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The Wingham Times, 1907-06-06, Page 71 i 1 1 1 1 .. 1 e. t�QQatelaeeeYaatta1155Ae1t5 IEQ11111:III SWEET REVENGE Captain P. Ago 11,ITCf-ILLt Author of "Ohattanooga,!' "OLtekamaaga," Ste. Copyright, 1897, by Harper & Brothers. Ee[1EIEr12!!1UE'I<tile!!!!!e12!!!It`f1111i!I1 WIN, w 11140t ww10.` Ing tbe danger we were in, cannot re- press a smile at the comical situation of this man wbo a few days before bad ordered me out to be shot, then bad offered to lend me money and now, giving me his horse to save my life, was about to start off hunting for Jaqueline in the Cumberland moun. tains. Helen and 1, riding side by side, dashed through brush, between trees, over rocks, runnels, rotting trunks of trees, our only thought to put space between us and our enemies. She was riding on a man's saddle, sidewise, luckily supported by a high pommel and bolster, keeping her balance as if bred to the "ring." I reached out my hand. She gave me hers to press, and a lover's look, intensified by our dan- • ger, shot between us. It was only for .an instant, for so rough was the • ground, so numerous tbe obstructions, that we were obliged to keep our eyes .constantly fixed ahead. There had been -.exciting moments since my first ab- duction, but nothing like the wild ex- bilaration that thrilled me now. I for- got the barrier. that was still between. us, thinking only that if this one ride were successful years of happiness might be in store for us. Wondering if we were followed, I drew rein and listened. We could dis- -tinctiy hear the brush breaking in our rear. Again we pushed forward. It occurred to me that we were going - directly from our camp and that the greater chance for safety, both imme- .diate and ultimate, would be in bid- • ing, with a view to inducing the guer- rillas to pass us, thus affording an op- portunity to return and join forces with our friends. Approaching a clump of wood skirted by open ground, a plan (lashed through my brain to utilize both In order to elude our pursuers. "Your bonnet!" I cried to Helen. She tossed it to me. . "Now ride straight for that thicket" Spurring my horse to the utmost, I Made a circuit, dropping the bonnet .and a trifle farther on my hat. Helen entered the wood, and I, wheeling, dashed in on the farther side and re- joined her. Jerking off my coat, I wrapped it about my horse's ears and oyes to prevent his neighing to those .approaching, and Helen, divining my Intention, did the same to her own mount with her jacket. Then we stood waiting, not a sound escaping from either us or our horses, even their • panting deadened by the covering. It • was either life or death, with the chances in favor of death. We stood, band In hand, looking straight into •each other's eyes. In that moment of -supreme suspense it was as if but one being waited for the result. An exclamation—they have seen the bonnet! A shout—they have come upon and woodland dotted with towns, vil- lages, hamlets and many a fair planta- tion,with its manor house surrounded by the buts of the field bands. Far In the distance was a snakelike line In the road, moving forward, it seemed, as a reptile crawls—the cavalry that we had so nearly caught tba day be- fore, now on their way back to join the main force. I longed for a speak- ing trumpet sonorous enough to reach them, but there was no hope for us now in them, and I brushed away dis- appointment and made a survey of the ground directly before me -nothing but steep incline, so thickly wooded that the character of the ground was com- pletely hidden. On either hand was a mountain spur, between which ran a creek. 1 hesitated between taking one of these spurs and following the bed of the creek. On tbe spurs we might be seen; by the creek we would be con- cealed under the trees. I decided in favor of tbe Latter. Returning to camp, I informed the party of my decision. "Will you join us, Captain Beau- mont?" I asked. "I've been hunting fo' yo' all fo' days," replied the captain, looking at Jack. "Now I've found yo', I'm not likely to part with yo'! Together we can whip the guerrillas." "Not a dozen of them. Besides, we've had enough of that." "What are you going to do with the horses?" asked Helen. "Mount the ladies," suggested the captain. "Thank yo'," observed Jack, "but I don't care to ride on a horse with his nose pointing to China and his tail at the stars." "No one could ride a horse over such a route," said I. "I'll take care of the stock." I tethered them In the little pocket we were leaving, knowing that they were less likely