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FRANK-TOUSEY, PUBLISHER, 168 WEST 23D STREET., NEW YUltK. No. 907. NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1918. Price SIX Cents The came dashing over the lawn and up the steps of the mansion. Dick threw open the door and sprang out. sword in hand. once a desperate fight ensued.
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THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76 A Weekly Magazine Containing Stories of the American Revolution. Issued Weekly-By Subscription $3 .0 0 p er year. Enter ed at the New Y ork, N . Y ., Post Office aa S e c on d C lasa Matter b11 Frank T ousey, P u b lisher, 1 68 We s t 23 d S treet , New York . No. 907. NEW Y O RK, M A Y 17 , 1918. Price 6 Cents . T h e . Liberty Boys' G allant Stand ,OR-ROUNDING UP THE REDCOATS By HARRY MOORE CHAPTER I. THE GIRL IN THE FOG. "Help!" A young girl was clinging to the dashboard of a light :ig which was drawn by a frightened horse dashing down a country road. The place was in tl,le neighborhood of Short Hills, in the State of New Jersey. , The time was about the middle of the month of June in the year 1 780. "Help!" Again that terrified cry was heard as the girl, half-kneeling in the bottom of the gig, held frantically to the dashboard. 'Whoa!" A coarse ly dressed boy uttered the command. He suddenly appeared• around a bend in the road and had caught sight of the runaway. "Whoa!" he cried again. ' He did mo r e tha n that, for the frightened hors e .:ti.ad not heeded his command. He made a flying leap, seized the horse's bridle and held on furiously, throwing himself back at the same time te check the anima l ' s sp . e ed. "Whoa!" he said gently. "Whoa, boy; easy now." The strength, as well as the soothing tones, had had their effect. The horse understood that he had found a mastel', and yet one who would not beat or ill treat him. He gradually' slowed dovm, being held back as well as coaxed, and in a few minutes came to a stancs till, t rembling but conquered. "There," said the qoy. "So you're all right; there's nothing going to hurt you, so, boy." The n he stroked the ho -se's neck, speaking soothingly the while, till the animal stood p erfecdy st.ill. • ."If you don't mind, mi ss," the b oy said to the girl, who still kneeled in the bottom of the gig, "I y ;il! get in and drive him a little while so as to see . hat he is all right." "But won't you let me get out?" the girl asked. "I d on't believe I could stand it if he ran away again. " "You Cl!ll do as you choose, mis s , but he won't r u n away no w . I understand horses. He has be e n frightened, that's all." "I w ould rather get out," the gil'l said simply. "Very well," and the boy gave her his hand and hel.Ped her -Then he got into the gig and drove a few hundred yards and b<>ck again, the horse going at a n y easy canter and seeming not in the least frightened. " \Ve r e you alone?" asked the boy as he drew rein at the girl's side. "Shan't I take you where you wish to go? The animal is perfectly safe now, I can assure you." " We ll, y o u s e e m to manage him so well that perhaps I would not mind, but----" Oh, hcne's A y oung man in riding boots, jacket and hat and carrying a short whip, n o w came u p . ' ' "What are y ou doing i n t hat gi g , fellow?" he demanded coarsely. "I like your impudence! " ' At the sound of the yo ung man's v oice the hors e bega n to tremble and show signs of wanting t o bolt. "Whoa!" said the b oy gently. Then he noticed that the yo ung man's cl othes were d usty and that there was a scratch o n h i s cheek, as if he had had a fall. "Get out of that gig, you cl own! " he said . "What right have you got to get into a gentleman's carriage, I'd like t o know'!" "Roger!" said the girl in surprise'. " T h e yo u n g g e n t l eman has just saved my life, a n d " "Young gentleman!" sneeringly. "Young clodhop per yQU mean. Get out of that gig, fell ow!" ' "Not for any such asking," said the boy qui e tly. "Shall I take you home, miss?" "Do you think you cou l d manage him now, R oger?" asked the girl, turning to the young bully, for such he seeme d. "Manage him'!" with a snort. '.'I'll manage him, the brute!" and he raised his whip as if to strike. "Don't yoil strike that horse!" said the country boy. "You don't know any more abo u t h orse s than if you had nevrJ: one. You have been whipping him needlessly and th:!lt is wny he ran away. Y ou w e r e throw n o r jumped out a n J you're mad about it." The young man flushed deep l y and a s ked, sulkily: "Who are you to tell me what I shall do about my owu horse'?" "One who knows, " quietly. "Are yo u going to get out o f tha t gig o r not?" d oggedly. "Do you wish to go home? " t o the girl. "Yes, but--" "But you won't trust this y oung man t o take you?" "Well, we were---" "You were run away with and y o u were frightened. Y ou won't be run away with now . Shall I take you?" "Don't you dare t o go with that clodhopper, Faith," stormed Roger. ''If you do, things are at an end between us." "Perhaps it i s as w ell that they should b e," said the b o y . "You are no fit compan i o n for a lady, sir. You are no g e n tleman!" lloger colored, slashed the air with his whip and said: "Don't you dare to insult me. Who are you, anyhow"? That is my horse. Get out o f that wagon I If y o u want to tak-3 the lady home you can walk." "Get in, miss," said the boy quietly . " I will take y o u h o me. Is it far?" "No, but as it is his h o rse, 1--" "Will you let him drive you home?" "No, indeed!" and the girl shuddered with fear and con tempt. "Then if y o u will get in--" " l would rather w alk, " ll&id the girl.
