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The Gtmgie Tiger at Heme 1 WI5GS. passionately. "You're too good for P"Miriam," he whispered, "don't believe he?" questioned theonan, in boiling Going Out to Fish up $2,000,000^ me. Only say that you will marry their black story of me—don't One very curious point is the exasperation. Beautiful birds have plumes me and care for me, scoundrel that I believe it. I was there—I sawit—but From the Philadelphia Eecord^^ "Jes' so, capting he wur here terday." od in which, the tigress teaches!*' Beautiful thoughts have we am," added the man bitterly. I didn't do it. I never intended the "Before two months shall have iStars shine high above the sight *& cub to kill. This she does by disft A dauntless resolution depicted itself worst. I can't prove my innocenee Of earth's vague whispering passed" said Dr. Seth Pancoast last "Thought so. Gim'meLtii#ftruth, Tinder the earth's broad boBom ling the animal attacked, so if^ upon Miriam's countenance, as but I solemnly tell you, I am innocent night. "I propose to land in Philadelphia now. He's here now, ain't he?" Never a beauty lies of the worst—the very worst you will she lifted her lustrous eyes and held cannot make its escape frOEisf^hV |2,000,000 worth of gold 3Jut shall burn its way to tha rim of day, Ab tore off a long leaf of tobacco hear." his shifting glances by the subtle And flash to our wondering eyes. from a home grown twist and held it and silver bars and precious stones cubs, who then complete the work. force and fire in their depths. Miriam laid her hand gently on his in tempting proximity to his mouth. now lying in the bottom of the Atlantic SBeautiful gems he hidden Mr. Inverarity witnessed a scene of "Yes, I'll marry you, en' stand by arm—her face grew tender—her voice Under the fold of earth "Naf ral 'nuff, capting, ef he hain't Ocean, the treasure of the you, too—stand by you en' help you this kind, or at least came soft and tremulous. .Even the slime hides a thought sublime guv you the slip he be heah yit." sunken English sloop-of-war De Till the time of the lily's birth. —true en' faithful/if I am onliest a "I care for you John, whether it spot just after it had been enacted, "Confound the fellow, we might Braak, which went down in 1798." fUy JEven the birds went creeping!!! I moonshiner's daughter, I'll say it en' were true or not. Go—now Leader (B a-known by their takin* it so cool that and when the marks were so fresh Wingless and featherless, The main obstacle heretofore to locating promise it, ef so be you're true en' sniffs lower—quite there. Leader— he had vamosed curse the whole business!" the wreck, the Doctor says, to admit of the whole story being faithful to me," sommut's closer!" I Till plume by plume, like the roses' bloom, angrily retorted Paxton tot has been the variation of the meridian, The harrassed tenison of Heatne's read at a glanceS", 1 K&'.JjThey borrowed the singer's dress.4j|i The girl's startled,suppressed voice Ab had stowed the tobacco leaf safely which has been accurately SH Beautiful birds have plumage, f*&aS countenance relaxed. An old bull nilgai had been the^ictim, became suddenly shrill in its terror. into his mouth and lazily dropped tefp §fct. Beautiful thoughts fly high solved by Lieutenant-Commander "You have bound yourself to stand and the tigress had disabled him Heath sprang forward with an agile, ff% The poet's song cannot slumber long. 1W into a chair before the fire. Adams of the United States Navy, by me and love me. I'll hold you to by breaking one of his fore-legs just Its track is the boundless sky. i"*^**^ chamois like bound and vanished in His talk was over for the time. "v^'s* Under the infinite heaven 4 it." who has been granted a leave of absence below the knee. She never touched the pines. The dogs inside the cabin The lukewarm sheriff and enraged Never a wmg unfurled "I want you to hold me to it, onliest by the secretary of the navy to his throat, the usual place of seizing as well as out set up a simultaneous But shall find its way to the verge of day, detectives had taken themselves off, I want you to do the same by me," «& & further prosecute the search for the but allowed the cubs to mangle TL And flash on some wondering world. howl. There was no doubt of an down the ridge, some time before Ab she replied. De