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voliut come from ALOine. lyinglo the
west. The moment they wero discovered.
Captain Warren was to give the signal,
when he and his comrade would with -
raw tG the house. There we should de-
• fend ourselvettas the exigencies present-
• eel themselves. The request of Miss
Igansley to assist us was firmly declined.
"Your place is in your room," her
father said, patting hor head affection-
ately. •You will bo good enough to go
thither and reinain, until I send for
yams'
She know better than to protest, and
kissiug J.dzi goodby for the time did as
directed..
Night was °losing in. Most of the
• servants had been sent to their quarters,
but to show Colonel Mansley's contempt
for the vigilantes the lights were ]it
through the lower part of the house, and
when we ate our eveniug meal every
one of us could have been picked off
tirom the outside without risk to the
sharpshooter. I confess I felt nervous
when I glanced at the windows, whose
•curtains wero raised and the shutters
• thrown back. '
At the conclusion of the meal the cap-
tains repaired to their stations and the.
colonel and I went into the parlor,
where all was darkness. Everything
possible bad beeu done, end we were inn
readiness for the attack that we were
certain would soon be mettle, Sure
' enough, less than half an hour had pass-
, •ed when, through the stillness, we beard
a whistle from Captain Warren.
"Our friends are prompt," remarked
Colonel Mansley. "They will be here in
10 or 15 minutes."
CHAPTER XXVI.
Tbe course of Colonel litansley was
•charaoteristio from the first. When he
and his two friends rode through the
little village of Aldine on, their way
i belted, it was in his power to brush
- aside every threatening aloud and bring.
perms and good will upon the excited
community. He had only to draw rein
and make known to the loiterers around
the'pla,oe that the genuine Hank Beyer
had been arrested and was then on his
feway to the county seat in charge of the
sheriff. The fact that his own father
bad recognized the scamp and refused,
to assist him would have placed the
identity of the young man beyond doubt.
And yet the colonel resolutely refused
, to speak the word. Believing that I had
taken refuge tinder his roof, he was
' eager to defend me, and, as he expressed
it, meant to teach the boors a lesson
they would remember all their lives.
In his stem wrath he scorned to nos
• keowleclge the salutations of his neigh-
. VON, but rode forward, grim, determined
and silent, re hie home. .To use a corn -
MOD expreseion, the veteran was spoil-
- beg for a figitt.
As for reeeelf, I should have been
glad tb withdraw when night came,
and, nieunted on a swift horse, taken uty
chanes of eeceee---wittele wero good—
but I dared not propose anything of that ,
nature to my hope He had laid out his
line of action and would brook no iutere
ference from any one.
The warning whistle of Captain
• Warren bad scarcely reached us in the
ittilluess of the autumn night when h• e
came in sight through the gloom, walk-
ing rapidly up the front path. Before
• be reached the porch he was joiued by
• Captain Vernon, who opened the uu-
• fastened eeter and centered the parlor.
•"Well," paid the former, without the
•; slightest agitation, "they are within
11.00 yards and coining at a fast gait,"
"How many do you make?" inquired
the colonel.
"It is hard to tell in tho darkness,
• but nil seem to be talking at the sinew
time, and they are straggling along, ap-
' narently without a leader. There must
be a score."
• "No doubt Jim Dungan is at their
bead, 'and he is as brave as he is fool -
"They need a sharp lesson." ,
"And will receive it. They will ate
• preach from the front," added tho colo-
nel. "We shall have a few words with
f them before the firing begins. Most of
the men have seen service, and they
will first SWAM:Ill us to surrender. It is
policy to compel them to strike the
Opening blow. • You three will station
yourselves by the windows at the front
of tho parlor, with the sashee.raised.
•`When 1 give the word, wo will all open
fire together."
"We promise yen that," assented
Captain Warren, speaking or the test
of us.
"And don't forget that each of you
has a repeating Winchester. Pump the
shots into them as fast tut yen can. A
Bettie is often Won by its opening, It
will be inertly to the survivors to pick
tit a dozen or so. The chances are that
they will run after -a reception like
thst,"
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TRU WINCIfiAM TIMES, SEPTEMBER 22, 1899.
"rereeps to organize in larger force
than before."
