Evening star., 1915-02-14

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wall and fetched down long pistol II lone man"
he said with my wife in Gods keeping, and our child
with her. If must face my Maker let it be now IN
good defense, and not in my bed"
slapped him on the shoulder heartily. RIP me! L
said @you are after my heart. And the play be-
gins!"
THERE was loud call in the door, and the farmer
approached it.
@There is no way for of evil to pass this thres
DID, he called out in his hunderous voice. @There is
way Get ye gone!'
@Farmer and you within" shouted a voice at the
door, II will give you three minutes to open and de-
liver the prisoners of the law you shelter! After
that fire!"
@Lethm fire and 60 hang and drown and be quartered
says Jerry HSnk me! I'll have shot at Hobbies"
We answered nothing to the challenge from without,
and the next that happened was fusiade at the win
dows. We did naught, and the nnny that was in COM
mand of the posse then brought up some logs of tim
Der and made play to batter down the door, while
of them envroned the house as to cut OFT escape
aDick, 1 cannot endure this l must be at em,
says Jerry presently fdgeting with his barkers
"You will be busy soon enough, said l. I'VE are
giving the Monmouthshire men time. How long?"
asked of the farmer
a have directed them to path There is none can
find them once they have entered the forest. They
@How long they gomez" l asked, and we looked
at the clock @Twenty minutes
an less than hour they will be safe, he whispered.
l nodded but there doubt in my heart For
the attack upon DOORS before and behind,
and the thick oak was giving way. There gap
in the front door where the hinge had burst and Jerry
put his barker through glanced and fired He laughed
@Dick, let us open" he said.
But there was no need to open; for just then the
great door gave and cracked.
had Kitchen" l.
3There the upper windows also from which to
cape"
The farmer looked at the clock. otis over half an
hour, he said, and could hear him prayer.
The door fell inwards with loud crash, and two of
the soldiery jumped through the opening.
Jerry's barker sounded, and l flashed my bodkn
forward that both fell the threshold. But there
more behind, and too the back door had been
broken down and Others had entered the kitchen But
the door between had locked, which hindered them.
Jerry and piled weapons and the farmer fired
his bunderbuss with terrific noise There the
confusion of Satan in that narrow passage
otis but quarter of an hour!" heard the old
whisper, and suddenly he fell at my feet.
"Rip me, Dick, let me at em" cries Jerry, shining
with anger and excitement.
"Back' says I. "We have done 'Tis enough.
There the windows"
Jerry forward blade in hand like one in a frenzy
of possession and drove back those forcing
One had pistol and would have shot him pontblank,
but took him under the ribs 1 think twas Hobbies.
Jerry cried out in fashion of triumphant mockery,
and then spun round with bullet in his throat. He
choked little, and settled into silence.
W/ELL, nothing would move him or t'other, the
godly man, again as 1 saw and SO it behooved
to look after myself. The kitchen door broke in
wards now, and there came rush from that SIDE so
that the parties met and in the darkness fell upon
another. Seeing this, slipped aside and stole up
the staircase to the bedrooms. broke open the win