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Show A Golonial DO FREE-LANG- E. By Ghaunc Q. gotcbliss. us I, hy & AH l. Appicum Copyrinhi, Co. col rights reserved. ting go h:s li:i.;xr. Pn you tiim'. .11:1 hereto bandy words with a rebel l apt. Donald Thonnlye, alius lu.unsbury, you close on to the end of your und you'd li.nl ilstti end bass noose in it.youiui-sespy! What! he continued, rising in his lumasing rage, and immediately resenting house!!, while bis voice grew louder, "do you think I am a fool, or so blir.d Unit I uuiy imt nee tiiruui'h a riddle? I have found you out, lode and hair riiiirndyke, of Maltha's Vineyard (muggier relxl spy! Had you escaiu-- me this day, and lieen off on (. iiiiton's buxines, which doubtless lies there" (innuliug to my papers, which lay on the table), I would have bunted yuu down had it cost me my commission. Escape me? No, by the gods! From the beginning 1 fancied you the fraud you are, and at the Uulis Head, by your words and fine airs, you made me sure of it. You shpiied your role. You'd find your has sharp eyes, and, giant though you be, you will see ihst a acanu-- is nothing in Lis grip. Nay, 1 have not come to shoot you down as you deserve, but I know your internal tricks, and mean to hold you where you belong. 1 take it twill afford me more pleasure to see yuu dance at a rope's end than dirty iny hands with your Idnod, save you make it urgent. Let me elinih the matter now, and then make you ready to march. Below stairs at thia moment is Louusbury in the Uesli, and with him a file of men to take yuu off. This hit of play was fur my own pleasure, and, having had it. Ill be your valid and stay by your heels until you are safely delivered to Cunningham. Now God rest your miserable soul! Have you aught to say i.cfcre 1 give the word to the reel?" To state that I was unaffected by these CHAPTER VIII. which were poured forth in a torworJe, OK THE THE HINT EARTHQUAKE. rent as though my tormentor feared interThe advent of thia nan, whom all theUwi ruption, would be false, i saw my plana for of dueling prohibited seeking me at the pres- the future, my hope for life itaelf, swept of of occasioned ent stage affairs, something away togither, and nothing but a blank, a shock, llie mannei of hia entry, the tragic broken only by a vision iff the gallows, aspect of nature, and the sickly-greelight danced tiefure my eyes. enveloping everything within and without; To say that he had tbs satisfaction of the clamorous nd vance of tlie storm, and per- wring me visibly quail would be equally haps aa much aa anything, the sudden re- false, for, though my heart heat thickly vulsion of temper caused by eeeing him, enough, 1 aat unmoved and looked at him threw me for the moment off my mental a though in a dream. 1 even essayed to 1 stood without moving, gaz- speak, but words would not come, for my balance, and ing at him aa I might have gazed at an ap- throat waa clinched by invisible banda. Are you crushed at lust T' he exclaimed, parition. , Aa we thus faced each other, I noticed that with a grim smile, though without shifting he was hstlesa, costless, and without aide Ha eye or aim. "Uh, you shorn Samson! arms, the latter fact causing me further sur- I am well paid for your cursed insults." prise, as 1 waa aware of the extreme pride a He wee still apeaking when again the British officer has in his sword and hia reheavy shake came to the flooring. But luctance to lay it beyond hia reach. now it did not pase into a gentle tremor Hard upon these details came three others 1 I saw at once that the of different nature. hia man wna intoxicated, though not own control; that in hia left hand he had an open paper, while hia right, which still hung by hia side, held a corked iatol, though thia I would not have eeen but for the sudden gleam of a flash of lightning. It gave me a quick realisation of the fact that I waa in great danger and without the mean of combating it, for my aword was is the clot4, while both pistols and rifle lay unloaded in a corner. The crash of thunder following the flash for a time made words impossible; and action waa equally out of the question, for in the midst of the bellowing, and while I waa casting searching glances about the room for some means of defenee, ho raiaed the weapon and leveled it at me. I could fathom