Braak. He will act as the chief of disabled Drute. Mr. Invarar^i —Laura Bell American Magazine alien presence close at hand. Miriam said, with a satisfied chuckle. Relinquishing his gun for a moment, frightened the three tigers from tl «Bi 3\. rushed into the house and fastened the expedition, which is the second HIM "Twan't no he es I tole 'em, Mirry. THE MOONSHINERS.' he drew her into his arms and the door behind her. one fitted out by Dr. Pancoast to carcass and secured a photograph I knowed them pow'ful sharp fellers kissed her tenderly, then, with a guilty it in its then condition, showing ho "We know he's in there!" shouted search for this wreck. The steamboat wouldn't believe h'it but mind vou, start and involuntary glance around the throat had not been laeerateji a rough voice. Long Branch of New York has The girl closed the door of the gal, you hain't got my say so" ter him, released the girl and tpokup Ms He got a second photograph neif "He's there! Give him up! We're a been chartered for this expedition, tek' no man commits murder, en' crumbling spring house. Her expression weapon. ,? 3 & & day, after the tigress and her brood goin' to have hini!" chorused rougher you'll never git h'it, kase he don't and after undergoing repairs she will was alert and expectant—her "I a scoundrel toaskit," hesaid, had again visited the spot and completed voices. l||i§f mean you right, en' h'it's onlucky. take on board a full complement ol movements sluggish,almost dilatory with a forced, angry laugh, ignoring their meal. In the end he "Hit's better ter let 'em come, Mirry. The girl knew her father too well to submarine divers, experts and officers the amending request. succeeded in shooting the tigress «,nd yet a chilling -wind whistled He's done swung hisse'f in 'gainst remonstrate. She knew, too, that in charge of Lieutenant Adams. "Mirry! Mirry! called a shrill voice and one of her cubs. now." •down the holes of the rotten roof, Heathe was only safe while she adhered Everything will be.«under,, ^strict from the house. J^ ^J^i "Ab unbarred the door, and, opening to her promise not to marry navy ^discipline, The spot through the gaps and chinks between Mr. Inverarity has a number of "Oh, me! That's' grandmother! it stepped on the threshold in cool him without Ab's permission. The where the wreck is said to be •the worm eaten logs it tossed her other photographs which shr)^ the She'll be after me in a minute!" and contemplation of the scene. Instantly cold winter tightened its grip, and is about a half mile off the appearance of a tiger's prej -after Miriam hurried off up the path. brown hair, crimsoned her pretty a revolver was on each side of his still an uneasy sense of surveillance point of Cape Henlopen, and with the first meal. His experience goes Heathe followed, easily keeping apace gray head. -cheek, all unheeded. Miriam Sagsby and danger hung over them. The old the powerful pumps from the steamer with her rapid steps. to show that, the animal first de^. ours "What be you after, shurf?" he moonshiner's family had once been •did not feel the northerly it is expected that the mud will first the hind quarters, while if a tiger and "Miriam, shall I inform Ab and your asked, thrusting him aside. The men full of expedients for deluding doubtful gale. Her gaze fastened itself be washed away, and then the divers tigress are together, the one eatfc at grandmother?" he asked. "You'll marry outside rushed rudely past him. visitors. They seemed to come upon the thickets of laurel, sassafras will land the bars of the precious the hind quarters and the other me when there's a preocher comes "You might as well give him^up, back to Miriam, along with thousands the fore quarters. Again, when to—Odds Corner, don't you call it?" metal on the deck of the Long Branch. and creeping bramble, •where a narrow Ab," answered the sheriff "they've of ingenious devices for the tiger has not devoured the whole "Yes the preacher can come here. A revenue cutter will be asked for to tracked him out here, 'en it's 'gainst path, only a few yards away, abruptly comfort and safety of her lover. All Father don't talk, en' grandmother cass, and returns to his kill the r. protect the treasure. The headquarters the law ter shulter a crim'nal. I the winter long he was neither seen disappeared. The spring