Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-08-01

/ set my back to the fence"
broth. and they insisted that the
hitter delicacies be fed to the pa
at once. They were still in ig-
&c of the truth about the Cross
. and spent the day Gt was Sun
partly in getting in the way Of
ttendants and partly in planning
sault upon the Rouen Jail for the
,se of lynching Slattery in case
less condition did not improve at
Those who had heard his state
kept close mouths until the story
lred in full in the Rouen papers on
hay morning. But by that time
member Oh the CROSSROADS White
was lodged in the Rouen Jail with
ery. Horner and u heavily armed
rode over to the muddy corners
sunday night, and the sheriff dis
red that he might have taken the
etts and Johnsons single handed
unarmed. Their nerve was gone.
were shaken and afraid, and, to
loy a figure somewhat inappropr1-
'fo their sullen, glad surrender, they
upon his neck in their relief at
Sing the law touching them. They
no wish to hear John Brown S
=" again. They wanted to get in
of a strong Jail and to throw them
res on the mercy of the court as soon
POSSIBLE. And those whom Harkless
not recognized made no delay IN
Eng themselves up. They did not
Eh to remain in Six Crossroads. Bot
lett, Force Johnson and one or two
ers needed the care of a physician
div. and one man was suffering
M a severely wrenched back. Hor
had a train stopped at a CROSSING
that his prisoners need not be take
rough Plattville, and he brough
I'm all safely to Rouen.
took nearly a week to persuade tn
ople of Plattville that it was bette
them to go home, and it was onl
4 confidence inspired by the mannt
the two eminent surgeons (they la
wait at all hours TO interview theI
'Intlemen) that did persuade them
lturn-this and the promise of tv
billy bulletins.
AS many of them said on their
1rn. Plattville didn't feel like the sar
|lace,@ and a strange thing had ha
|ened-for the first time in five yea
he Carlow County Herald missed f
Iltogether. Tuesday, Thursday a
saturday passed. Mr.. Fisbee only
Etaring out Of the dingy office w
bows with Parker in a demented
|ence. There was no Herald; TIL
was no one to get it out.
In the Rouen hospital John Harkl
feeblv moved on his bed of pain.
constant delusion was that the U
verse was a vast. white heated br
bell and he a point at the center OF
listening, listening for years TO
brazen hum it gave off and burn
in hot waves of sound.
Finally he came to what he wo
have considered a lucid interval
il not appeared that Helen SherW
was whispering to Tom Meredith
+be foot of his bed. This he knew
be a fictitious presentation OF his lie
for was she not by this time away
away for foreign lands? And also
Meredith was a slim young thing
not a middle aged youth with an
deniable stomach and a baldlsh L
who by the preposterous necroma
of fever assumed a grotesque ike
of his old friend He waved MS L
10 the figures, and they vanished
PIGMENTS of a dream; but ali the 81
the vision had been realistic enc
for the lady TO look exqulsltely pr
No one could help wishing TO sta
world which contained as chari
a picture as that.
But the next night Mereoltn WI
near his bedside, haggard ana ols
eled. Harkless had been lying
long stupor. Suddenly be SPOKE
loudly. and the young surgeon
who leaned over him, renelnoereo
words and the tone all his me
.'Away-and away-across the
ters," said John Harkless. she
here-once-in June"
What is it, Johns" Whispered
dith huskily. You're feeilhs e
aren't youT ..
And John smiled a little. as II