Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1895-01-12


cloth well represented by granting
the wood, quite lifesize, and on low
pedestal, like the figures of wax
work show 1t was all painted up in
natural colors. He had a bow and
a string of wire in his hands, and
leaned trifle forward on it with a
sort of hooking smile, and as he
laughed at the idea of his ever being
captured. l have seen the same eX-
preston on many a superior rogue.
do not know that l examined the
statue more particularly than the
others, because / was studying their
faces and those of the butler and an
other servant who had come along to
open the door. l fancied that Mr..
Butler gave a slight start when his
master babe him prepare this room,
not for the persons of quality who
were of the party, but for plain Mr..
Grograin, as l was announced to be.
Mr.. Butler was very assiduous toward
me at dinner, if not personally, by
ordering the footmen not to neglect
me, and, if had not been on my dig
nifty, saw that he would have liked
me to have shared bottle with him
in his own room.
However, | lay down that night in
the huge room to reflect over the
legend, and whether, as l had the
impression from the start, it was not
related to the thefts of the present
time. The big bed was very com
I Portable, and cajoled one off to sleep
as if he had been given a soothing
syrup. Still | had time to reflect on
the legend told me.
In the days of the foresters of
Sherwood, the owner of Leebing
castle, who lived on bad terms with
| the greenwood rovers, from his cher
ishing his deer as private property,
was informed by warden that a man
in the hateful green of the venison
/ stealers had been pro wiling around
all the morning and was suspected by
the sentinel of having climbed in at
a window. My lord had his own
| opinion of the object of his visitors
/ call, and when he saw his young and
beautiful daughter confused at his
I question, he had simply felled her to
1 the ground-brute that he was-and
rushed, foaming at the mouth and
| with sword and dagger drawn, all
/ over the castle, crying out: Flame
and faggot for the deer stealersn'
But the follower of the free wood
men was not to be found, and what
made the sting of defeat far keener,
when the lord returned to torture his
daughter into revelation she had
vanished like spectre. Then, only
then, he remembered that the monks
had talked of secret cell, where
4 their prior had hidden from an ances-
tor of his He ordered close guard
! without and within and rode over to
the priory. But the monks pretended
| to ignorance, and he went home more
furious than ever. For days he lived
like hermit in the room where he
| had last seen his child, sleeping with
| drawn sword between two wolf dogs,
but his watch resulted in nothing.
Isabel and the young forester were
never seen more.
! Dreaming is something l am not
/ given to unless have not had my reg
ular Ego" at tobacco. I certainly had
smoked couple of cigars-very fine
but longed for pipe. That made
me restless, and l had the dullest
serving up Of my thoughts - faces
that had not seen for twenty years,
and those of the last day-a tumble
so that l hardly knew where | was
spending the night. 1 daresay / was
/ tired, too. Anyhow, remember Just
as | had reasoned out that. as the
house walls were identical with those
of the old castle, there might still ex-
ist the secret hole, heard twang
like bow string let 60 after lusty
pull. l am not sure l woke, but fancy
recalled kind Of human figure in
light colors cross the room and re-
turn with companion. There was
jingle, as of coin, and I went off to
sleep again, sound as a stone So
thought. But | woke up with start,
cold as if | had been plunged in les
water, and then | was out of the
clothes, standing beside Robin Hood.
! rubbed my eyes, for the scoundrel
seemed to be holding to me for mo-
ment and grinning, and I could
swan VIC DOHSLElu2 was vibrating, /
but, of course, the moment |
put my finger and thumb to it that
stopped the thrill. l walked all
around it in the dark. Then | lit the
candle, and made thorough search
Of the room. But the wainscoting had
been painted and vanished in these
five years, and there was not crack
that | could decide to be panel. /
lost my temper at being SO baffied
when was confident of being on the
right track, and stamped my foot.
The good old oaken plank yielded not
jot to my rage, but | heard some
thing like the clash of metal in the
direction of the statue. ran over to
it and gave it a shake. / might as
well have worked with the giant oak
it was hewn from. Nothing gave
way, though believed there was an
echo Of the metallic sound, within or |
below. / knocked on the wood in all |
parts with the massive extinguisher |
of the pand laeticlr I,,+ - ala 80 - /