Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-02-17
CHAPTER xvIII.-(Continued.)

g&Ta JeStlngly aenOmlnated ny the nu
2a0g0us Hoosiers, wore away. Inc mill
Ga had been out all night, and two hal1
days. And the Oyercoat road had been
Kept warm" by the friction OF the big
Bare hoofs of courier horses galloplnS
@=~k and forth. The population OF Sand
Gnvn, and, in fact, of all the dependent
districts of the Wabash country, momen-
zaTI2y in expectation of some startling
f8ent are at length gratifed by the ap-
DeaFance Of an unusually large squad OF
che volunteer couriers. And at once the
wogd goes round. from mouth to mouth,
aaat Coonrod Redden is only a little
way back escorting the representative
" the Sandtown and Southwestern
Railroad-the opposing organization to
5Ae Sandtown and NOrthwestern-to the
soart house square, where the sales
wOuld proceed at once.
i4iZzy Wickly and ner mother having
gone back to their own little home, SO
near the very end of the Overcoat road
9isat from the bedroom window up stairs
everything was plainly visible, only three
s8nndred feet away at the court house, sat
rdfre and looked and listened.
Presently she saw the same carriage
"a which she had seen Mr.. Mason drive
site remembered that Coonrod Redden
aaa said threateningly that he ought to
be hosst up" and that he would be If
Sc dared to poke his nose into SandtoWn
kgain.
But now he drives confidently in, and
y ith no less a person than Coonrod Red
t9css seated beside him on the front seat
ri the carriage, and two gentlemen on
80 nY,n Of
AIR. Huntley for aught she knows. But
s,aUy. she scarcely thinks about it.
There is almost an endless array OF
sfis spontaneous levy of Wabash cav
4lrymen riding along after the carriage.
These battalions are headed by some of
she DikCses and the Ellets. And she
lnows from this fact that the furious
people from Big Rattlesnake Creek have
been placated in some mysterious way.
AS the head of the column comes near
y opposite Mr.. Mason looks up, smiles,
aad raises his hat Then Coonrod Red
arn sees them at the window and leans
oB. and waves his hat and shouts some
hing at them. But not word can be
distinguished because at the very first
wave of the hat a vast shout starts at
she front among the Dikeses, and goes in
xR increasing wave back to the very rear
u the line, half mile away, where it
sounds like a shrill and high-keyed echo
ST the nearer and louder shout. Some
Soay below the window calls out:
What is ut, Jim? What did you fell
5eTS DO. anyhow"
Come up to the court house un see.
Come on; come right on, everybody, up
20 the court house yard.'
Then tho words drowned in an
ether one of those odd, strange and
z3mcSt frightful shouts that, beginning
agG0ng the Dikeses in Il stentorian roar,
s0ps back along the line, rising in vol
anne and rising in tone as the sound
save SWEEPS back, until it is pitched two
gctaves above in a wild, shrill, treble half
mile back, among the boys of fifteen.
gAo again prolong it and raise it up
sgtpr it has almost died away.
A horrible suspicion flashes upon
FiZzy. She remembers i'll an instant all
fhc sEow-growing antipathy of these pco-
pie so Mr. Mason. She remembers the
xrrio7,S charges that they have made and
reiterated against him. She remembers,
Zoo. the dark and ominOus words of Coon
rod Redden. And she knows that if the
old Hoosier does no more than to remain
sst4lcScent those whooping and yelling
sayaseS from Big Rattlesnake will wreak
Il terrible and public vengeance upon the
doomed man.
Su maddening was this terrible appre
&ensiou that after the first moment of
i:li32tneSs and utter incapacity which it
&x4pSc1l, she must have become almost OBJ
Sy;0tis to everything not directly per-
saitging to the circumstances immediate
!: euvroning this man, who had gone
past her to his grave, placid and smil
arg
She had no recollection of how and
Hhrn she left her mother, or how she
pushed and crowded her way through the
gllcoRg TO the south door of the court
s,osn True. every rough and uncouth
ciler or fOotman of them all instantly
zssye way when he saw her, and even
vVacEed ont to pluck the sleeves or col
Eirx Of others in front who could not
see her and hence blocked up the way.
Let -er pass along thar, boys. Crowd
Sack thar lcetle. and let LiZZy Wickly
Kit apast. She's intrusted en- this theng
zn0rc'n anybody. She wawnts to see at
she gifts her rights" called out Big Jim
pixies. as he set about pushing this way
aud pulling that, in order TO make path
shr the greatly agitated young woman
Better let 'er so mp stairs thar, jim.
She can git to the winder en- the shuts
eooRl TN see Ut all, 'thoUt gittin run over
sy the crowd Little Sect Dary's gut the
aey. Sect, Hyur,''
That was young Starr Go-uns. she
&ueyy Then the door was reached. and
she stair door to the left being unlocked
xElG instantly locked again after she had
esstten inside she found there was some
,Re on the steps a little way above her
Come right up h-yur. Lizzy. if you
SEaprt to see the show. l guess the
STARTS rooms open. Yes. h-yur hit is.
Tie winder's up, too. Now, eff you don't
as3Re the crowd a-lookiu ut yuh. h-yur's
"a good plaISt." said the Young Doe bikes.
"a BE pulled one of the large. yellow
7~o0eien armchairs up beside the window