The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-04-11

giving him a bif or paper on which.
was written IN introduction.
1t was about week after this that
a young man rode up % tthe Oder
shaw mansion ana asl1edeif he might
beg a meal. The request was not an
usual, for tayerns were not plentiful
along the route, and Hospitality was
the rule OF the country. 0ldershaw
asked the traveller whence he had come
and was told that he had left New
York few honrs before; lint ne Was
travelling on business for General
Howe and was on his way to Trenton,
Being left for a few minutes alone
with Anne 0ldershaw. bis expression
changed 10 one Of terror. aud. handing
her slip of paper. he begged her To-
hide him. Anne glanced .at the paper.
saw that 1t bore an introduction from
her brother aud beckoned Travers 70
follow her.
The meal for the traveller had beeL
prepared and AIr. oldershaw was open
ing bottle of wine with which t.
regale his guest when chatter OF
horses hoofs was heard without. ana
a dozen British troopers rode mp TO the
house. An officer diSmounted. came
in and asked Mr.. oidershilw II cIti
zen, describing Trarers. had stopped
at the house. olderslaw said that he
had aud thought he Ind gone to make
toilet; he was expecting him to come
in ut any moment. Tho officer asked
IL 0ldershnw was loyal subject of.
the king or a rebel and when assured
that he was the former told him thar
he was hnrboring a spy OF General
Washington's who had been to New
York and was carrying information of
the British forces
The house was at once surrounded,
that the spy might not escape. and
oldershaw went through the interior
looking for him. Neither Travers nor
Anne could for some time be found,
but presently 0ldershaw met the lat.
ter coming through a ball on the
ground floor.
where is the strangerT' he asked.
THE stranger: Why, isn't he with
your
"No. We. must end him. He's q.
spy of the rebel, Washington
1t was with difficulty TINT Anne was
able to maintain her eauaniInity. but
her father was so eager to cntch
Travers that he was not as obseryant
as he would have hcen otherwise. Di
recting her TO help hunt for the spy
he ran back to report to tie officer
that the young man Ind disappeared
Anne 0ldshaw had at times wonder
ed at a cert,lin part of the flooring in
the basement. or collar. the wood OF
which seemed to have taken on dif
ferent color from the rest. She had
spoken TO her brother of it. and one
day they had examined it together
Edgar found way to lift this bit OF
flooring. The two descended into q
subcellar and entered passageway..
at the end OF which they came to two
wooden gates, like those Of a canal
lock, though but five or six feet In
height and two or three in width
Through seams iu these gates water
tricliled.
This tunnel had been built by the
original owner of the house, after, be
had lost his son, ms n means of escape
from indians.
The discovery occurred after the
family had become divided on the sub
ject of loyalty to King George, and Ii
occurred to Edear that this passage
might hfford means of escape. for ht
had heard the, stories of troubles Will
the Indians that the former occupant,
had suffered lie told his sister t,
say nothing about II. for the present.
mt any rate, till he could explore it fur
ther But before he could do so the
episode that had tnken him to Norris
town had occurred and the matter re
manned MS he had left 1t.
When young Travers asked Anne to
hide him she Mt once thought of this
place, known only to herself and her
brother, She led him down a pair OF
stairs. Together they lifted the trap.
and he went into the passageway.
There could be nothing. better calcu.
lated to draw two young persons of OPP
posite sex together with magnetic ra-
pidity than this situation. Before the
trap was lowered look passed be-
tween them that annulled their indiyid.
ual natures and made them one. After
a pressure Of hands the trap was per.
mitted 10 fall. and a few moments later
Anne met her father in tho hall,
1t was manifest to the troopers that
the spy WINS hiding somewhere in the
house. so they maintained their watch
without and hunted within. Fortu.
nately for Travers. Anne was not sus
pected. As soon as she left him he
threaded his way through the passage
10 the gates. Seeing chink above
through which a ray of sunlight came.
he managed to raise himself to it and
saw the river, its surface about a foot
and half below the roof of the tunnel.
II he could open the gates he might get
out and escape. The tunnel would onRy
be filled to within eighteen inches Of
its top. and he need not be drowned.
he tried to open the gates, but could
not do 50.
1t was not till the next morning that
Anne dared visit the captive. when she