The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1876-09-07

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but nv comrade shall not die if I can
save him. Now for skill and courage.
Be cool, Dick Martin You have beQ
on still more perilous occasions. it
your commanding officers speak the
truth.
He glided back again to his old rest
ing place, when he stumbled in grave
that he had noticed before. just in the
rear of the gallows. His first impulse
was to leap out, for the depth OF the
grave did not exceed three feet but a |
second thought altered his determina-
ton. and he murmured:
ssThis is the place for me; they
certainly will not think of looking for
living man in the grave!'' And he
stretched himself at full length in the
..narrow house, that he knew one day
or another he should fill. They entered
the burial ground, and proceeded dl-
rectly to the gallows, under which
they halted. Forming circle, the
, colored man, with the lantern. Gun
bingham and the prisoner. in the CEN
. ter: preparations were made to go on
with the awful ceremony-that OF de-
! priving fellow being of life.
, The colored man looked up at the
pallows from which the bodies were
{ hanging, and then proceeded very de-
: liberately to cut them down. observing:
l ssThese chaps have hung long enough
t l guess
a The prisoner looked on with glance
s of no common interest. for he felt that
! his soul was f1uttering on the confines
n of eternity.
= The colored man had passed a rope
e through the beam, where but few
i moments before, hung the inanimate
S clods that now encountered as it were,
e the ground beneath the gallows. This
l. done, he said:
::There, Mr.. Cunningham is rope
e that will hold the prisoner long
l. enough, reckon.
A. AS he finished this speech. he very
If deliberately kicked the body OF one OF
ID the dead soldiers aside, and rolled the
s. other very coolly into the grave where
,e Law the man and the dead rested upon
)e the living A shudder ran through
re the frame of the youth, as he fell
III pressing above him the solid form OF
| one who, but a day before, had beer
D. as full of life as he now was but no
a sound escaped him, for he knew tina
silence was his only preservation.
s.Well, rascal, you see what you ar
coming to for DESERVING from his maj
esty's service. A halter, suppose. i
az more agreeable than good treatmen
s, and "a soldiers pay"
a Thus spoke Cunningham to the prls
d. oner.
or Il entered into the refugee corp
nd for my own reasons. They have prove
.et satisfactory" the prisoner said. look
NO ing at Cunningham with bold count'
of nance.
sh s.sYes, Internally satisfactory. you II
in. bel! A spy. s'pose! DeLancey,s re
re ugees would be a pretty set II the
I'd. were all like you, rogue. No. no
ire had my eve on you when you listed,
ed month ago. and | told Colonel d
of Lancey what believed you was. N
royal refugee, but rebel scoundre
of was right, rogue. eh =!
1T Eyes, you were right as to my e
lie listment AS to being a rebel scou
hy drel. why, there is an offset-you a
,a5 a royal knave and bloOdthirsty villa
:, All the information wanted to sci
tba to the great Washington he has got D
,,a fore this-so hang away But shOu
r. like five minutes communion with
asa God first. if you have the manliness
Tor grant it.
nod Astonished as Cunningham was
,ha the boldness of the man S speech.
~ knew full well that he himself was d
80 tested by the English soldiery for /
hv tyranny. and that refusal of such /
lty, lues' " q i''"' on 49, e I'm s.,,l mo
odious among them. With an illgra
rbt he said:
/. PRAY, rascal. pray! | don t wond
+ha that Il knave like you fears death.
,,Is man who betrays his king. betrays
al. God. and it is full time that you try
,.oa make your peace with Him. TN
,,a1 minutes-three minutes That
;nr the time you have from me. Go
=, Your knees at once then. SAM
j 81, have the halter ready. Three mInu
MN. only.
yav. The negro had placed the lantern
eze the ground. directly under the gallo'
: of Its faint light cleaned upward. sht
ex- ing dim outline of the gallows fraf
and partially lighting the faces
lark forms OF the soldiers gfouPeo
the their muskets 10 an ofdef. III *
ows circle around the scene oi eAe."si
and The prisoner bent down. resting
the knee upon the earth thrown up aroi
,iate the new dug grave. He had no n
ting of escape as he looked upward
rdly ward the heavens. although all
and black with night. yet his eye pier
ring through the gloom. and he saw IN
srth. future redemption for the past
Jail. auivering of his lips showed his SIM
assy ity !: he was prepared to die. OF
den he bent his head. All I. his pra
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