The Pulaskian., 1919-10-10
CHAPTER VI-continued.

T can't afford to give you that, Theodore"
 aFd die for dat" he declared.
 sTake this handkerchief instead ;" but, meanwhile, my eyes were open ing. 'aTake this instead, Theodore" I suggested.
 @rd die for dat" he repeated, touch ing the tie.
 His voice and touch made me sick and afraid, just as people in lunatic asylum make one afraid.
 Look outI" murmured Tom at my elbow.
 And just then noticed hiding in some bushes of seven-year apple trees, two faces I had good reason to know.
 I had barely time to pull out the commandant's revolver from my pocket. I knew it was to be either the pocl1marked genius or the engi- neer. But for the moment I was not to be sure which one I had hit. For, as my gun went off, something heavy came down on my head, and for inc time I was shut off from whatever else was going on.
 
 (Which did I hit, Tom?" were my first words as I came back to the glory of the world; but I didn't say them for a long time, and from what Tom told me, it was Q wonder 1 ever said them at all.
 There he is, sar," said Tom, point ing to a long, dark figure stretched out near by. 'I'm afraid he's not the man you were looking for.o
 Poor fellow p I said it was George, the engineer; I'm sorry-but saw the muzzles of their guns sticking out of the bush there. It was they or me"
 That no lie, sar, and if it hadn't been for that suckin' fish's skin you wouldn't be here now"
 Tt didn't save me from a pretty good one on the head, Tom, did it?"
 NO, sar, but that was just tiff 1t hadn't been for that knock on the head, pulling you down just that min ute. that thar pockmarked fellow would have got you. As it was, he grazed your cheek and got one of his own men killed by mistake-the very fellow that hit you. There he is over there."
 And who's that other, Tom?" I asked, pointing to another dark figure a few yards away
 That's the captain. sar."
 "Hhe captain? Oh, I'm sorry for that. God knows I'm sorry for that"
 Yes, sar. he was one of the finest gentlemen I ever knowed was Cap tain Tomlinson; brave man and a good navigator And he'd taken a pow erful fancy to you, for when you got that crack on the head he picked up your gun and began blazing away, with words I should never have expected rom religious man. The others, ex- cept our special friend"
 Let's call him Tobias from now on, Iom," interposed.
 We'll, him, sar, kept his nerve, but the others ran for the boats as if the ueVli was after them; but the cap- talns gun was quicker, and only four oI them got to the Susan B. The other TWO fell on their faces, as if some ehlng had tripped them up, in couple oI rect of water. But just then Tobias hlt the captain in the heart; ah! if only he had one of those skins-but he aiWays laughed off such things as SUI perstitious.
 There was only me and Tobias .hen, and the dog, for the engineer poy had gone on his knees to the Su- san 5. fellows at the first crack, and begged them to take him away with elem There was no one left but To pias and the dog and me, nnd I was sure my end was not far off, for was never much of a shot.
 As God is my witness, Sar, I was 'eaoy to die, and there was moment Mhen 1 thought that the time had come; but Tobias suddenly walked away to the top of the bluff and