The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, February 23, 1893, Image 3
CHAPTER IX.
TUB MAN WITH THE BELT OF GOLD.
More than u week went by, in which
the ill luck that had hitherto pursued
the (Covenant upon this voyage grew yet
mark. And if yo can ao it cieveny i n
bear it in miml when it’ll be good for
you to have friends, and tHht'e when we
come to GirhMtng”
4 Were Sir. Uisch whisporod luma little.
“Very right, sir,"aid The captain,
and then to myself, “And see here,
David, yon man nas a beltful of gold,
and l give you my word that you shall
have your fingers iu it."
1 told him that 1 would do as he
wished, though indeed I had scarce
breath to speak with, and upon that
he gave me the key of the spirit
locker, and 1 began to go slowly
back to the roundhouse. What
was I to do? They were dogs and
but 1 learned atterwara ue was a great thleve * : the >' had stolen men fru,u m >'
churchgoer while on shore. “But for own country; they had killed poor Ran-
' some, and was I to hold the candle to
another murder? But then, upon the
all that," says he, “I can be sorry to see
another man with his back to the wall."
“Can ye so, indeed?" asked the Jacob
ite. “Well, sir, to be quite plain with
other hand, there was the fear of death
very T plain before me, for what could a
more strongly marked. Some days she ye, I am one of those honest gentlemen | lx,y “ nJ a Iuan • if the >' wt 'f e BS “
she was driven that were in trouble about the vearg Uon9 ’ a D ainst a whole ships company?
made a little way; others
actually back. At last we were beaten
so far to the south that we tossed and
tacked to and fro the whole of the ninth
day within sight of Cape Wrath and the
wild, rocky coast on either hand of it.
There followed on that a council of the
officers, and some decision which I did
not rightly understand, seeing only the
result—that we had made a fair wind of
a foul one and were running south.
The tenth afternoon there was a fall
ing swell and a thick, white, wet fog
that hid one end of the brig from the
other. All afternoon, when I went on
deck, 1 saw men and officers listening
hard over the bulwarks—“for breakers,”
they said, and though I did not so much
as understand the word, I felt danger in
the air and was excited.
Maybe about ten at night I was serv
ing Mr. Riach and the captain at their
supper, when the ship struck something
with a great sound and we heard voices
singing out. My two masters leaped to
their feet.
“She's struck,” said Mr. Riach.
“No, sir,” said the captain. “We’ve
only run a boat down."
And they hurried out.
Tbe captain was in the right of it.
We had run down a boat in the fog, and
she bad parted in the midst and gone to
the bottom with all her crew but one.
"Oho!" toys the ttranyer. “Is that how
the wind sets?”
This man (as 1 heard afterward) had
been sitting in the stem as a passenger,
while the rest were on the benches row
ing. At the moment of the blow the
stern had been thrown into the air, and
the man (having his hands free, and for
all he was encumbered with a frieze
overcoat that came below his knees) had
leaped up and caught hold of the brig’s
bowsprit. It showed he had luck and
much agility and unusual strength that
he shonld have thus saved himself from
such a pass. And yet, when the captain
brought him into the roundhouse and
I set eyes on him for the first time, he
looked as cool as I did.
He was smallish in stature, but well
set and as nimble as a goat. His face
was of a good open expression, but sun-
burned very dark, and heavily freckled
and pitted with the smallpox; his eyes
were unusually light and had a kind of
dancing madness in them that was both
engaging and alarming, and when he
took off his great coat he laid a pair of
fine, silver mounted pistols on the table,
and I saw that he was belted with a
great sword. His manners besides were
elegant, and be pledged the captain
handsomely. Altogether I thought of
him at the first sight, that here was a
man I would rather call my friend than
my enemy.
The captain, too, was taking his oB
servations, but rather of the man's
clothes than his person. And to be sure,
as soon as he had taken off the great
coat, he showed forth mighty fine for
the roundhouse of a merchant brig,
having a hat with feathers, a red waist
coat, breeches of black plush and a blue
coat with silver buttons and handsome
silver lace; costly clothes, though some
what spoiled with the fog and being
slept in.
