Putnam patriot., 1909-10-08

serve you faithfully. We are your dogs. Therefore We fight for you. It Is vile dog which bites its masfer.s
 Browne. with the readiness of the average American, again assumed command of the situation. He gave instructions that the prisoners, seven in number. be confined in the dungeon. temporarily at least
 There will be no other attack on us tonight said Browne. rejoininy the women after his interview with BaiIlo. Tt has missed fire for the present, but they will try to get at us sooner or lat CT from the outside. Britt, will you and Mr. Saunders put those prisoners through the sweat box? You may be able to bluff something out of them if you threaten them with death They
 Tt won't do. Browne" said Dep bingham. shaking his head. They are fatalists; they are steics. l knew the breed better than you. Question if you like. but threats will be of no avail. Keep 'em locked up; that's all. ''
 Firearms and ammunition were talk ,en from the gunroom to the quarters occupied by the white people. Every preparation was made for defense in the event of an attack from the out side or inside. The white servants were moved Into rooms adjoining their employers. Britt and Saunders trans ferred their belongings to certain gar- geous apartments. Miss Pelham went into Marie Antoinette suit close by that of the princess. The native sery- ants retained their customary guar ters below stairs.
 Far in the night Genevra, sleepless and depressed. stole into the hanging rid thing that had happened to Hel- lingsworth Chase. He had been noth- ing to her He could not have been anything to her had he escaped the guns of the assassins. And yet her heart was stunned by the stroke that 1t had sustained. Wide eyed and sick, she made her way to the railing and, ciinging to the vines. stared for she knew not how long at the dull red glow on the mountain.
 The night was still and oninously dark. She had never known a night since she came to Japat when the birds and insects were so mute. X somber, supernatural calm hung over the is- land like a pail The smell of smoke hung about her She could not help wondering if his fine. strong body was lying up there burned to crisp. II was far past midnight. She was alone in the garden. Sixty feet below her was the ground. above, the black dome of heaven.
 She was not to know till long after ward that one of her faithful Thor berg men stood guard ill the passage leading up from the garden. armed and willing to die. One or the other slept in front of her door through all those nights on the island.
 Something hot trickled down her cheeks from the wide, plying eyes that stared so hard. She was won terins now If he had mother sis ters. How their hearts would be wrenched by this, She was thinking of him with pity and horror in her heart. not love.
 A question was beginning to form itself vaguely in her troubled mind Were ali of them to die as Chase had died;
 Suddenly there came to her ears the sound of something swisbing through The air. AD instant later solid ob= feet fell almost at her feet. She start ed back with cry of alarm A broad shaft of light crossed the garden. thrown by the lamps in the upper hall of inc chateau. Her eyes fell upon a wriggling, snskeiike thing that ias ID this path of light
 Fascinated. almost paralyzed. she watched il for a fuh minute before realizing that if was the end or thick rome which lost itself in the heavy shadows at the cfin end or ,ne garden. She was standing directly in inc shaft of light To her surprise, the wriggling ceased. The next mo n,ent a faint. subdued shout was borne to her ears. Her flight was eheekea hv that shout. for her startled. bewll aarad oars caught the sound of her own name.
 Al last far above. she saw the glinl-. p,er of a light. II was too large 10 oe q star. and 1t moved back and forth
 sharply il dawned upon her thai II ,ras at the ton of the elia which over hung the garden and stretched away .o tha sea. Some one was up there waving lantern She was fhinsins aard and fast. light breaking Tn uIson her understanding. Something hAe iov shot into her being. Who e'se eon,a + he if not Chase? He alone would call cut her name He was alive.
 shp e.1sea out his name shriHy. her face raised eagerly 10 the pohnlns liyht Not until hours sfterEard was can.xrs tss resent the use of her tnris- .sa, name by fhe man in the clouds
 p,shl,,o over. she grasped the knot ted end of the rope. \ glanee anu single tug were sufficient to convince her that the other end was attaenea .o snnuort at the top of the CHI II hung limp and heavy. iifeiesa. sharp tug from above caused II 10 fyea.ble violently In her hands. she .ru.4opa f as f 1t Nere serpent s~sin she heard the shout and this m. sbe sAl.s-a sas . question
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