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STORY OF SPY \ DIEI Fear of Being Shot With UMan \ 1 IdUUd U1 ITiUti v to be A spy has to take many risks, and ; if he is caught at the game during! "war time, his career as a rule is then j and there closed, promptly, and in j most cases in ignominous fashion; And the worst of it is, there is no j halo of glory around his name after ward. His enemies?that is to say, | the fighting men of the opposing force ?regard him with contempt, al-! j though they probably employ spies of their own; while those of his own side quickly down him if he fails, i and a spy who has been caught by the enemy and executed may be said to have failed completely. Under suchj circumstances very few men would be found to take up the business were it not for the fact that the pay is high and in case of inforamtion of great j importance being obtained, rich re- j wards will follow. It was the money espect of the bus- \ iness which appealed to Morris Tyler and induced him to engage in the * j i work. He was a born spy. a gooa: linguist and cunning beyond belief. He was never one to essay a danger- j ous task for the sheer excitement of j it. He did not like taking risks,j though of course, he had to take them occasionally, but always at the junctures he kept in mind the big pay? j and extras. It needed these to tune j him up to concert pitch. He was always cautious?and successful. Having found it advisable to quit Europe for a time, he made S* his way to the South American repub- i lie of Caldera, which, at the date of his arrival, was just in the throes of, one of its periodical revolutions. He offered his services to the gov- i ernment party at a rate of pay some- j what in excess of what he had been receiving in Europe, and President Blanco, having heard of him and find-1 ing that he could speak Spanish fluently, engaged him at once. But in Caldera, Morris Tyler had to work under new and unfamiliar conditions. Hitherto, his spying had been carried on duringtimes of peace. There had been no war in Europe since he had come to the front. Now he found himself in the thick of fight ing of a very savage character. When the insurgents took any prisoners ' they gave them the option of chang-! in sided or being shot. But when the government troops captured any reb-! els, they did not permit them any! choice. They were placed in a row j with their backs against a wall and promptly finished off by a firing j party. By the time he had been three weeks at the "great game," as played ; in this explosive South American: state, Morris Tyler was inclined to regret that he had not remained a passive spectator of the revolution: instead of taking part in it. However,: he fortified his courage with the thought of the pile of dollars he: would add to his banking account when the fighting was over and the rebels beaten. He had seen enough to feel pretty certain they had no real chance of winning. And so far he had not encountered any special danger as his cunning always enabled 1 him to evade it. He had been sent for by Colonel! Voruba, the chief of the Intelligence department, to whom he usually made his reports. 1 . some mure \nuik. iui >uu, oeuui Tyler," observed the colonel cheer- i fully, "and it may be the last service we shall require you to perform, for the revolution must end soon. Still, i/.'- I much will depend on the information you are able to obtain for us." Morris Tyler nodded, and waited for his chief to go on. "The rebels are massed in some force on the hill of San Stefano," pur- j sued the colonel, "where it seems! they are going to make a last des- j perate stand. They hold the old fort up there. That much we know. But we do not know the number of their rvVi, t | guns, nor how they are placed. It is j important that we have this informa- i tion before we storm their position.! and we look to you to obtain it for | us." There was an aide-de-camp present at this interview, an English soldier of fortune named Berwick, who was serving with the Calderan army. He | glanced curiously at Tyler as the lat-! ter replied, with not quite his usual! confidence: "Uan you give me any iunner particulars, colonel?" "There are 110 further particulars to give you." replied Colonel Voruba. "You know the road. The rest is with you. I am instructed, however, to inform you that if you succeed in bringing us correct information you will receive $500 over and above your pay. You must start at once." J When Tyler had quitted the hut 1 which was used as a temporary staff VHO ) FROM TERROR 5 . Unloaded Rifle Held in s Vhom He Knew ? Dead. c s office, Captain Berwick said to the colonel: "He doesn't seem to fancv the job. c I don't think his courage is of a very high order." i Colonel Voruba shrugged his shoulders. r "He is a good spy," he replied, r "cautious and cunning. They are probably more valuable assets than courage in his profession." "I dare say," returned Captain ^ Berwick. ^ "But I know which I admire most." By a curious freak of fate there ^ arrived at the headquarters of the Calderan army, twenty-four hours v later, a deserter from the rebel ranks who was to furnish the exact informa- ^ tion which Colonel Voruba required. ., Thereupon an order was given for an immediate advance. This movement, taking place so much sooner than was expected, would very likely put Morris Tyler in an extremely tight corner. But the life of one man was of small moment when so much was at stake. n And a spy! Well, no one bothered ^ much about a spy when he was not ^ required. In the meantime Tyler had ^ contrived to get to the top of the hill of San Stefano without being observed by the enemy's outposts or sentries. He was, indeed, well within the circle of outposts when he reached an , abandoned building, which at one time had been the boiler house of a , sugar plantation. It seemed to offer . a safe hiding place from the security of which he could observe what was , was going on in the rebels' camp , without himself being seen. He crept inside and laid flat down upon the , floor. About half a mile away he f could see the camp fires glowing in , the darkness, and nearer still the , squat shape of the fort showing black against the night sky. Picturesque ILLbU i ?fi.I LC> ?CiC ^aooiU5 iu auu nwi ^ and a few were seated by the fires ^ playing cards. a The spy could think of no plan by t which he could learn the number of guns in the fort, nor where and how those that were outside were concealed and placed. But the thought of the high pecuniary reward if he ^ succeeded in gaining the information kept him at his post. r "It isn't often one can make $500 by one night's work." x Of course he was quite unaware ^ that the information was already in the hands of the commanding officer h of the government troops. t After a time the camp became si- ^ lent, even the card players giving up v their games and stretching themselves out on the ground to sleep. On- n ly the sentries remained on the alert d but between him and the fort there a were three. By no possibility could jj he get past them unseen, for it was open ground. t] The night wore on. He was tired, a but he dared not sleep. Once he moved about a little to try to keep him- tj n tt* il-o Knt o contrv clunnpH .. OCii Cm k/ut U wvuv*; Q?V*^VV V% J?