The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1877-05-02
INYISIBLEP POWER
The Secret Of Life and Death.
A. j. III. DUGANNE.
1.-THE TENANT HOUSE" 1.-THE
SEVEN CITIEs," ETC.
CHAPTER XXXVI.

| CLONE STAR
afforded lively breakfast talk for Saul
| Macy and his family next morning; Saul
avowing himself all the better and stronger
! for that burglar alarm" nocturnal sensa-
ton, When DR.. Plato came, and heard Fam
! ny's glowing account of Fsher sensations,
he gave Miss Revere little "shock" of eiee-
| tricity in a kiss; and when Saul expressed his
! regret that he had not gone out to the
| burglar, DR.. Plato wrote prescription for
| Saul, which was great shock.
81 feel like fighting cock!'' boasted the
patient.
"Youll feel like a barn-yard hen before
nightl +" said the Doctor. -
| DR.. Plato knew Saul's condition better
than himself. Fever returned, and Susie
very early that day. Their b;.r.elar alarm ,.
| the surgeon said, would confillt his conyales-
cent indoors for week longer at least.
| So Saul Macy, under the effect of nitre
| and Dover powders fell off, about dusk, into
| q perspiring slum ber; and Susie left Amelia
and Fanny in her chamber, while she went
down to show their ''neW girl' how to
move about the kitchen more briskly than
''dumb'' girl could. While she was down
stairs, Barney came in from the area door,
and said there was an ''old beggar man"
wanting to see Mrs. Macy"
! 'But IwOuldn't go out to him! said
sharp-eyed Barney. s1For he looks like
! that man what wanted to shoot Sergeant
! Revere with his revolyer! ;"
Susie felt nervous thrill. Barney was
the only representative Of masculine pro-
lection" in the house; as Captain Hooper
had gone out, for few minutes, and Moss
| Cohen was away ON business in Philadel-
phia. But there was no cowardice in that
| LITTLE woman = Dature. so she said
'tTell the man, he can come in with you ,
Barney!
The door boy went with his message, and
re-appeared, in advance of thin, STOPPING
! figure, apparently trembling with age, and
in sordid habiliments, who paused, after
crossing the Threshold.
."You do not recognize me, Mrs. Macy!
said the man Il hardly know myself"
The voice, and peculiar bend of the
mans shaggy head, as well as his small,
blue eyes, gave Susie Macy instantaneous
light. The sold beggar man" was that
daring emissary who had brought her hus-
| band S note, and received two thousand dol
lars, the night of Saul's abduction and peril
of death. Her first impulse, ON the dis
ceyery, was to run up stairs; but the forlorn
| appearance and abject attitude of "Lone
Star" touched, as quickly, her ready sensi-
bilities. She looked at his face moment,
and then went boldly toward him.
| Goodness! she exclaimed, as her near
| glance fell on his worn features his dropping
| lips, parted, in siekly smile, his 1ank
limbs shaking the loose rags he wore.
"What have you been doing to yourself2
You look dreadful, sir"
81 feel worse than look" replied the
confederate. ''Fever and ague set in on
broken arm, and q minie-ball in my side,
| are not favorable to good looks, madam"
! ''Poor man - said Susie. Barney, get
the gentleman chair. Be seated, sir.
! Susie's sweet voice, and the kindness in
| it, made Lone Star start. "Thank you,
madam" he said, as he sat down. II m
| limbs and chattering teeth needed not such
a remark. to show the utter prostration Of
that Stree companion" of three months be-
| fore.
Susie looked at her ''new girl,'' and saw
! IN expression in that other woman's face,
which made her say-''Yes, you may"
with her own eyes. The immediate result
of this s'female free-maSonry," after a
little clatter of china, was the production of
a tea-tray, with a cup of hot tea and some
cold fowl, the remains ofsuPper. So rapid
| ly was the collation. set before 'sLone STAR"
| its preparation advanced that sEnew girl, .
into Susie's ''good graceS," as the very OPP
posite of ''slow'' in domestic 'shelp."
Now, sir, you must eat some of Martha 8
nice cakes" said Mrs. Macy, "and then
! tell me what we can do for YOU"
'tLone STAR lifted his sunken blue eyes,
and lowered them under thGG6 bright ones,
| and then shook his head, as if to reply, 81
can't make you out" But the fragrant
tea, poured out by Martha, and mouthful
of cold fowl, began to interest his appetite
30 he ate and p0ndered for several minutes,
without speaking, until second cup of tea
was poured. Then he said, looking UP
again:
"May tell you about myself 2"
'tTeIl me whatever you ought to tell me,
! ifyou like, sir, - responded the New Eng
land woman, in full selfpossession, as she
| saw the real condition of Lone Star"
The man bent his head, in his peculiar
way. and then proceeded to tell his story /;
] which, without doubt, had its counter-partS
throughout New York City, during many
/ months of neglected suffering and concealed
wounds, after those public disorders which,
for two days, kept that metropolis at the
ing Saul Maey's house, with two thousand
dollars, when its stricken master had been
placed In bed, forgot to 'scuss money" for
1 he found himself back among boon COM
panions, and received another hundred dol
lars from "Billy," the English householder,
who had personated a sMayor S messenger
/ in the drama of abduction that night.
! ssBilly'' himself did not pay the money for
] tfBilly' got no farther from the scene OF
| his struggle with Frank, than to that upper
room of the rear tenement-house, which he
| had hired, weeks before, to be near the old
stable. In that upper room, the burglar
was destined to remain, a wounded man,
stcalthily attended by his wife Charlotte,
luntil his third attempt to break into the
clubhouse resulted in a third repulse, with
an alarm-bell beating retreat behind him.
"Lone STAR in another tenement-house,
+, with sumptuous breakfast to begin the
| day with, and discussing a bottle of cham
pagne, after his meal, felt more like making
! himself sociable with Polly Hopkins, Little
/ Pete. and eQuaker, - in q game of euchre,
by the bedside Of Tommy Tompkins,S
|otherwise s'Blue Jay,'' who had sunk down
in his ssfree-fght,'' a badly-wounded "out-
sider,' after doing his best to make Saul
Macy an stinsider" for narrower " box"
than Lone Stars trunk. Polly Hopkins,
though stunned under SauPs heavy blow,
was able to see an ace out of his bandaged
head but Blue Jay had a broken rib, and
an ounce of lead about his diaphragm some
where SO that he could only be prOpped
up by bolster, and watch his fellow
bandits, as they drank and quarreled over
their cards.
But there was a sscalIn on that hilarious
gang, about eleven o'clock of the forenoon.
An0thef representative OF TIC dutl-uIdis H-
dependents knocked at their room-door,
and responded to the question ssWho's
there? by the information that he was
s'Yazoo City! whereupon, the door being
unbolted, sYazoo City, popped In, and
champagne cork was 'spopped" cut, there
upon, in ssfreedom Of the city,"
Yazoo City was six-foeter, and wore
two six.shooters in a leather belt around a
faded green frock-eoat. He drank off his
tumbler of wine, and slammed down the
glass, as If he was done with drinking.
.sOh, Lone Star = he calculated;
tsThere's blue blazes in New York to-day ~
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