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2 THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALL.ANT STAND. "Very well. You don't even want to I can quite understand that." ride in his cmri:lge? I Dick guessed that R oger H ogg had sent thes e young rufThen he jumped out and took the girl's arm. "I knew I'd make you get out!" sneered the bully. "I shall have to search to see that you have not stolen anything. Now get out, you clown, before I--" As he raised his whip threateningly, it was snatched out of his hand. _,,. . "Sir, you !lav e insulted me, intimating that I am a thief, and you threatened me," said the boy. "Are you ready to fians to him. It was just like the fellow to fight six or sev e n to one . Rog z r was not with the g ang, although Dick did not doubt that he was somewh ere at hand. Although the six bullies .were so fierce in their talk, they hesitated to come on. beg my pardon?" "Beg your pardon?" growled the other. me that whip!" There was s o m ething in Dick's manner that deterred them. They had not s urrounded him, for as soon as they appeareJ he had put his back against a great rock at the side of H , e rough country road. "No, indeed. Give It was too high for one of the crowd to climb and drcp down. upon him, and they could not get at him from behinri. "Very well, take it." "What do you want?" he demanded, as the six bullies stood He took it in a manner. temper. not calculated to improve his hesitating. "'Ve're ergoin' ter lick yer," said the leader. "What for?" The boy lashed his legs, back and shoulders with it till he fairly danced. Then he threw the whip down and said: "Are you ready to beg my pardon now?" "No," said the bully. "I'll have you pros ecuted for this." "Then I shall have to give you more," and the boy threw aside his coat. Then he promptly attacked the bully with his fists and knocked him down. . The young man was both older an.d big;rr than he was, and yet seemed to be utterly at a disadvantage. He sprang up and rushed at the boy, but was promptly knocked down again. "I could kill you if I desired, but you are not wo1:th it," said the boy tensely. • "You need not apolo g iz3. An apology from such as you is an insult. " Then he put on his coat, wiped his hands on his h:mdker chief, as if he had soiled them, and offered the young lady his arm. ' She took it and walked down the road with him, pointing out a house to which she wished to go. 1 "I never knew he was such a brute,'' she said. "and you served him just right. You are no ordinary b o y, I know." "l know a hundred .iust like me, miss," qui e tly. "'Won't you tell me who you are?" "Yes, I am Dick Slater, captain of the Boys.'1 "The band of young patriots who are now with General Washington at Short Hills?" "Yes, Miss Faith.'' "I knew that you were no common boy by thP way you managed the horse and punished Roger Hogg . I n , .s sure of it. " "Is that hls name?" asked Dick. "Yes." ' "Becos ye're er r e bel." "Is there any other reason?" The bullies looked one to the other in a puzzled wa• r . "You were sent herz to waylay me by Roger Hogg," sai
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' "THE .LIBERTY' BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 3 The secret of it all was Dick's quickness and bulli es ' I Bob was a handsome, manly, impetuous boy of about Dick's lack of knowledge of the scence of fighting. own age, and the two were greatly attached to each other. "There, I think the lesson will be enough without another," They were the closest of friends and were lik e brothers, said Dick, starting to leave. . the tie being further strengthened by Alice Estabrook, Bob'.s Then Roger Hogg suddenly appeared from around a bend sister, being Dick's sweetheart, while Edith Slater, in the road. • sister, was Bob's best girl. '.'Well, you haven't .finished with me yet, Dick Slater," he "Well, boy, there is said Dick as Bob entered. said. "You picked up something at Staten Island?" "What, you want another?" asked Dick coolly. "Yes . The fleet from the south has arrived and Sir Henry "No, I don't, but I'm going to set;tle yo_u all right." Clinton" has landed his troops." the T?ry bully suddenly drew a pistol. . "Say you so?" Dick was aimed, although he had scorned to use a pistol "A d t th b d g: " sai"d Dick. against such curs as these bullies. " h pu em oar a am, He would not even use one now against Roger Hogg. 1 at ,s that for . d' . 1 He simply leaped forward seized the fellow's wrist and I don t know unless he meditates an expe it10n up t 1 e • Hudson" gave it such a wrench that he howled with pain, dropped "T k W p . ?" the pistol and came to his knees. • o attac est omt. Dick gave the pistol a kick which sent it flying into the ;;Perhaps," sho:r:tlJ'.. . ,, bushes where it could not be found. At all events it is important news, said Bob. Then Dick released the fellow and said: "Yes." "You are too contemptible to even thrash. You are the Dick then left camp of the Liberty and proceeded meanest, dirtiest kind of a coward. Now go!" to Genei:al Washington's not/far distant. Dick fixed such a look of scorn and contempt upon the fel-He enJoyed the _ge;neral-111-ch.1ef , s confidence and had often low that he slunk away like a whioped dog ::md neither spoke gone on missions for lum. . . . nor attempted to strike his plucky young foe. He Just returned from one, m wJth important The worsted bullies were beginning to recover now, and n e ws which he was no:v about to communicate to the general. Dick , not caring to have another encounter withthem, dashed . He was shortl:y: '.o the presence of General Wash-away and was soon out of sight. mgton, who received him krndly and asked: "We ll, Dick" any news from Staten Island?" "Yes, your excellency. The British fleet has at las t ar rived from the south, and after lancUn ... h's troops on Staten Island, Sir Henry Clinton has again "ed them." CHAPTER III. "This may mean an expedition aga... .1 est Point,'. ' said the general musingly. ,THE BULLY'S THREAT. Dick made no reply. Pretty soon the general asked: Reaching the camp, Dick was challenged by the sentry, a "Did you hear anything said as to their destinatron, DicJt?" freckled-faced, pug-nosed Irishman. "No. your excellency." The Liberty Boys had seen four years of most active "But you think that they might be going up the river?" service and could well be regarded as veterans, although they "Yes, your excellency." were still boys. The general pondered for several minutes , seeming to be They maintained the strictest discipline, and Dick Slater quite unaware of Dick's presence. was as much bound by it as was the humblest member of his Then he looked up, smiled and said in the kind, fatherly company. tone which he always used to tho s e around him: He was not averse to having a little fun now and then, "That is all for the prese n t , Dick. When I want you I however. will send for you. Good-day." The sentry was a rollicking young Irishman, named :Patsy "Good-day, your excellency," and Dick salut-:d and retired. Brannigan, and was the life of the camp. Return1ng to his own camp, he found Bob Estabrook and He did not recognize Dick in his disguis e and promptly said: • challenged him. "Phwat do yez want?" he demanded in a rich brogue. "I don't know what we shall do yet, Bob. It will qepend "Don't want nothin', I guess," drawled Dick, assuming a upon further information, of course. I had quite an adsimple look. . . venture this afternoon." "Dhin take it an' be off wid yez," retorted Patsy. "What was it, Dick?" "Huh! how be I goin' ter take nothing'? Yer can't get Dick related his meeting with the young lady and the uphold o' nothin', an' how be yer goin' ter take what yer can't start bully, Rog e r Hogg. get hold on, huh?" "Jove! but that was an e xciting ad.-enture, Dick," cried "Begorra, he's a natheral !" said Patsy, half to himself. Bob. "I'll bet anything that your bullying Roger Hogg is a Tory." . "What yer doin'," asked Dick, "playin' soger? Lemme play with yer. I like ter play soger." "I shou ld be sorry to think that we had any such feiiow Patsy gave the supposed simpleton a look of disgust. on our side, Bob." "Playin' soger, is it, me bhy? Shure, an' yez'd :ioind it no "You may be certain that he is not. I think you may play at all, at all, av yez llad to go troo phwat Oi do, me hear of him again, however, for suc h cattle are hard to teach, bhy." and he may need another lesson." "Shucks t you ai1''t no real soger." "It makes little difference to me, Bob, whether I heard from "An' phwy aren't Oi; will yez tell me dhat ?" him ag: : lin or not," said Dick carelessly. "Cos ye're too green." "I know it, Dick, but this fellow does not and he may re"Go'n wid yez ari' don't be interfarin' wid me duty. Go'n quire another thrashing or two to put sense in t o his obstinate now or Oi'll give yez a prod wid me boy'net." h ea d." "But I wanter see some real sogers like Gin'ral Wash'-Later in the day Dick an d Bob were riding along the r
