Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1859-04-29

makes me shudder; your presence disgusts
me while your deeds I'll inc with horrorr
She tried to escape from tho summer
house. Vantassle caught her by the wrist.
Not so fast, my scornful! Now is tho
reign Of might over right. Law and order
are fled the land Fear of magistrates is
not now before our eyes. We don't ask,
shall we dc this or tbatr 7 but we do as we
list want You, and am come for you
This is frightful,' gasped Jessie. Il
shall die with terror! Blinko! Blinko -
Help! helpr
At that moment she heard the report Of
a rifle not far oil.
Did you hear that 2 asked the Tory, with
triumph. 1T was for Binko, I'll bo sworn.
l left man on his track that can knock
over dollar at a hundred yards
Spare mo! Have we not been neigh
bors? Were we not friendly before this
terrible war? Remember, entreat of you
that am poor, trembling girl, with no
protector
Il shall have no trouble in remembering
the last, III warrant. 1 shouldn't trusted
myself here if you'd been surrounded by
the cussed rebels. Come, gal, our home is
in Laurel Swamp
With quick, unexpected movement,
Vantassle drew her to him, lifted her in his
arms, aud moved toward the dark and tan
gled mass of wood lying in the rear of the
mansion at the distance of hundred rods,
and covering an area Of ten miles in circuln-
ference.
By this time Ruth and Judith had missed
her, and came running to tho spot as he
was bearing her away. They cried loudly
for assistance, while terror nearly deprived
them Of sense and. volition. At the mo.
ment when the catastrophe seemed com
ploto, a tall man, with large black patch
over bis left eye, and long rifle in his
hand, sprapg from clump of shrubbery,
seized Vantasslc by the throat, wrested Jes-
sic from his grasp, and choking him till he
was black in the face, hurled him TO the
ground. While Vantassle lay stunned up
on the earth, his yanquisher took his mus.
ket from his unnerved hand, discharged il
into the air, and broke the stock against the
trunk Of tree. He then drew the pistol,
from the Torys belt and thrust them into
his own, from which already protruded The
! butts of four. The blade of Vantassle
knife he snapped by thrusting it into Tho
cleft of a rock, but the heavy sabre hc
buckled to his side, leaving the rufian en-
tirely unarmed.
In gals, in cried the rescuer. Bar youl
doors and say your prayers, for the Tory
hounds have scented blood, and will not
rest Till they have gorged themselves
The tall, wild looking man glanced al
Jessie, aud perceiving that she was faint
caught her up as if she were an infant, ahd
carried her to the door. Placing her care
fully within the threshold, he repeated bi.
startling warning and vanished in the
deepening shadows of night. He wa:
gone before the young ladies had recovered
sufficiently from their dismay to thank him
While they gazed at each other in a stu
por of wonder, a man leapod high fence
at the right, and crossing the intervening
l ground, stood before them, painting, and GOV
cred with perspiration. 1t was Tom Hut
ter, the partisan and scout, who was know
to the neighboring loyaists as staunch anc
} answering patriot, and brave man, shrink
ing from no danger, aud stunning none o
} the responsibilities of the part be had cho
sen.
Tom Hutter,' exclaimed judith and Rutl
5 simultaneously. I" LAT has happened? Yo
are excited with effort; you can hafdl
stand
1 4 have been pursued said Hutter. {
: have had race for dear life. In and bar
t ricado the doors. A party OF the miserabl
5 renegade will be here in o minute. Where
; Blinkop
Q 4 don't know said Judith. 'Ho wen
0 out few minutes ago.
D which wRyF asked Hutter.
: judith indicated the direction with he
: fiager, Hutter started off like racehorsC
9 He saw dark object suspended from th
i branch of tree. 1t was Blinko, who wa
Q swaying to and fro, and quiyerng in the az
: onies of strangulation. Hutter cut him dow
}. In an instant, and tearing the rope from hi
Q neck, staggered toward tho house beneat
the weight of his great body. A half do
, en- muSket shots were poured after him fror
: the nearest copse. The balls perforated b
r, clothes and grazed his skin in several place
J. but he reached the house in safety with th
a half dead black. Leaving him to the car
5, Of Jupe, the mulatlo girl, he barred h
It doors and fastened the windows.
o Jessie, who had partially recovered hc
o selfpossession, looked out and saw fora
o moving to and fro among the shrubbery.-
!; Her heart misgave her. How could the
resist so many enemiesl She thought
n the strange man who had so opportunel
r appeared to save her from Vantassle. ST
N wondered why he had left them at such
J. juncture. His deep, resonant voice still rar
d in her ears.
y, Stand back from the window said To
Hutter.
d The warning was timely; a charge
= buckshOt crashed through tho panes as 81
d stepped aside, some of which perforated b
arm, while one of the burning messenge
) drew blood from her white neck.
,r These misereants make war upon W
N menp exclaimed Ruth Hayiland.
10 Make war upon women, Miss Havilan,
g. They are more savage nor the wolves al
d catamounts that prowl through Laur
ID Swamp. Neither beauty nor tears CT
move 'em They are ten times worse n
n tha Bntshers tbarnsalvAs Thavy'ya ma,