The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-01-01
to give him a good rest till tomorrow
He bit his lip. and stared thoughtfully

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to give him a good rest till tomorrow
He bit his lip, and stared thoughtfully
into the fire.
Now said he, here ISIS the plan.
Tomorrow morning, before the daylight
comes, you must go from this place
in my clothes. 1t ISIS lucky we are about
the same size. Have you some mon
ey?"
Not a penny" I replied.
Never mind" rejoined Ieuan, "yoL,
have 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 a place where
thinking to go far?"
Within a dozen miles of Hereford"
"a little journey that said Ieuan.
We'll, you take these clothes, when
0 will look very respectable, and by
daylight o must be two or three
miles away. Walk to the next town
and hire a horse, and off you go.
Dafycd and I will slip away with you.
or change in clothes will be SEEM"
[ gratefully consented to Ieuan's
plan, which held out q good hope Of
safety; n as the landlord now came
to give us his company, it was not pos
SN@A ~ "a
a couple Of hours he sat with us and
prosed about country affairs and local
gossip. 1euan, who had his own rea-
sons for doing SO, ordered liberal sup
plies Of ale, n urged the host to
drink. He needed but little encourage
ment and disposed c%heerfully Of almost
all that he bought. Seasoned topper as
he was, his stories at last became
shorter n more broken, and his head
oraH n no yrcily Tny1o v ~ f0yY,1o cd #hfe-1
that | should stay the night; and he in
vited us to go to bed at once. Ieuan
declined, but Went with him to learn
Where we We're to be quartered, and
then the door was made fast; n the
host and his family, a wife and two
s~flockheaded children, got to their bed
and left us by the fire. Dafydd had
long been asleep, stretched on a
bench.
Are you going to bed, Ieuan?" I
asked.
NO, I am not" he replied; 81 first
to look, to make that man easy
in his mind. We will sit here and sleep
q little till it iss time to start. We
shall be more sure not to stop too
long,
This was entirely to my mind. and I
took some 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, 1 slid in
to a restless Slumber.
Of a sudden l awoke, instantly and
completely. l had am uneasy feeling
at my heart that l had been Weakened
by a sound of danger. Yet all was still.
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 tie
distant bark of a dog.
From some farm close at hand"
though Il, and stretched out my
cramped legs and resolved to sleep no
more, but watch the rest of the night.
/ was seated in the corne of a high
backed settle with the window behind
me. A faint glinlmer seemed to come
into the air, and l sprang to my feet.
With a beating heart I perceived the
window full of a red, dancing light.
| ran to it, and. even as 1 did SO, the
baying Of a hound rang out in
the silence of a MINDLESS night, and I
saw a plump OF ilaring links not thirty
yards away, borne on at a run, and
heading straight for the house.
"1euan," l called quickly, but my
voice was drowned by a great hound
giving tongue f%uriously without. HIS
deep. hollow bark was followed BY a
whine and a swift scratching at the
outer door.
I recognized the note with a bitter
ems of betrayal, though the poor
brute had done it unconsciously. All
my doublings and twistings had been
in vain. Ranger had been set upon
track, and had led my foes unerr-
ingly to my refuge.
Ieuan leaped from his chair and ran
to my side.
Enemies" said he, cool and vice
awake at once.
Yes said /. "Is there a door be-
hind?"
The light of the torches flashed in
through the windows, and cast our
the passage.
surround the house, shouted a
voice / knew. It al done upon the
instant.
The whole building stood open and
naked to the without fencn or
enclosure, and while we groped4 our
way along a Uttered. pitch-dark, and
unfamiliar passage, our foes outran US.
Here it iss," said Ieuan, laying his
hand on a bolt and half drawing 1t.
He growled something and shot it
back, as the light Of the well pitched
links shone red under the door and
through the %crevices of It's i'll fitting
planks.
Il can see them" said Ieuan, with
his eye at a crack. There are four.
Two of them carry q light and a sword,
and two have guns. They are sta;ud-
ing about five yards away, and the
guns are pointed at this door"
BY this time the knocking was fast
and furious at the front door, and the
was crying out in alarm.
He will open when he knows wltu Is
there" said I, unless we stop him.
Continued Next Week.)