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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1913-10-03
NOTICE

BY THE ORPHANS COURT FOR gEc1L COUNCIL
January /. 1904.
ORDERED, That all Administrators, E1
ecutors and Guardians that have not state
an account within year. come forward AM
do the same, or show cause to the contrai
or they will be cited up.
Test: THOS. B. MILLER, Register
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A SocioIoaist.

A sociologist is guy who advises q
man who is keeping nine children or
$40 a week that limousines and cham
payne are unhealthy luxuries. -Cincin
natl Inquirer.
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Green Groceries OF all kinds in season, Domestic
and Imported Fruits, full stock Of Canned
Goods, Tobacco and Cigars.


Kolbs fresh Bread and Rolls daily. In additio
will receive every Saturday special order OF
the celebrated Engler & Murdaugh goods,
consisting of Rusk Cinnamon Buns, Coffee
Bunsl vanilla icing) Doughnuts Wedding
Buns, Bread Sticks, Fruit and Custard Pies,
Cream Pufs, Eclairs chocolate icing).
Ice Cream, Oysters and Fresh FISH,
Butter, Eggs and Country Produce taken in trade
or for cash.
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careful attention and your patronage
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Puttina rhem % sleen,

Putting Ihena 20 Sleep
She Her husband puts the babies %
sleep He That's easy. He was .
prizedghter before be married her.
Town Topics
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CONGRES SSIONAL.

The Senate passed bill providing
retirement with pay for life savers.
Parole Of life sentence prisoners af-
ter fifteen years Imprisonment is pro
yidcd in a bill which passed the Sen
ate.
Vice Prcsident-elect Marshall has
gone with Mrs. Marshall to visit their
daughter, who lives on a farm near
Phoenix, AriZ
Rules committee presented rcsOlu-
tion for memorial services for late
Vice President Sherman in the Sen
ate February 18th.
The Senate passed the bill creating
peace centennial commission and
appropriating 100000 Tor observance
Of the one hundredth anniversary Of
the Treaty of Ghcnt.
Senator Root vigorously denied a
speech credited to him and circulated
extensively throughout Central and
South America for the purpose OF
stirring mp strife against the United
States.
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SPOR r.

w. II. Locke Of Pittsburg announces
hat he had purchased the Philadel.
phia National League Club.
Knockout Brennan was beaten at
the Olympic Athletic Club at Philadel-
pria by Jack McCarren OF Allentown.
Naomi Jane, a setter, owned by
Judge W. II. l.. Campbell of oklahoma
City, won the Derby of the All-Ameri.
can Field Trial Club at Rogers
Springs, Tenn.
The Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate
Faculty Conference will hold its first
annual indoor track meet at the Au.
diturIum, in Denver, some time in the
month of March.
In the basketball game at Laramie
between the Colorado Agricultural
College and the University Of WyOm-
ing, the first intercollegiate game OF
the present season, the score resulted
as follows: AgEios, %: Wyoming. 2l
Officers of the Western Golf Associ-
alton were reelected at its annual
meeting in Chicago as follows. John
y. Cady. Rock Island, H., Arsenal
Golf club, president; Frank l.. Wood
ward, Denver Country Club. vice
president: Bruce Smith Ownntsia
Club. Chicago, treasurer; Charles +.
Willard Homcwood, H., Country Club.
secretary
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GEN RAJ.

