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-. ,-rho anis scale eatinter nave Mowed.
that`lttready in allowing you to elim,t
out ce the winder while we slept and
after yon had took Arcbient pistol from
lois lop; that's a little lee worst yet --
allele I"
I It was ole€tr ho had no suspidon of
the partplayed by the young Woman,
and it was not my place to enlighten
him.
"It was #n piece of tomfoolery, Gy,
and the boys will have the laugh on
I you both when ynu tell theaxl how 1
gave you the slip and got put •of the
country."
F *(You bain't got out the kentryyet,"
wee his significant continent.
"Not just Yet, but I soon shall,
thanks to you ;rad your stepson, You
I see 1 have Archie's revolver, and now I
shall take your Winchester. Since you
persist in looking upon roe as a horse-
thief yet may uswell include the theft
of weapons."
Ile emitted a blistering impreoetion,
but saw there was no help for it, He
was still reaching for the stars when :C
commauded :
"Face about toward the hotel!"
He complied with surprising prompt-
ness.
"If yea stoop or attempt to piok up •
your gun, I'll shoot. It won't be the
first time 1 fired a revolver, and you are
in good range."
De pito my watchfulness anal readi-
ness to use my weapon the fellow out-
witted mo.
"March," I added, "and don't pause
or look around until you climb back
through the window."
Ile began moving, but his feet seemed
to become entangled in the vines that
had partly retarded my steps. He ad-
iranoed slowly, tripped, swore and
struck his toe against some obstruction.
Then he straightened tip .and stumbled
' onward with the earn°-cdielculty.
1 ` The cunning veteran was kicking his
•Winchester along in front of him, and
I lead no suspicion of it.
In this manner he advanced for Bally
a rod, when, like a flash, he stooped,
t snatched up his rifle, end, wheeling with
the same amazing emieleness, let fly at
me. I felt the ball graze my temple and
snip off a bit . of hair, Dazed for the
moment, I tlisoharged two chambers of
my revolver, but in the flurry missed,
as he had just done with his Winches- •
ter. Before I could pull myself together
i for another shot he was• beyond fair
range, while he, knowing the useless -
floss of firing at nee, refrained from the
attempt.
1 had safely emerged from my prison,
but my full escape remained to be
Amide. It would not do to stay at Al-
dine, nor indeed anywhere in that sec-
tion. It was 20 miles to the sesame:
landing, and 1 could hardly feel safe
until aboard of one of the boats and
{ steaming up or down the Mississippi,
I was tempted to try a daredevil.
thing, That was to steal hito•the barn,
remonut the horse I had honestly:kaeught
and hie away at headlong speed. Re -
/Isabela however, cotvixiged .:me that
snob an act would invite my own ruin.
My escape was known to Cy Walter
and Archie Hunter, and they would be
en the alert for anything of that nature.
Standing just cutoldo the garden of
the old inn, I decided that my best
coarse was to push inland until I reach-
ed some town cr village where 1 wet
unknown or could communicate with
the authorities should it prove neces•
sary. It would seem that the facts be-
ing as I have given it should be an easy
matter for to escape the punishment
due another man, but unfortunately
Snatched upNs'rifle AP fi tet fly/'tit me.
Aynchings have :been and are still tot.
Common in some parts of our country
for the most innocent person to be abao
lutely safe.
It did net tale me long to reach this
Conclusion, and simultaneous with 11
(fame the alarming discovery that I wet
ynistaken rn believing I was alone.
ON
Oi A1=1.1i41 z. ,
It will bo remembered that the night
woe clear and starlit. There would bi;
no moon'nutiluear morning, and it wet
so new thlit the additional light war
not likely to be epprocfablo. There vat
scarcely a cloud in the slay, se that it
was easy to distinguish objects at a die.
tanoo et 11'i ex 20 yards.
The gentle 'wind was crisp and pleas
ant, and I breathed deep drafts after xziy
long confluonzent in the . stuffy xoom of
the inn. The ozone, with the reawaken
ing of bops, filled me with delicious joy.
I was strong and brave...
Such was my mood when I was stars
tied by the unmistakable sound of a
footfall behind rne, My first thought
was that Archie Bunter had joiaied lift
parent iu the search and was trying tc
steal upon me from the rear. I svheelecl,
revolver in'halid, and faced the new clan.
ger.
I was looking over an undulating
meadow which sloped away in the
gloom beycnd sight° Neither on the
right,xior left could its boundary be de-
tected, It was at the rear of the fun,
and therefore led away from the mair
road, -which I dared not travel, since the
iudigneat citizens, determined not tc
be balked of their prey, would scour the
whole co:entry for me, and it would be
impossible to throw them oil my track,
Though I had heard the stealthy foot-
fall, I could not sae anything to explain
it. fee far as I was able to judge,nc
man was in sight and yet it was in,
credible that my ears should bave de-
ceived ane.
