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CHAPTER VUL The company, feeling that they had to put their beat foot foremost In the presence of their prisoners, tried at flrst to maintain something like mili tary order in marching throng!^ the woods. They soon found, however, that this was a difficult thing to da Canadian forests are not as trimly kept as English parka Tim walked on ahead with the lantern, but three times he tumbled over some obstruc tion and disappeared suddenly from view, uttering maledictions. His final effort in this line was a triumph. He fell over the lantern and smashed it. When all attempts at reconstruction failed, the party tramped on in go-as- you-please fashion, and found they did better without the light than with it. In fact, although it was not yet four ^o’clock, daybreak was already filtering through the trees, and the woods were perceptibly lighter. "We must be getting near the camp * said the captain. “Will I shout, sir?” asked Murphy. "No, no. We can’t miss it. Keep on as you are doing.” They were nearer the camp than they su bj ected. As they blundered on nmong the crocking underbrush and idry twigs, the sharp report of a rifle echoed through the forest, and a bullet whistled above their heads. “Fat the divil are you foiring at, Mike Lynch?” cried the alderman, who recognized the shooter, now rapidly falling back. “Oh, it’s you, is it?” said the sentry, stopping in his flight The captain strode angrily towards him. “What do you mean by firing like that? Don’t you know enough to ask for the countersign before shooting?" “Sure I forgot about it captain, en tirely. But then, ye see, I never can he looked up and first name. Being “Ton FIRST, PROFESSOR,” SAID TATES. ,hit anythingi so it’s little difference it makes.” The shot had roused the camp, and there was now wild commotion, every body thinking the Canadians were up on them. A strange sight met the eyes of Yates and Benmark. Both were astonished to see the number of men that O’Neill had under his command. They were a motley crowd. Some tattered United States uniforms were among them, but the greater number were dressed as or dinary individuals, although a few bad trimmings of green braid on their olothes. Sleeping out for a couple of nights had given the crowd the un kempt appearance of a great company of tramps. The officers were indis tinguishable from the men at flrst, but afterwards Yates noticed that they, mostly in plain olothes and slouch hats, had sword-belts buckled around them and one or two had swords that had evidently seen service in the United States cavalry. “It’s all right boys,” cried the cap tain to the excited mob. “It was only that fool Lynch who fired at us. There’s nobody hurt. Where's the general?” "Here he comes,” said half a dozen voices at once, and the crowd made way for him. Gen. O’Neill was dressed in ordinary citizen’s costume, and did not have even a sword-belt. On his head of light hair was a black soft felt hat. His face was pale and covered" with freckles. He looked more like a clerk from a store than like the commander of an army. Ho was evidently somewhere between thirty-five and forty years of age. ' “Oh, it’s you, is it?” he said. “Why are you back? Any news?” The captain saluted, military fashion, and replied: “We took two prison, rs, sir. They were ebcamped in a tent in the woods. One of them says he is an American citizen and says he knows you, so I brought them in.” "I wish you had brought in the tent ■too,” said the general, with a wan smile. “It would be an improvement on sleeping in the open air. A>o these the prisoners? I don't know either of these men.’