The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-03

and the prisoner was turned out. This time the marshal marched him be- yond the town limits and left him. -
 ''He has got too much sense to come back" reported the marshal to the mayor.
 "We may have been too hard on him." responded the mayor. "I some times think he is wrong in the head. :"
 'Well, it is too late to talk about it." said the other, and the converse tion ended.
 The tramp did not turn up again that day or the next.
 The worthy marshal began to be worried and the mayor was little uneasy. Blue Rock was such small place that a sensation was always well come, and the unknown prisoner had been the talk of the town for sixty days.
 "He's hiding in the woods, and will slip in here some night and burn the town," said one.
 This idea found great favor, and that night the villagers found it ditii cult to sleep.
 On the following day there was a railway excursion to a point of inter- est forty miles away, and every body of any consequence in the town went along. The mayor and council, the superintendent Of the depot and even the marshal joined the party.
 The return trip was made after dark, and the train sped along at a fearful rate of speed. The excursion ists were all in jolly humor and were at the height of their festivities when the frightful shrieking of the locomotivew whistle startled every body. The train came to a full stop, and among those who rushed out were the mayor and marshal of Blue Rock.
 At the head of the train they found the engineer and conductor talking with man who held one hand to his side, from which the blood was stream ing.
 "Great Godl It is our tramp !" ex- claimed the marshal.
 "You are right" said the mayor "My poor fellow, what is the matter?"
 The tramp fell in fainting fit be- fore he could answer the question.
 "You see," said the engineer, "this man was tramping through the woods when he came to the track and found two train wreckers tampering with the rails. We'll, this tramp, or what ever he is, jumped on the two scoun- drels like tiger. He disabled one of them, but the other stabbed him in the side and ran away. So he built a fire on the track, and as soon as saw it stopped the train"
 Just then several passengers came up with the wounded wrecker, who had been seriously injured by the tramp.
 The villain evidently thought that he was mertally wounded, for he made a full confession.
 "I think" said the Blue. Rock may or, "that we owe debt of gratitude to our preserver. Many men in this fix would not have turned over hand to save us."
 The tramp opened his eyes and smiled faintfy.
 ''Did you know we were on the train?" asked the marshal.
 "Oh, yes; I saw you when you went up the road this morning, and I hung about here because ] saw those two chaps acting suspiciously on the track"
 "Come, now, who are you and where is your homer" asked the mar shal.
 "I am gentleman. have forgot ten my name and all about things that happened years ago. I can tell you nothing more."
 "By 'George!" said the mayor, "I believe he tells the truth"
 "We must take him to Blue Rock and care for him." said one of the party. "He shall have the freedom of the town and the best there is in it."
 "Thank you," said the tramp, with smile. "I am satisfied now"
 A spasm of pain contracted his fea- lures.