East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-05-23

! get her into trouble. L gave her no ui
rect answer, but assured her that L hac
no wish to bring harm upon her, and
then left the hut.
Gas soon as had fairly got away from
the building, / stopped. had surely
discovered something of Importance
This woman's husband, and the neighbol
whom he had gone to visit, were the wit
nesses agrinst my brother, and l surely
had every reason to believe that they
were the guilty parties. / was now aware
that the murder had been committed
near the place where l had turned oil
from the main road. and from what my
brother had written, l Judged that the
two men who had spprenended him, must
have come out from the very path in
which / then stood. They had probably
murdered and robbed their victim, and
before they could conceal the body, my
brothers. approach had driven them away
AS concealment after this would be i'm
possible, they formed the wild scheme OF
shifting the crime on to other shoulders;
and if such was the case, they had well
nigh succeeded.
"After revolving the subject over in
my mind, resolved to wait till Matthew
Harm came, thinking it very likely that
Croft would come with him, and that j
might learn something more. So crept
as near the hut as dared, and there
awaited the result. In little while, the
girl returned, and with her came two
men. Shey entered the hut, and L tried
to get near enough to hear what was said
within, but did not succeed. Ere long,
however, the men came out, and stopped
very near to my place Of concealment.
"Well, Mat SAID one of them, III 60
home, and be ready in the morning. -
The old womanll do well enough, Igues.
"But l hope that Doctor won't come.
returned the other. He may be right
in our way
"If he does come suggested the first
speaker, hell be off in time. AT all
events, you can easily keep. him out Of
the way
'Never mind, said Harm. But / say,
he added, 'ths chap that brought Tilda
home must be the very chap we're after.
IL think so, was the response.
They talked little while longer, and
/ learned their plans pretty thoroughly.
| was their intended victim. They had
been at the inn when | arrived, and had
discovered that was perfect stranger
in that section; so they thought l should
not be missed if they put me out of the
way. They felt sure that l had money
with me, and they must have it. Croft
was to be ready before daylight, and they
would lie in wait for me until l came
aong-then kill and rob me-take care
Of my horse, and sink my body IN the
old tceH'
81 made my way back to the inn, and
reached my room without disturbing any
one. My toothache was gone, though l
had no recollection of the precious time
when the pain left me. In the morning
| pretended, to be sick with cold and
head ache, and told the landlord that l
could not ride my horse. He said that
was the day for stage, and that it would
be along about 10 O'Clock; SO l informed
him that would wait for it, and engag-
ed him to keep my horse until l called
for it. Then bound my handkerchief
about my head, and acted the sick man
as well as / could. At nine o'clock,
heard two familiar voices under the win
dow. They were my friends, Harm and
Croft. They had come to find out why
| had not proceeded OH my journey
They talked with the ostler little, and
then came into the bar-room where was
sitting, pretending to be half asleep
They were hard looking fellows, as had
expected, and just such looking fellows
as / should suppose would work or rob
as opportunity offered. They were not
ugly-looking, nor really villainous, but
they had a reckless, staggering way,
and loose expression, which at once be-
tokened that they possessed little or no
sense of morality. They had good
look at me, then took something to drink,
and then took their leave; and could see
that they were somewhat disappointed.
at 10 o'clock the stage came along,
and took place inside, and by 3 o'clock
in the afternoon was in Columbia.
gained access to my brother without
trouble, and certainly don't think /
should have known him in the street, he
had grown so thin and pale. But when
/ came to tell him what had discovered,
the color came to his face, and he looked
more like himself. he told me he had
engaged q lawyer, ana having spent half
an hour with him, went to see his legal
friend. found the latter individual in