The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-02-18

the room with his companion. Bill said,
..They are preparing for an attack
"Yes,'' l replid, 'sbut we will be ready
for them ssYou're right" said Bill
We prepared ourselves the best we
could, and awaited with anxiety their re-
turn. The door soon opened, and the old
landlord ca ne in with only one man, and
said to him, in his gruf way, with jerk
of his hand towards the ladder, you
know where your bed is The man sui
lenlv passed us and assembled the ladder
into the loft. We OWNED his intention
was to come down in the night and MUIR
der us while we were asleep.
s:Old man. said, ''we are ready to
90 to bed; where are the keys to the
door!''
He snorted out nervously, 4 haint
got no keys
Gail rig ht,'' says I, 81 have four as
good keys here as any man needs (show-
ing my revolver), and we are not afraid
that any one will come in these doors, or
down ont Of that hole in the ceiling. l
spoke aloud, so that my auditor above
and those outside, if there should be any,
could hear. | looked at the candle and
saw that it was burning low, and said,
, ssPlease get me candle old man. l
always burn light all night when l am
, in strange place.
. II don't furnish no lights here; you
needn't be afeard of nothing in this
house,
20, am not afraid" l replied, ''but if
, YOU don't want to furnish candles, all
} right; always keep supply along with
me, SO you can take yours along with you,
! if YOU want to- l drew out candle
r and stick from my box, and lit it by his,
and then blew the burning one out and
gave it to him. 'Here is your candle, l
| continued, handing his to him.
: He took it, and growing out something
!. have forgotten, shuffied away. "Good
+; night, old fellow" l said, as he opened
! the door; you'll find us here in the
morning, alive and well.' My answer
0 was a slam of the door as the old rascal
. passed out.
But Bill and | did not feel as hopeful
4 as we spoke: so we examined the beds
s carefully there were two in the room,,
). and took the feather mattress off one
t and laid it under the other bed, and crept
v in on to it. Our reviewers were within
/. Ie8CU. ana our CduUlC UOAASO NPOh OA1
is barricade of trunks. We dozed lightly
y Once in the night awoke with a start
7. thinking heard some one in the room
D. listened for moment, and heard tn
< cat-like tread Of the villain in the lof
is stealing back to his bed. for he heard M
d get up. cried out, 'Oh! you needn'
:e mind getting up and coming down here to
Of night, for we are wide awake. and yo'
n. might meet something Unpleasant OF
Of your way down. He said nothing. AM
As we were disturbed no more.
ID The first thing we did when dayl'gh
err came was to 60 to the stable and look TO
IN our horses,-for they were good ones, an
Mt tempting prizes to horse-thief.-and v
ell we're gratified to find them safe. We fe
them and returned to the house 70
III breakfast. Our villain of the lof: ha
j. come down, and was warming by the. tir'
a place. We gave him GOOD morning,
ne and he returned it gruffiy, with his hea
ne hanging down.
m After breakfast we journeyed on, an
Al that night stopped at Hamilton s Iaver1
an a tage.station q miles from tt
IN Hawks Nest. Mr.. Hamilton was or
re of those genial, open-hearted. inquisjtiv
,s and communicative landlords describe
m. in the earlier part of this narrative.
ms "Whar did We put up last nigh
ill friend :" he asked Of me. / descrlbt
,e. the place to him as well as l could. /
ed exclaimed with establishment, ''Lore
to you don't say and came out alive!
&C. tell We what, stranger, thar's nigh,
hard stories told about that Hawk
~. Nest"
I'd 4 drunken stage driver, lying on Il
80. floor, reused himself up and said, "Wh
~. did you say you stopped AT the Hawk
~. Nesti Thar's more men been throw
~, ~ down into that soop at that house than
~ six.horse team could haul. have hee
w of lots of people putting up thar. but
"a have never knowed one to come away.
.ha tell yer what. stranger, thar's sumpi
~ wrong with yer, OF you have been Y
ars tim too. You're almighty lucky to {
oor away with your life
~ Ny suspicious we've we'll founded,
- only the show Bill and / made OF Q
-sa weapons and bravery, or rather brae:
mo docio, saved US that night. l shudd
ID tonight as pen this narrative, as | ha
- shuddered q thousand times when thu
81 of the night Of terror and anxiety IN
.ha Hawks Nest.
Ear. Grease Y0ur Nails.