* • “The captain makes a mistake in ! saying that I claimed a personal ac quaintance with you, general. What I said was that you would recognize somewhat quicker than he did who I i was, and the desirability of treating me with reasonable decency. Just show the general that telegram you took from my coat-pocket, captain.” The paper was produced, and O’Neill read it over once or twice. , “You are on the New York Argus, then?” “Very much so, general.” “I hops you have not been roughly used?” “Oh, no; merely tied up in a hard knot and threatened with shooting— that’s all.” "Oh, I’m sorry to hear that Still, .you must make some allowance at a time like this. If you will come with me I will write you a pass which will prevent any simllai mistake happening in the future.” The general led the way to a smouldering camp-fire, where, out of a valise, ho took writing materi als, and, using the valise as a desk, be gan to write. After he had written “Hsadouarters of the Grand Army of Irish Republic,” asked Yates his answered, he Inquired the name of his friend. “I want nothing from you,” inter posed Benmark. “Don't put my nama on the paper.” ‘‘Oh, that’s all right," said Yates “Never mind him, general. He’s a learned man who doesn't know when to talk and when not to. As you march up to our tent, general, you will see an empty jug, which will ex plain everything. Renmark’s drunk, not to put too fine a point upon it, and he imagines himself a British subject.” The Fenian general looked up at the professor. — "Are you a Canadian?” he asked. “Certainly I am.” "Well, in that case, if I let you leave camp, you must give me your word that should you fall in with the enemy you will give no Information to them of our position, numbers, or of anything else you may have seen while with us.” “I shall not give my word. On the contrary, if I should fall in with the Canadian troops I will tell them where : you are, that you are from eight hun dred to one thousand strong, and the j worst-looking set of vagabonds I have j ever seen out of jail.” Gen. ONeill frowned and looked from one to the other. “Do you realize that you confess to being a spy, and that it becomes my duty to have you taken out and shot ?” “In real war, yes. But this is mere idiotic fooling. All of you that don't escape will be eirin-r in jail or shot be fore twenty-four i “Well, by the gods, it won’t help you any. I'll have you shot Inside of ten minutes. Instead of twenty-four hours." “Hold on, general, hold on,” cried Yates, as the angry man rose and con fronted the two. "I admit that he richly deserves shooting if you were the fool-killer, which you are not. But it won’t do. I will be responsible for him. Just finish that pass for me, and I will take care of the professor. Shoot me if you like, but don't touch him. He hasn't any sense, as you can see, but I am not to blame for that, nor are j-ou. If you take to shooting ev erybody who is an ass, general, you won’t have any ammunition left tocon- quer Canada with.” The general smiled in spite of him self, and resumed the writing of the pass. “There,” he said, handing the paper to Yates. “You see, we always .like to oblige the press. I will risk your belligerent friend, and I hope you will exorcise more control over him if you meet the Canadians, than you were able to exert here. Don't you think, on the whole, you had better stay with us? Wo are going to march in a couple of hours when the men have had a lit tle rest." He added in a lower voice, so that the professor could not hear: “You didn't see anything of the Canadians, I suppose?” “Not a sign. No, I don’t think I’ll stay. There will be five of our fellows here some time to-day, I expect, and that will be more than enough. I’m really here on a vacation. Been ordered rest and quiet. I'm beginning to think I have made a mistake in the location,’’ Yates bade good-by to the commander, and walked with his friend out of the camp. They threaded their way among sleeping men and groups of stacked guns. On the top of one of the bayo nets was hung a tall silk hat, which looked most incongruous In such a place. “I think,” said Yates, “that we will make for the Ridge road, which must lie somewhere in this direction. It will be easier walking than through the woods; and, besides, I want to stop at one of the farmhouses and get some breakfast. I’m as hungry as a bear after tramping so long.” “Very well," answered the professor, shortly. They stumbled along until they reached the edge of the wood, then, crossing some open fields, presently came upon the road near the spot where the fist-fight had taken place between Yates and Bartlett. The two, now with greater comfort, walked