to betray our where- abouts to our enemies there than if I turned them loose. "They'll starve," Jack remonstrated. "I can't help it" "They shall not!" "Come, we have no time to lose." But Jack set about collecting what little grass was to be had and piling it before them. The captain, seeing her determination, was soon on his knees gathering grass and•throwing it in her apron. "I hope the delay not cost us our lives," I grumbled. "NowGinger, I want you to go off to the right just as far as you can and still keep me iu sight. Buck, you go to the left and do the same, but keep close, for it won't do for us to call to each other." "Jack can make all sorts o' noises— cats, an owls an birds—so yo' can't tell 'em," Buck voluuteered. "Good! We may have occasion to use her. You girls keep behind about the hat! They clatter on. Wait. A the same distance as our cankers. man in the rear is coming. He, too, When we get to tbe creek, Ginger is to passes, his horse's hoof beats dying in work down it oh the right bank, Buck on the left, while I keep as near the the distance. Leaving the thicket, we made straight creek as possible. Captain Beaumont, for the camp and in a few minutes will you act as rear guard?" -dashed in upon our companions. "With pleasure, sir." "He'll go to sleep," remarked Jack, "and be left behind." ' CHAPTER XIX "Not with you in front," said the cap- 3170X's INDISCRETION. twin, looking at her reproachfully. 'APTAIN BEAUMONT bad ar- I gave the order to move. Making as rived but a few minutes before little noise as possible, keeping each us and when we appeared was other in sight, except occasionally attempting to reassure Jack, when the trees and underbrush were h had completelyatfind w o a - too thick, we proceeded to the brow of lag that both Helen and I had disap- the plateau. Descending, we soon peared. He went to Helen and politely, offered to assist her to alight. "We must move out of this at once," I said. "All depends upon our getting down the mountain and Into some town, where these villains will not dare follow us. All stay here while I reconnoiter." I had not dismounted, and spurred :my horse a few hundred yards west- ward, where I paused on the verge of the plateau. The sun was rising at my back and was pouring a flood of light on the lowlands a thousand feet below. I swept my eye over the rolling fields Never Expected to Walk Again Mr. John Best, Thamesville, Ont.,could not walk a step when he began using Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, could scarce- ly feed himself and had pains in his back and sides. His doctor treated him for locomotor ataxia, but told him he could never get better. He could not feel the needles the doctor stuck into his legs. Three months after beginning the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve Food, Mr. Best wrote as follows: "I am glad to tell you that I have been wonderfully bene- fited by the use of Dr. Chase's Nerve • Food. I can now walk all over with- out crutch or cane, can sleep and eat well, and do lots of work about the farm. In fact I am the wonder of the neighborhood where I live, for I .never expected to be able to walk again. Thanks to God and your wonderful medicine, I am around again and tell every one what it has done for mo." Dr. Chas's Nerve rood, 50 cents a boat, 6 boxes for $2.50, at all dealers .or Edoitanson, Bates dt Co., Toronto. struck the creek and, under cover of the trees, proceeded downward in open order, walking rapidly, keeping a sharp lookout ahead and on the flanks. We ,Had not gone far before an owl hooted behind me, and so natural was the cry that, had I not been expecting it,I should never have suspected it to• have come from the throat of Jaqueline. Turn- ing, I saw both girls pointing upward. On the very edge of the declivity and not far from where we had begun our descent a man was looking down from the plateau. We were so protected that he could not see us, for, besides being among the trees, we were in comparative shadow, while the man above stood out boldly in the light. He did not look like a guerrilla, but we hurried on. Discovering a great advantage in Jack's signals, I called in the flanker and the rearguard and arranged with them that Jack was to travel with me as trumpeter. The hoot of an owl would mean "hide," a woodpecker's rapping "rally on the center," the notes of a thrush "take a back track," a hen's cackling "push forward in baste." These signals being perfectly under- stood, we opened again and advanced like a central sun and satellites. We had made the principal part of to a