THR DAILY EXAM‘NIR, CHARLO’TETOWN, SEPTEMBER 20, 1897

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CHAPTER

A MOONLIGHT

head NIGHT.

me WaS a fhird greater in size ana v eight

“Good evening. What do you

- Wish ?”

“ Which way might you be goin*® ?”

“Can't you see for vourself ?”

“Don't be imperlite, bess. We're werkin’ the growler, and ure in hard luck. - Can’t you give us a lift ?°’

“TI might, for I have a sood pile of money with me, but I don’t like to

The description given me+by Tom Discos was sufficient to locate the ; S structure where I[ had agreed

him ai Jake Huke. It was |

m ihe right in going to the Palisades, ; wa reached by a plainly marked path, and near enough to the high- way to ke perceived during the day- tim

Situated among the trees, which at | this season were in full bloom, it | would not be visible at night. It would have been difficult, if not impossible, for me'to find it but for the fact that when I stroiled past it some time be- fore 1 Was led by a natural curiosity to scrutinize it quite narrowly. My memory of places has always’ been good, and I felt little fear of a mis-~ take.

I was fairly bevond the suburbs of Englewood, with the houses becorn- ing few and Widely separated, and was walking at a moderate pace, for the re was plenty of time at command. Frequently I turmed my head, stood still and listened. Now that the drama had opened I could not free myself of a vague fear that Covey

Cone had managed to outwit me and was shadowing my movements.

It was when this feeling was the strongest that I made the disquiet- ing discovery of which T have spoken.

Somebody was following me.

At the moment of turning my head an obscuring mass of drifting vapvur passed from before the bright moon, whose rays flooded the earth. The lighting up of the iandscape showed me the outlines of a man in the path walking in the same direction with myself.

There was the possibility that he Was an individual who held no inter- est in me. He might be on his way to visit a neighbour or someone tak- ing the stroll for his own pleasure.

All this was possible, but the ac- tion of the stranger shut out such a comforting conclusion. He must have possessed keen eyes, for hardly had I stepped in my walk when he did the same.

Thus two men, separated by more than 1 yards, stood as motionless as statues, peering at each ether through the gloom.

Suddenly the shadowy figure began to grow misty and uncertain. It flickered and danced in an odd way, and then vanished altogether. An- other cloud had so veiled the moon that darkness enveloped the stranger.

The obscuration wes only for a few seconds, when the ragged rift glided off and the earth was bathed again in silvery Nght.

I had not stirred in my position, but Was still trying to pierce the dark- ness, waiting for my mam to loom out to view. But he did net. The place which had so lately known him knew him no longer. He had taken advan- tage of the temporary deepening of gloom to slip out of sight.

“Maybe he is a country man, who was so startled by my stoppage and turning around that he fled homeward or climbed over the fence and hid. And yet I suspect that fellew is Covey Cene, though how Le got on my track rasses my comprehension.”

Nothing was to be accomplishec hv standing at the roadride, and I re- sumed my walk at a still more delib- erate pace, frequently getancing my shoulder whenever the light offered the opportunity.

1 had kept this up for perhaps w.inutes when a curious flicker

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ey eyes to a point behind me, but on the other side of the highway. Some- thing moved among the shadows, and but for the peculiar direction my gaze I would not have perceived is,

When we look directiv at the Piei- ades, we can count but six stars, but a careless glance shows the full seven. Had I been gazing at the point I Wculd not have observed the odd fiut- tering on the other side of the road.

Looking straight at the point I saw rothirg. Nevertheless I knew that in that brief interva! when my mau slip- peG from sight he had darted across the rcad and had been following me ever since from the other side.

One of the most uncomfortable sen- gations imaginable is that of know-

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ing that ‘someone is stealthily fol- lowing us at night. The temptation to break into a run or to dart to one

side and hide beccmes aimost irresist- ille

I have said that I carried no deadly weeton with me—nothing except my reeistless strergth—but in these mod- ein days there are innumerable situa- ticns in which ¢0 miraculous a gift is worthless. A tiny pistol bul- let would be as fatal in my case ag it would have been to the ancient 5am- £0n.

Still it was not to be supposed that the individual at my heels was seek- ing my life, and; while keeping an eye to his actions, I continued moving to- ward the Hudson.

Suddenly I became aware that stran- gers were in front. Not one man, but three. Instead of following the path, as I was doing, they were in the mid- Gle of the highway. They were hig, strapping fellows, frouzy and ill-cloth- ed, 2nd members of the pestilent class of vagrants known as tramps.

even

I increased my pace, intending to hurry past them, but the burliest rogue, who was 2 pace or two in

frcnt of his companions, turned to one Side so as to place himself directly in front of me. I moved to the right, but he intruded himself again. Evi- cently he meant to hold me in check.

“Good evening, boss!’ he said, in @ husky voice, at which his two com- Panions paused in the middle of the road and watched him from’ under their slouched hats. They were readv to give help, but could not believe it necessarv. for the scamp confrontin<

use it for buying drink for other folks. It wouldn’t be right."

