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Show ; I - , . -. ' - j ' " , g r 1 , -i - i c 1 TOLLDBR ' i C (Cn;yTlrV.t.i;ttTJwe?'-" r" O j ' troop .Ich had been stationed at v Shady Dale waa--lthdrawn. The yoctg men who had been arrested with Gabriel Ga-briel wra placed ort trial befor a raiil-tary raiil-tary court, but with the oonnivatca of counsel for the prosecution, the- trial drasred alon? until the ni Ul tary oom-maivder oom-maivder Issued a proclamation anaounc-lns anaounc-lns that civil frDvenmtent had been re . stored in the State, and the prisoners were turned over to the State courts. And as there wu not the shadow of a case against them, they were nerer . brought to trial, a fact which eauaed . some one to suggest to Mr. Sander that aU bis work In behalf of Gabriel had -been useless. "Well. It didn't do Gabriel no good,. -maybe," remarked the veteran "but It hoip m up mightily. It gl' me eome-thln eome-thln to think about, an it hoJp me acroost some mighty rough places. You have to paa the time away anyhow, an -what better way Is they than work'-'.yv for them you Uker 7 . ,j . CHAPTE3 Ill. 'i ; . . ":" -CO' Gabriel as an Orator, . V During the period that Intervened be- tween his escape and the announcement of the restoration of civil government In Georgia, Gabriel settled down to a" course of reading in the law offlce of . Judge Vardeman, CoL Tom's brother. '-Bis '-Bis experience In Judge Vardeman' of t3ce decided hi career. Ha was faaci-rated faaci-rated from the very beginning. He ' found the dullest lawbook Interesting, and he became as absorbed- In his read-' Ins; that the genial Jufce was obliged to warn him that too much study was sometimes a bad as none. . Yet the lad's appetite grew by what , It fed on. A new field had been opened ' up to him. and he entered It with delight. de-light. He pursued his studies In a state of exaltation that caused the day to v fly by unnoted. He thought of home -end of his grandmother, s-nd a Ytalon of Nan sometimes disturbed his slumbers; but for the time being there was noth- -lng real but the grim commentator and expounder of the common law. "When Mr. Sander returned home, bearing the new of Gabriel's escape. Nan Dorringtioa laid siege to hi patience, pa-tience, and Insisted that he go over' every detail of the event, not one but ". a dosen times. How did Gabriel look , when he ran from the depot at Malvern Mal-vern T Was be frightened T And how in the world did he manage to get In " the wagon, and crawl on the inside of the sham bale of cotton and bide so that nobody could sea him? And) what did he say and bow did he look when Mr. Bander found him asleep In the oettoo-box-bale, whichever you miglac call ltf) "Why, honey, rre told you all I know an a whole lot more, protested IfrX--panders. ' " . To B Contlnaed Tomorrow. . c 1 ZZ, t vtn."JTJV"J"u vrvruiruuiruviri-'VVVUTi CHAPTER XXXI. Continued. "It reely looks that away," eald Mr. Sanders, drily; "the Chief of Police was Btandln' In front of the depot, and ev'ry time a gun'd go off he'd wink at me." Col. Tom laughed, and then turned to Mr. Sanders with a serious air. "What did I tell you about that wUd plan of yours to rescue one of the prisoners? pris-oners? You've had all your trouble for nothing. You don't catch grown men asleep any more. Why. If the officer In charge of those poor boys were to permit per-mit one of them to escape, he'd be court-martialed, and it would serve him right." , M "So it would," replied Mr. Sanders, an' I'm mighty glad it wan't Capt. Falconer. Now, then. Col. Tom, eT you're done wfcat you laid off to do, you've got a safe place wher I kin store a bale of long-staple cotton, arm a rise in prices. Ef you've got It nxo. I'll drive right in, bekaxe the kind of cotton I'm dealin In wUl spile ef It lay in the sun too long." . "Do you mean to tell me" I'm mean enough for anything. Col. Tom; but right now, I want to git wher I can drench a long-sufferin' friend of mine wi' a biz gourdful of cold water." "Why, dash it, man! you've taken my breath away. Drive right in here, John! Henry! come here, you lary rascals, and take this team out. I told you." said Col. Tom to Mr. Sander a the negroes ne-groes came forward, "that you couldn't get any better price for your cotton than I offered yeu. . The two negroes conveyed the mule and the oxen to the stable where Mr. Sanders had arranged for their "keep, as he. termed it, and a soon as they were out of sight. Mr. Sanders' went to the rear of the wagon, and said playfully, play-fully, "Peep eye. Gabriel!" receiving no answer, he was suddenly seized with the idea that the young man had suffocated suffo-cated behind the loose cotton which was intended to conceal him. But no such thing had happened. Gabriel had plenty plen-ty of breathing-room, and the practical and unromantlc rascal was sound asleep. Gabriel's place of concealment was simplicity itself. "Mr. Sander had constructed con-structed a stout box of oak boards, and around this he had packed cotton until the affair, when complete, had the appearance ap-pearance of an extra large bale covered with baggln and roped as the majority major-ity of cotton bales were In those day. The only way to discover the sham was to pull out the cotton that concealed the opening In the end of the box. In delivering' his message to Cephas, Mr. Sanders had called this loose cotton a plug, and the fact that the word was new to the vocabulary of the school children gave great trouble to Gabriel, causing him to lose considerable sleep in the effort to" translate It satisfactory ily to himself. When the meaning at last dawned on him, the whole schema became so clear that he could have shouted, for Joy. . It wa thought that a search would be made for Gabriel In the neighborhood of Shady Dale, and it was decided that It would be best for him to remain in the city until all noise of the pursuit had died away. But no pursuit v. as ever made, and it soon became apparent to the public at large that radicalism was burning Itself out at last, after a weary time. Not only was no pursuit made or Ga-briel. Ga-briel. but the detachment of Federal |