Captain W. G. Raoul, aged seventy
widely known throughout the South
dicd at his home at Atlanta after sew
,ral months illness.
President Taft in his speech at the
Ohio dinner in New York came out
strongly against the bill before Con.
grcss providing for Independence for
the Philippines in eight years.
Miss Salomc Tarr. one Of President.
elect Wilson's stcnographers, quit her
job. because, she said. Charles Sven
who is the Prestdcntelcct's personal
stenographcr tried to boss her
Joseph Colch, an Austrian, who par
| licipatcd in riot at Los Angeles
when the American flag was torn {.
ahrcds by a number Of his countrymeu
was sentenced i'm the Police Court O.
servo 100 days in the city jail.
After years Of effort tn" advocates
OF woman suffrage believe cousuu
U0uul amendment. which. .f approved
| by the people. will give the women OF
New York state the right TO vote. VIII
] Nt i.ANHfu NN NN' 4a'kA'ta.aEt II .a.
present session
General" Roaalto Jones, who led
the recent surfragrtte pilgrimage 10
| Albany, proposes soon TO issuo an or
der for the proposed long hike" from
| New York 10 Washington. which will
make il practically mandatory for tho
well to-do suffrugcttcs TO participate
Secret service men are now con
vincod that Miss katherine I. Marrr
SON, formerly the $4,000 secretary OF
In. II. Rogers. has LEFT New York and
Is either In Canada or Europe. Tha
secret service men have been trying
to serve upon her a subpoena to ap
pear before the Pujo committee iuvcs
| tIgating the money trust
Miss Ella Ewing, who died a. het
home, near Goriu, Scotland. county
Mo. was said to have been the tallesl
woman in the world. Miss Ewing wa
feet. inches tail Sho was forty
years old.
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WASHINGTON.

Contracts for 32,U00,000 pounds Ct
paper to be used by the government
printing office during the year begin
ming April 1st next were awarded by
the joint congressional committee on
printing The aggregate amount to be
paid is S1125,0OO. There worc thtr
ty-eiEht successful bidders
Edward +. Mylius. journalist. con
victcd in London OF lIhnl'ing King
George. was turned back from the
gates OF the United States by Sccrc-
tary Of Commerce and Labor Nag D.
who held that Myllus oflcnso was a
crime involving moral urpitUdc, which
barred him from admission.
The shifting character OF McNCcaa
rebel activities again was dcm0ustra
cd, when il became necessary 10 dt.
patch the cruiser Douvrr, from san
Diego. cal, to Acapulco, ON the south
Pacific coast OF the republic Nhcra
American lives are in momoupry dan.
ger because Of q threatened rebel at.
tack on that city.
The Kenyon bill, proposing TO elm.
mate the segregated district ot Wash.
iuEton by injunction, passed the Sen.
ate. It is modelled upon an Iowa law
A Virginia farmer sent "a Washing.
ton merchant a box OF mice that hl
caught In his mcalhousc, for his cat, hy
parcel post. The mice made the trip
and were consumed by the cat.
An emergency appropriation OF s3,
600 for pay for the secret scryicc pro
lection Of PresIdent-clcct Wilson until
his Inauguration. wac requested OF
Congress by Secretary MacVcagh.
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EiGS.

An insurTeCtion has broken cut IN
Angola, Portuguese West Africa, and
dispatches received by the minister OF
the colonies relate that the natives
have committed many atrocities.
Premier Poincare was elected presi.
dent Of the French republic by the ma
tional assembly. The result Of TIE sec
ond ballot was: Raymond Poincars.
4S3, Jules Pans, 29G; Marie Eduard
valiant. CO.
Michael J. Hart OF Mount Carm H..
H., is in jail at Epalme de Gonzals:
Mexico, for killing a brigand while de-
Tending his own life. He SURRENDERED
to the authorities. The American en-
bassy reports the case had been
called to its attention.
Now that the home rule bill nas
been sent safely through the Com
mons for the Lords to kick it form
from their doorstep or accept it in lie
knowledge that if they don't it will 5e
passed over their veto, ireland is set
uing down to prepare for the new re.
Gimc.
The ministry of the interior has IS
sued a report Of an engagement De-
tween the Turkish and Grcqk fees
between the islands of Tenedes aaG
Lemnos, lasting several hours. Ac-
ccrding to this official report. the7e
were heavy losses on both sides. Tn
Turkish fleet returned safely TO the
Dardancllcs and the wounded are Da-
ing brought to ConstantinopIc.
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FROM TELEGRAPHlC REPORTS
THAT COVER THE WEEKS
EVENTS.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST lMPOR RTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western N..,papsr Union @ewr Service.
WESTERN.