cony en ming the descent, when,co rent spot,•1 ordered a halt for rest, feel- ing a confidence that I had not felt since my abduction --a confidence I should not have yielded to, for we were yet far from safety. The place of our halt was a delightful angle in the stream we were following. Jack stroll- ed away In search of wild flowers and was soon joined by Captain Beaumont, whose infatuation prevented him from thinking of aught else, even our coma Melt danger. Buck stretched himeelt under a short mountain oak, Clasped hie hands under hie head, threw one leg over the bent knee of the other and looked ayalght up Into the branches. FRE WINGHAM VHS JUNE 6, 1907 Helen and I were'tbue left alone. We sat clown on the bank of the creek in view of the bubbling Stream. Taking a slender stick in her lippd, Helen be- gan to thrash, the water,.I saw that she was troubled, and I knew the cause. The barrier between us, which In a moment of Intense excitement bad faded out of sight, now loomed up again as ominously as ever. We eat without speaking. Jack and the cap- tain were chatting briskly, every now and again speaking loud enough for us. to bear some word that told of the cap- tain's enthrallment. The Silence be- tween Helen and myself grew painful. I could say nothing to break the spell. I could but mutely express what I fell. Reaching out, I took her band and drew her to me. A shot! Looking upward to the plateau, I slaw a horseman dashing off to the spur north of us, whostsridge led to the level ground we were approaching. It was plain that we had been discovered, that the shot was a signal and the horseman was going to head us off. The trouble had all come from Buck. I have no doubt we should have given the guerrillas tbe slip had it not been Our enemy, watching from 'tate plateau, discovered hind. for his folly. There are certain idio- syncrasies in boys that are as natural to them as for a duck to swim or a rob- in to fly. Unfortunately, at a critical moment Buck encountered an incident that called out one of these idiosyncra- sies. Gazing into the branches of the tree under which be lay, he espied a bird's nest. Unluckily, he noticed that a rbek which admitted of a gradual as- cent stood directly under the tree. Cllinbiug the rock, he made.his way among the branches and, leaning far out where the bright sun could shine directly on him; graspedfor the treas- ure. Our enemy, who was at the time watching;fr m the plateau, discovered him. . - Calling the party together, I gave the order to push forward; not that there seemed to be any object in doing so, for we must expect to meet our pursu- ers, but we could not go back and could not stay where we were. Be- sides, motion would tend to pull to- gether the faculties of the party, every one of' whom was appalled at this re- lapse into 'the frightful dangers they had so long endured, though Captain Beaumont showed only irritation at having his tete-a-tete with Jack inter- rupted. We bad not gone far before we struck a path running parallel with the creek, which led us to a hamlet on a road leading north and south. There were but half a dozen -houses in the place, including a small country store and, a blacksmith shop. Before entering the town we consulted as to what we should do. "Get horses," I proposed, "if there is time." "Or a horse and wagon," said Helen. 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Bu -Ju must cure you of Kidney and Bladder Troubles and Rheumatism,- or your money will be promptly refunded, 5oc. a large box. Seu t on receipt of price if your druggist does not have it. 77 The Claflln Chemical Co., Ltd., Windsor, Ont; • -•Lamle:- i anis as we entered the, - place. "Scatter. Tell the people tho guerrillas are after us, and they'll help ! us. We'll have from 10 to 15 minutes' to prepare." ` • CHAPTER XX. A MASl UERADE. HAT became of the ethers I did not attempt to discover.' I made straight for the, blacksmith shop and found a smith at his forge. "My good man," I said, 'Pin followed by guerrillas. They'll be in the town In a few minutes. , Can't you give me ; your'clothes and let me take your place • at the forge?" He stood with his hand on the ban- .d!e of the bellows looking at me while : 'What I said was slowly making its way through his skull. "Weel, noo," be said at last. "Scotch—I knew it. I'll be taken be- fore I can make him understand." Then to him, "Do you want to save me from death by guerrillas?" "Certain; moir; "Then take off that apron and give it to me at once. Not a moment to lose." , At this juncture the desperate posi- tion I was in