Show recounting the adventures and love r r which came into the lives of david laneece fence and antoinette riette annon in the days when pioneers were fighting by SAMUEL mccoy red savages in the indiana wilderness wilder neu copyright 1918 1916 by bobbe merrill co 0 00 0 0 0 a 0 mo 0 0 0 0 o 0 oc 8 11 1 1 r WHEN SPIES MEET A 41 do you believe the spy Is 1 as honorable in war as the soldier in the heet heat if it you caught a spy plotting against the welfare of our c inird P ind he pleaded with you to pare spare hie his life at least would you C 41 briw the year 1811 david larrence young english weaver C eto to corydon indiana territory intending to kill an old enemy C c neet patrice obannon OO annon and hia his charming daughter toinette Tol nette and c ines ne clerk in colonel poseys tore store in job cranmer and hie his r c liter lydik recently coma come from britain david find finds congenial c antic ant nc but he and doctor elliott dislike one another elliott j talo marry rr Tol ainette nette and tries to poison her against david d clr david who overhear overhears spies planning to meet at t alli dihe the courthouse court houie he hides there what fe I 1 e hears and the h denture which befalls him film Is told in thir thle installment 1 l ER IV continued 1 3 ng rig of the doors behind he distinguished bw 4 f the room the high fl where the judges the court had been arya lr ya old I 1 vincennes Mn In cennes pei lri backel desk lie would I 1 from view comfortable behind tt down to bat nhat promised V houri above nere 9 ef Pt azure showed through the afternoon blavid was more tired fired than he ile grew drowsy he ile ae without raising his I 1 efe aught the murmur of bat 1 seemed to run through macfall the had faded t raw a star shone through high above him a at his tits ear lie ar more plainly now 2 y I 1 tell you man 0 of it waiting at mal tee ce was impatient a sa checked with an it per er e sometime 4 it rose could with biffl f himself to caution as j I 1 tell you heaps 0 maize in the indian 70 think ink he la to alth ith U s r wo sea arcely repress a start c maj kr grunted bontemp imlah eulth blood on his at ram u as sure of him as you at t answered was as one illness iness captain girty no of but 11 admit that I 1 was nas raf at t with you and you at FOU on propose the name atou au must admit cap theres a bare chance a yankee to an eng ung ased as girty swore sore ie te no more 1 I be lou promise 1 with the kings corn com action and hell take E cruses ir uses wiser ill III cut his sh et t the husky giggle led the words would 0 beet et him tonight then A ay y hes to be foud the fore at the cor and walnut israel lornel blips slips in and out eue ere at midnight 11 me time me to git tw r we don t git good L ln in the godsman A chuckled PC e faint scuffle of the tapi as the two moved nd d man must be bare then came the just the closing doors and pe e rose and hastened living ing darkness like a ile had still another traitors to beep keep that portly passerby passer by felt 1 tuned tu ned the corner it self lingering on the I 1 vidt he exclaimed illness how illow are you la crushed david davids 8 cold SITO aty ty grasp my boy adly I 1 ay iy ite ria ri a noth frn n all day long but damen I 1 dont think can depend on oil I 1 ha wesley rest lis ta a methodist I 1 am inhere where theres none to hurrying back to my dpn en well have family wont you join us ml david with alth the ex eady ady to buffer suffer the in avid stared at him blui a strange look and med away what a a r to trust these craa cran antl antl ite ile caught him aught he really knew her father fathers intrigues I 1 n of the lanes called the blacksmith shop fak 14 alow low banack of tam log 09 BM of afflit from the in nee pa pait pherby eirby erby da dark passageway at the tile rear of 0 the smithy waited impatiently tient ly A silent allent figure passed him unseeing unel ng scratched thrice with the point of a knife on an unseen door was admitted the hidden watcher rose and stole on noiseless feet around tho tile corner of the silent shop and felt his 1114 way by along its vail no window then came the uncertain steps of still another who sought the door of the rende rendezvous zious stumbling along the un even flagging david sank to hia his knees and as he did so his tits fingers encountered an open ing ng in the house wall level with mith the flagging bending lower loer he peered in A noisome odor assaulted his tits nostril nostrils the tho opening was mas ecar cily two feet fee t quare ev e the aperture ap through the blacksmith emptied the dirty water ater from his forge but con quiring his repugnance he lay flat slat and wriggled his shoulders in A deri bucket full of water ater stood before the opening on the inside this he lie pushed away and in just as the attention of tho those ae within was ins drawn to the late coiner at the door chere were tour four men now within the shop one unseen by the other three he lie now had his fl fi st sight of girty the last comer cower david hie his head level with the stone floor of the shop soled the puzzle of girtys noiseless footsteps in the courthouse not bare footed indeed but shod with the silent moccasins sins of the indian clad tn in decosin ilet sin trimmed with buckskin tas too sels seli the hunting shirt covering the powerful