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4 .THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT "Who are you, fellow?" asked Roger, staring impuden',Jy at the young lieutenant. "Your better, Hogg!" said Bob. ' Jack -and Mark laughed, and Roger, coloring deeply, re-torted: "Do you mean to insult me?" "I couldn't," dryly. "I will send my second to call upon you, fellow," stormed Roger. "A second Hogg?" laughed Eob. "Please don't, One is enough." "Consider yourself challenged," said Roger. "Then you will have to consider shot dead," answered Bob. "Do you see this?" He took off his hat and turned it over and over to show the other that it was sound. '"Now watch this." Then Bob threw his hat straight up in the air. Then, before it had begun to descend, he drew his pistol and fired. ' Crack! The hat fell toward him, and he caught it in his hand. There was a hol e right through the crown. Roger Hogg turned pale and lost all his bravado. "He couldn't fight with you, Bob," said Dick. "It would be simply murder and nothing else." "I only fight with gentlemen, anyhow," said Roger sneer ingly. "Then all I can say is that you are greatly honored," said Bob, "and they are more indulgent than I am. I should consider it rather beneath me to thrash you, even." "You rebels are putting on a lot of airs now,'' said the bully, as he turned aside, "but just wa:t till Knyphausen gets after you and--" "Stop him!" cried Dick. "The scoundrel has inside information which we want." .fack Warren made a snatch at Roger's bridle, but lie dashed off so quickly that the boy was nearly unseated, while the boasting Tory escaped. CHAPTER IV. LOOKING FOR "I am sorry I missed him, Dick,'' said Jack, who was one of the bravest and pluckiest of the Liberty Boys. "Never mind, Jack," said Mark, who was just such another, "you tried, all right." "You did your best, Jack,'' said Dick, approvingly. "Let the fellow go. We have learned something, at any rate." "Then you think that Knyphausen may be contemplating a raid in the Jerseys?" asked Bob. "Very likely." "Well, we hav.e met him before and shown him what we can do." "Yes, Bob, we have made many a gallant stand against him." "And brought him up roundly, too," laughed Bob. "Let him come with his Hessians and redcoats . He will find the Lib2rty Boys ready for him." "I must learn more about this projected move," said Dick. "This may have been mere bluster on this Tory bully's part or it may be the truth." Dick Slater had been called the champion spy of the r2vo lution , and when he set about obtaining any special bit of information it was very rarely that he did not get it. "Knyphausen failed in his first attack," said Bob. "He imagined that the people of New Jersey lacked courage, but he found out his mistake." "And then they burned villages and shot women and chil dren," said Mark fiercely. "Poor Mr1:1. Caldwell!" addeq Jack. "We met her husband, the minister, at Elizab2thtown." "He is a brave man," said Dick. "They call him the fighting parson." "Then you are going to Elizabethtown -to spy upon Knyp hausen ?" asked Bob. "Yes. This may be important news\ and no chance of gainini information should be neglected." 'Very true," agreed Bob and the rest. The boys then started to return to the camp. As they were passing a cozy house settin11: back a little from the road, a young girl came running down the walk, her hand. The boys stopped and lifted their hats. The girl paused at the gat e and said: "I am glad to see you again, Captain Slater. Are these some of the Liberty Boys?" "They are," and Dick introduced his comrades. Faith Courtenay was a very ntce girl, and the boys were all greatly pleased with her. "I wanted to tell you," s!1e said to Dick, " that I have broken with Roger Hogg. He was too domineering, and he is a Tory besides." "We'll have to find some nice boy to take his place,'' laughej Dick, whereat Fai. h blushed crimson. "You'll give me a chance to make my own selection, won't you?" she asked. "Certainly," said Dick. "I am no match-maker." Then they all laughed, and Dick said: man was not good enough for you, frankly, and I am glad that you will" have no thing more to do with him." "You would better be careful, though," said Faith, "for he threatened to do the Libert y Boys an injury." "We have been thl'eatened before,'' said Dick, "and W3 have survived it. However, I am just as much obliged to you." Then thev rode back to camp, and s hortly afterward D'ck left Short Hills mounted on Major, his fine black hors e , which he had captured from the some four years before, and set out fol' Elizabethtown. He reached the town that evening after a sharp ride, r . nd went at once to an inn, put up his hors e and aske d for per and a bed. "Got business in town?" as!,ed the landlord, \ vho was of an inquisitive turn of mind. "Yes, urgent business." "You don't expect to trattsact it at night, do you?" was the next question. "Yes, I expect to see some of the rnirties to-night. D!ly or night makes little difference to me." This was quite true, as regarced Dick's spying exr:editions, but the inquiring landlord had no idea as to the rea l me::in ing of what Dick said. "You will have supper now?" . "Yes, if you please." "You ' bFought no baggage?" "No. I will pay my score now, if you wish." "Oh, I did not mean that. Yuur home would cover any expev.se you might be at. I meant that you were not a traveling merchant?" "No, I am not." "Engaged in ihe law, perhaps?" "Yes, perhaps." . "You see,'' the landlord went on, "there are so many spie s about for both sides that I have to be cautious." "You surely do not take me for a spy?" said Dick. "Oh, no, indeed." which was VP.ry true, for he (lid He wassimply inquisitive and liked to a s k questions, hav-ing no suspicion that Dick was a spy. "I am sim1Jly here to look o ver the ground, and see on2 or two persons of note,'' said Dick. That was true, but the landlord again did not catch Dick's true meaning. "If the fellow thought half as much as he talked," pondered Diok, "he would find out something. As it is, I am perfectly safe." " After supper Dick set off for a stroll about the to w n. He locat2d British headquarters, but he d oubted if he could obtain an entrance at that time. Matters were more likely to be discu s sed during the day than at night. The British loved amusement, and the men he sought w ere more likely to be found at taverns and drinking places than at the War Office. He had picked up, much valuable information from chance conversations, more than once in taverns and other public places. Officer s were apt to be talkative under the influence of punch and old ale, and Dick knew it. He neved drank anything himself, and he only visited taverns in his capacity of a spy. He founq. headquarters without difficulty and was turning away when two officers came out hurriedly. "If old Knyphausen would go right on to Morristown now he might do something," said one. "Yes, for their Mr. Washinirton has an idea that we're iro ing to West Point."
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THE LIBERTY GALLANT STAND. 5 "That's just it. a:1d the old Dutchman ought to know it." j "Yes; what sort was it?" "Perhaps he doe s, but he's pig-headed, like all Hessians." "A very fine black on.e, full of spirit and with plenty of Then the two officers hurried on fl.nd Dick did not follow speed, I should say." them. "Dick Slater's horse, fo a dot!" "They have little respect for the men they hire to help "Well, well. this is important/' conquer u s,'' thought Dick. "So it seems that there is an "Yes, he will have to be questioned, and unless he can give expedition talked of, eh? Well, that is what I wanted to find a satisfactory answer. we will lock him up." I)ick had other opinions. Dick did not attempt to enter headquarters, having an idea "When will he 1eturn, landlord?" that there would be few persons there at that time. he should be at home shortly, as it is growing He went to the nearest tavern instead, and sat in a quiet late . He does not look like a night hawki" but then he said corner over a plate of bread and cheese. that day or night made very little difference to him in his Presently three or four British officers came in and sat at business." ' a table next to his. "Jove! I should say not! He goes spying about at all They ordered mugs of ale and lon g pipes and began to times." talk quite freely, evidently not heeding the presence of a will wait for him.'' . . "I hope you will enjoy waiting," thought Dick to himself. "Yes,' ' said one, whom Dick at once recognized by his voice Then he went out to the barn. as one of tlre men he had .coming out of headquarters, He found Major and led him out. . "if Mr. Washington c a n only be induced to leave we "You will hav" a weary time waiting, I fear, gentlemen," can ma1ch l'ight on to Morristown and capture the stores." he Raid to himse lf. "W e11, but he has o ther generals, has he not?" asked anThen, when clear of the yard, he sprang upon Major's other. back a.nrl dashed away. 'Oh, yes, he has and Arnold and one or two more, He l eft enoug-h money to pay his score in Major's late but i hey are nothing much." . stall. for he had no desire to cheat any one, even if he had "The y may be more than you think," was Dick's thought. to P"akf) a hasty departure. "The general-in-ch ief knows all that is going on and directs He had come into the town with little trouble, but he was all movements v>h-:>ther he is on the spot or not.'' not so sure that he could get out of it so easily. "Th':!n you think this movement will be made?" However, he knPw all the ways of getting out or in and " Yes , as soon as old Knyphausen is sure of his ground." whi"h roads were th suspect. first, we tell you." The alarm might have been spread, although Dick scarcely 'Ihere is Dick Slater, for mstance. He goes everywhere. thought it could have been. I .have the chap when 1 never suspected him, but I know The presence of the British soldiers near the gate showed horse. . him that they were on the lookout for the enemy, howeyer, . person came with a very handsome one, too, and and that Knyphausen might have already sent some of his I m a Judge of hors es," said the landlorrl uoops forward. .
