10 ' ° P Heikcth Prich*rd Continued But as It happened Joe wtis wrong. : I believe that his reasoning was cor j rect enough, awl that it was the fear of leaving such marks as would enable us to gather something of their Iden tity that kept the enemy from pinning upon our door the letter which finally arrived prosaically enough in a cheap store that bore the Priam- j vllle postmark. The contents of this letter were as follows: Petersham, you »o alone to Butler's 1 cairn 11 o'clock Friday night. Take the dollars along; youl be mot their and can > hand it over Below was a rude drawing of a cof- '< fln. Petersham read the note out to Joe j und myself. "Where's Butler's calm?" he asked. "1 know It." said November "But ler's cairn is on a hill about two miles west of here.'' "I suppose you won't go?" snid I. "With the money? Certainly not!" j "You can hardly go without it.'' "Why not?" "You would be shot down." "I'd talk to the ruthans first and then j If there was any sbootiug, I guess I'd i be as much in it as tiiey would." "I suggest that we all three go," 1 said. But Joe would have none of this plan. "There's uotbing to be gained by that, Mr. Quarirch. You bet these | feilits'll keep a pretty bright loouout. ' If tiiey saw three of us coruiug they'd | siioot as like as not. "I was thinking I might slip rijfht j aiong to Butler's cairu and maybe get ] « look at the fellas." "No!" sain i'euivliaro decidedly. "1 , won't allow it. You say yourself you j would be shot." "I said we would get shot, not me i alone. Three men can't go quiet where j one can " And se tinelly It was arranged. j though no: without a goed deal of ar- ! gnmeiit with Pclevshntn. "That's i< fine fellow," remarked Pe- ! tersham. I nodded. "The kind of fellow who fought with and bettered the Iroquois at their own game. I wonder what he will see at Butler's cairn?" It was past midnight when Joe ap peared again. Petersham and I both asked for his news. November shook his head. "I've nothing to tell; nothing at all. I didn't see no one." "Where were you?" "Lying down on top of the calm it self. There's good corners to it." "You could see well round, then, and if any one had come you would not have failed to observe them." "Couldn't be too sure. There was some dark times wbeu the moon was' shut in by clouds. Tley might 'a' 1 come them tlmas, though I don't think they did. But I'll know for certain soon unless It cutties ou heavy rain. There's a fine little lake they calls Butler's poud up there. Von take your fishpole, Mr. Qtiariteh, and we'll go over at sunrise and you try for some of them trout, while I take a scout round for tracks." This we did, but search as Joe would he failed to discover any sign at all. He told me this when he Joined me at breakfast time. After 1 had caught a nloe string ol trout we walked back to Ivalmacks, .circling round fhe house before we en tered it The sand lay undisturbed by any strange footstep, but when we got in ]KV. found Mr. Petersham in a state '>f tile greatest excitement. of the blackmailers has had a long talk with Puttick." he told us. "What?" "Incredible as it sounds, it is so." "But when was this?" "Early this morning, some time aft j er you and Joe started. This is how It happened. Puttick had just got up and gone down with a tin of rosin and some spare canvas and tin to mend that canoe we ripped on the rock yes j terday. In fact, he had only just be gun working when he was startled by a voice ordering him to hold up his hands." "By Jove, what next?" "Why. he held them up. He had n« choice. And then a man stepped out | from behind the big.rock that's just j above where the canoe lies." "I hope Puttick recognized him." "No. The fellow had a red handker chief tied oTer his nose and mouth. Only his eyes showed under the brim of a felt hat that was pulled low down over them. He carried a rifle, that be kept full on Puttiek's chest while they talked. But I'll call Puttick. He can finish the account of the affair himself. That's best." Puttick answered to the call, and 1 after running over the story, which was exactly similar to that we had just heard from Petersham, he con tinued: "The tough had a red hanker tied over his ugly face, nothing but his eyes showing. He had ire covered with his trim to rights all the time." "What kind of a gun was it?" "I didn't see; leastways I didn't n®- tice." "Well, had he anything to say?" "He kep' me that way a minute be fore he started speaking. 'You tell Pe tersham,' says he, 'it's up to him to pay right away. Tell him unless he goes at once to Butier's cairn and takes the goods and leaves them there on the bSg flat stone by the rock he'll hear from us afore evening, and he'll hear in a way that'll make him sorry all Ills life. 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