Show decem recounting ing the adventures and love chich came into the lives of dowd david tippecanoe Larn lanance Mea and auto antoinette cefic 0 bannon in DO the days when jam were fighting by SAMUEL mccoy red aage saag so the indiana wilderness cabrela Ca wrela 1916 b co WHEN SPIES MEET do you believe the spy is as honorable in war as the soldier in the trenches ro eks if you caught a spy fl against the welfare of an our nelam nation and he pleaded with you to spare spam hr his life at least leant would wool it you do it a this the year 1811 da david L an y young ing english weaver canies conies to te corydon indiana joint territory Y reading intending to kill an n old eld enemy my s fancee he to meets at patrice OB obannon armon and in his ch irmino daughter tomette toinette A and it s becomes clrk clerk in colonel poseys ware store 1 in job cranmer and ad hr his daughter lydia recently come from britain david finds find congenial I 1 coal acquaints acquaintances ces b but he on and d doctor elliott dIk evne arm another t limit ic wants to Us marry tom toinette or its and in tries to poison her age against david I 1 it cranmer in mystifies arry lifie david ill who overhears I 1 spies planning ing to mo meet at at night eight in the courthouse nhu he bid hidei there what he hears hea and the 10 strange adventure which befalls befall him is told in th this installment tall a t CHAPTER of IV Con continued toned 3 with wah the closing no st OF of the doors do behind hi him ID ia 11 the di dun an tight light he distinguished at 1 affie be I 1 oilier I 1 or endi end it the room am the high platform and disk where the judges we were to sit lt U hill t th i court had bad been till f from old VJ Vin ceone pe fe iliad the rile ghigli backed desk dek he would be all absolutely id lately concealed from view lie made himself comfortable behind tt it slid mid settled down to what promised t to be a w wait set of several hours abu abbie I 1 him bill a squire of acure arure showed through the itie DRUM hed roof bof the afternoon BBS barm U arm david was w as more tind brid than he h hid it md he grew drowsy nodded slept lie he awoke J 1 without raising his I 1 held 11 his ears or caught aught the murmur of V voices that had seemed to ruu run through his dream dows d all ail the light it tied id faded train rom the ism room ot a n star shone through tile the imbrone rohe it r roof 0 of high above him the 1 nice I ran no on an at his so ear he could hear them more plainly now emier ouch rhy 1 tell you man me artieres hurr a of it waiting at lital dench th the voice vince was impatient a got guttural tacal 1 harshness ahoo checked with an effort to a wh whisper sper sometimes it roe as though US its oviver fit M nian I 1 dim I 1 C culty ity constrain team himself to COMM caution B baals rel of it I 1 tell you he heaps ps 0 go good nil dollers d ura U like maize in 1 the iddinn jodi a lines put do you think he ts Is with us gilld li ial could scarcely elly repress a start at th the second ad voice valte T the first speaker r grunted granted con contegni terni s and ad I 1 h blood wo on his hd licad tou re as ure som of him han na as you are of me a tile the oice that answered was one of hearty friendliness idere there capt caplina girie no of fence but you it II admit that I 1 I 1 was s sent seat or it to treat with fill you nud and you onla air and now 01 IOU ou proem propose C the name of this on you tou roust at admit cap tain girta irn thit theres them a bare bar chun chance he e old prefer S a booken to I 1 an eng I 1 lish ill ills hie mit min addressed addi add essed lessed as girty swore som anici ican ile he faint he nt no more american A it alian I 1 b be a you promise liim S a oil nice berth with till the kings king co com it dimion and protection and hell take and if he 0 0 ones the wiser rii ill cut his hie i th throat east easy enoah dabid thought the husky giggle hach sold the words nords would base braced need isman uell ell a well ell moet meet him tonight then where when it do I 1 you suy say hell he to be found U e 11 meet at tb the forge orge at the cor car ner mor of nik lane inne and N V alnut isrual israel if roil 5 smithy he slips in ID and out when he be pl pleases we 11 meet the there at midnight ali prea bouts bant oil gaie me ine time to git some aa 0 this liquor IN tte e do don t git gi good win wane illy d y I 1 la the wilderness and th the beckw chuckled again RI slee idly dnald div it heard tile the faint of the IN altal agent 9 stop steps so as the two moved away the second mua mae must t be bare ban 1 foot 11 1 he be thimi thought b L th then came a the just huldd audible sound ud of the closing doors doom and he was waa alone ahe he rose S and did bS hastened ted th ucb tina it growing 91 0 1 n 9 darkness dark nebs like ilk a tattered ghost he had still another n with t traitors to keep that night nit itu a grunt a portly partly irmler by felt his b impact as he turned the corner it is was as Crum cranmer mus himself lingering OR on tile the wal dav to his 1 1 anji vh lie ita david da rid he exclaimed claimed with willi bluff ft lead linam I 1 how are ou oil y young ron man many lie he cr cruhm lud davids david 9 cold than fingers a I 1 to a a mighty grasp my boy lie he u went cut OR on 1 ive I IS WID sem with noth teg