“I’m vexed, sir, about the boat,” says
the captain.'
“There are some pretty men gone to
the bottom,” said the stranger, “that 1
would rather see on the dry land again
than half a score of boats.”
“Friends of yours?” said Hoseason.
“You have none such friends in your
country,” was the reply. “They would
have died for me like dogs.”
“Well, sir," said the captain, still
watching him, “there are more men iu
the worliHhan boats to pnt them in.”
“And that’s true, too,” cried the other,
“and ye seem to be a gentleman of great
penetration.”
“I have been in France, sir,” says Ihe
captain, so that it was plain ho meant
more by the words than showed upon
the face of thorn.
"Well, sir,” says the other, “and so
has many a pretty man, for the matter
of that.”
“No doubt, sir,” says the captain,
“and tine coats.”
“Oho!” says the stranger. “Is that
how the wind 8018?" and he laid his hand
quickly on his pistols.
"Don’t be hasty,” said the captain.
“Don’t do a mischief before ye see the
need for it. Ye’ve a French soldier’s
coat npon your back and a Scotch tongue
in yonr head, to be sure; hot so has
many an honest fellow in these days,
and I dare say none tire worse of it.”
"So?" said the gentleman in tbe fine
coat; “are ye of the honest party?”
(Meaning was Ire a Jacobite, for each
side, in these sort of civil broils, takes
the name of honesty for its own.)
“Why, sir,” replied the captain, "1
am a true blue Protestant, and 1 thank
God for it.” It was the first word of
■AV religion I tuul ever beard from him.
I was still arguing it back and forth
and getting no great clearness when I
came into the roundhouse and saw the
Jacobite eating his supper under the
lamp, and at that my mind was made up
all in a moment. I have no credit by it;
it was by no choice of mine, but as if by
compulsion, that I walked right up to
the table and put my hand on his shoul
der.
“Do ye want to be killed?" said 1.
He sprang to his feet and looked a
question at me as clear as if lie bad
spoken.
“Oh!” cried l, “they're all murderers
here; it’s a ship full of them! They've
murdered a boy already. Now it’s yon.”
“Aye, aye,” said he, •'bntthey haven’t
got me yet.” And then looking at me
curiously, “Will ye stand with me?”
“That will I!” said 1. “I am no thief,
nor yet murderer. I’ll stand by yon.”
“Why, then,” said he, “what’s your
name?"
“David Balfour," said I, and then
thinking that a man with so fine a coat
must like fine people 1 added for the
first time, "of Shaws.”
It never occurred to him to doubt me,
for a highlander is used to see great
gentlefolk in great poverty, bat as he
had no estate of his own my words net
tled a very childish vanity he had.
“My name is Stewart,” he said, draw
ing himself up. “Alan Breck, they call
me. A king’s name is good enough for
me. though I bear it plain and have the
name of no farm midden to clap to the
bind end of it.”
And having administered this rebuke,
as though it were something of a chief
importance, he turned to examine our
defenses.
The roundhouse was built .very strong
to support the breachings of the seas.
Of its five apertures, only the skylight
and the two doors were large enough for
the passage of a man. The doors besides
could be drawn close; they were of stout
oak and ran in grooves, and were fitted
with hooks to keep them either shut or
open, as the need arose. The one that
was already shut 1 secured in this
fashion, but when I was proceeding to
slide to the other Alan stopped me.
“David,” said he—“for I cannae bring
to mind the name of your landed estate,
and so will make so bold as call yon
David—that door, being open, is the
best part of my defenses.”
“It would be yet better shut,” says 1.
“Not so, David,” says he. "Ye see, 1
have but one face, but so long as that
door is open and my face to it, the best
part of my enemies will be in front of
me, where 1 would aye wish to find
them.”
Then he gave me from the rack a cut
lass, of which there were a few besides
the firearms, choosing it with great
care, shaking his head and saying he
bail never in all his life seen poorer
weapons; and next he set me down to
the table with a powder horn, a bag of
bullets, and all the pistols, which he
bade me charge.
“And that will be better wprk, let me
tell yon,” said he, "for a gentleman of
decent birth, than scraping plates and
raxing drams to a wheen tarry sailors."
