Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-12-06

IF you Will allow me To say the regt
and to say 1t eIsewhere"-
"No, sir! Here" cried Major Honey.
bone. Here or nowhere. which you
please. This man absconds one night,
30 I gather. and the next night you
are attacked by bushrungers. This
man Is found the morning after that,
and I understand you suggest he was
one Of the band that attacked you.
Yet you never recognized him Mt the
time. Come. now. did none Of your
Not then, but he threatened my SIS
ter and female whom We have since
returned, and Miss Sullivan remembers
herring him call the female by her
name. Now, this man and that wom-
m kept company" snaried Nat In q
perfect flame of rnge and spite, "and
Miss Sullivan will swear he called tho
woman by her name. He fell In with
the thieves when he absconded. It's
perfectly clear He wns the very man
to join them In an attack on his own
masters even If he didn't instigate II.
Join In 1t he did. can prove It.
Though not one Of the original gang Is
left alive, I can prove
"What about that Italian fellow"
interrupted the major, and Tom held
his breath.
'IIe wasn't In II. I believe he's
dead. and they put this Erickson In his
clothes. His horse was found n few
miles beyond where they found this
man o,,J now tiu cnot hoe ham JJc
covered with Erichsen's knife In the
pocket. Yes. you may wincer' cried
this good hnter "You shall swing for
1t YETI
KINDLY confne your remarks to me-"
said the major sternly. You'll have
to prove the knife was his. and that
wont prove everything. Never heard
such story In my life! You'll have to
strengthen 1t up bit II you mean to
make case. What do you want mo
! to do?"
Nothing at all," said Nat ungra-
ciously.
'Then why the deuce do you come to
meT"
Il didn't was on my way to your
superiors."
Major Honeybone turned to the SEN
try
Cock your piece" said he, "and
shoot his horse II he attempts to 60
till I've done with him. Now, you,
Sullivan" continued the major, per
haps you didn't know you were tres
passing when you came on these
works. But you were. and you'll stop
on 'em now till I've done with you.
You came to gloat over the man you've
bounded here to tell him you'd hound
him to the gallows did you? To laugh
at him. eh? Gadzooks, sir. the boots
on the other leg this time! The whole
chain gang Is laughing at you, and you
may frown upon 'em rs much as you
like. but II you touch one you'll be In
irons yourself In two minutes. I know
you. sir. We know all about both Of
you here. Half the men who come here
have been driven here by you and your
father. Silence In the gang! Go on to
Sydney and tell them anything you
like about tho man you mean to hang.
But. gadzooks, you don't get him out
Of this! No. and the governor himself
| sha'n't have him out Of this until he
knows on whose word he's acting! Go
to my superiors. They'll never listen
to your clumsy yarn. If they do I'll
send down to Sydney myself to tell
'em what know Of you and yours. And
Castle Sullivan will be swept into the
sea, and you-you slave driver-you'n
be where these men are now! Be of,
sir. hate the sight Of you! Sentry,
let him CO."
About the middle Of this TRADE Nat
had been ready with retort as viru-
lent, but the concluding sentences were
too much even for his hard nerves and
sturdy rufIianism. Muttering some
thing unintelligible about an Outrage"
and reporting" Major Honey bone, he
put spurs to his horse and galloped OF.
leaving nothing worse behind him than
look. 1t was such look as might be
seen any day, any moment even, In an
iron gang, yet Tom never forgot the
cruel eyes, the low lips, the murderous
scowl nor the peculiarly bestial whole
which they made on that occasion
The convicts cursed and cheered him
In derision and when he was gone
were given to understand BY tho ma.