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the speko rather sharply, and leav-
j mg the window went back to the table,
j which she began to clear away. She
gathered up the scraps and put them :
I back neatly Then site brushed the !
I crumbs off in her hand, for lack of any- I
i thing else, and threw them in the lire, j
! and having done that pushed the table 1
! to one side against the wall. 1 made no
| offer to help her, as she did everything
ow that his dotage j with such skill and dispatch, and 1 was
CHAPTER VII.
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My fears found ample justification,
for the men soon turned their attention
to the horse, and two rose and approach
ed him. 1 looked upon him as one im
pounded, and he alone was to blame,
for he should have km v n better. One
of the men made a wide circuit- and
came up carefully behind, while the
other approached with canal caution
from the front, whistling in a soft- and
coaxing way and holding cut Ins baud.
Evidently the men appreciated the value
of a good horse, and no doubt they had
stolen enough from patriot farmers to
have, experience Old Put never raised
his head to look at them, but continued
his hunt for blades of grass. He certain
ly heard their approaching footsteps, and
I was convinced i
was really at hand
“I thought you said be was the most
intelligent of ns three; ” said the girl
ironically, “and here he is, gone to sleep
and letting himself be taken, to he used
perhaps'as a common cart horse.’’
Her words were an insult to us both.
Old Put and me, hut 1 knew no timely
reply, and I endured them in silence.
The man in front, emboldened by Old
Put’g gentleness, approached more rap
idly and was soon within 15 feet of the
horse Old Put raised his head, and
looking at the man a moment lowered
it and went .-a nipping the grass.
The man holding out his hand stepped
forward and seized Old Put by t he neck.
The horse. v»:.ha neigh that was human
in its auger, turned and kit deep into his
shoulder A .-cream, wilder, more fear
ful than any I have ever heard before or
since, rose from the man’s throat- as the
horse reared high in the air and smote
him to the earth with his fore feet. The
girl turned tier eyes away in horror as
the man was crushed to pulp beneath
the tierce beat of th
w ere not going
trifle as a dead man
“Do yon think they will attack us?”
asked the girl.
“Well, no; not yet, at least,” I re
plied “The advantages cf tho defense
j are too great, and these men are mere
j raiders and robbers. They are not- going
j into a dangerous venture unless the
• chances are on their side. Perhaps they
1 think we will become frightened and
surrender tomorrow.”
I “Y'ou surely will net do that?”
“1 had no such intention, worthless
j rebel as I am, Lint if you say surrender
; 1 will go out and notify them this min-
sfeel shod hoofs.
content to watch her Nor did die say
anything to me, but, her work done,
took her stool again and sat down at the
corner of the hearthstone, leaning her
head against the wall of tho chimney
and gazing into the dying fire
The last log was smoldering on the
hearth and threw hut a feeble light. I
blew out the caudle, thinking we might
need it in case cur enemies made any
hostile movement, and the darkness
gathered at once in half the room, only
a dim light showing as a fringe to the
fire.
“I think you’d better go to sleep,” I
said to the girl. “It is always well to
save one’s strength, and now is a chance
for rest. ”
“And you?”
“I don’t need any sleep. I’ll stay at
the window and watch. ”
“But you need rest as well as I. ”
“Why do you bother yourself about
a villainous rebel who is going to be
hanged anyway by bis justly angry
king?”
“I wish you would stop talking that
Her tone was rather plaintive. Un
doubtedly she was tired and worn by
anxieties, and I obeyed her request. I
made her wrap her cloak around her,
and, though she declared stoutly that
she would not go to sleep, merely wish
ing to lean her head against the wall
and rest, her eyelids drooped and fell,
and in two minutes she was asleep.
The tire sank lower, eating its way
along the log until only a few inches of
| wood were left. The "girl slept soundly.
The curve of the chimney into the wall
| formed a kind Of nook, and her head
| and shoulders rested easily there like a
j picture framed against the rough logs,
i which were unplastered and not even
; smoothly hewn. I trusted that she
| woul-.l sleep the night through, and as
! the fire sank lower and lower and the
; darkness crept up to the hearthstone.
: almost hiding her figure, the stillness
j of midnight came, and I could hear hei
j regular breathing in the dead silence.
I went hack to the window. The fire
of the British faced it, and I could see
that three of the men had lain down
and gone to sleep. The other two were
sitting np, weapons at hand, and I infer
red that they had been detailed as senti
nels, though their lazy attitudes showed
well enough that it was a job they did
not like. For all 1 could tell at the dis
tance, these men, too, might be asleep
sitting.
