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Lariy at your service, geutlewen.
And the uncou louable nooandrel
dotted hln lutt and bowed to the right
unit !f t with the suavity and blaudueas
of a CbitttturQuld.
"II you are a stranger like myself.
what boHinutf brought yon to Aldine?"
"I explained all that to 70a on the
boat. My uncle sent me here to look op
some valuable outton land that ia in tile
nutrient, but," he added, shrewd enough
to perceive the tangle in which I wan
likuly to involve bira, "I deuline to be
qaoscioiied any further by yon, though
i am r-uudy to give tbeae gentlemen any
information tbuy desire. "
Nothing could bave been cleverer than
liia manner and worda. Ilia announce
Mint that be whi after cotton land waa
paiwport to the good will of the coun
tryine.11, iunt of whom were eagur to
Bull their unproductive property. His
glib atory of our traveling together on
the steamer wua aooepted aa truth.
"Then yoa deny Hilling me thut
home yesterday?" I laid, floundering in
the wordy mire into which I bad step
ped.
"Ob, I don't deny anything," he an
swered with a bored air. "Tell your
atory to these gentlemen. Yoa make me
excessively weary. "
It waa vain to dally with him. Stag
gored fur the moment, I waa about to
adrireai my worda to those around me,
when Squire Oager, who had not yet
spoken, interposed. lie was a conscien
tious man, and, though he undoubtedly
sympathized with me. did not sympa
thize with the frightful fiction which
be believed I was trying to weave.
"I wish to auk this man a few ques
tions, " he said, and the universal re
spect felt for the officer of the law caus
ed buHh to fall upon the angry throng.
1 bowed, suspecting what was coming.
" Vou don't deny that you rode op to
ibis hotel this afternoon on the chestnut
guiding which Mr. Bulflnnh put into
his stable at your request?"
"I have already admitted that. I aft
erward crossed to the postofilce and got
a letter which was mailed from New
York and addressed to me, Edward
Kenmore."
"And any of us might have done the
same by asking for it, having arranged
that little matter beforehand." aaid
tlis squire, brushing aside this cobweb,
"bat when yon came and sat down on
the porch and talked with me and Mr.
liuliinch we both addressed yon aa Hank
Heyor."
"Yon did," I replied, and the land
lord nodded his bead in acquiescence.
"Yon talked with na as if yon were
Hunk Beyer. Yon spoke about your fa
ther and asked questions of ns. Why
didn't yon deny yon were Uauk Beyer
at that time?"
It was driving a nail into my coffin,
and I knew my explanation would not
be accepted by a single one of my bear
ers. "I did foolish thing. I was amused
by the mistake, and by way of fun I
humored it You will recall that my
question showed my ignorance, not
ouly of your ufiuira, but of Uank
Beyer's."
"I believe yon protended something
of iho kind,"
Tlio sqniro mournfully shook his
hoad. lie wus through, having sen
tenced uie, as may bo said, to capital
punishment.
"I do not deny, gentlemen, that the
case looks bad against me. You have
notioed that the man whom I pointed
out by the door resembles me, except
thut I wear a mustucheaud he duos not
He had ono today, bnt shaved it off
after we parted, probably foreseeing
something like this. But I bave the
right to nnk that before executing me
yon make sure that I am really Hank
Beyer, the horse thiof.
" Which the same la what we have
dons with tho help yon bave given ns,"
replied Jim Dunguu, with a siguifican
grin in which the others joined.
"It looks that way, but you are in
error. Now, it is raxy for yoa to tele
graph to certain parties whom I will
name in New York and by whom I can
establish my identity. You will do me
that justice. If I fail to convince yon
that I am what I claim, then do with
me as yon wihh."
"That request sounds fair," inter
posed the squire, "bnt I'm sorry to say
that the nearest telegraph station is at
KouthnVld and with our bad roads it
will take two days to go there and
hack. I'm afraid," he added, looking
round at the savage countenances,
"that my friends will not be willing to
wait that long."
"No, not" came from nearly every
ono in the room. "A good deal might
happen in that time."