silently along the road towards the west, with the reddening east behind them. The whole scene was strangely quiet and peaceful, and the recollection ol the weird camp they had left in the woods seemed merely a bad dream. Tito morning air was sweet, and the birds were beginning to eing. Yates had in tended to give the professor a piece of his mind regarding the lack of tact ant' common sense displayed by Bcumarl in the camp, but somehow the scarcoly- awakened day did not lend itself to controversy, and the serene stillness soothed his spirit. He begun to whistle softly that popular war song, “Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," and then broke in with the question: “Say, Renny, did you notice that plug-hat on the bayonet?” “Yes.” answered the professor; “and I saw five others scattered around the camp.” “Jingo! you were observant. I can Imagine nothing quite so ridiculous as a man going to war in a tall silk hat.” The professor made no reply and Yates changed his whistling to “Rally round the flag.” “I presume,” he said, at length, "there Is little use in attempting to im prove the morning hour by trying to show yon, Renmark, what a fool you made of yourself In the camp. Your natural diplomacy seamed to be slight ly off the center.” “I do not hold diplomatic relations with thieves and vagabonds.” “They may be vagabonds, bnt so am I, for that matter. They may also be well-meaning mistaken men; but I do not think they are thieves.” “While yon were talking with the so-called general, one party came in with, several horses that had been stolen from the neighboring farmers, and another party started ont to get some more." “Oh, that isn’t stealing. Renmark; that’s requisitioning. You mustn’t use such reckless language. I imagine the second nertv has been suoceesful; for here are tnree of them, an mounted. The three horsemen referred to stopped their steeds at the sight of the two men coming round the bend of the road, and awaited their approach. Like so many of the others, they were no uniform, but two of them held re volvers in their hands ready for action. The one who had no visible revolver moved his hone up the middle of the road towards the pedestrians, the other two taking positions on each side of the wagon-way. “Who are you? Where do yon come from, and where are you going?" cried the foremost horseman, as the two walkers came within talking distance. "It's all right, commodore,” said Yates, jauntily, “and the top of the morning to you. We are hungry pe destrians. We hare just come from the camp, and we are going to get soine- i thing to eat." “I must have a more satisfactory an- | swer than that." “Well, here you have It, then,” an- , swered Yates, pulling out his folded pass and handing it up to the horse man. The man read it carefully. “You find that all right, I expect?" “Right enough to cause your im- 1 mediate arrest.” “But the general said we were not to j be molested further. That is in his | own handwriting.” "I presume It is, and all the worse for you. HU handwritingdoes not run quite as far as the queen's writ in this •ountry yet. I arrest you in the name | of the queen. Cover these men with your revolvers, and shoot them down if they make any resistance.” So say ing, the rider slipped from his horse, whipped out of his pocket a pair of handcuffs joined by a short stont steel chain, and, leaving his horse standing, grasped Ren mark's wrist, j “I’m a Canadian,” said the professor, wrenching his wrist away. “You musn't put handcuffs on me." “You are in very bad company, then. I am a constable of this county, and if ! you are what you say, you will not re- : sist arrest." “I will go with you, but you musn’t handcuff me.” "Oh! mustn’t I?" And, with a quick movement indicative of long pra ctico with resisting criminals, the constable i deftly slipped on one of the clasps, which closed with a sharp click like a burr. Renmark became deadly pale, and there was a dangerous glitter in his ej'es. He drew back his clinched fist, In spite of the fact that the cocked re volver was edging closer and closer to him and the constable held hU strug gling manacled band with grim deter mination. "Hold on!” cried Yates, preventing the professor from striking the repre sentative of the law. “Don’t shoot,” he shouted to the man on horseback; “it is all a little mistake, that will be quickly put right. You are three armed and mounted men, and we are only two, unarmed and on foot, rbere is no need of any revolver practice. Now, Renmark, you are more of a rebel at the present moment than O’Neill. He owes no allegiance, and you do. Have you no respect for the forms of law and order? You are an anarchist at heart, for all your profes sions. You would sing ‘God Kave the Queen!’ in the wrong place awhile ago, so now be satisfied that yon have got her, or, rather, that she has got you. Now, constable, do you want to hitch the other end of that arrangement on my wrist? or have you another pair for my own special use?” “I’ll take your wrist, If you please.” “All right; here you are.” Yates drew back his coat-sleeve and pre sented his wrist. The dangling cuff was speedily clamped upon it. The constable mounted the patient horse that stood waiting for him, watohing him the while with Intelligent eye. The two prisoners handcuffed together took the middle of the road, with a horseman on eaoh side of them, the constable bringing up the rear, and thus they marched on, the professor gloomy from the indignity put upon them, and the newspaper man as joy ous as the now thoroughly awakened birds. The scouts concluded to go no farther towards the enemy, but to re turn to the Canadian forces with their prisoners. They marched down the road, all silent except Yates, who en livened the morning air with the sing ing of “John Brown." “Keep quiet,” said the constable, curtly. “All right, I wilL But look here; we shall pass shortly the house of a friend. We want to go and get something to eat.” “You will get nothing to eat until I deliver you up to the officers of the vol unteers." "And where, may I ask, are they?” "You may ask, but I will not an swer." “Now, Renmark.” said Yates to his companion, “the tough part of this episode is that we shall have to pass ‘noi.o OR, GENERAL, HOLD ON,” CRIED YATES. Bartlett's house and feast merely on the remembrance of the good things which Mrs. Bartlett is always glad to bestow on the wayfarer. I call that refined cruelty. It Is adding Insult to in- jury." As they neared the Bartlett home stead they caught sight of Miss Kitty on the veranda shading her eyes from the rising sun and gazing earnestly at the'approaching squad. As soon as she recognized th- gronp she disap peared with a cry into the house. I’roa- ontly there came cut Mrs. Bartlett, fol lowed by her son and more slowly by the old man himself. They all came down to the gate and waited. “Hello, Mrs. Bartlett," cried Yates, cheerily. “You see the professor has got his deserts at last; and I, being in bad company, share Ids fate, like the good dog Tray." “What’s all this about?” oriod Mrs. The constable, who anew both u»e farmer and his wife, nodded familiarly to them. “They’re Fenian prisoners,” he said. “Nonsense!” cried Mrs. Bartlett—the old man, as usual, keeping his month grimly shut when his wife was present to do the talking; “they’re not Fenians. They’ve been camping on our farm for a week or more." “That may be," said the constable, firmly, “but I have the best of evidence against them, and if I’m not very much mistaken they'll hang for it.” Miss Kitty, who had been partly vis ible through the door, gave a cry of anguish at this remark and disappeared again. “We hare just escaped being hanged by tha Fenians themselves, Mrs. Bart lett, and I hope the same fate awaits us at the hands of the Canadians.” "What! hanging?" “No, no; just escaping. Not that I object to being hanged; I hope I am not so pernickety as all that; hut, Mrs. Bartlett, you will sympathize with me when I tell you that the torture I am suffering from at this moment is the remembrance of ♦he good things to eat which I have had in your house. I am simply starving to death, Mrs, Bartlett, and this hard-hearted constable re fuses to allow me to ask you for any thing.” Mrs. Bartlett came out through the gate to the road in a visible state of in dignation. “Stoliker,” sho exclaimed, “I’m ashamed of you! You may hang a written by the Fenian general, so mat we should not be troubled again. That is the precious document which this man thinks is deadly evidence. He never asked us a question, but he clapped the handcuffs on our wrists, while the other fools held pistols to our heads.” “It Isn’t my place to ask questione," retorted Stoliker, doggedly. “You can tell all this to the colonel or the sheriff, and if they let you go I’ll say nothing airainst It.” [TO BK COMTINUKD.] It May Do as Much for You. Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111. writes that he had a Severe Kid ney trouble for many years, with severe pains in his back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so call ed Kidney cures but without any good result. About a year ago he began use of Electric Bitters and found relief at once Electric Bitters is especially adapted to cure of all Kidney and Liver troubles and often gives almost instant relief. One trial will prove our statement. Price only 50c. for large bottle. At Willcox & Go’s., Drugstore. ‘‘I would kiss you if I dared,” he said. “If I were a man,” she replied, with a determined air, ‘‘I think I would dare any thing.” Just then a cloud pass ed over the moon—New York Press. STOUIOeR; SDK EXCLAIMED, ASHAMED OF YOU.” man If you like, but you have no right to starve him. Come straight iu wiih me,” she said to the prisoners. “Madam,” said, Stoliker, severely, “you must not interfere with the course of the law.” “The course of stuff and nonsense!” cried the angry woman. “Do you think I am afraid of you, Sam Stoliker? Haven't I chased you out of this very orchard when you were a boy trying to steal my apples? Yes, and boxed your ears, too, when 1 caught you, and then was fool enough to fill your pock ets with the best apples on the place after giving you what you deserved. Course of the law, indeed! I’ll box your ears now if you say anything more. Get down off your horse and have something toeat yourself. • I dare say you need it.” “This is what I call a rescue,” whis pered Yates to his linked companion. What is a stern upholder of the law to do when the interferer with justice is a determined and angry woman ac customed to having her own way? Stoliker looked helplessly at Hiram as the supposed head of the house, but the old man merely shrugged his shoul ders, as much as to say: “You see how it is yourself. I am helpless.” Mrs. Bartlett marched her prisoners through the gate and up to the house. “All I ask of you now,” said Yates, •Is that you will give Renmark and me seats together at the table. We can not bear to be separated even for an Instant.” Having delivered her prisoners to the custody of her daughter, at the same time admonishing her to get breakfast as quickly as possible, Mrs. Bartlett went to the gate again. The constable was still on his horse. Hiram had asked him, by way of treating him to a non- controversial subject, if this was the colt ho had bought from old Brown on the second concession, and Stoliker had replied that it was. Hiram was saying he thought he recognized the horse by his sire, when Mrs. Bartlett broke in upon them. “Come, Sam,” sho said, “no sulking, you know. Slip off the horse and come In. How's your mother?” “She’s pretty well, thank you,” said Sam, sheepishly, coming down on his feet again. Kitty Bartlett, her gaysty gone and her eyes red, waited on the prisoners, but absolutely refused to serve Sam Stoliker, on whom she looked with the utmost contempt, not taking into ac count the fact that the poor yoeng man had been merely doing his duty, and doing it well. “Take off these handcuffs, Sam," said Mrs. Bartlett, “until they have break fast, at leost.” Stoliker produced a key and unlocked the manacles, slipping them into his pocket. “Ah! now,” said Yates, looking at his red wrist, “we can- breathe easier, and I, for one, car n.i more.” The professor said nothing. The Iron had not only encircled his wrist, but had entered his soul as well. Although Yates trlod to make the early meal as cheerful as possible, It was rather a gloomy festival. Stoliker began to feel, poor man, that the paths