Thereupon he stood up in the midst
with his face to the, door, and drawing
his great sword, made trial of the room
be had to wield it in.
“I must stick to the point," he said,
slinking his head, “and that's a pity too.
It doesn't set my genius, which is all for
the tipper guard. And now,” said he.
‘ilo you keep on charging the pistols,
and give heed to me.”
I told him I would listen closely. My
chest was tight, my mouth dry, the
light dark to my eyes. The thought of
the numliers that were soon to leap in
npon ns kept my heart in a flutter, and
the sea, which 1 heard washing around
the brig and where i thought my dead
body wonld be cast eiu morning, ran in
my mind strangely.
"First of all,” said he, “how many are
against ns?”
1 reckoned them up, and snch was tbe
hurry of my mind I had togast the num
bers twice. "Fifteen,” said I;
Alan whistled. “Well,” said he, “that
can’t be cured. And now follow me. It
is my part to keep this door, where 1
look for the main battle.
“Ana'reJ sword?” says he. "This ts
a strange return for hospitality.”
"Do yon see me;” said Alan. “I am
come of kings; 1 bear a kings’s name.
My bad** is the oak. Do ye see my
sword? It nUeWt'l the heads off
tnajr Whigamores than you have^oes
npon yonr feet. Call up yonr vermin to
your back, sir, and fall on. Tbe sooner
the clash begins the sooner ye’ll taste
this steel throughout yonr vitals.”
Tbe captain said nothing to Alan, bnt
he looked over at me with an ugly look.
“David,” said he, “I’ll mind this,” and
the sound of his voice went through me
with a jar.
Next moment he was gone.
‘And now," said Alan, “let your hand
keep yonr head, for the grip is coming."
Alan drew a dirk, which he held in
his left hand in case they should run in
under his sword. I on my part clam
bered up into the berth with an armful
ef pistols and something of a heavy
heart, and set open the window where 1
was to watch. It was a small part of
the deck that 1 could overlook, bnt
enough for our purpose. A little after
and there came a clash of steel npon the
deck, by which I knew they were dealing
out the cutlasses, and one had been let
fall, and after my chief wish was to
| have the th’gig begin and be done with it.
it came all of a sudden when it did,
with a rush Of feet and a roar, and then
a shout from Alan and a sound of
blows and some one crying ont as if
hurt. I looked back over my shoulder
and saw Mr. Shuan in the doorway
crossing blades with Alan.
“That’s him that killed the boy!” 1
cried.
“Look to your window!” said Alan,
and as 1 turned back to my place I saw
him pass his sword through tbe mate's
body.
It was none too soon for me to look to
my own part, for my head was scarce
back at tbe window before five men.
carrying a sgare yard for a battering
ram, ran past me and took post to drive
tbe door in. Just as they swung the
yard I cried out, “Take that!" and shot
into their midst.
had broken m aga had nis eur'asa
raised. The door was thronged w’h
their faces. I thought we were lost,
and catching up my cntlass fell on them
in flank.
But I had no time to be of help. The
wrestler dripped at lasV * ri| l Alan,
trouble about the years
forty-five and six: and, to be still quite
plain with ye, if I get into the hands of,
any of the redcoat gentry it's like it
would go hard with me. Now, sir, I”
was for France, and there was a French
ship cruising here to pick me np, bnt she
gave us the go by in the fog—as I wish
from tbe heart that ye had done your
self! And the best that I can say is this,
if ye can set me ashore where I was go
ing, I have that npon me will reward
yon highly for your trouble.”
“In France?” says the captain. “No,
sir; that I cannot do. But where ye
come from—we might talk of that.”
And then, unhappily, he observed me
standing in my corner, and packed me
off to the galley to get supper for the
gentleman. I lost no time, I promise
yon, and when I came back into the
roundhouse 1 found the gentleman had
taken a money belt from about his waist
and poured out a guinea or two upon
the table. Tire captain was looking at
the guineas and then at the belt and
then at the gentleman’s face; and l
thought he seemed excited.
