Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-01-01


hung"
Hung, Dinny"
ayes, sir, for treachery to as good
friend as I liver had
What do you mean, Dinny" cried
Humphrey, eagerly.
"Mane, sor! Why, that all the CRATE
min in the world, from Caesar down to
Pater Donovan. have had their wake
side. I've got mine, and I'm a fallen
man"
Speak out plainly" cried Humphrey,
| flushing.
That's just what I'm doing sor," said
Dinny, with soft smile ITS nature,
sor. She was bad enough, and thin you
helped her. Oh. there's no foightng agen
| 1t! 1t used to be so in Oireland. She
says to the little birds in the spring
choose your partners, darln's, she says,
and they chose EN-; and she said the
same to human man. and he chooses his"
"Oh, Dinny, if you hadn't quite such
a long tonguew cried Humphrey.
FAX, it's regular sarpint, sor, for
length, and just as desaving; but is |
was saying, what Nature says in ovid
Oireland in the spring she says out here
in this haste of country, where there's
naythur spring, summer, autumn, nor
withdrawing but sort Of mOshposh
OF sunshine and bowling thunder storms"
And will you really help me to es-
cape?
"Whisht, sor! What are We thinking
about! Spanking aloud in country
| where the parrots can talk like Chris
tians and the threes Is full Of ugly chaps,
who sit and watch we and say nothing,
but how'd toight wild their tails, and thin
go and whishper their saycrets to one
| another"
You'll help me?"
"Yis, sir, if yen go down on your bend
ed knees and take an oath"
Oath! What oath?"
"Niver to bethray or take part in amy
thing agen Commodore Junk, the thruest,
bravest boy that liver stepped"
You are right, Dinny. He is n brave
man, and | swear that | will not betray
Or attack him, come what may. Get me
my liberty and the liberty of my men, and
| III be content. Stop! | cannot go so
far as that; there are my men. | swear
VIII not attack your captain without
giving him due notice, that he may es-
cape; but this nest of hornets must be
burned out and my men freed"
"Ah, well, we won't haggle about thri-
iles, sor. Swear this, sor: Yen behave
TO the captain like gintleman."
IL swear | will"
"Bedad, then, I'm wild ye; and there's
one more favor I'll be asking We, sor."
What is it?"
"Whin we get safe home yell come and
give Misthress Grcenseys away"
Eyes, yes, Dinny. And now, tell me
what will you do?"
Sure, I'll have an OF on boat. and
see that there's some wather and bish-
kits and gun in her; and thin, sor, I'll
set light to the magazine, for it'll be a
rale plisure to blow up that ovid gintle
man as is always leering and grinning at
me as much as to say, Och, Dnuy,
know all about the WILDLY, and first tine
we go to see her I'll tell Black Mazzard,
and then, ware, hawk!"
But when shall you do this?"
First tonne it seems asy, sor."
"In the night?"
CAV coorse, sor."
"And how shall know"
"Hark at that, now! Fax, ar'n't
telling We, sor, that I'll blow up the mag
azine? Sure, an ye don't pay 50 much
attention to it when ye go to shleep that
ye won't hear that?"
"Of course | shall hear it," said Hum
phrey, excitedly.
Thin, that's the signal, sor; and when
it goes tizz, be riddy and wait till kim
to We, and thin good-by to the rovers
oife. Whisht!'
A fortnight passed, during which the
buccaneer visited his prisoner twice, as
il to give him an opportunity to speak,
but each time in company with Bart.
Both were very quiet and stern, and
but few words were said. Everything
was done to make the prisoners condi-
ton more endurable. but the attentions
now were irksome; and though Hum
phrey Armstrong lay listening for foot
steps with the greatest anxiety. those
which came down the corridor were not
those he wished to hear.
"One of them might have managed to
come and give me word" he said, fret
fully, as at last. weary OF watching the
scintillatons of the fre-hies in a distant
opening, he threw himself upon his couch
to try and sleep, feeling that he would
be wakeful all night, when all at once,
just as he felt most troubled. his eyes
closed, and he was deep in a dreamless
sleep, lost to everything but the terrific
roar which suddenly burst forth, follow
ing vivid flash of lightning, and. as
confused and half stunned, Humphrey
started up, all idea of the proposed es-
cape seemed to have passed away, and he
sat watching for the next fash listening
for the next peal, thinking that this was
a most terrific storm.
No tlash--no peal-but confused buzz
of voices and the distant pattering Of
feet while "A dense, dank odor of eXplod-
ed gunpowder penetrated the forest, and
entered the window close to which the
prisoner sat.
"Dinny-the ESCAPED" he cried, cxcit-
eddy, as he sprang from his bed, for now
flash did come with almost binding
force; but it was a mental flash, viii III
left him quivcring with excitement, as
he sprang to the curtained corridor and
listened there.
step! Dnny's. Yes, he knew it
we'll! 1t was coming along the great