"What of that?" demande1 the colo-
nel ao if ho snuffed the battle and rev-
eled in the intoxication it imparted.
"Ale, there they arol"
Looking oukfrom the darkened par-
lor, we saw a number of shadowy fig.
urns gathering near the outrauoe to the
grounds. Tbenight was like the preced-
ing one, col, crisp and clear, with only
•the stargleam, to aid our vieion. This
was weakened by the shade of tho.trees
that surrounded the house, but by looks
tug straight down the wide walk there
WE little difficulty in making out the
moving forties,
As nearly as I could judge there were
twenty odd, so that the vigilantes of the
preceding night had been augmented by
others. They had halted et the entrance
to the grounds, as if for consultation.
There were four windows at the front
of the paler, and three of ne took our
station there, each with a rifle 111 hand,
Colonel Mansley, as our leader, re-
mained in the hall near the front door,
ready to receive the message which was
expeoted from the rnob. In the impress-
ive silence I ceught the sound of a
light footfall at the head of -the stairs,
Miss Mausley bad violated the coin-
xnaucl of her parent to the esteut of
leaving her room.
.
The minutes passed, and etill none of
the'sbadowy forms at the front of the
grounds approached. In the stillness of
tho night we could hear the murmur of
their voices. 'If Jim Dungan was the
leader, he did not have , his vigilantes
under the beet of discipline. Colonel
Mansley grew impatient, for he did not
understand the meaning of the delay,
and Captain Warren, nearest me on the
right, muttered:
"It looks as if their courage had pe-
tered out and there is none that dare
show himself in front of the others." .
"They may opeu fire from where they
stand or pass around to the rear, where.
We shall haven poorer chalice et them."
"They can't effect muoh at long
range— Alt, there they come I"
Instead of one man two advanced
from the group and walked up the path
beside each other. As they drew nearer
it was seen that each carried a rifle.
While I was peering through the gloom,
trying to ideutify them, Captain Warren
said in a low voice:
"The one on the right is Jim Dun-
gan.),
"And his companion is Cy Walters,"
I added, easily recognizing the massive
figure of tho ex -soldier.
"You are right. ft is he."
They came forward at a deliberate
• walk, apparently puzzled by the dark-
- tiers and. silence •of the mansion, but
. they showed no signs of timidity. At
the foot of the porch the two halted, and
Duugau called in a clear voice:
"Hello, the house!"
Colonel Mausley instantly shipped
forth and, advancing to the edge of the
upper step, asked in his sharp, military
fashion:
"Well, sir, what do you wishi"
The two men gave n salute by touch-
ing their forefingers to the fronts of
their hats, but he stood proud and erect
without acknowledgment. ,
"You have a young man in your
house that we emit to see," replied
Dungan, who did the Milting for his
part y,
"I have a guest here, but he chooses
to pick his company and decliues to
have atlythiug to do With you.", •
• "Has he said so?" was the impudent
question of the leader of the vigilante
"None of your business l I speak for
hira."
."I think, colonel, you'd better let
that chap come out."
"It matters nothing to me what you
think ; you have my -answer."
"Suppose wo dome in after him?"
Colonel Mausley held his temper bee.
tor than 1 expected. There was not a
tretnoe in his tones when he teplied:',
"The first one of you who approaches.
my door will he shot dead! We hold
you and your mob in utter ontempt
and invite you t6 attack this house as
.•seon as you d --d please!"
We three in the parlor were listening
breathlessly. I was sure that Jim Duns
gan indulged inn chuckle' and feuded
the ponderous shoulders ofCy Walters
once ov Vice as if hewers itiUgh.
ing silently. Then the young leader
leaned, over mid said something in so
guarded a voice that none of • ns could
• catch the wotds. Looking toward the
etathelike figure of the officer facing
him on the porch, Dungan repeated,
With a peculiar intonation:
"1 reekon, colonel, you'd better bring
that chap out,"
"I have given you atiliWet. What
aro eiett waiting fort"
It seemed to strike the two that they
were Wasting ti1216, for without reply.
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lag they turned About and moved COM*
the graveled walk to *ell companions.
The couference there was brief. The
Thc two 711C71, gave a saluta
'whole crowd came through the open
gate and moverl up the path toward the
front of the house. Colonel Mansley
stepped bark within the hall, drew the
bolt of the door and joined us in the
parlor.
