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NOBLE & SON 6254 FOSTER ROAD . Groceries and Fresh Meats We grind our own hamburger an I ottr own sausage It was filled with wounded men. lie thought of Khottle and hie spirit was oppressed with sorrow. Shottie's ee cepe must have been Impossible, end tomorrow they would take hla body, throw It Into some oosy hole and cover It with jpud. In the lobby of the St. Charles men stood In groups, talking of the fall In the price of cotton. The riot, which to Drace had meant so much, was not even known, ao accustomed was the town to scenes of violence. Drace asked the clerk If Sbottle had come lu. No; hla key waa In the box. Then Draee thought that surely Liberty must be dre<l or wounded, hauled away to suffer. He went forth again, to the department of police, to the cavalry barracks, but nothing could he learn. Then tn hla room he sat »orrowlng over his friend and yet thrilled with a selfish happiness, for he had found the barbaric rosemaid Ho went to bed. tonaed, slept, dreamed In a mingling of dl«trees and gladness, and awoke. Shottie was standing tn tho room. -Thank the Lord I" cried Drace, and sprang out of bed. “That's what I say. friend Virgil. But you will please address me as Colonel Khottle. I am a free man. Here!" He held forth an envelops; opening It Draco took out a hundrod-dollar banknote. -What does this mean, Lib I” “I am Colonel Shot tie. sir, and not Lib." "I beg joar pardon. Colonel | bet what does thia mestiF* Khottle oat down and crossed hla long legs. He took out a cigar and lighted It * (Continued from last week.) -Virgil, I fought aa long as I thought Not many shots were Bred. The It was of advantage. The old carbine authoritlM made a criminal of the I had wouldn't ah M. and I want to tell you that mauling darky heads citlten who rerried a guu or concealed with a piece of Iron la hard work. I It In Ids house. It was s hand-to-hand strife, the breaking of heada, the cut looked about for you but couldn't find ting of throats. A big. red-shirted ne you. and kuowlng that you knew bow gro with raaor gleaming In the smoky to take care of yourself. I began to light made a grab at Drace. who had sniff for a way to get out. found a just room enough to leap back and bole In a wait ducked through and strike with-his aaberi but the agile scooted. That was all natural enough. Anybody could have done that But negro dodged. the blow waa caught by now comes the inspirational part I a brick wall and the blade waa broken got around Into Royal street and met off at the handle. But with the hilt, a a steamboat captain who aaked me to boxing glove of atari. Draco knockci the negro down and then passed over have a drink, and I needed It for I hla body, striking right and left, push bad been hard at w ork. "So I went In with him. And then ing onward to the front, where the up I hope to a gambling house with jagged ranks aaw-toothed one Into the the money you'd paid me for Intro other. The struggle now wss to save the ducing you to Nadine la Vltte. The poker tables were full, so I nipped In hanging men. who, without fall enough to break his neck, was strung up to modestly at the faro-bank. That's not strangle. Drace waa tho first man to a very swift game, but sometimes It la r.s sure as buying houses and lota. If fight hla way to him He dropped hla you've got the patience. I Invested steel boxing glove, grubbed out his knife, leaped up. caught hold of the cautiously till about daylight, cashed In exactly two hundred, and here I limb of the tree with one hand and am as refreshed as a horse grazing on cut the man down. Catching up hie weapon, he was clover.” - “Colonel. I congratulate you I" said about to mix In the flght ngnln when the sharp scream of a woman caught Draco. Ths two breakfasted together, and and held him for a moment. He glanced hurriedly about : at various then Drace set out to, find again the windows were lights and silhouetted ■ house at the acene of the riot—the house at the window of which he had figures of onlookers. But as If drawn seen the face of Nadine la Vltte. At by some lodestone Instinct his eyes length he found himself In the aide wont to a second story window Just street where he had taken refuge the beyond the tree; and there. In the night before, and turning out of thia strong light of a lamp just behind her. he came to the tree from the limb of he sow again the face of the barbaric which he had cut tlown the half rose maid, Nadine la Vltte. strangled victim of the mob. There op Instantly he whirled and