The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-11-02

toned II you viii arrange his escape.
Do you agree?'
Yes. | told him.
All. that Is most satisfactory. To-
morrow / will send you half the
money with some little suggestions
OF my own as 10 your plan OF cam
, paign The second half you will re-
ceiVe when Mr. Craig is free. by the
way, there are some curious relics OF
the stone age on the moors. Perhaps
you might read up the subject and APP
pear at Princetown as student; yes.
Mr. Henderson. that will suit you well
IA student OF prehistoric man"
He chuckled until the carriage
shook. II was like driving with a
good-tempered blanc mango.
"A shall be glad OF any advice you
can give me-" | said
lie pulled cord, and when the
carriage stopped got out and stood
waiting
Good night and good luck TO you.
he said his great white face shining
upon me from the window as he
shook my hand. II have your adj
dress. Drive on. Williams
| might have been an old and trust
ed friend from the warmth OF his
manner Yet as the carriage rolled
away ! noticed that he raised the ut
tie flap at the back 10 see that
didn't try to follow him
The packet arrived next morning
The notes slowed away in an inside
pocket. The typewriter instructions
were unsigned and undated
According To them Craig was
member OF gang %" employed on
convict farm. in draining and inclos-
ing portion or moor by stream
known as the Black brook. Above
the stream rose a small hill on which
was an ancient cairn and stone circle
that In my character as student
would orfer an excuse for my pres
ence.
Though communication with Craig
could not be regularly established, he
knew that an attempt was in prepare
ton. The sight OF a man in white
waterproof lettering on the cairn hill
NOhAh hA AAn aAnAHi AhAA All " aN t1NN
Sudden togs We're frequent upon the
moor. and when they came while the
conyicts We're AZ work I'm the fields.
the chance OF escape was excellent.
for the authorities did not chain their
men and the warders rarely used
their rifles They trusted 20 the huge
moors upon which men who escaped
were easily retaken, half dead from
fatigue and starvation
Craig would make rush for the
cairn hill From thence it WAS my
duty 10 convey him to Torquay. thirty
miles away ON the coast. Once there
he would know where 10 go. and my
responsibility ended A letter to the
Torquay post office. under the name
Of ". Slade. would be forwarded 70
the writer II required further as
sistance or had any questions OF real
importance.
That was all; but IL was enough for
me. Here was scheme into which 4
could put my heart. There was no
low-down swindling, no dirty work
about IT, felt as gay as a schoolboy
off for holiday.
And so in three days time that
ragged rascal Jack Henderson disap.
peared from London and the Well
dressed Mr. Abel Kingsley, vaguely
described In the visitors book OF the
Princetown Arms as Of Memphis Uni.
yersity, u S. A., was sitting on the
cairn hill above the prison that held
julius Craig
To the far horizon there stretched
the melancholy moors, deserted
washes of rush marshes and stunted
heather. broken here and there by
outcrops OF granite. that crowned the
rolling ground like the ruins OF hum
dred feudal castles. FOR nartmoor ~
huge granite tableland, and on It's
barren surface no corn will grow nor
tree flourish
Beneath the rampant OF its contain
ing hills lies the garden OF Devon, "A
land OF orchards and pleasant woods,
OF cornHelds and pasture farms; but
the moors have deiied the farmer and
remain the same sad wilderness that
prehistoric man Inhabited four thou-
sand years ago You can see where
he built his hut circles. and set up his
great stone avenues 20 the honor OF
dead chieftains
II was an uncanny sort OF place al
together, and shivered as ! sat In
that lonely cemetery OF tshe forgotten
dead
The huge prison was built on the
opposite slope OF the shallow valley.
and the farm which the convicts had
won field by field stretched down
from It's walls TO a brook at the foot
OF tho cairn Hill where / was. On the
further edge OF the brook gang was
at work incloslng some new ground.
and through my glasses / soon made
out the man / was after. The last
time ! had seen him was on his own
coach az Ascot. with the girls buzzing
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