CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-04-14

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pairing broth. and they insisted that the
two latter delicacies be fed TO the pa
tent at once. They were sull in ig-
norance OF the truth about the Cross
roads and spent the day Gt was Sun
day, partly In getting in the way of
the attendants and partly In planning
an assault upon the Rouen jail for the
purpose OF lynching Slattery In case
Harklcss' condition did not improve at
once. Those who bad heard his state
ment kept close mouths until the story
appeared In full In the Rouen papers on
Monday morning. But by that time
pvcry member of the Crossroads White
Caps was lodged in the Rouen jail with
siatfery. Horner and a heavily armed
posse rode over to the muddy corners
On Sunday night. and the sheriff dis
severed that he might have taken the
skilictts and Johnsous single handed
and unarmed. Their nerve was gone.
They were shaken and afraid. and. 10
Employ figure somewhat inappropri-
ate TO their sullen. glad surrender. they
fell upon his neck in their relief nt
nnding the law touching them. They
had no wish to hear John Browns
Body" again. They wanted TO get in
side OF strong jail and to throw them
selves on the mercy Of the court soon
as possible. And those whom Harklcss
had not recognized made no delay in
giving themselves up They did not
wish 10 remain In Six Crossroads, Boz
Skillet. Force sohnson and one or two
others needed the care OF a physician
/ a
from a severely wrenched back Hor-
ner had train stopped at a crossing
so that his prisoners need not be taken
through Plattville. and he brought
them all safely TO Roucn.
II took nearly a week 10 persuade the
people OF Plattville that 1t was better
for them TO 20 home, aud It was only
the confidence inspired by the manner
OF the two eminent surgeons Othcy lay
in walt at all hours TO interview these
gentlcmcnl that did persuade them To
retHrn-this and the promise Of two
daily bulletins.
As many OF them said on their re-
turn, plattville didn't feel like the same
place" and strange thing had hap
pened-for the first time In five years
the Carlow County Herald missed fire
altogether. Tuesday, Thursday aud
Saturday passed. Mr.. Fisbec only sat
staring out OF the dingy office win
dows with Parker In a dcmented si-
lence. There was no Herald. there
was no one TO get II out.
In the Rouen hospital John Harklcss
feebly moved on his bed of pain. His
constant delusion was that the uni
verse was n vast. white heated brass
bell and he point at the center OF 1t.
listening. listening for years. to the
brazcn hum IL gave OF and burning
In hot waves OF sound
Finally he came to what he would
have considered a lucid interva, had
II not appeared that Helen Sherwood
was whispering to Tom Meredith at
the foot OF his bed. This he knew TO
be fictitious presentation of his fever
for was she not by this time away and
away for foreign landsf And also Tom
Meredith was slim young thing and
not a middle aged youth with an un-
dcniablc stomach and a baldish head
who by the prepostorous necroinancy
OF fever assumed Rrotesque likeness
Of his old friend. He waved his hand
to the figures. and they vanished like
ngments OF a dream: but. all the same.
the vision had been realistic enough
for the lady to look cxuuisitely pretty.
No one could help whaling to stay In