Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1889-10-24


blowing with the boisterousness OF youth
and health
Yes, sir; and we'd better hurry up for
they won't stand tied much longer. My
eye, but it's dark out DOORS"
go and tell Prof Cronin to be ready for
us by the time we get back Tell Pat and
Dave to come on and bring the dark lantern
with you as You come back.
"All right, sir" and the young man went
out
Arthur Denver, left alone, slipped his
pistols into his pockets, looked ali around
the waitng-room of Westmoreland Col
lege, in which he was standing, whistled
softly part of tune in an absent minded
way, and stepped out of the light room
into the darkness of the storm
The sudden transition from light to dark
blinded him. but he soon saw the dim
lights in the far-otf windows of the college
dormtory, and discerned before him the
swaying branches of the trees and the
rush OF rain-drops across the ath of
light that streamed from the window of
tn room he had Just left
He remained standing long enough to
have developed some impatience-though
if the wind could have taken cognizance of
the face il beat against, ii would have per
ceiVed that the mind was far away and was
noticing neither the weather nor the low
ering temperature-when simultaneously a
good natured peal of laughter and a clatter
of horses boots announced the arrival of
his young friend with the team He drove
up ut Il dashing pace and refined his horses
In so suddenly 1t threw them on their
launches Arthur could dimlv see, behind
the restless horses light spring wagon
and in it the dark and shadowy figures of
three men. He climbed in and took the va
cant seat beside the driver At word the
mettlesome steeds sprang forward and
sped through the darkness at a breakneck
pace.
You will have to learn to be more quiet
on expeditions of this sort, Norton said
Arthur Denver.
1T was not l who laughed so boisterously
the young man
Indeed? thought it was"
''No, sir. 1t was Graeme."
''Graeme. The idiot, What does he out
ION such night as this?"
He be always out on these koind of
ynoights. sor," spoke up one of the men on
the back seat.
Arthur Denver shrugged his shoulders
Are you sure you know the road, Nor
Tton?"
Been over it ever since l was a child,
sir"
And he did know it, for they flew around
the hillsides over dangerous ground
enough in daylight, without an accident
The rain still beat in gusts directly in their
faces A smothered imprecalion from one
or the other of the two men in the back
seat betrayed their nativity and early re-
lgious training, rs well as varied the
monotony by marking the passage OF some
particularly rough chuck-hole or high
culvert They sped on, winding among
the hills and measuring many dreary
lane before they stopped And when they
did halt, it was before a gate that had over
it huge white arch dimly discernible
Through the murky night The gate W.T.
locked but it yielded TO the "open sesame
OF n broad key in the hands of Morton.
Through the gate the wagon passed, and
along the graveled driveway wouna its
tortuous way among the habitations of the
dead until it came TO a pew-made grave.
Here the men alighted, and while the late
occupants OF the rear seat shoveled away
Rt the mound, Morton hitcheG the horses
and stepped back to watch the gate. and
Arthur skilfully Lit his pipe beneath his
great-coat and smoked
Half an hour later the same team was
making return trip over the same road.
A fifth passenger was now aboayA Blu,
this passenger lay on the floor of the
wagon in sack