Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-04-19

OF the morning, and they made good
time to Two Hundred and Twenty
fifth Street. There they left the
train, and walked quickly along the
edge Of a grassy bluff overlooking
the government cut that now con-
meets the Harlem and Hudson rivers
by a more direct route than the old
Spuyten Duyvu creek. A few hun
dred yards beyond the low fence that
separates the meadow from the street
they came upon man standing close
behind large tree. He was screened
from the little street and from the
bridge that spans 1t by thick under
brush When he sighted Britz he
lifted his hand warningly and beck
oned The three men went within
the shelter of the bush.
Anything new, Gordon?" inquired
, Britz.
Yes said the other detective.
They have gone aboard"
Where's Hicks?"
Down there near the water, piping
them of"
Are they on deckT
mo. in the cabin; they seem pref
ty busy, too"
Gordon looked at the sky. 1t was
growing brighter every minute.
Stepping with most solicitous ten
derness on the grass, and avoiding
every leaf and twig that might give
forth slight crackle. the four men
made their way slowly among the
bushes TO the spot where Hicks, lying
at full length with his head only q
little way above the ground, was
waiting and, at the same time, watch
! ing a naphtha Yacht of more than
| ordinary size. Not a sound broke the
silence of the early morning. The
ground was bare of snow, the grass
/ almost as green as in late summer.
and only the chill in the air and the
nakedness Of the trees indicated the
winter season. The sun was just
trimming the far shore of the sound.
A pioneer ray gilded the Spuyten
Duyvil headland. caroming thither
from the crest of Marble Hill.
After a whispered conference with
| Hicks, Britt slipped his hand into a
side pocket of his coat, and took out
something that glittered in the sun
shine. At a single word from Britt,
! Gordon and Hicks wormed their way
| along the bank until they were at the
bow of the yacht. Britt, Fitch and
Manning stayed near the stern. Sud-
denly the lieutenant fred shot over
the yacht that echoed metaIlically
from the cliffs, and at the signal, al
five OF the attacking party leabed
aboard the yacht, their feet striking
the polished deck with concerted
thud that must have made those with
\ in the cabin think they were feeling
the first shock Of a landslide.
The Eve men on the deck gave
those below little time for analysis OF
their sensations Gordon and Hicks
raced around the wheelhouse to the
starboard side of the craft, and
dashed down the companionway from
that direction, while Britz, Manning
and Fitch hurled themselves into the
port entrance to the cabin, alightine
on richly carpeted floor dozen feet
below the deck. Two shots followed
before the police party could seize
Prince Kananda and Ali. who, facing
In opposite directions. stood at bay IN
the center of the cabin. Britt and
Gordon struck upward the revolvers
of the Indians as the triggers were
pulled. The bullets few high, harm
ing no one. Behind Kananda and All
using table as breastwork. stood
two more Hindoos, both of them
strangers to Britt. They were un
armed save for wicked-looking Malay
krises they gripped nervously as they
crouched in waiting for an attack
Britz and Manning jammed their pis
tolls into the faces of the men with
the krises; but the Indians. undis
mayed. made savage slashes at then
with their razor-edged long knives
| Gordon and Fitch sprang upon tbs
kris-bearers, Hicks with a pistol II
each hand standing on Kananda and
Ali. Again and again the Hindoo.
slashed at their assaila1ts, and tha
they did not split at least one heat
was due to the wary agility of ths
four who attacked them. Shots from
the detectives revolvers would have
brought them down at such shor
, range. of course: but the policemen
seemed bent on capturing them alive
and Fitch was not a man to have re
course to bloodshed until he could b
. certain It was inevitable. Britt ant
, Manning waited their chance Aftei
! futile swings at the Indians, the,
closed with then, clubbing their re
volvers and bringing them down viii
crashing force on the gaudy turbani
of the Orientals. A few seconds o
, that vicious pounding stunned thu
| Hindoos, and It was then but thu
work of a moment to slip handcuff
on them. Kananda and ALI, In tn,
meanwhile. had made no further at
: tempts to use their pistols. The,
| read death in Hicks eyes as he con
| fronted them with his long. blu
cleaning barrels aimed straight a
them. Their hesitation was fatal I,
their hope of escape. For even a
All. doubtless at a whisper or sigma
from the Prince. swung himself abou
to interpose himself between Hick
and the petty potentate's son. Will