“Half of it,” he cried, “and I'm your
man!” t
The other swept back the guineas into
the belt, and pnt it on again under his
waistcoat. “I have told ye, sir,” said
he, “that not one doit of it belongs to
me. It belongs to my chieftain"—and
here he touched his hat—“and while 1
wonld be but a silly messenger to grudge
some of it that the rest might come safe,
I should show myself a hound indeed if
I honght my own carcass any too dear.
Thirty guineas on the seaside or sixty if,
ye set mAon the Linnhe loch. Take it,
if ye will; if not, ye can do your worst."
“Aye,” said Hoseason. “And if I give
ye over to the soldiers?"
“Ye would make a fool’s bargain,”
said -the other. "My chief, let me tell
yon, sir, is forfeited, like every honest
man in Scotland. His estate is in the
hands of the man they call King George,
and it is his officers that collect the
rents or try to collect them. But for
the honor of Scotland tire poor tenant
bodies take a thought npon their chief
lying in exile, and this money is a part
of that very rent fur which King George
is looking. Now, sir, ye seem to me to
be a man that understands things; bring
this money within the reach of govern
ment, and how much of it'll come to
_yon?’’
Little enough, to be sure,” said Hosea
son, and then, “If they knew,” he
added dryly. “Bnt I think, if I was to
try, that I could hold my tongue about
it.”
“Ah, but I’ll begowk, [befool] ye
there!” cried the gentleman. "Play me
false and I’ll play yon cunning. If a
hand's laid npon me they shall ken what
money it is.”
“Well,” returned tire captain, “what
must be must. Sixty guineas and done.
Here's my hand upon it.”
“And here's mine,” said the other.
And then the captain went out rather
hurriedly, I thought, and left me alone
in the roundhouse with the stranger.
“And so you're a Jacobite?” said I as
I set meat before him.
“Aye," said he, beginning to eglt.
“And you, by your long face, shonld be
a Whig?”
“Betwixt and between,” said I, not to
annoy him, for indeed I was as good a
Whig as Mr. Campbell could make me.
“And that's naethiirg,” said he. “But
I'm saying, Mr. Betwixt-and-betweeji,”
he added, “this bottle of yours is dry,
and it’s hard if I'm to pay sixty guineas
and be grudged a dram upon the back
of it.”
“I’ll go and ask for the key," said 1
and stepped on deck.
The fog was as close as ever, but the
swell almost down. They had laid the
brig to, not knowing precisely where
they were, and the wind, what little
there was of it, not serving well for
their true course. Some of the hands
were still harkening for breakers, lint
the captain and the two officers were in
the waist with their heads together. It
struck me, I don't know why, that they
were after no good, and the first word 1
heard as I drew softly near more than
confirmed me.
It was Mr. Riach, crying out as if
upon a sudden thought:
"Couldn’t we wile him out of the
roundhouse?”
“He’s better where he is,” returned
Hoseason; “he hasn't room to use his
sword.”
“Well, that’s true,” said Riach; “but
he’s hard to come at.”
“Hut!” said Hoseason. “We can get
the man in talk, one upon each side, and }
pin him by the two arms; or if that'll
not hold, sir, we can make a run by !
both the doors and get him under hand |
before he has the time te draw.”
At this hearing I was seized with both I
fear and anger at these treacherous, "'“T i,u ""“'‘v T ‘'“‘T jumped and when
i 11„ ,i,, n, f i „ charged than ye must climb up into < , ‘
greedy, bloody men that I sailed with. | , | whipped straight an
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel,
Wis., was troubled with Neural
gia and Rheumatism, his Stom
ach was disordered, his Liver
j.* • -rr.— a was affected to an alar’’ing de-
leaping becW5 get his ihst^ce, ran ^ appetite fell away, and he
upon tire others like a bull, roanng as " t / ’■ - -
he went. They broke before him like WaS reduceJg
water, turning and running, and falling
one against another in their haste. The
sword in his hands flashed like quick
silver into the huddle of our fleeing ene
mies, and at every j^ish there came the
scream of a man hurt. I was still
thinking we were lost, when lo! they
were all gone, and Alan was driving
them along the deck as a
chases sheep. ! ri * , „
Yet he was no sooner ont than he was Catawba, O.,
back again, being as cautious as he w as j Fever Sores on
brave, and meanwhile the seamen con- ! said he was incjral HU.
