The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-03-10

native fisherman, and was at last for
tunate enough TO bring one to. With
him. after little bantering leach had
some trouble in understanding the
other). he managed to conclude a bar
gain. The craft was a clumsy affair, II
seemed; in length il might be Z and 20
feet. 10y above eight i'm the beam. and
was unlocked, though it had rude
sort of cuddy. The single sail was old
and patched, but looked to, be fit for
moderate service. and was set to a
boom and a short galr. She had no
vessels or any kind of tools or implc-
mcnts aboard, being furnished solely
with pair Of rude oars. Nevertheless
she appeared stanch. and would. he
thought, be likely to do the work re-
CURED of her.
VERY well, then" said Mr. Tym,
when the matter had reached this
stage, 1--WE seem to want nothing now
but to complete the details of our
plan. Let us go at once about it,"
We were at a good deal of pains here,
debating many things, but, after all,
the matter sifted down to this: To-
ward the middle of the night, before
the moon should rise-Which it did
now very late-we were TO slip up TO
the passage leading to the senorita's
room, beguile and overpower the
guard, gag and bird him, and force
the senorita's door. A few words from
me would explain what was afoot, and,
having thrust the guard into the
chamber and secured him there, we
would quietly descend to the hall and
boldly pass out. OF course, our main
reliance must be upon the general
carelessness and disorder. and upon the
fact that nothing of the business was
suspected. As for the minor details, il
seemed best that Mr.. lynn should lead
off, and at the point where he wished
us to fall upon the soldier should make
n certain prenrrangcd sign.
BY this time ii was close upon sun
down, and late enough for us to be
thinking of returning TO the castle. In
fact, we had still some preparations to
make, such as bringing down the
storcs-not forgetting a breaker Of
watcr-and an extra supply of clothing
and weapons. Included i'm the cloth
ing must be some for the poor lady,
though was sorry that none of ii
could be Of sort suitable to her sex.
We likewise thought of an iron bar,
or pry. with which 10 force the cham
Der door. All these matters, / viii say
in brief, we attended 90, in no way
encouutcriug any m.-hap or seeming
TO arouse any suspicious. Finally, we
hid the little skin and returned for the
last time to the castle. II was now
quite dark. The twilight i'm those parts
being exceeding briof. aud wanting
no great while of the hour we had
set for cur undertaking. This, it will
he remembered, was the early part of
the night, before the confusion and
disorder were like TO have abaied, and
ere yet it was moourise. At last it
wanted only few minutes of nine,
and as we deemed that nothing was
to be gained by waiting longer, we
saw to our weapons and made along
to the arched gate.
The door at the cnd,of the passage
stood open, and we caught a small
glimmer of light and heard voices.
Pushing on, though | confess with
some uneasiness ON my part (for |
thought of Morgan), we presently
found ourselves in the great hail. Here
were perhaps a score of our fellows,
the most sprawled about or sitting on
the long table, and only four or five
talking. A few had horns or flagons
by them, and others were smoking
but | perceived that nearly the half
seemed TO be heavily asleep. Perhaps
three or four candles were burning,
put in cloud, indeed, by the tobacco
smoke, and bringing out little of the
immediate surroundings with distinct
ness OF the persons who were talking,
one lay fiat 90 the table and, by the
banduge about his head, should be
wounded, and another paced up and
down, his arm in n sling.
"In chief these are fellows who are
drunk or disabled" | thought, "nnd