Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-05-02

a seconds hesitation, turned and ran
away in the darkness.
could hear or see no other motion
In the field. turned and ran on
down the slope toward the village. In
moment / saw someone coming out
os the maple grove at the fields end,
just ahead, with a lantern.
Then / heard the voice of the school
master saying:
SIS 1t you, my ladf"
ayes" answered, as I came up to
him and Mary, in a condition of
GREATNESS excitement.
told them of the curious adventure
had had.
"Come quick" said the schoolmas-
ter. Lets 60 back and find the man
In the stumble"
/ remembered that had struck TIE
path In my fight just before stopping
TO swing the fail. The man must have
fallen very near 1t. Soon we found
where he had been lying and drops CT
fresh blood on the stubble.
"Hush." said the schoolmasteF.
We listened and heard a wagon rat
Ting at a wild pace down the road
toward the river.
"There he goes" said Mr.. Hacket.
''His companions have carried him
away. Ye'd be riding in that wagon
now, yerself, my brave lad. If We hadn't
"a made lucky hit with the fail
God bless yer
"what would they "a done with
me?" / asked.
ooh. reckon they'd "a took We Off,
lad, and KEEP We for year or so until
Amos was out o. danger" said Mr..
| Hacket. Maybe they'd drowned We in
the river down there an left yer
clothes on the bank to make II lcok
like an honest drowning. The devil
knows what they'd "a done with We.
| ladilie buck. Wen have to keep an
eye on We now, every day until the
trial is over-sure we will. Come, Wen
go up to the barn and see II Kate is
| there"
Just then we heard the receding
wagon go roaring over the bridge on
Little river. Mary shuddered with
fright. The schoolnaster treasured us
by saying:
"Don't be afraid. I brought my gun
in case we'd meet a painter. But the
danger is past
i He drew a long pistol from his coat
pocket and held II In the light of The
lantern.
The loaded cart stood In the mlddlt
of the barn floor. where I had left II
but old Kate had gone. We closed
the barn. drawing the cart along WITH
us When we came into the edge OF
| the village began TO reflect upon the
strange peril out of which ! had SO
luckily escaped. It gave me a heavy
sense of responsibility and of the
wickedness of men.
thought of old Kate and her broken
silence. For oncesI had heard her
speak. / could feel my flesh tingle
vhen I thought of her quick words
and her hoarse, passionate whisper.
knew, or thought l knew. why she
took such care of me. She was In
league with the gallows and could not
| bear to see 1t cheated of it's prey. For
some reason she hated the Grlmshaws.
had seen the hate I'm her eyes the
day she logged along behind the old
money lender through the streets OF
the village when her pointing finger
had seemed to say to me: "There'
there is the man who has brought me
to this. He has put these rags upon
my back, this fire in my heart. this
T'ild look in my eyes. Wait and you
win see what / will put upon him."
l knew that old Kate was not the
irresponsible. witless creature that
people thought her to be. / had begun
&c think of her with kind of awe as
one gifted above all others. One by
one the things she had said of the
future seemed to be coming true.
As we were going into the house the
schoelmaster said:
''Now, Mary, you take this lantern
and go across the street to the house
O. Deacon Binks, the constable. You'll
find him asleep by the kitchen stove
Arrest his slumbers, but not rudely
and, when he has come to. tell him
that have news O. the devil"
Deacon Binks arrived, a fat man
with big. round body and very
wise and serious countenance between
side whlskers bending from his temple
to his neck and suggesting parentheses
Of hair, as If his head and its acces-
series were In the nature Of a side
Issue. He and the schoolmaster went
out Of doors and must have talked to-
gether while 1 was eating bowl Of
bread and milk which Mrs. Haeket had
brought to me.
When 1 went to bed, by and b.,
heard somebody snoring on the little
porch under my window. The first
sound that reached my ear at the
break of dawn was the snoring Of
some sleeper. dressed and went be-
low and found the constable in his
coonskin overcoat asleep on the porch
with a long-barreled gun at his side.
While stood there the schoolmaster
came around the corner of the house
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