bubbled don't go nowhere, Miriam replied, night, he never eats at the sa of the expedition will be at Cape don't want *er rest a neighbor. The nor heard of at Ab's cabin, but all the out from under a huge rock, behind intuitively divining a reservation of place, but drags off the remains feller goes by the name of Heathe." May point. TheDe Braak, in which winter long neither rain, nor snow, which ran a deep ravine where doubt and caution under the phrasing the carcass 40 or 50 yards before "We've got to search the premises, the treasure is supposed to be buried, nor raging tempest—the tempest of his question. ginning operations. Therefore,spo_ sunlight never penetrated the great sheriff," bristled a ferret faced man, ofthe mountains—prevented the girl's sailed from Falmouth, England, on "Ab can hold his tongue, and there men sitting over a kill tie it by more than usually energetic in his efforts. daily pilgrimage to the hut in the on June 3, 1797, for the British pines, even at midday. The spot is no one here who cares to hear of foreleg to a tree. Otherwise the »gt ff- black ravine. Ab would watch her go West Indies. She was commanded •could not have been more wildly me," he remarked, reflectively. "Ab would creep up and be oft wiih it The sheriff smiled significantly/ out in the whirling snow wreaths, by Capt. James Drew, with a complement comber but there was a safety in is shy of strangers-" without stopping a second. "Efyou kin sarch these'ere prem'ses, with the basket on her arm, but he of 86 men, and in the following 'that black abyss, serviceable more The girl laughed. why jes'go ahead, Mr. Paxton Mr. Invararity has timed tigeis never questioned her errand. So the May arrived off the Deleware Capes. "You need never fault father'for —course, sir," he dryly responded. when at their meals and has fouru^* 'than once within'Miriam's memory. winter dragged its ice cold lengths While under mainsail and reefed topsail talkin' to strangers. You haven't that a full-grown tiger takes $ away. The fine frosty flakes of snow "I've followed this Heath for a Her smile broadened into a pleased she capsized and sank with the promised, though, to do good en'' hours' steady eating to finish the betokened a fierce storm coming over a year, and I won't be beat now. laugh as the lapping bushes were captain and 38 officers and seamen. faithful by me".—But her lover had forequarters of a bullock. He dis the ridge—already it had sifted like There's a reward out for him—dead The rest oi the crew escaped in the pushed aside, and a man looked opened the door, and both went in. pates the myth about the "sled white powder into crack and crevice, or alive—so you may as well tell ship's boat and a pilot boat, which •warily about him before quitting "Mirry kin tie ter whomst she shutting out the rigid wind roaring hammer stroke of the forepaw where he is." was waiting to take the pilot ashore. pleases," her father said when savagely among the pines outside, tiger," showing that the tiger sin their shelter—a man in the rough The man Paxton turned sharply Two hundred Spanish prisoners also Heathe, taking advantage of Miriam's but passing almost contemptuously clutches with his claws exactly upon Miriam as he spoke. .home-spun of a mountaineer, but went down at the same time. The absence in the shed, told him the warm, substantial cabin crouching a man might clutch another's "Heathe is not his name neither, *bith the handsome face, soft hands De Braak was a licensed1 privateer of his hopes. "Hit's a good leetle beneath them. The snow deadened with his fingers. He also giveirariety miss, and I'll make it worth your a indescribable aspect of one used gal as you'll git, en she's a smart gal, under the English flag, and while on all sounds without, the dogs while to tell on him." of information about the intf fe to ease and luxury. Mirry is—h'ain't afeered o' nothin'. her journey across the ocean CFFBThauled gave no howl nor warning, when suddenly mence distance tigers wander during Miriam heard him in silence, uTset, She'll stick ter you, spite o' ole Nick the door4#as thrown open, and two prizes, both loaded with the night how they keep the jungle resolute expression upon her face. 'Tt's you, Dr. Heathe!" she exclaimed hisself, less'n you go back on her with the sweeping gust and snow two the specie which Dr. Pancoast and roads and footpaths, avoiding thp~ "You shall have part of the reward"— in well feigned surprise. 