Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-29

arm. What! Clarence and my cousin
first? That's well. Why. now they
are man and wife. and Clara and
stand before the altar.
who is that! Who is that. What.
Black Beard? Seize the murderer of
John Lloyd! What, mel Help! help!"
And from, the bed leaped Herbert again.
his eyes staring and his whole frame
quaking.
Thank God. Thank God, it's day.
light. Not for the world would close
my eyes again. 1 must send Mag to
Smithville; 1 can't stand this. Ye
gods, / am whittier than these walls.
What! eight o'clock? Had l walked at
the usual time, 1 would have been spared
half Of that horrid dream. Why, can
hardly stand, and am wringing wet
Aunt Mag: Aunt Mag! keep your idle
thoughts at home"
When Herbert entered the dining
room Fannie was seated at the table.
Good morning, Fannie"
Good morning. cousin; why. how like
a ghost you look. Are you ill?"
II am not well, Fannie, and rested
poorly. l am going to Wilmington to-
day to see DR.. Davis; do you wish to
go?"
mo, Herbert, I don't wish to see the
place soon, and yet / have spent many
happy hours there, when my dear
father was alive. What a very find
one must be to murder a defenseless
old man. Why, father never would
have dreamed that he stood in danger
from Angus Bruce"
His infatuation for Miss Hill made
him desperate" said Herbert HE
could not bear that other than him
self should possess her hand.''
At one o'clock Herbert was in Will
mington. The principal theme of con-
versation there seemed to be Black
Beard and his exploits, among the
latest being the Beaufort and Bati-
more episodes.
The Mary Lockett. an incoming YES
sci with funds to buy cotton. had been
overhauled Is miles from the inlet, and
after seven of her crew had been slain,
the pirates plundered her. securing a
large amount of money. and although
no man answering the description of
Black Beard was seen among those
who boarded and plundered her, the
pirates vessel was a two-mast schooner,
and it was generally conceded that
Black Beard was her master.
The Sydney K. Jones, another cotton
carrying craft, three weeks overdue, it
was claimed had beer plundered by the
pirates, and with her entire crew sent
to the bottom of the ocean,
1t wac argued that the days of Black
Beard must be drawing to close, un-
less he at once abandon the Carolina
coast.
His crew, it was estimated, numbered
100 men, and was said to be composed of
fugitives from justice, ex-convicts and
runaway slaves.
steamer was fitted out in the harbor,
which would soon leave in quest of the
pirates.
Herbert visited the old home of his
uncle, which had not been entered since
he had taken Fannie to Kendall; the
furniture and the belongings of the
house had not been removed. and every
thing seemed familiar.
He went up to his old room. there
stood the half-empty bottle of brandy.
from which he had drank that night.
He turned glass, and drank it down.
then he passed into his cousins room;
there suspended from the wall hung a
painting of his uncle; he glanced at it
but once, and left the room; next he
passed down the stairway, and at the
bottom hesitated-
''Why should l go there? Pshaw!
TIN norun,1c VXbv choul1 4 not ~,
coward?"
He walked 10 the library door and en-
tered-the door of his uncle's room
stood open.
There stands the bedstead as it stood
that night when-when [ killed my
uncle. The bloody sheet, blankets and
mattress have been removed. There's
where Angus stood, right opposite my
uncle; there l stole in behind and
struck the blow. All! what's that?
blood! blood on the carpet yet? Hark!
that scream! it was in the bathroom
there is nothing there; am n very fool.
I must leave the house before I lose
my head. What's that?ea portrait.
and with it's face reversed. Mine! mine
again! There's something wrong
everything is wrong. Could he, muir
dered man. do that? Away with such
an idea! Herbert Lathrop, be a mani"
He closed and locked the house and
proceeded to the dock of the Sunshine
which he boarded for home.
He was seated in the cabin when
Capt. Harper entered.
you are not looking well. Mr.. La
throp. A planters life can't agree with
you. Come. try the brandy on the side
board here
Thanks. captain. believe ] will.
have been having ehills.~
-'Whiskey and quinine, and plenty of
it. is the only remedy I know Of for
Cape Fear chills. By the way. Angus
Bruce seems to be giving the whole
coast ehills. I suppose YOU read of his
latest explofts?"
'NYes. read of them. Yon must see
his mother and sister sometimes?'
seldom. bat sometimes meet them
on the street"
Il suppose they are in great distress"
Strange, but from appearances one
would not imagine that they were
crushed. though of course they are in
trouble; but they bear up well. They
will not speak of their troubles with
anyone. lobe, the niger cook. is
around as lively as ever; one would
think that the course of Angus was not
so much of a surprise to his own fam.