I watched them for a half hour or
more and grew very tired of the busi
ness. The brightness of the moonlight
had culminated, and the eartli lost it*
silver tint, shading into a dark, dull
gray. The figures of our besiegers grew
shadowy and shapeless. It was a time
Hr sleep, and I felt it in all my hones.
A trooper doesn’t ask much. If 1 could
have taken my blanket and put myself
down on a reasonably smooth pigee oi
turf under the shade of a tree, with the
certainty that no enemy would waken
me, it would have been sufficient for
me. I would have slept the sleep of the
just or the tired unjust, which is often
as good.
I drew the old pine box up to the
window and sat on it, resolved to listen,
now that I was tired of looking. I won
dered what had become of Old Put, the
man slayer, and tried to discover why 1
had been such a fool as to distrust him
even for a moment.
Thus musing, I discovered that the
l fire had gone out; that I could see noth
ing—in fact, that the room was pitchy
dark. I opened my eyes, remembering
that all things must be dark to a man
with his eyes shut, and saw again the
flickering fire and the figure of the girl
half reclining in the chimney corner.
This would never do. I was the whole
army—horse, foot, artillery and*baggage
wagons, commander in chief, colonel,
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him, but 1 kept mine at the crevice,
though I will confess that the blood
was rather a chilly torrent in my veins.
The other man, the one behind, faced
about and fled when he saw the death
of his comrade, and the one look that 1
had of him showed fright to the mar
row The horse, raising his head, trot
ted away over the hill. The moonlight
fell upon him there in distorted rays
and enlarged him into a gigantic figure.
In the gray light he looked like some
phantom horse, a wild creature that
brought death.
The band, recovering from the mo
mentary paralysis caused by the sudden
acquaintance of their comrade with
death, snatched out their pistols and
fired at the horse as they would have
fired at a man in his place, but their
aim was wild, for the horse gave no
sign of a bullet, trotting steadily on.
his figure growing larger and more
threatening in tho exaggerating rays of
the moonlight, until ho disappeared be
yond the swell of the earth The thing
that had been living* lay in the dead
grass, and I was glad that it was hid
den almost by some rocks and the roll
of the earth.
“He is gone, Julia, - ” i - eaid, “and i
don’t think those men will try to take
my horse again. ’ ’
I laughed a little, with a rather forced
gayety, for the ffffiueuca of the sudden
tragedy was still upon mo. Yet- I was
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do. One of the greatest blessings
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do this, she must have health her- f9
self. She should use every means
to improve her physical condition- y*
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never go to sleep all at once. 1 under
took to walk briskly around the room in
order to stir my sluggish blood into
watchfulness, but that would wake the
girl, and I did not want to do such a
cruel thing. I stopped in front of her
and looked at hfr faco attentively.
Asleep she did not look at all tho spit
fire she was awake. Mingled with her
beauty now was a certain wanness, a
something that was pathetic, a look
that appealed to a man for protection
and strength. After all, she was but a
girl, and why should I care for the bit
ter things she said when probably half
2 ! the time she said them she was sorry?
• I went back to the window and looked
H I out once more. The besieging army was
' taking its comfort. The part which had
stretched itself on the ground remained
stretched, and the part which watched
sagged more than ever toward the hori
zontal. It was a lazy army, that was
£ ! evident, and I resolved that I would set
it an example of superiority
Having made those brave resolutions,
1 sat down on the stool and leaned my
head once more against the wall, not be
cause I was tired and sleepy, but merely
that I might reservo my strength for a
crisis, the most necessary thing in the
world fci\ a soldier, every man of ex
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<?> good argument, that bore extension, and
I closed my eyes that they, too, migiit
ft have rest, for they felt weary and clog-
f ** ged. Then, do what I would or could,
weariness and sleep took charge Gf me.
