The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-11-28

that chance favored me to some
purpose. 1t has often failed me,
in the course Of our struggle, hut
this time l had no cause to com.
plain
Il felt myself in such luck that
| never doubted for Il second that,
having found the entrance to tho
subterranean passage, / should
also find the way out. AS a mat
ter OF fact, I had only to pull
gently at the slight obstacle of a
few stacked bricks which hid the
opening in order to make my
exit amid the remains of the
castle keep.
! Guided by the sound Of your
voice, | slipped through the
stones and thus reached the back
of the grotto in which Florence
lay. Amusing, wasn't it,
You can imagine what fun
it was to hear you make your
little speeches: Answer me, yes
or 40 Florence. A movement of
Your head will decide your fate.
If it's yes, 1 shall release you. If
it's no, You shall die. Answer
me, Florence! A sign Of your
head: is the answer yes or NOT
And the end, above all, was delfc-
ions, when You scrambled to the
top of the grotto and started
roaring from up there: It's you
who have asked to die, Flor
ence. You asked for it and
YOU We got it,
"Just think what a joke it was
at that moment there was no one
in the grotto! Not a soul! With
one effort, | had drawn Florence
toward me aud put her under
shelter. And all that you were
able to crush with your avalanche
of rocks "a one or two spiders,
perhaps, and a few flies doing
OH the flagstones.
1.-THE trick was done and the
farce was nearly finished. Act
first: Arscne Lupih saved. Act
second: Florence Levasscur
saved. Act third and last: the
monster vanqnished 49,. alb
solutely and with a vengeance"
Don Luis stood up and con.
templated his work with a sat
isfied eye.
"YM look like a sausage, my
he cried, yielding at last to
his sarcastic nature and his habit
of treating his enemies Familiarity.
"A regular sausage! A bit on
the thin side, perhaps: a saveloy
for poor people! But there, you
don't much care what you look
like, | supposed Besides, you're
rather like that. at all times +; and,
III any case, you're just the thing
for the little display of indoor
gymnastics which | have in mind
for you. You'll see: it's an idea
OF my own, a really original idea.
be inpatient we shan't be
He took one of the guns which
the cripple had brought to the
well and tied to the middle of the
gun the end of a twelve or fiji
teen yards length of rope, fast
the other end to the cords :
with which the cripple was bound
just behind his back. He next !
took his captive round the body J
and held him over the well:
"Shut your eyes, if you feel .
at all giddy. And don't be fright
ened; III he very careful. !
He put the cripple down the
yawning hole and next took hold
Of the rope which he had just !
fastened. Then, little by little,
lnch by inch, cautiously, so that
t should not knock against the
sides of the well, the bundle was
ct down at arms length.
When it reached a depth of
;wclve yards or SO, the gun stop
ped its further descent and there
t remained, slung in the dark '
md in the exact center of the
narrow circumference.
Don Luis set light to a mum
Der Of pieces of paper, which
vent whirling down, shedding
heir CLEANS upon the walls.
Then, unable to resist the craving
a last speech, he leaned over
is the scoundrel had done, and
,rinned:
Il selected the place with care,
that you shouldn't catch cold.
IN bound {" look after you, yOu
ee. | promised Florence that |
wouldn't kill you; and ! prom
sed the French government to
land you over alive as 500 as
possible. Only, as / didn't know
What to do with you until to-
morrow morning, I've hung you