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Show GhaDLDTH5T A TALE or CIVIL STRIF! tt ,4r RANDALL PAPPlSn 'f ILLUSTPATIONS CD. RHODES U-f.zfTjw s,co ' "No!" I could not keep the Joyous note out of my voice. "You nieau " "Merely that I came here seeking your release, or rather to urge that you be given a trial at Charleston. It Is scarcely likely under all conditions that 1 will prevent your escape, or attempt at-tempt to do so. You saved me from a fate worse than death, and were captured cap-tured while endeavoring to serve me. Surely you did not suppose 1 t"ad forgotten? You received my message?" mes-sage?" "Yes. and was most thankful for it. 1 confess I had doubted before." "I read your thoughts in your face; that was one reason why I wished to reassure you. 1 could not be ungrateful." ungrate-ful." She glanced across the room, and began again as though anxious to get upon another topic. "11 requested request-ed Lieutenant Raymond to intercede in your behalf, and he pledged rne his word to do so. Less than an hour ago 1 learned he was exerting his influence in-fluence with Colonel Picltney against my wishes. I determined to come here in person and learn the truth. Have you any explanation, Lieutenant Raymond?" "The fellow is a self-confessed spy." he asserted hoarsely "There was nothing 1 could say to save him" "Lieutenant, I made no request that vou would interpose to save this man from his just fate under military law. My father was a soldier, and 1 know a soldier's duty. All I asked was that . he be sent to Charleston, to the head-i head-i quarters of this department, where he could have an impartial trial. If you ' had so advised Colonel Pickney. that ' would have been done. He would have - gladlv shifted the responsibility else-, else-, where. Now the full burden of deci-1 deci-1 sion falls on me. I must choose be-s be-s tween two duties my loyalty to the - Union or to my husbar.d." Ravmond certainly was no more " startled than I at this avowal, par r haps less so. for although the words choked in his throat, he managed tt " give them utterance, r "Your husband! Good God! D y you mean to say you are married tc e this fellow?" 1 "I not only mean it," she said calm d ly, "but 1 have the proof with me. " tell you the tact merely to justify m: 'f action, for I intend to save him if 3- can. 1 wish Colonel Pickney to knov is wlly i do this what conditions justif; 1 me in so rebellious a course. Thi k man does not deserve death; he wa captumd whiV? .defending me trom 11 ' vvvV 1 b "d 1 shouf' tonal Review .TAINWG AND 0 StfV '"Jhieo Crimea "You will let me thank you!" "Please do not speak of that every moment now means so much. Ves. f understand perfectly; shall 1 go now?'' 1 nodded. Drawing slightly back bj hind the door, I thrust both revolve into the belt I had retained; this to be an affair of bare hands swilt, merciless, noiseless. She grasped the latch, lifted her eyes to mine for a bare instant, then stepped out into the hall, her lip, smiting, smit-ing, as she paused a moment to glauce. backward into the-room. -Verv weil, colonel; 1 shall certainly take her your message," she said gavly, "and I thank you so much. Her fingers released the latch, leaving leav-ing the door standing ajar. "Oh sentry." she said pleasantly, but with guarded voice. "1 know it imperfectly im-perfectly ridiculous, but a strand or hair has become entangled in this clasp. Would you kindly see if you can free it?" "Certainly, miss." I heard him set down his musket against the wall, and step forward "On the otlier side," she suggested. "If you turn this way you will get the benelit of the light; it is caughiu those crossed sabers. 1 think." She stepped back as I gripped him. steadying the musket to keep it from being jarred to the floor. A "sp, and r -rrfv' 'o fy'"""! b " . -t ' vJi'' ' ' if A 1 " ; Itj' V s d I . She Stepped Back as gripped Him. one convulsive prilt Lke ak loose; but with th.a; con.Paj"alions rd 1 bad him off H'ldun j.ent'on nf fm cir-...v cir-...v I j ?y at ,h ,ci Ml; , vise- , fol ,,0''nood hs h the v but mtes- Tt 'e in on, Dla 6 islanders. J ortla ,,r!re-hlish Johnson, "al- IIar v 1 'n thr -,and smething transl , u v'i''tui(;, tbey taH a-cougti- ta B" 'Jejj (, -M(ann '""sir!,,, -ure for a cold, wbict, 1futte (!' '"a to have baffled the aoc- Vurned -cold-on the principle oi Ptates Pathy. The only sailors in the n days who escaped sore J Fra .were those who couid no Who r' SThe members of the ScorJ ' fla ind ir S"t a "cold" Bn en An LriM lu" '':'Irf;Bie , ir :;Pa I ""'p'Oe .icoui.cf ; 0( ;,y- ,:'.'