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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1899-06-16, Page 7VNDOJNG OFA MVG¢ S�T�I�14I3TI 'AV MOR of r�o wMo BLE RE, M.D, tol` ,COPYR GMT,gt898; E3Yp AmERICAN # SS C'IJ'l`a ON 'flint the spatter wile to be settled by a 'Waal, what is it?" "You would not stand by and see au Innocent ma Banged, would you1P "We ain't going to hung any Imo - cent cent man, We've got hold of the worst i horse thief in the state, • We ain't mak- ' bag any mistakes there, Hank," "But you are, That the resemblance between me and this Hank Beyer is very close is clear. Nevertheless ho is another person altogether, I have in my pocket the warrant for the arrest of our absconding cashier, and I can prove I my identity by other papers." I lowered my weapon and started to bring out the documents, when Dungan waved his hand. "It's no use to keep up this fooling. I 'We don't wantto see any of the papers 1 that was.stole or fixed up for this bus'- ' mess." "But the real thief, the genuine Hank Beyer, is standing in this room with me." l Before any explanation could be asked of this remark, I pointed my fin- ; ger at the young man by the door and said impressively: . i• "There stands the criminal for whom you aro looking. He is the real Hank. Beyer:" 'CHAPTER IV. a Every eye turned toward the man whona I indicated. He must have ex- : ,peoted something of the kind from my manner, for he was prepared for it, and never was there more perfect acting. He stared right and left, as if he did + not quite comprehend what I said and then with a laugh called out: "What's that, Hank?" r "You are Hauk Beyer," I added, keeping my huger pointed at him and restraining my anger. "You know it as t well as I. Dare you deny it?" 1 His merriment seemed so hearty that t several • joined it. Comprehending his ! baseness, it required my utmost self ro- strains to keep from sending a bullet. ( .j~"'T fito.his worthless brains. '• - • i "If you deny that you are Hank Beyer, who are you?" E "You ought to know, Hank," :he said, with amazing coolness. "I came r up on the steamer Bonnie Belle yester- i day with you from New Orleans and ' you won all I had at poker." i All who looked at the miscreant .i must have noted his extraordinary re- semblance to me. haci heuot removed I Isis mustache the difference would have been unappreciable. 'His preparation 4 for his part was admirable, for when the spoke I observed that bis voice Bounded different from when ho.talked ti with me at the crossroads. Ho had sue- seeded to perfection in disguising it. ' Since ho was a strauger to the.rest (or, what was the sante; they believed • limi to bo snob), I hoped to gain an ad- ' 'vantage from that fact. i . "'Who aro you?" 1 thundered. "I'm not accustomed, to introduce myself to folks in that fashion, but you haven't forgot that when you gave iso Pur name on the steamer as Hank Beyer I told you mine -was Richard • Early—at your service, gentlemen." And the unconscionable scoundrel doffed his Bat and bowed to the right • and left with the suavity and blandness of A Chesterfield. ".If you aro,a' stranger like myself, what business brought you to lildinc?" "I explained all that to you on the boat. My uncle sent me hero to look up i some valuable Cotton laud that ie in the 1 market, but," he added, shrewd enough to perceive the tangle in which I was likely to involve him, "L deoline to bo ;questioned any further by you, though I am ready to give these gentlemen any information they desire." • Nothiug could !rave been oleverjr than his manner and words, His anl3onnee- ment that ho was after cotton land was a passport to the good will of the cow- l trymcu, most of whom were eager to sell their unproductive property.. His glib story of our traveling together on the steamer was accepted as truth. • "Then you deny selling mo that ! horse yesterday?" x said, floundering in the wordy mire into which I had stop. ! lied. "Oh, 1 don't deny anything," he an- swered with a bored air. "Tell your story to those gentlemen.