Scanning my surroundings, I observed
that the field upon whose margin I war`
standing eves uncultivated, and .a little
to the left was what appeared to be a
natural hummock. With no special ob
jeot in mind, 'walked toward it, when,
to my astouishment, it rose to its feet
with the question:
"Hello, dat,yo', Marse Hank?"
It was a short, stobky negro wilt
thus addressed me, and without stop•
ping to explain his blunder as to my
identity I demanded: ;
"Who are you?"
,Hula, •doan' yo' know pastas
Brown, Colonel Mans1ey's nigger?"
"What are you doing here?"
The question seemed to strike the Af-
rican as e:;cossively funny, for he hump-
ed hisshoulclers and chuckled.
"Who yo' s'poso sent me?"
"I haven't any idea."
"Hain't, eh? Yah, yah ! Why, Miss
Esther done sent nae."
"what for?"
'r'4V•id ' Ivor oomplcrtncnts • and de
special obquest dat yo'il run like de
debbil,"
"Diff she say that?"
"Doan' 'member kle words obzactly,
but Bat's what sho,neant, ;f say, :Marse
Hank, yo' gib 'ens de slip mighty slink,
didn't yo'?" ,.
"How do yon know I did?"
"Seed yo' do't."
"You saw me Where were ydu at
the time I came out the window?"
"Standin`back and bossin do job."
"What brought you here at this laths
dour of the night?"
"•.1 eome rid bliss Esther. Showaru't:
afeard, but I• t'ought I'd better look
after her 'came she an younger dan
me, yo' know."
"And what shade Miss Esther leave
her home at so late an hour?"
" STA' eoe, do .colonel conned home last
night wid de news dat do folks had yo'
looked up fur boss stealia and dat dey
was swine to bring yo' fur takin Ilii:
pet animal. Do colonel Was awful
raniparageone and swore he hoped dey
would hang yo' if it was yc' dat stole
de chestnut hoss, fur de colonel dean'
seem to hab much love fur a boss t'ief."
"What did Miss Esther say?"
-"She didn't say nuffin, but cried kind
ob el:netlike after do colonel had gone
Out ob do parlor.: Den she totem when
he waru't round ant I ma s to scorch het
dat uight front lice home to a sartin
place dat she didn't name. So we come
down, stud when sho found out whar day
was tattenin yo' up so dat yo' would
be fit to kill in de °ruawnin elle made
me stand back out ob de way while she
slipped up and rose de winder and den
slipped off ag'in jes' afore ye' fell out
on de ground."
The meaning of all this was appar-
ent Miss Esther Mansley, if not en-
gaged in marriage to the conaciolicelese
Henry Beyer, loved him despite hie
c h' is.
wartafe_sness a1.1 the • 0 Ya oft that h
11
stolen a valuable horse belonging to her
father. It was' that feelingwhich caused
her to make her way stealthily to the
inn late at night under the eseort of her
faithful servant end to release me, be-
lieving 1 was heir lover. The act was
womanlike, and who shall blame her
therefor, even though she knew the un-
vrorthinoss of the miscreant that had
WOO her 1%11606 °0
nut after all 1 had n,a i lni to do with
this phaseof the business. Mo far m I
was concerned the young wontata had
builded better than she knew. I Wes
breathing the free air, of heaven and ,
•lls Id coutiuue to do so At Isom the.
rc .,,,
-
"S..: it.:'i, you say Miss 1;,stltor wisliei;
me to rim stud it is the best thing for
me to do, hut slid she say in what di-
reation't"
"1 s'pose from her cbserwations dat
she teec:nt fur yo' to run to de debbil,
which ani do eemo els runuin like de
old boy."
"Lit, not being acquainted with the
Country-- 'What the mischief are yen
laughing ati" I angrily demanded as
the rea;ro chuckled,
"I" nnrso Iluuk, yo' jokin when yo' say
yo' (lc an't know much 'bout die ken -
try." 1•.
It was a wasto of the precious min-
utes to seek to convince Erastus Brown
il of the truth, I appealed to his good
opia.:i,,:; c:f himself.
I "V. hat do you Advise? What dire°.
tion i., beet for me to take?"
"ma y cask() am to head fur Noe Qr-
lona noel not stop zunnin day or night
till yo' got dere. It axn only free, four
t'urancl miles, and I s'pose yo'li got
tired, but wbon yo' arrove dere yo'll be
safe and yo' kin take a good, long rest.
' Mercy beben," suddenly exclaimed the
African, "did yo' Bear dat?"