entered iris brain, and he worked quickly enough once he real- ized what was *anted. I saw a wool- en shirt, well begrimed, Imaging on a nail and, seizing it, put it on. Then I took the smith's apron, rolled up my sleeves, smeared my arms with cinders and looked into a bit of broken mirror resting against the wooden wall to ob- serve the effect. I was disappointed to see that my face belied my calling. "Your razor!" I exclaimed to the blacksmith. He went through a door leading from the shop to his dwelling and returned with a razor, soap and hot water. In five minutes i bad shorn my beard, leaving a dark stubble: then, seizing a handful of coke, rubbed out every re- fined lineament. Taking another look nt myself, 1 was pleased to see that my own mother would not know me. Seiz- ing the handle of the bellows, I began to blow vigorously. "Wed, weel," laughed the black- : smith, "ye mak' a better lo'kin smith than geentlemon." "Play your own part well," I replied, "and I have something nice for you at the end of the performance." It was fully 15 minutes after we reached the hamlet before there were nny signs of the guerrillas, and then three or four rode into the town and asked for our party. Had they seen us? Which way bad we gone? and oth- er questions, which the few people they met responded to with a grunt or a shake of the head. I put my bead out to see and, recognizing one of them, drew back and began to blow my bel- lows as if my life depended on it. And It did. Presently one of the outlaws rode up to the shop. "Hello, tharl" he shouted. "Waal," I replied, still blowing and keeping my face turned from him. "Seen a man, two women, a boy, an a nigger go through the town?", "Hasn't seen no one." ..,4;a3.;• "She, ?„ "Sho' Huff." He rode off, but 1 knew the storm had not yet blown over. I went on working the bellows, and It was well I did so, for presently more of the band rode into town, and one of the horses having lost a shoe, its rider dismounted in front of the shop and told me to put it on. This was something I had not count- cd on. I knew no more about horse - shoeing than about knitting, but I put a bold face on the matter and went to Work. "What the.— yo' doln?" yelled the man. "Air yo' goin ter put that shoe on with nary triinmin?" • "Don't yo' a'pose I know my bust - I ness?" I cried, bristling.. "1 was only iitttn it." With that f seized a knife and began to Cut. But I watt too excited to pare the hoot even if I bad been an expert, and In another moment the man yelled again, ")f yo' cut that critter's boot off, I'll brain yo'l" "Here, Sandy," I cried to the black - eolith within, "come shoe this man's critter, Ile thinks he knows more'n 1 do about sboein." • The blacksmith finished the job,. While I, pretending to be greatly irri- tated, twee glad to escape- foto bis dwelling house. Going to a front win- dow and 'dropping a curtain so that 1 could look frith the road without being seen, I took a view of the situation. The guerrillas were scattered about the town, some riding around the houses hunting for us, others sitting on their horses, questioning the inhabitants as to our whereabouts. Captain Ringold was in command. A negro boy was playing "hopscotch" on the sidewalk. The captain called to him: "Yo' boy thar, didn't yo' see anybody go this way awhile ago?" "Two women an a boy 'bout big 'a me?" "Yes," "An a white man an a colored man?' "Yes. Which way did they go?" "Dey's gwine right 'long dar." And he pointed to a path leading across the road westward. "Here, you," cried the captain to two. men wbo were watering their horses at a wooden trough in front of the shop, "strike out on that path." The men darted away, .leaving the captain alone in the road. A little old woman came out of a house opposite and began to guy him in a cracked voice, poking fun at him for not being able to catch. a party of women. She talked so familiarly with him that ,I began to suspect she knew him. I trembled for fear she would betray us. "You uns ain't wo'th a persimmon," she said. "With them critters' legs un- der yer, yer orter ketch wimmen folks easy." . "We'll catch 'em easy enough. They've gone along tbar," pointing to the path his men were just dashing into. "Th' didn't go that a -way." "They didn't? Which way did they go?" "D' yer s'pose I give fac's fo' noth- in?" A cold chill ran down my back. was going to tell for pay. "What do yo' want?" "Gimme 'Huff fo' a caliker dress, an I'll put yer on th' right track." "Sho'?" "Scutari." "This '11 git it as easy." He drew a revolver and put it to her face. •She drew back. But