New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-14

4There is no way for men Of evil TO pass this thresh-
old he called out in his thunderous voice. There IS
no way nor means. Get ye gone
aFarmcr and YOU within shouted a voice at Tie
door Il will give you three minutes TO open and DEE
liver 20 me the prisoners Of the law you shelter After
that | fire.
arctbirn fire and 20 hanganddrown andb cquartered.'
saws Terry. "Snk me- III have a shot at Hobbies
We answered nothing to the challenge from without,
and the next that happened was fusade a. the win
dows We did naught and the ninny that was in com
rnand If the posse then brought up some logs of time
Der and made play to batter down the door, while
some Of them environcd the house as TO c of escape
4Dick cannot endure this. must be NJ en-
says Jerry presently fdgcting with his oarEers.
~You will be busy soon enough, sad J. ~We are
giving the Monmouthshire men time. How on2,- I
asked Of the farmer
q have directed them to path. There Is none can
find them once they have entered the forest. They
will be safe by Tavistock ere morning.
aIIow long are they gomez asked, and we looked
at the clock. Twenty minutes.
an less than an hour they will be safe he whispered
| nodded: but there was a doubt in my heart. For
the attack was now upon two doors, before and behind
and the thick oak was giving way. There was gap
in the front door where the hinge had burst, and jerry
put his barker through glanced, and fired He laughed
@Dick let open' he said.
But there was no need to open; for just then tae
great door gave and cracked.
@You had better retreat into the kitchen SAID T.
@There are the upper windows also from which o.
cape
The farmer looked at the clock. ~'Tis over half 40
hour. he said and could hear him murmur prayer
The door fell inwards with loud crash, and tH9 e..
the soldiery jumped through the opening.
Icrrv's barker sounded, and | flashed my bolan
forward 50 that both fell the threshold. But there
were more behind and now too the back door had been
broken down and Others had entered the kitchen ba-
the door between had locked, which hindercd ta.-
Terry and piled our weapons and the farmer a-.i
his blunderbuss with a terrific noise There -..
confusion Of Satan in that narrow passage
"'T's but a quarter Of an hour heard the old man
whisper, and suddenly he fell at my feet
rip me- Dick let me at en- cries Jerry, shining
with anger and excitement
Back" says I. I'VE have done. IT'S enough
There are the windows.
Terry ran forward blade in hand Ike one in renzy
If possession and drove back those forcing entrance
one had pistol and would have shot him pontbians.
but took him under the ribs. think twas Hobbe-.
Jerry cried out in a fashion Of triumphant mockery.
and then spun round with bullet in his throat. lie
choked a little, and settled into silence.
WIELL, nothing would move him or t'other, the
'" godly man, again as saw, and so 1t behooret
me to look after myself The kitchen door broke IN
wards now ana there came rush from dI SUI 30
that the two parties met and in the darkness fell upon
one another. Seeing this, slipped aside and stole up
the staircase to the bedrooms broke open the win
dow in one and slipping through dropped to the ground
at the cost Of bloody hands
The whole party was now engaged in a turmoil Of
confusion in the farmhouse, and crept along the
hedges till found gap into the open. Here was
some luck for tired man; for the horses had been
left on this side and there but man in charge
of them He did not see me till was upon him, and
gave him the full force Of my blade in his neck that
he dropped at once.
Thereupon flung myself on a horse, and gathering
I'D few reins drove the pack along with till had
gone half a mile or more fairly brskly. There scat