The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-10
PARTII.

And then taking courage he again be-
gan to move about, when he thought
his hands were not so much hindered.
Certain, all at once, that ae rope had
stretched. he stopped his rolling and
tried to move the arm that seemed to
be least confined. As he did this the
rome stretched further. With hope he
worked at il again. These fellows were
not sailors in the tying of a knot, God
be thanked; and after a half hour in
this struggle he was able TO free hand.
Vow give man like Capt. Paul Jones
one hand free and he could accomplish
the rest. Twenty minutes after he was
on his feet, bruised and manned be-
tween his struggles with his assail-
ants and the scarcely less severe one
with his bonds. But he was free again,
clothes torn, himself cut and bruised,
the ropes and bandages that had con-
fined him in a heap on the floor.
The room was dark except for the
light that entered from n high window
in the rear.
And just then he heard steps as from
some distant part of the house. Try.
ing the front door, which had admit
ted him, he found il closed. In his des.
lperation he turned through a door at
the left, opposite to that from which
the steps came. Seeing a window in
this room, he sprang toward it,
pushed it up, while over his shoulder
"a glare of light fell from the next room.
"Gone!" cried a voice in consterna-
ton, and in English.
"The devil!" exclaimed another In
French.
"Quick, he is In the next room!" said
the first.
BY this time Capt. Jones had his win
dow opened, and, without pausing to
Iexamine where he was to land, he was
over the sill while bullet fired by one
OF the pursuers whistled past his ear.
He heard the report an instant after
he sunk on the soft turf. For, as luck
would have 1.-THE luck which favors
tt4ose men that dare all things--he had
FALLEN on the turf in the little garden
back of this house. In the opened win
dow above appeared suddenly two
faces. There were two of them.
"Wretches," cried the Chevalier
Jones, forgetting all prudence. IF
had known there were only two OF you
II had stopped to kill vou."
For answer one of the fellows thrust
his leg over the sill and dropped, with
m oath, into the garden. Quicker than
fash, and not considering how many
others might follow, Capt. Jones' fin
gers. still numbed with the bands, were
at his throat, while the other fellow
paused in the window above, disregard
Ding his comrades plight, or doubtless
thinking he should be able to settle
man weakened as Capt. Paul Jones GER
tainly must be after his terrible expe-
rience. At the moment loud pound"
ing was heard at the street door. The
man in the window, knowing that this
probably came from the watch aroused
by the pistol shot, turned and fled from
the window. doubtless considering il
near impossible TO get away over the
high wall inclosing the garden. and
knowing an exit in the rear.
Capt. Jones, left with his man, and,
being still on top in the struggle, clung
70 the fellows throat with the tenacity
of desperation, till the man sank back
choked into unconsciousness.
The noise and cries at the front door
still continued.
BY this time the excitement of the lit
tie action had restored Capt. Jones'
sense. Kicking the fellow to find
whether he was really unconscious, he
hooked up to see IL he could not gain the
house to admit the people at the door,
who. he thought. undoubtedly were the
watch. Noticing vine that crept up
the stones almost TO the sill, he found
that clinging TO it he could gain the silE
a lantern was on the floor of the room,
as the desperndoes had left it.
In the meantime the knock and voices
ut the door were Imperative.
) 'Open. In the kings name!"
II cannot. They have taken the
Key"
"And who are you'" demanded the
voice. the knocks ceasing.
"The Chevalier Paul Jones, beguiled
TO this house and robbed"
"The Chevalier Jones!" exclaimed
the voice, incredulously.
The chevalier. or better the captain,
as his proudest American title was,
was known and admired throughout
Paris. The watch could not believe is
wss he. He insisted he was Capt. Paul
Jones. He told them to try the rear
door by which he believed one OF the
men had escaped. The house was on tho
corner of lane turning from the Rue
Richelieu into the adjoining street.
The watch found easily an entrance by
which the men in the house had es-
capped.
Capt. Paul Jones now had no difficulty
In proving his identity to the captain
of the watch. who recognized. for all
MS bruises and torn and dirticd person.
that this was really the redoubtable
American sailor.
One man had fed certainly. The
woman who had admitted Capt. Jones
was not to be found. The house had no
furniture of any kind. and had been
rented week previously by an un.
known man who had maid for six