"Ho wants a chance to give yon the
slip," added the real Hank Beyer from
his station by the door. "Why not let
him have a chance for his life?"
At that moment nothing was more
evident than that every man crowded
into the room was tny enemy. I looked
around into the nnpitying faces and
braced myself for the final struggle.
which I believed could not be deferred.
The mob were impatient that they had
"lit vfintt a chnnrt to girt you (Ac slip."
been balked so long of their prey. In
msny portions of tho southwest the most
heinous crime a person can commit is
to steal horse. Beside that offense
murder sinks into insignificance.
It will be conceded that the circum
stantial evidence against me was of the
strongest character. My marvelous re
seinMuure to the real criminal was Ir
resistiMy convincing, and if anything
was In king it bad been furnished by
my iiliixy. Had I resented the mistake
from the (tit it might have raised a
possiHe question which would have
caused a postponement of my execution.
No man knows precisely how his own
Voice sounds, but there must have been
similarity between mine and Hank
Beyer's or the difference was not mark
ed, since it seemed to attract the atten
tion of no one.
Ouly ono hope remained I mnrt se
nre a "star of proceedings" if but for
limited time. But how was that to be
out? I had already made the attempt
Wm
and been rebutted.
At this apparently t. p !i fs Juncture,
when I stood mute, not fcuovciutr v. hat
to say, bnt ready to po down i'h tr i
ors flying, the unexpected oia umii. 'le
good aniol up eurwi in the lot t pcr-sxi
to whom I looked f-ir support. Ko wus
Jim Lmngan, the leader cf the vigilantes.
(TO aK XYL.'l."tD.
The corner's icjuett over ttu
remains of Thonnw Webber, who w.i
fouml dead mur Chaiiipi.cn a few l ivf
ago develojHMl the fact that Vet.l-r,
la company with, a butcher naiueH
Fred Hmlth had I een on a pr j at
ChamixK-tf and on the wny home had
fallen off a narrow romlwny into a
stream where lc bewiiw thoroughly
drenched loiter he It'll into a wire
fence and tlnully maimeil to cn.iw a
field going in the direction of his
home where after vliinblns a rail
fence he fell. It was hiij .gvl he
died 1 from the ixixwurt' occtisl hk
by falling Into the ItM-cold wttti'r.
An eastern paper contains a clove
cartoon repreaeuting Uncle Sam ad'
dressing thino words to Cartit-gie
"Whai you say atxwt expan.si'm i
all right. Carnegie, but what are you
doing over in Si.-otl.ind?" The m ilti-
uiillionaire thui been inventing i
real estate and cistlm in tho latu o
"Bonnie Doon."
The St. JiOiiw (ilobe-l)itiMK'rat
notes that, the l'orto Itican will pay
11.70 tax where he paid f I It) under
Spanish officials Tint IhIhihI is find
lug no fault with American military
rule.
In April the Spanish, called an
American a "pig" and in D.t-einber
an upstart conqueror." . The epl
thets are not polite, but they give
glimpse of history.
The Tillamook authorities are
still looking for Kd. Knight, who Is
wanted for criminal annul t. Knight
escaped from
time ago.
Constable Ford some
During the heavy snow storm Fri
day the driver of the stage between
Prineville and The Dalles missed the
road near Hake Oven and wus lost for
several hours.
Stockmen in the vicinity of Our
dane have been feeding cattle for 30
days and expect to feed for CO days
more.
La Grippe Nuccete-rully Treated.
'I have Just recovered from the
second attack of la grippe this year,"
says Mr. Jas. A. Jones, publisher of
the Leader, Mesia, Texas. "In the
latter case I used Chamberlain's
Cough remedy, and I think with
considerable success, only lieing In
bed a little over two days against te.u
for the font er wltat k. The second
attack I am satisfied would have
been equally us b'i as the first but
for the use of this remedy as I had to
go to bed in aUiut six hours ufter
being 'struck' wilhil, while in the
Aral case I Mas able to attend to busi
noss about two tlays licforol getting
down.' " For na!o by Tho Delta
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