percy. Hi- was known by sight to at least half of the gang, and tliu others at once iden tified her as "the gal" they hud expect ed to find in tho honso. Let us go back ajjttle, JVlcija Unclo Beu left the. camp COPYl6TtO IB94 BY AMERICAN PRCSS ASSOCIATION. among tuo tocks, sno nad mtenaea to follow him within an hour. It had been settled that Kenton must remain where ho wus until a forco of Federals was brought to tho rescue or until it was known I hat ho was in no peril from the Confederates, Wbtloitwas hoped (hat Undo Bon's mission would be suc cessful all realized tho chances of its failure. Both armies were scouting and raiding up and down and across. A bamli l or crossroad's or bridge held by the Federals one day would be in posses ion of the Confederates on tho next, and vice versa. Uncle Ben might on counter a troop of Federal cavalry and bring them to the rescue, or he might be picked up by a Confederate troop or a gang, of guerrillas and sent off soiuo where to work ota fortifications, "Mebbe tho Yankl will come fust, and mebbe the Confederates, " replied r-uvo Braytou when appealed to for bis opinion, "It's goin to ho nip and tuck, I reckon, but Willi the cbauces a lectio in favor of the Confederates, Kin I make bold to offer some advice?" "Why, certainly," answered Marian aud Kenton in the same breath. "Thou let Miss Tercy head lur home to once, We can't tell what may bo happentn thar i r what's goin to happen vers. Sac's a Pi rcy aud a good Confed erate, aud nobody '11 dure disturb the house. Tbem blamed guerrillas which Collered us yesterday may open tire ycro any miuit, and inco they do she can't git away." The advice was full of wisdom, und Marian prepared to utuit at once. "Got any we'pinsinths bouse?" asked Steve as ...,( win i.-ad. . "No." "Kin yo' sh i-t a pistol i" "Of course. I have been sorry that ( left mine b hind us in Wincbesb r ' "Then take this revolver. It's a big an, i ut I guess yo kin handle it. Beiu yo' ur' a soutberngal, no southern man urter trouble yo", but yo' can't ullus tell r hat may happen. If wuss conns to wuss, bullets will count fur mo' than words." Kenton advised h. r to take it, and Brayton aasistsd her down to the high way and i'd as he left lur: "Yo' mny hear some shootin up this way doorin the d iy, but don't l nan us about it und don t run any risks to cum and SSS what the trubbls is. " On approaching iin house Marian caught sight of the b OT SSS and men and realized what bad happened and was happening tx fore "he bud made out the figure 'if the 1 lyal old slave chained to the pc.it. Hie had felt terribly aminos aliout her mother us she cams along tho Toad, and she bad grown f.uut ut thought of tho troubles anil perils surrounding her, but everything was forgotten t!.. Instant she saw that circlo of m D, ll wa no womb r every man iu the gang looked at hi r as if IpSll OOUnd when she suddenly appeared in their midst and cried i '.it to stop Iko Baxter's uplift. I arm. As woim n despise cowardice iu a man, so do men a inure anything ap proaching heroiam in a woman. Mar ian rested One band on th- naked shoul der ot the old Slav i who had trotted DSf on bis knee as a child a thousand tine-, and holding the revolver reedy for In stant use in the ..tier, her slight firm drawn up, her brown syi l a-'.: I r bsndsoms face handsomer than ever be fore, she demanded: " Who are yon, and what is the indu ing of this?" very man Instinctively fell back a step or two. Ike Baxter let his arm fall, and no one dared look tho gnl full in the face. For a long halt minute Do one spoke. Then Ike, shifting from ono foot to the oti.er and looking past her in-!' ad of at her, muttered: "We una cum yore to eopfnr' that cussed Yankee and pay thin nigger off fur suiushin my head last night! ' " Ves, that's whut we una cum furl" add' d two or three others. Marian dsp "it-d her weapon on the ground and proceeded to cast off the chain by which did.- Bofl was secured to the post. Koine of the im o crowded a httb pesrer, mid soma muttered and CntSed, but no one interfered. When the slave was free, she signed to bun to put en bis garments, picked up tho Weapon! and sweeping her eyes around the circle she said: "Yonspsak of rapturing a Yankee. Who is he where Is he?" "Yo' know who wo mean," replied Iko Maxtor, who was recovering nil IS surance w.oiiei than tho others. "Wo mis want Kenton, that cussed Yankee spy!" "Aye, ho un'l tho man!" growled Umi " or four others. "And you all him a Yunkee you, Ike Baxter!" sho replied as sho stepped forward to face him. "Ho diluted when you did. He femght when yon ran away. H has encountered u sears of dangers to your one. Ho has done more for tho cause of the south than all of you combined. When yon call him a Yankee spy, 1 call you a cur, and a coward, and a disgrace to tho uniform you wear!" CHAPTER XXVI. Tho gang had gone fur enough per haps too fur. Tho Percys were loyul southerners und people uf influence ami this disgraceful raid, oven though made under a reasonable pretext, might bo sternly rebuked by higher authorities. Those In citizens' dress wero no better j than prowlers; those in uniform hud nu authority beyond what Iko Baxter as sumed. Ah Mnrinu stood facing tho crowd, her face expressing tho contempt sho felt and her eyes flashing n meiiaco from man to man, they begun to 'full back toward tho horses. "Dod rot my skin, but why didn't I kill that cussed nigrjor when I had a chance?" growled Iko Baxter. "Ar' yo' all goin to let that gal stand us olf in this way? It tho uu's hidin that Yun kee, then bor's a sympathizer und orter suffer fur it! I move wo shoot tho nig ger and burn tho houses!" "Wo uns won't do JJiytJmig of tho sort, saw toe eerjjeant, now pusnwg forward for the first time. "Wo uns was sent yero to cap!ur' Kenton und brayton, and I reckon t'other things hud better be left alono.- If that gal wasn't in thehoueo wheu yo'all search ed it, then whar did sho cum from?" Ono of the men replied that he thought he had caught sight of her up tho road ubout five mlnutts before sho appeared iiniong them, but wasn't sure. Ike Bax ter suid bo bad been following Uuclo Ben up the highway when assaulted, and it was rightfully concluded that tho fugitives wuro not a great way olf. Just then they were joined by three more guerrillas, aud the entire gang beaded up the load and were soon out of sight. As they moved away Uncle Ben's tears began to fall, and ho whis pered : Phi 11B OWNTINPED. Th Civil Srvlce of 1 i-.une. 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At neh times, when svsrything U iu commotion, tbe courw of public busi ness does not sufTrr even a momentary In terniptiou. The administration moveson alone iu the most pvrilous crisis; when a new government l in power, it is ready to herve that as it served the fallen one, and to preserve newoomora .is much as possl hie from the iucouveuiences of kasipsrl snoss. The prpiibhr Is thew-fore very well served by Its civil officer, as the empire wa before it -Jules Bimon iu 1 oi um. I r.,nllrsoui Cu.u. Canadiaasmin Is of no mall worry in u.rtropuliun life. Iutri.iHlrally It isw.inh more thr.n our own, but practically It is commercially tAb,Hel and la always SOttnoS of IrntatiOB and soiurtimeseraoual lu, except ti those who deal in It as a commodity. Nearly every time you jret change a ten cent or twenty live rent Cana dian coin wiil slip in usually the former w hich can nc.ircely lie delected Ir on our dime. 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