The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-04-26
MASTER OF APPLEBY. K mFRANCIs LYND

a-siving him the whip and spur and thu
We all marked the distant drumming Of
hoofbsats-
The old borserer sprang afoot kicked the
nre into the stream. and caught up his
rife. Let's be a-moying." he said we
must make out OF the thicket IN time %
i see the horseman. . negro clingfng with
locked arms to the neck of his mount, come
tearing down to the ford At sight Of u
or else because he would not take the water
at full speed. the horse reared. paved the
air, and fel! clumsily. carrying his sdIles
rider with him
We picked the black up and soused him
IN the stream TIL he found his tongue; and
the first wagging OF that useful member
gave US news TO fire the blood in our veins
in Jennifer's and mine. at any rate.
"Yahr' he screamed. choking cut the
muddy creek water that had well-nigh
strangled him Yah, red debbn Injins kill
ebberybOdy and tote OF Mistis Marcy and
dat Jeanne CONAN. OATS what dey doner'
CHAPTER XIX.
In which We Strive as Men to Ran .
Race.
II was Soma time before the arrighted
! black could give US any connected account
Of what had befallen: and when at length
the story was told. all save ths principal
fact Of the carrying on OF Mistress Margery
and her maid was hsZy enough.
Pruped down to the simple statement Of
the fact. and with all the foolish terror
Gatherings weeded out. his news came to
this: the partv Of homing revelers had bean
ambushed and waylaid at the fording Of a
creek ZONE miles to the southwark. and IN
the mellay the young mistress n her
tiFewoman had been captured.
So far as any actual witness OF the eye
went. the negro had seen nothing. There
had been q volley IRE from the thicket-
belly Of black darkness. q swarmins at
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from the men. shrieks from the women,
confusion worse COMPOUNDED in which the
newsbearer himself had been endorsed and
trodden under foot. After which he knew
no more till some one-hls master as he
thought-kicked him alive and bade him
mount and ride Dost-haste on the backward
track to Appleby Hundred. crying the news
as he went that Mistress Nargery Stair and
her maid had been Kidnapped BY the In
dams.
Pinned to the mark anG questioned
afresh. the slave could not affirm Of his
own knowledge that any one had been
killed outright. Pinned again. It proved
- be only a guess OF his that the one
who had given him his orders was his
master. In the darkness and confusion he
could make sure OF nothing: had made sure
OF nothing save his own frenzy OF terror and
the wording OF the message he carried.
When We had quizzed him empty we
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once more R~-gallop on the road to Applsby
Hundred. That done. a hurried council OF
war was held in which We four fell apart,
three against one. Jennlfer was for instant
pursuit. afoot and at top speed; and Eph-
rain YeateS and the Catawba. abandoning
their own enterprise apparently without a
second thought. sided indifferentIy with
him. For nv part. Il was for going back to
prepare IN decent order for 9 campaign
which should promise something more
hopeful than the probability OF speedy ex-
haustlon. starvation and failure.
We grew hot upon IL. Richard and 4; he
with = young lovers unreckinE rashnesS
and I with an old campaigner's foresight
20 make me stubborn: and Ephraim Yeates
ard the CataNba drew aside and let Us have
u oaL. Dick argued angrily that the
time was above all the ail-Important
Item. = and was not above haunting
mo bitterly, hinEinE the reproaeh Of cold
hlOoded age In my face and swearing hotly
that l knaw not - much as the alphabet OF
love.
The taunts were passed IN silence, since
I would set them over against the irrevoca-
BILE wrong I had done him. saying In my
heart that nothing he could say or do should
again tempt me 20 Eive place TO the devil Of
jealous wrath.
But when he would give me space I set
the hopelessness OF pursuit. all unprepared
J as we were, in ~piainest speech The chase
1 might be a long one, and We were hut
scantily armed and without provisions. The
hunters ride must be our sole dependence
for food. and In the summer heat we would
be forced TO kill daily. On the other hand.
and ammunition, we should be In some
more hopeful case; and. Notwithstanding the
delay In starting. could make far better
:. Sped