Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-06-29

b-I swear
IXlence! You speak too loud; the
riis around your neck; your hands
aied; you are on the very brink of
4ep, beyond whose brink nearly
dalf OF your body is already pro-
/ jag, sidewise. Do not attempt to
| NJ limb. The weight of a pound
nj Of your body carried to your left
Weary you over, till the rope
bis you up suddenly"
bhfort shuddered, and his heart
ibled in its affrighted throbbings,
ldthis uncomfortable shuddering
nj carry from his right side to his
ldhat fatal pound of weight of
| WI his merciless victor had spok-
| Ell
ssterday you murdered four men,
a1iided in numbering the fifth" con-
| till Clarence. GAS | lay exhausted
uI this ledge yesterday l saw four
dabodies shoot out into the mist
frhbove my head. I saw them, one
afIanother, but for an instant-the
bd6 Of falling men. | scarcely had
ITO recognize that they We're hui
mbeings, SO suddenly did they ap-
peand SO quickly did they vanish
anlthe mist. Since then, from your
coide's speech, while you lay sense
leh the closet room, have learned
thfou murdered those men. Their
deIbodies are two hundred feet be-
loYou. You are to die, hanged, far
abb those mangled corpses!"
ercy! I will tell you where you
caind those proofs of Zeno Sosia's
why and treachery toward your
faf-those proofs Of your mothers
INF nce which your uncle was TAX
IMP your father!" gasped Bashfort.
pie them from the bosom OF
Gle de Lavet-when he was dead
a did not give them to Zeno So
sia.i told Sosia that had lost the
palt in which they were. l gave
hirtthe child-you-but l hid the
paft. The old sexton of ST. Nicho-
lasiurch, in Galway Michael Glenn
ii the packet. . gave it to him
neH twenty-five years ago, when
guild Sosia's service. | saw the old
NAB few days ago, and he told me
he Id that packet yet-had never
oped it-kept it in an old chest
shoI ID it to me. had no use for it.
I hi nearly forgotten the long ago
pas| I told him to keep the packet
till called for it, or sent for it. He
is ample old man and will give it to
youf you ask for it in my name.
Yolfather lives--he is now Lord de
Law and perhaps even now in Gal
way
" A my mother?"
"a do not know! Mercy! Why
do y draw your dagger?" gasped
lBasRrt, for at this moment Clarence
was lawing his dagger.
IN mother went mad" replied
Clarea, in a terrible tone" and wan
dereIoff to France, where she died.
You barred in the villainy that drove
her I'D. am going to punish one of
her nrderers"
Asflarence spoke these words, his
left Ind was grasped upon Bashforts
breasto hold the man from rolling off
the fink of the ledge, while his
highland, armed with his dagger,
was trust under the assassin's back,
seekE the cord that bound the fell
low skrists.
ThFope which was held by the Os-
reds hs slack, and several feet of it's
in coils near Bashfort's
head ) his neck was in the moose.
Glance intended that the villain
shoul}be hanged, and that by those
on thicliff it should be supposed that
Bashfft had hanged himself by acci.
dent. 70 carry out this deceit it was
necessity that the body should not be
found With its hands tied behind the
back, as was very probable, the Os.
reds spuld haul it up to the top OF
the eli.
Mety! Spare met" shouted Bash.
fort, APPALLED, by the cropping of the
medtand under his back, end mag
lining | horrible thrust was about to
pierce lis backbone. Mercy! Spare
mel" III
In hi supreme terror he forgot The
warnin Clarence had given him.
His bout, but not his words, was
heard Y the Osreds. They supposed
he wasgiving the signal to haul on
the ron, and the coils of slack near
head began to move, then
began ping upward, and at that in.
slant Clarence severed with his dag.
ger theIcord that bound Bashfort,s
wrist. aid at the same moment shov.
ed thgkpan over the brink Of the
edge, had and breast downward.
MotRr, ! avenge thee upon one
he othf is dead" cried Clarence, as
lie thrua the noosed ruffian from him,
Preciltate and swift in its descent,
lownwah went the body Of Neil Bash.
ort. f,lllthirty feet e'er the rope drew
aut upot its fastened end aboye--the
loose Shaping the rilffi AMI b be ed d Il .ss
instantly from his shoulders as il the
Icimitar4P q Turk had smitten III on,
g greatawas the body's weight. Sd
Iteep and heep the fall.
The head flew on into the air and
ell Into The sea. The body darted on
loWnwaM like q plummet, and uuiy.