Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-07-29


groan rang in my ears.
"Out, lads, out, and fight 'cm in the
open! Cutlasses!" cried the captain.
I snatched a cutlass from the pile,
and some one at the same time snatch
ing another gave me cut across
the knuckles, which hardly felt. I
dashed out of the door into the clear
sunlight. Some one was close behind,
I know not who. Right in front, the
doctor was pursuing his assailant down
the hill, and, just as my eyes fell upon
him, beat down his guard and sent him
sprawling on his back, with great
slash across his face.
"Round the house, lads! round the
housed" cried the captain; and even in
the hurly-burly perceived change in
his voice.
Mechanically I obeyed, turned east
ward, and. with my cutlass raised, ran
round the corner of the house. Next
moment l was face to face with Ander-
son. He roared aloud, and his hanger
went up above his head, flashing in the
sunlight. I had not time to be afraid,
but, as the blow still hung impending,
leaped in a trice upon one side. and,
missing my foot in the soft sand, rolled
headlong down the slope.
When 1 had first sailed from the door
the other mutineers had been already
swarming up the palisade to make an
end of us. One man. in red night
can, with his cutlass In his mouth, bs I'd
even got upon the top and thrown
leg across. Well, so short had been
| the interval, that when l found my
feet again all was in the same posture,
the fellow with the red night-cap still
halfway over another still just show
ing his head above the top of the stock
ade. And yet, in this breath Of time,
the fight was over, and the victory
ours.
Gray, following close behind rne. had
cut down the big boatswain ere he had
time to recover from his lost blow.
Another had been shot at loophole In
the very act of firing into the house,
and now lay in agony, the pistol still
smoking in his hand. A third, 81" had
seen, the doctor had disposed Ok at
blow. OF the four who had scnhd the
palisade, one only remained unac-
counted for, and he, having left his cut
| lass on the field, was now clambering
out again with the fear of death upon
him.
''Fire-fire from the housed" cried the
doctor. Sand you, lads, back into
cover"
But his words were unheeded, no
shot was fired, and the last boarder
made good his escape, and disappeared
with the rest into the wood. In three
seconds nothing remained of the at
lacking party but the five who had
| fallen, four on the inside, and one on the
outside, of the palisade.
The doctor and Gray and ran full
speed for shelter. The survivors would
soon be back where they had left their
muskets, and at any moment the fire
might recommence.
The house was by this time somewhat
cleared of smoke, and we saw at
glance the price we had paid for victory.
lay beside his loop-hole, stunned;
Joyce by his, shot through the head,
never to move again; while right in the
center, the squire was supporting the
captain, one az pale as the other.
''The captains wounded" said Mr..
Trelawney.
"Have they. run?" asked Mr.. Smollett.
GAIL that could, you may be bound"
| returned the doctor; "but there's five
of them will never run again."
"Five!" cried the captain. "Come,
that's better. Five against three leaves
| us four to nine. That's better odds
! than we had at starting. We were
seven to nineteen then, or thought we
were. and that's as bad to bear."*