tinned running and crying out as if he bottle Electric Bitters and one
was still behind them, and we heard ‘ ~
was terribly reduced in flesh
and strength. Throe botHes of
Electric Bitters cured h n Ed
ward Shepherd, Harrisburg,111.,
had a running sort on his leg of
eight years’ standing. Used
three bottles of Electric Bitters
jand seven boxes of Bucklen’s
sheep'dog ! Arni ®* Salve, and his leg is
.sound iind well. John Speaker,
had five large
his leg, doctors
able. One
them tumble one npon another in the
forecastle and clap to the hatch npon
the top.
The ronndhonse was like a shambles:
three were desd inside, another lay in
his death agony across tire threshold,
and there were Alan and I victorious
and unhurt.
He came up to me with open arms.
“Come to my arms!” he cried, and em
braced and kissed me hard npon both
cheeks. “David,” said be, “I love yon
like a brother. And, oh, man,” he cried
in a kind of ecstasy, “am I nae a bonny
fighter?”
Thereupon he turned to the four ene
mies, passed his sword clean through
each of them and tumbled them out of
doors one after the other. As he did so
he kept humming and singing and whis
tling to himself, like a man trying to
recall an air, only what 1 a was trying
was to make one. All the while tire
flush was in his face and his eyes were
box Bucklen’s .Arnica Salve
cured him entirely. Sold at
Willcox & Co’s Dr ig store.
“But if you don t love him,
Clara, why are you going to
marry him?”
“Because he dared me to, ma
ma. He knew my high-spiri
ted nature, too. 0, I’ll make
him sorry enough for it, don’t
you be afraid !”
I hit.
Now I ry
It will cost you nothing and
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a new tov. And nresentlv he sat down r > ^
found it just the thing and un-
Hi* sword was running blood to the hilt.
1 must have hit one of them, for he
sang out and gave back a step, and the !
rest i opped as if a little disconcerted. I
Before they had time to recover 1 sent
another ball over their heads, and at my
third shot (which went as wide as the
second) the whole party threw down the
yard and ran for it.
Then 1 looked around again into the
deckhouse. The whole place was full
of the smoke of my own firing, just as
my ears seemed to be burst with the
noise of tire shots. But there was Alan. 1
standing’as before; only now his sword I
was running blood to the hilt, and him- !
self so swelled with triumph and fallen !
into so fine an attitude that he looked I
to be invincible. Right before him on
the floor was Mr. Shnan on his hands
and knees; the blood was pouring from
his month and lie was sinking slowly
lower, with a terrible white lace, ard
just as 1 looked some of those from be
hind caught hold of him by the heels
and dragged him bodily out of the round
house. I believe he died as they were
doing it.
“There’s one of your Whigs for ye!” !
cried Alan, and then turning to me he
asked if 1 had done much execution.
1 told him i had winged one, and
thought it was the captain.
"And I’ve settled two,” says he. “No,
there’s not enough blood let; they’ll be I
back again. To your watch, David! |
This was but a dram before meat.”
i settled back to my place, recharged
the three pistols I had fired and Wbping |
watch with both eye and ear.
Our enemies were disputing not far
off upon the deck, and that so loudly
that I could hear a word or two above
the washing of the seas.
“It was Shnan bauchled [l ungled] it,”
1 heard one say.
And another answered him with a
“Wheesht, man! He’s paid the piper.”
After that the voice fell again into
the same muttering as before. Onlj
nod- one person spoke most of the time,
as though laying dowm a plan, and first
one and then another answered him
briefly, like men taking orders. By this
a new toy. And presently he sat down
upon the table, sword iu hand; the sir
that he was making all the time began
to run a little clearer and then clearer
still, and then ont he burst with a great
voice into a Gaelic song.