strove te posite was the house and there was fight hla way to a gate which he saw the window at which he had seen Na In the wall before the houae. But now dine's face; but across the window, camo a new cry and a scramble foe boards had been nailed I The other safety. A troop of United States cav windows too, and the doora, were alry came sweeping the thoroughfare nailed up; the place waa deserted. from curb to curb, their drawn sabers Could that face at the window hafe flashing, the aroused anger of Unde been only a creature of his Imagina Sam rebuking a riot. Not to run waa tion 1 , to be trampled Go death, but Drace An old negro in .'nondescript livery atood an Instant to look about for came down the whig from a house a Shottie. He could not find him, how few doora away. Ho might have been ever, find he had to seek his own safe footman to a harlequin. But when ty, for the cavalry were near, spread Draco spoke to Him, the dignified ing out upon the sidewalk. change In hla countenance appeared With divers others, he stood not to alter even the aspect of hie attire | npon the order of his going but ran, and now he might have been usher to hack down the street end then hurried a governor. Thia quick change had down a aide street out of the path of been brought about by hla Intuitive the troopers. There he waited until discovery that Drace was a man of Hie tumult had subsided—perhaps an consequence. .- ,4 hour. Theo he made hla way back to “Do you know anything about the the acene of the riot. The house at the window of which people' who lived across the afreet!" he thought he had glimpsed the face Drace asked. “Wall, no nah; da wtis po' folks, of Nadine la Vltte wne now dark. But In spite of the curious glances of sun Mh." “Then you don’t know where they dry loiterers. Drace took a careful sur vey of It and of the thre^ oak trees went." "No nah. My 'ployment la ter look In front—even felt their hark to fa miliarise himself with them. At the after folks oh er higher 'dltlon, eah. corner he sought the name of the An den ter preach on Sunday.” "Oh, you are a preacher." street, on the lamp, but the glass had “Called, sah, wld er blast from do been broken, leaving only a red “L," and the fragments and "e." But no trumpet,” "Does your church ever need matter—he would know where to turn, money 7” Tn a moment he lost his wntild know the house when ahreaat dignity. x of It. “Look yeah, boas, whut's er nigger Now Drace hastened toward the St. Charles. The streets were qhlet. But church fur ef It ain't ter need money) a wagon rattled by, and he saw that Oo'ae It need money. Bnt what you gwlne do arboul It! “Yazeuh," he Mid, when Draco hod warmed Mm with a greenback. “1 reckon dey done moved away There waa er kind of rumpus last night. And I reckon they all thought It wasn't no place foh dem no mo’; dey IsT mighty euddrn-llke, irtily dis mawnln'.” And that was all Draco could learfji no one In the vicinity would admit that they knew them or their destina tion. Disliking to cgll too much at tention to himself. Draee walked away heavy hearted. For a long time he wandered the streets. He came to the levee, of id the French market. He went Into the. pld Kt. Louis cemetery, and looked the novel sight of bodies aeiiul'hered In a wall with doors like a furnace. These comport ments. he lenmed. were rented by thb month to the poor; and a abort tenan try It was /or many a son and daugh ter of penury answering Eternity's call, for when the grim agent failed to collect the pittance promised by sorrow, the shrouded renter was evict ed—an old Spanish custom, I trace waa told. Itecalled by these grim surroundings to the purpose that hail brought him to the South. Drace now determined to give himself wholly to his quest for Hfepho la Vltte. He returned to the hotel, and found Khottle nervous In a cloud of smoke. The floor was cov ered with hurned' matches and the stubs of cigar«. “Lib. I'm crushed.'' announced f trace. "So am I. But how does It happen that the dnat-cart drove over you too!" "Nadine Is gone. The place Is nulled up.” “That's tough, all right. But what are you going to do about It! Are you going te come to your puritanic aenxes and give the whole thing up. or do you expect—" “I expect to fulfill my «acred ml» «Ion. 1 must find Ktepho la Vltte." Khat tie got up and shook hands with hla friend. He ewore that he would ■gake the search the alm of hla life. “KuppoM you hire me by the day,” be suggested. “A man does better work by the day. He always has fresh stim ulus every time the sun risen" “Very well—ten