The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-12-19
seeing our eager but fear stricken

oociuk ouE on8oE ous soof-psrAShoA
looks.
ION. no. indeed. /" ws gasped in CHOIR
US well DO just as bold as you were.
1t isn't late yet Come. Gran'ma.
please tell us II dear Aunt Kate was
killed or not Please please do"
Grandmother. unable to Withstand
our volley OF appeals began.
We'll. children. sne soberly spoke.
II suppose I'll have to-but don't
blame me II you have nightmares OF
black robbers and murderers.
After pretty Kate had gone up
stairs her father picked up book to
read till she returned and L
/ commenced doing again. At any
rate was startled suddenly by a
pounding sound overhead Husband
must have heard II too, for he laid
down his book to listen.
I" What noise was tbatP" asked,
Seems like someone calling u.s.
30. nothing he answered. only
the storm, for 1t was blowing great
guns outside. He took up his book
and commenced quietly reading again.
i think you had better run up
stairs and see,' said.
80. 1t isn't worth while he
laughed. If Kate wanted us she
would call. and then in his provok-
ingly slow way he added. Kate will
be down In minute and want TO
finish our game before 60
but / wasn't satisfied; a mother
hnx hos hn l.
children are In peril and while. OF
course ! didn't dream that anything
was wrong, l naturally folt apprehen-
sive.
FAT last spoke up, Well. II you
won't go, l will, and taking lighted
candle started.
Before got TO the foot OF tho stairs
/ heard the second und-apparently
OF someone knocking on the floor or a
door, couldn't tell which. but it made
me hurry until entered Kate's room.
just then n puff of wind blew out my
light and left me in pitch darkness.
+" Kate! Katc!' / called, where arc
youp Is anything the matterP'
Not reply came back. only the
noise of the tempest and the wind
blowing in an open window broke the
uncanny silence.
IL felt my way back to the top OF
the stairs. John! / shouted, Come
up, quick and bring lantern, for my
candle is blown out Something is
the matter.
The tone of my voice must have
alarmed my husband for quickly saw
him mounting the stairs with his
lighted lantern and. also. his mus!et
which was always kept loaded for ami
mails stealing our chickens, when both
OF us entered the room calling 'Kater
but rs before, no reply came
II looked under the bed. then went
TO the closet and took hold OF the knob
to open it. for knew Kate had in
tended going there.
INSTANTLY the door burst open
almost before ] touched it. with a
force that threw me against the wall,
while out bounded a gigantic negro
dressed in prison stripes and. with a
yell That still rings in my cars he
rushed like flash to the open window
but quick as he was / was quicker
Before his immense paws could
leave go Of the sill inside to let him
drop TO the ground | had the sash
down on them and was hanging on
with all my weight, holding the ter
rible wretch rs in n wise, suspended
on the outside OF the house. IL good
ten feet from tho bottom.
Quick, John. shootr / gasped,
before my strength gives out
"My husband fired Mt once-right
through the glass, but owing TO the
darkness without and my being in the
way, he failed to hit the scoundrel.
In minute another flash and gun
shot and whistles came from the road
lights appeared on the lawn below me-
with shouts OF here he is, boys!
We've got him.
Grasping the situation instantly. I
let go the sash. hearing more shots,
and the awful life and death struggle.
as the escaped convict dropped
straight among the party OF pursuers.
WIZ W. tuhaeciy WcTo uJ manu- III Inc
nick of time.
Then we thought of Kate and
rushed to the closet with our lantern.
"On the floor amid the tumbled
clothing the poor girl lay, and wo
thought she was dead.
'Tenderly we carried her out and
placed her on the bed when, thank
heaven we found that her heart beat,
though very family.
Some Of the searching party raced
for the doctor, but ere he came had
brought my darling back TO life.
"A reward-$500-had been offered
for the recapturc OF the convict
When his captors who nearly killed
him before they could bind his arms.
found out about Hates awful discov-
cry, they nobly insisted that the money
was rightly hers and she got it. but
not for MILLIONS would we go through
with our terrible experience again. y