Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-05-18
THE MASTER OF APPLEBY
BY rr.nci. Lynd..



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tell you who have seen the rack APP
Piled one is to slack the tension on
the cracking joints and minister COR
dials to the victim; the other to give
the straining winch crueller twist. 1t
was not the sentler way my captors
took. as you would guess; and when l
came to know and see and feel again
pair of them were kicking me alive.
and / was sore and aching from their
buffetings.
How long a time came in between
harsh preface to their dragging of me
back to the manor house. could not
tell. 1t must have been an hour or
more. for now gibbous moon hung
pale above the tree-tops. and all around
were bivouac fires and horses tethered
to show that In the interval q troop had
come and camped.
The scene within the great fore
room OF the house had been shift
ed. 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
ed to the candle light. saw the table
had been swept of its bottles and
glasses. and around 1t. sitting as in
council. We're some half score officers
of the British light horse with their
colonel at the head.
AS 1t CHANGED. this was my FIRST sight
near at hand of that British command
er whose name In after years the pa
triot mothers spoke to fright their chill
dem He did not look monster AS
recall him now, he was a Short square
bodied man, younger by some years
than myself, and yet with an old cam
paigner's head we'll set upon agrees
sive shoulders. His eyes We're black
and ferrety; and his face, we'll seasoned
by the Carolina sun, was swart as any
Arabs. A man. l thought, who could
ba gentle harsh or arsh-revengeful. as
the mood should prompt: who could
make well-turned courtier compliments
to Il lady and damn trooper in the
self same breath.
This was that Colonel Banastre Tar
Teton who gave no quarter to surrend-
cred men; and when l looked into the
sloe- black eyes ! saw in them for me
a waiting gibbet.
So" he raped out, when was
hailed before him. You're the spying
rebel captain, eh? Are you alive enough
to hang?"
His lack Of courtesy rasped so sorely
that l must needs give place to wrath
and answer sharply that there was
small doubt of 1t, since l could stand
and curse him.
He scowled at that and cursed me
back again as heartily as any fish
Wife. Then suddenly he changed his
tune.
They tell me you were In the SER
i T., A.
loath to hang n man who has worn the
colors. Would 1T please YOU best TO die
soldiers death. CAPTAIN Ireton?"
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| AT your informant's lack of inven-
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