The evening call., 1893-06-14

nerves being so shaken that 1T seemed
impossible for me to keep away from
the vicinity of my great secret
LAS approached the building l
heard loud voices and hurried forward
with fast beating heart My father
was seldom angry, but before en-
tered the barn / discovered that he
was scolding somebody roundlY. Tnat
somebody was Jason, his head man,
who although very good workman,
often made eXasperating mistakes.
I" There, it was only last nlgnt,
heard father say, that told you 10
put no more hay in that corner OF the
NOV. because l wanted to save room
for the second crop of the same KIND,
and here you have buried the west
| lot hay under twenty feet OF THIS
sintervalm | never saw such tel-
low in all my life, added father dis
gustedly.
Wal, / declare for It l forgot
what YOU said Jonas began. but L
heard no more of his excuse as new
by them toward the other end OF the
barn.
There was the place where L had
left the wounded man IN hiding, Dut
the NOW was filed almost to the
caves with hay, and under all that
terrible weight lay the unfortunate
criminal, Frank Najac!
II screamed aloud as this thought
came to my mind and father came
running toward me. But he looked
over my head through the open door
at the rear, for hurrying toward the
, barn was a crowd of men headed by
tall black whlSkered man carrying
' rife Several of the others were
Z armed, too Father evidently thought
+ that nv CRY was caused by their sud-
. den appearance, and he stared al
Y them in great surprise as they hastily
/ approached the barn.
4 Out gunning?' queried father, OF
t the tall man.
O Yes, cunning for a murderer,
n replied the man cOOlly Been cnas-
ing HIM for a fortnight Tracked
n him to the woods over there an nour
f. ago. A woman down the road saw
d him come into this barn, andy
ginger, boys, he's here" he added eX-
d citedly Here's blood stain on the
" floor and here's one on the round OF
II the ladder. He's in the loft"
,e Father was too greatly surprised
re for utterance and sat weakly dowr
n- upon the wagon tongue. Jason, too
seemed struck all of heap; but
m managed to find my tongue at Uhl
e. stage of affairs.
20 He's under the hay in the cor
d. ner.' / said with a sob. Il saV
* him crawl under there before l wen
ed to the mail
ly can I've throwed two loads o
hay on there since then, groane'
IT. Jonas
ma THE men looked from one to tn
re- other with rather white faces.
mt "'This won't be any case fo
,er shootin, l reckon said the black
ID whiskered man, who was the sherl
Of the county, leaning his rifle IN TN
jly corner Let's have your pitchtork'
I'D neighbor, and Wen get at him.
ry, "Father hurried me into the hous'
,as and amid a passionate outburst
m, tears I told him and mother all abot
on it. was sick after that IN goo
DV earnest ana III Was q lOI UhIkAC nOAOi
re- was able to be about again.
on .sThen | learned that the man
nd had thought to befrlend because
nd his innocence was a we'll know
I'D criminal who had already served Sc
eral terms in prison, his last ot1ent
ed having been the murder of an inotfe
nv sive old gentleman, for his none
1Iv But, Door creature, he met terrib
ide punishment for his crime for, whe
ing they removed enough hay to get
ok him he was already dead.
elk, II don't think mother and fath
inc ever told my part in the sad ana
vas and there were no questions aSke
by nor did they ever refer to the matt
, / in a way to attach any blame to n
red but nevertheless the lesson sank de
into my heart begged TINS bit
I'M parer from the postmaster and tack
the it up in my room where it remain
the till | left the dear old home, and th
ave | brought it with me here. And
cen YOU think, with that reminder eV
zed before me, that | could again To-
ack for more of romance than usual
falls to the lot of every day mortals
nv Yankee Blade.