In the meanwhile, what with the long
suspense of the waiting, and the scurry
and strain of our two spurts of fighting,
and more than all, the horror 1 had of
some of my own share in it, the thing
was no sooner over than I was glad to
stagger to a seat. There was that tight
ness on my chest that 1 could hardly
breathe; the thought of the two men 1
had shot sat npon me like a nightmare,
and all npon a sudden, and before i had
a guess of what was coming, I began to
sob and cry like any child.
Alan clapped my shoulder and said 1
was a brave lad, and wanted nothing
but a sleep.
'I’ll take the first watch,” said he. will not work
“Ye've done well by me, David, first
and last, and 1 wouldn’t lose you for all
Appin—no, nor for Breadalbane."
So he made up my bed on the floor
and took the first spell, pistol in hand
and sword on knee; three hours by tbe
captain's watch npon the wall. Then
he roused me np and I took my tnn. of
three hours, before the end of which it
was broad day and a very quiet morn
ing, with a smooth, rolling sea that
tossed the ship and made the blood run
to and fro on the roundhouse floor, and
a heavy rain that drummed upon the
roof. All my watch there was nothing
stirring, and by the banging of the helm
I knew they had even no one at the
tiller.
Indeed, as I learned afterward, there
were so many of tlrem hart or dead, and
the rest in so ill a temper, that Mr. Riacb
and the captain had to take turn and
turn in, like Alan and me, or the brig
might have gone ashore and nobody the
wiser. It was a mercy the night had
fallen so still, for the wind had gone
down as soon as the rain began. Even
as it was 1 judged by the wailing of a
great number of gulls that went crying
and fishing around the ship that she
must have drifted pretty near the coast
or one of the islands of the Hebrides,
and at last, looking ont of the door ot
the roundhouse, 1 saw the great stone
hills of Skye on the right hand and a
little more astern the strange Isle of
Rum.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
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“Could you make it conven
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"Any Port in a Storm.”
That’s a good maxim, but it
as a rule in the
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Tommy—Paw, the teacher
says that if a man gets dyspep
sia it may make him baldhead
ed. Is that so ? Mr. Figg—I
guess so. Tommy—Then if a
man et too much pie would he
be pie-bald.
When Baby waa sick, we xaec her Caatoria.
When she wss a Child, she crhsl for Castoria.
When she Is-canie Mias, she ol ong to Caatoria.
When she had Children, she gars them Castoria.
In' that ye I * made sure t ^ le y were coming on again,
have no hand. And mind and dinnae “^ bjll Alan.
Then there came a single call on the
sea pipe, and that was the signal. A
knot of them made one rush of it, cut-
fire to this side unless they get me down,
for I would rather have ten foes in front
of me than one friend like you cracking
pistols at my back.”
I told him indeed 1 was no great shot.
lass in hand, against the door, and at the
same moment the glass of the skylight
And that's very bravely said,” he was da8he ‘! “ thousand pieces and n
My first mind was to run away; my
second was bolder.
"Captain,” said I, “the gentleman is
seeking a dram and the bottle’s out.
Will you give me the key?”
They all started and turned about.
“Whv. here's our chance to get the i. , . . ..
" ° have eyes upon, both sides to keep the
firearms!” Biach erred; and then to me lwoof ’ thel i ; f * r when my Uce ^ at
Hark ye, David, le sau , o ) the one , my back is to the other."
where the pistols are, “And that’s very true,” said Alan.
“Aye, aye, pnt in Hoseason, David . <But h8V(J V(J no eara ^ boadr
kens. Davids a good a <L W see, , „ To lx , gurer cned L ^ mu8t hear
David, my man yon wUd Hielandman the bur9til)(? of the KlllMjr
is a danger to the ship, besides hemg a «,Y e have some rudiments of sense,”
rank foe to King George. God bless ^ A , au grijuly .
him!"’ t —
1 had never been so be-Davided since 1 CHAPTER X.
came on board, but I said yes, as if all 1 T he sieoe of the roundhocsb.
heard were quite natural. Cut now our time ol truce was come
“The trouble is,” resumed the captain, ' to an end. Those on deck had waited
“that all our firelocks—great and little f or my coming till they grew impatient,
—are in the roundhouse under this uian’s gn( j bc . irce had Alan spoken when the
nose; likewise the powder. Now if I or CB pt a i u showed face in the open door,
one of the officers was to go in and take Standi” cried Alan, and pointed his
them he would fall to thinking. But a gwor j a t him.
