Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-03-26
Iiiberius Smith
The Brain Tangle at Tanker's Mills.

By HUGH PENDEXTER

as a safety deposit vault full of scar
let fever germs. lib was impressed
after the same fashion, for he whis-
pered to me:
What's up, Billy? Have we struck
them at the harvest time of lunacy?
Their speech savors of We olden time
and good Queen Bess, sith it please
ye.' Then he asked aloud, Kindly
identify us, reverend sir, and then
yourselves
Monmouth, thou vert ever a
false-hearted knave, but prithee, didst
think to dull my royal eyes by that
Disguise? demanded the ringleader of
the mental alterations in his shrill
voice.
Nay, sire, denied lib, looking
back only to behold all escape cut off
And you are
g." Your uncle, sirrah, King JamesH
was the stern response.
Strike me purple, Billy wills
pered Tib but we are invaders, and
if l recall my history rightly, Mr..
Monmouth lost his head
No plotting with your emissary,'
warned James. We know him, and i
faith, but Argyle, though he be an
earl, shall kiss the same block Nay,
We both have lost such royal preroga-
tive and shall grace a common gib-
bet
I say, old chap, this is getting
tiresome, l murmured to lib. Tell
EN- I'm plain Billy Campbell and
stanch supporter of the throne
GA Campbell' shrieked King
James. 'Ay, smite me bleeding, but
| know the foul Scottish brood! But
Argyle or Campbell, ye shall hang and
change from the quick to the dead
more readily than ever ye shifted
aliases
Probably some one has opened a
quart bottle Of pleasuroid,' murmured
lib, and they are unduly excited for
the minute. Anyway, if they are going
to behave like this, l don't care how
soon we desert them. 1 feel like an
historical romance.
But, sir, the minute we tried to
turn we were surrounded And what
do you suppose those oddities were
armed with? Pixies, sir, pixies! And
that was what the smithy was busy
turning out. AS a rule, Tbs air of
confidence would incite a cowardly
pug dog to throw rocks at an elephant,
but he was bit puzzled over this stu
alton. We'd met lots of heathens and
irresponsible persons in our day, but
could dope out their susceptibilities
and comprehend the logical trend of
their intentions But a score of incom-
petents might glide from one person
ality to another at any second and
pluck us from one epoch only to plant
us in another, and in every event
would probably insist that we hold
the most onery cards and be soundly
spanked.
" It's no use, Earl of Argyle to
dodge our identity remarked lib to
me, gravely. Then to the king, Yes.
l am Monmouth, your dutiful nephew
come all the way from Brabant to kiss
your august hand
THE crowd of peasants jeered at
this admission, and one stalwart rogue
seemed determined to explore our
physical systems with his long prod
der. Nay, nay prohibited the king
Their seeming frankness shall avail
them naught, but retribution must
overtake them in an orderly manner
My Lord Chief Justice Jeffreys shall
try them. In the meantime lay them
in the tower with the spy who was
captured three days ago
I'VE were enamored with even this
| respite, for lib declared it was an ill
omen to be slaughtered in front of a
| prosaic blacksmith's shop, and, sur
rounded by the pikemen, we were
dragged to the little town hall and
thrust inside. Hello, spy, where are
YOU? demanded lib, sparring neatly
to ward off any possible attack, as he
endeavored to peer through the dark
ness.