70 TUB SCBAKTON TBIBUNE-FBIDAY MOBN1NG, OCTOBER 0, 1896. an EramMrs MBfflTEl; Copyright, KM, by taa , PART I. He had been dolnar California Tom Haskell, lieutenant of calvary and ata tioned at a territorial post. Had he planned a vacation on hU pay aa one of Uncle Sam's officers he might possi bly have taken In Chicago for a week, but this trip had come to him through the kindness of a relative, and his three months' leave had been enjoyed to the utmost. He was now on his way back to his post and duty, and one ufternoon as the train descended the slope of the Rocky mountains he re ceived a card at the hands of a car porter with the added message: "Oem'len would like to see yo' In de next cah, sah, an' right away. Bah." John Livingston." That was the name on the card, and It was not a ftrange one to the otlicer. He had met the Livingstones two months previous ly in the Yosemite. He had encountered them at Intervals since. Indeed, he had made it his business to run across them as often as possible. The Living stones were father and daughter the most Engllshy sort of an Englishman she the sweetest, loveliest girl the bachelor officer had ever the honor to A MAN" SEIZED THE DAUGHTER. rust his eyes upon. He had planned to be Introduced and had brought 1! uliout. The father was bluff ana bruxque, ns must Englishmen are, and after three or four "accidental" meet ing's he was also suspicious. The girl N'inette was naive, ingenuous, open hearted. There were signs that she even liked the lieutenant. Father ana daughter were going east on the train which was bearing him back to the fort among the foot-hills. He had planned It so, and so it whs. Sit down, Mr. Haskell sit down," nuld the Kngllshman as the officer en tered the special car in which the tor elgners were traveling. "1 sent for you to have a little chat. You are an officer in the army?" The lieutenant bowed. 'I am traveling over the country for pleasure traveling with my daughter. 1 am not looking to invest any money in the United States, and my daughter will marry in England, if at all. 1 hope 1 make It plain to you!" "You you wish to warn me against falling in love with, your daughter!" replied the officer. "Exactly, my boy exactly. Gads, sir, hut I like to meet a man who can see through a hole in & wall. Handsome girl nice girl but It ends right there for you. She Is as good as engaged to a capital good fellow at home. I'm talk ing to you straight. Hope you haven't been hit too hard, for I rather like you as an officer and a man. Do you under stand?" "Have you seen any evidence that I love your daughter?" asked the lieu tenant as he sat up very stiffly. "Plenty of them, iny hoy!" laughed the father. "You have displayed good 'sense, however,. Indeed, you have act ed the part of a gentleman, and that is why I've sent for you. Yes, you have been smitten, and I don't mind telling you that Ninette has been more or less hit: hut I guess no further. She is my only child. Her pin money for a month equals your salary for a year, and I don't want an American for a son-in-law. Nothing 'special against 'em. you know, but I just won't have It. Am I plain?" "Very plain, sir." "That's the best way In these things. If you were one of the millionaires of New York, instead of a poor army offi cer, I wouldn't have it. What can't be won't be. Be a philosopher, my boy. Have a glass of wine?" "Thanks no." "Feel a little sore, but don't blame you. You'll get over It In a week and' thank me for my bluntness. You want to say good-by to Ninette, of courst, and I've no objections, only only " "You have done me the honor to call me a gentleman!" finished Haskell. "Certainly certainly, and I'll trust you. Be glad to have you come In be fore you get off. Nothing against you as an officer and a man, you know'! It's juat that the girl Is as -good as en gaged to a capital good fellow, you know, and I don't want an American for a son-in-law. Going? Well, I don't mean to hurt your feelings. My way Is the plain way, and It saves any mis takes. Shall always remember you aa an officer and a gentleman. Lieutenant Haskell left the car feel ing mad, hurt and chagrined. He had still another feeling love for the daughter whose father had so bluntly given him the right-about-face. An hour before he had not quite known his own heart'. Now he was sure that he loved, and' the father's admission that he was not totally indifferent to her gave him new hopes. When a man has been "turned down" in a matter of this kind, however, his pride Is called to the front, and as the otlicer resumed his seat in his own car his mood was not a pleasant one. There was ample food for reflection as the hours passed, and it was in a mechanical sort of a way that he rose up and left the car as even ing came and the train halted for a few ' minutes at a station where refresh ments could be procured. He had Just begun to sip his coffee when shouts, of alarm from the platform drew him away, and he rushed out to find a train crew, the station loungers and half a hundred passengers tumbling over each other. "There they go they've got away you ii nit tne gin u you snoot! ' Five minutes before the train came in four rough-looking men had ridden up on horseback, and while one held the horses at the end of the long platform , the others had strolled about as If ex pecting some one on the train. If they were noticed before the train arlrved, no one gave them any attention amidst . the bustle. lohn Livingstone and daughter were bountifully provided for In the way of eatables, but it