- You make me excessively weary." It was vain to dally with him. Stag- gered for the moment, I was about to ' address my words to those around tae, i when Squire Gager, who .had not yet Spoken, interposed. Ile was a cousoien- tions man, and, though be undoubtedly Sympathized with me, did not sytnpa- thize with the frightful fiction which he believed I was trying to weave, "1 wish to ask this ratan a few ques• tions," ho said, and the universal re- ' Spent felt for the officer of the law cans - td abash to fall st.pou the angry throng. +11, I bowed, suspecting what was coining. "You don't deny that you rode up to. this hotel this afternoon on the ohestnnt geldfug which Mr. Bulfinch put into hi ( steblaab your request?" "I have already adinitted that. I aft - j erwnrd crossed to the postofi}co and got a letter which was mailed from New ! York and addressed to mo, Edward Kenmore." • "And any of us might have done the same by asking for it, having arranged that little matter beforehand," said the squire, brushing aside this cobweb, "bat when you came and sat down on the porch and talked with me and Mr, Bulfinch wo both addressed you as Hank • Beyer." "Yoq,did," I replied, and the land- lord nodded his head in acquiescence. "You talked with ns as if you were Hank Beyer. You spake•about your fa- ther and asked questions of us. Why didn't you deny you were Hauk Beyer at that time?" It was driving a nail into my coffin, and I knew my explanation would not bo accepted by a single one of my hear. ors, "I did a foolish thing. I was amused by the mistake, and by way of fun I humored it, You will -recall tliat my questions showod my ignorance, not only of your affairs, but of Hank Beyer's." "•I relieve you pretended something of the kind." The squire mournfully shook his bead. Ho was through, having sen- tenced Ito, as may be said, to capital puuishment. "I do not deny, gentlemen, that the case looks bad . against me. You have noticed (hat the man whom I pointed out by the doqr resembles me, except that I wcara mustache and he does not. He had cne today, but shaved it off after we parted, probably foreseeing something like this. • But I have the right to ask that before executing me you inake.sure that I am really Hank Beyer, t;ie`horpe thief." "Which the came is what we have done 'with the help you have givenus," replied. Jini Dungan, with a significant. grin in which the others joined. • "It looks that way, but you are in error. Now, it is may for yon. to tele- graph to certain parties whom I will , name in Nos York and by whom I can establish my identity.„ You will do me that justice. If I fait to convince you that I ani -what :I claim, thoir do with me as you wish:" - "That' request sounds- fair," inter- posed the squire, "but I'm sorry to say that the nearest telegraph station is at Southfield and with our bad rends ib will take two days, to go thein and back.. I'm afraid," he added, looking round at the savage countenances, "that my fxiend: •will not bo 'willing to wait that long." "No, not" came from nearly every one in the room. "A good deal might happen in that time," ' "Ho wants a chance to •give you the slip," added the real Hank Beyer from .Itis station by the door. "Why not let him have a chance for his life?" At that moment nothing was more evident than that every man crowded into the room was my enemy. I looked around into the unpitying faces and• braced myself for the final struggle, whiolt.I believed could not be deferred. The mob were . impatient that they Lad "Ile wants a chance to ptvc you the slip." r been balked so ng of their prey. In many portions southwest the most heinous Crim n can commit is to steal a esido that offense murder sit insignificance. It will encoded that the cireurn- stantial enoo against me was of the strongest ammeter, My marvelous re- somblaneo to the real erirninal was ir- resistibly convincing, and if anything was looking it had been furnished by iny+ idiocy. Had r resented the mistake from the first ib might have raised a posgible question which would have THE W: GHA TIMES, caTNE 16, 1899 ...aCtt tt yr t.-4444.., t i 1;.7 t:•.ct;ur-Git• yr.; No naau knows precisely flow his own T voice soa.nds, hut there must have been similarity between mine and ];funk 1i .ycr'a or the difference was not mark- ed, bli:ce it seemed to attract the atten- �r 'C� "I • • tion of no Cr.P. hftzl Twa Stratford Ladies Only cne hope relnaimel I must sa- The natural exuberance of cure n"t:tay of proceedings" if bat for a limited time, But how was that to be e.ot;e? I !:ad abcady made the attempt and Leon reLaficd, At this apparently hopeless juncture, 1 tsItu 1 stood mute, not Snowing what to say, but ready to go down with col- ! ors flying, the unexpeetccleccurred, The good angel appoared iia the, last person to whom I looked for supportI:lo was Tim Dungan, the leader of the v]gi- • health youth often leads to reckless* ness. Young: people don't take care of themselves, get over -heated, catch cold, and allow it to settle on the kid- neys. They don't realize the significance of backache—. think It will soon pass away-.