: Tired muscles rose in open aiid defiant
ft> j rebellion against mind* and will. The
jj* ! com bat was short and fierce, but matter
k | triumphed ever mind, and in five min-
g ! utes 1 was in the midst of a sleep that
was heavenly with rest, unpeopled by
bad dreams, with my head back against
tho wall and my breathing jopg and
regular. Meanwhile the bed of coals on
the hearth grew smaller and paler. The
rim of fire narrowed. Coals turned from
rea to niacK anti then to gray and crum
bled into ashes. The darkness crept up
to the very edge of tho hearthstone and
then invaded it. The girl was complete
ly in the shadows, and the pale glimmer
of the fire was but a faint light left in
the room
The sleeping man and the sleeping
girl were tired, very tired, and they
slept soundly If they had dreams they
were pleasant ones, and no thought of
danger entered into them. The men
around the campfire had moved away
to the other side of the world, and the
little cabin was peaceful fer them, in
side and outside. Sleeping thus, they
did net see the men rise from the camp
fire and approach the hut, now veiled
in a darkness which made such a move
ment- safe. They reached the cabin
without alarm or a sign from the
watcher who was not watching, and at
last the leader tried the shutter of the
window. He pried at it with his knife
and moved it- a little. Then he put his
ear to the crack and could hear nothing
within. Replacing his ear with his eye,
he could see tho feeble glimmer of the
fire and nothing more. He was sure that
those whom he wished to take were
asleep, and he exulted, for a fierce anger
mingled with his other desires to recap
ture both. He pried again at the win
dow, and with greater leverage it yield
ed further, and wood scraped against
wood. He stopped and listened again,
but the inmates of the cabin never
stirred.
Putting his ear to the wide crack
that now intervened between the shut
ter and the wall, he listened again and
neard the steady, regular breathing of
some one inside and below. II: knew it
was the breathing of a sleeping man.
too loud and strong for a woman, too
even for one awake, and he readied up
and pulled the shutter wide open on its
rude leather hinges. Then he grasped
the edge of the window with both hands
and pulled himself up.
My sleep grew troubled at last and
then turned into a nightmare. Seine
nugn wild least, after the fashion oi
beasts in nightmares, was sitting on my
chest and blowing his breath in my
face, while I had no power to move a
muscle. I was cold to the marrow and
waited for him to devour me, but in
stead he dwindled away and became
misty. With one great effort 1 threw
him off my chest and sprang to my feet.
My head struck against somebody else’s
head as I sprang up, and that somebody
else swore an oath that had the savor
neither of a nightmare nor a dream, but
of reality.
Cold air and moonlight rushed in at
the window, but most of the passage
was filled up by the shoulders and head
of a large man whose face I could not
see owing to the imperfect light. He
held in his hand a pistol which he fired
at mo, but now the imperfect light wa;
to my advantage and not his,for his
bullet, avoiding me, buried itself with
a chuck in the log walls, and tho re
port confined in the small room roared
like a cannon shot.
Moved more by impulse and instinct
than by thought, I snatched out my
own pistol and fired at the head in the
window The man uttered a deep sigh,
the body dropped forward ami swayed
there; I heard the light drip, drip of
something on the floor, and then the
body fell inside the room.
The girl, suddenly awakened by the
terr ible sounds and hffif in a maze, cried
out in fright and then began to ask in
a high, trembling voice what had hap
pened
“The British have attacked ns, ” I
said. “Ono of them was in the shadow,
and I threw him back. Standout of the
range of the window.” 1 did not want
her to see the thing lying on the floor
under the window, and I shoved the ta
ble in front of it
She obeyed, for 1 spoke the last sen
tence very shatply The window was
wide open, and expecting to see another
faco there 1 held my second pistol
ready, but none appeared, and I had
no doubt that they feared Crowder was
dead.
Taking the risk, I reached out an
arm, seized the shatter and slammed it
shut, securing it as best I could with
the leather strap and nail used as a
fastening. Then, with my ear near the
crevice, i. listened, bnt conld not hear
our enemies. I feared at first to look out
lest I should receive a bullet, but still
hearing nothing 1 applied my eye and
saw that tho men had gone back to
their fire. They were all there—four 1
counted them and knew that none was
missing. They were deliberating evi
dently over the fall of their leader and
what next to do, and 1 took au immedi
ate resolution.
“Light the candle,” I said to the
girl. “Hold it to the fire. There’s
enough heat left to start the wick to
burning. ”
She did so and saw that something
lay behind the table.
“What is that?” she cried.
“The dancer and singer of last night, ”
I replied, seeing that I would have to
tell. “The leader of those desperadoes
outside came into our fort, but he came
into his grave. ”
She retreated, shuddering, to the
farthest corner of the room.
“Now, you do exactly as I say,” 1
continued. ‘ 'Remember that yon are the
rank and file of this army, and I am its
commander. ”
“I will obey you,” she said.
I quickly reloaded mv rJct-r.1
men 1 shoved the table away again
and, overcoming my repulsion, dragged
the dead body to a sitting position -A
chill struck into my marrow, but 1
dragged off the red British ccat and, hav
ing thrown off my own, put it on Then
I gathered up the wallet of food and Old
Put’s bridie and took down the bar from
the door.
