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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1906-07-12, Page 7Ii/aeel_rei--I:.�rlw.p 'wlrsrr!�re�►Ml The pre By i, B, MARRIOTT WATSON COPYitIGHT, 1B98. BY HARPBR lar 8ROTtIER.5 ,®e se _ elleeeelLeoemeessememeemerenem, dr "I did," sold I. " -. — `' - • a nicety. I was near dope on that "A little later 1 approaebed you with event—as cfose a shave it was its 1 a counter proposal. Can't we make have ever seen. I thought I had wy Mlle basis of an agreement still?" eyes sharply set in my head, and 1 i "I think that is quite practicable," i think I have, but Mr. Hood needs !answered. "We might make a basis, four eyes on hien, and one in the mid - but the question is, Should we keep 41e besides. He had me hi the half to it?" light, and I fouud he meant to bolt for Sercombe studied his glass. "I un- it. We got those triukets out by the kierstand you," he said. "1 take you. passage, and a nasty job It was. But 1 admit to you that things are "Well, Hood nearly got away that !Changed -since then—changed, I will time, and if be had we might have ftinpress upon you, with you as well as whistled for him long enough. It isn't swish Isle." as If I didn't know the man. Ile was I bowed. The others sat silent, wait- valet to me ten years back. I took him Ing with Interest what Lnldlit be forth- through Chile, and we were together Coming, lin the Italian trouble. That's how he "Onee before we tabled our cards, Ur. Greatorex," said Sercombe, "I thiuk It would be wise if we were to do so again." "I uuderstand you to hold all the trumps," said L "Ah," said be, "that's the rub. I don't say no. But what I wish to put to you Is this: What is it worth to you If I can lay your hands on that treas- ure?" "I think this was the problem I was !confronted with at the Woodman, Cap- tain Sercombe," I replied. e , "It was," said he. "And then I put a price on myself, which was share and Ehpre with your party." I considered his statement. Shep- pard's eyes telegraphed at me across the table. What in the world bad brought us to this pass? It was not ISercombe's tardy repeutance, nor was It a heroic act of generosity offered out of friendliness. No; the split I had !anticipated bad come about—the thieves bad fallen out. And I now began to gut a point on Sercombe's condition and Sereolnbe's visit If this were so and the partners had quarreled, I felt that we stood to gain a great deal. "I remember you asked a high price," 3 said. "You rated your conversion, let us say, very highly." out.a page of the old gentleman's diary, "I did," he said easily, "and I do and Ilootl's way is not to leave to Meow. I ask you, is your case any bet- others what he can take. for himself. ter? Indeed, I think it Is it good deal I tell you that be hung on to the old ;worse, and you know well enough that i chap day by day, until it got too hot if you make no terms with me you will � for him, and he was sacked, but even not see a gold piece of that hoard this then old Kesteven kept his tongue aside of judgment day. I am beiug I quiet. It wasn't to his interest to frank with you."i speak the truth, and Hood and he, as "I thank you for your frankness," 1 I understood, were as civil as oranges. answered, "and I am equally open Mr. Greatorex can tell you. But then with you when I remind you that if came that affair of the paper, and if It you make no terms with us you have as hadn't been for your sharp ears, Mr. little chance of that same hoard as our- Greatorex, he'd have got what he want - selves." ed even if he liad had to stab the old "Very well, sir," he said cheerily. man to his reins. But that failure ""Then isn't it obvious to you that we threw him back, and that was when he should find a compromise?" wrote to me and I beat up the Greeks. "I agree," I said, "and upon these "Well, Hood fetched the cart up terms only—that you stand in to take at about the inn, servant,and there oorwas th t This your part—a quarter and. no more." p He struck out his band as if he were confounded me, but hood saw the ad- vantage, and, you being taken up with Done! he said, and there was a the crowd, whipped oil his uag. By note of satisfaction in his voice. "And, and by he comes down upon me and gentlemen, if I needed witnesses, here gives me the tip, and Stamboutos and are you three.". I got away with the booty. If I say The note of eagerness In his usually that 1 would have served him as be had