was an op portunlty to stretch their legs, and they took advantage of It. Arm In arm they walked down to the end of the platform, .followed by the three men, and as they . turned something happened. A blow under the ear sent the father down in a heap, and a man seised the daughter ad swung her into a saddle, and was a? Baohallsr Syndicate up behind her like a cat. Just as the Englishman raised an alarm the four horsemen dashed away Into the gloom, and everyone was so taken by surprise that the move was a complete success. "They've got my girl they're carry ing off my daughter!" shouted the Englishman, as he danced around, and a doxen men stepped forward to offer advice or suggestions. It was a case of abduction. The four desperadoes could not have known that the Englishman and his daughter were on the train, but had taken the girl on chance that she had rich friends who would pay a heavy ransom for her. It was a new Idea playing the brigand In the west, but they had figured that it would be safer and more profitable than train robbery. There was just one man on the platform who had realized what had happened and did not lose his head. AVithout a word to the father without a word to the excited passengers rush ing about and asking what had hap pened, he ran down the platform to where a cowboy stood holding a broncho. "I am Lieut. Haskell, of the th cav alry!" said the officer as he approach ed. "A woman has been run off by a gang of outlaws. I want your horse and guns!" "You bet!" was the brief reply. "Here's a good critter, and here are two guns and fifty spare cartridges. I'd like the fun, but can't go. Whoop 'em up, old man!" "Who's that there's another of 'em!" shouted the excited crowd, as they caught sight of the officer dashing away In the darkness on the trail of the out laws. The cowboy explained, and the con ductor shouted: "All aboard!" Ho could not hold his train longer. The thing to do was for John Livingstone to stop off and collect a gang to go in pursuit. It might take hours, but that was his only show. If the outlaws could not be overhauled, then they would expect to find him there when it came to a question of ransom. The Englishman's traps were bundled out of his car and the train went on. and It was daylight next morning before a gang of ten men picked up the trail and rode away in pursuit of the out laws. Lieutenant Haskell was not over fif teen minutes behind the abductors as he rode away. He had acted on the Im pulse of the moment, and yet he new what he was about. He had been sent with a detachment to guard the men building the branch road touching the main line right there, and had hunted and fished and pretty thoroughly ex ulored the country for twenty miles around. He also knew more or less of the various outlaw gangs scattered along the railroad, and had helped to l-un down and break up several. It nau come to him like a Hash that this was Hlue Pete" gang, who were "hived up" over in Trout Valley, twenty mile away. He gave no thoughts to the odus against him, but sent the broncho straight down the rock trail over the creek up the long hill and then straight to the north along the crest of the ridge. He hoped to overhaul the outlaws and have it out with them, and as if eager for the fray the horse under him did his level best.- Had the officer stopped to think he would have been more careful. The men before him were as cunning and crafty as Indians. As he rode at headlong pace the wind was at his back. The ring of the iron shoes against the rocks would be carried in advance of him The outlaws would naturally wish to make sure If they were followed, and It would be asy to set a trap. One was set. In single file, riding at a hard gallop, they covered ten miles of ground without drawing- rein. Then one rider drew up and dismounted and the others kept on at a more leisurely pace. Ten minutes later the broncho came thundering down the trail with the lieutenant peering ahead into the darkness and wondering if ho was not close upon the gang. There was a nasn a report, and the horse leaped nign in tne air, uttered a scream al most human and when Its feet touched the earth he fell In a heap and rolled over, sending the officer twenty feet away among the stunted bushes. He was half stunned by the fall, and It was five minutes before he sat up and realized what had happened. He had ridden into an ambuscade and been ddne for. While he was unhurt his horse was dead, and without a horse there was no hope of overtaking the outlaws. He had seen the Hash and heard the report, and knew that he Had been ambuscaded. Was it only by one man or the whole gang- Must he give up the quest and return to the town without news? Horseless and alone could he hope to accomplish any thing? He answered the question by turning from the horse and speeding THERE WAS T FASH. down, the trail after the outlaws on foot. If John Livingston had known it he would have said: "That's the sort, you know, but I Just don't want an American for a son-in-law." PART II. The attack upon Ninette Livingstone and her father had been made so sud denly that she was In tho saddle a"d the horse galloping away befoio she realized what was going on. the did not scream out and she did not faint. As the horse sped forward she asked of the man holding her on the saddle: "What does this mean where are you taking me?" "It's all right, lady-all right." he re plied. "Sorry to put ye to any trouble, but there's no call to be afraid of us. We wouldn't hurt you fur no money." "But you have kidnapped