The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-02-28
awhile?' he said, after a while.
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awhile?' he said, after while.
Course not.
"The five men dismounted.
Come inside and sit down. I said.
That was evidently what he had been
fishing for.
by the dim light he could see the
Chinamen-four of them. The other
two had gone out to the other house,
a sort of store shed for fishing gear.
I saw him eye them for a moment, but
evidently he was satisfied at once that
they were Siwashes.
But my heart gave a jump. One
of the Cinnamon had disarranged his
wig and you could see strip of shaw
en- scalp above his ear. I managed to
slip in between him and the revenue
man before he saw, and stayed that
way until he went out again.
II followed. There was a look in
his eye that left me uncertain wheth-
err he suspected or not. After ten min
utes he and his fellows mounted and
rode off. Before they disappeared into
the woods l saw them talking earnest
ly and one of them looked back as
though sizing UP the layout of the
land.
1T was early afternoon, so had
had some good sleep. My uneasiness
was too great to allow me any more.
1 worried along until sunset, when we
all ate together. 1t was while so oc-
cupied that l heard quick footsteps
outside and Quinland came in pretty
much excited.
Hurry up!' he said. They're onto
us. Some ones split on us and the rev.
enue men and the sheriffs gang are
laying for us along every road. Quick!
Get your men together, and follow
ut didn't take us minute to do
that. We'd just got into the woods
when we heard horses galloping along
road we had just crossed. In ten
minutes we came on another clearing
where the rest of our outfit we're con-
gregated. From there the twenty-three
of us struck off into the woods again
at quick pace. We kept that up for
two hours about. Then we came to
a road.
"'wait here, and lie low in the
brush Quinland ordered. Then he
and the Siwash struck out on the road,
leaving me there with the twenty Chi
namen.
II waited for an hour or so. Then
came the rattle of wheels. and a
wagon with four horses pulled up on
the road before us.
d" Come along, fellers. 1t was
Quinland's voice. The wagon was
loaded with loose hay. The China
men were made to pile into the mid
die of it; then we covered them up.
1.-TWO horses had been tied to >the
rear of the wagon. Quinland I'M
loosed them.
You an Jim get on these he said.
I'll drive. Jim goes ahead. You drop
astern about five hundred yards an
keep yer ears OPEN
II did, and the wagon moved on. l
4ha IF xxr1,a With n
sound, SOS l wouldn't lose my way.
We kept this up till near morning,
when ] heard the beat of hoofs be-
hind. In a minute I was up to the
wagon.
" They're coming!' I shouted.
We had rehearsed our Cinnamon
we'll. In another moment they had
jumped out of the wagon and scat
tered into the woods. l followed them
with my horse.
"Quinland drove slowly on Two
minutes later five men dashed by and
we heard them halt him. left my
horse with a Cinnamon and sneaked
up to where the wagon had been halt
ed. Qunland was talking with the
same five men who had interviewed
me. 1 recognized the leaders voice
l couldn't get close enough to hear
what Quinland said, but finally the
iSNSiluc iiicll TOuS OH. w e waited ten
minutes, then Quinland whstled. I
gathered in the Cinnamon, and came
out with them, and they piled in
again. Then we went on.
When morning light came we
found ourselves well up in the Olym-
pic Mountains, pretty wild country
We camped there all day, well off
from the road. Next night we went
on, but weren't bothered by the rev.
enue men again.
six days later we delivered our
Cinnamon safely into the hands of a
highlander agent at a railroad town,
and he shipped them on to Frisco. We
received another fr"" hundred dollars
and returned to Poi Angeles.
Since then I've helped to run over
three hundred Cinnamon into the
United States"