Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1905-05-04

II have heard through Saul .Shem-
uel,1 be said gravely. II guess my
brother was tickled to death to help
you out of that pickle, Mr.. Cardigan"
"He shall not lose by it either" said
/ ''My solicit1r, Peter Weaver of AL
oany, has sent your. brother full recon-
pense for the carriage and animals"
After dinner we withdrew to one of
the small tables in corner of the
room. a servant bringing ,thither our
nuts and hot bowls and also some
writing materials for me.
These | prepared to use at once,
pushing the nutshells clear, and seized
the pen to cramp it in thy dst ana set
TO work, tongue moistening my deter.
mined lips; @
Oct 2S. l77L
Thomas Foxcroft, Esq. Solicitor. Queen
Street Boston.
My Dear Sir-At what hour this even
ing will it prove convenient for you to
receive the undersigned upon affairs OF
the utmost urgency and grave moment
concerning Miss Warren. whose interests
] believe you represent?
The instant Importance OF the matter
trust may plead my excuse for this abrupt
intrusion on your privacy.
Pray consider me. sir, your most obliged
and obedient servant.
MICHAEL CARDIGAN. =
At the Wild Goose, near Wiltshire and
Chambers streets
Sealing the letter, / bade the servant
take 1t and bring an answer if the
nt "A
event to leave the letter.
/ sat silent, bordering on the strange
circumstances of these months which
had brought me so swiftly from my
boyho0ds isolation into Boston, into
the thick of the tremendous struggle
between king and colony, struggle
still bloodless save for the so called
Boston massacre of some years past.
The gentlemen in the inn were all
most kind and polite. Two soldiers Of
the Lexington militia entertained me
most agreeably. They were Nathan
Harrington and Robert Monroe, the
latter an old soldier, having been stand
ard bearer for his regiment at Louis
burg.
"For years" he observed quietly,
''the British have said that all Ameri
cans are towards. and they have SO
dinned it into their own ears that they
believe it. If | or my friends be cow
ards / do not know it. 1t is not well
to boast for God alone knows what a
man may do in battle yet | myself have
been in battle and was afraid. too, but
never ran. | carried England's flag
once. 1t is not well that she foul her
own nest"
at have never smelled powder. Have
you, sirf" said Harrington. turning to
me
"Not to boast Of" l replied.
Mount says you conducted most
CALAMITY under fire" said Monroe,
smiling.
4 "No more CALAMITY than did all at
Cresap's fort said !. annoyed. 1--WE
were behind ramparts and dreaded
nothing save an arrow or two"
"But you had some warm work with
certain Tories. tooy' began Monroe
zone Walter Bntler l believe"
How Gid you hear of that?" | ask
ed in astonisDment. ,,y-,
"Benny Prince brought the news, Z,
he replied Where he heard it / do
not know, but it is noised abroad that
you laid no kind hands on Walter But
Ter and Lord Dunmore. Aye Mr.. Car
digan, we know, too, that the son OF
your father will fight to the death for
the cause which his honor demands
that he embrace" sa
"My father died for his king" | said.
"And mine, too.' said Monroe, but
were he not with God today l know
where he would be found"
1t was late when the servant re-
turned from Mr.. Foxcroft with a curt
note from that gentleman promising
to receive me at O'Clock in the aft
ernoon of the day following.
As | stood twisting the letter in my
fingers and staring out into the black
city which perhaps sheltered the WON
an | loved somewhere amid its shad-
ows Jack Mount came up, peering
through the window with restless
eyes.
"Cade has never returned to this
tavern he said gloomily. mo one
here has either seen or heard of him
since he and left last April for Cres-
APPS camp" gIsI