"There must be 110 of them," whis-
pered Captain Vernon,
"I wish there were 100," was the
grim remark of the colonel. "Were
snob infernal idiots ever created be-
fore?"
Arrived at tho porch, the men ar-
ranged themselves with some regard to
military formation, standing in a don.
blo row, fitoiug the door and parlor,.
where our armed men, coolly Awaited
the opening of the fight to the death.
Mattera were in this tense stnte when
Jim Dungan onoe more called out the
name of Colonel Mausley.
"I refuse to bold any further parley
with you," he' replied from his'station
by ono of the windows of the parlor,
"Yon have my.answer.'
Jim Dungan now did a daring thing.
Recognizing the point whence the an-
swer came, he stepped upon the poroh
and milted to the window, where he
and Colonel Mansley stood face to face ,
within six feet of each other and with
the sash raised. /
CHAVER XXVII.
"Colonel ?tension" said Dungan,
"we want di 'word or two with your
guest. egive you my pledge that we'll
do him no harm while we're talking to-
gether." • -
The proposition was so unexpected
that the colonel was puzzled. He had
failed to not Ei a significant fact which
did not escape me. During the inter-
view Dungan never onoe referred to me
as Hank Beyer. Before the colonel could
frame his reply I stepped through the
open window and stood on the porch in
view of every xnember of both parties.
"I am here, Dungan. What do yon
wish with me?"
The man took off his slouch•hat and
slowly bowed until his head was almost
to his ltuees. Then, as he straightened
up, he said in a clear voice:
"Mr. Edward Kenmore of NAV York
city, on behalf of ray friends and myself
offer you a humble apology and beg
your forgiveness for the d ----d fools we
have made of oursolves. Af our meeting
this afteruoon in Black Man's swamp
we voted to have aanedal struck for each
member of our crowd, which he pledged
himself to wear as evidence that he's
the biggest chump in the whole state cf
Mississippi. Cy and me here are to have
the biggest medals, each 'bout the tine
of a flapjack; 'cense we're the cham-
pions.
"It's onnecessary to go over the live
ly proceediugs of the last day and night,
'cause I reckon your mern'ry don't need
any refreshing as to the same, We all
took you for Hank Beyer, which- the
same you shouldn't be 'shamed of, fur
he's the int. looking as well as the
meanest than in the county. •
"You know the story you told• es
how you bought the colonel's bbeetnat
of Min at the crossroads. None of us
didn't b'lievo it, for which tho same
you are partly to blame, being as ho*
ybn humored the idee that you was
Hank. Bat it happened that when you
bought that hate of him there was a
man who seed you do it. He was out
that day sort of prospecting like when he
observed you two, and Ito hid 'mfing
the trees at the side of the road, heerd
what passed atweeu you and seed the
money paid over. The reason why this
epeetater didn't mention the affair EOM-
rr was that be was efeard his presence
• in that quarter would throw 'spicion
en to him as regards chiekens, for the
iforceaid geutloman was the darky Pete,
where you spent a part of last night,
and we've promised Pete not to ask him
any troublesome questions on account
of the service he's done to political
economy and good government, so to
speak.
"Pete told his story to Cy here today,
and we bad a meeting in the woods to
consider things. We was all as hotfoot-
ed as ever after you, for though Cy Was
presentbo couldn't tell what Pete had
told hibt, 'cause he'd promised he
wouldn't. When Cy seed to how there
was no way of Stopping us, he got Pete
to tell the whole thing and throw him-
self ott to the mercy of the court.
"Wind, that made maleIt opened
our eye& We tome nigh getting into a
tight as to our claims as to which was
the biggest fool. After along argyment
that ennui relahtv niett hlotee ik
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The Attorney.Cieneral has sent a
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throughout tl.e Province,. in which
he says,: "It has been found upon
investigation that most ot the nuui
_emus bUrglarics and other erimes of
violence eounnitted recently in the
various parts of the Province have
been the work of tramps of the class
usually found, working along the
- lines of railway algal camping in the
woods anti Ms. on the on tskirte or
cities, towne and . It is
deemed necessary that these inen
should bo driven out of the Province
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so many Mere to clear out of the
municipality is producing very an.
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inen being brought before you, to
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