Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1907-02-14

chateau, and there was a loud buzz of
voices and a clatter of feet upon the
stones. Hoarse orders were shouted,
and there was the sound Of turning
keys. Five minutes passed, however,
and yet another five minutes. without
any one appearing.
"Well, I'll have that bar out, after
ALL" said the American at last, rising
and stepping Over to the window.
Anyhow well see what all this cater
wauling Is about" He climbed up on
bis pegs as he spoke and peeped out.
"Come up!' he cried excitedly to his
comrade. They've got some other
game going on here, and they are all
a deal too busy to bother their heads
about u.s."
De Catinat clambered up beside him.
and the two stood staring down into
the courtyard. A brazier had been lit
at each corner, and the place was
thronged with men, many Of whom
carried torches. The main gate was
open, and a carriage. which had appar-
emily just driven in, vas standing at
a small door Immediately In front of
their window. A nan wearing a
plumed hat and enveloped In a riding
coat stepped from the carriage and
then, turning round, dragged a second
person out after him. There was a
scufie, a cry, a push, and the two fig
ures vanished through the door. As 1t
closed the carriage drove away, the
torches and braziers were extinguished,
the main gate was closed once more,
and all was as quiet as before this
sudden interruption.
"Well!' gasped De Catinat. rs this
another kings messenger they've got?"
There will be lodgings for two
here In a short time" said Amos Green.
"Give me your bar again. This thing
Is giving. 1t won't take us long to
have II out" He set to work furious
ly, trying TO deepen the groove In the
stone, through which he hoped to drag
the staple. Suddenly he ceased and
strained his ears.
"By thunderw' said he. There's
some one working on the other side!"
They both stood listening. There
were the thud Of hammers, the rasping
of a saw and the clatter Of wood from
the other side Of the wall.
What can they be doingf Can you
see themT'
They are too nea the WALL"
81 think I can manage" said De Gait
nat. 81 am slighter than you" He
pushed his head and neck and half Of
one shoulder through the gap between
the bars, and there he remained until
his friend thought that perhaps he had
stuck and pulled his legs to extricate
him. He writhed back, however, with
out any difficulty.
'They are building something" he
whispered.
"Building!'
"Yes. There are four Of them, with
q lantern"
"What can they be building. thenY'
"It's a shed, / think. I can see four
sockets In the ground, and they are
fixing four uprights into them"
swell, we can't get away as long as
there are four men just under u win
dow"
Impossible"
"But we may as well finish Dur work
for all that"
The gentle scrapings Of his iron were
drowned amid the noise which swelled
ever louder from without The bar
loosened at the end, and he drew It In.
The steady h~ammering and saving
went forward. 1t was early morning,
and the first cold light was beginning
to steal over the courtyard before the
work was at last finished and the work.
men had left. Then at last the prison.
ers dared to climb up and to see what
It was which had been constructed dur
ing the night. 1t gave them a catch Of
the breath as they looked at 1t. 1t
was a scaffold. 1t was buttressed up
against their wall, and In the center
stood a headsman's block.