“ Bless your innercent heart, we don’t ax you to use it. It’s us! Come srell out !” And he advanced threat- eningly toward me. '

“No; I shall not let you hawe a dol- lar, though I have plenty with me.”

“You won't, eh? Waal, that’s good.”’

He made a plunge like n bull, half lowering his head, as if he meant to butt me. As he came within reach I grasped each of his upper arms and lifted him so quickly from his feet that they flew straight up, so that I held him head downward. Then I whirl- ed him about several times, as if he were a flail, and leaping toward the emping miscreants in the road whip- ped them with the lezs of my man so violently that both were swept off their feet and sent sprawling in the middle of the highway.

They were partly stunned, but began climbing up again. tefor: they were erect I resumed thrashing them with my human flail, driving one far to the right and the other to the left. Then with terrified exclamations they fled at headlong sp2ed in the direction of Englewood.

Meanwhile the pig fellow tn my grasp was wriggling and miuking terri-

I fung him a dozen yords.

ble threats. Having no further use for him, I flung him a dozen yards among the trees and, with my hands on my hips, waited.

I heard, him crashing through the limbs and leaves and finally fall to the ground with a resounding thump. Then all was still.

“T hope I haven’t killed him, but he must have been jarred pretty badly "—

No, he wasn’t dead, for I heard him moving: among the undergrowth. He ceme cautiously forward until I saw his dim outlines at the edge of the wood, There he paused and stared at me fer a full minute betore speak- ing. Then -his were not only husky, but tremulous,

“TI say, bass, is that you ?”

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“ Kin—kin you tell me whether this is me ?”’

™ Tt the tramp that tried t# rob me of my money.”

“T say, boss ¢”

** Well 7”

He seemed to rouse himself for the final effort and exclaimed :-—-

“Holy gee !”

At which he whirled about and dash- ed among the trees, as if fearful of mcre punishment for his ofience.

Meanwhile the others jad disap- peared, and I saw nothing more of any of them.

The ston?

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house which wes my des- tination was somewhere in the vicin- itv, and I began a search for it. I recalled that the path was well mark- ed from the highway, but the position of the moon in the sky threw that side of the road in shadow, and : could see nothing in the nature of a clew.

Not forgetting that shadowy pur- suer I scanned the road to the west- ward. but he was not in sight.

Finally I struck a match and held it

elose to the ground. There the path was exactly in front of me. By the tiny flame I was able to follow it with my eye for a rod or, more. The house was barely fifty feet distant.

Neither eye nor ear could cetect any- thing unusual, and I picked my way alcng the path, with just 2 trifle of misgiving, for be it known that that rezion is afflicted with vcnomous cop- perheads and the warm spring wea- ther must have brought many of them from their winter quarters.

Only a part of the distance was passed, when a light twinkied among the trees. Someone was at the stone house.

“ Discoe and Huke have become im- patient, thought I cannot be much be- hind time.”

Somehow the knowledge that human beings were near at hand grove away |

all fear of the deadly reptiles. ed more resolutely, ter paused ‘n front structure, Which stood of a small clearing. Still it was prudent to make a re- connoissance before entering the build-

1 mov- and a minute lat- the ston

in the middle

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ing, which was to be the scene of ar eventful meeting.

The thought had never come to me that the house was occupied. When ob-

rved on the previous Sunday, there were no signs of life about it, and Yom Discoe’s referen had net re- moved that mpression.

But it was an error. Someone lv-

ed there, though the lower story con- sisted of but a single room, while a sloping ladder led to the rooms above. L saw through the open docr the scanty furriture, with a large table in the i 6f the anarimént, and upon fit sicod a goodly sized lamp, which shed a bricht illumination through the in- ter lok.

But none of the three or four chairs Was occupied. It looked as if the OWn- er, after lighting the lamp, had de- perted and given over the place to the parties that had engaged it for the evening.

Perhaps I had mistuken the building, and yet that could hardly be.

While I stood in doubt and perplex- ity, hesitating whether to advance or to wait for further develooments, 1 caught the odour of tobacco smoke. It was not a cigar that someone was smoking, but; the weed was cheap, strong, and rank.

THen a tinv glow showed in the doerway, and it was explained. The ewner or occupant of the house Was

seated there smoking his clay pipe.

*“Geod ebenin, boss.’

The negro had heard me as I snift- ed my positien and spoke without any misgiving. I walked forward, and as the short, heavily-built African rose to his feet to receive me I wondered how t had failed to see him from the first.

“Good ewening,”’ I called in return, going forward to where the lamplight fell full on me. He scrutinized me closely as I approached ard was dis- appointed.

“Yo’ ain’t de gemman dat I was lcokin’ fur, but I guess yo’s de gem- man what was disumspected by de oder felks. Walk in, boss, and makes yo'’self at home.”

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