“Come, ’ I said, “we are going to
leave this place while they are planning
by the tire and their backs are turned to
us. ”
It was a bold measure, involving
many risks, bnt 1 believed that it would
succeed if we kept our courage and
presence of mind. For at least two or
three minutes they would think 1 was
Crowder, victorious, and that would be
worth much. When I had taken down
the bar. I stopped a moment.
“Keep Ly my side,” 1 said. “Re
member that we must become separated
by no chance Here, take this pistol'
Yen can shoot, can’t you?”
She said “Yes” ana took the pistol.
Then 1 opened the door, and we dashed
out, running with quick and noiseless
steps across the open toward the wood,
which rose in a dim line ahead of us.
While the window opened toward the
campfire of the besiegers the door did
not, and we had gone perhaps 50 yards
before they saw ns This 1 knew by the
surprised shout that came to us, and
looking back i saw them hesitating, as
if in doubt about my identity, and at
last running toward their horses. 1 was
glad that they would pursue on horse
back, and 1 had taken that probability
into consideration when we made our
dash from the house, for even at the
distance 1 could see that the dim wood
looked dense and a poor place for the
use of horses.
“Courage. Julia!” I said, taking her
hand. “In a minute or two we will be
into the woods, and they mean safety. ’
1 looked back a second time The
guerrillas had reached their horses,
mounted them anti turned their heads
our way. but in doing it their time lost
was onr gaiu Unless lamed by some
unlucky pistol shot we would surely
gam the wood. They fired once or twice,
and 1 heard the thunder of their horses
hoofs, but 1 had little fear 1 still held
the girl’s hand in mine, and she made
no effort to draw it away. She was run
ning with a firm, sure step, and, though
her face was white and her eye excited,
she seemed to retain both her courage
and presence of mind.
The wood was not as far as I had cal
culated, and when onr pursuers were
many yards away we dashed into it at
such headlong haste that I tripped over
a vine and fell upon my nose, burying
it in a pile of soft leaves, which saved
it from harm. But I was up again, re
joicing at the accident, for in a wood
interlaced with vines horses could make
no progress.
“1 hope you are not hurt?” asked
Julia anxiously.
“Hurt? Not a bit of it!” I replied.
“What a blessing these woods are! How
dark it is in here, and what a blessing
that is too!”
In fact, the wood was our good luck
and onr best luck at that, for even we
on foot found it difficult to make onr
way through it. Afar wc conld hear the
British cursing in profusion and variety
as they strove to force their horses
through tho dense bush
“Hold my hand,” 1 said to- Julia,
“for otherwise i might lose you in all
this darkness and density.”
But instead of waiting for her to take
my hand, which she might not have
done, 1 took hers, and, bidding her again
to step lightly, I led the way. curving
among the trees and bushes like a brook
winding around the hills in search ol a
level channel My object was to leave
our pursuers at a loss concerning our
course, and we seen ceased to hear their
swearing or the struggles of their horses
I dropped into a walk, and of course the
girl did likewise
“I think we are safe now,” I said.
“There is not one chance in a hundred
to bring them across onr path again.
What a mie wood! What a glorious
wood 1 There is no such wood as this in
England It grew here especially for
our safety, Julia. ”
“It did grow up in time,” she re
plied, “but now that you think us safe
again you can call me Miss Howard and
not Julia. ”
“That’s true, and now that we are
safe again 1 must ask you, Miss How-
ard, as au especial favor to me, to please
quit holding my hand. ”
“I am not holding your hand, Mr
Marcel!” she replied indignantly. “It
is yon who are holding mine, but you
shall not do so a moment longer.”
She tried to jerk her hand away. 1
let her jerk three or four times, and
then I added as au afterthought:
“It is very dark here, and there is still
danger that we might become separat
ed. 1 think 1 will let you hold it a lit
tle longer, but I shall endnre it merely
because it is a military necessity. ”
She gave her hand a most violent jerk,
and it nearly slipped from me, but I re-
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For your Gar
den Seed, On
ion Sets, Early
Rose and Bliss
risk Potatoes.
'Ye have just
received a
resh supply (d
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Go’s Seeds.
They are noted lor putting up the most reli
able Seed sold.' Their seed are always fresh
aud gives the best results. Orr prices are
as low as the lowest
Also remember we carry a complete
line of DRUGS and everything generally
kept in a first-class Drug Store.
We have a competent Druggist who has
had 15 years experience.
BUXTON &HAESELER,
GIRARD. GEORGIA.
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