The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1899-12-07

fully. They were shining with unshed
tears, but her glance was brave and
there was no tremor in her voice.
"Goodby, Desmond, dearv' she an
swered, with a tender infection on the
word that had come so falteringly
from him. She pronounced it steadily
Somehow her lips closed over it with
delicious pout. Desmond wavered
and looked at her almost inquiringly.
Then he stopped and kissed her and
met with no repulse.
With the touch Of that sweet fare
well on his lips and no room in his
heart for fear or aught but triumph he
turned silently from her and caught at
a poplar bough. He swung his legs
across it, rose up and gained another,
higher. Thus from bough to bough he
swung himself till 80 feet above the
ground he reached the great limb that
shot out above the water, stretching
far toward the castle walls. He made
his way along it inch by inch, desisting
only when it's dropping twigs told him
that the farthest point Of safety was
reached. He unslung the cord from his
waist, attached to one end his crOwbar
and silently began to swing 1t to and
fro. Backward and forward it pendu-
lated, widening its reach at every beat,
till finally its utmost swing brought it
over the barn roof. There was ring
of metal, and the cord quivered and
staid taut. Desmond pulled with all
his strength. The rope was rigid. Then
he dashed the end he held to the bough
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He waited a minute or two to see If
any sentry had heard the clang- of the
meeting iron. Family up and down the
courtyard he could hear the regular
beat of steps. These stopped, and the
sound of a grating lock came distinct
ly to him across the silence of the
night. A ray of light shot up through
the easement in the roof. The man
must have heard the faint clatter Of
the falling bar and was examining his
prisoners to see If any one stirred. In
some ways it was a fortunate matter.
Seeing them safe and still bound, he
would be less likely to visit them dur
ing the next hour or two. The light
snapped out, and the bang of a shut
ting door re-echoed in the hollow Of
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as the warder drew them from the
lock. Then to and fro the mOnOtOnOus
beat Of the sentry was resumed.
Desmond gripped the rope with both
hands and swung his knees across 1t.
1t ran at a steep angle toward the
roof, and 1t took him all his strength
to restrain too swift descent. Check
ing his way strenuously with alternate
graspings of the cord, he slid down
and alighted beside the window graf
ing.
He had to use the utmost caution &c
prevent dislodging the stone roof slabs
Splinters, the result of many win
ter's frost, lay about Nm in heaps
Fortunately those he displaced fell al
most noiselessly into the stream. Any
one hearing them might mistake then
for the rise of feeding fish. He tool
from his pocket a little jar of grease
and smeared it on the central bar OF
the grating. Then with his rasp hf
began to rub at the iron. eating steadi
ly through the metal. which was rust
ed by storm and damp to half it's orig
inal thickness. He kept to his worl
without ceasing. save to rub now an(
, again more grease into the niche hi
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