'twouldn't be overly safe fur you men came in. They were the sheriff Lieut. Adams will endeavor to bring more difficult, tangled undergrowth* "Who did you think it was,Miriam?' then," and Ab chuckled, while the and a stranger. how they are partial to a dust bath "I don't touch blood money!" she from the bottom of the ocean. inquired Dr. Heathe, his keen, rapid great quid of tobacco oscillated in interrupted fiercely. on the roads, rolling about in it in "Don't make no stir, Ab!" shouted glance darting with lightning rapidity his cheek. "It don't matter. I'll catch him evident satisfaction how they do not the sheriff. "It's all right—t'other into every dingy nook and remote The Man Under the Bed- ^J "She says that she will, and I suppose yet. He's a cold blooded villian— like moving about in the heat of the feller's confessed. Heathe didn't doit. shadow. There was something painiully From the Detroit Free Press. there are people who are true wanted for murder." day, as the hot ound burns the This here's his brother—t'other feller apprehensive in the watchful and can be trusted, though I have "Murder?" The man under the bed seems to pads of their feet and makes them owned up when he's a-dyin'." •scrutiny continuallyin those restless, never had the good fortune to meet exercise an irresistible fascination upon The girl shivered. Her faee paled quite raw, and how they are sometimes Ab smiled grimly. •suspicious eyes, as well as the firm, them," replied the stranger, a bitter the feminine mind. This fascination into a whiteness Ab had never seen discovered sitting in pools of "Iwouldn't hev tuk nobody's wu'd halt menacing hold up the rifle always smile flitting over his countenance. undoubtedly may be accounted blanch its deep, healthy hues. water in the heat of the day. for h'it but youa'n, shurf." carried or at hand for instant use. for largely upon traditional and "Jes' so they be skurce, en'pow'ful "Murdered an old ,. man %for "Yes we've kem a-puppose ter get "Have you seen any strangers?" he hereditray grounds. Scientists tell good ter come across w'en ashurf his money. They're sure to him, tho' it's cold es blazes," added questioned. He Drew the Line at the Tariff. 0 us that persistent personal habits en' pack o' Guv'menters kem at yo' lynch him if they get the satisfied sheriff, "You see Heathe "Strangers? How should I? Strangers tend to produce themselves from generation els. The gal knows h'it—Mirry A stranger walked into the camp of hands on him. Murder and robbery. kem in on'em, en' folks knowed thar's don't come this a-way, onliest to generation. knows, she do. I'm certain to nab him sooner or later," bad blood 'twixt 'em so they pitched Abner W. Cassin, the Arab, says they're arfter the moonshiners," she Thenr again, women will continue added the detective, with the oh him, en' wouldn't believe nothin' laughed "You hev' mo' larnin' than weuns, San Francisco Post, and demanded^ to look under the bed so long as the professional gusto of a man who had else. 'Twur a clear case 'gainst him doctor. You mebbe wa'n't -"Don't they?" he said, without echoing hospitality. world lasts, I suppose from sheer bagged human game. but he's innocent, and me'n his fetched up likewe-uns,en'I'm a-gwine the laugh. "There are worse VBeard of the prophet,"said Abner^ ingrained curiosity. Who was it brother kem for him. Hes' all right ter say es you mought think yo'sef Miriam listened wearfiy while they things than free stills the Arab, "it is thy right, praised that said, "Life would not be worth now." better'n me en' Mirry" told the terrible tale to Ab. She "Last winter when I went down the Allah what wouldst thou?" living for a woman were it not "Miriam is better than I am—that watched her father narrowly. The "Fotch him, Mirry—hi 't's my say ridge to Odds Corner to school, the for the- constant possibility of "I fain would eat, and It would so." is what I think—and you have been quasi moonshiner might condone offenses guv'ment men were arfter the moonshiners, finding out some secret? At all that thy wife, the fair Priseflla, an my best friend," interrupted Heathe, against the revenue but murder!