Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-25

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that he would show me no mercy.
Why were You expecting me?' he
presently asked, not lighting the cigar
/ had handed him.
Because I was told by army officers
yesterday that oil civilians had to be
identified, and that any remaining after
to-day must have a permit from head
quarters
4And how did you know I had come
for the purpose?"
why didn't yon signal me that you
desired to speak to me ?"
No, SIR"
3You didn't Then beg your par
| don, sir. You are probably contractor
or agent, like myself, and am sorry
for the mistake. Please accept my
apologies"
$50 you are from Louisville?' he
queried, lighting the cigar and seeming
somewhat Modified.
"Yes, sir.
@How long have You lived there?"
aOver five years
"Then you must know many of the
business men?"
aAll Of them, SIR"
He smoked away for couple of min
utes and knew he was setting trap
for me. While he kept silence I ratified
| away about the growth OF the city, and
the improvements made and contem-
plated, but he was not to be turned
from his purpose.
as Col. - able to be out yet?" he
finally asked, in very careless way.
ca x,r 1;,,, ~, &1,, "a, xr,aoI onrr, -
@Sure of that"
"Of course am"
@Col. r. Ct. , / mean
Certainly, the steamboat man.
3And you saw him on the street q
week ago."
Il did, sir; and, more than that, I in
troduced him to a Cincinnati gentle
man."
"Look here, friend" he said, as he
tapped me on the arm, "Col. was
killed by locomotive at the depot in
Louisville six months ago."
Had he trapped me? At that mo-
ment the cavalry Captain to whom I had
sold the revolver, on the previous day
entered with his friend. Luckily for
me the Captain was very mellow and
me, gave me both his hands, and ex-
claimed:
my dear, dear old fellah, but how do
you 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. -, of Louis
vile, dead?" I asked.
Dead! Never! ] saw him two
weeks ago!"
The detective looked puzzled and an
noyed. I could see that he was not sat
istied, and yet had beaten him at his
own game. He soon took his departure,
telling me that I was right, in believing
him to be contractor, and I 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 had to be looking for
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
a 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 /
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 was not
the case, and declared his intention to
remain as long as did. The very next
morning he was put under arrest as
suspect, and the detective then set an
other trap for me. He dropped into the
hotel for 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 citizen who
claims to be resident of Franklin, my
and see if / can identify him. Would
you like to go along?"
Certainly"
I suspected 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 us 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 as to how he would
act.
1t was my fellow spy, sure enough,
who was brought out, but he had the
nerve of hero. Not by SO much as a |
wink did he betray the fact that we had
ever met. When called upon to iden-
tify him failed to remember that had |
ever noticed him Had he been right |
in his answers about Lexington he
would have been set at liberty, but he /
was wrong in several instances. He
had somehow got the names of the
streets mixed up 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 Federal spy,
as he had been very Drlldent in his