tried to serve me there's no one .equable tones surprised me, and I will blame Inc. But the fact was ho 1 now all of us were agog with excite- had got over my Greeks. That was went to learn the meaning of this cu- the pinch. rious piece of treachery. But as there "We got away through the forest and !could be no doubt now as to our right came by a place with a cavern, where to enlightenment, since we were all the Greeks were In hiding. There we ,committed to a common cause, I put stowed Cart and all, It was a snug the question bluntly. hole, but I've never yet fathomed the And here I set down the story tbat hold that Hood had over those beasts Sercombe had to tell as nearly as may that they Iet the stuff alone. But they be In the words in which he told us did, and that's one to the man, boot - that evening as we sat round the tit- black, valet and cutthroat that he is. In bre. that hole we lay for a day or two, and the news came that the police were CHAPTER XX. out, but I imagined it was the Greeks •A{OU will remember," said Ser- they 'wanted, not me; not that I should I( Combe, "that the Inst time I have minded. Finally, the morning be - saw you was when we rode fore this, up pepped Hood about 3 back to the Woodman with o'clock, when alt were asleep, and tap- tbat cart before us. You know well ped me on the shoulder. I sleep pretty enough what was there. Well, I didn't lightly, and I was out and talking even inquire if you had looked. But I with him in a minute or two. guess I know a smart man when I see "'This wood's safer than I thought' him, and, Mr. Greatorex, 1 took oft ray be said. 'We can move when we like. hat to you on that same occasion --the I have filled Jones with stories, and we more particularly as you served me to can make a bold stroke now that the . castle is quiet. They've had enough for a time, I think, and, What with the police, they'll have enough to do to look after themselves, as I have ar- ranged it. Can you sail a boat?' said he. R. Arthur Lepine, school "'A. little,' said 1, 'as you ought td N YER "Rerouted out a page of the old gentle. .man's diary." got the notion of using me. We've been in some tight corners before, but 1 never saw him at his worst till now. forward and grabbed his neck. Hood's a gena. IIe's a special creation. „'13y the Lord,' I cried, 'I am in two By thunder, gentlemen, your notion, of minds to throttle you and make this Hood is that of a month old child's+! I place a grave for yourself!' And, by know him, and I wish to know no more George, I would have done it for 'two of his kidney. Well, no use to dwell pins! ` IIe wriggled in my grasp, and on that. You'll see I had reason." . I. jerked him up and landed him on the "Qne thing captain," I interposed. surface. "How did Hood know of this tress- " 'Look here, Hood,' said I, releasing ure?" ' I>""now?" said Sercombe. "Why, he Mina, 'I've known your bad qualities for ten years, wouldn't be a day in Jerusalem with- out smelling out 'some mystery, He things thattI've seen you do beat mostt things I've seen, and has a nose like a pointer's. He routed has I haven't come to this, nor you iron's, „tee I'm bye TUE WINGUIE TIMES, JULY r2 1900 thein the slip? We can't fetch out the cad and harness and get away with- out waking the whole brood: "'No,' said be softly; '1 wasn't think. ing of that' «'Well, let's have it,' said I. "He stared nt me a moment. 'Wo don't want any evidence against tis, and we don't want partners; be said, "'We don't,' I agreed. "'There's another way out,' he said, with his furtive eyes upon ate. "Suddenly the whole business dash- ed upon rue. And, gentlemen, what do up 11 s Noth- ingsuppose pose o era proposing? Ivo ing less than tho murder of those poor devils as they lay in their sleep. You think I judged too quickly. Walt a bit. The thing came upon me in an Illumi- nation, I believe it was his eyes that did it. But I said nothing of what I felt; what I,said was this: "'There's no other way out that 1 can sec, and if there was another way I wouldn't take it,' and I looked at bim very closely, so that he should see what I meant, He dropped his eyes. "'All right,' he said. 