The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1872-04-03

"Didn't you hear it ~ .'f
"When?",
q" "Just now" .-..4-a
..Thcy saw it foreteIls death. Hush"
The two men sat moti0niess. Not 8
, sound broke the silence. not even creak o.
the old boards in the floo-, or a sigh ei
wind. or fiapping shutter.
"They say 1t forCtclls deatb. heard j;
last night and the night before. Whst'i
thatY" 'a.rt
"Nothiog. It's .tiller than grave
yard"
81 heard it last night and the night be-
fore about this time, near orc. faint q
. very pleasant sound, and this old garret's
dismal enough suy way"
.Monk, you are afeared It's nothing.
Don't waste no more time. I'm dead-tired
nd sleepy. You wouldn't have been In
this old hole now If it ha2n't been for
Peters" ,.-.A.... aT
"No. sc it hadn't been for Peters, the
strike, like enough. would have took. Bu!
he won't stand in nobody's way again"
While Monk spoke, he drew out a sharp,
slender knife. and ran his finger along the
blade.
night after this blasts is done. and the mer
row. When Peters Is fixed. the manager
will have to give in or quit runnin' the fur.
mace. i,1 IHs o. .-'f
Both men sat with their arms leaning on
the table. and the Pickering light of the tai.
low cardle between them showed two
faces, rough, begrimmed by smoke and
SCOT; and disfigured BY evil passions, that
grew flercer as they calmly plotted against
the life of fellow-being. q. =
"We'il meet At one, where the roads
cross. It'll be quiet, then, and Peters
house is alone.n 80 b., o .-al-.r-r
"Ill be all right" said Shlfet, with
grin that rendered his brute-like counte-
nance doubly repulslve. ''l'm confounfed
tired. Bring yeur candle and light me down
them iHferrai STAIRS" ''
The men stood UP. Monk, small and
slim, was dwarfed by the almost giant sta.
ture Of his companion. With few parting
wordsa 10 secrecy and silence, they sepa.
rated. r-,. H--
Monk stood on the upper step until Shiilet
disappeared, then closed the door and re-
plseed the candle on the table.
The room. neither large nor snail, was a
mere hole. smoky, dirty, and upholstered,
high up in frame tenement house. Two
or three chairs, an Old chest o. drawers. q
rickety beds,ead, and pine table, composed
its furniture. Some old boots and broken
riecfs of pig-iron lay scattered about. The
small, box-sbaped window was set Just be.
low where the ceiling or rsafed sIoped to
the wall. The only door led directly to the
stairs that went down two, three flights to
the ground. There were many such places
in Agatha, where the furnsce-hands lived
Monk walked rapidly up and down the
room, as il making an effort to wear off the
excitement thst the last few moments had
brought upon him. His features had lost
much of the malignant expression. which
was by no meas habitual. His countenapce
was not hardened or stamped with the i'm
press of crime like Shifet's, who had lust
parted from him at the door-a countensnce
in which every trace Of conscience had long
ago been erased. Monks face was neither
bright nor dull: but he was a man easily
wrosght into passion, governed by i'm
pulse. - I
Crossing to the table. he slung his coat
over chair, and stretched out bis hand to
extinguish the light. Midway in the action
he sudd anly checked himself, looked hurr;-
edly around the room for an instant, and
stood motionless. with inclined head, listen.
Ing intentIv. Not sound disturbed the
stlllness. Pinchiug out the light, Re threw
himself on the bed, and in the darkness
mere soon came the heavy regular respira-
ton of sleep. - I
The house at Agatha nestled under the
north cliff. A hundred feet above them the
railroad lost itself in the black mouth of a
tunnel and resppeared beyond high wall
" ~ uestework stretching ssuthward down
me valley to Ely's Mines. Hours ago, the
tolilng men had lain down to rest, and now
lne Wild. rocky hill, around slept in che
MooriiHht- No sound broke noon the still
ness out the mufiied puff. puff, of the fur
mace, and murmur Of frogs that rose and
leu inter, uptedly along the shrNnken water
cDMse. The cabins under the CLIFF shone
wnlte and sharp; the iron on the mettle-
ew,tch fashed with q million gems: the
tSl1 upon the trestle. receding, turned to
sIver, and the foliage of early summer gilt
tered upon the treel. A few passionless
stars D!inked feebly In, the yellow lieht,
Hnere the hill-Iops cut against the skv. and
sank eeiow the verge. Calmly, peacefully
waneo the light calmly and peacefuIIv AZ
.neugh q repirit Of evil had not stalkei
xor0ao plotting the death and ruin Of Inen,s
borsss narlow spot Of ground, with the
world ~, "a. "a the valley, formed the
WI woail -. lour hundred people. The fi,ro
mace hands and their families s.v ,nth;nc ,al-
,peyond tne bills that hemmed IN their III
iage: Knew. nothing OF tke ~ s.lysr ~. VIZ VIZ
outside. An untauRht sturdv -, ~ .! ~
they differed little from one ancthsy - men, TI,
cry day. when the great ifurnses IVA, Ey- en.
creek igltmnered red, they hy doG,' 'to 70
sleep: asBnt ignorance and supersiition fii,ss' y.
their hearts, and anger and hate, and ;sss
ousy, were as rife among them as in the
Another day passed. and the night which
ioliowed II was dark and cloudy. Neal
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