Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1921-07-01

SVuAu VII u WHISKY DhIlci.
A breath dropped down from the
frost above. The figure on the bar
rel quivered.
"Tn be colder than that pretty
soon," was the suggestion it conveyed
to him.
With this he grappled savagely,
while his executioners busted them
selves, dimly outlined just beyond.
To distribute the responsibility
equally they had contrived to knock
away the barrel with long pole, each
mans hand to help drive it.
As the pole was lifted from the
ground, the man with the light turned
to the tree to direct the blow. His
torch fickered on the leveled steel
that has kept the Canadian frontier.
The mounted police had taken position
by the barrel.
Also, in official, matter-of-fact man
ner and the name of his sovereign, the
mounted police was asserting claim to
the prisoner He regretted being COM
PEELED to take this seemingly hostile
attitude toward neighbors and friends;
but, as an officer sworn to uphold the
law that governed all Of them, he
could not permit this illegal proceed
ing.
AS an entirely unexpected develop
ment Of an unnatural and CHASTITY en-
terprise, the mounted police command
cd a few moments of blinking, un-
thinking Inactivity from the crowd.
He utilized 1t in explaining that
the man they intended to hang was
wanted up in Calgary for partlcu-
larry atrocious crime.
Fearlessly AMI fluently he lied to
them, asserting official jurisdiction on
foreign soil, face to face with men
who could, and probably would, I'll
him with lead before he could move
q finger.
But what his nerve and cunning
might have accomplished without hos
tilitles was denied demonstration by
the torch sputtering out before any
one responded. In the same instant
the mounted police twisted his knife
through the ropes that held the prls-
oner's feet and hands.
The electric instinct of self-preser-
walton actuated the hands to release
the neck, and the quick generalship
of the mounted police swept them
both behind the tree as a dozen re-
volvers flashed out the suddenly re-
stored anger and deadly purpose Of
the mob.
A single bullet answered, sent back
along the trail to discourage pursuit,
as the mounted police dragged after
him companion who but for him
would have been black In the face
and dead. The training Of the plains
took him straight to his horse.
With his charge clinging bllndly to
the saddle, he was leading the way
back along the trail northward when
the first of the mob reached the hotel
When the bulk OF the mob Game In,
they bore the stlffenlng frame Of one
whose lungs bled from the bullet the
mounted police loosened along the
trail.
On the barToom table he coughed
out his life and the admission that
he was the one that should have stood
upon the barrel. His crime was the
fruit Of n whlsky-muddled game Of
seven-up for the money the man they
had meant to hang had paid for the
pony.
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steod,lv leading bIs horse toward tbe
boundarv-I,ne
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