Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-04-17


Al - IA ysn know I had coms
~ ~ putpooaf
Why dirt yoa signal me that yos
desired - speak % msfr
sNo. III.
.Yon didnti Thsn / bsg your par.
don, d. Y0u are probably : contractor
Of agent, like myself, and I am sorry
Sof the mistake. Please accept my
apologieAs
SO you IRE nom Louisville :. hi
queried, lighting the cigar and seeming
somewhat mollii1ed.
Yes, air.
How long have you lived there?"
@Over i've years.s
~Then ron must know many Of the
business men p
All Of them, sir"
He smoked away for 1 compile Of min.
utes and I knew he was setting q trap
for me. While he kept silence I ratified
away shout the growth Of the city, and
the improvements made and contem-
plated, but he was not to be turned
from his purpose.
Us Col. -- able TO be ont vel? 2" he
finally asked, in q very careless way.
Il saw him on the street . week ago"
sSure Of that?"
3Of course / am"
Col. II. q. , | mean.s
Certainly, the steamboat man."
And you saw him on the street a
week ago?"
Il did, sir; and, more than that, I in
troduced him to . Cincinnati gentle
man."
Look here, friend" he said, Is he
tapped me on the arm, Sol. - was
killed by . locomotive ct the depot In
Louisville six months ago.
Had he trapped me? At that mo-
ment the cavalry Captain TO whom ] had
sold the revolver, on the previous day
entered with his friend. Luckily for
me the Captain was very mellow and
good-natured. He came directly up 10
me, gave me both his hands, and ex-
! claimed:
my dear, dear old fellah, but how do
yon do"
@Do you know this gentleman? ?"
asked my interrogation.
@Know him! Bless your soul, but I've
known him for twenty years, and he's
the best fellow in the world! Why, I've
shared his bed in Louisville fifty times.
Say, Captain, is Col. 49,, of Louis
vile, dead?" I asked.
Dead! Never! / saw him two
weeks ago!"
The detective looked puzzled and an
noyed. ! could see that he was not sat-
istied, and yet I had beaten him at his
own game. He soon took his departure,
telling me that I was right, in believing
him to be q contractor, aud / saw no
more Of him. ! hung on to my stock Of
revolvers as long as possible, but at the
end Of the seventh day the last one was
gone. Then I had TO be looking for o
second consignment and furnishing ex-
cuses why it did not arrive. jackson
could have sold thirty horses while sell
ing the three, and in order to hang on
he had to buy in two or three mules and
resell them. My meeting with him
had been surrounded with every safe
guard, and no one could say that we had
ever met or known each other.
The detective left me to make in
quiries about jackson. In the course Of
q conversation he asked him some ques-
tions about Lexington which the young
man did not answer correctly. We both
knew this two hours later, and then I
urged him to get into the Union lines as
speedily as possible. 1t seemed to me
that he was suspected and in danger,
but he felt confident that such wa not
the case, and declared his intention to
remain as long as / did. The very next
morning he was put under arrest as q
suspect, and the detective then set an
other trap for me. He dropped into the
hotel for q chat, now being in seeming
good humor, and, after half an hours
general conversation, he observed.
Il must go up to the jail. The Pro-
vost Marshal has arrested q citizen who
claims to be q resident Of Franklin, my
old home. and he wants me to come mp
and see il I can identity him. Would
you like to 60 along?"
Certainly"
/ suspected a trap, and on the way up
street It came to me that jackson had
been arrested. He would have claimed
Lexington as his home, while the detec-
tive would say Franklin to put me off
my guard. He believed that we were in
collision. He further believed that by
bringing ms together without warning
we would betray ourselves. / might be
wrong in my deductions, but ] was
nerved up when we entered the jail to
see Jackson. He could have no warn
ing that he was to meet me, and it was
an anxious question a. to how he would
act.
It was my fellow spy. sure enough,
who Was brought out, but he had the
nerve Of o hero. Not by 80 much Al Q
wink did he betray the fact that we had
ever met. When called upon to iden.
tify him I failed to remember that I had
ever noticed him. Had he been right
in his answer about Lexington he
would have been set at liberty, but he
was wrong in several instances. He
had somehow got the James of the
streets mixed mp with those of Cincin-
natl, and he could not give the correct
names Of the leading business men.
When asked about the lay Of the ground
he was way off in his answers. No one
could say that he was q Federal spy,
as he had been very prudent IN his
movements, and il he could have held
mp his nerve he would have been turned
loose In . couple Of days. He did not
suspect that he was being watched, but
such was the fact. When allowed to
walk in the corridor for exercise he
showed by his gait that he had been
drilled as . soldier. In his cell, secure
from observation as he supposed, he
took from his bootleg . paper on which
he had written down the names Of sew
erAl Lexington business men. ! had
cautioned him about having the slight
est scrap Of writing about him, but he
probably feared to trust 10 his memory
entirsly. Indeed, it had failed him, and
he now thought to refresh it. An
excuse was soon made to search him,
the paper removed, and then they be-
gan to look upon him with suspicion.
For three days / heard Of him every few
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