—she "You had a close call, young man en' they met me one evenin', events, this is plainly the reason thy daughter, the beauteous Dorcas* speaking hurriedly, a hot impatience, knew that he had a superstitious they'd hev hanged you sure, it they'd whenst I'se a-crossin' Diffikil branch, why women hide the pockets in prepare my food and wait upon mi almost desperation, in his manner. horror of a man with blood caught you," the sheriff said, an hour •en' offered me anew dress to show the their dresses why they organize "Beit so," said Abner the A a Old Abe looked pleased. on his hands. later, when explanations had been way to ole Tim Skinner's" 4 sewing circles wey they yearn to become "the will of the guest is law in tM made, and Heathe stood among "He h'ain't fitten ter git off, Mirry,rr "Then you won't be 'shamed 'o "Did you doit?" and again that postmistresses. Curiosity comes house of the follower of the prophe' them, beside his brother, free and he whispered, while the search went Mirry ur me, whenst you' luck tu'ns, ^eharp glance went off on its perpetual as natural to a woman as singing innocent. The stranger ate and drank till %M on in the angry thoroughness of en' you h'ain't 'bleeged ter hug ter .-search for secret danger. does to a cat. This looking under was satisfied, and, gazing threatened discomfiture. "He'll iotch the mountings?" "I must have had an inevitable "Do it?" she retorted scornfully. the bed every night is one of those form of the fair Priscilla, as «h $i us turrible luck, ef he's done h'it, en', "You are my only friends. There and final call this terrible winter but -*T)o you think I'd tell of anybody?" innocent little excitements which Mirry, he shan't hev you, noways. handed him sherbet cooled with snow, II* is no turn of luck can help me, no for this true and loving woman," -"Perhaps yon didn't know?" brighten the dull hue of every-day We'll git inter trouble long o'himef remarked that she was a doocid weUfT5* change whatever that I might wish answered Heath, as he looked down STBut I did know," she triumphantasserted. life and fringe it with romance and we don't tell." preserved woman, whereupon sh&ar to quit the mountains" was the deliberate into Miriam's lustrous eyes and "I knew jest' where the poetry. What if the anticipated blushed, and the stranger, strainiygt assurance. "Father, I've helped en' stood by beautiful face, softened and aglow ^till' a en' I knew they were boots should some time appear! her rapturously to his heart, kissed you, hev'n't I?" asked the girl, a with joyous tenderness. "And now, "Hit's all right, then. I' h'ain't -a-goin' off that night with a load, but There i» excitement enough in that her. uy W^¥M\ passionate pleading in every lineament Ab, there is nothing to hinder—we much tried in my mind long o' whur I'd die befo' I'd tell of 'em." thought to keep even a hard-working Abner the Arab liked nWt this, bu and accent. will be married to-morrow" And you be foolin'ur'no. Mirry's ekil to "Are you as brave as that, Miriam?" society woman in a pleasant flutter he ground his teeth and suppress^ they were.—Inde in Frank Leslie's. that ar h'it's her lookout." "True 'nuff, Mirry you've helped The modulated tone became all day. Aye, blessings on those his rage, simply remarked to h. me pow'ful: but 'twur never murder/' ^earnest and anxious his gaze rested Abner relapsed into his moody enjoyment supposititious boots! What a dull, guest: "Do withher as thou wilt the he rejoined, uneasily. "H'it's no Anether Story of Gen. Sheridan. on her fine, glowing face a full minute of the huge crackling blaze. prosaic life most women would lead will of the guest j» law in the tent good a-hopin' murder." "It was only last winter that 1* before it traveled away upon its tireSeas Grandmother Sagsby came in, and if it was not for them! the true believer." if-if met Gen. Sheridan," said Col. Mosby hunt of something or some one soon dozed over her knitting. Miriam "No, no! I wouldn't do it neither, To look under the bed is a woman's Then the beauteous Dorcas enteif to the San Francisco Post's TownTalker, .never absent an instant from his sat on the hearth opposite Heathe. but he says he is innocent,, father." ancient and prescriptive right. Occasionally with tobacco, and, striking a a "and I met him at Senator tmind. "Could you, at the peril of The firelight glowed over her beautiful "Innercent? Mayhap he is, en' a