The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-05-11

times one 1or the other of them
would stroll up, pipe in mouth, to
the edge of my pit, and ask me
hess ] vac ,sss getting on, I nsed TO
fancy that it was only done TO see
whcthers / was turning up anything
good, and consequently worth rob
bing; and ] used to conceal my
gold in all sortsfof out.of the-way-
places to elude their suspected de.
signs. 80 50 rs -, go. 80
One night / heard horrid rev.
elation that confirmed all my sus
picions against these men. And
now 7 come to the very subject
matter of my story.
i have said that my tent adioin-
ed that of my two mysterious ao-
quaintauces in fact, the canvas
of one tent touched that of the
other; and from my tent I could
hear the conversation they carried
on in theirs very plainly. l had
never before listened to their dis
course, but one night, just as ]. was
retiring to bed, / heard one say to
the other: |" Yes, this little knife
did it for him I killed the old man
with one blow, cir" DC. = 'r.;ss.s+
The horrible admission stagger-
ed me, and / felt that l must lis
ten to the end OF the discourse now,
at whatever risk to myself; so 1
glued my ear to the canvas in
time to hear his mate reioin ::
"Did you, now2 And did the fell
low resist you 2" t.a.4
" Faith and he did," replied the
assassin. Z" He grasped me till lie
nearly pressed the life ont Of me.
and tried to rip me up with, his
spur; but | drove the knife into
him up to the hilt, and then cut
his head off, : -...- ~r.....'.
Bravo, Charlie !" cried the 9TH
er "that makes the seventh old
man we've killed since our arrival
in the colonies, don't tire
g No, the eighth," was the re
ply. "Don't you remember the
black fellow ." . ~ s. D.. s-asrs.;Er
."Ob, aye, to be sure, right you
are," said the other f; "but what
have you done with the illustrious
dead in this present instancei"
y" Why, ! left. the body in the
hush, with the exception Of the
legs, which are here IN the tent.""
The conversation here ceased,
and was not resumed; d.; in fact, a
stentorian snoring soon told me
that it was very improbable that it
would be so for that night, at the
least /; SO l crept into my bed, not
to sleep (liow could ], after 80 hor.
rible a discovery ?? but to reflect
upon all that ] had heard.
The eighth old man they had
killed and one of them an unfor.
tunate black fellow. Oh, the
wretched miscreants l mutter.
ed to myself; and then my mind
wandered away, and l wondered
why it was that they always mur-
dered old men-how it was that
their last victim tried to rip his
murderer up with a spur, sucb an
extraordinary weapon of defence,
and what on earth had induced the
assassin to cnt off his victims legs
and bring then, into his tent At
last, however, did sink into a
disturbed, unrefresbing slumber.
and was afflicted by a frightful
dream in which l faneied that one
Of my noxt door neighbors was
kneeling on my chest and cutting
my throat from ear to ear. = -, ! !
My dream had, in fact, some
slight foundation, Tor I was awak-
ened by a roHgh hand shaking me
by the shoulder ). and my eyes, on
opening them, rested OF the rough,
bearded face of the very man
had been dreaming of. -s,- , ~
| / was abont to scream "mur.
der p for / thought that my las,
hour bad com Q /; but glancing
around / saw that il was broad
daylight, and that the fellow was
merely asking me for a match tc
light his pipe with. This l imme
diately gave him, and he went
away with o muttered expressivf
Of thanks. 'a'sre'7',,ssis s7al-''''s'l,e - p
l, That day, instead of going tt
work, Iset out for the tent of the
police commissioner, and after &
long walk suceeeded in reachin,
IL. / had TO wait q very long tim,
before'I was granted an audience
bnt when ] was nshered into I'll,
presence Of the dread functionary
and told him as snccinctly as pos
sible tlIe circumstances Of the case
and how l had heard the rascal
confess their numerous crimes, ans
II particularly their last nnnrdef, th
proofs whereof were within thei
{ tent, the enthusiasm Of the com
missioner WAS, fully aroused, an,
|, be felt as apxiops for their captur
, and punishment "a myself. q, III
|. suggested that two ypolice.nen, dis