Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-05

LAME AND TlEED HORSE
were working. a kind of quick nervous
trcmor seemed 60 run mp and down his
limbs, aud he cyinced no recognition OF
thcir presence. a large revolver lay ON
the ground beside hith. and-stlungest
part of All tho whole door Of the room
was strcwn with soyereigH Ihese lay
thickest around thr poor fellows form,
but some had rolled even 10 the threshold
itself
ITS Pugh, right enoughr' cried Green.
hating aghasL ! say though What on
earth can the poor chap have sec-cr--
what can have brought him TO this
stoteF And then both men stared into
each others face, and each recognized
thnt the other WIS rather pale.
We'll, we must get % the bottom of il
as far as we can, spid the other. look
ing around. "Hn! what Is thati' ms n
gleum in the thutch above the crouchhg
mans head caught his eye.
He reached up his hand and pulled out
the canvas bag which poor Carlton had
sevrcted there. A few gold pieces still
remained In il, but the bulk of It's con-
tents lay strewn about the floor. By
some mysterious means its fastening
must have brokcn loose, scattering the
coins right aud left
This begins 10 look uncommonly
queer muttered Taylor stooping TO
pick up the sovercigns. And in the act
something that caught his eyes caused
him TO start up violently and draw his
companions attention
"a tiger, by Iove. cried the latter
Look. There's his spoor, rieht m-then
out again ard hp won't out In dnoi
grcatvr hurry than he came IN" contm-
uvd the experienced tIacEer. rending or
The position of thc pad marks as the page
OF book 'lt bangs mo anyhow. Tne
brute must have euenked In while pugh
WINS asleep and boiled when he woke M
No; that won't quite do. either purh
isn't the man TO be thrown into such n
ennsuH iunk over matter of that kind
Look. Look at thisl' cried TAYLOR
staring at the ground IN breathless ex-
Between the man IN the corner and tho
last pad marks of the crouchine benst
ana turned toward the latter. was the
PRINT of n pair of human feet
They woM naked feet--smau and
delicate apparently those of a woman
but whoever they belonged to they
stood alonc-onl the pair MOI sign
OF another print was there TO revenl to
those pracuccd trackers how their owner
mad entered or gone forth
whoever y was must have dropped
nom me roof and sprung mp thcre
again. said Taylor glancing inward ~
we nm light not without touch of
snpersntlous awe, "Pugh IS not the
hrst who has come out of this Internal
place crazier than he went I'm. Wbat.
ever It was gazing hard at the mvs-
ferrous footprints. 'Mhatever IL wos
ghost or no ghost, the tiger would bovs
chawed him up, TO dead certainty bnt
ior ~ Look whore Il stood. Right be-
tween the two
:, Carlton Pugh did not lose his mind
i,Nt when he recovered from the violent
attack of brain fever, which brought him
g the very verge OF the grave. he 49,
signed hia office ms road inspector ana ~
took himself 10 another part OF the conn.
ny Even then, after the lapse on veors
,he horror Of that fearful uight In naoS
Mans kioof would come back ~ nv,
m ms dreams ana his reticence IN N ~
oeeNfrence was such as 20 ensure n pre
SigHAle withdrawal on his part H IN
subject was 80 much as mentioned way
Newar6 Del, has a postmaster ana
afNnN postmaster and these NO 49,
NAiaiglWrrf1 The Office through tbe Mir
, fNi eN+ales ol Tie past EIGHT vna,s