Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-11-18

an array of playing cards and poker
chips.
Its too good to last forever" the
lone occupant reflected aloud, sitting
a yawn and he reached out, with care
less Indifference, toward bundle of
tied together with a piece
of Irvine and drew one out and spread
it across his knees. He yawned again
whose affairs were stamped in print
er's ink bored him immensely; and
then the bold-headlines that shouted
at him across half quarter of the
sheet caused him to gasp, and his feet
struck the bare floor of the cabin re-
soundingly. He now bent over the pa
per with the greatest eagerness, NUT
tering as he read, and some OF his
were, it must be confessed,
not without profane establishment.
TWO coWARDLY
GOVERNORS MISSING
Scandal Affecting Two State Execu-
tives-Is the Appleweight Case Re-
sponsible7 Rumors of Fatal Duel
on State Line.
He read breathlessly the startling
story that followed the headlines, then
rose and glanced anxiously at his
watch
Am | drunk or mad? / must find
Osborne and get out of this"
He leaped to the open door and gaz.
ed into the forest from little plat
form that commanded all sides of the
cabin. And there, to his utter amaze
ment, he saw men in khaki emerging
cautiously from the woods. They were
Enthusiastically soldiers of some sort, for
an officer was giving sharp commands,
and the line opened out like fan
along the creek. The observer of this
maneuver mopped his head with his
handkerchief as he watcher the alert
movements Of the figures in khaki.
He was SO absorbed that he failed to
hear stealthy steps at the rear Of the
platform, but he was now rudely
aroused by two uniformed youngsters
with S. C. N. G. on their caps, who
sprang upon him and bore him with a
crash to the puncheon floor
You're our prisoner" shouted one
of them, rising when he found that
teh prisoner yielded without resist
ance.
What for" blurted the captive, sit
ting up and rubbing his elbow.
For being Bill Appleweight, alias
Poteet. Get up, now, and come with
us to headquarters, or my instructions
are to break your head"
Who in the devil are you" painted
the prisoner.
well, If It's anything to you. we're
the South Carolina militia, so you'd
better get up and climb"
CHAPTER XVI.
The Flight Of GiIIinewater.
"It will be better for me to break
the news to Colonel Gillingwater, said
Jerry, and you must go out and meet
the troops yourself, with Mr.. Cooke
and that amusing Mr. Collins. There
is no telling what effect my tidings
will have on Rutherford, or what he
will decide to do. He has never before
been so near trouble as he is now, and
/ may have to give first aid to the in
jured when he finds out that the South
Carolina troops are on Raccoon Creek,
all ready to march upon our sacred
SOIL"
"But suppose our Acknowledgement
shouldn't go back to his troops after
he sees you, then what am I to do?"
eff you don't Sc him by 10 o'clock
you will take personal command and
exercise your own discretion as to
the best method of landing Apple,
weight in South Carolina Jail. After
that we must find papa, and it will
be up to him to satisfy the newspapers
and his constituents with some excuse
for his strange disappearance"
Collins had come from Raleigh on
the evening train, and he h 4 solemn.
ly assured Ardmore that the present
state of affairs could not be maintain
ed another twenty-four hours. He had
exhausted his professional resources
End the North Carolina newspapers q
all shades of opinion were clamorine
for the truth, and were insisting that
Governor Dangerfield should show
himself In Raleigh Even the metro
! politan press, which Collins had filled
for several days with blithe stories
of the administrators vigorous policy
in the Appleweight case, had refused
further matter from him.
We've got to find Dangerfield q
bust. Now, where is that eminen
| statesman, Ardmore? You can't tel
me you don't know; but If you don't
Miss Dangerfeld does, and she's got y
| tell"
She hasn't the slightest idea. but i
the newspapers find out that he's real
ly and truly missing. he will have !,
show up; but first we've got to TAX
Appleweight off that case of Chatea'
Bizet and lodge him in the jail at TUT
ner Court House, and let Governo
1 Osborne have the odium of incarcerat
ing the big chief of the border, t
whom he is under the highest politica
obligations"
"But it's all over the country nov
that Osborne hasn't been sen in CT
lumbia since he and Dangerfield ha
that row in New Orleans. Cranks ar
!, turning up everywhere, pretending
be governors Of various states, and oil
Dangerfeld is seen on all the outgoin
/ steamers. There's been nothing like
) since the kidnapping Of Charley Ross
Ardmore drew on his riding glove
Z, refectively, and delighted grin illun
/ ined his countenance.
81 caught lunatic down on the Ra
4 coon this afternoon who said he ws
lfha ~ orp1ino nd