The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-02-26

e. TIE y k tie G ban Queen, il sai1 10 h1Y,
he wife aboard A bat cores ashore con
tanning man d ,ruissd az a woman Risslei
seles Quickly 4 follow him
iooSTBUEDl
But for he purposes OF shadowing
nothing &C ID be better than the gutta
percba So shoes which was wearing,
and by X ping well in the shadow and
only fitusg FROM doorway TO doorway
al such 4 les a. judged il safe 70 make
move ! .oOped 70 keep an eye upon red
beard I'd seen.
The Z suit justified my anticipations,
for wbeI be reached the back Of the
general 9ostofice be stopped and looked
hastily sp aud down The street. as II TO
make Sire that be was unObserved. Not
SOIL Ess in sight. and need scarcely
say lat made Ct myself very wafer
and Ess cliDging like a postage stamp
20 sbe door against which had squared
myself
Evidently treasured. he put down his
bag. opened il ard lifted cut something
that from TIE s.!I Increment Of his
arms appeared 10 be heavy. This ho
placed upon the ground, and so gingerly
that distinctly heard him sigh IS be
drew his hands away Then he stood
eject, puffed fercely ~ bis cigar until
il kiD6Ied and elOwed like a live coal,
took il from his lips, turned the lighted
end TCuDd 20 look ~ il and stopped with
il in his nsDd over tie thing upon the
ground.
] Saw az answering spark shine out,
flicker --r a moment and die away and
heard red beard matter Domination,
hell" through his teeth. The next in
slant l heard the squirt that told Ct the
striking Of a iucifer match and saw him
stoop again over the thing On the
ground. A little point Of light, which
grew in size and brightness, shone out
as ! stood looking on. half paralyzed
with horror. That be had fired the fuse
Of an internal machine l had no doubt,
and for one moment my limbs absolutely
refused 20 move. ] tried 10 call out, but
gave utterance only 70 silly inarticu-
late roiso that was more like q bleat
than cry and was formed neither by
my lips ror tongue, bat seemed TO come
from the back Of my throat. The sound
reached the ears Of the man with the
bag, however, for he came TO an erect
posture in an instant, looked quickly to
night and 70 left and then walked briskly
away in the opposite direction.
And then the night stiffness was
broken by the most terrible cry | have
ever heard--a cry 30 terrible and un-
earthly that ii seemed to make the blood
in my veins run cold, although / knew
that il was from my own lips and no
other that the cry had fallen.
That cry broke the spell that bound
me. Even while il was ringing in my
ears leaped out like tiger athirst for
blood, and, needless of the Kissing fuse,
which burned the faster and brighter for
the wind which made as rushed by
it, was after him, every drop of blood
in my body boiling with fury, every
muscle and tendon of my fingers witch
ing 10 grip the Discreant's throat
Had he been as feet of foot as grey
hound he should not have escaped me
then, and though be had thrown the bag
away and was now running for dear
life i was upon him before he was half
way down Noble street. When he heard
my steps, he stopped and faced round
suddenly, and az he did so l struck him
with my clinched fist full under the jaw
and with all my strength. Shall ever
feel such savage joy az thrilled me then
az ! heard his teeth snap together like
the snap Of the teeth of an iron rattrap
and felt the warm rush Of his blood up
on my haDdl He went down like pole
axed OK, but in the next second had
staggered 10 his knees and thence to his
feet. His hand was fumbling at side
pocket, whence / saw the butt end Of a
revolver protruding. bat before he could
get at it had him by the throat again,
where my blow had knocked the false
red beard awry, and promise you that
my grip was none of the gentlest. Nor
for the matter Of that was my language.
for-tbough am by habit nice of speech
and not given TO oaths-words which
have never used before or since bubbed
mp in my throat and would out though
whole bench OF listening bishops were
by.
"You bloody monsteri" cried, and
the woids seemed to make iron Of the
muscles OF my arm and granite of every
bono in my fist as / struck him again
and again in the face with all my
strength. You hell miscreant and
devil BY God in heaven, I'll pound the
damned life out of you'll
~ And then the solid ground seemed &c
staggsr and sway beneath me, and from
ths nsishborhood Of the general postof