witicismis perpetrated on the wall of the tent, handed -3* Stanford's house in Washington. I jyour life, save men tracked like wild face and the strong, shapely figure. Utter likely he hain likely he's jes' a-foolin' which hinges upon some woman's stranger a light for his chibouk. TL had gone there to call upon Mrs. leasts?" repose and the delightful warmth wid you, kase he's sartin, you'll having forgotten to perform this stranger remarked loudly that sho conduced to that half drowsy haziness Grant, and the Sheridans were calling wtIf'twur father, now, I'd like to help him out'n his trouble/' shrewdly time honered ceremony. Butwhoever was a daisy, ami seating her upon his and abandon of perfect rest. The upon the senator that evening. I see 'em catch him while I'm about, interposed Ab. sets forth or banks upon such a witieism knee, encircled her waist with his arm i* one exception was the stranger. Apparently met Mrs. Sheridan in the drawingroom, onliest father don't have no mo' to "Father, he says he didn't murder shows his gross ignorance of and pressed his lips to hers. he never rested. The watchful, and when I was introduced to do with the free stills. When he did, —he says so she repeated "en' woman nature. A woman never Abner the Arab felt war in his soul listening, wide awake look seemed her I laughingly remarked: 'I once I kep' him safe, en' give him the signal don't you tu'n against us." $$& forgets to look under the bed. That and glanced at the stranger as thoug7/ never beguiled away by any charm if ever a stranger prowled the tried very hard to deprive you of "Us? He a hev you." is-a duty and a principle which it is iNs he would like to tear him to piece whatsoever. Two or three dogs that ridge," returned Miriam "but you your husband, Mrs. Sheridan.*' Mrs. The girl clung to him desperate, psychologically impossible for her to. but simply bowed his head and srid: slept on the floor near Ab became ain't no moonshiner?" Sheridan replied: 'Now, I do* not terror stricken violence. omit. When a rooster forgets to. somewhat restless. An old hound Do with her as thou wilt, stranger think I ought to be pleased to meet "No, Miriam, not a moonshiner "No, I won't never go with him till crow early in the morning or a» opened his eyes, and pushed himself the wiii of the guest is law in the tent you, then.' 'Well/ I answered, you, "but would you stand by me in that you give the say so, father," she promised, plumber forgets to make out a bill nearer the door. The movement was or the-true beSever." must remember that your husband way, my girl, and care what became recklessly. "But he didn't do it in the glad spring time, we will listen, slight and noiseless, but Miriam sat Then putting down the fair a id tried very hard to deprive my wife of a stranger" —he is innocent, en I'll hold to him to the amateur humorist who imagines up and noted the animal for an instant, h-orn off his knee the stranger crossed of her husband. The general was "You have been on the ridge six till it comes all right." that a woman ever forgets to then left her seat and stepped his legs* spat at the tent pole, an, not in the room at the time, but was •months or better—you are not a 4|IAb turned away—his wrinkled look under the bed as a prelude to. saidr -By Allah, Abner, if the sheit. slowly past him to the shed room. with the senator in the smokingroom. ^stranger," she interrupted. countenance had grown hard and peaceful slumber. Ue-veland reduces the tariff the trib The dog followed her into the chilly Toward the end ofthe e-vening "No not a stranger as these people stern in aspect. He wished he had is doomed." starlight beyond. Then she stopped see it," was the half ironical reply. Mrs Stanford took me into the heard it all before they told Miriam, short and observed the hound. Lifting Then Abner the Arab arose, am J^HowWehster Twice Missed I "But, Miriam, would you care smoking-room and introduced naeto or before they had come into the his nose high, he sniffed suspiciously going to the waU of the tent took enough to marry me? I mean to Gen. Sheridan. I found him a very Boston Budget. S I I house and the girl had reminded him and gave a low growl.pS3j*t zwm^ therefrom his spear, and, standing stay here in the mountains all my agreeable companion, and I have- always iT of the time when her vigilance