The Democrat. (Montrose, Pa.) 1876-1878, July 11, 1877, Image 2
MONTROSE; PA:,•:JULY.II;IB77 41iViE Mill ,* LIFT, . , Give a lift. Don't` kneel in pralyei, Nor moralize with his despair; The 111E111 is down; md his great need • , is ready, help—not Drayer and creed. 'Tis time when the wounds are washed. and healed, - That the inwhrd motives be revealed; But now, whaVer the spirit be, Mere words are but mockery. One grain 01 aid just now is wore • TO him thau"tomeS of saintly lore; Pray,,if you tnnst,in Your full hearti. But - give-hini a lift l-giVe him a start! The, world is full of goed advice, Of-Prayer, and praise, and preaching Buts the generous souls whq aid man - Are, scarce .as gold,and hard : to find. Give like a Christian—speak in deeds; A. noble ble's the best of, creeds; And he shall wear a royatcrown Who gives 'em a lift when they are down: kIvip,uNTA!NAAISY. MTE HAD .traveled together for many a -TY weary mile. I -wee on my-; way to my usual summer retreat, in . tne moun tains • but even before I took • tI , e stage coach ' niy jot racy by :steam hacke haust-` i ll id Me, so that I was in no humo to join 'in the hilarity of my fellow t avelers. We jolted and plunged and era* edpver. the . hills to the paradise\ beyond ;land while they talked and jested, and ha'd and ha'd as travelir's will, we keptan'un broken silence----this fellow passengerand I-= striving in vain to shut out the hub hub within by gazing upon the sweet solitiide Without ; and the bond . of ;um. patliy 'between this straight, ;stern, mid dle aged man increased when I fotooti that he was determined' to rid himself of the gool humored confusion ahbut him by climbing on the top of the stage. While we were changing horses he climbed ;up aniong tho luggage so . in siderable, as tO prevent ,the usual accom modation for' - deck_ paengers, and my face must have shoivii a l sort of despar ing envy, for he looked over and , said : "There is room, 'if- you will venture up here; but the evening air "grows- chill. If you are not afraid of taking cold—" - "I am afraid of nothing," - I said, des perately, "but this gabble and dip" . He put,down his band, and up lamb ed. With his portmanteau and. shawl and an ola.mail bag he compassed -me com fortably about, and ,presently the stage jolted on. I was alone with my moun tains, with the night and the stars, and 'my fellow pave tiger, 'who counted, for nothing, because he neither moved nor , spoke; his side face, was as rigid as if carved from one of the boulders by the wa,vaide: It must be e , been five miles after this that thin bit of boulder started me by a slight movement. I found tha he was bending forward„ gazing'. eagefly, with his *hole soul in his eyea, upon the win dow of an old farmhouse on the outskirts of the village.. It was ,one _ot' the upper windows, half raised, and . the head of a woman appeared in_a shadow so deep that no feature ,could,.. be distinguished'; but as we,slowly passed, an ,almost con ' yulsive , sigh- escaped the lips of my fel low traveler. He 'raised his hat from his head. , Then I plainly ea* the woman's \ face, fot it seemed to start forwatd sud denly, and even the dim starlight reveal ea a surprise upon it that almost par , took -of terror. No longer young, but still beautiful f .that face was stamped with a melancholy so profound that; it haunt .ed Me. I looked at that of my comian inn. It'was sunk up6n his - breast, Mad just then I saw the sweet young moon over. the -left shoulder. The ' thought was eo tormenting to me thati spoke on the .impupie of the nionient., "Don't sir," • I said; "don't look over your left shoulder - at the moon. Look over 'your right _ shoulder and wish. - It is agOod omen 1 they say." ' ' ' ' , , • He started, paused as if to gather the meaning of what I said,' then looked over his right shoulder at -the Moon ; his face was full of strong' emotion, and, his lips moved. Then he turned to me, his face ' melting into one. of = those rare smiles that are.so nice because 'they are so few, and stretched over his hand." Thanks," be paid es we rolled up to the'doo4',,of the hotel; where Mrs. Aiken was *4iting for tict?ith her comfortable carryall filled - with the usual parcels and packages for the farm. But she could , not find - a welcome for me, so Men . up was she with niy fellow. piieettiger. Her .comely - mothirly face was all agape upon his straight, stiff form as he lifted me down'®and said lat.