The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1906-08-31

remonstrance is vain, and Is yet con-
strained to demonstrate.
"Oh, dear! My Lady Proper! How
refined we are gettingw
There, did not mean to annoy YOU"
said she, YEARLY. Don't let us quarrel,
for goodness sake"
The INSTRUMENTATION of which Rufus
Dawes had been guilty was insignificant.
1t was the custom of the newly fedged
constables of Captain Frere to enter the
wards at night, armed with cutlasses,
tramping about, and making a great
noise. The men In Dawes gang were
often searched more than once in a
night, searched going to work, searched
at meals, searched going to prayers,
searched coming out, and this in the
toughest manner.
Now, Rufus Dawes, holding aloof. as
was his custom, from the majority of his
companions, had made one friend-if so
mindless and battered an old wreck
could be called friend-Blind Mooney.
one OF the many ways in which Rufus
Dawes had obtained the affection of the
old blind man was the gift of such frag-
ments OF tobacco as he had himself from
time to time secured. Troke knew this;
ana on the evening in question hit upon
an excellent plan. Admitting himself
noiselessly into the boat shed, where the
gang slept, he crept close to the sleeping
Dawes, and counterfeiting MONEYS
fndMDling utterance, asked for "some to-
bacco." Rufus Dawes was but half
awake, and Troke felt something put
into his hand. He grasped Dawes arm,
and struck light. He had got his man
this time. Dawes had conveyed to his
fancied friend piece of tobacco almost
as big as the top joint of his little fin
ger.
One can understand the feelings of a
man entrapped by such base means.
Rufus Dawes no sooner saw the hated
face Of Warder Troke peering over his
hammock than he sprang out, and, ex-
erting to the utmost his powerful mus
cles, knocked Mr.. Troke fairly off his
legs into the arms of the incoming con-
stables. A desperate struggle took place,
at the end of which the convict, over
powered by numbers, was borne sense
less to the cells, gagged and chained
to the ring bolt on the bare flags While
In this condition he was savagely beaten
by ave or six constables. To this MAIN
ed and manacled rebel was the COM
mandant ushered by Troke the next
morning.
"Ha! ha! my man." said the COM
mandant Here you are again, you see.
How do you like this sort of thing?"
Dawes, glaring, makes no answer.
you shall have fifty lashes, my man"
said Frere. "We'll see how you'll feel
thenw
The fifty were duly administered, and
the commandant called the next day.
The rebel was still mute. Frere gave
him fifty more lashes, and sent him the
next day to grind cayenne pepper. This
was a punishment more dreaded by the
convicts than any other. The pungent
dust filed their eyes and lungs, causing
them the most excruciating torments.
For q man with a raw back the work
was one continued agony. In four days
Rufus Dawes, emaciated, blistered,
blinded, broke down.
Captain Frere, kill me at once" he
| said.
"No fear" said the other, rejoiced at
this proof of his power. you've given
In: that's all wanted. Troke, take him
to the hospital"
pllmented him on his courage, and offer.
ed to make him a constable. Dawes
turned his SCARED back to his torturer
and resolutely declined to answer.
II am afraid you have made an enemy
Of the mandant," said North the next
day. "Why not accept his offer"
Dawes cast on him a glance Of quiet
scorn. "And betray my mates7 I'm
not one Of that sort"
North pityingly implored the stubborn
mind to have mercy ON the lacerated
body, but without effect His ewn way.
ward heart gave him the key to read
the cipher of this mans life. "a noble
nature ruined" said he to himself
what is the secret of his historyT
One day this bond was drawn SO close
as to tug at both their heart strings
The chaplain had a flower In his coat
Dawes eyed 1t with hungry looks, and
as the clergyman was about to quit the
room, said, "Mr. North, will you give
me that rosebudT' North paused irres.
olutely, and, finally, as If after a strug;
| gle with himself, took It carefully from
his button hole and placed it in the pris.
oner's brown, SCARED hand. In another
instant, Dawes believing himself alone
pressed the gift to his lips. North turn
ed abruptly, and the eyes of the pail
met. Dawes flushed crimson, but North
turned white as death. Neither spoke
but each was drawn closer to the other
since both had kissed the rosebud pluck
ed by Sylvia's fingers.
Since the tobacco trick" Mooney ant
Dawes had been placed In the new
prison, together with a man named
Bland, who had already twice failed t.
kill himself. When old Mooney la
mented his hard case, Bland propose,
that the three should put in practice
scheme in which two at least must sue
coed. The scheme was q desperate one
and attempted only in the last extrem
ity. 1t was the custom of the 'ring,
however. to swear each of its member
J to carry out to the best of his abilit
this last invention Of the convict disc
plined mind, should two other member
crave his assistance.
The scheme was simplicity itself Tha
evening, when the cell door was secure
ly locked, and the absence of a visitin
jailer might be counted upon for a
hour Mt least. Bland produced n stra u