lad like you, David, might snap up a The captain stood indeed, bnt he
horn and a oistol or two without re- J noj^er winced nor drew back a foot ,
man leaped through and landed on tire
j floor. Before he got his feet 1 had
clapped a pistol to his back, and might
have shot him, too, only at the touch of
him (and him alive) my whole flesh mis-
I gave me, and 1 could no more pull the
Aye,” said he, “and that is a part of j ‘rigger than I could have flown.
work. No sooner the pistols’. He ^ ad dro PP ed '»« oitlass as he
: jumped, and when he felt the pistol
I whipped straight around and laid hold
of me, roaring out an oath, and at that
either my courage came again or 1 grew
| so mnch afraid, as came to the same
j thing, for I gave a shriek and shot him
in the midst of the body. He gave the
i most horrible, ngly groan and fell to *ie
cried in a great admiration of my can
dor. “There’s many a pretty gentleman
that would nae dare to say it.”
“But then, sir,” said I, “there is the
door behind you, which they may per
haps break in.
yon bed where ye’re handy at the win
dow; and if they lift hand against the;
door, ye’re to shoot. Bnt that’s not all. i
Let’s make a bit of a soldier of ye,
David. What else have ye to guard?”
"There in tire skylight,” said 1. “But
indeed, Mr. Stewart, 1 wonld need to
; floor. The foot of a second fellow, whose
! legs were dangling through the sky
light, struck me at the same time upon
the head, and at that I snatched another
pistol and shot this one through the
thigh, so that be slipped throngh ami
j tumbled in a lump on his companion’s
body. There was no talk of missing any
, more than there was time to aim. 1
clapped the muzzle to the very place and
fired.
1 might have stood and stared at them
for long, bnt l heard Alan shout as if
for help, and that brought me to my
senses.
He had kept the door so long; but one
of the seamen, while he was engaged
with others, had run in under his guard
and caught him about the body. Alan
was dirking him with his left hand, but
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NORTHERN RAILROAD
CHARLES E. KIMBALL Receiver.
In Effect Jan. 16, 1893.
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that the Name of Firm under which
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general nature of the business to be
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Business to be carried on at Darling
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South Carolina, are the General Part
ners ; and James L. Coker, who resides
at Hartsville, South Carolina, is the
Special Partner; and that the said
James L. Coker has contributed the
sum of Five Thousand Dollars as cap
ital to the common stock ; and that
said Partnership is to commence on
the 30th. day of January 1893, and is
to terminate on the 1st. day of Janua
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Dated this 30th day of January One
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H. A. EDWARDS,
General.
JA8. L. COKER,
Special.
Feb. 2—6t-
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H ARTSVILLE RAI1 ROAD.
In effect , an. 2, 1893.
DAILY MIXED TRAIN
Leave Hartsville 5.00 a m
Jovann 5.20 a m
Floyd’s 5.35 a m
Darlington 5.50 a in
Palmetto — 6.02 a m
Arrive Florence 6.15 a m
Leave Florence 9.00 p m
Palmetto 9.1b p m
Darlington 9.30 p B
Floyd’s 9.45 p in
Jovann 10.05 pm
Arrrive Hartsville 10.26 pm
J. F. DIVINE, Gsn. Supt.
C A D. and C. A 8. RAILROADS.
• In effect Jan. 2, 1893.
Leave Wadrgboro 1.40 p in
Bennett's 2.01 p m
Morven's 2.25 p m
McFarland 2 40 p m
Cheraw 4.00 p m
Cash's. 4 30 p m
Society Hill 5.05 p m
Dove's. 5.45 p m
Floyd’s 6.00 p m
Darlington 6.25 p in
Palmetto 6.40 p m
Arrive Florence 7.00 p m
Leave Florence 6.30 a m
Palmetto 6.50 a in
Darlington - 7.30 a m
Floyd’s 7.55 a m
Dove’s 8 10 a in
Society Hill 6 40am
Cash's 9.35 a in
Cheraw 10.00 a m
McFarland 11.45 p in
Morven’s 12.05 p m
Bennett’s 12.20 p m
Arrive Wadesboro 12.45 p m
Local Freight Train.