no motive for bis thus attacking me, save the heat in hia brain, and, were he impelled by drink; my position was doubly critical, llad there been a ghost of a chance to act in the agOh, you shorn SamaonT gressive, in this desperate moment I should have availed uiyeelf of it; but not even that really formidable weapon and guard, a chair, and fad away; instead, it grew stronger waa nearer than the table, and to have made and stronger until evary rafter took up a move toward it I felt meant certain de- the motion and the whole houae trembled struction. A sudden attack on him was out as though with an ague. Greater grew the f my power, for betwixt us intervened the baking until the building rocked, tlie bed broad table itself, which made it impossible did away from the wall, the table shifted, to avail myself of the tictics I had used with the glass and tie on it rang togther, and Lounabury. There was naught for me to do the pitcher daniJ so violently that tlie but stand aa I waa and await the terrible water within it splashed from its top. A lame. square of plaster from the ceiling fell to However, as he remained silent, I man- the floor with a crash, filling the room with aged to find my voice, and, aa the thunder dust; but through all Scammell never rolled in the distance, I shouted: winced, showing wonderment, nor bore a "uapt. Acammeu, are you so (lamented or leas threatening attitude. so cowardly and so lost to honor that you In the course of the seconds through will murder the man you challenged to fight which this endured he held me as be probain the field?" bly would have done had the roof fallen Without a swerve of the arm, ha answered about our ears, so determined wss be to sternly: take me. I knew the nature of the turdown!" Sit moil at once, for when in the Indie with Even thus beset, it irked me to obey him my father 1 had exrieneed it. It waa armed, realised that, like a schoolboy, but I not caused by the earth dusking from the far was he under the existing circumstances of heavy thunder, for just then the rolling tt isely, stronger than I with all my sinew, voice of tlie storm waa confined to the roar then, 1 'swallowed my ire, and, approaching of a terrific downpour of rain. It waa an the table, seated myself with the hope that earthquake a rare phenomenon in this lathe would come within reach. itude, and its rarity, its severity, and its rehe for in alow following, Ue was not sults before my eyes, trifling as were these, into the slid and carefully stepped forward woke me from my trance and again gave chair opposite, though not for a second un- full play to my wita. of his pistol, or, covering me with the muzzle Fascinated and partly stunned as I had tor that matter, lakin;; bis tyc from mine. been by the fiendish face of my enemy and And here we sat while flash and crash folof the evil fortune into . My the full I significance lowed each other in quick had suddenly fallen, like him, I which brain worked rapidly enough, hut a the sec- eat through the commotion. Every unimonds sed no way could 1 find to rid me of the detail about him, from the broken portant or me turn steel of confronting hining ring button on hia shirt front down to tlie pearl of brilliant glint for a moment the equally grains of powder in the pistol pun and the bis eye, each of which acquired clearness fine edge oi the flint in the lock, found room. with the fitful lighting of the force of attraction to the eye only known The table waa too broad for an onslaught, to tlioee who fall into sudden ho;ielesaneea snd now that we were closer, 1 could see or deep depression. the nerves of the man were at full tension, But with the dancing of the tableware a and that qp the slightest hostile move on my idea shot through my brain, and quick would pull the trigger. fart he bowed me a last desperate chance to exhouse the strike would I hoped lightning from the coil almut me. tricate end put an end to tlie situation, which at Natural myself in the shape of a 1 phenomenon and last began to liave its effect on me; from me saved the knife of the had breeze scowl take it that no man can lung stand the and now 'twaa an earthquake that of a loaded barrel backed by a determined negro, might open a way for my deliverance by yet silent enemy without undergoing more plashing water from a pitcher. or