-bye. and disappeared in the corridor seyoud. ` "Wa'al, ' she said, drawing i ii- long . bteath; "that's - either Major Jacques ,or - . his ghost: That does beat everything. After'all these years:—Lord o' mercy, if that don't go ahead I" • "And.who is Major Jackues . " 'I said' at last, finding myself the prey to a de youring curiosity. . - "Do, please; Mrs. Aiken, tell me who is Major Jackues ?" "Well, child, he. Made a sight of trou - ble here a good many years- ago,' but I canTsay as it was his fault. You may blow your lunge nut sometimes to boil a kettle, and then, agin, a spark from a pipe'll i set a hay ricks. in,.. a blaze: ' Good -,. Lord - I I: wonder if he's come after Oak Witivail ?.- He'll find her - a Poor broken doini hituble - crifter,- - but , a - purtier gal thavpaisy :.. the : , sun.- - -neverlahcini upon_,. her:skin; was l as white ;.as: , Milk, lanctliee - -eyealikt the-stars up-:there,;:ancL the city f ! .lks that- catne out, here .to board eltris-ct it-Led her DaiSY, ihough.' her ,naine was' Ilanner-L•-•lianuer Ilitchner.;. anti, in spite 'of everything, she would go and throw herself On - Hugh Alliean. They do say that loVe'lrgo where it's sent but it's a pity it. Should be so headstror - g. Get up Nig," Pursued the farmer's wife,. whipping up her horses, and, like - the dear ' good body she • was, never .halting with her story.,-- "She had plenty o' chances to settle, -needn't say. David llitohner, waif a -foreharided - maw, - and there warn% chick nor child. but Dais'. Judge Bates' son—he that went off - to Indy 6t; somewhere afterwaidhe'c: - a given his eves i'or • Hubner.,; and as for them painter chaps, they just went wild over her, and she might 'aitad a dozen b' 'eni, though to my mind. it'd take a bail ees cozen 'o them idler's to make one de- cent • nice; ind, "But she turned her batk on the *hole kit. and boodle of 'ern, and stuck to Hugh. M'Lean. It was a , dreadful spite to_ the aitchners, for the M'Leans warn't. thU4 much of herebolits; they'd Idlers lived away . on the top of the Inpuntaip, = and Hugh grew up as wild as, a young Volt He raised black colt - up there, that atween you. and . me; Mrs. Smith, was 4 spawn 'o Sean ; fire used to ily out 'o its 'eyes and shake off .its hoofs,- and not a living soul conld get on its back but Hugh M'l,ean. As for harness—l'd likg to: see harneds that could hold 'Black Dan. It seemed, as Hugh and that colt was one piece o' stuff, for they was part and parcel o' one another, and I guess whereier ,one loftier is, now "; , leastways it , seems to me only, natural. But as much, as he thought o' that, colt, he used to cuff and tu kick, -it in histant rub I • and one day, When I was down to Hitchner's a for that star pattern patchwork for Daisy I was looking,,out the winder, when ,Hugh rode up, and he got mad atenthin, and drew his ,whip clean across the .critter's face fie to take out his eyes, and I told . Mrs. Hitchner then' that if 'it was done to me, I'd sooner see Hanna- in , her -grave than belong to Hugh Dl'Lean. But you see, he was as gentle as a lamb- to Daisy, and alWayB had since she Was a little mite o' A thing, and he used to board , down in the Village to get his winter sehoolin'—for you might as well be out o' the world as up on Athe mountains ',in winter; there's freshets there too in the spring that shut 'em off, . and Hugh was down here a good part of his time. And he. used to just own little Daisy Hitchner. It was a prettY sight to see him skating along, drawing that little apple blossom alter him on the white birch sled he • made for her.—He was handsome es oogh—there warn't no fault to be found with his looks, only to my mind handsome is . as handsome does, Mrs. Smith. 'Well, he put in a claim to Hanner then, and no boy thirst stand in his way. There was my poor Zekel, he came home with a black eye only for sharpening her slate pencil, and Hugh hadn't a knife ready to do it with; but it was allera,a word and and a blow with Hugh M.'