The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-28

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Of my detention. VIII you SEND a mar
to overtake them with a note from
me?"
The colonel INDUCED me in the most
gentlemanly manner; and when my
note to Jennifer was dispatched we
sat together at the roots of a great oak
and I told him all that had befallen ou1
little rescue party. He heard ME
through patiently, and when the
tale was ended was good enough
to say that l had earned a com
mission for my part In the affair
l laughed and promptly shifted that
burden to Ephraim Yeates' shoulders.
THE old hunter was our general.
Colonel Davie. He did all the planning
and the greater part Of the executing.
But for him and the friendly Catawba.
1t would have gone hard with Jennifer
and me-"
II fear you are o~ver-modest captain"
was all the reply 1 got; and then my
kindly host fell anuse. When he spoke
again twas to give me a resume in
brief of the military operations north
and south.
AT the north, as his news ran, affairs
remained as they had been, save that
now the French king had sent an army
to supplement the fleet, and Coun
Rochalmbeau and the allies We're en-
camped on Rhode Island ready to take
the field.
In the south the distressful situation
we had left behind us on that August
Sunday following the disastrous battle
Of Camden was but little changed. Cen
eral Gates, with the scantiest follow
Ing, had FASTENED first to Salisbury and
later to Hillsborough, n a since
been busy striving to reassemble his
scattered foes.
A few military partisans. like my
host. had kept the field, doing what the
few might against the many to retard
my Lord CORVALLIS northward march;
and a week earlier the colonel with his
handful of mounted riflemen had dared
to p his entry into Charlotte.
no more than a hint to his
lordship that we We're not afraid of
him" said my doughty colonel. You
know the town, l take it?"
Very well, indeed"
We'll, we had harassed him all the
way from Blair's Mill, and twas mid
night when We coached Charlotte.
There we determined to make a stand
n give him a taste Of our mettle. We
~dismounted, took post behind the stone
wall Of the court house green and un-
der cover Of the fences along the
road"
Good! ar ambush" said I.
Hardly that, since they were look
Ing to have resistance. Tarleton was
sick. and Major Hanger commanded
the British van. He charged, n we
peppered them smartly. They tried it
again, and this time their infantry out
thanked us. We abandoned the court
house n formed again in the eastern
edge Of the town; and now, bless you!
twas my Lord Charles himself who
had to ride forward and fout at his
men for their wan of enterprise"
But you could never hope to hold on
against such odds!" I exclaimed.
ooh, no; but we held them for a
third charge, and eat them back, too
Then they brought up two more regi-
ments and we mounted n got off in
tolerably good order. losing only six
men killed. But Colonel Francis Locke
was one Of these: and my brave Joe
Graham was all but cut to pieces-a
sore Glow to US just now"
The colonel sighed and silence fell
upon us. Twas | who broke it to say:
Then we are still playing a losing
hand in the south, as I take it?"
IT worse than that. AS the game
stands we have played our trumps and
nave not so much as a long suit left.
CORVALLIS will go on as he pleaseG and
oyerrun the state, n the militia will
never stand in front Of him again I'M
der Horatio Gates. Worse still, Fergu-
son is off to the westward, embodying
the tories by the hundred, and we shall
have burnings and h%angings and har-
ryings to the kings taste
l nursed my knee a moment and then
said: What may one man do to help, |
Colonel Davie?"
He looked up quickly. Much, if you
are that man, and do not value your
life toe highly, Captain Iretor."
You may leave that out of the ques-
ton" said l.. II shall count it the hap
piest moment of my life when I shall
have done something worth their kill
ing ne for"
| had noted before. Then he laughed.
If you were as young as Major Joe
Graham, and a been well crossed in
love, l could understand you better,
captain. But, jesting aside, there is a
thing to do, and you are the mar to do
1t. Our spies are thick in CORVALLIS
camp, but what is need is some master
us. Major Ferguson moves as Corn
wallis pulls the strings. Could we
know the majors Instructions and de-
we might cut him off, bring the
tory uprising to the ground, and so
hearten the country beyond measure.
| say We might cut him off, though I
know not where the men would come
from to do It,"
"Well?' said I, when he paused.
The preliminary Is some better In
than our spies a give us.
Now 0 have been an officer in the
British service. and"
! smiled. Truly; and 1 have the
honor, If you please to all it so, of his
lordship's acquaintance. Also I have
that of Colonel Tarleton and the mem
bers Of his staff. the same having tried
aud condemned me as a spy at Appleby
Hundred some few weeks before this
chase I have told you Of"
His face fell. Then, Of course, it is
out of the question for you to show
yourself in Corvallis headquarters"
I rose and buttoned my borrowed
coat.
or the contrary, Colonel Davie, n
more than ever at your service. Let
ave a cut of your yenison and a
feed for@my horse. and T shall be at my
lords headquarters as soon as the nag
can carry me there"
CHAPTER xxxII.
IN WHICH AM BEDDED IN A
GARRET.
Ills a very pretty hazard. Captain
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