The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1878-01-31

ing either to the right or left. If | see
you do anything supicious l will drive a
brace of bullets through you without
word of notice Now push on
The guide had started as directed. but
it was evident from his mutterings that
he was alarmed at something besides the
action of his follower.
In the meantime the thunder had in
creased its violence, and the flashes of
lightning had become more frequent and
more binding.
For awhile the two horsemen rode on
in silence, the guide keeping up his d.
rectiOns to the letter, while his follower
watched his every movement as a cat
would watch a mouse.
Suddenly the guide stopped and looked
behind him. Again he heard the click
of the strangers pistol and saw his up
lifted arm.
"Haye mercy, meinheer," he groaned,
g dare not go on"
" give you three seconds to 90 on"
replied the stranger, sternly. Gone"
"ln Heavens name, sure" implored
the guide, almost Oyerpowered with fear,
" look before me in the road, and YOU
will not blame me-"
The stranger looked. At first he saw
something white standing motionless in
the center of the road, but presently a
flash Of lightning lit up the scene, and
he saw that the white figure was indeed
CHASTITY and frightful enough to chill the
blood in the veins Of even the bravest
man. If his blood chilled for a moment,
therefore, it was not through any fear
that he felt for his ghostly interpreter
for the next instant he set his teeth hard.
while he whispered between them Just
loud enough to be heard by his terror
stricken guide:
" Be it man or devil.-ride it down
I'll follow. Two"
With cry of despair upon hislips the
guide urged his horse forward at the
top of his speed. quickly followed by the
stranger, who held his pistol ready in his
hand
have swept past the dreadful spot, but at
that instant the report of pistol rang
through the dark forest, and the stranger
heard horse gallop off through the
woods riderless.
Finding himself alone, the stranger
raised his pistol, took deliberate aim at
the ghostly murderer, and then pressed
his finger upon the trigger.
The apparition approached quickly,
but III no hostile attitude The stranger
stayed his hand. At length the ghost
addressed him in voice that was any
thing but sepulchral:
Here, William, We move out of your
perch this minute and give me helping
hand. I've hit the game while on the
wing, haven't II"
The stranger was nonplussed for mo-
ment, but recovering hi self, he grum-
bled something unintelligible and leaped
to the ground. One word to his horse
and the brave animal stood perfectly
still. BY the snow-white trappings of
the wOuld-be ghost he was next enabled
to grope his way in the dark toward that
individual, whom he found bending over
dark mass, about the size of a man, on
the road.
As the tiger pounces upon his prey,
the stranger leaped upon the STOPPING
figure before him and bore it to the
ground.
:" ! arrest you in the kings name,"
cried the stranger, grasping his prisoner
by the throat and holding him tight
" Stir hand or foot until have you pro-
perly secured, and I'll send your soul to
eternity"
This was such an unexpected turn of
affairs that the would-be ghost could
hardly believe his own senses, and was
handcutfed and stripped of his dagger
and pistol before he found time to speak
care you not my Wilhelm?" he gasped
" No, landlord replied the individual
addressed, | am not. But am an Of
ficer of the king, at your service, on spe-
cial duty, to do what / have tonight ac-
complished. Your precious son Will
helm, whom you thought was leading an
innocent sheep to the slaughter, lies in
the road, killed by his fathers hand"
Two weeks later, at Bruchsale prison,
in Baden, the landlord of the sign of the
Deer, and the Ghost of the Robber of
the Black Forest, who was the same iden-
teal person, having been proven guilty
of numerous fendish murders and art
fully contrived robberies, committed at
different times in the Black Forest, paid
the penalty of his crimes by letting fall
his head from the eXecutioner's AK, since
when travelling through Schwartzwald
has not been so perilous to life and purse
nor has there been seen any ghostlv
knight of the road in that section of the
world.