The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-12-31


to give him a good rest till tomorrow.
He bit his lip, and stared th~oughtfully
into the fire.
Now said he, here ISIS the plan.
Tonlorrow morning, before the daylight
comes, you must go from this place
in my clothes. 1t ISIS lucky we are about
the same size. Have you some mon
ey?"
Not a penny I replied.
Never mind" rejoined Ieuan, "yo
nave o good right to a few pounds out
of the little bag here" and he touched
enough to carry you to a place where
you will be safe again. Are you
thinking to go far?"
Within a dozen miles of Hereford.
a little journey that" said Ieuan.
We'll. you AXE these clothes, when
You will look very respectable. and by
daylight you must be two or three
miles away. Walk to the next town
and hire a horse, and off you go.
Dafyed and l will slip away with you.
or change in clothes will be seem"
l gratefully consented to Ieuan,s
plan, which held.out a good hope of
safety: and as the landlord now came
to give us his company, it was not pos
sible to discuss the subject further. For
t#SooPtG VI IIOuIS iG SAT WILL lie dllo IS
prosed about country affairs and local
gossip. Ieuan, who had his own rea-
sons for doing Sc, ordered liberal sup
plies OF ale, and urged the host to
drink. He needed but little encourage
ment and disposed cheerfully of almost
all that he bought. Seasoned topper as
he was. his stories at last became
wagged droWsily. leuan informed him
that / should stay the night, and he In
yited us to go to bed at once. 1euan
declined, out went with him to learn
where we were to be quartered. and
then the door was made fast; and the
host and his family, a wife and two
shockheaded children, got to their bed
and left us by the fire. Dafydd had
long been asleep, stretched on 6
bench.
Are you going to bed, Ieuan" I
asked.
mo, I am not" he replied; Il first
went to look, to make that man easy
in his mind. We will sit here and sleep
a little till it ISIS time to start. We
shall be more sure not to stop too
long"
This vas entirely to my mind, and I
tool some fuel from a stack in the
corner of the room and ~repleniShed the
fire. We sat and talked for some time
again, and then the fatigues of the day
began TO assert themselves; Ieuan be-
came silent, and, before long, I slid in
to a restless Slumber.
OF a sudden 1 awoke, instantly and
completely. 1 had an uneasy feeling
at my heart that I had been wakened
by a sound of danger. Yet all was still.
Ieuan had dropped asleep in his chair,
and was breathing heavily. The fire
had died down, and the room was dark.
There seemed to ring in my ears the
n icto nj Io rIy EOf ~ e1DrE rUe -Hng-H-H III y
From some farm close at hand"
though i, n stretched out my
cramped legs and eSolved to sleep no
more, but watch the rest of the night.
I was seated in the corner of a high
backed settle with the window behind
into the air, n | sprang to my feet.
With a beating heart l perceived the
window full Of a red, dancing light.
I ran to it, and, even as 1 did so, the
loud baying of a hound rang out in
the silence of a MINDLESS night, and /
saw a plump of fiaring links not thirty
yards away borne on at a rum, and
heading straight for the house,
"Ieuan," l called quickly, but my
voice was drowned by a great hound
giving tongue furiously without. His
deep, hollow bark was followed by a
whine and a swift scratching at the
outer door.
I recognized the note with a bitter
sense of betrayal, though the poor
brute had done it unconsciously. All
my doublings and twistings had been
in vain. Ranger had been set upon
my track, and had. led my foes unerr-
ingly to my refuge.
Ieuan leaped from his chair and ran
to my side.
Enemies" said he, cool and wide
awake at once.
Yes said I. as there a door be-
hind?"
The light of the torches flashed in
through the windows, and cast our
shadows before us as we sprang into
the passage.
Surround the house, shouted a
voice 1 knew. II was done upon the
instant.
The whole building stood open and
naked to the moor without fence or
enclosure, and while we CROPPED our
way along a Uttered, pi~tch-dark. and
unfamiliar passage, u foes outran US.
Here it iss,' said Ieuan, laying his
hand on a bolt and half drawing it.
He growled something and shot 1t
back, as the light Of the well pitched
links shone red under the door n
through the %crevices of it's i'll fitting
| planks.
II can see them" said Ieuan, with
his eye at a crack. Their are four.
and two ave guns. They are stand
ing about five yards away, and the
guns are pointed at this door,"
BY this time the knocking was fast
and furious at the front door. and the
landlord was crying out in alarm.
"He will open when he knows who is
there said I, unless we stop him."
Continued Next Weekly
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