The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-11-23
NEW B1ooMFIE1D PA. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 90, 49,

us ana the rest OF our men.
"Well,' he said, 81 want TO give you
little positive evidence to work on.
Warwick is not only responsible for his
mems stealing your elephants, but is
quite mean enough to do the dirty work
with his own hands. 1 was at work
sbinning some elephants this afternoon
over toward the southwest beach, and 1
saw you kill a fine young bull that had
just been hauled out of the breakers. L
saw you mark him and pass on up
toward the head of the pond"
$50 did," said Preston, "but did
not notice you at ALL"
"Quite likely, as was little way
up beyond the rise of the beach, and was
STOPPING down."
He then went on to relate how a few
minutes afterward he saw and recog-
nized the English beach. header coming
up the beach, and saw him stop and
examine the newly slain elephant, then,
suspicious of wrong doing, he had kept
out of sight behind tussock knoll,
where he could observe operations with
out being himself discovered how he
had seen Warkick straighten himself
up, and look, as if carelessly, both down
and up the beach, then draw his knife
and stoop down for moment over the
elephant, then rise and walk quickly
away, indeed almost at run. He had
remained crouched down until Warwick
had passed quite out of view, and then
going to examine the elephant found
him marked with broad W., the two
parts of which had evidently been cnt
with different knives.
The expression of Preston's g face as the
story was finished was blacker than
thunder-cloud. He, however, thanked
Tom Green in taking leave of him, and
seemed not to care to talk much on the
subject. He finished his supper, and
took his smoke as usual, then, putting
on his jacket, he shouldered his gun,
and prepared to start for the beach.
"I reckon the evidence is strong
enough and clear enough now," he said.
Tom Green is a man of truth, and,
beside, he is level-headed, intelligent
man, and knows what he's talking
about. This business must be settled
tomorrow, once and forever"
Darkness had now set in; and Preston
went out, taking the path westward,
IaaIipo r0unI tho hoo1 nf tho ,oopA IN
ward the southwest beach, but in a
minute returned and came in again say
ing he had found only two or three bull
let's in his pocket, and came back for a
further supply. He went to his closet,
and took out a handful of bullets, say
ing as he passed out through the main
room of the house,
"I hope to kill at least eight or ten
When he added with kind of bitter
laughter, :" If should meet that En-
glish pirate on the beach, don't know
but should be tempted to put bullet
through him."
He stepped out and disappeared in the
darkness, but the last words had been
spoken in the hearing of all our party,
together with three or four of Com
stocks men who were visiting us. They
were not thought much of by those
who had not heard Tom Green's new
piece of evidence, and even who knew
the whole, attached no special signific-
ance to them at the moment. 1t was
just such a remark as any of US, rough
seamen, that we were might have made.
1t was nearly daylight before Preston
came in, remarking that he had killed
twelve elephants during the night, and
had kept on tramping, as he expressed
it, {" to work the mad out of him." AS
he rolled into his bunk, turned out
myself, and taking only my lance, went
out to try my own luck and get up an
appetite for my breakfast. l did not
care for the gun, as 1 was never much
skilled in the use Of one, and we had
only one in the party, which was sell
dom used by any other than Preston
himself.
The morning air was sharp and brac-
ing, but still not intensely cold, for the
real winter had hardly yet begun, and /
made the whole circuit of the Point,
down one beach, and up the other to o
point nearly opposite the starting-place,
before it was yet full day light. had
passed goodly number of slain ele-
plants, some with our "V." upon
them, and others with "W." or an