.l.,en, and . he held to Daisy right along through thick and thin. , " 'Why,' he says, right up , to David Hitchuer, you s'pose I'd 'staid round here, if it hadn't been for Daisy ? Don't you know rd. a teen off :to ,the North or South rule afore this? It's is bard work for me, 813 it is for you, tor I - hate to set. tle down here worse than poison; hut I hate worse to leave little Daisy. I can't do it, and I won't.' ". "So they let 'ern get married, for what else could they . do ? , And for quite a spell there it did seem as if everything wa s gOing to turn out right. Oid Mr. Hitchner he Made him promise not to take Daisrfar away, and 'give him the place by the mill, and.; furnished it - frota top to bottom. There must - -have been. nigh on to a hundred yards of carpet in that house. I helped Mrs.,Hitchner sew and color many a pound 'of the rags myself. And the dimity curtaina was the .prettiest things, and that yaller call.' ker covenngs for. the sofa and cheers made everything look cheery like. Then M'Lean, knot to be behindhand, besot 'ern' up with no less than thirty cow, good milkers; all o ='em .; and I will say for Hugh that he itould get through with tnore:work in a day than . any two mewl ever saw. —o.velything went, along as slick as could be, and Daisyp, went singing about the honse like a medder lark." "But the second summer after she was married poor Daisy, took it intuter head she'd have some •hoarders from: town— she, was naterally thrifty, and: `plenty o' help, and she felt somehow as if that big house was running to waste. _Hugh he let her have her own way' in everything then, and was as humorsome as if she was a baby ; and I never shall forget, if I live to `be a hundred, the first time I laid eyes on Major Jacques, when he came down wittia, Int of other boarders from town. I was sating at Mrs. Hitchner'a front winder,, and the stage stopped at Daisy's door.; and out got that man ; and if it hair been the good Lord's , will that • he'd been tumbled' out somewhere else and broken his leg, 80'8 be couldn't get away, "a "deal o' trouble might have been ' saved. . ' "For Hugh M.'Letin had' kind o' scorned Most city folks that come, our way, and bad a faihion of smiling at them in a sett of contempt. But this JaCquei was - half .a Frenchman; and bad a deal of fire in him; he'd been all over . the, world or pretended, he had, and, if you could he. liege" him, had as many lives As a cat to lose. And Huey, 'd''sit there and drink . all the 130103eliSe ii by. the hour together; auk for-that matte4-sopoorlittle Daisy. The inajotOuld.talk a bird off a bush, and Hugh got to miming in and Mnding his little meddirladi listehing to some tale of the major El l her eyes per hapsiull of silly: - tears and her cheeks all pale with excitement." „"Sooriafter that my Miranda was teach ing school and boarding around the vil lage,nud she went to. M'Leaus to stay, and she told me that Daisy had stopped going in they room when- ibe ,major was there, and got out of his way. all . she could, but Hugh was as black as a thunder cloud,' and Miranda said that he and - Daisy' - "would both be glad 'Who the boarders all :went away and never came back again." "But this was only ,'mid -summer,• and one - night the men were out late itif the `hay fiied,and Daisy went out ' iu he barn to help milk the cows. It was'only play to her, sho.l bin used to it at home,land I dare say the poor child was . so sick'and sad she was, glad to be busy., But what tirnst that jackanape do but follow her out there and take the pails from her hands to . bring them in She couldn't get courage, you see, to tell him to go about his usiness, . but if he'd an eye in his,head, he could seer how things was a going. Howsomever, Hugh 'came in at the big gate and saw Daisy; empty ling , ered, walking along, by the major's side, while he had a pail in either band; acid il3 the Major set 'em down on the stone floor of the wide room, and turnedwith some plessant word to Hugh, theliails went flying out in ;the stubble,-the milk streamed at his feet, and Miranda saidtr for she. was standing by—she never, Rim such a surplus(' look in a face before:as in Major Jacques. Then he. flamed up and got mad, and Hugh got madder, and if it hadn't been for;, Daisy- there might have bern murder there." . • "That night poor- Daisy hid her wish,' for the 'City boarders were ,all, - scuttled, away; and not a light was burning in the house 'at 9 o'clock ; hut' my Mirandy she couldn't sleep, and no wondor, consider ing what he'd been through, and about midnight she beard the clatter of hoofs, and just got up in time to see Black Dan. flying• out the gate with. Hugh on his back. Soon after •that she heard a low sobbing sound, and looking down, there she saw Daisy in her. .white gdwn, dip ping water out of the pen-stock and put ting it to her face, crying and sebbingas if her heart would break. • ; • • "MST Mirandy was just going down to her, when she heard the click of the gate and in walked the rnajor,atid' up he went to Daisy`as'straight as a string. "And 'Madame,' said he, trembling all over, arid a blaze' 'like lightning' in his eye, 'l'ye come to take you from this brute and put .you. under your ,father'S protec7 tiore." " 'Oh, You haven't told my father ?' said Daisy; ;holding up her. hands. "'No ; butt will,' 'said the major.,— To you think I can look on and stand all this ? Clime the scoundrel I I.nev er had a thought of you Lill he,put it in to my head by his brutality. But now he'll find ~ e are- enough about you to shield , yoti.from harm. Conie, Mrs. AV- Lean, put a shawl about you, and come with me to your _father's house. I'll deal with him when he' cOmesbaolc.'