The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17

stumbling the drunken crew whom
Moan had been at pains to show me
in the Indian Queen. Over my Shout
der l watched them for a moment.
They were in scottish glee, and would
shout, and now and then troll a bar or
two of some pot-house ballad.
My nature was on watch in mo-
ment; l suspected how these ruffians
would be after us. We were in a
lonely strip of tree, and no folk near
the spot but just ourselves safe the
alter for villainy. 1 counted our roar
ing drun5ards; there were eleven, and
among them I could pick out the yard
wide shoulders of that gladiator to
whom Noah had pointed.
Peg, as well as I, could see these
creatures coming; but then she had not
my news, and would only know them
for roysterers returning from some
drinking bout. 1 glanced at Peg; her
face was bright and free, and for all
her late lamentations over society and
its dead cold wastes of proper snow,
mighty wide awake and ViVacious.
never beheld her more brisk; in the
white moonlight her picture shone out
as clear as day.
Peg was on my right arm. I began
to go more slowly SO that those who
followed should overtake US, and to
push little off the path to the right,
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of them when trouble fell.
AS 1 would loiter and 20 with a
slower foot, the eleven behind quick
ened their step. They came on, roar
ing and jesting among themselves; not
together, but by twos and threes, and
struggling along the path like geese.
think it was their plan to push ahead
Of Peg and me and bar our way; for
they went numbering and lurching by.
L itocr fn
to tongue, but no one to so much as
look on us direct until the last one
came up. He would be tagging be-
hind for purpose, too, since he was
gone on no more than a yard ahead of
Ueg and myself when he sings on: to
his fellows with an oath:
bye see whom we have here? Why,
here is our big lover and his life O.
love--1o less!"
With that stepping before Peg,
seized the scoundrel with my left hand.
1t was his arm above the elbow l took
hold on and a, soft snick like a snap
pirg of the clay stem of a pipe, and
the grotesque way in which the hand
dangled, palm outward, showed me
how 1 had broken the bone.
The creatures scream brought the
others to his rescue. That was no
loss, for it would have been their plan
from the first to return and fall upon
me. AS they came on in a laundering
file, whirling forth oaths, I took the
one in my hand with a grip about his
middle. Heaving him over my head,
I dashed him at the others as they
drew near The william would do beau
tifully as projectile, too, for he now
ed down three like a chain-shot, his
boot making a fine cash in the face of.
one % them.
On the point of going forward to
meet the others, I was stayed by a
shout, loud and musical, yet much like
the Inuffie6 roar of some deep-lunged
animal. Then came one from the rear
with the speed of an arrow at top
flight. H. the moonlight could tell
him for Rivera, the son of that Span
ish bull. fighter, running like a stag.
He flashed by me; and the next mo-
ment he struck one of the roughs with
his fist. 1t was hammer-like blow,
and that one who would stop it fell
with the crash of a tree.
Continued in Next Sundays News.)
Already Mayor McCIellan's fame
has reached beyond the Alps where
lies Italy. His honor some time ago
received from a subject of King Vic
tor Emmanuel a letter in which the
writer explains that he is an adept at
thought transference. He says that a
thought has been waited across the
ocean informing him that the Mayor
would leHd him 1000 lire for short
time. Since then two more letters
have arrived from the same CORE
spondent. Col. Mcclellan has figured