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6 , THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. The toll gate was closed, and Dick knew that the redcoats When they began to fill it he turned it over to Carl. would want to ask questions. "Shure an' Oi phweeled it all dhe way down, Cockyspiller," It was a good high gate, but Major had taken ones as he said, "an' now it's yt!re turn to take it back." high, if not higher, and Dick had therefore no fear of the "Off you was letted me I would brought it mit nod ings in result. • it ghoost der same what yer do." As soon as the re!lcoats saw him he dashed full tilt at the j "Go on wid yez, don't Oi have to get dhe t'ings for it, gate. Cookyspiller ?" asked Patsy. The y rushed forward to intercept him. Pretty soon he came out with a bag of meal. Two were overturned in the dust in a most undignified At the f\ext place he got some hams. mann e r. Then he came out with some apples. The n Dick threw some coppers, the toll, in fact, at the "Howld shtill, me bhy, till Ci do be puttin' dhe t'ings on," others. . he said. • In another instant M ajor had risen at the gate. Carl stood still. Over it he went like a bird, never hitting or even grazing "Now yez are all roight," the bar. something else." Patsy said. "Go on till I get wheel and saw what was d' e r One or two of the redcoats fir e d at him, but their shots "Yoost look off dot vront went wild and Dick dashed on . matter mit it," said Carl. "I had forgotten the toll gate," he said, "but such things Patsy bent over to make an examination. are no hindrance to me when I make up my mind to go on." Then Carl upset the wheelbarrow, but whether by acci-He reached the camp an hour later and found that Wash-dent or design it was hard to tell. ington had gone on to Pompton. Dpwn went Patsy in the dust, with a lot of hams and a "They think there is some movement against West Point," bag of meal on top of him. said Bob. "An' phwat are yez doin' at all, at all?" he gasped. may but there is another n earer home," said "Oxcuse me, dot parrow was fell ofer." Dick, who went at once to one of the other generals and ""Well, take it off." reported what he had learned. Carl righted the barrow. Preparations to meet the enemy were made at once. "Take dhe t'ings off, Cookyspiller; yez are smotherin' me," ( CHAPTER VI. A FINE SHOT. After Dick had left the camp of the Liberty Boys the young Irishman, Patsy B:rannigan, was sitting in front of his tent. Pretty soon along came a fat German boy, who weighed nearly two hundred pounds. He was a rosy-cheeked, blue-eyed, fair-haired fellow, with a sober face, and w a s known as Carl Gookenspiller. He and Pats y were close .Jriends, but were forever argu-ing about one thing or another. . "Well, Cool.-yspill er," said the Irish boy, looking up, "phwat do yez b e thinkin' av at all, at all?" "I was t'ought for why de.y call dose der Short Hills when dey w::i'3 s o long been alretty." " Shme an' dhat's an ais y wan, me bhy," said Patsy. "For why d e y wa:i dooded it?" "C a n y e z t e ll me phwy dhey cal yez Carl, me bhy?" "Po r shure I can. It was for cause dot was mein name been alretty." "Well , an' be dhe same token dhat's phwy dhey call dhim dhe Short Hills an' dhat's all Oi do know about it." "Dot was e : n foolishness," muttered Carl. "An' y e z another, but Oi say, Cookyspiller, phwat are yez doin' ?" " Couldn't you was saw what I was done, Batsy ?" "We ll, phwat is it?" said Patsy. Carl lifted off the hams and put them in the barrow. Then he took hold of the bag of meal. He took it by the bottom, which s ent all the meal bling to the top. All at once, the bag not having been very securely tiei.i, the . meal began to run out. "Howld on, howld on, Cookyspiller; yez do be spillin' dhe male all over me!" bawled Patsy. "Yah, dot was so and we don'd was wanted to waste dot meal alretty." Then he -put back into the bag what had spilled out and tied it up. "Here, give me dhe barrow," said Patsy, getting up. "Yez'll be upsettin' it ag'in av Oi don't lo,ok out." Then he caught up the barrow handles and starte d. "Hold on, you was not der bag of meal got!" cri e d Car l. "Shure Oi had it wanst an' now yez can take it," laughed Patsy. It ended in Carl having to put the bag of meal on his back and carrying it. "You t'ought I was e i n horse to carry dot bag off meal mit mein back?" he aske d. "No, Oi don't," laughe d Patsy; "but yez can carry it all dhe same." Then Patsy trundled the barrow back to camp and . Carl carried the bag of meal, grumbling all the way. When they got to the camp Carl said: "Wait a minute, Batsy, and hellup me got dose bag off meal vrom mein ):>ack off." "Set it down, Cookyspiller. Shure an' dhat's aisy." "Nein, I was afeerd dot off I Jetted dot go it would tumble me ofer, und I wanted to Jetted it down eas y alretty ." "Noding s ." "Well, it's toime ye z done somet'ing. Do yez want to wid me an' get so mething for dhe bhys to ate?" go "No, yez don't," laughed Patsy. "Yez wan t me to take h-0wld av dhe bag an' dhin yez ' ll let go av it sudden loike "Yah, I went wid you. Where you was went, and what you got?" an' let it fall on me, dhe same as yez did before . " "You was too shmart alretty," said Carl, letting go of the bag of meal. "Annything at all." "How you was brought horses' packs?" it? Mit der wagon or on dose "For yez, me bhy, yis, yez are roight, I am," and Patsy roared. "Shure an' Oi think we'JJ have to bring it on backs or in a wheelbarrow." our own "Nefer moind, I was caughted you once annyhows," said Carl. "You was lige ein turtle loogked when you was had took der dot bag your back on alretty." "Dot's all righd. I got der t'ings und you was wheelbarrow, ain't it?" "Shure an' yez'll do yer share av dhe worruk, Cooky spiller, an' not be lavin' it all to me." "Dot was all righd," said Carl. "You don'd got more as your share. You nefer doed." "Shure an' phwat do yez mane be dhat, Cookyspiller?" asked Patsy. "For cause you wouldn't looked it," laughed. Carl. "Go on wid yez." "Yah, I do dot off you was toldt me where I was went." "Come on dhin an' Oi'll show yez." They got a wheelbarrow and started off. Patsy trundled the barrow as long as there was nothing in it. "Shure and I was thought it wor yeself dhat was settin' on me." "l don'd was so heafy lige dot bag, Batsy," said Carl. "Shure yez are." "No, sir." "An' phwy not?" "For cause I could meinselluf carry mitouid some drob bles, und I don'd could dot bag carry mitoui d some sweat in ' s alretty." "Shure an' Oi niver t'ought. av dhat, Cookyspiller, but av yer wor to thry an' carry yersilf over yer own showldher, yez wud foind it wor heavier." "How I was carry meinselluf mein own shoulder ofer?"' asked Carl.
