Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-23

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By L1LL1As CAMPBELL DAVIDSON


| him, and, GREATNESS, he hurried into
the room above. A man with griz-
zled beard stood smiling before him,
an eager CLEAN in his sharp eyes. The
| man in the officers uniform tore from
the front of his red waistcoat a bundle
Of chin papers and thrust them into
1 the outstretched hand. Take the
COMPOUNDED things! and get me out of
the country, now, or I'll wiring your In
fernal neck!"
The other grasped the packet with
triumph In his face. "You have done
what you were allowed to go on living
for, my friend You may 60 now as
soon as you like There is no more
use for you. This will blow into atoms
more worlds than one.''
But you must get me out OF this!
may be nabbed before I can get out
of the town.
| Again the man with the beard
smiled.
"The Southampton road is an easy
one" he said, composedly. You had
better go along 1t for as many stations
as you feel inclined before you take
he workmen's train. Many steam
/ boats start from that port for foreign
| places; to-morrow-let me see,-yes,
tomorrow is the mail for the Cape.
| You had better take that. There is
comfortable accommodate In the sec
| ond class-and you can be bound for
the diamond mines. You may find it
useful to shave that mustache Of
| yours, and to darken your hair and
| eyebrows. You will have money given
/ you for your passage, and you will
find plenty to pick up out at the Cape"
"Is that all am to get for to-night's
| work? Why, confound you, If I'd
known that / would have let those pa
pers lie and rot!"
No, no, my friend, you would not.
You forget there was another price
| to them. You would have taken a
longer journey than to the Cape if you
had not been advised by me. Come,
be reasonable. You have more than
you earned, as 1t is. The Cape or
4 nothing can take which you
| wish"
/ Wren the grey dawn struggled
! through the darkness 1t found a man
/ In a somewhat shabby suit Of clothes,
his head bent, his hat low over his
| forehead, tramping along the South
ampton road. He looked neither to
the right nor to the left, except to
glance up at the sign posts. He COW
cred the ground with steady swing
that betrayed a drilled step. Still in
/ his ears there rang the sound that had
1 been there like strange music ever
/ since it first fell upon his sense-the
/ sound of a girls voice with tenderness
| in it, as the touch of her form fingered
/ still against his heart. He had seen
i her again; for one wild moment she
1 had been his own--had believed her
/ self So The radiant lady Ct his
dreams-the girl who had been to him
| like an angel from heaven had
saved him from disgrace and punish
ment. He drew his hand slowly from
his pocket and looked OF it with won
dering eyes. It had brushed her soft
hair as she 1eant against him he
could recall the curious si1ken feel Of
1t; he looked now at his hand as If he
/ expected to fnd 1t transformed.
1 The same grey dawn lit up Ursula's
]3white face as she sat In Mrs Field
ing,s carriage driving back from Gov
i eminent House. She was silent and
pale, and Mrs. Fielding thought she
i must still feel unwell and left her to
/ herself. It fell, too, on figure still
dressed In uniform, staggering home,
bewildered and sore, through the
A streets where 1t had found itself lying
1t knew not why or how. There was
no memory to guide tho idea Of
i what had hefallen--only sense that
4 1t was out in the cold and the open
and must find Its way home. 8.s
I, And in the Office Of Government
House there were alarm and conster-
nation and incredulity, for the gener-
ais safe was found open and papers
carefully kept there We're gone The
general stood before it, his face grave,
his lips set, his brow troubled 1t was
not the loss Of the spapers alone that
was serious enough, but not SO serious
as the rest. For from the door still
dangied a bunch Of keys the keys
that his aide-de-camp had In trust
What had he chen doing with the Sc
crets Of his general? And where had
he taken them?
CHAPTER XIV.