'You'd better go and Ile down. I'll think It out.' "I wcut, for I was pictty sleepy, and, besides, I drought I bad disposed of that worm ht his head, And presently I gut to sleep, but it couldn't have been for long, .for I was awaked by some sound In the night and sat up. The Greeks were snoring about me, but somewhere I could hear a regular noise, struck at intervals and coming from a little way off. It was still dark, but I guided my steps to the sound, and what do you think I found? Mr. Great- orex, gentlemen, it has a nasty sound, and might very web go for a lie In an- other man's mouth," tcrcotnbe took a sip from his glass. "I struck a neateh, and there were souse feet of earth piled just in front of mo and below that a man digging—digging, with his head at the level of my feet. Ile started at my light and uttered an exclamation, and then stopped, looking at me. We watched oue another. till We light went out. Theta I stepped Bleeding Piles. teacher, Granite Hill, Mus- koka, Ont., writes :--" For two years I suffered from bleeding piles, and lost each day about half a cup ot blood. I underwent an operat- ion in the Ottawa General Hospital .and for about two months 1 was better, but my old trouble returned, and again I lost much blood. One of my doctors told me I 'would have to undergo another operation, but I 'would not consent. "Ivry father who is proprietor of the Richilieu Hotel, Ottawa, advised me to use Dr. Chase's Ointment, and two boxes cured me. 1 did not lose any blood after beginning this treatment, and I have every reason to believe that the cure is a per- manent one." Dr. Chase's Ointment, 60 cents a lox, at all dealers, or Edmanson, Bates 8& Co.i Toronto. bad played the trick upon me as I had wines made me sit up, 1 fixed my thought of playing it on the Greeks. eyes en hire. So up I got, wondering where the deuce "'You're a Mice sort of seouudrel l' 1 they all were, and I issued out of the said. For answer be grinned wider inoutit of the cave. As I came forth than ever out of his binek mug and, nay eyes fell on a group of then) stand- slowly drawing a paper front his peck- ing together in close conference just et, emptied a yellow sort of powder de- befere the cavern, but there W88 no Iiberatcly over the oisb. Hood. I went up to Stannboulos, the "I believe I turned white; at Ieast I very man I lead with lite in the Ionian know I felt it. That notion bad never islands, and to my amazement he turn- entered my mind. But the vermin set ed sharply away down the dish before sue and returned "'Milo, sonny!' said I in ,surprise, to his' eompauions, who greeted him but without reply they all vanished with laughter. Sirhhiess wasn't the into the wood and left me staring after word for what I felt. I kicked the thein with a mouth wide open. What dish away and stood lip, a fury yelling had come to them? I asked myself and In my belly, I was not going to wait. gaped for an answer. This last straw tiel.led me into action. "I thought I was bewitched. !there I ran down the slope toward the track, was still no Hood, Mid presently I 'sat but, quick as I was, there were three down to breakfast, and the Greeks re- of the devils after me, and I am not so turned and grouped together a little tleet as I was once. One of them came way oft, But when I approached they up with me and jabbed his knife at me. sat silent and gave me no answer till, I got him In the head with my fist, getting beyond toleration, I seized two and down he went, but.before I could and cracked their heads together. But, recover I got a push In the back, and upon that, up leaped one of the scowl- when. I pulled myself up there were drels and drew his knife ort me. 1 two long blades gleaming In nit' eyes, To go farther would have becu to im- pale myself on a bayonet, and I drew oft and backed slowly to the rock again. Here i sat down, and for ;the first time I was afraid. "Gentlemen, I will not go through the series, for the time gets on and I've work to do, with your help. But take that for a sample. That was oue. Well, you can multiply that by a doz- en, I sat at my post till dark, without food, of coarse, and then in a sort of blind despair of the darkness I gath- ered some big stones about me. I could use them and break some egg- shells if nothing more. And a little after that night fell. "I tell you, sirs," said Sercombe in a husky voice, "1 don't want the horrors "'Very well,' said he, like a lamb. 