The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-12-14

7 had come within arms reach, and wheta
swung the easement a little Wloer'
he laid a hand on my shoulder.
TN the name OF the king!' he said
and this was all he had time or leave
to say. For at the grove
my fist against the point OF ms Wag-
ging jaw, to sem him plunglng among
the dancers, and the recoil or the dow
carried me clear of the WindoW seat
with What a din and clamor OF a nue.
and cry to speed the parting guest as
you may figure for yourselves.
The alighting ground of the leap was
the body of Dicks late antagonist ly-
ing prone beneath the window edge;
but the lad himself was up and ready
to catch me when l stumbled over the
NanQuishcd one.
"'Tis legs for 1t now he cried.
Make for the avenue and the horses
are the hitch rail-
At rising twenty a man may run last
and far; at rising forty he may still
run far If the first hundred yards DO
not burst his bellows. So when we
had dartea through the thin line OF
encircling horsemen and were lying
down The broad avenue with all the
troopers who had caught sight of us
laundering at u heels, Dick was the
pace-SettCr, whilst | made but a shlIty
second. gasping and painting and dying
a thousand deaths in the effort to
catch my second wind.
"Courage!" shouted Dick, flinging the
word back over his shoulder as he ran.
There is help ahead if we can live to
reach the gate"
But luckily for me the help was near
en- at hand Half way down the box
bordered drive, when l was at my last
gasp, the shrill Yell of the border par
tizans rose from he shubbery on the
right and a voice that l shal know and
welcome in another world cried out:
Study, boys! stiddy till We can see
the whites O. their eyes! Now, then;
give it to EN- hot and heavy!'
y haphazzard banging of guns fol-
lowed and the pursuit drew rein in
some confusion, giving US time to reach
the great gate and the horse rail, and
to loose and mount the gray and the
sorrel we had marked out.
Whilst We were about this, Ephraim
Yeates came Looping down the avenue
and through the gate to vault into the
saddle of the first horse he could lay
hands n and so it was that we three
took the northward road in the silver
starlight, With the pursuit now in order
again n in full cry behind us.
Twas not until we had safely run
the gauntlet of the vedette lines by a
by-path Known to the old hunter, and
had shaker off the troopers that were
following, that 1 found time to ask
What had become of the men who had
formed the ambush in the shrubbery.
The old MAI gave me his dry chuckle
Of a laugh.
Twas the same old roose d geer
as the d~oWncountry FrencherS 'u'd say.
l stole the drunken sergeant's gun and
two other, and let m off one to a time.
AS for the screechin', one bazoon's as
good as g dozen, if SO be ye blow it
tirece enSugh."
Twas cut and dried beforehand"
Dick explained. Il had an inkling Of
what was afoot from Ephraim, here.
whom l stumbled on when ! dropped
opened for me. He went to set his one
man ambush Whilst 1 was trying to
warn YOU"
SO said I. "Our skins are whole,
but after all we have come off with
never a word to take back to Dan
MorGan-unlesS o have the word"
Not T. Dick said, ruefully.
The old MAJ chuckled again.
"Ie amt old enough, neither one o.
We, ez l allow. 1t takes a right old
person to fish out the innards of an
inimy's secrets. Colonel Tarleton, boss,
foot and dragons, with the seventh
regiment and a part O the seventy-first,
will, take the big road for Dan Nor
gan's camp tomorrow at sun up. And
right soon afterwards, Gin'ral Corn
wallis IL foller on. Is that what you
youngsters was trying to find out?'
Continued Next Week.l