The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1913-10-31

boy. half dead with fright and exhaus-
ton, carried into the Rest at %daybreak
and locked in the north wing-all that |
and more Giles Howard. wiping his
wet forehead. told me.
But the Scholar still had friends
the Protectors adherentS ut
London. II to these in his extremity
he repaired. Sir Richard. whose ave
nucS Of information no one could un-
cover heard of it almost ut once. Fear
full that James Stewart might in this
manner force him by English author
ity to give up the boy. Sir Richard
foamed dreadfully. and before the
Scholar had got back from G~lengarry
with the few serving men who could
handle a gun Big Dick again swooped
down on the quiet retreat with half a
score of mel and tore the defenseless
Frenchwoman from her very bed. In
spite of the wintry night they dragged
her. half clad. to the mount and gal
Hoped with her to the border. But the
Iihdcll water was up; the ford was
perilous. The outlaws camped for the
! Il lew llIIltH ~ tIIS SiVh.
FRANTIC with insult. henumbed with
exposure and wild with fright. the
unhappy woman eluded the watch OF
her captorS and stole away into the
storm. The people who idolized the
gentle lady. aroused to the alarm, We're
pressing the English. and they hurried
on without either searching for their
prisoner or letting her friends know
she was lost. The Scots followed the
raiders, surprising the abducted woman
was still with them. \ week after
ward fishermen at the Moat. casting
their nets in the Esk. saw a face.
scratched and swollen. floating in the
pool below the rapids. and they drag
ced from the icy waters a m half
naked. her hands full of yellow hair.
and James Stewart. frenzied with the
despair Of his long search. looked or
that face and fell down like a dead
man.
The meanest worm will one day turn.
much more IN outrac ed man. far as he
may from strength to right his wrongs.
Those of his party who knew Haw-
ley's Rest warned the Scholar to keep
away from the devils den and wait for
the law. But wait for the law on Il
friend Of the Protector: Hardly had
the Scholars feeble plan to storm the
Rest and rescue his hoy been formed
before Big Dick had wind of it. When
S%o1r-o -. ~ sat n,It nx-n,y. StnyN nf
their way was logged. It was only a
handful Of countrymen. anyway. arm
ed with rusteh void fuSeeS. and James
Stewart heading them with a %claynlore
and a pistol that had not been fired
since his grandfather fought in France.
To set Giles Howard with ten men in
ambuscade under the clunp of oaks
south Of the pond, round which the
Scotch had to pass. was like butcher
| ing so many vretches as they rode up
to demand the Scholars child.
A rafting crash Of fire from the
black woods. the frantic plunging OF
the wounded and maddened horses
the shrieks of the churls and the oath>
of the troopers who dashed out to nm
ish with daggers the wretches who
still ~Nrithed-all this ought to have
been enough for Sir Richard Hawley
but it was not. His orders were t
bring in the Scholar alive, and so III
brought it on himself. Not a man go
back to GlengHrry to tell the tale
Kicking and struggling in their agony
they We're flung into the pool. jane
Stewart, bleeding and distracted, wa
dragged in chains to the north win'
before Sir Richard Hawley.
This comes of amneStieS." he rOarc'
as if he would impress on James Stew
art the wisdom Of hanging every royal
list left alive. This comes Of leaving
lean and hungry hounds - hounds
curs-to roam Il peaceful land am
murder innocent Englishmen in thel
beds. I'll have you hanged and draw.
at sunrise, assassin"
The Scholar looked at him %vacantly
but made no reply.
what say ye of your villainy, blood
wretch:'
And the Scholar only stared, but III
face twitched at times. For an hol
Sir Richard sat and worried him, n
to no purpose. Then at last they pu
him into A great room studded Wit
iron, and next morning all the ligl
that crept in fell through n narrow la
tice high above the t1oor-a scant
%opening. better for Sir Richard II l.
had left a bigger.
Yell make nothing with me by YOU
Scotch d~ourness, | promise ye," rave
p;r I,;cL- IN th. morning. '(;iye II