Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-11-02

mounted, insiduously, one step after aho'h
or left the command in the rear, until W
came in front of a grocery, the platform
10 which toucbed his spur. Tenderinl
him a half dollar, asked him to be- hn(
enough to allow me to hold his horse wnll'
bo invested the currency IN tobacco, al
article which he assured me he had beer
longing for, for the past ten days. In hi
euileless simplicity he acquiesced without
suspicion, but. before he had crossed the
the threshold he hid occasion to cry "halt'
I didn't halt, but his old ''fu2eo" did ; sc
ibe difference between his carbine and me
was simply this, it would not go off and !
would. But the disparity between me
and other guards did not hold good for
at least dozen did ego off" after me be-
fore the Lieut.. could enforce his command
tos'cease firing" e as"
Ten minutes brought me to the door OF
Mr.. Niece his overgrown son who Stood
in the yard could not tell me where his
father was daughter Maria thought he
had zone across the road to chop an arm
fafofwood, but my vehement and exciting
denortment convinced them that the des-
tiny of their Ewes hung upon an immedi-
ate interview with him. They called him
he came forth. Approaching him excit-
eddy inquired
. ssNr. Niece, are those gentlemen who
stoned with you last night, yet about
your premisea?"
'o He replied; " No gentlemen stopped
with me last night"
T answered: {" | know all about it; If
they are here now get them out of the
way, for in less than ten minutes your
house will be surrounded by one hundred
and fifty Union soldiers, and if they are
found you know your DOOM"
He then told me that they were safe,
that they had left at three o'clock, and
irnplored me for Gods sake to get out
of sight myself for if he should be caught
conyersing with me it would cost him his
all. Ireplied that his request was un-
necessary as, fifteen minutes before, a
volleysof balls had been sent after me by
the same gentlemen who, in fifteen min
utes, would test the capacity of his larder
to its EXTREMIST limits. With these COM
forting words we parted.
The outlines Of my days labor was now
wildly before my mind. l. confess to a
Intent dread in meeting Ladoux ostensibly
with an object so assailable for lack Of
personal motives as to risk life aud limb
in his cause unsolicited. But strengthen
ed with the conviction that my mornings
adventure would magnify my already
Brilliant prestige In the estimation Of that
outlaw, Which | knew in due time would
be rehearscd to him, felt that whether
he cherished or endorsed my programme
or net iipp the contemplated raid upon the
troll his actions as to effect his capture.
I succeeded in procuring a good break
fast and "Geed" for my furnished mule in
season to gain credit in punctually meet
ing my opponent.
Upon meeting Laduox our recognition
was reciprocal; he knew me from des-
cription; ! knew him instinctively; the
look of a villain he had not, for that
would imply human baseness, his looks
were brutal, repulslve, disgusting. His
rst salutation confirmed with horrid
oath, was the enyious compliment that |
was d "btick." He next duplicated his
profanity by daming his soul if it was not
the only regret he felt in making my &C.
quaihtance, that'I was born North of
"Mason and Dixon's line" lie next sent
his soul to purgatory as pledge that no
Yankee ever perpetrated an honorable
trick that wherever their vanity had APP
propriated commendabIe shrewdness it had
been filched from the South or some Euro
pean people, that in overreaching ''pica-
yunishhess" mean duplicity he awarded
them the badge of the universe.
brought his TRADE Of Billingsgatc to
an end, by informing him that my bust
ness with him was not to quarrel or dis
cuss the relative merits Of other people,
"bt hdsntss,p and in everything | said
I aimed to impress him with the impor-
tance of my mission. IL he desired to
rescue his friend from Imprisonment, l
had pointed the way, if he did not, our
interview could end. ~"
: He "was ready for any adventure, and
no Cd ID man living dared 20
farther than he to aid friend in trouble !"
and more, she knew that no had men
who would follow him to hi, if he
would lead Il thought precisely So
He could not set out that nighton account
Of fourIof his men, but on the day follow