this man, who was above his calling, never could persist in i11 treating a woman, and, lowering his weapon, he put bis hand in bis pocket and pulled out a bill. "That's the stuff ter git fac's with," said the woman. "Now, you uns git right 'long thar," and she pointed up tbe road northward. "That won't do," said the captain. "We just came from up than" There was a pause, at the end of which I heard the woman say in a low tone: "Captain!" The voice was familiar. I saw the man start, then exclaim, "Great God!" The old woman went over to him and, taking hold of his bridle rein, be- gan to whisper to him earnestly. Pres eptly I heard the captain say: "I can't do it." There was more whispering, and by, the woman's attitude I knew she was , pleading. Was she pleading for us? If so, who could this good friend be to take so much interest in us? "I'd do it fo' yo' an yo' friend, but not the other one." She fumbled with the rein, she strok- ed his horse's neck, she laid her hand on his, all the while talking earnestly and looking up into his eyes, I fancied beseechingly, though I could not see her face, for her back was toward me, while the man's head was drooping lower and lower. Her bonnet fell back on her neck, and I knew the old wom- an was Jaqueline. "Can yo' refuse when I askRV she said loud enough for me to hear. The man was silent. The struggle within him was plain in every line of his face. At last he said: "Fo' yo' sake, little one, I'll do it." She took his rough brown band in her little white one and bent her head down upon it, then looking up through tears: "I can give yo' only a trifle in reward, captain, dear. Kiss me." Bending from his saddle, he rever- ently touched his lips to her forehead. Lost in wonder at the strange sight, I was nevertheless congratulating my- self that she bad secured the man's promise to draw off his force when the whole advantage was spoiled through the insane jealousy of Captain Beaumont. It seems that the captain bad disdained to hide with the rest. Indeed he bad no occasion to hide. Tho guerrillas did not know that he was with our party, and he was In no more danger from them than any other man would be. He had, however, yielded to Jack's persuasion to go into a house and keep out of sight. When the guer- rillas rode into town, he was sitting by, a window sipping a glass of Tennessee whisky, and at the moment Ringold Imprinted the kiss on Jack's forehead, as 111 luck would have ft, be happened to look out of the window. In ahotber moment he was in the road dlscharging his revolver at the guerrilla, who,, drawing his own weapon, returned the fire. A 'fusillade followed, Ringold re- ceiving a wound that put him hors de combat. Swaying In his saddle, he fell fainting to the ground. Jaqueline turned upon Beaument like a jury. I have seen little Jack in many a towering passion, but never anything like this. Her face was livid, her eyes flaming. She tried to speak, but her ire choked her. At last oho ward ex- pressive pressive of her 'pent up feelings Cance out like a pistol shot: "Pig!" Having this relieved herself to Otto She ovAR.,4 s‘IND OFFICIAL PERFECT&MD) LABEL irEdo fLou 9 This is the mark of a BLENDED FLOUR— the best Bread, Cake and Pastry, Flour — the best all round • flour in the world. Just try it once. Look for this trademark on every bag or barrel you buy. All fine Blended Flours — milled of Ontario Fall and Manitoba Spring wheats—have it. "Made in Ontario" 1 lama 1.1IauiiiCul iswdis,..... lieda1 Ai,Il:e.,daW6i,Ew.I h,t ui ,ixisumne•imam tain Beaumont, she turned to the pros - sena. na. Swaying in his saddle, he fell fainting to the ground. trate Ringold, knelt beside him, croon- ing over him as if be had been dearer to her than all the world beside. At this moment a guerrilla, who had doubtless been attracted by the firing, dashed down the road. Beaumont caught sight of him just as Jack had hurled her opprobrious epithet. With an expression indicating that he would prefer death to another such word from the girl who had enthralled him, he started to meet the invader. Shots were exchanged, and the guerrilla fell from the saddle. He was followed by another, who shared the same fate, while a third, perhaps fancying that (To be continued.) "ITS ONLY A COLD; A TRIFLING COUCH" Thousands have said this when th caught cold. Thousands have neglec to cure the cold. Thousands have filled Consumptives grave through negleo Never neglect a cough or cold. It can ha but one result. It leaves the throat o :rags, or both, affected. 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