The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-08-21

where we had last stopped. 1t was q fine,
: clear morning, and gave promise OF glorious
= day. The professor was on his mette. lie
!, had said 10 Us: Il will succeed tomorrow,
: and to succeed he evidently intended.
: He stood for few minutes, blindtolded rs
: usual, before he took Ms Cargills hand, and
thon commenced TO move forward, hut in an
opposite direction to that he had boon taking
when he had lost the Clew before. On he went,
and on, ri.ht through the wood, till rhc affair
began to grow tircSome. He was going well
to-day certainly; he had kept us at IL good
, long time; but if we were only going 10 got a
few hundred yards every night, and perhaps
not find the stone after ALL We might as well
give the matter upentircly. liarodgppcared,
from the frown upon his face, 10 have begun
to consider matters in this light too when the
professor, who had been going at u fair pace
| suddenly stopped. 1t seemed to me only
natural that, as he had gone further than he
had ever gone before he should stop. His i'm
beetle mind could stand the strain m longer.
After considerable hesitation, however, he
turned slowly 10 the LETT, bent over some
thick hglahwool and gradually strctccd out
his hand Its that fox again to s certain
u, whispered Harold to me; the professor
a, mad as a March hare No signs of the
fox, though, and the professor was well INTO
the bush; il the diamond was there, surely "A
sudden flash of thought would assist him; but
it wa, mot likely to bee there any more than
our friend the fox, who would certainly have
made OF long before now
Err my ideas were completed the flash
of thought did come. A sudden dart down
war! Oh ,hn part OF the professor was lnatan
tuynu,Iy succeeded by fr.-ht,ul yell that
RAM through the woods. Mrs. Carg!II hand
wa, dropped in a second and It seemed Us
though the professor Wa, engaging l.ndi"Id-
cd lu some awful struggle with Toe "hom
nu.o ol us had yet seen,
I L. WAS the fox att.r ALL The professor hal
tracked aim down this time. # not to his den,
al i.'-. tD the trap In which the annual was
struggling
+ C,Itu, h' was pretty severely punished for
lbs fox hunting proprnAtIc,. Foxes don
usually attack until driven To- the last cN-
tr"mijy. and the professor must have forced
the animal To the turthcst point 1t could go
w.h tla trap on its fore paw ere he nad'
that sudden dive which was 50 disastrous Tor
him HAL 1t not born that the learned mans
hand was most terribly bitten we should haNo
been ~,ru X with the ahSWdlty oi ihe scene
Mrs 'arSlI had hai great tFl5hl' inc pr"
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should after all nave AGAIN tracked "o"" DIS
fox; 80 Harold ana We're alone III any con-
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