The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-09

beyond recognition was on his feet trying Pd ht
 self of the encumbering but in the deep snow and
 get his weight the shank and fingers were useless
 with which to loosen the nut would have av1iled him
 As the officer picked up his rife and stepped out his
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 "Ye won't go peaoeable. ey7" troceed sIassf ing easily in brutal satisfaction T take it youn go somehow, won't ye?"
 .""No, by G--dl" was the return 'You jest come to help yc; we'll hell ye damned hrst"
 "Is your leg broker demanded the sheriff.
 Coin to keep me chained p here to starVe an freeze
 That's about what was the answer; "1eastways There's no hurry If Tim don't help I'll lay him out the start. Pm law, I amp
 flesh might later, but was not yet present The bruises he had received hardly serious to such punishment the future looked dark for kr Brad ley Could he have placed his hands the sheriff he paid for it.
 smile but his attention was suddenly drawn from his victim by the sound of shr1 wfinny, and wheeling the @ oppo ss of ~e e po TEe @ face lighted Here was solution of the food problem he advanced to the edge of the stream and with voice him; but with the stupidity common to most of his genus the horse did not stir and his impatient after him the mount itself was not in immediate de- mand but the food it carried
 The sheriff stepped into the water It only knee deep by the shore but its sandy bottom sheved gently and offered obstruction in theway of bouIders As he got to the centre ot the epanse the horse whnped again and Bradley shouted something. Thinking his around and brought up his rife but Bradley was stiff fast, though working furiousy at the iron The sheriff toward the @ waiting SoTse 6n to a @ n sa R een 1 of his dang sS ie' Re seed sny a sd and managed to free foot, but the exerton drove the had reached his waist But its icy coldness he did fee the of sudden sprang his and sand he looked about in wild despair and IeS oat shout of desperation that and down the valley like the cry of lost soul
 Bradley caught the ring of horror in the shout and instant he saw the character of his torentors trouble and his Jeering voice joined the echoes of the others but noinw a his oqgsoner s' c6d I ns & flame him now. Tn less than thirty seconds he was ing less slowly His first shock of horror past he be- gan fq use n wits e called called to % ms horse @ o animal only whinned and looked criously at him. In grasp and save himself from being drawn to Sure and horrible death The sky brghtening with the coming rendered powerless to help him.
 It then that the sherPs spirit brrke He would sooner face death at the hands of Bradley than be drawn into E, the black horror beneath him The weak him down perhaps his abused prisoner might reient fl and found the key of the paddock Shouting to Brade that he would throw it. and begging that for the love
 With f lis o ns es bt of o s @ Rg de brsf curve through the air and buried itself the dozen feet from the chained
 At the failure of the Bradley let forth string of 1I.gnsIg oaths and the sng sheriff sEoaHed aSa entiy the water reached his arnpits and he began at God He gas past Dt ai hep and he knew it He felt for his revolver that he might end his he now remembered leaving it in the shack Then he became passive Thus the minutes passed pressed By the ghastly face turned toward him but had no become silent on account uni 9t the sgle sita had he let slip his voey of paths at the loss of the key oreciaton of his own situation that impressed him He was chained and powerless; the pass would bs cold would come. and the wolves
 Bradley & uttered an nj invosntsIy @ cry The Gny 6sEs Eve rods of him; the water was now tapping at his surface of the pond like stones Practically the sheriff was already dead Even as Bradley looked the head nent only few dark bubbles marked where the man
 Bradley gazed stupd1y at the spot then shifted his eyes and asght that caused his hair o lift There of gray wolf loped out of the timber and into the growing light of the clearing As if he knew his in- aug ye sreTed fJo I fee % % Dr'e so9c en & then planted himself in front of the man. sat on s auncbes and lifting his pointed nose to the warming sky barred his fangs in lgpne grin and let out long
 For an instant helpless outlaw parayzed; but the comfort of mental ntbness was denied him fog long for he came fully to his senses as he heard az troted into the and took up position by the side of its mate
  either animal instead internal intelligence seemed shining from their greensh eyes and, as though en- toying the of their victim they refraned from immediate attack
 The Helpless man grew frenzed Had there been but wolf he might have bested him with his iron hands5 two-it hopeless. Tn his unreasoning despera- ton he flung burning matches at the brutes that sat like twin Nemeses over life of crime He cursed them and cajo1ed them by turns He dared them to come. He threw at them every moveable thing in his pockets making balls of snow ending out blast ing oath with each Tn ferocity he was their full equal for time, but finally he became exhausted by his own violence As he subsided at last covering his face with his hands that he might blot the horror from his sight NaNNned like who