of duty were unpopular. Old Hiram could be always depended upon to add somber- ness and taciturnity to a wedding feast, and the professor, never the liveliest of companions, sat silent, with clouded brow, and vexed even the cheerful Mrs. Bartlett by having evidently no appe tite. When the hurried meal was over, Yates, noticing that Miss Kitty had left the room, sprang np and walked toward the kitchen door. Stoliker was on his feet in an instant and made as though to follow him. “Sit down," said the professor, sharp ly, speaking for the first time. “He is not going to escape. Don't be afraid. He has done nothing and has no fear of arrest. It Is always the innocent that you stupid officials arrest. The woods all around you are full of real Fenians, but you take excellent care to keep out of their way and give your attention to molesting perfectly inof fensive people.” “Good for you, professori” cried Mrs. Bartlett, emphatically. “That's the truth, if ever it was spoken. 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Think this matter over care fully. There’s an unusual opening for somebody. If it fits you, it will pay you. Fur ther information ou request. W. J. Roddey, Manager, Rock Hiii. S. C. C & D. and C. & S. RAILROADS. ■ In effect June 8, 1894. MIXED TRAIN Leave Wadp*boro 2.00 p m Bennett’* 2.25 p m Morven’* 2.40 p m McFarland 2 55 p in Cheraw 8.45pm Ca*h'* 4.10 pm Society Hill 4.40 p m Dove’s 5.15 p m Floyd’* 5.30 pm Darlington 6.05 p m Palmetto 0.20 p m Arrive Florence 6.45 p m Leave Florence 7.35 a m Palmetto 8.00 a m Darlington - 8.35 a in Floyd’* - 3.00 am Dove’s 0 15 a m Society Hill 9 45 a m Cash’s 10.15 a m Cheraw 11.00 a in McFarland 11.40 am Morven'* 11.65 am Bennett’s 12.10 a m Arrive Wadesboro 12.30 a m Local Freight. Leave Darlington 4 10 p m Palmetto 4.42 p in Arrive Florence 5.00 p m Leave Florence 8.80 a in Palmetto 8.50 a m Arrive Darlington 0 05 a m A. F. RAVEN EL, President. NORTHEASTERN RAILROAD. IT In effect Noy. 18,1804; SOUTH BOUND. No. 35. Leave Florence 3.10 a m Lane* 4.20 a m Arrive Charleston 6.10 a in No. 28. Leave Florence : 7.35 p m Kingstree 8.46 p m lame* 0.07 p m Arrive Charleston 11,18 p m No. 58. Leave Lanes 7.05 p m Arrive Charleston 8.40 p m NORTH BOUND. No. 78. Leave Charleston 8.35 a in Lanes 5.40 a in Kingstree 6 00 a m Arrive Florence 7.06 a in No. 32. Leave Charleston 3.55 p m Lane* 5.44 p m Kingstree 5.50 p ra Arrive Florence 6.55 p in No. 52. Leave Charleston 7.15 a m Arrive Lanes 8.45 s m No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. Train Nos. 78 and 14 run* via Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Line—and makes close connection for all points North. J. F. DIVINE. Gen. Sopt. IV ILMINGTON, COLUMBIA * AUGUSTA RALROAD. In effect Jane 3, 1804. SOUTH BOUND. No. 55. Leave Wilmington 3.30 pm Marion 6.21 p in Arrive Florence 7.10 p m No. 50. Leave Florence 7.25 p m Sumter ’. 8.86 p m Leave Sumter 8.38 p m Arrive Columbia 10.00 p in No. 58. Leave Florence 3.15 a m Arrive Sumter 4 21 a m No. 52. Leave Snmter 0.58 a m Arrive Columbia 11.10 a m No. 52 ri ns through from Charles ton via Central Railroad; leaving Lanes 8-43 a in, Manning 0 25 a m. NORTH BOUND. No. 51. Leave Co!nmbic . - . 4.30 am Sumter .ck-, . 5.58 a u Arrive Florence . 7.10 a m No. 56. Leave Florence 7.35 a m Marion 8.16 a in Arrive Wilmington 11.00 am No. 58. Leave Columbia 4.20 p m Arrive Sumter 5.48 p m Leave Columbia Sumter Arrive Florence No. 59. ... 6.47 p m 6.55 p m No 53 runs tluougu to Hilaries ton via central Railroad, arriving Man ning 6.21 p m. Lanes 7.05 p m, Charleston8.40 pm. Trains on South and North Caro lina R. R., leave Atkins 0.40 a. m. and 6.30 p. m., arriving Lucknow 11.10 a. in. and 8.00 p. m. Returning leave Lucknow 6.45 a. in. and 4.20 p m„ ar riving Atkins 8.15 a. u. and 5,50 p. m. Daily except Sunday. Trains ou Wilmington, Chadbonrn and Conway Railroad leave Chad- bourn at 10.10 a m, arrive at Conway 12.30 p in, returning leave Conway at 2:00 p. in., arrive Chadbonrn 4:60 p. in. Leave Chadbourn 5.35 p m arrive at Huh 6 30 p. in. Re turning leave Hub 8.15 a in, arrive at Chadbonrn 9.00 a in. Daily exepet Sunday. JOHN F, DIVINE, Gen’l Sapt.