Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
CHAPTER XIII.-(Continued.

CHAPTER XIII.-(Continued
blow was he wounded?' I asked. Tell
~ what the Colonel did to him, and be
brit"
Eyes, sir. The Colonel told US Mr..
90 r was to be kept at the ranch over
Hight; wasn't to leave it alive, sir, he
ID. Well, up to yesterday it was all
*Irbt and pleasant. Mr.. Carr wasn't
. we'll, and the doses the Colonel gave
m didn't seem to make him any better
.Sfite the contrary. But yesterday after
bon he got mpageous-would go, any
ADw, i'll or we'll So he got up and dress
"a We'd taken all his weapons from
In, sir, and when he came down dress
Al and asked for his horse, we told him
Ne couldn't go. Well, he just said, Get
Ut of the light, | tell YOU and began
talking toward the hall door. l don't
lind saying we were rather put about,
Ii. We didn't care to shoot him as he
hood, and it's my belief we'd have let
In pass; but just as he was going out,
II comes the Colonel. 'Hullo, what's this,
@ohnny| says he. You've got some
scheme on said Carr. I believe you've
zen drugging me. Out of the way, Nc
Hregor, or I'll brain you Where are
kou goingY says the Colonel. TO Whit
Bingham, to the Presidents said he.
Not to-day says the Colonel. Come,
be reasonable, Johnny. You'll be all right
1o-morrow.' Colonel McGregor, says
lie, I'm unarmed, and you've got a re-
Eolver. You can shoot me if you like, but
Unless you do, I'm going out. You've
been playing some dodge on me, and you
hall pay for it, With that he rushed
Straight at the Colonel. The Colonel, he
stepped on one side and let him pass.
Then he went after him to the door, wait
I'd till he was about fifteen yards off, then
Do with his revolver, as cool as you like,
and shot him clean as a Sixpence IN the
light leg. Down came Mr.. Carr he lay
there a minute or two, and then he faint
ed. Pick him up, dress his wound, and
but him to bed says the Colonel. Well,
sir, it was only a flesh wound, so we soon
got him comfortable, and there he lay all
night"
How did he get away to-day"
I'VE were all out, sir-Went over to
sNIr. Cars place to borrow his horses.
We'll when we'd got the horses, we rode
Nround outside the town, and game into
|the road between here and the"ColonePs.
FEN horses we'd got, and we went there
Ito give the ten men who were patrolllng
Hhe road the fresh horses. We heard from
Them that no one had come along. When
I'VE got home, he'd been gone two hours y
How did he manage it?'
81 01,rsiO wit
supreme disgust "Gave her ten dollars
to undo the front door, and then he was
|off. He daren't go to- the stables to get
Ia horse, so he was forced to limp away
on his game leg. A plucky one ne is,
too," he concluded.
Poor old Johnny" said 1. "You
didn't go after him?"
NO time, sir. Couldn't tire the horses.
Besides. when he'd once got home, he's
got dozen men there, and they'd have
kept US all night. Well, sir, 1 must be
off. Any answer for the Colonel? He'll
be outside the Golden House by eleven,
sir, and Mr.. Carr won't get in if he
comes after that"
Tell him to rely on me-" l answered.
But for all that l didn't mean to shoot
Johnny on sight.
So, much perturbed in spirit, l set off
20 the barracks, wondering when Johnny
would get to Nottingham, and whether
he would fall into the Colonels hands
outside the Golden House. 1t struck me
as unpleasantly probable that he might
come and spoil the harmony of my even
ing; if he came there first the conspiracy
would probably lose my aid at an early
moment. What would happen to me l
didn't know. But, as l took off my coat
in the lobby, bent down as if to tie a
shoestring, and had one more look at my
revolver.