abducted me!" "Yes, you may call it that way, but don't go to talking on about it. The man with you on the platform was your husband, I take it?" "He Is my father." "It's all the same. He'll want you back and be willing to come down with the cash. If be comes to our figger you'll be back in a day or two." . "Then you kidnapped me to extort maney from him?" asked the girl. . "That about tne case, but we snan i be too hard on him. Don't worry you are all right." A girl with less nerve would nave fainted. One with less presence of mind would have tried to throw herself off the horse. Ninette was badly up set over the adventure, but as the gallop continued she made herself believe that it was only money the gang was after, and as soon as they could communicate with her father she would be restored to him. When the gang drew up to lay the ambuscade she knew that a single man was in pursuit. Who could it le? It was not her father it was not one of the train hands Was it Lieut. Has kell? She found herself hoping that it was, even though she knew one of the outlaws had gone into ambush to take his life. When the man who had been left behind rejoined his companions he called out: "All right," and they knew "HERE I AM." that they were no longer pursued. The horses were taking it easy now. and Ninette asked of the man behind her: "Were we being followed?" "Yes." "And what has happened?" "Why, the fool who was after us is lyln' dead bnck thar!" The girl was shocked and grieved. It mlgnt not be Lieut. Haskell, but in her heart she believed it was. Had it been daylight the outlaws would have .seen tears in her eyes after that. At mid night the trull took a sharp descent and debounced Into a valley, and the first horseman to reach the level pulled up his horse with a Jerk and cried out: "Them devils hev broken loose and Jumped the ranch and the house Is all afire!" "Them devils" meant the Indians from the reservation thirty miles away. They had reached the ranch an hour before. There was a wounded man ly ing there and a half-breed woman who did the cooking. The score of Indians met with no opposition. They killed and scalped they plundered and feast ed, and when ready to ride away they set fire to the house. Tho wounded man had told thorn that Blue Pete and his gang were out on the Cedar Hill trail, and after fliinw the house the Indians had gone into ambush near by. The four horsemen rode forward cau tiously, and had begun to believe that the Indians hud cleared out when they received a sudden volley from a dozen rifles. Three horses and riders went down the fourth horse made a sud den soring as a bullet wounded him and then went tearing away across the level. This was the horse on which Ni nette Livingstone was mounted. The outlaw behind her escaped the first vol ley, but the horse had not gone two hundred feet when a second was fired and he threw up his arm and felt out of the saddle. She caught the reins as she settled herself down, but made no attempt to check the horse. Two or three of the Indalns were mounted on horses taken from the ranch, but after a pursuit of half a mile they gave up the chase. It was lucky they did, for at the end of another half mile the wounded horse came to a halt and lay down In his tracks and died. At one o'clock In the morning the girl sat down on a stone beside the dead horse and tried to realize her situation. She had escaped the outlaws she had escaped the Indians, but she was alone In tho foothills and perhaps worse off than when a captive. Site dnred not move until daylight came, and when it came how could it benefit her? She crouched down and shivered in the cold night air and shook with fright as the mountain lions and gray wolves snarled at each other In the thickets. At three o'clock in the morning she heard footsteps ap proaching Soon after she could distinguish the head and shoulders of a man against the starry sky. An In dian? No. An outlaw? Perhaps, but she preferred captivity to the present situation. She rose up with a "here I am," and the next moment Lieut. Has kell stood beside her. It was not a foolish move on the part of the officer to continue the pur suit on foot. It was only ten miles further to Blue Pete's ranch, and It was evident tlicy were taking the girl there. They might find another hid ing place later on, but would not move before daylight. He was not over two miles behind the gang when It descend ed Into the valley, and he saw the re flection of the burning house and heard the volleys fired by the redskins. Has kell at once Jumped to the conclusion that the Indians were out, and his ap proach to the valley was made with the utmost caution. The Indians had killed three of the outlaws and were holding a dance about the mutilated bodies as Haskel drew near. They had shot the fourth man off his horse as he fled, but In the darkness they had not seen htm fall. He had bounded Into the shrubs, and those who passed had no Idea of his presence. Haskell found him as he prowled around and sought to learn If the girl was a pris oner or dead. The outlaw had been shot through the right hip and was slowly bleeding to death. He at first took the otlicer for one of his gang, but when he discovered his mistake he said: 'So you are one of those who followed after the gal, eh? Wall, I hope ye'll find her alive, but the chances are agin it. When I fell off the hoss was headed right off this way across the valley, and he'd sure keep goln' till he reached the other side. That's whar ye want to look fur the gal." The officer was