The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1916-07-07
very wild about there; it would not
be hard to carry out his plan.

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telegram, was bending forward. chew.
| ing an unlit cigar. evidently in q
brown study. A blind anger surged
through the boys heart as he thought
or the injustice and persecution that
made his life a hell
! Then he remembered that the train
was actually speeding toward his old
| home, which he had not seen for six
years. His mother and Old Stevens
| lived near Leeds His mother wrote
her few lines. She never complained,
Out ne knew that Stevens made his
mothers lie unhearabIe. Then q new
lhought came 70 the boy. Why should
ne De content with riiling tho safe?
why not Steyens-Nilhraham-
all VINO had prosecuted him. lie had
urea nara on his mothers account
" aIoHe LOT lhe DOylSh error. The
"oiiu was against him; he would be
against 'ile world
AS ne $1,000 there, with a roar the
Train plunged into the tunnel.
When it emerged it was nearly dark.
The boy, lingering his cheap revolver
in indecision, looked through the glass
front of the door of the express car
Old Saunders was still reading his
newspaper. With reSolute gesture
Rolfe took the revolver from the peck.
ct into which he had thrust it and
moved forward.
III.
Suddenly he heard shouts from the
engine, and then the train began tC
slow down. He heard a revolver shot.
another shout; the train stopped sud,
denly, the wheels biting into the met.
ais, as if the brakes had been jammed
down hard. The engine snOrted and
putfed to standstil.
The next moment two men clam.
bered aboard the nlatform of tho ex.
press car. so hastily that thew did
not see Rolfe on the platform Of the
car behind them, They carried re.
yolvers. and pushed omen the door
Rolfe saw old Saunders start IN He
grabbed his carhine Tho navt in,
slant haforo be could oin i ono 81
tho man brought dawn tho hut+ - hia
revolver with a sickening tbud unor
tho old vetoror,s bood co,,dou,
nitcbed forward ;rsensibla NOV +he
floor If the car
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