Three men were killed by an cAplo-
lion at the Crescent coal mine at Pc.
Oria, H.
a lone bandit rifIcd the mail c-g OF
Southern railway passenger No. l.,
near Riverside, Ala, and escaped with
valuable registered packages.
4 report on the parcel post in Chi.
cago for the first fifteen days Of its
existence shows that 1I17,732 pack
ages were handled at cost Of $500.
Approximately l,OOOO 900 was spen.
in Chicago by convention visitors dur
ing 1912, according to figures com
piled by the Chicago Association Of
Commerce.
While George NJ. Cox, Santa F6
telegraph operator, lay murdered at
his key at Summit on CaiOu Pass,
Calf, every train on that division,
both freight and passenger, ran wild.
Henry Mouscon. a negro, who shot
and killed the twclyeycar-old daugh-
ter OF d. Merrell, farmer near Pecan
Gap, Tex, was hanged from a tclc-
phone pole in public squarc at Coop
er by mob.
Aulcy Gault. twenty.cight, killed his
father during Il quarrel at the family
home at Hobart, Wash. The young man
had begun to attack his mother when
the elder Gault interfcrcd and was shot
through the heart.
The annual convention of the Inter
national Association Of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers will be held
at indianapolis on February 2ith, it
was announced by j. +. McClory, act
ing secretary-trcasurer.
Scott Dibcrt. 20, who went to Long
Beach, Calf, a few weeks ago from
Topeka, Kans., shot and seriously
wounded his brother, Ammon Dibert,
thirty, and probably fatally wounded
himself on the pleasure pier.
Two new attorneys. H. J.. Gicslcr
and Judge O. W. Powers of Salt Lake,
are defending Clarence barrow, the
noted labor leader, in his second trial
on the charge of bribiug jurors in the
Mcnamara case at Los Angeles.
Mrs. Marcclina Elisada, 1o5 years Of
age and said to be wealthy the old
est woman in Los Angeles. concurrcd
in an application for marriage license
for herself and Plcasantino Leon, aged
eighty. The license was issued.
Wells Louuabcrry Of Mcdrcrd, Ore,
who last August robbed mail car on
n Union Pacific overland train between
Kansas City and Lawrence. Kan, was
found guilty in the Federal Court in
Kansas City, Kan lie was sentenced
to serve seven and half years in tho
federal pcnitentary at Lcayenworth.
John St Clair. arrested at Portland,
Ore, on suspicion OF being postolficc
robber wanted in southern Oregon. con.
fCsscd in the presence of United States
District Attorney John McCourt and
witnesses to a total of eighteen rob
berries in Oregon and California and
the murder of John Miller on ranch
at Vina, Cal.
What the Ferris wheel was to the
Chicago exposition and the Eiffpl
tower was to the PARIS exposition, as
an advertising feature, the aero
scope" II wonderful contriyuncc that
will raise passengers 10 an elevation
OF 26S feet, four feet higher than that
of the Ferris wheel, promises to be
to the 1915 worlds fair.
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Omaha Live Stock.

Omaha - Cattle - Native steers,
'G.250 600. cows aud hcIfers, S3,75a
tI5. Western steers. S5.5OGS.OO; Tex
Is steers. S4.5OTG25; range cows and
lu.fors. R}.5Ou G.GO; Gamers, s3.25G
lg5. strnl-crs and feeders, Si.75q
r75. calves. SG.0On9oo; bulls, stags
afg. SIIUHG50.
Hogs Heavy, S7I5TI3O: mixed
.7ln072o. light, SG9Od72O: pigs,
.5.5fGGT5s bulk OF sales, sTO5T7.gO
sheep Muttons. Steady. Yearlings
'1u0u> 500: wcthers, S55Oa6.5O; ewes
u sea 5.-5. lambs. sS00IS.7j.
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Thomaa sMorn in ae senator.

