The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-05-18

ms thus to earth. ana when thrust il
laughed 4G1 SwoCs. and turned n,
blade aside win his bare hand. Then
pressing closer, he struck me with hi
FfSt, and tAeCeupon the nigAt ana all IL
happenings went blank as i the blow
had been = cannon Shog 10 crash ln
sA2!L,
IN WHICH TASTE TIE QUALITY
OF MERCY.
Two ways there be 10 fetch 8
stunned ~ his senses. is they wE:l
tell you who have seen 5ne rack ao-
piled: one IS 10 slack the tension OF
the cracking joints ana minister cor
itals 10 the victim; ;he other To give
the ~strainlng winch = CrUellsr twist. /.
O as y0u would guess: and when I
came 10 knnw and Sae and fee. aSaiu
a pair OF them ware kicking :.!A a!:vs.
and was sore and aching from their
buffetings.
How long a time came in between
my futile dash for liberty and this
harsh preface to their dragging OF me
back to the manor house. I could not
tell. 1t must have been an hour or
more. for now q gibbous moon hung
pale above the tree-tops, and all around
were bivouac fires and horses tathered
to show that in the interval Il troop had
come and camped.
The scene within the great fore
room of the house had been shift
too. A sentry was pacing back
and forth before the door-a Hes
sian grenadier by the size and
shake of him; and when the TWO
trooper bailiffs thrust me in, and had
winked n blinked my eyes accustom-
ed to the candle light, I saw the table
had been swept of its bottles and
glasses, and around it, sitting as in
council, were some half score officers
of the British light horse with their
colonel at the head.
AS it CHANGED, this was my first sight
near at hand Of that British command
er whose name in after years the pa
tr1ot mothers spoke to fright their chill
He did not loo a monster. AS l
aim now, he was a short, square
bodied man, younger by some years
than myself, and yet with an old cam
palgner's head well set upon agrees
slve shoulders. His eyes were black
and ferrety; and his face, we'll seasoned
the Carolina sun. was swart as any
Arabs. a man., l thought, who could
be Sentle-harsh or harsh-revengeful, s
the mood should prompt; who could
well-turned courtier compliments
a lady and damn a trooper in the
self-same breath.
This was thai Colonel Banastre Tar
Teton who gave no quarter to surrend-
men; n when 1 looked into the
sloe-black eyes l saw in them for me
a waiting gibbet.
ne iapped out when was
49, ale oe.oie nm. GU re the spying
to hang?"
His lack of courtesy rasped so sorelv
: must ieeus give place TO wrath
anu answer sharply thai there was
ana uoupt q IT. since could stand
ny ~ eulse nm.
ny eeoMlea At that a~nd9cursed me
tn h aSalH DIS nearby as any fsh-
- Aheh suuueiiy ne changed MS
nes zen me you We're in the SER
~ oneI anu ielt II hohorapiy. am
70 ,ans d man VINO mas Worn the
,otots; YOU'D IL please you best to die
! alu ~ moula, most surely.
ne sald l should have the boon if l
$50 zen MN what an olncer on the
800 ae kaip stal should know; the
t1sistn OF o Son.inenta!s, the gen
Iais designs n dispositions, and l
.3or TO. what pesides. | think it was
- .aush Lhst MADE MN stop and
-. 80 10 ak thiust.
GoQ: IL MAKE you laugh an
As1Fs Iuhs- ne s"ore. You rebels
| : ~ On piece. ana cieInency is
tas.Ea on YOU.
.oat mercy comes toe dear; you set
mgr q price upon 1t, Colonel Tar
II, LOT the mere swapping of a
1ps ior a puiiet, could be the poor
nun your oHef irnpiles, hanging would
I LOO good Tor me-
II 1hat is your last word But stay;
!. CIV 9 ar hour to think it over
II needs not an hour nor a minute"
replied. N l knew aught about the
ohllhental aimy-wh1ch l do not-Id
e You hanged IN Nour own stirrup-
ather before I'd tell You, Colonel
moreover, l marvel great
At what2?' he cut in rudely.
AT your lnformants lack Of inven-
lie might have brought me
falght from Genera Washington's
eadquarters While he was about 1t.
be no greater8lie than that he
ia you
lie heard me through, then fell to
rising me afresh, and would be send
g an aide-de-camp hotfoot for Fal-
While the messenger was going and !
'ming there was chance for me to
ok around like a Door fra nned ant
lal in a pitfall, loath to die with out