The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-08-06
A CASE In EQUITY.
BY FRANCIS LYNDE.
tCopyrisht. 1895. by J. B. Lippincott Col
XII.
BY FRANCIS LYNDE
IN THE NAME OF THE LAW.

IN THE NAME OF THE LAW.
After dinner Duncan went in search
of the old mountaineer and ThorndylIe
shut himself in his room to finish the
letter begun the previous evening. He
went about it leisurely, placing the
table in front of an open window and
sitting where the sweet afternoon
breeze might blow in his face as he
wrote Between the sentences he
stopped often, weighing and turning the
words until they fitted his purpose;
which was 20 make this latest letter to
his mother as one with those preceding
it. This preserving OF the unities proved
TO be less difficult than he had thought
it would be. The new determination
was but a sucking as yet, and the turn
ing of fresh leaf in the book of reso-
buttons is, in any event, only begin
ming. Besides, ones mother is always
the first to accept show of frankness
as a substitute for the real quality,
and Mrs. Thorndyke would have found
reasons for refusing to believe Philip
if he had told her the plain truth.
The window in the attic bedroom
looked out upon the stretch of yellow
road leading to Allacoochee, and in
one of the inter sentence pauses Philip
saw two horsomen ride over the crest
of the spur which shut off the view of
the lower valley. They halted among
the trees on the hillside, and one of
them pointed to the farmhouse, while
the other took something from his
pocket and went through the motions
of man drinking from bottle. Philip
watched them listlessly until, at the
end of full minute, his curiosity
awolle to comment upon the pbenome-
nal thirst of the man who still sat like
an equestrian statue with arm bent and
head thrown back. There was n field
glass hanging in it's case on the wall,
and when Philip took it down and TO-
cused it upon the statuesque horseman
the mystery speedily took another form.
The man was not drinking; he was eX-
amining the house and the adjacent
mountain through n glass not unlike
the one in whose field Philip was OBJ
serving him.
Thorndyke's first thought was of Kill
grow and his prosecutors, but before he
could form plan for warning the old
mountaineer the two horsemen rode
down to the house, and he heard one OF
them ask Mrs. Duncan if the road led
to Alta Springs, village on the western
slope of Johns mountain. Since the
question appeared to explain the recon
naissance; Philip let his suspicious
lapse, and straightway forgot the Incl
dent when the travellers had ridden on
He had finished his letter, and was be-
ginning to wonder if Duncan would
succeed in finding Kilgrow, when he
heard voices below, followed by STUN
bling footsteps on the stairs, and Dun
can entered with the old mountaineer
This is auld Johnnie Keelgrow
Master Thorndyke," he said, presenting
his companion with a perpendicular
gesture which seemed to call attention
TO Kilgrow's great height. Il just
Iuade free to fess him till yer ain room
whaur We could haze 1t DOT wi him in pri
vate."
That was right-I'm glad to mee1
you. Mr.. Kilgrow. Sit down, both o
you. and let me ask few questions"
The mountaineer folded his thin
length upon the edge of a chair, bu
Duncan stood irresolute. I'm no sal
over rash, myself, Master Thorndyke
as We ken. but auld Johnnie here il
MAR captious than the canniest Scot o
them a.. d. We think, now, he vim;