frig in 14 this town all day lung 1119 but arim them im lati backwoodsman I 1 a aunt t think they re fall 0 ou cars can depend on I 1 stick to old john wesley riet his big honest will soul 1 IM I 1 ro I a methodist I 1 am even in a his town where h ere I 1 there I 1 lore a none to P I 1 to boavig back to my dlugi daughter its and then me well 11 have family prayers together wont you join ab he a blamed beamed OR on david with the ex priamo of f one ime I 1 ready to suffer r t the I 1 is 1 la quals itle but david stared at him in with w iab a strange look and thes then abruptly turned away NN list a fool foal he had been to 10 trust if these cran crale mere mera for a in moment 1 he caught nim him S acif ciol lydin for aught he be really knew aas os innocent of her fathers intrigues intrigue s on the car corner at of the lease lanes called oak and it vi alnut about the blacksmith shop of at arel L rael be butt t t a low law barrack barrac lf of logs logo shall showed sit no do ga gleam raw of light from the in barlor to the th a chance passer a by do da vid fid hidden ta in the dark passageway at the rest rear of the waited imps A siant figure pulled passed him bum scratched thrice with fill the Is point of a knife L lie OR on I 1 an unseen su s it door acme was wag admitted tied tile the hidden watcher rose roe and ad stole on noiseless feet around tile the corner comer of the silent intent shop a and it felt his nay any along ra its wall wail 0 no o window tho then cause the D uncertain two steps of S still another who rho sought tile the door of if the rendezvous stumbling along the un no even cera nagging flagging doled david sunk inal to his knees and as n tie he did so ills fingers encountered an no open ing 1 in the house wall leel islet with th the flagging dogging bending lower I 1 a peered in A noisome odor assaulted his is nostrils tells the opening was scarcely two feet square dan evidently Vel cully the aperture through the je blacksmith emptied the dirty water omee fro from his hia forge hot but co con quena ills ids repugnance a nee he lay lav list flat and wriggled n ogled his hia shoulders ders in A wooden bucket full of water enter stood stand before the opening p mg wl on the la ade this he pushed nol noiselessly noine lessly clealy lay away and peered in just as the atte attention that of those within was drawn to the late comer MCI at tile the it door r there were four men now dow within t the shop one unseen seen by the other t three 11 he now bad his first sight eight of gan girta the I 1 a tali lat comer david danid his he head it level w till ith the stone floor ot of the shop solved the puzzle ot of girta s noiseless footsteps 1 in the coart courthouse hanse n not t barefooted indeed but shod with the si at loot lent moccasins of the indian clad in leer deerskin trimmed with buckskin tasa sels a the it hunting drug shirt it covering the powerful shoulders shoulder and deep chest of a giant ahmon girty was a man of sixie seemingly but his bis quick bright eves evel jet black burned with the cold fire of the lif lidless fless serpents serpent s that never grows grow old th the two englishmen fingl ishmen were silent before to the malevolent cluelon challenge of af h hia hi gaze flags not of daring to be that first to speak a k 01 girty try stood ailing Ur unsteadily estead i y in t the h e fl hon light of the forge A tell stain of the juice of 0 the tobacco va was 0 on his cruel lip lips and chos ho this bag of him bones V he a asked contemptuously of the british I 1 agent this captain capital girta r is S a gentleman prend tv who he baa preceded roe me f from men eng I 1 land and on the same mine mission as ran myself if mr me rd edward still at the name and at the slight bight of the third ird man who until now had been to concealed aled by crammer a portly figure davids david s teeth set and he trembled con a like S a ro mastiff that sees so his enemy scull I 1 the was weaver ex who had turned king kings witness th the informer against david a fath r I 1 A horrid dryness as stuck stock in david a throat and he be shook shoo with an ague when he lifted his head again he be saw that the three men had bad seated anted themselves in fro front at of th the forpe forge for the night hid bid grown a chill black id shadows hung in all the corners of the little room am and sat out heavily ui of n the shoulders of the t three here men huddled about the a forge only the warm arm red glow of the chat charcoal Is coal set up a little ephe sphere re of light and warmth girty w was rout at drunkenly to himself seven san at blue licks licka two on the mau deblue in mee scalps the than a delc thet long im hared nd jl see be here my line fire friend old eald scull shai ply never mind and your scalps NN hat Is it that we are here for eh girty roused caused himself tell him clint cranmer or th the bluff and ad ki kindly by faced farmer seemed sit out at of at place plis in t that t devil den s to crew but he be bigan began to s speak p eak cheer fully well net ned rin im her here to make im you an offer on the part of the king go god d films bless him I 1 I 1 sou on have hale seen my criden creden amis it was my intent intention iona to go direct to the tribes 1 to the carol country ry taking plans of the garriso garrisons no