less strain. Straining my nerves to conceal the new 1 was even wishing that the heavens would that had sprung to life, I began to act. hope or that let loose a tiolt and finish the matter, Never had I felt my muscles knit firmer or li and Ins the man opposite would open been leu in need of stimulant than when, speak, despite the roar, wheu I felt the floor sinking lwek aa if at last overcome by the beneath me tremble, as though the house combined shock of hie words and the run was shaken by a mighty power. It I a sued vulnon ot nature, wtiii-- bad now passed, in the instant, and as it did so the thunder I said slowly anJ aa though duzed: faded away for the moment, anJ Scam-mel- l, "I am Imt a prisoner of war, air. I waa lowering hia hand, lit it rest on the forced for my own saitly to come to New edge of Hip table, whence the p:Mol licid me York. 1 am no spy 1 will go -- but you foil in the chest. Then he i(Mikc, and let me drink. 1 feel lax and- - dizzy." because the excitement indoors and out "You have none of the Indian in you. words came bad partly sobered him, hia sneak!" he answered you Clearly: and gather your spunk am. Drink, then, 1 have here your d d mrsvtgo in my legs for action. Beat me wiih the lint oi hand, but, us you may well gurus, it ia But w.iit till I sword! Fora your There will be no fight between ua can shift my eye from you! Drink, and ilin miiriiiog. tin we have nnnthi'r quake. move it safer to murder me walla about ua 'twill be your iuk ilnui.." you dix-iI i Give me but now?" calmly. let "Fbjil yiui in- - uili! ho ii.icrMij-ied(CViitiiiUitl Next Week ) 1 Being now in Ike boat of bunion, I ordered A measure of rum and a jus of water, and with tlicee Mur me tat me down to build air caatles fur tlie morrow. Great ware of heat turned through the windows, and the drowiy at ill next made me ncii. Not wishing to sleep, I hronsht out the per received from headquarters, and opened it as 1 bad done for the tenth time at least. I had reread hut a few lines a lien was attracted by the sound of distant thunder, and going to the window, beheld a mighty k bank of clouds towering above Uie western horizon, the topmost ridge mingling with the thin column of smoke rising from the burned district. Not s breath of air atirred the hanging leave of the trees before the dour, nor wse a soul in sight save a mall squad of redcoats that just then swung round the corner from the Broadway and entered the tavern bar. The coming of a tempest has always been a delight to me, and I watched with emotion the advance of this, which presaged unusual violence. Aa 1 looked, the first great gust of wind came tearing up the Broadway, bending low the trees and lcar-iiiwith it a mighty van of dust and rubbish. Hurriedly slamming down the windows, I turned to don some clothing and git U!ow, when, through the din of clashing hnnuliea, swinging blinds, and rushing wind 1 heard s thunderous knocking at my chamber door, which wa ere I moved to answer, and in the gathering gloom 1 beheld Cajit. hastily enter and close the heavy pystal behind him. nq, on Iry est blue-blac- hen-haw- g oix-ne- n sum-anion- ht-hap- a palc-livere- d fore-talie- ! e Bcr.-iiiM- , ' Wealth asd a ('ompeteaee. y are you so much more anxious Something to Read. to get the trade of the Middleman famChoir Invisible, " Folks from ily tl.cn ycu are of the Cruet ua the man asked one of the Dixie," Social Life in Old Virneighborhood tradesmen. Old Croesus ginia, With a Pessimist in Why Hotel Wightman. fain-ily-?- H must buy twice as much. Quite right, answered the tradesman, but hea so rich that he pays when he gets ready, whieh may be only once a year, while Middleman realizes iny needs, pays promptly and doesnt have a fit if I send him a bill. Chicago Weat-iluni- loat. A Best Accommodations. Joseph Jefferson at A David Home, Harrum, othDays Work," and a hundred ers, all found in the luxurious library car on the Overland Limited Uix d. Ciu of the Union Pacific, provided tf El D gratis for the entertainment of our AM .IM, l&uuj s uezz friends and patrons Address is S Hi d 52 H. M. Clay, Gen. Agt, 7W),1UU 7 a wait Lake City eunt it. Spain," Little Pnsllsr. "That was a strange case where the body of a murdered woman was found in Ohio with the ears cut off," remarked. 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