Leave Florence 9.00 a in
Arrive Darlington 9.45 a m
Leave Darlington 5.00 p m
Arrive Florence 5.45 p in
A. F. RAVENEL, President.
N'
ORTH EASTERN RAILROAD.
In effect Jan. 2, 1893.
south bound.
No. 15
Ireave Florence 6 25 a m
Kingstree |7.35 a m
Lanes 7.55 a m
Arrive Charleston 9.44 a m
No. 27.
Leave Florence 10.50 p|m
Kingstree 11.50pm
Lanes 12.08 a m
Arrive Charleston 2.19 am
No. 23.
Leave Florence 11.00 p m
Kingstree 12.14 am
Lanes 12.32 a m
Arrive Charleston 2.38 a m
No. 53.
Leave Lanes 8.45 p m
Arrive Charleston 10.40 p m
Train on C. A D. R. R. connects at
Florence with No. 15 Train.
NORTH BOUND.
Leave Charleston
No. 78.
Lane*
Kingstree
Arrive Florence
Leave Charleston.... .
No. 66
Lanes
7.83 am
Kingstree
Arrive Florence
Leave Charleston
No. 14.
Lanes
Kingstree...
Arrive Florence
Leave Charleston
No. 52.
Arrive Lanes
No. 52 runs through to Columbia
via Central R. R. of S. C.
No. 78 runs solid to Wilming
ton, N. C., making close connection
with W. A W. R. R. for all point*
North.
Trains Nos. 14 and 66 run via Wilson
an Fayetteville—Short Line—and
make close connection for all points
North.
J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Supt.
n
7ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA A
AUGUSTA RALROAD.
In effect January 2 1893.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 28.
Leave Wilmington 6 25 p m
Marion 9 41 p m
Arrive Florence 10.25 p in
No. 50.
Leave Florence 3.20 a m
Sumter 4.35 a m
Arrive Columbia 6.15 a m
No. 52.
Leave Sumter 9.43 a m
Arrive Columbia 10.55 a m
No. 58.
Leave Florence 7.57 a m
Sumter 9 20 a m
Arrive Columbia
No. 52 runs through from Charles
ton via Central Railroad; leaving
Lanes 8.32 a m, Manning 9 09 a m.
NORTH BOUND.
No. 51.
Leave Columbia 10.45 p m
Sumter 12.05 a m
Arrive Florence 1.80 a m
No. 78.
Leave Florence 5.10 a m
Marlon 5.53 a m
Arrive Wilmington 9.10 am
No. 59.
Leave Columbia
Sumter 7.30 p m
Arrive Florence 8.50 p m
No. 53.
Leave Columbia 6.10 pm
Arrive Snmter 7. 25p m
No. 53 runs through to charleston
via central Railroad, arriving Man
ning 8.00 p m. Lanes 8.40 p m,
charleston 10.80 a m.
Trains on Manchester and Augusta
B. R-, leave Sumter daily except Sun
day, 10-50 a. in., arrive Rimini 11:59 a.
m. Returning leave Rimini 12:30 p
m.. arrive Sumter 1:40 p in.
Trains on Hartsville R. R. leave
Harts,ille 5:00 a. m., arriving Floyds
5:35 a. m. Returning leave Floyds
9:45 p. m., arriving Hartsvill 10:5 p. m.
Daily except Sunday.
Trains on Wilmington, Chadbouru
and Ccnway Railroad leave Chad-
bourn 10:31) a. m., arrive at Conway
1:00 p. m„ returning leave Conway at
2:30 p. m., arrive (hvibourn 5:20 p.
iu Leave Chadbouru 7:15 a. m. and
5:50 p. m., arrive Hub at 8:00 a. m. and
6:25 p. in. Returning leave Hub 9:00
a. m. and 6:45 p. m , arrive at Chad-
bourn 9:45 a- m. ai d 7:30 p in. Daily
except Sunday.
JOHN F. DIVINE. Gen’l Sup t.
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