Year: 1873

leigh, when we had reached a pOlnt 1orIy
rods from the road.


He stopped the horse, got out and
hitched him, and then came around to
the wheel.


"You don't feel just right, but guess
you will be better soon, he remarked.
Come, let me help you down."


He reached up his arms, and let go
the seat and fell into them. It seemed
to me as if weighed ton, but he car
ried me along without an effort, and laid
me down within about rod of the fence.
which ran along on one side of an old
pasture. just now the effect of the drug
was wearing off and I began to feel
little better, and got faint suspicion
that something unusual had happened.
But I was powerless to move a limb; the
sensation was like that when your foot
goes to sleep.


"Can you speak ?'' inquired Raleigh,
bending over me, "because If you can it
know just where you have stored away
that money"


F. Now began to realize my situation.
His face looked natural again, and the
load was off my tongue. I also felt that
I could move my fingers little.


IS George Raleigh are you going to
rob me % I asked, finding my voice at
last.


"Well, some folks might call it rob-
bing, but we dress up the term a little
by calling it the only correct financial
way of equalizing the floating currency,
so that each one is provided for and no
one is left out. !"


'You shan't have the money I will
die first p yelled, rising little.


"Ah, / see-didn' ttake quite enough"
he coolly remarked "Well, have pro-
vided for this


He went to the buggy, procared ropes
and gag, and kneeled down beside me.
I had but little strength yet, and he con-
quered me in moment. Lying on my
right side looking toward the fence, he
tied my hands behind me and then forced
the gag into my mouth.


There now you see you are nicely
fixed up, and all because you acted like
a fool, instead of sensible young lawyer
soon to be admitted to the bar"


While he was speakng-indeedw while
he was trying me, 1 had caught sight of
the white face of little girl looking at
us between the rails of the fence. I
could see her great blue eyes. There
were red stains around her mouth and
on the little hand resting on the rail,
and knew that she was some farmers
child searching for strawberries. I
could not warn her of her danger, and I
feared that she would be seen or heard.
While Raleigh was tying the last knot, I
winked at the little girl as hard as I
could, hoping that she would move
away. But she did not go.


"Wen, now for the money" said
Raleigh, and he began searching my
pockets. He went from one to the
other, removing all the articles, felt
down my bootleg, and then finally passed
his hand over my bosom and discovered
the money.


cha! there it isl'' he exclaimed,
drawing out the packages and he was
cool enough to go at it to count out the
money. As he commenced the little
girl waved her hand to me. My heart
went humping, for expected she would
utter word or o shout, but she sank
down from sight, and I caught a CLEAN
of her frock as she passed through the
grass.


.'Tou see, my young friend, remark
ed Raleigh, as he drew off one of his
boots and deposited some of the bills in
it, ''there's nothing like transacting
business as it should be transacted.
Some men would have shot or stabbed
you, but it is only the apprentices who
do such work. ALI the real gentlemen
of our calling do business as gentlemen
should"


He drew off the other boot, and placed
some &c fifties" and " "twenties" in it,
and then continued


'sI have it all planned how to deal
with you as soon as 1 get this money
disposed of around my person. shall
lay you on your back and pour the bal
ance of this wine down your throat.
There's enough of it to make you sleep
until tomorrow night, and by that time
I shall be hundreds of miles away. As
soon as see that the drug has taken
effect shall unite your hands and re-
move the gag. When you come out of
your sleep-f you ever do-you had
better crawl out to the road, where you
will be most likely to meet some travel
er. want to use the horse and buggy,
otherwise I would leave them for you. %
How cool he talked He treated the
matter as if it were regular transaction
in which fully acquiesced. He had me
| a fast prisoner, and I felt that he could
do just as he pleased. While I was
thinking I saw the little white face ap-
! pear between the rails again, but in q
moment it faded away and its place was
taken by the sunburned phiz of farm
er. He looked from me to Raleigh and
back again, and I winked to him in 0
way which he readily understood. His
face disappeared, and felt that ]
should be saved.


"No, old grip won't get his tin to.
day." unused Raleigh, storing away the
bills in his pockets. &c You will go back
to Law & Law feeling out and cut up
But they shouldn't blame you-it is moi
your way at all. True, had you minded
your business on the cars and had MOI
been SO free with stranger, this would
not have happened. / was on my way
to Milwaukee, and had no thought O.
such rich pickings here"


"Now, in just about a minute we'll bt
through with this business" he remark
ed, trying to put the mouth of the fasl
between my jaws.


Irolled my head to one side and h'
did not succeed. He was jamming th'


flask against my teeth, when I caugh


sound of soft step, the crash of club


and Raleigh rolled off my body. h


tried to leap up, but three or four farm


ers struck him down, and one of th


blows rendered him senseless. Befor


he came to I was free of ropes and gag


and we had him nicely bound.
Over beyond the pasture farmer AM
his hands were raking up hay. &C Littl
blue eyes," only eight years old, ha,