The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-06-25

came to-day. Captain Rnharts
brought it to,her'' 800 - -
With a hasty good night, I dashed
downtthe steps. 'i'>S'
1t came tonne like flash. Ro,sarts
had; seen me, and there was sonnet l;no
OF malignant triumph in the grin he
gave me as he passed. Heknew I was
at that particular place; Imepene
kneWi it, and no doubt he came Is To
turn about face and utter lie tor her
| remembered now his loud voice.
Giles at the 'front.'"
Imogene in the power of that man
whom knew to be q villain thrnnoh
and through God OF mercy! What
could do? But | did sometimes I
found IN. ten minutes who drowe the
hack Igot safe conduct in another
ten minutes and a note explaining the
case. got two good horses, l,nekled
on my pistols, armed Lucius, INV ser-
vant,. and dashed out through the
ramparts. It was easy enough to
trace their route until we reached our
extreme outposts, and here halted
conformation. n
eyes, the hack had passed. by over
an hour ago."
Such was the report OF the officers
of the, guard
We dashed madly ahead.. In about
TEN minutes we met the hack RETURN
Ing
1 halted the driver andi questioned.
Efe knew or pretended to,know moth
ing beyond thefact:
ssDat de young missus, seemed kind
er skeart like, but mass capen' he
done tole hermit was all right and
dey went right erlong,'"
| threw a>$2O gold piece at him.
"Now, choose between that and
this" and held revolver before his
eyes. $780,. ... e..
"Foh de Lawd, mahster, I tell you
de TRUE, for doan like dat capen's
ways nohow. Dey took de ieetle
track what leads, to Black Sans
cabin-and de debbil hisself couldn't
kotch me dar. Whoopee! Wild Black
Saml No sab! En- dat's the whole
TRUE, sah" So. E.. ..-.... j..
"Remain here until RETURN said
sternly, "and if you stir on any ao-
count you had better be dead by to-
morrow" ~.--.... '...
I saw him tether his animals apd
crawl into the coach for a nap, and
then amid the dashing rain I Set for
ward. IT..
"Better take couple dem kerridse
lamps" cried Luce as we started.
"Well thought of, Luce' ~
We secured each a lamp and finally
reached the place where the small
road or trail led off into unknown
regions OF swamp and dense. forest, a
place which was reputed to be the
abode OF many runaway slaves, and
where lived in particular q gigantic
negro named Black Sam, or his ghost,
tor no one knew whether he was dead
or alive. The fame. Of this horrible
man and of his moro than fiendish
practices had reached me away down
in Georgia, but never had 1 expected
to come in contact with him. s.
F. knew Roberts too well to think
that he would carry Imogene to her
friends, and the fact of his turning off
the main road, when another half
mile would have brought him to the
federal outposts proved it. s....=
What did he intend dong? ,..
That I must find out, and I choked
down a great wave of emotion as I
thought of possibilities too awful to,
contemplate. She! my pure helpless
love here in the dark swamp, and with
no one but God to help her! actual
ly cried out in my agony.
"What e mahrter, Mass Rob-" in
quired Luce. .= ..
'Luce, will you stand by me?"
"You knows I will, Mass Rob-"
'To the death?,'
''To hi if needcessary, sah!"
"Luce, do you know the way to
Black Sam's?"
The brave fellows voice trembled,
but he answered stoutly:
''Jess keep right ahead, ontwell you
come to de swamp, den we cuts around
de swamp, and de cabin hits all kivere
in wild trees on a leettle hill. I knows
bout whah it's"
We followed these directions, and
soon came to the swamp. Luce sprang
from his horse and held his lantern to
the gronnd. ...+.
Il knowed!'' I jess nachully knowed
hit! Dere's de foot-tracks of bofe of
'sm-"
s'You are sure?" .
"Look-a dab! Dey done took de
boat and gone across" ..
GOOD help us then, we have no time
to lose" 1 cried as we slowly wendell
our way around the swamps. This
occupied nearly a half hour. each
minute was year of agony to me. At
last we reached point where a dark
mound arose covered thickly with
trees and bushes. saw no cabin,
but Luce, springing off his horse de-
clared that he saw a light, and mo-
ment later exclaimed:
can here's de PAT hey, SOW
rem mahster! what am that?"
A woman's scream rang wildly and
fearfully through the stormy night.
In a moment was off nv horse,
my pistols in hand. Luce dashed aft
er me. 1t was Imogene's voice.
And she had called on her God in
her agony.
And God had sent me-and Luce.
In few bounds we reached the
door OF the hut.
We dashed it open and beheld Imo-
gene, her dress torn and her sweet eyes
wild with terror, fighting desperately
with-ROberts.