The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-05-27

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Minko interfered and restored peace.
Let there be no quarreling," he said
in conciliatory tone. The deed we
have to-day committed was perhaps
rash and ill-cOnsidered, but it can't be
helped now, and we shall have TO stand
together, and the best thing We can dc
is TO consider how we can avert the evil
consequences of our act. For when the
| Aga is missed the Turks over yonder in
Irebinje will commence an investiga.
ton, and if they discover the real state
of the case We'll have to pay dearly
| for it,
The long consultation which followed
brought the frien' 0 no other conclu-
sion than to quietly await develop
ments.
The disappearance of the Aga was soon
remarked in Trebinje, and his friend
became uneasy. Learning in neighbor-
ing village that he had set out for W.
jece and had never returned the Turks
directed their march to that place. The
approach of one hundred troopers natu-
rally awakened the greatest alarm in
the hamlet There was no doubt that
the Turks were coming to avenge the
murdered Aga. The terrified villagers
were on the point of flying across the
Roumanian border, but Minko urged
them rather TO draw the Turks into am
bush and receive them with bullets
His counsel prevailed, and all the able
bodied men in the place, about twenty
in number, hurried out to meet the
enemy.
About quarter of a mile from the viii
lage the peasants secreted themselves
behind the rocks which lined both sides
of the road, and, as the Turks APP
preached, opened upon them with a
deadly Volley. Before the Moslems had
recovered from their establishment the
Christians had reloaded and fired
second time, then followed two volleys
from their pistols, and finally the attack
ing party rushed out from its ambush,
and with drawn scimitars fell upon the
thirty Turks who were yet able to fight.
In the hand-tO-hand conflict which fol-
lowed our three friends fought side by
side. Toma, after cutting down three
of the Turks. was shot while closing
with the fourth. With secret Joy Stanko
saw him fall. for he was now rid of
rival whom he had begun to fear. While
in this moment he thought OF Kosara he
saw directly in front OF him a Turk
springing forward to strike Minllo from
the rear. One quick blow from Stanko's
flashing steel and the Turk would have
fallen before he could accomplish his
deadly purpose, but Stanko never dealt
chat blow. He waited until the Moslem
had given K0sara's father mortal
wound, and then avenged his comrades
death on the body of his destroyer.
He glanced furtively around to see if
there had been any witness to his treach-
cry, aud breathed more freely when he
perceived that the few remaining Turks
had taken to fight and that the villagers
were all occupied in pursuit.
After a moments reflection Stanko
turned and FASTENED back to the village
and to kOsara.
'<Where is my father?" cried the girl
in an anxious voice.
Stanko forced his evil countenance
into a grimace, which he intended should
express deep sorrow, and sighed, in re-
ply, Poor KoSarar"
tunate girl.
''He fell like hero after he had wit
messed the destruction of the enemy"
Kosara broke into heart-rending la
mentations, and Ljubica, sobbing bit
terly, threw her arms around her elder
sister.
After pause Stanko continued: "He
died in my arms. We fought side by
side. Three times l parried the deadly
blows suspended over his head, but at
last wretch coming upon him from be-
hind gave him a deadly wound, from
which / was unable to defend him. After
/ had struck down the murderer bent
over your father, who thanked me with
his dying eyes and kissed me, saying:
Give this kiss to my dear Kosara, and
tell her it is my last wish that she take
you for husband; and do you be to her
husband. father and protector
As he uttered these words Stanko
threw his arms about the weeping girl
and gave her the parental kiss with such
fire that Kosara tore herself in terror
from his embrace.
The scales fell from her eyes in a
moment. She remembered that her
father promised her that he would never
force her into marriage with any one,
least of all with the man Stanko. whom
he knew she thoroughly detested.
"You lie, miserable man. she cried
in storm of Indignation. ''You have
killed my father yourself, and now you
are trying to deceive me because you
think am a forsaken, defenseless girl,
upon your protection. l will
find others who will protect me from
you"
''If you are placing your hopes on
iona / shall have to destroy them.
Toma fell few minutes before your
father breathed his last"
''You probably killed him, too. Get
out of my sight and never dare to cross