- but it doesn't, Urinary Trou- bles come, then " Diabetes, Bright's Disease and shattered. lances. I A younglife has been sacrificed. Turning owaR PTEhe men who had i DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS• swarmed around him, Dungan spoke in ! These conquerors of Kidney Ills .are a loud vcice raid au earnestness of man- . making the rising' generation healthy and strong. I Any help for it? Yes! Per that commanded attentions You all know me well enough to OntMrs' „sG•ays Crisman, yos Adelaide St., London, know I haven't a grain of pity for horse I 4`pSy daughter, now 13 years old, has had Tercel so much from that sort of people boxes o@ Doan s Icialney Pills have removed during the last ten years and the courts her Fo perfect he°ith 'tz ani°ti1u y hankEul for have been s0 Flow in getting hold of the great benefit they have conferred upon thein that wo formed ourselves into a he''' vigilance committee of the whole to regulate thingo, -aril I flatter myself we've had tolerable success iu the bus'- ness," Flo "paused for a reply" and received a tiiundc:•oua oue. There we'•^ general nodding of heads. and exclama;;ions of approval. "Anil wo intend that the good work shall go on,'t he resumed. "A rope and the limb of the nearest tree is our media eine for men that have an itching for other folks' property in the shape of baraofieeb;, But, b thieves. This part ee the state ens ea_ weak, kidneys since infancy, sad her health as i a copse uenoo has always been poor. Two , oys,. we all believe in fair li]ay. Now, while you arid me aro satisiled that the man standing on t'otber side of the table is Hank Beyer, and no ono else, there's one obauca in a million that he ain't. That chap over there by the door calls himself Dick Early, He's a stranger to us, and there ain't any denying that he'looks liko Hauk. If he bad a n:r.:taehe, he would look more like him tbau Hank does himself." He laughed at his own facetiousness, and the forbidding countenances .were lit up with approving grins. "Once or twice when ho stood thero talking," added Dungan, alluding to ale, "I'vWnotieed something that was a little odd—that is, that didn't seem to be quite like Hank. I can't tell what it is, but mobbo some of you have observed the sumo." Ho looked around again for signs of „ascent,, brit 'uiifprtunately there, ;avail ' none. No one shared his doubt, and Squire Gager spoiled the possible effect of his appeal by a sad swaying of his head aud•tho remark: "Hank has been away long 'nough to pick up sumo differences of speech, if that is what you mean, Jim, but you're 'way oft" In another respect this remark served me well, It roused the resentment of Jim. Evidently he was the leading spirit,.Qf the neighborhood and• was not acoustomed'to be opposed like this, even. by Squire Gager. I noticed the flash of his gray eye and the compression of his thin }fps as he said: "Waal, we'll take till tomorrer morn- ing to drive out what doubts wo have in mind." "But wo hain't got no doubts, Jiro," remarked a pian standing at the leader's elbow. "That don't make no difference. I have." ."How are wo going to have them aforesaid doubts removed?" asked the squire. "I have a plan that will do it," was the reply of Daugan. I was satisfied that he had no definite scheme at that moment, but that he ex- pected'tolfit upon something decisive. "Begging your pardon, gents, I think Mr. Dungan is right. No 'natter how black it looks against Hauk, give the Poor devil a show." • It was Hank himself N, ho made this remark, end •nothing.could have been more politic, .At that moznent there was nob a person in the room besides us two who tuas ant morally convinced that I vas•the real criminal. Jim Dun- gan believed it, but the rude chivalry of his nature answered my appeal. He intended to respite me tuitil morning, when none would be more eager Blau lie to pull the rope over the limb with me dangling frorn the end of it. The man's personality impressed it- self upon the rough group. They ac- cepted his decision and looked expect- autly at; him for further Girders, "We'll hold this fellow till toll:orrer morning, Thu, if mutters stand us they seem to Le tow—tbi:t is, if wo hain't found out that he's what ho says Ito id —ivhy that enols it," "Will you hind him?" asked one of the mob. ' "If you're afraitl, he :night into you, replied ' we'll put muzzle 1 a t o uzz o oft to him,"� lied I P aim with floc sarcasm, and a general guffaw followed. "No, gents," - he added, "we won't tie hint up, 'cause there ain't any use of it. We'll take his gun away from hittl, set liitn in the very chair frota which he has riz and put two men to watch hint through the night. How will that dor' A general noddis:g of the Meade allowed how quickly the leader bad molded the turbulent snirits into his The Tale of a Oat. The cat was on the alley fence, a dog on either side, And now on this and now on that the dogs she slyly eyed. 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