The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1873-05-22

whom L want 10 KNOW. Ilush.
For here Tom Bowles had
thrown down his pipe, and was
coming slowly across the road
toward them.
Kene.m eyed him with atten-
ton. A singularly powerful man,
not so tall by some inches, but
still above the middle hight, her
culean shoulders and chest, the
lower limbs not in equal proper
tion-a sort OF slouching, shamb-
ling gait. AS he advanced, the
moonlight fell on his face-a
handsome one. lie wore no hat
and his hair, a light brown, curled
close. His face was fresh.colored
with aquiline features; his age ap-
parently about twenty-six or seven.
Coming nearer and nearer, what
ever favorable impression the
first glance of his physiognomy
might have made on Kenelm was
dispclled, for the expression ofhis
face changed, and became fierce
and lowering. Kenelm was still
walking on, Jessie by his side,
when Bowles rudely thrust him.
sell between them, and seizing
the girls arm with one hand, he
turned his face full on Kcnelm,
with nenacing wavc of the 9th.
er hand, and said in a deep, burly
voice:
"Who be you 2"
"Let 60 that young woman be.
fore l tell you."
"If you weren't a stranger"
answered Bowles, seeming as il he
tried to suppress a rising fit Of
wrath, "you'd be in the kennel
for those words. Butt s'pose you
don't know that I'm Tom Bowles,
and l don't choose the girl that
I'm after, to keep company with
any other man. So you be Off"
"And don't choose any other
man to lay violent hands on any
girl walking by my side without
telling him that he's brute ; and
that | only wait till he has both
his hands at liberty to let him
know that mo hro not o pour Grip
pie to deal with"
Tom Bowles could scarcely be-
lieve his ears. Amaze swallowed
up for the moment every other
sentiment. Mechanically he loos.
ened his hold of Jessie, who fled
off like a bird released. But evil
dently she thought Of her new
friends danger more than of her
own escape; for, instead of shell,
tering herself in her fathers cot
tage, she ran toward a group of
laborers, who, near at hand, had
stopped lettering before the pub
lie house, and returned with those
allies toward the spot in which
she had left the two men. She
was very. popular with the villa
gers, who, strong in the sense of
numbers, overcame their awe of
Tom Bowleo. and arrived at the
place half running half striding, in
time, they hoped, to intcrpose be-
tween his terrible arm and the
bones of the unoifending stranger.
Meanwhile Bowlcs, having recov-
cred his first astonishment, aud
scarcely noticing Jessie's escape,
still left his right arm extended
toward the place she had vacated
and with a quick back.stroke Of
the left levcled at Kenelm's face
growled c,ntemptuously, "rhou'lt
finl one hand enough for thoo."
But, quick as was his aim, Ken.
elm canght the uplifted arm Just
above, causing the blow to waste
itself on air, and, with simultan.
eous advance of his right knee
and foot, dexterously trippcd up
his bulky antagonist, and laid him
srrswling on his back. The move.
nent was so sudden, and the stun
It occasioned 90 utter, morally as
well as physically, that a minute
or more elapsed before Tom Bow
les picked himself up. And he
then stood another minute glover.
ing ut his antagonist, with vague
sentiment of awe almost like q
superstitious panic. For it is no
ticcable that, however fierce and
fearless q man or even q wild
beast may 10, yet IL either has
hitherto been only familiar with
victory and triumph, never yct
having met with foe that could
cope with lis fore, the fret effect
of a defeat, especially from a des.
pisod adversary, unhingcs and half
paralyzes tho whole nervous sys-
tenn. But as fighting Tom grad
ually recovered to the conscious