wit with ahme me but 1 we waa to count you w with d h us before I 1 feet t out on my trip to the north our mole comrade ads brings word from franc the great chief of if the shaw Sho uness becs 1 tecumseh that he 1 la du desirous laron of forming a bague with wath his brat brothers h of the south eid the chuml cherokees co the and the creeks houi you ned ed are a man all whom erg eng land needs leads I 1 am empowered to say that if you will chill his MaJe majesty styx service you will be generously rewarded what success no can you hope for in this pauper nation site but eng 1 land it 1 Is a rl rich ell and powerful bow Dow erful P patron an nm a 0 straightforward man sir mr and ana I 1 have ban no gift of aigin 1 gu but sent scull I 1 held up a band r a p pause C he ha I 1 leaned it backward back waid it ind plied the bellow upon ako tko th dying ure fare the glo glow leaped up again and in its momentary glare daila might caught eight of it his Is face shock out against the sui sm r rounding ding shod phadona tos a tace face some dead master alstor of the brush brash had bad painted dark cruel mak link cont bontemp rap but hla his top reply was over never apo ile ken tile cold chill of the stories stones on which bo be jay had find sunk deeper and deeper into david a bones W th in the grip ot of desperation tie he strove to hold his teeth together but in spite of himself suddenly there burst from his lips with the unexpected cad n ns ness s of a a p paroxysm yant of Cugh coughing lg inith ath a single leap imp girta had reind re ind the spot aja david M lav dabols s head bead land hod amard anih hed an een cie greater reater speed but chiv 3 on an y thought thought was w as to acim the ft boodea bodea bucket and dath dalh its ita contents on ml th 11 plunging the room into instant gintant darkness david heard the sharp whisper of command ni a are arc A watched arched lat lal aft 1 in C captain atin gwi girt in iou will be the first mr cranmer second d if you yon pl please vc I 1 will all follow the thing which david did then was a probably his salvation it occurred to him that his chance of ine mealing seu scull handed was vas great erecter C it if be should return to the pitch da dark k shop flum if he remained in the street and till this he did ilien hen he had crawled soundlessly back into the licking kicking olt off his big shoes outside he was a just 1 in time to see tile the door opened aud and the dign figure a of the fillat min girt totally faintly outlined it med in the aper aperture iare unseen unheard david stole forward then the df de opened wider mille to flow allow tile the ll 11 hed off dg nee of cranmer to emerge and then scull glut the third man went out oat with the quIck quickness Des of death eaid glided at his heels he had picked up ft heavy beavy to horseshoe I 1 child on the floor of the sint liv the abu first r rt ue weapon that had C come to hand blind the tall fall fiame figure we was last just before him his arm a rose and it e even ve as a the heavy weapon pon hung in the sir air scull pushed open III the door a ot of a robin cabin that stood stand e d nut t the smithy and ad vanished david heard the door cl close a again gel and ad the he heavy wim wooden its a bar it dropped upped across 03 it on the inside for far a moment ht I 1 he stood dumfounded dum founded can garty and ad Crania C MO I 1 er be had d disappeared david walked on an slowly including brooding 0 oer plans to for r the morning and found ill at the th e ner talking to itself in 1 the night he I became aware war tint he still held something la in his hand bond find and looking down dow n beheld the horseshoe he tossed it into the stream and went back bu to the tavern lk for or 0 many y days after that ids his rag ing god ged discarded shoes base lay unnoticed limit at the low aperture of israel a smithy daid rook awoke 1 IQ the morning as a fresh as a the day it but day brought with it ike ala demand that be take fall up his new work and lie crossed the squat a to CO colonel one posey store own 8 scan ding tile the village sharply as aa he went cut he haired to the calif cabin by the id blacksmith asto f th a shop an honest faced woman with a blood of babies cling ng ing to her skirts skins am answered ld bis knock scull she replied I 1 to b hla query no by thet na name nae e libin here my man 1 is israel butt but t bar at t liz th forge orge she was pool positive din that no em such person as scull filed ih ed I 1 in ill the vil it age her husband was wag C equally I 1 ily at a joes osa to remember b the name am and ad di vill vid confident as aa he had been was forced to turn anwa anav v baffled by their honest perplexity the man had dis appeared 03 09 completely as though lie he hod bad been bace wallowed swallowed up in the earth stupefied fled david mide his way to cr anners lodgings ile he had no idea what but he would say iby to the man but ins his a tops steps took too him mechanically to tile lie door and there hem t he be received a see second 0 wi shock chawner was gone his do daughter n ahter w with ith him halml I 1 whitheral ther therl hla his question brought the reply that they bad said fit they w were ere going to mn N in cennes D davids ids friend jolla joha tipton the hunter unit und militiaman was there he would gold send |