-an niot ni''., pr . epo"'' i to Anv f'art i V, Nicely TakentlyMTCC 'ire Agen . ' U I LU All Kinds,,, , , J HALL, 'repeal the iuTj.-ii4, J;''wt at naxt ' ' I KB,U- ,'high school bu,U L1 s, font., was de-'fU de-'fU T!e loss is '. J in the hip by a Z- :loBl Nev.. when he 1 lie siJiple- being ordered JT 3 fI, a'"i-esiJent of the In-'liat- , athwest of Lovelock, i ''v'u frozen to death, his bing t0 ' '! by an Indian boy. ( saleneci. ie;l(ii,,s merchants ofVake i I L represenUUve lines ofeSS sli Ld an average gain of 14'ceni fl 0Vember, 11)13, over NTr- V1' VmMl jit of Douglas county, estVed W in 1SB1. was moved mov-ed findLSW year day, in ac-C01 ac-C01 wl' act of the Nevada legikve o 5 V .Ha.j men liati been parorT.f 't,0,.?Kon penitentiary undepl ai)traticn o( Coveril0r Vithi-v iie,ort hy Poroie officer Jose;f,. K,lhowa Ac. T ding ;, United states geological geo-logical surve;, luetal 0UIput of Neva.for 1', toUl, ?g4.;,66oo0. an lncjfase o:,er cent over 1914, when fie W.29(3Wo,ooo. A d-3ith waiS been piaceu upon up-on Frmk Trar: at the Nevada state pniteniiThe warden is : awaiting an o;-om the district ' court pronouncg- death sentense. ' Lieut. Josepi:WcDonai(i 0f the ' Twelfth cavalr.g Am wh0 with ' four companionit sledding at 1 Mamtoth Hot near Fort i Yellostone, Wis killed by a 1 snow slide. s A mass moetiitne auditorium c and ademonstn,, ths slate cap- a itol grounds -wet a DeQver on s Monday by sevendred persons h representing S,0upoy ed as a re. t stilt of prohibits. n Harvey Benne;,ife we?e k,:1,ed tl near Silverton, (L a snow?!ide. U They walked aid mountainside when several tcnow and bou. tiers bore down them Taeir bodies were recti n: The famous '(ve,. ranch in tl: Lovelock valley,;. consisting of thousands of ac:le ricnest and most productive ,ie stat6i most hi ' of it under a ho cultivation, is being sold in;. Since prohibit, toto effect at M i Denver the ho:e, have agreed to close their trooma at g o'clock in the c,ni ther6 haye ilf" no w?r !:'-menta since th business ta: iingsand two all "6 'gs v.-ere teroved by fire at cn su.i Mont. The m of the store by. , to him ani his brother has 0i lr 1 e Brledentach so seriously tin 'red he till die. bai rohibiisn law went into fnJ !g" .' there have been seven an 'C EatlDf iu Seattle ac- ful c Pocfup,," , '-eptby the coron- r ur otler ' ' death of four HO, 1 ecause '!! ayb '"B wool alec- 1" !et s'ZZYhe s $G5-000 - ' rta of w, clog wealth of .ta, tic t e In the,! season. . 8t0,Daci ffes' sev are distrib. P "eep;es Const,n counties d;1;' f(atl'0SDesS. fa;,bt of 24.46S. j The njr, - -ilide which swept also J.vs aren?en'T,vn &e siie 01 Bu thera yo; 320 miles from Ber, thfj 1 Sai(s! Veis, aged , a miner doll e a v.s cabin oa the mountain- Bto1' er 5 crushed to deatb, while a j,0.n escaped with a 'oroken arm. t Provision of the Oregon pro. T ,i law which makes it illegal for so'1 lei'son to give liquor to another lot prevent the serving of alco- day dr:nks by a host to guests in his clla according to a ruling made by ct Attorney Walter H. Evans at A nd. ry Levine, charged with having As 'Orted a woman from Salt Lake tte, Mont., in violation of the white slave act, arrested at p several days ago, will be re- Oini to Sf.'.t Lake by the L'nited frag marshal to face charges in serv I court. of ( ik Raines, one of the three boy3 negi icently escaped from the Neva- Irrit ustrial school, voluntarily re. to the Institution at Elko. He Addi !s that he is determined to stay Bost school, earn back bis credi:S through the educational advan. offered and face the world with "H II record. ure8 r"iopolis, YVyo., Is threatened "a III invasion of elk as the result a g0 Removal r I thirty bead of these y3 from Carcyhurst, in Converse ,0to "'a canvron of the Big Horn kr "ib uenuopolis. The an- klr .-fn we liberated at Dur- Jf Jr woras day, since have ' ca LVard Therisiy northward to-j to-j t0 the to,s now are close Sw I , U'lder a , of th ;"een the j-ct to be made be. try. pnd the lan,)B!iructlon company rT ' ,hl! Bi;i of tlie state of pile OuoJCCL ll!sl Klver irripdon Andc, over ,Ld . -re thm 0, der ""1 (. !" lak'"n cut!Va-Uotl-ly mi placed un- Th, The nv ' lias , "ore 0 b'"5' Sl0,,"Ul- I SYNOPSIS. 