pow pou erful shoulders and deep chest of a glant simon girty was a mun man of sixty seemingly but his quick bright bcd jet black burned with the cold fire of the lidless serpents that never grows groins old the two englishmen were silent before the malevolent challenge chalk of his gaze not daring during to be first to speak girty stood swaying unsteadily in the light of the forge A banin of the juice of the tobacco was ims ou on his hi cruel criel lips and chos this bag of coneal ln es he asked contemptuously of the british agent this captain girty Is a gentleman vho aho has preceded 1 ia ino from england on the same mission as myself mr edcard scull at the name and at the tile sight of the third man mao who mho until now had a beo concealed by portly figure davids du ids teeth sot met and he trembled tn ambled convulsively like a mastiff that sees his enemy scull I 1 the weaver who nho had turned kings witness the informer against davids father I 1 A horrid dryness stuck in davids throat and he with on an igue finhen he lifted his ills head again he saw that the three men had seated themselves in front of the tile smoldering forge for the night had grown chill black shadow hung in nil all the corners of the little room and pat put heavily ul a the shoulders of the three men ruen huddled about the forge only the warm red glow of the charcoal set up a little sphere of light and unit warmth girty waa was muttering drunkenly to himself I leven even at nt blue licks two on the maumee scalps than a redskin thet long loughn hared red gal see bem my fine friend sold said scull shiu ply never mind your scalps what Is it that we are here tor for achl girty roused himself tell him canmer the bluff and kindly faced farmer seemed out of place tn in that devils crew but it bl began to speak cheerfully well ned im hero here to make you nn tin offar on the part of tile king goa bless him I 1 sou you have ean seen my credentials it wae was my intention to go direct to the tribes in the country taking plans of the garrisons with me but I 1 was to count you with ua us before I 1 eel set out on my trip to the north our comrade brings word from the great chiff of the Tc cuch that he ie is desirous of forming a league with his brother brothers of the boath the cherokees the chickasaws and the creeks you ned are a wan man whom england needs I 1 am empowered empo wired to any ay that if you iiii i III enter his majesty bervice service you will be generously re warded vant success can yoo YOU hope for in ajl pauper nation but england Is a rich niad powerful pitron I 1 oa am a straightforward man afir and I 1 bale have DO no gift of 0 argil arg bat but scull held bp up a hand cou inui i a raue lie ile leaned backward i i piled the upon the adyln tu the tile glow leaped up again and in its momentary blare oare david caught of 1114 taw face struck out against the tile die sill rounding ro sli shadows ados like a face jouit atad ill ail inasita of the bruh brush find painted lurk cruel tak hut but his reply wua nas 1 el apo ken the cold chill of the tones on which litch ho he lay had sunk deeper und and deeper into davids bones bone alth the grip of desperation he lie strode to hold his tits teeth together but in spite ut of elins if suddenly there burst from his lils lips with the staggering unexpected ness of a thunderclap a of aith a single leap girty had reached the spot where dald darld lay davids head fiend had innis minnied hed with rn even greater speed but lint glatys nty only thought was ins to seize the woodee bucket and dash dagh its contente con tinte on the fire plunging thi tho room into darkness david heard the sharp whisper of sauil roin ron mand imand A e are watched LM wt t no nw noe e captain girty you will be the first mr brantner Cr antner cr second it you please I 1 will follow the thing which david did then was una probably hie his salvation it occurred to him that his chance of meeting eeling ra scull single handed was greater it if he should return to the pitch dark shop than it if he lie remained in tho street and this he did lian in n he had crawled soun ulessly back into the smithy kicking oft ills shoes outside he was just in time to dee see the door opened and the figure of tho the first man girty outlined in the aperture unseen unheard david etole stole forward then the door opined wider alder to allow the heavy alg ure of cranmer to emerge and ana then scull the third man went nent out with the quickness of death david gilded glided at his heels he ile had picked up a heavy horse shoo on the floor of the smithy the first weapon that had come to hand the tall figure was mas just before him uli ills arm rose and even as the heavy heay NN weapon capon hung in the air scull I 1 blushed open the door of a cabin that stood tilot the tile smithy and innis vanished hed david heard the door close again and lie the henvy heavy wooden bar dropp dropped ld acro across s it on the in ade vor for a moment he stood dumfounded dum founded girty and cranmer Cran roer had disappeared david walked on broa brooding ding over plans for the morning rind found himself at the river talking to itself in the night lid ile became an are that he still held something in his hand and looking donn doin the horseshoe he ile tossed it into the stream and went back to the