The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-02-06

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- sJln 6Uo0ek Wtlts Alses. Nod.
snx Unt ! littas dots t6tdtd HE "a old
fashioned thumb-paper.
"0o Quick ~ she sasn0ered. - she
clipped II into RAlph's baad. iuadssrt
entity touching his fingers with her
own-a touch that rent ttnglteg
through the school master's nerves.
Bur sile had hardly said the wosds M
iii she VS. gons down the brookside
ne.h aud over into the pasture. a
Lv minutes afterward she drove the
cows up into the iot and meekly took
her pcolding from Mn- Means Tor be-
ing gone sech 90 awful long time. like
. lazy, good .fer-nothin' piece Of goods
that she was.
Ra,pb opened the thumhpspsr note.
written on page torn from an Old
copy book, in I3od's ..hand-write" and
running:
mr.. Harfsook
deer Sur:
Il Put in my best licks. faint no use
Run fer yoFe life. A plans on foot ~
tar 40 ferh+r or wuss Tonight Go
rite Oh. Things is awful juberpus.
BUD"
The first question with Ralph was
whether he could depend on Bud.
But he soon made up his mind that
treschery Of this sort was not one Of
nj. traits. He had mourned over the
destruction Of Buds good resolutions
by Mar,hs Hawkins refusal. and be
ing disinterested party he could have
comforted Bud By explaining Martha's
"mitten." But he felt sure that Bud
VS. not treacberous. 1t VAS . relief
then. = he Stood there 10 know that
the false truce was over. and worst
had come to worst.
His first impulse IVES to stay and
isht. But his nerves WEIR mot strong
enough to execute % foolhardy . Feso-
lu,ioo. He seemed to zee man BE-
hind every maple trunk. Darkness
VS. fast coming on. and he knew thaf
his absence from supper At bis board
ing-place could not fail to excite su.-
picion. There was no time to be lost.
20 he started.
Let one once start 10 run from a
dsnger. and panic isapt to ensue. The
forests. the stalk. fieId-. the dark ho!-
lows thrcu. b which b passed seemed
to be peoplei with terror.. He knew
Small and Jones well enough to know
that every avenue Of escape would be
picketed. 90 there was
no, hing to do but to take the shortest
path to the old ,rysting-place. ths
SpriHg-ip-rock.
Here be sat and shook with terror.
Mad with himself, he inly denounced
himself for cswsrd. But the effect
~as really = physical one. The chill
and panic now we're the resction from
The previous strain.
For when the sound of his pur-uers'
voices broke upon his ears early in
be evening. Ralph shook No more;
he warm blood set back again toward
the extremities, and his selfcontral
returned when he needed IL. He
some stones about him. "a
the only weapons 81 defense at hand.
The mob was on the cliff above. But
he thought that he heard footsteps in
he bed ofthe creek below. II this
were 30, there could be no doubt that
his hiding-p'ace was suspected.
80 Hank. !" shouted Bud from the
top OF the elf to some one in the creek
below, "be sure to look ut the Spring
think he's there"
This hint was not lost on Ralph,
WHO speedily changea his quarters
by climbing up to secluded. shelf
like ledge above the spring. He ~as
----->-- --~-.-e~- p-.~-- I-------A
Hank BsntA we're looking all around
The spring for him, while he held ,
iwenty-pounds stone over their head,
ready t. drop upon them 10 case tbey
should think Of looking on the iedg,
above.
When the crowd we're gone kalpt
knew that one road was open to him
He could follow down the creek I.
Gritty, and thence he might escape
But. travelling down I" Gliity, he de
,,sted whether 1t was be@. TO escape
70 flee was 10 confess his. guilt, I,
make himself an outlaw, to put a,
lnsurmountable barrier between him
self and Hannah, whose terror strick
~ and anxious face a. she stood b,
he brook willows haunted him now
and was an Involuntary wituess to hel
love-
Long before he reached clifty his
mind was made up not TO nee another
mile. He knocked 1T the door O
squire Underwood. But Squire I'm
ierwood was also doctor, and hae
been called away. He knocked At tn,
'ioor Of Squire Doolittle. But SPUR,
DooIittie had gone 10 L~wisburg
He was about to give up all hope o
heing able to surrender himself to th,
law when he met Squire Hawkins
Who had come over tn Clifty to avoi6
esponsibility for the ill-deed. u hi,
aeighbors which be was powerless Il
prevent.
is that you. Mr.. Harisook 2"
Yes. and want you to arTes. ms
md try me here in City"
To be continued.
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