13-- CootUerale Serjeant Wyatt Is e.nt I a spy to his native county on ll: cli-oi;n li-lar. 11.; nitidis a mountalne r iKinu-d I, -in T.-iylor. At a house lieyond Hut Spi-hiKs thL-y meet Major 1 InrwooU Taylor m u i(l t'H Ilurwood anil escitp'-s. "Vyalt clumoH to U. H uniform, t-si-upe.s to the (Inajii ltriur country and Kocs to Harwood's homt--. whf...- he Rmls Nui'fn Jlaiwuotl. Tit- Introduces himself as Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Raymond. 1'arson Nh hols conns to the house and Wyatt forces hlin to eonl'ess that ne has been Hent in advance of Anse Cowan, wiio proposes to many Koreen at oneo. and su (iitet title to the land In dlspino between the Cowans an' Koi-een's dead father. Anso. Cowan ami his Rani,- arrive. Wyatt tells Noruen who ho Is. They I'on-e the preacher to siletlee. tenable to eseape while the Kanfi is on the iirs: loor and around the house. "Wyatt pi-oioses to many Noreen and protect her iroin Cowan. She uceepls and i Wytitt forces the pi eacher to marry Them. Cowan's ;ing Is driven oil' liv 1 l-'ederal ti-nups. one of whose officers is I the real Lieutenant Rtiyinoii'l. Wyalt Is I trapped, though Noreen attempts to do- I fend him. Wvatt is taken to LewishurK 1 for trial as n spy. The camp coinuian- 1 dant unci Captiiln Fox visit Wyall la his 1 Cell in the courthouse hasemenl. fie re- 1 fuses clemency in return for Information 1 nnd use., his boyhood's knowledge of the 1 building o escape to the altic and thene 1 to the sheriffs ollice hv means of a (lis- I used, old-fashioned chimney. He washes 1 off the soot :,'d chiln,'es clothes In th, 1 desei-ted wasliroom, and reconnol ters I He surprises Raymond and the eainf 1 commandant. I CHAPTER XVIII. 1 I Make Two Prisoners. 1 I saw him stare, open-mouthed, a 1 'hough at a ghost. There was a stai I Ued look in his face, but no recogn! 1 tlon. The same swift glimpse had rt I vealed to nie a discarded belt on th I end of the desk, in which glittered th pearl handle of a revolver. With on step forward I had the weapon in ni possession, and sprang between bot men and the door. V "Not a single move, gentlemen!" nimanded crisply,- yet not venturin So loud, for fear ot a guar tuteriant, ;place your gu Aiwc, but my wea yhtjat his head. i' sputtered. say first, ar lilfo you any too well. Raymond; 1 know your treachery." "1 did nothing against you," he protested, pro-tested, wriggling about to gain glimpse of my face. "I had no authority here " "No, but you had influence, and used it against me. I got the story straight enough, and can guess the reasou. Sit back traighter; there, I reckon that will hold." I stood off and looked at the two of them, surprised at the ease with which I had accomplished the result, but entirely at sea as to my next movement. move-ment. No plan, no hopeful possibility, occurred to nie; 1 could but stare vacantly va-cantly at my two prisoners, and about at the walls of the room. Raymond was jammed back into one come' farthest from the door, his face white, every bit of nerve gone, and a red welt showing where my grip had con traded the flesh. The fellow actualh ; looked pitiful he was so completed ' cowed. But Pickney was of a differ ; ent kidney. He sat glaring angril; ; at me across the table, with face ret as' the rising sun, straining at thi ' tough leather, his lips muttering in coherent threats of vengeance. "I'll get you yet, you d d rascal, I heard him growl, "and stretch you neck without any trial." s "And I'll gag that mouth of yours, - 1 answered "and keep it still fo I- awhile. Oh, yes, you'll open up, m man! I know a trick that will niak e you bite the tighter I pull the con e How about you. lieutenant? Woul e you like a dose of the same medicine'; y I stepped across to him. a strip i h cloth in my hand, but just at that Ii stant the latch of the door rattled o 1 though a hand without gripped it. g had barely time in which to leap bac d against the wall, hidden from vie n when the door opened inward. All saw was the glimpse of a man a har p. and sleeve. The fellow must V' perceived nothing to alarm h hei merely held the door aja "A lady to see the colo ' ' meed briefly. "Just .s saw her advance ;(- ,-. Tuere is n ; date uaU sot cHRO NIC YoE our motto. Vlit to tals 11 t a |