tavern for many days after that hl lit ragged discarded shoes iffy aa unnoticed at the lie low aperture of israels israelis smithy david dald awoke noke la in the morning as no fresh as the day but day brought with it the demand that he take up his ills new work nork and he lie crossed the square to colonel poseys store scanning the village sharply as he went lie ile hurried to the cabin by the blacksmiths shop an honest faced woman noman with a brood of babies clinging to lier her skirt skirts answered his knock scull she replied to bis his query no by thet name livin here sly ily man Is israel butt at th forge she was positive that no such person RS its scull lived in the village hr h r husband was equally at a to loss to remember the name and da vid confident as he had been was forced to turn away baffled by their honest perplexity the man had dis tits app appeared anred as completely as though he had been en allowed up la in the berth stupefied david made his way to Crun mers lodgings he lie had no idea what he rould say to the man but his steps took him mechanically to the door and there he received a second shock cranmer was gone his daughter with him I 1 whither his ills question brought the aply that they had said they were nere going to nin ln cennes davids david a friend john tipton tho the hunter and militiaman was mas there he would send johnny a letter to warn narn him rind governor Govern nr against Cr enmor r girty and scull Sc ulland and telling of their talk of an indian uprising ue lie returned to his store wrote the letter sent it on by post that done he could do no more except wait in patience for Cran iners return CHAPTER V young men and maiden maidens hay may passed and under the lustrous stars of a june night twinkled the warmer lights of the little village they shone brightest of all in the little housch of bul 1 elt bare candles blazed h to their si allver I 1 ver sconces and lit up a waxen floor ills wife the grandniece of lord corn wallis of angland was mas holding open house hou above the chatter and laughter a creole violin lifted the tha foolish air of the french voyageur voyage ur that bad had floated across the star glimmering glim meing wa tera of the river of st jerome a hun ored 1 years becom darr Dr rr behs ell 2 n OU 11 aa un hanx stang to 78 tn t 0 trots 1 canarda a en vont bals balens ns tou tous du long ion de do la riviere mx ma be bere 11 1 1 Y gentl IT i la I 1 tat zat wa de long tarn tam agol sighed the lie wandering I 1 id r from vincennt Vince nw 4 ikhel lie de bending over ills tits bow here were now non those ancient houses of he tile old post the the tile adria 4 the tin till tin the ladt I 1 nile roux and it lone long bitne agol now it was cordon inid and the tile present with etli ull till its coursing a oung veins eltis and its fine one forgetful forgit forgo ful fill ness nes 4 of the daas gone by Latiol ng 11 and tall vent into the decked hall vt of the tilt tit earlu or out n thred dovci to li to in the ins licul uti ninar night the tile alent silent stars tu to bunk bank of indian artil en I 1 hurri lii by on its long iong UH it to tile lie iea A lonel joneli bouth auth stood in tile and matched at ched the white glim gilin naring ditl lait t of the kilell with still her bac backwoods cm cavalier aller go b A pang 1 of em shot uLli him ns its in he eitard their light rini runnels arks and if ht r laughter ile as ui u and trong us as the he lie thought taht kt fully mas as life always to sowe of 0 its gifts from him mr 0 Bati tion strolling rolling et dtp att dap p in rc t irles rie 4 vl of the past en encountered enco counti red tho the lucid auth in the starlight and rec hin hill math an on ejaculation of hut lint david dald my old one are aou ou doing hero here alone ahen hen I 1 aas ajr ajr ao nie neer neier a dance did ne c hae that foiw me not in tho th thick of it go up and join them bobar sides dad dald a miserable nilse roble confession pf on the old gentleman would have nono none of I 0 no o clothes indeed I 1 since when were buck buckskins shins not ns as good as broadcloth hero here in the Nici woods no inalta float everone eve rono is nel coref with us and lie dragged the tile reluctant youth toward the lights and music the gracious lady of tho the hou house received him at the old maws introduction with kindly smiles for davids shy shyness nesi but he was as acutely III at case ne nevertheless erth cless among the group of doting matrons who clustered at mrs ida sida in their silks and dainty treasures tren Mires in the wilderness R and he was mus glad to escape roe leof I 1 VA L you ned are a man whom england ned ne d to the narrow veranda where a group of older men conversed in quiet upon the affairs of the territory david dovid stared at their yellow nank etri trousers Il ardson the governor who ard aeme froni from vincennes to oversee his hi spring planting and had tarried for tho the evening was among the group lie turned to a young man mr blackford he bald said 1 I believe that you lime the of heing being graduated from iho the same college which president Irpel dent madison attended I 1 myself was a student at sidney college but I 1 ren ember hearin hearing ing my father once eny any that besides tho the institution 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