dollars a day.” “That's liberal. Virgil, and I'll take it And let's get Old Josh to help us. He la more or I sm acquainted with Ktepho'« habits." CHAPTER V ps|H-r. was reported to bo an Intimate of Stepho. Possibly from blrn Mr. Drace might— Draft hurrttdly explained the de cree which had banished him; then be "presented" tho Colonel with a check on arcouot, asked him to convey bls reaperta to MI m Lucy and took bls departure. On hla way to the Frenchman's he stopped at the hotel, where he found Khottle strapping up their baggage— and a police official paying an Informal but suggestive call. An hour's grace remained. Drace paid hla score at the desk, sent bls baggage to the boat and then, summoning a enb, drove off with Shottie to the houxe of ths French man. It proved to be s mean atwele. both wineshop and dwelling, Draee knocked eagerly. A small man, hla mustache dyed, came to the door, blinking. “I beg your psroon, sir, but I am a friend of Mr. la Vltte, and—" “Pardon, monaleur, but you do not look like him. ze friend.” “But I am. And I came with word that will he of advantage to him. The police are after him—“ “Aw, he know Mt. Monsieur would trouble himself for nothing. Good morning." “Just a moment, please. You have no need to look on me with suspicion. I am hla friend—and—” “If you hla friend," Interrupted the man, “you know he gone—to Europe, on steamer to France." Drace *»« B'tout to abandon the man In despoil «hen Khottle. who had been staring at a case of wine which stood by the door ticketed and sealed for shipment, suddenly Interrupted. "Ah,” he cried, “can this tw th« famous Chateau Tquem!” And brush ing past the Frenchman, he leaned ov er as If to examine the hottie. te'rh a cry. the wine merchant shove.! him rudely away. “Zat Is ze private stock." be snarled. “He la not for sale I ant not yet open for business, sire. G< mm | morning." Sbottle gra«ped Drace's arm and drew him away. A cart had halted outside, and aa they entered their cab they mw the carter shouldering the case of wine and bearing towurd hla vehicle. As they turned the corner, u <l--e| throated blast from the Bu.uhle1.ee sounded a warning. Sbottle turae.l upon the disappointed Draee with a gleeful countenance. "Master.” he Mid, “PH thank you for that money again. I've found him.” “Found him!" exclaimed Drace. “Howr (Continued Next Week.) An hour later Drace and Khottle re turned to their hotel after a cere monious visit with Colonel Josh. The Colonel knew of Ktepho. had Indeed met him once. and he promised to make discreet Inquiries that should without fall disclose ths creoie’a Edith saya she would rather dance whereabouts. than eat. Hardly had Drace reached hla room, Well, shell find a plenty of men however, Itefore a visitor waa shown who would rather «¡git a dance pro In—a visitor who Introduced himself gram than a dinner check.—Boston as an agent of the New Orleans po Transcript. lice department and who had a most distressing communication to make: Your inspection invited at the It waa known that Mr. Drace and hla friend had taken part in a recent HILL riot. Mr. Drace waa one of the lead- 74th and Foster Road era, had severely wounded more than one man, and without cause, being Perfectly Pasteurized Milk, Cream, from the North, just arrived, and hav Whipping Cream and Buttermilk ing no possible Interest In the city. However, he was to be treated with more of lenity than would rhyme with bit crime, for Instead of punishment be was only to be banished, along with hla friend. A steamboat, the Bum blebee, bound northward, would leave next morning. The chief of police would grieve If Mr. Drace and his friend failed to register among the passengers. With scarcely twelve hours left in which to find Ktepho la Vltte. Drace paced the streets In an agony of anx iety, making a hundred plans to find you're missing if Stepho or to outwit the New Orleans you're uot listen officials and prolong hla stay, but all In vain. ing in. Colonel Josh did not appear, but he seemed to have embarked upon the It’s tbe famous qtieat, for when the distracted Drace called at his quarters about midnight Hawley Station, the old fellow was still absent Dawn now owned by the brought Drace back again, for all Ms other endeavors had been unsuccess ful. and but two hours remained before the Bumblebee's departure. Routed out of bed, the Colonel kept GASCO BLDG. Main 4531 Drace waiting a full half hour before he put In an appearance. Then, how ever, he offered a faint ray of hope. 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