-- Then if you'll believe the; that poor child' to begging--,:the major not, to tell her father, and declaring she'd I rattir die 'at Jingles hand than to five away from him. s.:'As GO& is my judge, I love him better than my. own I will stay. I am,not afraid," said Daisy. • "Then the major turned upon his heel and went out the,gate,and Hugh' M'Lean. was brought home the next day with a broken spine.' He Black Dan had rolled.down a together, and they had to shoot the' beast to get him out of his agony ; and they do say that: but for. Major Jacques Hugh would have died there; for the major was the . one that found him.• He, was a good rider,you see, and could make his way where thers would be afraid. And something he Said to. Hugh made him gentle as a lamb. Al!. the way home be held his handln his, and was• with him. after the doctor left:— Hugh, fell into a kind of faint. When he opened his eyes they tenon the major; and Mirandy 'that Daisy, was on the other side of the bed. " 'So I'm going to die,' said Hugh.— 'Well, I'm ready.' And thn he put 'Dai era bawl in the major's: 'Take care of , her,' he said." '• - " 'But, you're not. going .t.o` die,' said the-major. 'You are to live - the,doctor says? , . 'to live,' said *Hugh. 'So much the worse. 'ln that case, major, get away, for God's sake. I think it's best. -: • " lust as. you say, Hugh,' said the major. • - • , " 4 1 think it's best,' said Hugh ; And the major went away that morning, and from that day. to .this nobody has laid eyes on him. - • - • ~"And. t hejudgement of Rod was sore on Hugh He lay ,in, that bed for seven long years, and Daisy never left him night nor 'day save - when he'd free her to go, and, if yang] belie,ve me, that girl never seethed happy out of ,his sight; and, my Miranda said it, used to make her cry to see the way,Hugh followed, her about with hit big .fierce eyes, thatiliad plenty of fire in them yet,for everybody. but Daisy. Miranda actually got to his lug Hugh ; and I never dared say a 'word about that night nor the bruise on Daisy's cheek to Mrs Hitchner, though I've, been that burning ^ sometimes_ that -I've had to jump up and run 'out of the:loom. And now the old voinan's dead 'and buried these three years; and MrAlitchner he Went afore she did. , Hugh' Outlived -'em died) •_bt wanted :to be buried- by his horse Dant • . atd there they-lie, up on . the mountain • together.; and Miranda:says that Daisy's sworn to be put on roth,er side.— t fit to make ther- ,shiverS creep doWn one's back; the - hull. of it. ;And - there sho3 lived ever since; all alone in the old houSe, .sast when school is keeping and,Miran. dy's there.' And' yonder, may be - '4le major's ghost; but if it ain't, it's Mellor Jacques hitirtielt. gti?er, - ain't•it?" "Very queer," I said:; and :just drove in at the open-gate. The very next morning, as I was gatr ing grasses'a mile -or cwo below,. I sa* a tall, straight form akiroaciiing me, his head bent, his eyes upon the ground.;!, I could not step aside, _for a ditch - as there. - So he raised his eyes, jand his face light ed up with that rare, smile of his.' "—God bless your womesily : heatit !' he said; "It was , a- good otne4 and the next:thne I see a new moon over my right shoulder, I Shall wish for your happirOs with, I hope, the same success that I idid last night for my own" A LAINTIEIPS , STORY. _ Mr. Courtney :was a rich old bach(fler and the, uncle of a Couple of nephews the one a brother's, and the other a!sis tens son. Thei3e two were his nek o kin, legally entitled, in ease he die in tektite, to inherit his property. Edward .Hortou; his • deceased cis son, was decidedly , hiss favorite ' an him the old gentleman resolved to the bulk of his estate. - Charles 'Courtney, the other nephew, had inherited a handsome fortune , from his father, and, moreover, by -his tinCle's will, was *entitled to 'succeed . to that! : left to ,his Cousin, in the event of the latter's dying without _issue. Old - Mr.,Courtney was one of tbeihal est Of bachelor's when it „was suddeulp