Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-01-02

shorter md more broken, ana bis heau
raRaed drowstiy. Ieuap informed him
that i SHOULD Btay the night ana ne IN
vitsd Us to SO to bed at once. Lenan
declined, but went with HIM 70 learn
where We were TO be quartereds Ana
than tbe door was made fast; and the
host and hts family, a wife and two
shoclhoaded children, got to their bed
and left Us by the fire. Dafydd mao
long been asleep, stretched on 2
bench.
Are You going to bed, reuan~ !
asked.
aNo, + am not he replied; "I hrst
went 20 look, to malSe that 0aE easy
In his mind. We VIII sit here and sleep
Il title TIN III rs time TO start. We
shall be more sure not to stop too
long"
This ives entirely to my mind, and I
took GONE fuel from q stack In the
corner OF the room and replenished the
fire. We sat and talked for some time
agains and then the fatigues cf the day
began 10 assert themselves; leuan be-
came silent, and. before Ions, \ slid 2
to- a restless slurnber.
OF 8J sudden I awoke. instantly and
completely. had an uneasy feeling
at my lRart that I had been Wakene1
by a sound OF danger. Yet all was stifi.
Ieuan haS dropped asleep In hts chair,
and was breathing heavily The nre
had died down, and the room was dark
There seemed TO ring in my ears the
distant bark of a dog.
From some farm close at hand,
though i and stretched out my
cramped legs and resolved TO sleep no
more but watch the rest Of the night.
was seated in the corner OF d high
I backed settle with the window behind
me. Al faint glimmer seemed 70 come
into the air, and II sprang to my feet.
x with 4 beating heart 4 perceived the
window full Of q red, dancing light.
Iran to 1t, and, even as did SO, the
II loud baying OF a hound rang Y ia
the silence OF a MINDLESS night, and \
saw a plump Of haring links not thirty
yards away, borne on at q run, ana
4 heading straight for the house.
gIeuan," called quickly but my
voice was drowned by q great hound
giving tongue furiorsly without. His
u deep, hollow bark was followed by q
whine and d swift scratching az the
outer door.
i recognized the note with a bitter
sense Of betrayal, though the poor
brute had done ii unconsciously. All
my doublings and twistings had been
in vain. Ranger had been set upon
my track, and had led my foes unerr-
ihgIy to my refuge.
Ieuan leaped from his chair n ran
enemies" said he, cool and vide
awake ait once.
yes, said /. rs there q door be-
hindu
The light OF the torches flashed in
through the WINDOWS, aid cast our
shadows before us as we sprang into
the passage.
Surround the house shouted q
voice I knew. 1t was done upon the
Instant
The whole building stood open and
naked to the moor without fence on
enclosure, and while we CROPPED our
way along a Uttered, p~itch-dark, and
unfamiliar passage, nj foes outran us
Here 1t ISIS" said Ieuan, laying his
hand on a bolt and half drawing III.
He growled something and shot II
back, as the light OF the well pitched
links shone red under the door and
through the crevices Of it's Ill htting
planks,
II can see them. said Ieuan, Will
his eye at a crack. There are four
Two Of them carry a light and a sword
and two have guns. They are stand
ing about five yards away, and th'
guns are pointed at this door,"
BY this time the knocking was fas
and furious at the front door, and the
landlord was crying out in alarm.
"He will open when he knows who Il
there said !. unless we stop him.
tC~ontinued Next Week.)