Telegram-herald., 1889-06-01

met How he had dashed into brawls given
chase to thieves, fought with murderers
How keenly he had studied the features of
every criminal who had came his way
And yet the one criminal in the world,
for all he knew, was still at large!
The patrolman raped the tree angrily,
and the bitterness I'm his face deepeBed.
Year after year, on one post and another
he had continued his watching A varied
experience IL had been. His BODY still
concealed a pistol ball, a white streak
across his bronzed cheex told of an en-
counter that kept him months in the hos
pital, and in his pocket were formal ac-
Acknowledgements of his merits from his SUI
periors. And at last, In consideration OF
his faithful service and increasing years,
he had been assigned to the ouietest beat
in the city He would have preferred TO
remain where the hardest work w9s 10 be
done, but the sIgGestion Of retiring him
on pension checked his protests. His
confidence had long since departed, his
hope smouldered, but his wrath burned
the fiercer for the passing of years, and he
preferred TO remain in that service where
lay the only chance that he and Paul Dab
ney might some day face each other.
O'DOwd drew his hand wearily acros8
his forehead. Paul Dabney the william
who had done to him the cruelest wrong
that one man can inflct upon another. A
cOwardly act, that had sneaked its way TO
being through the guise of friendship.
Long years ago, when O'DOwd had
looked sOrrowfully at the wreck OK his
home, he said
THE man that can find IL in his rotten
heart to do this. will be a crimin nal TO the
end Of his days"
And so, with the idea that in police
work lay his only opportunity of finding
his enemy, he had Joined the force 1t had
been a long season of persistent fruitless
seeking.
A clatter OF hoofs on the cleaning road
at his back aroused the patrolman from
his gloomy reverie. lie turned about and
looked with Indifferent curiosity at the
horse and rider coming at breakneck speed
down the hill
ITS mean man." thought O'Dowd,
THAT will ride beast so hard on day
like this"
The bitter habit OF twenty-five years
was upon him, and the patrolman looked
closely at the approaching horseman.
Frothing at the mouth and steaming with
perspiration, the horse was almost oppo-
site him when O'Dowd sprsng from beside
the tree with a fearful shout that startled
rider and beast The horse SHE'D madly
aside. but the speed OF youth was IN
O'Dowd's limbs: his hands grasped the
bride near the bit, there was an instant
Of terrific rearing and plunging, and then
horse, rider and policeman lay sprawling
in The dust
O'Dowd was on bis feet At once, but not
before the rider had started on srun down
the Hill. The patrolman overlook him IN
three steps. They were opposite the great
tree on the boundary line. and ss the an
horsed rider sank beneath O'Dowd's blow,
he made desperate effort 20 cover his
throat AMI breast with his coat
Like madmsn O'Dowd fell upon him
snd snapped a pair 81 steel cuffs upon his
wrists Then the coat opened and showed
fresh stains of blood upon tie garments
beneath IL
I was right. paul Dabneyr cried
ODowd: murder murder, and Tou'v
come my way ~ isst'
The 3ro<.rate man looked u7 a. his
cantor through eyes - terror
"O'Dowd' O'Dovdf he gasPed' - it
youf~
TrhA frightened horss was a mile away
wher the patroluan pullef his enemy %
his fset and set OF With him - the station
b-us4 r. was a long wax. but O Dowd
h.,~. ~ Hzht1y. Hs could have endured
. -s---f- q ~ world with that prisoner.
r-s- f- rhat thfnly setfIed district there
,.-s-s r1er. women s-d children - Join The
u,sr-h before the station vss resched s1d
A. the very door hundreds Booked tas
way
terrible murder hsf. f,Ssed, ben
committed. srd detectives we're already
scouring the p~ec net fo- evidence of the
rhersbouts of Pau Daboev. tns mnr-
der-r TIE people hesiexes ~. stst3on.
eager fsr ne~s. sad vixen = Dows arrived.
AMI the prisoner was rscogn ze5. = -
aair-d The sForts = n,ssy : hsluef-d ulsn
- prssect h1a frora ssmuasry Panisa-
aaen1
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