'I'll ilii it in.' And he never said sin - other word. .. .. , . .. "1 wout bock to the cave, but this time I was not g!ng to sleep, for 1 would not trust that Week Bevil any more than Beelzebub. :\ 1itl1e after 1 took a sleepy lit on ale, but I fought against it tooth and nail. I sat up, with my back to the rock, and looked out of that window, as you plight call its at the growing light. Of Ilood 1 got no sign, and there I sat and yawn- ed and swore toed pinched myself to keep my eyes open until oue by oue the Greeks stirred about Inc, kicked their legs and opened their eyes. Then I knew that my vigil was over, and when 1 Stantboulos got tip, shook himself and went outside to look at the morning I reckon I fell asleep. "I slept very heavily for an hour or two, for when I awoke the sun stood high ill the heavens. But slot a sign of know.' "'Yes, sir; I forgot,' said he, falling unconsciously into the old habit of a servant. 'Well, suppose we rush for it, now all's clear?' "'What's your game?' 1 asked. "'I've got a boat down by the Ray,' he said, 'and we can make for the channel' "'Well, it sounds good,' I replied, 'though it's risky. Rut the Greeks are all sailors, and we can manage at a shift' "At that he looked rather strangely at me and was silent. Fie moved off a bit and peeped into the cavern through the bushes; then he came back. 'They sleep pretty sound,' he said and again gave me an odd glance. "'What is it? I asked, for 1 knew his ways and that there must be something underneath. "'The Greeks are a nuisance,' he ob- serTed, watching me. 'We can do well enough without them.' "I thought 1 began to see no'tF, tiild said 1; 'I anti not in mtieh need of the moot, tent 1GW can Ijie PO "Below me zeas a Man dtggitip," living human creatures was there about mc. I sat up sharply, thinking that Hood CURES steppd'd back, but Stamboulos, a dirty thief, togk him by the urns and whis- pered in his ear, and there were nod- ' dings all round the party. "By this time, as you may guess, I was in a deuce of it huff, and alt 1 strode into the wood, whistling to show my indifference. It was silly, no doubt, but I did not want a pack of skunks 'like that to Imagine I was worrying about them. Just ae I had got a dozen yards or so I heard some one come into the forest after ale and, turning, caught sight of a man napped Deme- trios, 'What are you after?' thought I. But I paid no attention and kept on. I kept straight ahead, for the wood was very thick there, and there was no one about. I only wanted to get away for a spe11 and consider the position. But after a bit I pulled up and took a seat on a patch of heather where the ground was more open. The morning sky shone on the bushes and worked into the cor- ners of the forest, and as I sat there in a meditative way I heard sounds coming nearer, and presently Deme- trios pops his head out of a bit of shrubbery and glances at me. Imme- diately after some one approached upon the other side, and I caught a glimpse of another of the gang poking his ugly phiz from behind a tree, and then, again, I found a third to the left. This set me up right awake, and I asked myself what it meant. You ean't wonder if I could not make it out. Could you have tumbled to it? 'Well, I didn't, not just then. But, for all that, it made mo angry. I rose and ran at Demetrios with the express idea of kicking him; but, retreating, he slipped out a knife and snarled at me like an angry dog, and at the same time his fellows drew up to support Wm. I had come out without a weap- on, and I was at a disadvantage, but by this time It seemed to me to be growing serious, and so I made off back toward the ,cave. The beggars followed me. "When I got near the cave—there is a track that runs hard by, winding somewhere over to the western valleys, Mit .unfrequented -1 will take a walk here,' I said to myself, and accordingly I turned off, but at that motion of mine there was a sort of scrambling among the undergrowth and three of the cut- throats barred my path, each showing an ugly knife. 'Very well,' thought I, 'I don't know yet what you're up to, but I'll warrant I'll find out, and mean- while I'll sec that I'm on a little better footing in the matter or arms' I got back to the cavern, where the two re- maining scoundrels sat tossing coins, and I went in. My revolvers had been removed, and there was not so much as even a pocketknife left to inc. "You will conceive now that I begau to be scared. What was the issue of all this? I moved down toward the slope, and two beasts got in my way and grinned at me. I turned back and tried another route, but there I was confronted by two more, I tell you that it dawned on ing then that it was plain black murder they meant!" Sercombe paused again and refreshed