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THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 7 "Shure an' Oi do:i't care how yez do it, but av yez thry it wan st, yez'll see dhat Oi'm roight." Then Patsy went off, l eaving Carl to stud:r the problem ou t at his l eisure. The next day Dick returned and made his r eport of the inte nded march upon Monistown. • The news was important and the generals decided to act upon it at once. Dick in the meantime decided to look over the field . Taking Bob and another of the Liberty Boys with him, he set out. The three were mounted upon horseback and made a good appearance. The third member of the party was a riew recruit by the name of Paul Bem:on, and was universally liked. As they were riding along they came in sight of the house where Faith Courtenay liv ed. "There's a very pretty girl in that house," said Dick . "So she is," said Bob, "and she's a patriot, too, which is better yet." "Well, we could stand her being plain if she is a patriot," laughed Paul. At that very moment a scream was heard. Then a young girl was seen to turn a bend in the road. She w.as running toward the gate of the house which Dick had pointed out to Paul. Close behind her was a ferocious dog, foaming at the mouth. He was mad, beyond a doubt. As the girl re'.lchf'd the vte, she tried to unlatch it. For some r P a s on it to open. The mad dog was close b ehind . It seemed as iJ nothing could save her. Then Paul dashed ahead of his comrades. As, he sped forw"lrd he drew his pistol. • As he reachPd tlie gate the dog was about to spring at the thJ'oat of the girl. Crack! The pistol rangont clear and sharp. Li v ou take him off his high horse." "l\1iss Faith has fainted," said Bob. "She was in great "You have mv permission to th1 .,sh him :it any time you danger." "M fit." said Diel<. with a laug h , "but I think, as Bob does, Just then a n ew comer arrived. tli:>f: you won't get a chance." He came around the bend in the road, whistling as if for "No, he'll keep out of your way after this," added Bob. a
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8 THE LIBERTY DOYS' GALLANT STAND. They left their horses tethered at the gate and entered the house. i-'aith herself came forw Ii to receive them. -Was it you, Captain Sla er, who saved me just now?" she asked. 'No, Miss Faith, I did not have that llonor. Let ine present. Paul Benson, one of the latest of the Liberty Boys." Faith blu she d and sai.d: " I thank you very much for--" "No, thank the good fortune that sent me to your aid, liiss Faith," said Paul, blu shing in hls turn. "J knew tha,t . dog and was always afrai d of him," said F"ith. "Roger Hogg only laughed and would not call him off." ".Tnst now, do you mean?" asked Dick, excitedly. "Yes." "And he was there?" "Yes, on the road." . "Ayd would not call off his dog?" "No, ]jut laughed at my terror." Dick was fiercely indignant. "Then Roger Hogg is either a con summate fool or a con t emp tible scoundrel," he said. "I wish I had known of this before." "I am sorry you did not thrash him," said Bob. 1'If he did 1,.,not know the dog was mad. he's an idiot; if he did, he is contemptible ." "He will be careful after this," said Dick. "Paul spoke pretty plainly to him." "I am glad that you saw my danger," said Faith. "I did not know that you were about until I heard that shot. Then I swooned." "There was little time to lose," said Dick, "and you can thank me for my desire to have as many expert rifle and pistol shots in the Liberty Boys as I can." "I thank you all," said Faith, blushing, her glance being directed particularly at Paul. " Dick excused himself in . a short time, and they all took their leave. . "You must all come again soon," said Faith, but she looked at Paul when she gave the invitation. Then they rode away, and Dick said to Bob, unheard by Paul: "Well, I guess we've found him, Bob, just as I said we would have to." "It looks like it," laughed Bob. CHAETER VIII. A NARROW ESCAPE. "That fellow Hogg has got to be taught a lesson," said Dick, as the three Liberty Boys . rode on. "I think I have s een him get two or three very good ones," said Bob. "In some manner that we do not know of, h e is able to communicat e with the enemy, or at least to know of their movements," added Dick. "And you think he may make them acquainted with ours?" "Yes." "Then he is a spy." "Yes, but not of the honest sort. You will never find him putting his life in danger for the sake of his cause." "No . h e is too big a bully and coward for that." "That is why I say that lie must b e taught a lesson. He is a fellow to have at large." "Then the Liberty Bo ys will have to round him up," said Bob, "together with his friends, the redcoats." ' "He is very apt at call:ng folks 'rebels,' " said Paul. "He is not a soldier, is he?" "No," said Bob. "He thinks too much of his own precious skin to risk it in a fight." There were a good many Tories in the neighborhood, as Dick knew. They were the sort to set fire to churches, run away with the cattle of inoffensive persons and to commit other ex cesses. Roger Hogg was one of that kind. He would persecute those who were weaker than he and would furnish information to the enemy whenever he could, but would not go into the army. He needed to be taught a lesson, therefore, jus t as had said. He was conceit e d, arrogant and self-willed, had never b ee n taught restrai::t and tho!.lght that everybo dy must bow to his will, without regard to right or wrong. There were many more like him, and they were a m er.ace to the country and needed to be taught a lesson. Dick meant to do so at the first opportunity. 'I'he three Liberty Boys rode on for some distanc e till they came to a c1oss roads. Here a ooy su ddenly dashed into the ro a d , saw them and came running toward them . "Be yer s-0gers ?!' "Yes." "Come quick!" "What's the matter?" "Som e body's runnin' away with our cows . " "Show us the way." Th e boy ran down the road .he h a d come out of, clo::;cly followed by Dick and the others. They saw a little farm house not far di stant. There seemed to be some commotion going on there. In a moment three or four men came into the road driving two cows . "There they b e !" cried the boy. "There be the fellersJ" Th e n :::nother person appeared, mounted on a horse. He had been hiding b e h in d the trees before that. He was directing the others, how ever, for he shouted something to them. HP. was Roger Hogg, and Dick recognized him in an instant. "Come, boys!" he cried, hurrying forward. The moment that Hogg saw him he clapped spurs to his horse and darte d away. "What are you go in g to do with those .cows?" aske d reining up in front of men. '.'Take 'em away." "V.7hat for?" "For deb t ." A woman now came out of the house . . "Do you owe ;:iny one any mon ey ?" D ick asked. "No, sir, I don't." . . ,, "This man s a vs the cows are being seized to pay a d ebt. "It ii:;n't PO. .Ho g g had a mortgage on the place, but it's b e0n paid <'ff." "no you mean thi s young m a n who ran away as we came up?" " "Not H"1 , bnt hi<; fathe)'. Roger Hogg never said a word ab0ut debt , but .i st told these men to take the cows." "It's for a debt . " said one of the men. "He told us so." "Then you have no legal papers?" "No." "Put t h0se cows b<>ck from whf'r e you took them." The men SC'emed di sposed to disobey Dick's commands. "Are g-oinrr to do as I t e ll you?" he asked quie t ly. '"Rut v:e w:iR tolrl to take 'em away. " "By f'oger Hogg?" "Yes. " "And you l rnve no other authority?" "He s:.iirl he'd give 1!s ten " hillings for the job." "You will get nothing. H e had no anthot"ity to offer you anvthin;t. Do you know t hese men, ma'am?" "I kn0w o., e of ' em ." sa id the wom: = m . "and I don't kT\ow any good of h ini. He':;; in the B ride well and h e ' s he0n in thC' pillory an' h e's b ee n put under bonds for beatir::; hi s wife." "Let go of those cows," sai d Dick. "Dut the young gentleman said that--" "Never mind what that bully said. Take ,those cows back." Doh and Paul s tood alongside Dick. The f:::uner's boy had pic k e d up a stout switch . The woman had gone to the w e ll for a bucket of water. "Oh, well, if you say l :e hadn't any authority, I suppo se we can't take 'er;1." "'l'a'.:c them back" "But w e ain't .r.:oiu' ter take 'em off," and the man seemed about to st:irt Ml'. "T:ike them back!" said Dick. "You took them out; now lead them back." The men obeyed with an ill grace. "And don't come arriun d here again," sai d Dick. The men were at the road again by this t i me. Dick, I3ob and Paul rode away.