Washington Charlie S Thomas
took the oath OF office as United
States senator shortly after the Scauto
met Monday. being escorted to the
presiding officers desk by Senator
Simon GugrunhoIm Thomas reached
Washington Monday morning aud was
a. the capitol with HIS crodyatials
whom the Senate met at noon.
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Butter and Euus.

Kansas city. Butter Creamery,
32Gc. Grsts. 30rac. seconds, oslo :.
packing, 20ian2l
Eggs Extras. 22iac; fIrsts, 21l&c;
seconds. 15C.
P0u0rry-Hous, 12c: roostcrs. Sc;
young turkeys, lSc; ducks, l3d14c.
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Hay.

prices laid by Denver Jobbers F. o.
B. Track Dcnyer)
Colorado upland, per ton. .12.00Q1S.oo
Nebraska upland, per ton. .l1.501 1900
Second bottom, Colorado
and Nebraska, per ton. 9.50U 1000
Timothy, per ton ........ .12.50@l3.o0
Alfalfa, per ton .......... $500 1000
South Park, choice, ton. .l2.5O@l3.O0
San Luis Valley, per ton. II .OO0l2.OO
Gunnison Valley, per ton. 1000 1900
straw, per ton .......... 40Ou 4.2o
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Turkey Granted Two Weeks to Sign,

London. bulgaria, ScryiR aud Mon.
tencgro presented an ulumatum 10
Turkey, giving the ottoman govern.
mcnt fourteen days in which to make
a favorable reply to their demands, nc.
cording to dispatches from Constants.
noplc.
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Eggs.

Eggs. GRADED 40. [ net f.
o. 3 Denver ............23 Q24
Eggs. graded 40. net, f.
.. j Denver ...........2O al
Eggs, case count are bring
ing from $G.25Q 100
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Man Shot in Duel Dies OF Wounds.

Boulder Colo -Joso Garcia, the
Mexican who was rh0t in a revolver
duel with A. Fisher at Lafayette. died
4, bis wounds.
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ain IN klnslR q

Kansas City - Wheat - May, S9c;
July, S4us4isc.
Corn May, 5lf,r: July, SIC.
Oats May, 25a.c.
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What in Minneanolls-

Minneapolis Wheat - May, SS7sc;
July. 9o's49o74 Cash: No. I, hard
SaAsc; 80. | Northern. SIS QSS7sc;
40 . Northern, N5Hs ~ SG7sc, No. Z
hard Montana. N72sc; No. 3, S3asd
N4Tsr
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Grain.

Wheat, chol.c milling, 100 lbs. .1.27
Rye. Colo. bulk. 100 lbs. ......l.O5
Nebraska oats, sacked .......l.29
Corn chop. sacked ............IO7
Corn, in sack ................l.OG
Bran, Colo, per 100 lbs. ........l.OQ
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS

Cotton in New Orleans.
New Orleans, IH.-COtton Quiet
unchanged. Middliug l2l2c.
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prire OF Ella,

Duluth, Liusecd-Ou track
and TO arrive, $L29lac, January. SIPS
asked, May, SL32.
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Butter.

EIgin ................ 33I:
Ireamerlos, cN. COLO, lb. e. 30
Creameries. "X. East, ID. O.. 80
Creameries, md grade, ID. % Q29
Process ...........2 U29
Packing stock ............ 30
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Dressed Poultry,
Live Poultry.

Hons. 2i2 lbs. and over LIB H14
Hens. under Gi2 lbs. ......lU oil
h'olI'I7 .... ................ ~
springs &C.. ...............,. 10
Springs, young hard boncd,
10. ................
boosters ..............
DICKS ...................l3 a Il
Turkeys, S lbs. or over....1J ali
Geese OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l3
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Lambs ................T .TOOM7.75
Ewes 4.35
NclrILss .................5. GAO
Welhcrs .................4 800
Feeder lamb, +. p. r. ......G.2597.OO
Feeder ewes. f. p. 4. ......3.OOQ3.5O
Feeder ycarliIgs, +. p. 5000 5.75
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Hogs.
Sheep.

