The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-01-09

ANA OIL hONA tA hAN' hNANN w. ANNNf
moved by an overmasterinr imnu'ee
ne rose and taking his light aruy
shoes in his hand be passed softly in
TO the room where his chief slept
nickering flame from the fire showed
him an oblong copper box on the rude
table He took Il with half-shu2der
and went outside. avoiding the sentinai
by way known to himself The river
front was patroled else he would have
stolen down there and dropped his but-
den into the waters OF the Hudson. He
reached a little gully running athwart
the forts bomb proofs. The gully was
filled with a heavy growth of under
brush. He let himself down caretu'ly
from the face OF the rough roadway
and slipped the metal box under ula
cover of a ledge and the protection OF
the thick growing vines and bushes
Forever safe from discovery he mut
tered and then he went back as he had
come. reaching his house unseen. rh,
I loss of the box was discovered the
next morning. There vas a thorough
investigation but of it nothing cane
/ Captain John Barton conferred with
! the commander in chief and said that
III a months time he could reformulats
from memory his receiva and could
remake his experimen Al d~,ices. That
very night, by the fortunes of war, he
was ordered south aud two days after
his arrival in the Carolinas he WAS
oead at Cowpens. The perfected use
OF percussion was put off for haf a
century
4 Mary Travers did not wear the W. T.
low long. She married Captain Mas
! ters, who stayed in the regular es'ab-
lishment long after the revolution and
in 1915 was grayhaired colonel. Decu
in Colonel Masters heart was regret.
1t was gnawing regret that was p..sr
all roofing out. His wife was still Wv
ing. They had but one child-a son
= Captain phillip Masters, Jr., an army
officer.
Captain Masters was stationed at
West Point, then a struggling scboo
8 hut little more than decade old. IIt
G vas in command one day of a fatigu.
[ party, breaking a new road to frown
2 ing Fort Putnam The men we're a
d work with axes. picks and spades
r They had reached place where ;
u Louder larger than most was held il
its place by the twining roots OF {
y great tree. The men had struggle,
e with the obstruction for some time
u Captain Masters was a powerful man
u lie laughed at the efforts of the enlist
cd men, and selling pick from on5 U
q them. he drove Is point with taI
$ force into the ground at the base of tn
/ rock There was a terrific explosion
and Captain Masters iay dead just be
II low the bomb proofs of the revolution
any fort.
le When the men recovered themselvC
y they carried their OFFICER to the POI
0 below and with him took fragments {
'l copper box which they picked up
the scene. One torn and burnt fra,
ST ment of paper was found also. UIc
'd it were the words. easily decipherabl
e. illuminate of mercury, with an q
IA mixture of m-." SO it ended,
burnt place in the paper obliteratil
ala but one letter OF the last word. p
H. low, however, appeared the nan
's barton
rs Colonel Phillip Masters was told
'- his sons death He bore it like SO
- dier, but whei. the manner OF i
IL death was told him and he was shoy
the slip of paper his lips turned ash
Vi gray and his frame shook. The sin
10 the father" he muttered.
= And with Colonel Phillip Mastel
bfe it was the beginning of the end.