The evening world., 1911-10-02

~ "o huAAhVA "lN e1oitss
back into the darkness of the
forest, Ray Cans had . vivid
picture of tho whole campfire scene.
Around the blaze We're n score or so
q Gay coated ~eavalrymen. sprawling
Z ease and smoking cigars. Their
horses were picketed beyond. on a
Tee stump had sat the captain, to
MON Max had that day given the
string Of Ash and from whom he had
cleaned such important news OF the
eossth's projected movements.
Standing opposite the captain and
talking to him had been the two
boarded scouts-Ray's recent p%ursuers.
They had evidently just arrived, and
oue Of them was holding in leash three
hue> and very ugly looking hloodhounds.
THis wes the scene at the moment one
OF the scouts had espied the two boys
md had given the alarm.
AZ Ray shrank back into tho WOODS.
MAJ Clark had lsaped forward into the
nn8re of the campfire group and had
snatohed q small open package out OF n
nile of articles looted from q captured
provision wagon.
Nax's spring into the noup ana his
uuick wh!rl and dash out again had
Iasted but the fraction OF a second. He
Wa gone before the nearest cavalry
mar could recover sufficiently from
surpriss At his action to make . grab
i'm another ONE MAJ was At Rays
e,ds In tbs outer gloom.
g'Rvu!" he cried, "Runl Run a. you
nsver, ran beforsr .
Ray needed no second bidding. side
BIZ sfds. the two boys fed At top speed
through tho black woods. There was
- - Ho- Antnttnn MAY ia
true. ran soundlessly. as he a been
tpai.ed to from babyhood. But Ray
crashed through h underground like q
fpAwhfenod stag, oaroming on from tree
trunks and, several times. all but fall
Ing.
shouts Of tho cavalrymen. =.
81 oos. 'em, Jeb! Loose the dogsr'
bayled one Of the scouts. They'll rur
'Sm down or tree 'em IN two minutes
81 After 'em. PADDY After 'sm, Rex
aapk 'em. d ~
the bloodhounds. the boys Judged from
the orders, were evidently unleashee
- already hot on the trail. Ray and
Nax Lad less than a quartsr-mile start
- Aeet-foted brutes must surely over
hnua them almost At onca The soidier'
ana the two pursuing scouts svidentl,
Idied absolutely on the b~loodhounds
shsity 70 do this. for they followed th'
degs in q more leisursly fashion. whoop
~ announcement after them In tn
Iaansr OF fox hunters.
RAY could already hear m imAgina
ION. the swift. heavy patter OF M
SpuodS fset behind them m could al
most SEQ the great. f~erooious brute
lasrnoh themselves upon the hee'ns lads
AoA n only We had a club or ever
r~uar.I he Groaned. I'VE might stan'
"a 81 srom u 'Aro.'' f'F mi"
N6ce>p oooA Ray" drawied Max wh'
hs6 eesed I'D his first burst OF speed
sShoss dogs asen't going to get to on
t1Roats or at any one else's throat 10
mluv q Iong day. Listenl'
~ bloodhounds a quickly caugh
~ scent and had broken into a dee
bNl-nots baytng. Now, however, a
Mr. spoke tho baying Of tie neares
doa changed suddenly to a stranslins
aGpuized scream. The two other dog
sfunost IT the same second burst fort
iuko bowls Of anguish .
Grhsy're done fos"' laughed Max; v
learned that trick down in the Cheroke
ooontry, The Cherokees used TO do
"a the fun Of torturing their dogs
7 vouldn't have don II for anythin
sisG than to save our lives. NOW. theh'
he added, veerlng to the right an
brewing Ray with him. ut isn't a cas-
Of, running any longer. but OF gettin
over the ground 30 quietly mat the
can't locate US, n,
II don't understand" painted Ra!
The dogs'--
.sThe dogs won't trouble us. / re
vou L,sten TO them. Do they sound a
IL they had any desire to fool with us?
The ~bloodhounds were hhing the SUI
forest, with their horrible clamor OF pai
and were III ashing about blindly' lK
chickens whose heads have just bee
cut OFF. A chorus OF wondering shon'
and Commands from the caValrymen a
companied the dogs howls' Clearly III
pursuers were utterly at a loss TO az
count for the animals queer actions
II don't understand" Insisted Can
I'm bewllderment. as he followed Max
silent, swift course through the woou
IT don't understand. one second u
-A. rH-A~E End IA F.