Coca hogs ..............7 7.2OQ I.30
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sYNoPsis.
zoe on mr. ooebJ -IsfRRiLL CO

Comtesse Elise. daughter, of the govern
-or of the Mount has chance encounter
with peasant boy. The Mount" small
rock-bound island. stood In vast bay on
the northwestern coast OF France. and
during the time OF Louis XVI. was a gov
peasant boy was the son of Seigneur De-
saurac. nobleman, Young Desaurac deter
mines TO secure an education and become
gentleman; sees the governors daugh-
ter depart for Paris. Lady Elise returns
tains many mobiles. Her Ladyship dances
with strange fisherman. and q call to
arms 10 made In an effort to capture
mysterious lie Seigneur Noir. He escapes.
lazy Elise is caught in the Grand" tide.
her to his retreat. Elise discovers that
her savior was the boy with the Ash.
sanchez. the Seigneur's servant, Is ar
rested and brought before the governor.
Lady Elise has Sanchez set free. Seig-
neur and priest at the Cookies Sam
trsyed him. but Is not believed. The
Seigneur plans to release prisoners at the
Mount. Lady Elise pleads with her faith
ar TO spare the lives of condemned pris-
Elise mingles with the people and hears
some startling facts A mysterious
Mountebank starts a riot He Is arrested
ana locked up after making close obser-
vations OF the citadel and Ia afterwards
summoned before the governors daugh-
the Interview with the Mountebank As a
miserable bufroon. the Mountebank Is re-
leased by order OF the governor. De-
saurac overpowers guard and dons SOL
dier's uniform The Seigneur successfully
passes guards and finds the Great
tread the wheel and bring up enemies OF
the governor.
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CHAPTER xxII-(continued).

More stealthily now he began to
study his companion In the wheel,
while a question, suddenly occurring,
reiterated itself I'm his brain. This
ran--who was he? And what did he
know Of the mountebank, or his, JAG
cues, dealings with the clown? That
his captor was no soldier of the rock,
or belonged there. the hunchback felt
by this time assured. and a growing
suspicion Of the others identity
brought home with new force to the
dwarf the thankless part chance, per-
haps, had assigned to him In that
nights work. And at the full realiza-
ton of the consequences, should his
surmise prove correct-what must ul-
timately happen to himself In that
event, when unwilling cooperation at
the wheel should become known-al-
most had he again reached the des-
perate point of calling out; but at
that moment q turn in the wheel
brought to the level OF the aperture,
the car. In II, or clinging thereto.
fwere a number Of figures who, as soon
as the rope stopped. ,sprang noiseless-
ly to the platform.
"Seigneur, We hardly dared hope"
I'VE obeyed orders. but"
Gazing through the spokes of the
wheel. and listening to their whispered
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heMOUNT::3]>7sk
AUTfOK Of TIE S1EOL[EF3 DFDlR TIL ROc
ILLUSTRATIONS BY HA/ WATERS
BIZ FREDERIC s ISNNM II