announced, not only:, that he was dead, but that , foul play was = : anspected l ' A post mortum _examination demonstfated that he had fallen a victim ofvOliOn ; anific was girif out that the hand !that had" adininistered it was that of his fa vorite nephew. The- public mind . L" naturally both surprised and Shobkeil: It was not until Edward Hortotil had been fully committed for trial for hia un cle's murder. that I wail retained tot* up tne defense: - . • - His - own statement was, in substance, this i' 'A physibian had. been Juane(' in to see Mr. Courtney on the occasion of some apparently trifling illness, requir ing some'simple remedy, for which a pre seription was-written, and handed th the r prisoner to have made up: , This the lat ter had carried to_ . a well-known,•coMpe tent _druggist, who had put_ it up in his presence. The medicine consisted of three - ,white powders, each folded lin a' scrap of paper, and the whole inclosed in , a single . wrapper. They were to be given at intervals of an hour, and had reTain ed continuously in the prisoner's po sess ion till the .first, was administered,- vrbieh was done by himself, immediately on ba return from the druggist's. - Mr. Court ney-grew rapidly worse, and when, at the expiration of an hour, a second powder was administered, the symptoms became so alarming that a- messenger wail dis patched for the physician, who, 01 his arrival, declared that the patient was suf fering from the effects of poison. An ex amination 'of the) remaining powder dis : closed the fact that it was pore arsenic.- - --- It was too late for any antidote to be available, and in less than an hour death had relieved-the Sufferer. An autoirsy of the body and an analysis of the cotents of the . stomach, left no doubt as.' 43 the cause of death. The presence of a enie, in a necessarily fatal quantity, Waal indi cated by every known chemical test. It was further admitted by the prishne';' that he alone had access to his uncle!s, part inent, or bad hindled 'the medicine from theme: l it was compounded by the drug gistltintil the coming of the physician, after[the second powder had . been - taken. 114 f -druggist, who was known to be a man of extraordinary caution,• and thor oughly skilled in his, business, waslready to swear that by no possibility could any mistake have occurred in putting up the medicine. .1 . To snake matters worse it transpired that the amicable relations between the uncle aril nephew - had been somewhat disturbed of late, by reason of an attach ment of_the latter disapproved liy the former, who had One soifar as to threaten to change biewill unless : his wishes were respected. • "Who was in company / . with you from the time you received the medicine till you returned to your uncle's house?" I asked the prisonar, desperately groping after eomothing to afford a ray of hope, • "No one," he answered, -"but my cousin Charles, whom I met near the druggist's, and who accomnanied me in." I drew from Edward - the fact that Charles saw the medicine put up; walked with him a little way ; then - went back for something; 'Edward waited - his re turn .; then walked arm-in-arrn nearly home, - when Charles left, -I also remind ed Edward that, his uncle being dead, if he also should .die ehildlei3, Charles would enherit the whole estate. , : • "He did it! fie b'll it l" the young man cried, in a paroxysm of excitement. too earnest to•be counterfeit. - "He went oat to get the poison when he left me wait =ing.. He put , it up to _resemble the drug _gist's parcel,- for which he substituted it :when as, we went .along. Villain—l know it now! , Lcarried the parcel in the right pocket of my. -overcoat, and it was on.dual side' , he Walked!" :- ' `-- • I was seated'iii , i - iny . .4fice`-'tin the day = A . precednig that fixed for the trial indulg .. iing in anything, but sanguine expecta tions, when a tap at the door announced, a visitor. It' was a detective whoin'l h a d einiployed. "What is - it:?" I. enquired, after closing the door. 4g.