himself, casting a glance at us its which I thought I detected a look of fear re- newed from his experiences, "Perhaps you say," he went on in a slow voice, "that I might have cut and run for it. That thought occurred to me, but i put it off. I thought this was a mistake on their part which I could explain. Anyhow, I thought, they're taking no active proceedings. They want to pen me up, that's all, and the morning was wearing .u, and, to say the truth, I thought 1'i argue it out and have some food, 1 et I soon found that, for any argumelt.:; I had, I might as well have talked to the wind. To begin with, only two of them under- stood more than a sailor's English, and of these Stamboulos merely grinned by way of reply, while the other paid no heed. What Hood had said to them I don't know. IIe had pretty well alien- ated thele from ane before this --and they were only the scum of the earth to begin with—but up to now they had Preyed pacific. I guess he poured some poison into their ears. That dirty Le- vantine breed is superstitious. Perhaps I was supposed to have the evil eye, but more probably 'it was filthy greed tbat was at the bottom of it Anyhow, I could not come to terms with then., and so I sat in any place, with my back against a ledge of rock, and whistled. 'Ali right,' I said, 'I'll dine on it.' "It may have been an hour or two later when they prepared a steal for themselves. occur- red this lis it hadn't ur- o c red to me to wonder where my food was cotning from. But just as this notion came on me I saw Stambottlos, who was the worst of the lot, approach. Ing with a dish in his hand. "'Come; this looks better,' said 1. 'They're only playing it do'vn on me alter all' "IIe came to a halt a yard a'vay and, grinning all over his face, offered me the dish, 1 was pretty ,hungry by this tlnic,, but there WAS that lit bis grin Dyspepsia, Beds, Pimples, Headaches, Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Salt Rheum, Erysipelas, Scrofula, and all troubles arising from the Stomach, Liver, Bowels or Blood. Mrs. A.Letltangue, of liallydnlr Ont. writes' "I believe f Would have been in my grave long Hao had it not been tor Bushel. Mood Bit. tern. I was run flown to such an extent that I could scarce- ly move about tho house. i was fini,ieet to severe headaches, b,t, kachcs and dinzi• ne s' my appetite w.,s gone and I wan b,nsowork dAfter u.,ing two bottles of ll. I3.13. I found my health fay restored It" tomxil tir d ud worn opt women." • "Set down the poisoned dish before me." of that night—no, not as long its I live. And, what's mare, I don't want auy man, save one, to pass such a night as that, There were things that crept up my brain that night. I confess to you that I know what D. T. means. I've seen a bit in my life, but to sit still and have that game in one's head till the maggots worm about there, and— I got one with a stone; at least, I think so. That was good. "1 saw the dawn rise in a crimson glory. It fell over the cavern and got at the bushes about me. Then it crept on and advanced over the drunken Greeks. Sirs, there they lay, and I never knew it! With that hell in my soul and that great fear of death roast- ing out my nerves, I had lived through a Carouse. 1 saw them every minute of the night. They had their orders. I knew that well enough: I can hear Hood at it, with his low and humble voice: "'Let me find hint rotten when 1 come back.' I know the pian, I say. Yes, I heard bis voice every moment of that night —last night, .lir. Great• orex—and all the while the swine lay drunk or numbed. "See Isere, gentlemen, I came bit an hour ago. I had had no food for thir- ty-six hours. I have been hunted like no human being for all that time. 1 was without a weapon. I had ne means to call for aid. 1 was the sub• jest matter of their knives, as plain as if I was a post mortem. I"— Sercombe's breath fell short, and he gathered It in with a gasp. He lifted the glass to bis lips and sucked in the spirit greedily, Then ke mewed more @quably; (To be continued.) „n , n llHOPlUnnM IPI11t109IMPIni.111,11101117Pdrunul•Ju„ STORI ror Infants and Children. 'egetablePreparationforAs- similating iherood,andAegula- ting the 5lomachs andl3oweis of Promotes Digestion,Ch£erful- nessandi%st.Contaifs neither pp]uin,Morphine fetor Mineral. NOT NAxtc OTIC. ,jrco;'13olCllci. r.54241ZPIT Fwv1b(in .Fra A t:Sevna • Rad:c(k swTa - /rnse Sccd . 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