Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-12-29

klllle Ill tnS "aS VI O. SoPoi
asked
Why? What are you going to do?'
Adair demanded,
Il am going to separate you l"o
from my highly dangerous presence,
said Ford definitely. THE MacMor'
roghs' outfit of dozen or fifteen
cutthroat scoundrels, captained 1oi
! the moment, by Eckstein, North $
right-hand man, are doubtless JUS!
across the way in the back room OF
the commissary You say the camp Is
otherwise deserted: the MacMorroshs
don't know that you are here; ana
! they do know that am, dead or allEe.
Moreover, Mattacheco has doubtless
told them by this time that saw ana
recognized him. Wherefore. it's up TO
them to see that never get chance
to go before grand jury.
you sit down on the floor, SAID
Adair He had found a cigarette ana
was crimping the end of it. have
you a fraction of an idea that we are
going to allow you to make Jonah
of yourself for us? Sit down, say!
Who's got a gun?''
Brissac lad crept to d window anu
was accommodating the deserted camp
street and the conlmissary through a
peephole in the drawn shade. AS
Adair spoke, he sprang back. tripped
, Ford and fell with him. crying;
Down both Of you.
At the cry there was a shot from
! without, and window on the exposed
side Of the: Nadia fell in shlver=.
There were yells of terror from the
J cooks pantry. and the two negroes
came crawling through the side vestl
i tule, their eyes like saucers and their
| teeth clustering. Ford jumped up AID
: turned off the Pintsch lights; and
. he was barely down again when en-
1 other shot broke a second window.
"Wouldn't that jolt you?'' sai;i
c Adair, ''They are feeling for you with
0 both hands. What a heavens pity
S it is that We haven't SO much as
S potato popgun among us to talk oacE
{ with. What did you see, Mr.. Brls
sac?"
/. "a crowd of them punched on the
p commissary porch. One of them was
= sighting a Winchester at the car wher
d I got busy
Adair was again lamenting th>
r lack of arms when the negro porter
produced a pocket bulldog pistol o
4 the cheap and uncertain sort
o "Y-y-y-yah you is, Mittuh Charles" h'
t. suffered.
l. "Ah. Williams-concealed weapons
n That is fifty dollars fine i'll you
native Tennessee, isn't it?" Then t
g Brissac: please go to the farthe
Il window and mark down for me, MI
II Brissac. don't like to have thos
" fellows do all the blufing.
Ii While the assistant was complying
third bullet from the commissar
II porch tore high through the cal
.e smashing one Of the gas globes. Adai
G. crawled to a broken window ami til
lie cheap revolver roared like an oye1
y loaded musket.
ie Good shor." said Brissac, from HI
Sc marking post. ''You got one Of them
in he's down and they're dragging hil
I'd inside. Now they have all ducSed I
tx cover"
THAT settles any notion of
So palaver and the pipe of peace,
~ guess" said Adair, as indifferently a
il he had Just brought down a rla
If. pigeon "Prophesy, Stuart: wins
I comes next?'
IS Ford shook his head.
VI Ihey can quiz uo" iii hhGA ~
" sure I am permanently obliteratc5
i'll they have gone too far. The
n. credit me with that shot of you!
be aud they will take it as prett
'o- emphatic proof that still live. Henc
IN more war"
TIT We'll what do we do: You 81
up the captain
I'D picket the car and keep a shal
til lookout for the next move. Brissa
ID, you take the forward end and I
elk take the rear platform Adair, PC
lat your Africans in here where they
mt do the most good and see that th'
don't go to sleep on their idbs." !.
H." The disposition Of forces was uu,c
OF " made, after which suspense set
his Silence and the solitude OF the d
GU serted camp reigned unbroken; !
the watchers knew that the shado'
'rk held determined enemies. alertly
Mt siegjng the private car. To prove
>" Adair pulled down portiere. gave
bulk with stufing of berth pillow
20 and dropped the bundle from one
let the shattered windows, Three J.