caused him to draw back from an i'm
mortal role; already was the car again
descending!
1t came up loaded; went down once
more. reappeared. On the little plat
form now were more than a dozen
men assembled. but to Jacques this
force looked multiplied. Amid the
confusion OF his thoughts, vaguely
could he hear orders given; caught
something about the need for quiet.
haste. overpowering the guard; then
saw the door open, and the men. like
shadows. so out; leaving him alone.
No; with two black figures: ominous;
armed. He could see the glitter OF
their weapons. and ventured to move
his thick tongue. when, fercely ST.
fenced. he crouched down; waited.
with hands clenched, an interminable
period; until family from afar sound
ed the note of a night-bird.
Roughly jerked to his feet. between
them he walked to the door; heard 1t
close; stepped out into the night.
Many times had he made his way be-
tween wheelroom and guard-house.
but now the route seemed strange.
and, looking around near the struc-
lures at the entrance to his dungeons
jacques shook his head as II to rid
his brain OF some fantasy. But the
scene did not change; the guard-house
misunderstanding; unlike, with un-
known faces peering from it. and an
imperious voice issuing commands to
him, once unquestioned commander
here,
And comprehending what was being
said. he struck his breast violently:
with curses would have answered that
the keys were his own; the dungeons,
too. and what they held. and tina: he
would never lead them there; never
open these doors! But this grim. saw
age. determined band beat down his
arms, and his courage; and. with the
shadow Of the grave again before
him, the dwarf walked on: past the
stable into the guard-house, where ia
miliar forms once had been seated.
and into the passage leading to the
dungeons beyond
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not one Of them moved. or made sign
of impatience. Some must 60: 9TH
ers remain. and stoically they awaited
the word OF their leader.
Down with all Of you! I'll let you
out the line" taking a turn with the
rope around a Sanction near the
wall. land then come down myself"
The command was unexpected: for
the first time those that had never
questioned their leaders authority.
hesitated. and more sharply was the
order repeated; whereupoh they
obeyed; all Save one.
I'll let 1t out myself" said San
chez.
Get I'M"
moi" was the obdurate reply. when
the Black Seigneur made a sign:
hands reached up. seized Sanchez. and
a moment later the car started down.
The line strained; as II played out.
now running free about the stanchion.
then stopping with jerks. the man In
the wheel-house almost looked to see
1t part. The hempen strand. however.
proved sound; held it's human freight;
but another danger pressed near.
Scarcely had the car begun It's down.
ward journey than an attack. indica.
tons OF whose approach had not been
wanting manifested itself without. BE-
meath a sudden, savage assault. the
door shook; yet engrossed at the line.
every muscle strained. the man at the
| stanchion needed not Swiftly. me-
chanically he worked. apparently as
| unconscious of the clamorous soldiers
without as of a silent presence within
some one that had been concealed In
the little store-room adjoining. open.
ing into the wheel-house. and now
peered out; but at once drew back. as.
with a crash, the door fell In.
At first in the comparative dark.
ness, with only the sky at the aperture
staring them in the face. the thrush.
Ing black figures paused. uncertain !:
| lights soon were pushed forward. how
ever, and then could they see the great
wheel going round. unwinding the
rope; the man at the stanchion.
1.-The prisoners! He's letting them
| down"
"Cut the line."
Some one with a knife rushed for.
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ward, severed the strand: but at that
moment the car touched the bottom.
Then did the solitary man at the rope
for the first time awaken to his own
situation; with a backward sweep Of
the arm he struck so fiercely the fore
most of those to rush at him that the
fellow fell, hitting hard the stone floor.
Those nearest stumbled, and drawing
his sword, with a thrust Of point or
blow Of hilt, the Black Seigneur, for a
moment withstood the first confused
on-coming; then extricated himself
and leaped to the narrow space behind
the wheel. Here was he protected be-
hind by the wall; at one end, by the
masonry jutting out, while. at the 9TH
er, only one or two could attack at the
same time. But In front. through the
spokes of the broad wheel. they might
we'll hope to reach him.
At once the soldiers sprang for
ward, when, selling the wheel. the
man behind, with a savage jerk. set 1t
In motion. The swords thrust at him
were turned aside, one or two OF his
assailants were caught In the ponder
Gus mechanism. and, before those at
lacking him had recovered from their
surprise, the blade Of the Black Seig-
neur shot In and out; to the right. TO
the left. Those ahead fell back upon
their comrades; two, however. were
unable to withdraw, and sank to the
ground before the wheel. A third.
with his hand to his throat and max
ing strange sounds. staggered back to
the wall.
Momentarily disconnected, the 9TH
ers hesitated. I'm the fend's name.
fear ye one man?" shouted an authori-
tative voice.
"A DEVIL"