Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-04-01
CHAPTER Llv.
Another Load.

body Of Mr.. Jordan; then another,
followed closely by Barbara, on which
lay Eve breathing, but now not even
moaning. AS the procession was
half through the first field the bell Of
the house tolled. Westlake had com
municated the news to the servant
maids, and one Of them at once went
to the bell.
Tagging behind all came Joseph
France in the ballad marched up a
hill, and then marched down again,
having accomplished nothing, Josenh
had reversed the process; he had
leisureIy marched down the hill, and
then more leisurely marched up it
again. but the result was the same
as that attained by the King Of
France.
On reaching MOrwell Jasper said in
a low voice to the men, You must re-
turn with me; there is another 10 be
sought for. VINO saw the Dog with
the lantern last? He may have found
him by this time
Then Joseph said slowly, IA I was
down by the boathouse I saw some
thing
What did you see"
I saw up On the hill a Lantern trav-
cling this way, then that way, So
he made a zigzag indication In the air
with his finger. Tt went very slow
II went, so to speak, like a drop O.
rain on a window pane that goes
this way, then it goes a little more
that way, then it goes quite contrary
TO the other side Then it changes it's
direction once again and it goes lit
tie faster
I wish you would go fastel, > said
Jasper impatiently. What I'D you
see last?
I'm getting into it. but I must go
my own pace said Joseph with un,
rufflcd COmpOsure You understand
me, brothers-Tm not speaking Of a
drop O. rain on a window glass, but
Of a lantern light on the hillside
and bless you-that hillside was like
a black wall rising Up on my right
hand into the very sky. Well tLen, the
light it travelled like a drop o. rain
on a glass-first to this side, then to
that. You've seen drops o rain how
they travel he appealed to all who
listened. And | reckon you know
how that all to once like the drop, af-
ter having travelled first this road,
then that road, in a queer contrary
fashion, and very slow, all to once
like, as | said, down it runs like
WinIdng of the eye and is gone. So ex-
actly was it with CthaD there light.
1t rambled about on the face of the
blackness; first it crawl5d this way,
then 1t crept that; always, brothers,
going a little lower and then-to once
-wish!-I saw it shoot like a falling
start mean a raindrop-and saw
it no more
And then?
Why-and then I came back the
same road I went down
You did not go into the bushes in
search?'
How should ~ answered Joseph,
I'D my best uniform on. I'd come
out counting, not thief-catching.
And you know nothing further%
How should I? Didn't l say I
went back up the road same way as
I'd come down? l warnt bound to
get my new cloth coat and trousers
tore all abroad by brimbIes, not for
nobody. I know my duty better than
that. The county pays for en-
Directed by this poor indication.
Jasper led the men back into the
wood and down the woodman's truck
road, that led by long sweep to the
bottom of the cliffs.
The search was for a long time inef-
fectual; but at length, at the foot OF
a rock they came on the object of
their quest-the body of Martin
among fragments of fallen crag, and
over it, clinging to his brother with
one arm, the hand passed through the
ring Of battered lantern, was Wal
ter. The light was extinguished in
the lantern and the light was beaten
out Of the brothers. Jasper looked in
to the poor boys face-a scornful
smile still fingered on his lips.
Apparently he had discovered his
brothers body and then had tried to
drag it away down the steep slope to-
wards the old mine. in the hopes of
hiding there and finding that Martin
was stunned, not dead: but in the
darkness he had stumbled over an
other precipiCe or Sudden down run
Of shale and been shot with his bur
den over a rock. Again the sad pro-
ceSsiOn was formed. The two gales
that had been already used were nut
In TeQuisiuon a second time. and the
bodies Of Martin and Watt were
carried TO Morweu and laid in the
hall, side by side, and he who carried
a light placed it at their head.
Mr.. COyshe had arrived For three
of those brought in no medical aid
was of avail
Barbara, always practical and self
possessed, had ordered the cook to
prepare supper for the men. Then
the two dead brothers were left where
they had been laid. with the dull Ian
tern burning at their head. and the
hungry searchers went to the kitchen
to refresh.
Joseph esconced himself by the fire,
and Jane drew close to him.
l reckon said the policeman, III
have some hot grog.' Then he Slid his
arm around James waist and said, In
the midst of death we are in life. Is
that really, now, giblet pie? The
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