Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1898-07-21

use the loops in the wire without cut
ting your hands. You must be at the |
far angle in the wall exactly ten min
utes later and you will find the other |
wire thrown over for you, 1t will not |
do to have it there before and you are !
to pull it after you when you are on
the other side. One other thing: You !
must manage in some way TO set the
bar back in its place. No one will look
into your cell till five o'clock from the
wicket in the door, but the absence of
the bar might be detected by the patrol
on the wall. lie carries a bull's-eye.
Can you do that?"
Yes" said Laport, IF have any
foothold on the wire and you can bring
me half an ounce of gum shellac soft
ened in alcohol
Every good You will have eight
minutes to get over the wall and you
will land in high clump of jimson
weeds. want you to remember the
rest of my directions. 1t is necessary
that you commit them to memory. At
the time you land in the weeds, there
will be q man on horse in the road
and he will start cast at break-neck
speed. You are togivc no heed to him.
but cross the road, drop over the bank
1t is shale and cinders and will leave
no footprints-an turn to the left and
follow it west for one hundred feet
where you will come to culvert and
brook crossing. You are to take to the
middle of this stream and follow the
bed five hundred feet, rolling your
trousers up so as to keep them dry, un-
til you come to an clubhouse painted
red, which overhangs it. Light
match and if there are two crosses in
chalk on the lowest clapbOard, you
will know that is the place to turn.
Then follow the path from the
outlouse up to the dwelling, but be
careful to walk on the gravel and not
in the grass. There is a back kitchen
with q side door and common latch.
1t will be open. There will be a hot
fire burning in the large kitchen stove.
You are to lock the door and divest
yourself of every bit of clothing and
burn it there before doing anything
else and see that all the shreds are de
stroyed When that is done, go to the
r second story, front room, where you
will find the disguise you are to wear.
In the breast pocket of the blouse are
three photographs of the man who has
been wearing it. You are to be care
full about the wig and mustache. You
: ought to be in the uppcrroOm not later
than four. The alarm will be given
about fivc-thirty. That will give you
T an hour and half to complete the dis
, guise and the sun will be up. At that
+ moment you will take paint pot and
+ brush which arc in the room and get
, upon the ladder in front of the house
! and proceed to paint the siding at the
place where the job is left unfinished.
q You are to speak very little English.
You will be fifteen feet above the
. street. You are to answer all ques.
: tions in a cultural and unintelligible
manner. The main entrance of the
> prison is nearly opposite that house
q The men in the prison Office are already
familiar with your figure on the ladder
:. and regard you as a stupid Alsatiar
o who has hired the place and is fitting
4 it up as a saloon, At five-thirty eX.
: pect a wire will be sent from the near
est hamlet (fifteen miles east) that an
:. escaped prisoner has passed through
Y on a horse. You will be able from
your perch if you are quicll-witted, tC
discern by the movements at the prison
entrance if the chase is taken up il
that direction If It is, you will hav,
twenty-four hours start, for they viii
not catch my man inside of that time
and when they do, they will be unabl,
: to identify him. In the blouse will be
small pocket compass and little map
At exactly twelve-ffteen, when all tn,
farm hands are atdinner, you will talk,
J basket on your arm and set out leis
urely across the stubblc-field, south o
the house. You are TO follow the patl
across the field in a sOuthwestcrly di
rection. When you reach the stile a
the stone wall, two paths are seen ol
the other side; take the path that goe
down to the wood. The moment yo
arc in the densest part of the grove, yor
arc to make the most speed you can, fol
loving the path by the broo5sidc unit
you come to an old and ruined mill
!. mile west. You will sit down on til
old mill stone in the grass and wal
e, till you hear some one singing Hon
q Sweet Home" 1t is the signal that a
u is safe and it will be woman's voice
ii You are instantly to enter the old mi
and follow exactly the directions c
10 the lady you win meet there, bearin
~ in mind only this that a woman ha
n not a mans sense of time, and you wi
n be missed and inquired for some tim
e; during the afternoon and everythin
p will then depend on your speed {
e. movement after you leave the mil
The arrangements from that point az
ct perfect. Delay alone may make thel
le miscarry. Can you repeat all thes
Of points to me?"
T. CHAPTER ".
to Laport marveled at the particula
Id ity with which the escape had bee
nv planned and at the address Of Kent
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