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TIIE LIBEP..T-l DOYS' G."'..LLANT STAND. 9 Then the fr. r mer's boy and half a dozen neig:1bors who had come up b :iga n to use their switches on the supposed s!1erif!s' office r s . The wom a n the bucke t of water on them, and the boys cal b d fol' rcbforcements. Then the four ruffi:.:; : s fled in ho't hast2 . "They. must hav e known what they were likely to get," laughe d Bob, "ar: d wante d to get awc.y while we were the re." The three L i be r t y the ruffi::ms g o t. B o ys had witnesse d 'the treatment that "It's a pity tha t Rorrer got away so soon, or he might have h a d the same do se ," said Paul. "He knew that he w ould receive much worse if he waited till we came up,'' said Dick. "That's on e time we c aught him,'' said Dick. "I know thes e people. They are pat ri ots, and that is why Tiogc r Hogg persecutes the m . Let him b2ware, for we mean to round up all such and put a stop to thes e evil practices." They rode on for s ome tim e longer and then to return. • "There is an inn," said Dick. "I thir:k it will be as well to wnter our hors es b efore returning. We have a pretty good iide before us." They, rod e to the i nn. therefore, Dick was about to c::il! a hostle r wh e n, 100 ki n g a window, he saw half a c1. o z e n 1edcoats s e a t e d at a t:ible. eating and drinking. H e at once drew back and said to Bob: "There are six Britis h soldiers in the tavern and the1e are only thre e of us." "That means two apiece , " said Bnb. "That isn't such great odds if we g o about it in the 1ight way." "No, it i s not, but we do no t k.1ow how many more there may be b e hind out of si ght." "Ve r y trtle." "Wait a moment." 'f Dick then advance d cauticusly and pe ered in at another d o or, thn t l eading to the public ba!. The pl ace fairly swarmed with r e dcoats. ' ' CHAPTER IX. THE DAY BEFORE THE FIGHT. Dick a;:d the Liberty Boys had gone ahead the night before. '!'hey were to advance as far as possible and send back word of the enemy's approach. Their body was one that was well adapted for just such WOl'k. 'l'here was not a large number of them and they cold mo v e quickly. In fact, this was not the first tiJne that Dick had been em ploy e d in just rnch a capacity. :He was trusted by all th'e generals, w!10 were well aware what he could do. They knew that wherever Dick Slater and his Liberty 'Coys were, they would stick until driven out by vastly supm 'ior numbers. . Dick kn e w the responsibility of his position, he knew wh'lt was expected of him and he res_olvcd to do his duty as long as it could be done. Pushing on that evening, Dick stopped just beyond town of Springfield, through which the enemy must pass on its way to Morristown . There we'J:e two roads by which the enemy might c ome, or he might take both. The main road passed directly through the village . toward Morristown, and it was on this that Dick w a s po s ted. The other road, north of the main road, crossed streams, the conflue nce of which formed the Rahway RivCo'r . This was called the Vauxhall road and united beyorid t h e village in the principal pass to the Short Hills. It was nece ssary to know by just which l'Oad the enemy would advance, and this was Dick's duty. Beyond village, in the direction of Elizabethtown, where Knyphausen was now stationed, there was a fine, Inrge colonial mansion, built of stone, as it was the habit to build gentlemen's houses in those days. T'1 e grPat door, approached by a flight of stone steps, was in the ifniddle; a spacious hall as large as a room _its<>lf r;:n rin-ht through, and there were ample rooms. on either side of it. A broad winding stairway led to the floors apove, and there were queer little landings, abrupt turnings, half-s tail' wa vs and queer little nooks at the most unexpected The house was two stories and a half in height in tl e main portion, wiPl!"8 and ells h::tving been addr..d to it and there. so that in some parts it was only a story in height and in others two. Dick Slater h::.st ily withdrew, joined his comrades and It to a patriot judge, but at faat the family leaped into the s addle. did not o c cupy it. "It's really alive with British and Hessians,'' he said. "This The jnclrre. however. belm:i; in the nei.P"hhorhood aTJd fear-may be an advance or skirmishing pal'ty." ing for his house if the eTJemy advanced , sent word by his "Then there are two many for us to try to capture?" steward that the Liberty Boys were free to use it and make asked Bob. it thl'!ir headquarters. . "Most d e cidedly . " Dick was then in Springfield, and he made all haste to "Do you s uppo se I could run back and b ring up the LibaccP.pt the judl!"e's f!eneroP'l offer and occuny the house. erty Ilo y s ? " su g g e s t e d Paul. It stood well back frnm the main road and was approached hv fine lawns in which stood many magnificent trees, ''Do you thir.'.{ you cou'.d get bac'.{ to-nig-ht?" said Dob, l!"iants of the fore<;t. quizzingl y . " You know y ou wouk! be oblig;)d to p::is:i Fa1til Th<' house itself was quite can:i.bl<> of accoi;nmodating all Courten a y's hou se , goinp; and coming?" P 1 1 d d Liherty Boys, bein!!' robst r0ml!'odious. au! a u g i e ' and Dick sai : In the rear were stables. ba,....s. outhouses and kitrh"'"'"• "No, it is a lo n g w a y , a!ld thes e follows mig-ht discover rn that there was room for all and many more, besides us in the meant i me . It is b etter tha t thev s !1ou'.J hav e no s u s picion we are ar..ywhere in the vici nity." qu<>rters for the horses. "Yes , I suppose it is," s aid both B o b and Paul. Dick at. once sent his tl,ank!': to the iudrr0 • saying that he Then they hurried away before pi e se nce w::>.s dis'Yould do his best to protect the house and would care for covered. it as if it were his own. 'Jt was very fortunate that I saw thorn in time, " s a i d The Liberty Boys established themselves in it without Dick. "If they had seen me w e would h n d to run fnr delay, finding it much pr .. t? being in camp. it, and they w'ould have known th'":l.t thme were C :mtinentals They were. u sed tu all. sort:> of of cou r se, and g_rumin the neighborhood." bled" ::!t nothmg, but at Lhe. ,;am c time it y;as havmg a "That is so," said Bob. . ;oof. sleepinl:' m .. "Now we may be able to capture the' n and upset then 1 Shme an dhis I S dh e 1011;:1. t s oi t av a lntchen, said plans." who very soon fo und !u s quarters and took posses"! hope we do," from Paul. 1 . ,, . They hurried back to camp, which they reached during 'Do t was no.t so yme. been d e r shtables, said Carl, the afternoon. who ha, 1 mvest1gatmri: on his O\Vll account .. As there were redcoats in the neighborhood and General "Go'n w1d Cookyo-n-!ler. Shure an' yez mver cud get Knyphausen might be already sending out scouting parties up" a sunrer m dhe . to make way for his advance, it was neceSSl)rY to ao some-Vh;ll. yo u could eated It dere, annyhows, it was so fery thing to hold them in check. glean. The Liberty Boys were ordered to be ready to march at a "Mebby yez cud. Shure, an' yez cud cook a supper fit for moment's notice. a lord in dhis kitchen, me thy." There was also a good deal of activity in the other di"Yah, you might was dooded dot, but it didn't was so vi:oions. vine lige der shtables been alretty." .i.:ailv the next morninl!." the troo:: s . y;ere all in motion. "Go on out an' shtay qhere dhin wid dhe ither jackassea.'