anxious to do some thing for the outlaw, enemy though he was, but the man replied that he want ed nothing, except to die before day light came and gave the Indians his location. He had lived In his boots and was dying with them on, and that was the way his companions had gone. He knew that death was near and insisted on Haskell taking his guns, and there was no tremor in his voice as he said good-by and advised the otlicer to hur ry away in search of the girl. There was an hour of darkness as Lieut. Haskell and the girl sat side by Bide on the rock and conversed In whis pers. At the first signs of daylight they rose and moved away, and when day had fully come they shaped their course for the trail over which both had come during the nlglt. The dead horse had not been left a mile behind, however, when there came a peculiar cry which warned, the officer that the Indians were on the spot. They had tracked the hoof prints across the val. ley and come upon the dead horse." sr. M They wouia searcn ior the girl they would soon discover signs ot a man's presence. It was folly to hope to es- rape by flight. The thin shoes on the girl's feet had almost been cut away in going that short distance, and ex posure and exhaustion had made her weak. As the cry. reached their ears they were pushing along at the foot of a cliff forty or fifty feet high, and the next morning the lieutenant uttered an exclamation of satisfaction. . He had discovered the mouth of a rave at the base ot the cliff, and lying about it were carloads of liowlders which had fallen from the crest. "We must stop here and make a fight for It," he said, as he half carried her to the opening. "In with you and find a place to sit down, and X will block the entrance." The tourist who visits "Haskell's Cave." as it is called, will find a narrow opening for a few feet, with a turn to the loft and then a chamber twenty feet square. There are others and larger ones in the same cliffs, but none with a history. The girl passed through into the chamber and fell on the rocky floor, and after ten minutes' hard work the officer had the entrance securely blocked against a rush. When he had seen to this he spoke a few encourag ing words to the girl and then set him self to watch for the Indians. He had not long to wait. Five hulf-naked and war-painted red-skins came along on their trail at a run, and the first in timation they had of the presence of the fugitives was a bullet, which tum bled one of them over. Army officers believe in getting in the first knock down in a tight, and Haskell had not waited to be first shot at. The surviv ing Indians sought places of safety and opened fire on the barricade, while a messenger was sent off to bring the rest of the band up. By ten o'clock they were all there Red Deer and twenty or more warriors who had broken away from the reservation four or five days before, and whose raid of murder and rapine had set five hundred soldiers from different posts scouring tin; country. Red Doer was a fighter. The trail showed that only a man and a woman hnd passed into the cave. The woman didn't count. Twenty Indians ought to have him out at the first dash. There should be no parleying no de mand fr surrender. When the officer saw that an attack would soon be made he went back to the girl and cautioned her to keep clear of the bullets which might enter. "Are they going to attack?" she asked. "1 think so." 'Then my place is with you. Give me a pistol." His protests were useless. Side by side they knelt behind the barlcade, and they were hardly ready when the Indians rushed. To do so, they had to leave any sort of cover behind and ex pose themselves in open. No mat ter whether the girl's allots were ull wasted or some of them told the lieu tenant had no lead to throw away. Crack! crack! crack! went his pistol, and the rush was a fullure. Four dead bucks lay In full view as the smoke lifted, and there were two or three wounded to crawl away. Red Deer was furious and his wariors thirsted for furious and his warriors thirsted for other rush. The rapidity of the lire from the besieged proved that the woman could also handle u pistol. The redskins scattered about, and for an hour kept up a hot fire on the entrance of the cave, and then two or three ex posed themselves to witness results. A bullet in the shoulder rewarded the nearest one. Half an hour later ull the Indians gathered on the edt;e of the cliff above tho cave and begun to col lect and throw down dead leaves and limbs of logs and whatever would make a fierce fire. It was safer to smoke the pair out than face the revol vers. The work hail been going on for a quarter of an hour when it suddenly ceased. Then came yells und shouts and shots, and then the gang of cow boys and prospectors hired by John Llvtigstone came galloping up. ready to tight Indians or outlaws, and the siege was over. There was a running fight with the Indians for five miles up the valley, and Red Deep and a dozen of his young men nevef returned to the reservation, but thnt was a side Issue. Horses were provided for the lieutenant and the girl, nnd at a late hour that evening she was restored to her father's arms. The officer made SCRANTOH'S GREATEST HONE-FURNISHERS. A SLICE FOR EVERY CRIMP. EVERY ONE knows huw difficult it is to cut bread properly and so it will not be uneven in thickness and look badly. The crimps or corrugation in crust of our loaf acts as guide for the knife and the result is beiutiful and uniform slices. 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