Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-11

you shall put it between the outer and the in
ner soles of your shoe. Twill write another
letter to Musgrave which you shall carry in your
pocket. Now Clovis, come nearer and listen.
Ii any of the gang meet you and want to see
the letter, show that in your pocket; otherwise,
when you get to the settlements, touch it with
match, and see that its ashes are scattered
in the air. If Musgrave is at home, by hook
or crook, you understand me, Clovis, so contrive
it that he shall not be here for at least week
to come YETI
"Aye, ave. that sounds like it Rolph,' said
Clovis, =" and if he does come in week it will
be because fail to meet him. begin to un-
derstand you now'' .....s
Well, Clovis, few miles across the Line,
in Vermont, in the town of --, in Orleans
County, | have, or had, an old friend, the keep
er of an Inn, named Sabine You can't mis-
take the way-overybody knows him, if he be
living, and he is always at home. Hasten to
him, with all possible speed, and take this gen.
ulno com to pay your way. Give him the let
ter in your shoe-open it, for being directed to
another, he will refuse to do so. Tell him to
hold it for moment in steam, or thrust it an
instant into warm water, and what seems at
first blank, will show written page. Then
Clovis, if he don't offer you instant help, come
back with what speed you can, and we, trusting
in our own arms and the God we have SO long
forsaken, will escape or die"
agreed that's just the cruise would like
to take. But what if Musgrave should come
while am gomez"
Sound your whistle as you 90, and if he is this
side the settlements, you will be like to meet
him. If not, you must trust to speed and luck
to be here before him.
'But if speed and luck fail me, what them"
"Then McDermot, the stranger, Billy and
will do what men can do to defend the girl
McDermot?"
eyes, said Hartman, " he and his wife
have been the only hope of the strangers for
tlHie, ana -
"Well, well," said Clovis, stake them in,
but no more, ph,--let the devil take the
rests
" That is my mind, too,' reoined Hartman,
:" so will get queen Molls consent for you to
60, and directly you shall be off"
They separated-Harriman managed 50 adroit-
ly as to procure Moll s ready assent to his pro-
posal; and she urged the immediate dispatch
of Clovis, with no very delicate admonitions to
take heed that he fulfilled his mission as faith
fully as Pellet performed his
eff don't, Moll," !" said Clovis, Pellet may
thank me. IF do," he added, II shall get
no thanks from YOU
Hartman retired and wrote letter to Mr..
Sabine, as follows:
D, L. c., Sept. 18th, 1S-.
MY OLD FRIEND SABi NE Il am in worse place than
He'll: in the midst of gang of devils more desperate
than any other set of human beings you ever saw am
ashamed to tell you of this and would not but my chill
dren are with me, like two pure spirits among the damn
ed, and my only hope of depends on you. Our
great Apollyon is away, and hourly expecting his
return. II he comes, my poor chldren who sought an
estranged father to lead him their mohcrs dying bed
will die death too terrible to think Of For Gods sake
come and help me. Muster my old friends in -, and
come without delay Yours
HARLEY HARTMAN.
T. g. The bearer of this is Clovis Gray. He will tell
you all you wish to know, and how much force you will
need. Of men and women there are about forty here
Ina desperate beyond belief They believe my children
!" be spies, and watch them night and day for fear they
Will escape SO there Is chance If force don't come
IND break up the gang No here knows the strangers
Ire my children, so don't tell Clovis
That you may know there is mistake about who am
will remind you of the old horse called Major tina
We once owned together many years ago and my little
laughter Alice, whose curly head you used to laugh SO
much about. For my wfe's and my chdren's sake,
on't doubt-don't delay-but come immediately and I
Will be yours forever Clovis will show you the way and
bold Scot, and youngster in midst beside my boy
nd Clovis and myself, will fight like hell hounds against
he rest If fighting there should need be. Come pre-
jared for the worst. H.H.
While Hartman was writing the foregoing
etter, Clovis had taken William Belden aside
o announce to the latter the fact that Mus
,raye was in no way related to him. The dis
losuro brought to the boy no regrets, but salts
action instead Yet it tended to excite in him
N earnest anxiety to know his lineage
Z" can not tell" said Clovis Your fa-
hers name | never knew. never saw him
i'll few days before be died, But this I |
now, he was an English merchant and lived in
liverpool. lie died at sea, on board ship
by Musgraye, whose real name is
linn. lie died suddenly, and your mother,
%; and as you know Musgrave, and what he
as more than once ordered to be done here, on
ais little Lake, you may judge whether ths
leans by which your parents died were fair or
,ul"
The boy moaned bitterly.
I" Why did you not kill me, then, Clovis?"
nd William. 81 would rather that had died
len, than live to hear this
" Musgrave would have done SO, Billy, but
lterposed to save YOU
=" He would have killed me then?' asked
VILLAIN with something OF stern and fixed ha-
ed in his look.
7" Just as coolly as he will kill the beautiful
irl and her brother that are here, when he
,mes and finds them at the Retreat"
" Clovis, you don't believe he will do that"
" Don't you remember, Billy, when you told
he girl and her brother that Pellet had come
ack from his cruise after Musgrave. how fright
led they were and when you told them Mus
rave was not here how quick that seemed to
viye them?"
81 do, Clovis, never shall forget that, and
felt then as if had the strength of hun
'en men in my arm, and ten lions in my heart