It was a dismal, mournful sound that
rose on the night air, coining from some.
point apparently miles distant. 1 took
it for the cry of a wolf in some swainp
or wocds and set it down tis unworthy '
of attention at the time. 1
Although I had made any escape from
the house, I was still near it; Cy Wal- '
tors and Archie Hunter -would not it
down and wait for daylight before Mak-
ing another move against. ane, and an,
'• less morning found me several miles
from that spot it would find me in iiia- I
minent peril of being recaptured or shat
i down.
Another fact was not to be forgotten.
.Although I had possession of an excel-
' lent; revolver, oz:ly three chambers were
loaded, and I was without an acklitional
cartridge, for Bina Dungan when he re-
lieved me of any weapon took good care,'
I as I have related, to supply anaself with
the aca0mpauying ammunition. is .1 -to
'• necessary, therefore, that I should hus-
band those three charges until the direst
necessity compelled me to appeal to
' them.
"You know I have been away for
some time, Erastus," I said deoperetely.
"I shall depend upon you to guide me
to a secure hiding place. Lead on."
No doubt the African deemed me ec-
centric that eight, tint probably he laid
it to any Restored condition. He mut-
tered something which I did not catch
anal ti:rned straight about aucl started
across the broad spreading xneadow to
which I bane referred. Ifollowed a few.
paces bellied Irian.
As nearly as I remember, we walked
an eighth of a mile without any per-
ceptible change of direction. Then my
guide mturned to
minutes ourwe werthe
left,a
making way
through low, swampy ground, where
the water Wot my shoes, Dense stubby
trees and bushes loontecl up in front.
TO 1 1liSWT T WL.l+131 1E17TARD
teletta'ate a lvz"tft COLetsZit sold:41143 C.
Prof, Doherty, of the Q,A.O., lieis
bseii giving his Moue time for some.
days to experiments In the der}trlle-
tion of the king of 11010.01,19 weeds—
wild mustard, Aft, Doherty is a
member of the committee of ttie Ex
peripnentai Union appointed, to make
tests in economic botany, and has
consequently taken a, Bleep interest
in the perplexing problem of the de-
struction cf noxious weeds. Recent-
ly he read the results of the labors
of a French scientist, which cerveia
t, demonstrate the possibility of the
d
troc, un of such weeds as wild
mustard by the app;ieation of nidal•
kala, and; witheat injuria the crop..
About a month ago Mr, Doherty
tried three different strengths of iron
sulphate and three of carper sulphate
on six plots. The iron sulphate did
net do any injury at all to the crop,
nor did it entirely destroy the Mus-
tard. The copper sulphate, on the
other hand, completely killed the
Mustard and did a very slight dam-
age to the grain, The copper Win-
ton used at that time was 13 per
cent. By strengthening the solution
and spraying less generously, Mr.
Doherty concluded better results
would he obtained, and on Saturday
a more extensive test was made. A.
plot of about a gaarter of an acre on
the McCarron farm, badly infested
with mustard, was selected and
sprayed with a 2 per emit, solution
of sulphate of copper. The result is
entirely satisfactory. The mustard
is all dead today and the crop is not
at all injured, a brown spot on the.
plant here and there being the only
evidence of the.test. Being ain an-
nual, the Mustard plant destroyed
at this season of the year is destroyed
forever.
The cost of the chemicals will be
very light, ten cents worth being
sufficient to cover an acre. - If—as
seems almost certain—this test i.ndi•
ca.tes an easy and effective method
fur the eradication of wild mustard,
Prof. Doherty has certainly accom-
plished great things for the farming
community. On some farms the
mustard plant has: obtained complete
mastery, and not only makes the
labors of the farmer almost abortive,
but threatens at all times to invade
neighboring farms. Any pian that
will successfully eradicate it should,'
be hailed with satisfaction by the
farming community.—Guelph Her
aid.
" Where aro you leading me, Eras- P L
s?" I asked sharply.
"Gracious heben, dean' yo'
Children Cry for
s
know,
Marse Hank"--
It would not do to throw away time
with this fellow. I spoke with sternness
and laid •nay hand on the butt of the
pistol at my hip.
"Erastus, after this when I ask you
a question answer me if you don't
want me to shoot yon. What place is
this to which you aro leading zn ?" '
"It am Black Man's swamp."'
"What gave it that name?"
":hat's whir do. runaway .slaves some-
times used to hide, De swamp am so
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Erastats- Brown emitted on c:retantatioat
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big and sich a bully place fur hiciin dat
de oberseers couldn't tillers track and
m
brume 'c back. Dey would steal out in
tlo nighttime and snake up to de nigger
quarters, Wirer deg .got somethin to eat.
Yo'vo heard 'bout it?"
"Certainly, andandyou wish me to hide
in there till the hue and cry is over"—
At that instant the colored roan,.
piastres Brown, emitted an a cclamation
° d
tf mortal fear and dashe a ffti t the
top
of his speed, leaving me alone.
CHAPTER, X.
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Wes the baying of a bloodhound.
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