The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-01-18

and leave his father there to be discover
ed in the morning. The old man SAID
he was SO desperate that he would take
chances. and he would tell story about
feeling uneasy in his dreams as to the
condition OF affairs at the bank and of
eating up in the night and going down
there to see if all was right, of encounter
ing 4 robber or set Of robbers, Of having
n mighty struggle with them, ending, SO
far as he could recollect, with a revolver
Shot which made him unconscious He
had MO fear as to Mike. If Mike recov-
cred. he would be so ashamed of being
drunk that he would invent some story
Of being gagged. especially as father and
son had arranged to bind him with a gag
and tie his hands.
"Thcu father and son planned the de-
tails Of the shooting, disarrangcd the fur,
niture. bound and gagged the Waterman,
took the money and broke the locks, and
the father lay down after tearing his
clothing and had the son give him what
he supposed was only a slight flesh wound
in the side The old man was full of
nerve and after the shooting was over
hurried the son away and told him how
to act when the discovery was made in
the morning. They had wounded the
Waterman also.
Bond says he went home and to bed
and acted his part thoroughly when they
reused him to tell him of the dreadful ac-
cdent 10 his father. 1t turned out really
to be a dreadful affair for both the ia
Their aud the Waterman were found dead
and the bank robbed. Young Bond says
he made good his gambling debts and en-
listed in the army 50 as TO get away from
the storm that arose when it was found
that his father was insolvent. 1t soon
became the general theory in the town
that the elder Bond had gone there to rob
the bank and had been killed by real
bank robber. and there were those who
thought they could remember the exact
looks of certain mysterious strangers that
had been seen about town.
Bonds conscience could stand it no
longer, he says. and he went to Kansas
ana enlisted ana came out here. hoping
secretly that he would be killed, for he
had not the courage To commit suicide.
He wanted me to write to his relatives,
clearing up the entire mystery and telling
them that he had cXpiated his crime so
far as he could 10y diving for his country.
! /
Peters in tellin. the story. is why he
wants me to write all this before he dies.
He must have a dreadful conscience. lie
said to me: i am wounded exactly in the
place in which my father was wounded
when | shot him. | know can't live.
just tell tie truth about me ana make
sure that the boys will not dcynisc me
too much. have done my duty by them
and by the tag says he. broke down
and wcpt, I'll admit. and I'm prepared to
say that there's no living soul bat has
some good in it, And then there's the
duty Of deciding what's to be done if
Bond RECEIVERS Ought we to give him
away? | say no."
According TO Maxwell, the buglcs just
then blew for forward movom mt. and
soon all were lying on the firing line.
shooting at the Flipinos. Maxwell mace
another awkward pause, and one of his
auditors said;
well. | suppose Bond really died AMI
you fellows did the right thing By him
even in DEATH
"pie?" said Maxwell. Great Scott.
no-at least not then. Less than tive
hours after Peters had told that story
Bond came stealing up to the firing line
and there he lay next to me all day,
working like a demon. L thought you
were dying. | said to him. The devil
no he replied. 1t was only LITTLE
wound-Scarcely bled at all. When Pc
tiers wasn't around. the doctor told me if
amounted to nothing but urged me t.
stay in the rear for the night. This