Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-21
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Battle Of tho Raecoon.

'ifS' Alcnison met the returning Ad-
Tenturers at the door.
Your conduct. Jerry Dangoyseld. is
beyond words!" she exclaimed. SELF
Ing the girls hands. "And so you real.
ly locked that horrid person in a real
jail! Well, we shan't miss him! We
nave been kept up all night by the
arrival here OF other prisoners
Drought in like parcels from the gro
GERS"
More prisoners!" shouted Ard.
The captain of the battery whose
guns frowned upon the terraces came
up and saluted
MIR. Ardmore," he said, 81 have
oeen trying for several hours to see
GOV Dangerfield, but this lady tells
me that he has left Ardsley."
Ihat fs quite true; the governor
was called away last night on official
business. and he will not return for
an hour or two. You will kindly state
your business to me-"
The captain was peevish from loss
OF sleep. and by no means certain that
ne cared to transact business with MIR.
Ardmore. He glanced at Miss Danger
held, whom he had met at Raleigh.
and the governors daughter met the
'situation promptly.
capt Webb, what prisoners have
you taken. and why are they not
gagged to prevent this hideous noise?"
Seemingly from beneath the ample
porte-cochere. where this colloauy oc-
CURED, rose yells. groans and curses.
and the sound of thumps, as of the
impact of human bodies against re-
mote subterranean doors.
They're trying to get loose. Miss
Dangerfield. and they refuse to STAY
ted. The fercest row is from the
fellows we chucked into the coal bins"
Its excellent anthracite. the best
can buy; they ought to be glad It
isn't soft coal" replied Ardmore de-
fensively. Who ara they?"
They're newspaper men. and
they're most terribly enraged." an
swered Capt Webb. I'VE picked them
up one at time in different places on
the estate. They say they're down
here looking for Gov. Dangerfield"
You have done well. Cant. Webb "
said Jerry with dignity. "and I shall
urge your promotion upon papa at the
earliest moment possible Are these
newspaper gentlemen your only pris-
oners?"
No; we gathered up two other par
'ues, nd one of them is in the sery.
anti laundry; the other. a middle
aged person, locked in the tower.
where he can enjoy the scenery. The
prisoner up there made an awful rum
pus. He declares he will ruin the
whole state OF NORTH Carolina for this
Here Is his card. which. in n com.
paratvely lucid interval. he gave mo
10 hand you al the earliest possible
moment and Capt webb placed a
visiting card IN Ardmore's hands.
q smile struggled for possession of
hrdmore's countonance, but he re-
gained control OF himself PROXIMITY
and his face grew severe.
lie gave the card 20 Jerry WIN
banded IL TO Mrs Atchison. and that
iedy laughed merrily
Your prisoner. Capt. webb Is
George r. Billings. secretary Of tho
Bronx Loan and Trust Companv nj
New York What as he doing when
you seized him?" demanded Ardmore
He was chasing the gentleman
who's resting on tho anthracite He
chased him and chased him, around a
teahouse out here somewhere on tho
place; and finally this person in the
coal hole fell, and they both rolled
SVsr together. The gentleman in the
coal hole declares that he's Foster
the state treasurer Of North Carolina
but his face got so scratched on the
shrUbbery that lie doesn't look ia the
aeast like Mr.. Foster"
Il have sent him witch hazel and
court plaster, add We can get a doc