Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-09-27
CHAPTER xI.-(Continued.)


"why, Mary" exclaimed the mother,
f<you look deathly palep'
'And so 1 should look!' gasped Mary.
sThere is murder on foot tonight"
Murder echoed all.
"Aye, mother I could not oyerhear
ell; but they are now preparing to carry
Il out, and they are gathered at The Sail
or's Welcomed"
"Who?'' asked Lem Dodd, feeling for
ais note book.
'fSim Cheatham, the man whom you
know as Charles Carpenter, Smugg, the
river pirate, and four Others, replied
Mary.
"But where are they going?
cup the river in a boat said Mary,
~and they will stop at the Hermann
glace''
ttAt the Hermann place" cried Paul
Neville Come Lem, come; if there is
danger there we must be on hand
The young men put on their hats, and
telling Mrs. Munroe not to wait up for
them, they started off, at run, for the
place where Carpenter and his friends
had their rendezvous.
From the opposite side of the street
Paul Neville and Lem Dodd watched
@@The Sailors Welcome" Seven men
came out and crossed the street, so close
to where Paul and Lem were hiding that
they had to crouch behind some boxes
to avoid being seen.
t'Just the night for business" said
Smugg.
sNThere won't be any cops on the water
tonight" said another.
GLOW is your boat?" asked Carpenter.
~You must remember the water is very
tumpy tonight"
eIumpyr' laughed one Of the men.
S@Why, that thar boat could ride in the
Bay of Biscay, the worst weather ever
,seed in them waters"
They reached the head Of the long
pier, and Carpenter flashed a bulls-eye
lantern on the water, discovering a long,
Eight boat rocking just below him.
t'Get in, now; there is no time to
spare" he said.
Sim Cheatham remained back on the
@ier, and in response to Carpenters Cast
off there" he unfastened the painter, and
said: Good luck"
The four oars caught the water at once.
Yhe rocking helpless boat becoming sud
denly vivified with the strength of the
eight brawny arms, sped into the dark
ness like thing Of life.
Past ships at anchor, tossed by the
waves of passing paddles, shooting under
the sterns of ocean steamers, that looked
like ebony mountains in the fog, the Gull
kept ON her way.
The boat was headed for particularly
black stretch of the New York Shore and
,Smugg ctaned forward to watch for the
vacant boat house that marked the water
1imit of the Hermann grounds.
''Ship oars. So! Here we are" said
Smugg.
There was grating sound; then the
boat stopped and bumped against the lit
tile wooden pier.
In the meantime Paul Neville and Lem
Dodd, having seen the boat off and head
ing up the river, went to notify the po
lice authorities. Having no charges to
make beyond their own suspicious, the
young men failed to enlist the aid of the
city's guardians
They reached the gate of the Hermann
grounds, but found it locked. With
much difficulty they scaled the high brick
wall. Keeping close together, they hur-
ried toward the house. AS they neared
It they saw flash for a moment in one
Of the upper rooms. 1t rose and went
out so quickly, that it might have come
from q pistol, but no report followed.
'"There is some one up in the house,"
said Lem Dodd.
Eyes; but hark"
High above the dash of the rain, the
whistling of the wind and the swaying of
the trees. rose a woman's agonized cry.
SO full of terror was it that for the mo-
ment the young men were frozen with
horror, and could not move.