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10 THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. "Who you was call ed a shackass, Batsy ?" "Yer brot h er, av coarse," laughed Patsy. "Anny wan phwat wud call a shtable betther dhan a foine kitchen do be nothin' ils e an' dhat's p hwat Oi's tellin' yez." f'Y ou don'd could put horses mit der kitchen," said Carl, who was di s:pcse d to argue the question." "Shure, an' Oi don't want to, anny more dhan Oi wud cook in dhe parlor. Ivery place to its use, me bhy." "Yah, dot was so, but dot was a bootiful shtables." "Dhin, for goo dn ess sak es, go on out dhe r e an' shtay dhere an' don't be bodherin' me about it. Shure, anny body cud tell yez wor a jackass be yer fondness fur a sh table." "You was e in hock, d o t was what you was been," retorted Carl, "und y ou was went in her kitchen, so you was enuff for eated got alretty." "Go on away wid yez," said Patsy. "Av Oi had to feed a doz e n s uch as ye, Oi'd have to have a forchin." Then Carl off to admire the stables again, while Patsy proceeded to get up supper for a lot of hungry boys with good appetites. After supper the youths sat in the library on the steps o r about the lawn under the trees, talking, singing and in other ways amusing themse l ves . The knowledge that on the morrow there would be fighting perhaps on this very spot did not dampen their ardor in the least. . When fighting came they were ready for it, but they did not worry over it in advance. ,They took proper precautions, of course. On the other hand, they
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• THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 11 The judge's servants and dependents were here, and they fought with a will, having their home to defend from those who would destroy it. It seemed hopeless to try and carry anything against such a determined resistance. The main body of the left division had passed and were engaged in a desperate fight farther on, as could be told by the heavy firing. It was quite evident that Greene and his officers were rounding up the redcoats as effectively as the Liberty Boys had done. The party detailed to destroy the mansion, that Jt had a harder task than it had realized, now withdrew m great disorder, amid the cheers of the Liberty Boys. Th' e n the gallant boys, with ' Dtck at their head, rushed from the mansion, mounted their horses and gave chase "Liberty forever!" they shouted, as they thundered down the road and the discouraged redcoats hurriedly broke in disorder and fled in every direction, while Dick and his boys made a detour and joined Dayton and his Jersey militia on the main road. ---. CHAPTER XI. THE FIGHTING PARSON. The main body of the left division of the redcoats had metwith most determined opposition from Colonel Dayton a nd the militia. The chaplain of this regiment was as valiant a fighter as any man in it, and no one showed more ardor. He was the Rev. James Caldwell, and was !mown as "the rousing gospel preacher," being a stanch patriot an especia l object of hostility to both British 11nd Tories. At the time of the British attack on Efizabethtown earlier in this same year his church had been burned by Tories, who expressed a wish that he might be i;' een in his pulpit a t the time. After the burning of his church, Caldwell had i:emoved his family to the village of Connecticut Farms, winch was sacked by Knyphausen's soldiers on a raid jus t prev ious to the one they were now upon. , . Mrs. Caldwe ll retired to a back room in the house where she was li ving, when a shot was fired in at the win. dow and she fell dead. : Mr. Cald well was at the camp in Short Hills, and hurry ing back to the village, found his home in ashes and his wife dead. With the image of his murdered wife before his eyes , the chaplain was now doing his best to hold the enemy in check. When. Dick arrived with his Boys the fight was gomg on with the utmost determmation. on the part of the Americans. They received Dick with cheers and the Liberty Boys at once took their place in the line and fought with the rest. "Give it to them, boys!" cried Dick. "Down with the redcoats!" The Liberty Boys had already made one gallant stand th11t day and now they made another. They fired volley after volley at the enemy and appeared to be utterly tireless. "Shure, an' dhis is joost dhe koind av fun Oi do loike," said Patsy, as he bla ze d away with his musket, the sweat pouring down his freckled face. "Yah, I en doing it. The briga de despatched by Washington to aid General Greene arrived too late to b e of any use. Knyphausen had retreated. As soon as this was known the Liberty Boys and several comnanies of light infantry began to pursue the discour aged redcoats. CHAPTER XII. . THE RETREAT OF THE BRITISH. Knyphausen was in retreat. . . The Liberty Boys were harassing his rear guard. . Occasionally they would seize a baggage wagon and qutckly distribute its contents.
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12 THE LIBERTY DOYS' G;_. LLANT STAND. They kept up these attacks, now at one point, now at another, and always where they were least expected. Other light parties kept up the same tactics, and the retreat of the redcoats was_ by no means an orderly one. It was as much a rout as a retreat, for nearly every step of the way had to be disputed. Once Dick dasheq up so suddenly with his entire party that he was a:ble to capture a large quantity of stol'eB which the redcoats were obliged to abandon and a number of prisoners as well. It was sunset when the Britis h reached Elizabe.thtown. Dick hung about the edge of the town so as to captul'e any stragglers and pl'event fornys . "Shure, an' dhis have been a foine day," said Patsy, resting himself in the temporary camp. "Y ah, dot was a goot day b ee n vor us, I bet you,'' said Carl. Dick kept a sharp watch on the town, venturing as close as he dared, and letting nothing escape his notice. The gallant boys had been fighting all day since early morning and needed a rest. Dick gave them a chance to get over their fatigue some-what; but took very little rest himself. • He wanted to give the enemy all the trouble . he could and to see that none left the town except by the hill. Foraging parties might be sent out and this he wished to prevent. During the night the enemy crossed to Staten Island by a bridge of boats. In the early morning all had crossed, the bTidge was removed and the enemy had at last evacuated New Jersey, so long a school of war for the American soldiers. The State had been a theater of war for four years and the patriot soldiers had been rendered hardy, adroit and long-suffering by the constant match!ng-s, rude eneamp ments, rough encounters, stratagems and adventurous en . terprises which had taken place during this time. Th.ey. h!ld also been made accustomed to clanger , inured to d1sc1plme and brought to a level with the soldiers• of Europe in the usages of arms, while they had the superior incitements of home, country and independence. The closing acts of the British in their Jersey campaign were not at all to their credit and gave it an igno,!1in ious ending. . "They're out of Jersey at last,'' said Dick. "Yes, and they're likely to stay out," said Bob. "They have not added anything to their reputation as soldiers." "Very true," agreed Dick, "but our men have been constantly improving." After the departure of the British Dick returned l eis urely to Springfield. The judge's mansion was still standing, but there were very few houses left in the village. • The stining experiences the enemy had had at the mansion had made them wary of attacking it the second time. It was still intact, therefore, and the judge, thanking the Liberty Boys for what they had already done, pressed them to return indefinitely. . "They have told me how well you boys pl'ot cctecl my place, Captain Slater,'' he said, "and I am grateful." "There was some hot fighting h ere, judge,'' said Dick, with a smile. "So I should imagine from what I hear." "They could neither drive us out nor get in themselves." "By the looks of things I should say that there had been a battle here." "At all events, it was a pretty sharp skirmish." "I fancy they must have thought that the bulk o:r the patriot forces were near, by the way you fought," the judge laughed. "Well, they