_ sharply in his direction, and he quick- ^ ly assumed a recumbent position on ^ the dirt floor of the building again. A slight tinge of gray showed in b the east. It was getting near day- d break. The spy told himself that he 0 would have to give up the task after _ all, for it would be impossible to remain another twelve hours concealed n in this building without food or r water. He would make his way back 0 before it got too light. But he was 0 very sleepy, if he could only snatch r, a few minutes?just to rest his eyes "So! A spy!" exclaimed the man. "Bueno! It will be promotion for me ^ for having discovered you. Don't move!" The rifle was raised threat- e eningly. "If you so much as move a hand or a foot I will put a bullet e uirougn your Drain. let 1 ao not wish to waste ammunition. A rope is good enough for such as you!" A twelve-pound shell from a field 0 gun had struck the building and re- b duced it to a ruin. It was the first shot fired by the government artillery in b their attack on the hill of San Ste- n fano. The rebels were taken by sur- v prise, became panic-stricken, and in ft stead of shaping up to defend the po- h sition, began a hasty retreat. Morris Tyler was not immediately f; concerned with the running fight be- " tween the loyal troops and the rebels, I for the sound of strife drifted further h away each minute from the ruined boiler house. No other shot or shell b came near it. But he was much con- l< cerned about himself. He could not h move. He was pinned down by some n timber from the fallen roof, and all around him was a wreck of shattered F walls, broken planks and beams and e debris which bore 110 likeness to anything in particular. f: He had been very nearly choked n SENECA YOUTH DROWNED. j | >on of Saw Mill Man Falls in the g Mill Pond. | Seneca, June 25.?J. B. Nicholson, S he 14-year-old son of L. J. Nichol- | on, was drowned in Lowery's mill | iond, two miles from Seneca, this af- | ernoon. Mr. Nicholson runs a saw g nill at the place. His son is one of | everal children. jjj ind half-blinded by the clouds of ? lust and acrid smoke, but he had re- | eived no bodily injury beyond a few g light bruises. Right across his body g n a slanting direction there was a | eavy wooden beam. It had just stop- ? ?ed short of crushing him, but it ? ested on him with sufficient weight ? o Drevent him moving. g "Luck's with me after all," he mur- | tiured. "I am not hurt, and this m earn is not too heavy for me to lift. | can raise it up and crawl"? He paused with a sort of gasp, for g lis eyes, roving round the place, had | ested on a gleaming rifle barrel. It | ras pointed straight at his head and g here was a man's hand just behind | he trigger guard, his forefinger rest- ^ tig on the trigger. The man was the I ebel who had surprised him. He f ras lying on his face amidst the ^ rreckage, and there was the blood | treaming from a terrible wound at g he side of his head. A splinter of | he bursting shell had killed him. ? The spy gave a sigh of relief. For a I aoment he had thought that the man as alive and was taking aim at him. lut his relief was of short duration, le did not like that rifle pointing so teadily at him, even though it was >nlv held in the dead man's hand; nd when he saw that the lower end I >f the beam which was lying across lis own body rested against the man's ight forearm he liked it still less, le could not move the beam upward; te could only move it downward or idewise. If he shifted it ever so ittle it was bound to press' more leavily on the dead rebel's arm, and hat would cause his stiffened finger o press on the trigger, which would Tho Vmllpf- wnnld pntpr lis?Tyler's?brains, because his lead was so wedged that he could not uove it to one side or the other. He ould raise it a little, but that would >e of no advantage. The bullet rould take him then somewhere bout the mouth and pass upward hrough the base of his skull. He shook with fear like a man vith the ague, and the sweat streamd down his face. Inadvertently he ooved his body slightly, causing the earn to shift its position the-fraction if an inch. That caused the dead ebel's arm to move a little, and his tiffened finger seemed to tighten on he trigger. The spy cried out in his error; or at least a queer sort of roak passed his lips, for that was all le was capable of, as a parching hirst, and the dust which had got nto his throat deprived him of his oice. It was borne in upon the spy's lind that he might lie there until he ied of starvation. There was the Iternative of pushing the beam a ittle more, so that the dead man's nger should press harder on the rigger, and thus end his misery with bullet from the menacing rifle. But he had not the courage for hat. He clung desperately to life, [e had known fear before, but never = ad he oxperienced such an agony of ^ srror as now held him. U Then all at once something in his | onnniA/1 tn on o n A roi^ fliirtoin A 1 CI 111 OCUllICU IV ouap* XX 1 vu V/V** tuiu g ropped before his eyes. The noise g f a rushing wind howled in his ears S -and then came black oblivion. f Early the next morning three ? lounted men reined up close by the g uined boiler-house. They were Col- ? nel Voruba, Captain Berwick and an g rderly. The fight was over and the ? ebels were beaten. ? "Two men in there," said Berwick. ? "They may have some life in hem." The orderly dismounted and peerd in among the wreckage. "Senor, one is a rebel," he reportd. "The other is Senor Tyler. Both ead." "The spy!"-exclaimed Berwick. He and Voruba gave their horses ver to the orderly and entered the uilding. "It is strange," said Voruba, bendQg over Tyler's body, "there is not a mark upon him. He has received no round?no hurt. He could easily ave lifted this beam and extricated imself." "Look at the expression on his ace?even now," replied Berwick. 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