and The vice presidency is according to belor* the stranger said: "Oh gues life—spend my days in these pines regretted the fact that I had "WhSt is it, Miriam?" devotion had stood him in good stead most politicians, the most inconse- S S where no one will ever see me. Does not seen more of him. We were opposed The girl started. Heathe was beside while "Guv'menters" hunted for the quential office in OUST yju* government. guverimiemi ^Q-Eiy budweiser. In return there^ it matter to you that I don't want her, an agony of apprehension in to each other in the war„ and free distillery. »4 .any one to see or know of me?" his countenance even as he grasped Gen. Sheridan had made it his boast Yet four men elected vice president a S it my wife and Angry and disappointed ofthe gains violated the virgin lips of my daughtAll his gun and held it ready to fire. that he would drive me out of Virginia, A more vigilant apprehension have been made presidents through for which they served justice, the detectives this I stood, for the prophet and I was equally as determined •gathered under the intensified suspense. "Sommut strange is around. came in from their futile the death of the executive with whom %t. that the will of the to stay. He was a gallant soldier She had hesitated and averted Leader never mistakes," she whispered, search. They had found the two or they were chosen. Daniel Webster,, guest shall be law in the tent of her face. The crystal surface of the creeping closer to him. "Do you and gentleman, and I feel very blue three brush thatched outhouses an though always desiring the presidency, foBowers but now thou darest t» water at her feet reflected the superb think they are hunting for you?" about his illness. He was. the foremost infinitesimal shred of the "premises," twice missed it through his unwillingness talk tariff to me, and thou diest grace and manly beauty ofthis stranger, "Yes, I know it. They are on my soldier of his day, and it will be compared with the black ravine, the to take the lower office. feo saying he thrust at him fern so unspeakably different from track at last. They are hunting for too bad if he is carried off at this dense thickets, the great pine forest Thurlow Weed urged Webster to Harrison, spear, and they carried his bodv 4he rugged sun hardened habitants me if they are hunting for anybody, early age. He is a young man yet, stretching away into untold labyrinths. take the nomination under down tc.the 6th street dump for a '€$*W ridge and hollow. The girl turned but I'll never be taken, Miriam—never!" but it seems to me that there are 4 and again when Taylor^was nomi rats to feast upon. W &§ .slowly toward him. very few of the old veterans being "See here, old man," threatened nated, but he refused, beneath his dig fMim. "I know yot've got sommut to "Taken? no. It's not many get left now. The day is fast approaching the ferret faced detective, "you'd do nity. Then, in each case as when the S I S nide from," she said quietly "but taken in the mountings," was the for all of us to leave tins earth.*" well to tell the truth. We're sure the A. wealthy old farmer of GreenviTlp xvi«rt vice president was promoted by the for all that, Dr. Heathe, you're bet&%$ scornfull reply. Leader'11 give tongue And Col. Mosby stepped well into em, named Kroell was wjnSSToTt"O5§foA fellow is here, and we're a-goin' to death of the superior officer, Webster by three confidence men S ter than I am—you're quality breed, time enough and remember the the street and took a look at the stay till we catch him, so you might went into the,eabinet as secretary of W to a S S tffe and I am only the old moonshiner's 1 S big hollow tree back of the clearing— roof of the army headquarters, which as well own up at once/' it a a S a state, feeling, probably, that but for daughter'' the rope is always there to let you are located in the Phelan building. third Btranger eame np a S S S a A "Dunno but I might," acknowledged his pride he might have been himself three^ard1 monte,and the old S 3 down in it," she directed3 in jjuick, "Hush, Mariam! What does it "Thank God," he said, "he has not Ab. selecting the cabinet instead of being low tones. ~t matter what I was?" he broke in passed away yet." "Heathe was here to-day, wasn't part of it. W what money lie had, and lost it on the track of the men.