[ made an' arrest to day, be answer ed; "and ii the - prisoner's possession found this overcoat," undoing a paCkage he hid brought. "WeliT" 4 "In one of the pockets, I found this;" and he handtti me: a small ctrl, n hick I opened. Inside wre three papers folded druggists put up their prescriptions. I 1 "The person with whom ,I found tin's coat,"- the-detective continued, "eon few's that he stole it from a billiard-saloon, the Owner having laid it aside while playing; and the date he fixes corresponds with • 1.1. r. Courtney's murder. But . what is ;more important, .I , tave ascertained that Charles Courtney is The owner of the coal , • , "Let us at-once proceed to the drue. :gist's !" I exclaimed, springing, from chair and`sriatching up my 7 hat. We were *soon there. --- "Please examine that parcel," I said, !putting it into the druggist's. hands: He did so, carefully opening the pa era iand inspecting their contents. They con. Wined three white powders , How do they correspond with those :you put up for Mr. Courtney,'4l in. quired, "and. for .which others semi to ,have been so mysteriously substituted ?" "They do not correspond at all," he :answered; "they are the same." "By these figures," he replied, point. ing to theinside of , one of , the papere. "1. had , made a calculation that day on the sheet of paper, part' of which 1: used in putting up the prescription brought by Mr. Edward Horton.: The remainder I 'have preserved, not knowing but it might become important. Here it is, and son see how this piece aroft the figures fit it." They did exactly ; the chain 'of evidence 'was complete! - I need hardly tell how the trial end r ed, Charles Courtney was called by the pros ecution.to prove some unimportant point. The counsel whom I had retained for the -defence,asked him but three questions, on cross-examination ' - . c es ki to '. i ye "Had he accompanied the prisoner from the druggilVs ?" "Had he lost an , overcoat that day ?' "Wai that it? The *shows were , very — simple, but the e ff ect on the witness was most 're markable.: He trembled and turned pale. He knew his secret was out, and, that ly• ing was useless.. He answered all three questions in the affirmative, but in a voice scarcely audible., Before the next witness'Was called he slipped from !the court and - was never heard of afterward. With the testimony of the detective and the druggist, not forgetting tha, of, the thief 'who stole the overcoat, we made short-work of what had promised to; be "a beautiful case of circumstantial evi• deuce." ' How Hr. Prker t'atight a Thief. "Did I ever - tell yon how I caught a thief once ?" , asked Mr. Parker of his friend - Mr. Johnson, 'as he sat smokingi, a pipe in Mr. Johnson's ,comfortable "pace." . - ' , ..No, tell us about it," said Mr. John- ' son; filling the glasses with - fresh ale. "Well," said Mr. Parker, "I d6ii't mind if I do. You see, I bought me aim • overcoat,-and I was rather proud of it. I hung it up in the hall 'one day, 'and that evenin&just as I was coming into the hall from n ner, I ; saw a chap 'get• ting out of 'the dbor with my overcoat on. I rushed after him, but it wean() go-'—he got away. Next ' day. I met. that fellow on Broadway and had 171 arrested,; but t a when we came into court 4 I tried to identify that coat he had fi fty otherfel lows there, and every blamed one of them had a coat just like mine and I couldn't swear to it, and the judge had to let him go. Perhaps I wasn't mad I` 'Great gibs l' said Vain I to be robbed with impunity?' 'Parker, old boy,' said I. to myself, ( this will never do I' So I went right back to the store where I got, the first coatland and-got one exactly like it. 'Now,'. said 1, 'l'll set a trap for that young than and I'll see if I can't identify this coat: , I baited , my trap with the new coat, 'and sure enough the sneak thief came alonOind marched off with it. I phased hitn, but the rascal got away, and I began to wish I hadn't been so sharp. Well, I looked for that fellow more, than a week ;at last I caught him I 'Young man,' said I, 'I want that coat." ' " "There's some mistake here,'saidle: , "'Yes, sir, there is; said I ; 'you'y got an honest man's coat on. " "'Weil,' said he, bold as brass. !'l'll go to court with you. There's a thotiz,,, sand other coats like -this in New York. There's no mark' on, it; you can't swear to it.' " , i . " 'We'll see' midi:" • - 1 "We went to cciiirt: ~There were the fifty fellewit with coats like mine, as be fore. The judge took the coat and ,ex amined it." " 'I find no mark,' -said he • ' can 1 yon identify this as your' property , l i ark . err - . :-' ",'Give me the coat:. said I. The jtidge handed me the coat, and, taking nlyPen• knife, I -ripped the, seam on the shoulder , and tooli Ont . two small peas, 'There are my, initials;' said.l—'l ) . P.—Peleg Pa' ker."' . - . ' ~. " Well, I'm, d d l',' said the prisoner "He 'Wasn't. (not just: then at least)," eon- CludediMr... Parker, -. ": , with a benevolent sfine; qint-lie gottwo' . .years in the pent• tefitiery nevertheless."-,.