Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-03-31

your name viii be written: ON tha
Otner, mine. You may then taka ona
out' give you the privilege of draw
ing. Ii it bears your name. Won will,
1 pe lree-you will have won the game.
Il mine is the name, / have won, and
a. ''oo o'clock l shall shoot yor
through the head with this revolver r
give you half an hour, you see. to pre-
pare. l nave only one more thing to
say. DO not make any attemDt to as
cape; 1t will be useless, as I have here
an enectual means of preventing it.
another thing; the servant who let
you IN at the door is my wife; she is
the only person in the house besides
| ourselves. You need not waste your
breath in calling out, therefore: Won
| understand?
lie ceased, and was left to my
own thoughts. What they were you
mailman, Of course, there was little
doubt. l had something over an hour
on which to ponder on the very slender
chance of life possessed after that
time, for how did I know that lie
would keep faith even if our bout with
chance resulted in my favor.
If the worst came to the worst. I
was resolved to make a fight for life,
at any rate. l would not sit there and
be done to death like dog. Another
hfteen minutes-seven! AS the last
chime fell on the silence he got UP.
My hat lay on table near by; care
fully he measured two pieces of paper
OF exact size, wrote on them in firm
hand, and placed them in it.
Now, let us take our little gam
BILE with Dame Fortune Monsieur
Deuchars, 1 invite you to draw. If
she favors you, very good; if I come
off the victor
"A loud knocking at the door inter-
rupted me. But | had caught the
the window and shouted with all my
strength: Jack! help! Jack!'
He raised the revolver, but I was
on him before he could draw the trig-
ger, and pinned him with my arms.
Fiercely he strove to wrench himself
free, but held on like grim death, till
Jack Albery and another man burst
into the room. Barraud's little scheme
was foiled. He saw it, and had the
good sense to give in quietly.
Their opportune arrival was brought
about in this way: Jack went down
to the club as arranged, and my mis-
sive was duly delivered to him. He
thought nothing of it, and proceeded
to the theatre in due course, but as the
time passed and I did not arrive, he
began to wonder what had happened.
Then, in feeling for something in his
pocket, he CHANGED to pull out my note
again. This time he was surprised to
see some writing he had not noticed
J on the previous occasion. 1t was the
card I had received at the concert.
"In the hurry of the moment, when
pencilling my message, [ must have
written on the back of that instead OF
my own card. He waited another few
minutes and then decided to come in
search of me, feeling sure that it was
no trivial affair which would keep me
from the theatre. For prudence sake
he had taken companion, and they
arrived, as I have described, just in the
nick of time.
well, my friends, that is about all.
was not anxious, as you may guess,
for the affair to become public prop
erty, and we let Barraud off, after
promising that he would clear out OF
the country and give up his murderous
| intentions. However, I heard day or
two afterward that his brain had be-
come completely deranged and that he
was confined in lunatic asylum. -
| Tit-Bits.