Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1859-05-04
Continued from last ,eeek.

Continued. from last week.
Don't touch me there is contamino.
tlon IN the touch of one who turns traitor
END betrays his own countrymen to for.
eign invaders. have no patience with
you, nor those of your character or habits
OF thinking, who are associated with YOU
IN your crime and spoliation. The word
Tory makes me shudder; your presence
GlsguSts me, while your deeds fill me with
horrorw "-''-
She tried to escape from the summer
wrist - 'A'
'NGt so fast, my scornful! Now is tho
reign OF might over right. Law and Or
aer are He'd the land. Fear of magistrates
IS not now before our eyes. We don't ask.
snail we do this or that p but we do as wa
list. | want you, and am come for Won"
"ihis Is frightful !" gasped Jessie.
shall die with terrorl Blinko! Blinkol
Help-Helpw
= rifle not far off.
did you hear that ?" asked the Tory,
with triumph at was for Blinko, ri
be sworn left man on his track that
can knock over dollar at q hundred
yards"
Spare me, Have we not been neigh.
oors ! Were we not friendly before this
terrible war? Remember, / entreat Of
you that am poor, trembling girl, with
no protector"
\ shall have no trouble in remember
ing the last" III warrant. | should'nt
trusted myself here if you'd been sur
rounded by the cursed rebels. Come, gal.
our home is in Laurel swamp"
- with quick, unexpected movement
Nahta'sel drew her to him, lifted her in
his arms, and moved toward the dark and
tangled mass of wood lying in the rear OF
the mansion at the distance of hundred
rods, and covering an area of ten wiles in
circumference.
B6y this time Ruth and Judith had miss.
ed her, ana came running TO the spot "a
ne was bearing her away. They cried
loudly Tor assistance, while terror nearly
deprived them of sense and yoition. At
the moment when the catastrophe seemed
complete, tall man, with large black
patch over his left eye, and a long rifle in
his hand, sprang from clump of shrub.
berry, seized Vantassle by the throat
wrested Jessie from his grasp, and chok.
ing him till he was black in the face. hurl.
ed HIM to the ground. While Vantassle
lay stunned upon the earth, his yanouish.
er took his musket hom his unneryed
hand, dlscharged.it into the air, and broke
the stock against the trunk Of tree. He
then drew the pistols from the Tory's belt
and thrust ,hem into his own, from which
already protruded the butts of four The
blade of Vantassle's knife he snaoed bv
thrustlng 1t into the cleft of rock, but
the heavy sabre ho buckled TO his side,
leaving The ruitian entirely unarmed.
In, gals, in !" cried the rescuer. "Bar
your doors, and say your prayers, for the
Tory hounds have scntcd blood, and will
not rest till they have gorged themselves.
The tall, wild looking man glanced at
Jessie, and observing that she was faint,
,aught her up as if she we're an infant.
md carried her to the door, placing her
carefully in the threshold, he repeated his
tartlins warning and vanished in tho
shadows Of night. He wa,
gone before the young ladies' had recover.
ID sufficiently from their di'may 10 thank
lim.
Whilethey gazed at each other in stur.
Dor OF wonder, man leaped high fence
II the right, and crossing the intervening
ground, stood before them, painting and
covered with perspiration. 1t was Tom
iutter, the partisan scout, who was known
o the neighboring loyalists as stauncl
md unswervin patriot and a brave man.
from no danger, and stunning
zone OF the responsibilities of the part he
lad chosen.
Tom Hutter!!" exclaimed Judith and
Ruth, simultaneously, "what has hapnen.
d2 You are excited with effort: Won
an scarcely stand"
81 have been pursued" said Hutter.-
i have had race for dear life. In. and
arricade the doors A party of the rene.
AIDES will be here in a minute! Where
,linko?" i1GT
81 don't know" said Judith. "He went
ut few minutes ago"
(Which way |" asked Hutter.
Judith indicated the direction with her
niger. ..u. r-0
Hutter started off like racehorse. He
1w a dark object suspending from the
ranch Of q tree. 1t was Blnco, who was
yaying to and fro, and quiverng in the
gonies of strangulation. Hutter cut him
own in an instant, and tearing the rope
ON his neck, staggered toward the house
eneath the weight Of his great body. A
alf dozen muskets shots were poured af-
,r him from the nearest corpse. Tho
alls perforated his clothes and grazed his
Sin in several places, but he reached the
ouse in safety with the half dead black.
eaving him to the care of Jupe. tho mu.
Ito girl he barred the doors and fasten,
! the windows. -tan.- E
Jessie, who had partially recovered her
looked out and saw forms
owing to and fro among the shrubbery.
er heart missaye her. How could they
sist so many enemies' She thought oe.