The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1904-01-15

to give him a good rest till tcTnorroEE;'
He BIZ his lip, and stared tholsghSfniiy
Nov. said he, here iss h plan.
Tomorrow morning, before the dayilghl
comes, you must go from this place
In my clothes. It ISIS lucky we are apoul
the same size. Have you some mon
ey2"
Never mind rejoined Ieuan, 'yot
nave a good right to a few pounds out
of the little bag here. and he touched
his breast, where the gold lay hidden;
enough TO carry you to p place Where
you will be4safe agg1n. Are you
thinning to go far?"
within d dozen miles of Hereford
81 little journey that" said Ieuan.
well, you take these clothes, Wnen
you will look very respectable, ana by
daylight you must be two or three
and hire q horse, n off you go.
Dafysd and I will slip away with you.
or change in clothes will be seen.
I gratefully consented to Ieuan
plan, which held out a good nope OF
safety; and as the landlord now came
to give US his company, it was not pos
sible to discuss the subject further. For
a couple of hours he sat with US ana
3prosed about country affairs and local
gossip. Ieuan, who had bis own rea-
sons for doing SO, ordered liberal sup
plies OF ale, and urged the host to
drink. He needed but little encourage
ment and disposed c~heerfuHy of almost
all that he bought. Seasoned topper as
he was, his stories at last became
shorter and more broken, and his head
wagged drowsily. Ieuan informed him
4 +ha+lT eS,o,,15 ctaxY Ethn pipht and he IN
yited us to go to bed at once. Ieuan
declined, but 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 ped
and left us by he fire. Dafydd had
long been asleep, stretched on a
bench.
eAre you going to bed, Ieuan??@ \
asked.
mo-, I am not he replied; II 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 was entirely to my mind, and I
tookasome fuel from a stack in the
corner Of the room and r~eplenished 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, / slid in-
to a restless slurnber.
OF d sudden i awoke, Instantly and
completely. I had an uneasy feeling
at my heart that Ihad been Wakened
by a sound of danger. Yet all was still.
iIeuan 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
fdistant bark of a dog.
From some farm close at hand"
though and stretched out my
i crarnped legs and resolved to sleep no
more, but watch the rest of the night.
r was seated in the corner of a high
backed settle with the window behind
me. al faint glilnmer seemed to come
into the air, and 1 sprang to my feet.
81 With al beating heart I perceived the
window full Ola red, dancing light.
4 ran to it, and, even as ! did so, the
a loud baying of seshound rang out in
the silence of MINDLESS night, and ]
saw a plump of flaring links not thirty
yards away borne on at a run, anG
heading straight for the house.
"Ieuan,s, i called quickly, but m5
voice was drowned by a great hounl
giving tongue furiously without. His
!, deep, hollow Dark was followed by {
] whine and a. swift scratching at thu
outer door.
) I recognized the note with a bite.
!, sense Of betrayal, though the poo
brute had@done it unconsciously. Al
!, my doublings and twistings had beel
] in vain. Ranger la been set upol
) my track, and had led my foes uIlerr
{ Eingly to my refuge.
/ Ieuan leaped from his chair nj RAJ
to my side.
Enemies said he, cool ana Wild
! awake atsonce.
!, yes said i. rs there q door be
! hi11ds2,
! The light OF the torches flashed i
: through the windows, and cast gu
shadows before us as weBsprang int
r the passage.
! HSurround the house, shouted
I I voice / knew 1t was done upon tn
! instant.
naked to the Q without fence 9
7 enclosure, and wKile we CROPPED OIL
way along al Uttered. pitch-dark, an
Z unfamiliar passage, our foes outran u.
2 Here it iss.' said Ieuan, laying hi
y hand on a bolt and half drawing it.
9 He groWled something and shot
6 hack, as the light OF h we'll pitche
hts shone red under the door an
tn the crevicesASsof It's i'll fittsn
4 planks.
& seethe1n. said Ieuan, wit
q his eye at a crack. There are fou
b Two Of them carry q Light and a swor,
E and two have guns. They are stand
ing about nv yards away, and tt
d guns are pointed at this door,
d BY this time the knocking was IA,
III and furious at the front door, and tt
q landlord was crying out IN alarm.
e Title viii open when he knows who
Ie there said I, unless we stop him.
CONTINUED Next Weekso
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q JUST TRY RUNNING.
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y Ii VIII Give Color and Bright Eyes