gave it up as a bad job and did not trouble the house again." "No, and my people gave them a rousing volley as they came back." "I am glad they did. We gave them on their retreat." "Yes, the Liberty Boys behaved valiantly." "They always try to do their duty, judge," answered Dick proudly. "You are at liberty to make my house your quarters as long as you please, Captain Slater,'' the judge said warmly. "Thank you, sir, but we will not intrude upon your hospitality longer than to-night." "A1 you please." "The bo ys are greatl y fatigued, but they are recovering, and by to-morrow they will be ready to proceed." • The Liberty Boys would therefore spend another night in the mansion and in the morning would go back to their camp in the Short Hills. It was a jolly party of boys that gathered in and about the mansion that night. Dick, Bob, Mark, Paul and a dozen others sat on the stone steps where they had fought so bravely the day be fore and \vent over the in cidents of the fight. There was a big fire on the lawn, and here Jack Warren, Sam Sanderson, Arthur Mackay, Harry Judson, Will Free man and a score or two more sat talking and singing to a late hour. , Patsy had found a great quantity of dainties among captured stores, and he had got up a supper such .ns boys se ldom enjoyed. "Well, dhim Britishers do be good livers in wan way,'' h<' said, "an' as long as dhey do have no furdher use for dhim t'ings, dhere do be no use av washtin' dhim." "How you was knowed dot dey didn't was want dern, Batsy?" asked Carl. "\Veil, Dootchy, Oi know roight well dhat dhey'll not gd dhim an' dhat's whoy Oi do be sayin' dhat dhey have no furdher u se for dhim, me bhy." "Dot was diff'rent." "An' dhc same in dhe ind." After supper Carl said: "You was lige to took ein walk, Batsy, b y
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THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 13 "Say, hev you seen a white cow anywheres on ther rud ?" "Yah." . She's got lost, I guess." "But av yez are not here, without a good raison, ye'll be Just then the so und that had so alarmed Patsy and Carl punished. Now do yez undershtand ?" was repeated. "Yah, dot was easy." "There she be now!" cried the boy. "Co-boss, co-boss, "Well, dhin, when yez are here, yez must say so and so!" . phwin yez are not here yez must say dhat, too." Patsy stopped and roared. "How I was sayed anydings off I was been here not? "Cookyspiller, me bhy," he said. Dot was ein foolishness." "Vhell, what it was?" "Shure, an' dhere's little u se thryin' to explain annything "Dhat was a cow." to yez," said Patsy, whereat the others laughed. "Who wai:t a cow?" "Look at dhat, me bhy. Dliey are all laffin' at yez." "Dhe t'ing dhat made dhe n'ise." "No, sir, I dinks dey was at yourselluf laffed alretty," and "Was dot so?" the boys laughed again. "Yis." "Vhell, I knowed dot." In the morning the Liberty Boys left the judge's hos"Yer did?" ' pitable roof and returned to their camp. "Yah, I knowed it." As they weie passing the Courtenay house Faith's mother "An' yez didn't t'ink it wor a gho s ' ?" came out and beckoned to Dick. "No, sir, I knowed it don'd was one." He halted and asked: Patsv whistled. "Do you want to see me for anything special, madam?" "Dootchy?" "Have you not seen my daughter?" the lady asked. "Yah ?" "No, madam.'' "Phwat made yei run ? " "But she went down to the village to see the Liberty "Vor gause I was wanted to kee ''•i you company so Boys come in.'' dot you shou ld got losed not, ain't it?" ' j "I think I should have seen :her if she had been there. Pr-t s y shook. ' • I saw a number of young ladies." "Go'n wid ye7.," he l aughed. '"ez wor as badly sheared "Then perhaps she will return shortly." as Oi wor mesilf.'' "I have no doubt she will, ' madam," said Dick. Carl would not own up to it. Then the Liberty Boys rode on, but Dick could not help He felt too sheepish, in fact. thinking of the matter. • Patsy saw the fun of it, however, ar. d was willing to j When they reached camp he was still thinking of it. acknowledge that he had been frightened. Finally he sent for Bob, Paul, Jack and Mark and said: "Do yez know phwat Oi think, Cookyspi!ler ?" he asked. I "I want you to go with me, boys.'' "How I kriowded dot, off you clon'd tolclt me?" 1 "Reconnoitering?" asked Bob. "Well, Oi think yez are dhe biggest loiar Oi've met dhe "Yes," answered Dick in an absent-minded fashion. da;y,'' and Patsy roared. i They all rode off together, Dick leading the way to th!! 'Off you was called me a liar, I was hitted ;,:ou on cler Courtenay house. shnood.'' 1 Here he was told that the girl had not returned, and .lust then the cow bellowed again. that certain young ladies with whom she was thought to "Rin. Cookv s niller, rin, dhere's dhe ghost ag'in," cried have been had seen nothing of her all the afternoon. the jolly Irish boy. I Then he ran off laughing and Carl followed n10re leisurely. 1 Patsy had to tell the story to the Liberty Boys, of course, 1 and it was a long time before Carl heard the last of his ' CHAPTER XIV. ghost. Wh<''1 Patsy and Carl got back to camp Dick wa
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14 THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. "At first I thought a forged message might have been sent to her," said Dick. "But the girls say that they did send," said Mark. "Exactly; so that is dispo!ied of." "It would be a good time," said Jack, "the Liberty Boys being away." "Yes, and the scoundrel has a wholesome fear of us," added Dick. "And would want to take revenge upon us," suggested Bob . "That is just it." "He might want to retaliate upon Faith for having thrown him over," suggested Mark. "Yes, for he is just that sort of fellow." "Agreeing that he did it," said Bob, "and I believe we are all agreed on that point, how are we going to work?" Dick thought a moment. ';In the first place, if we could be sure of it, our task would be easier." "But are you not, Dick?" asked Bob. "I think he did, but I am not certain, of course." "Very true." "And the thing to do is to settle tha t beyond a doubt..'' "Yes. " "We don't have to know positively; but to get evidence which will strengthen our belief." "And you want to get that?" asked Paul. "Yes." "And meantime?" said Bob. "Meantime we must all ernep up a search." "Where ? " asked,; Jack. "In such places where one would be likely to hide a person he had taken away." ''The Short Hills are full of them," said Bob. "I am a pretty good Jerseyman myself," laughed Jack, 'Who lived near Allentow n, on the Brunswick road, "and I believe I can find caves and hollows almost as well as a rabbit." "Then you must take that part of it in charge," . said Dick, "while Bob and I settle definitely that this fellow Hogg has abducted Miss Faith." "Pl! go with you, Jack," said Paul. "All right, I'll be glad to have you," said J ack. "What about me?" asked Mark. "Oh, you'll have to go, too, for there may be, fighting." "And you think I c a n do it?" with a smile. "I know it!" in a tone of conviction. • Mark laughed. "I think I have seen ,Mr. Jack Warren do some pretty good fighting, on occasion," he said. "The other day at the mansion, for instance," said Paul. "Yes, and at various other places." "Well," said Dick, "I think that you three boys can attend to your part Of it, while Bob and I do ours." "All right," said Jaak heartily. "Come along, boys." The three Liberty Boys dashed away, leaving Dick and Bob a lone ill the middle of the road. "What do you think of that?" laughed Bob. "Trust Jack Warren for doing what he sets out to do," said Dick. "And Mark?" "There i sn't another in all the Liberty Boys whom I would trust more than Mark Morrison." "And Paul." "He is interes ted, and, besides, is a brave fellow . He has not had the same experience that Mark has had, but with his advice and that of Jack, he can be trusted." "And now what are we going to do?" asked Bob. "Locate Roh"er Hogg." "How are you going to go about it?" "We will want disguises, Bob. Come back to the camp." Later, mounted on two of the hors es c aptured from the British during the Ir.st fight, Dick and D e b rode to Roger Ilogg's house in the disguise of horse traders. Riding up to the stable entrance, Dick :i s ket! : "Is Muster Roger in? I've a 'orse 'ere what Oi think 'e'll loike foine." "Mr. Roger is not at home,'! said the groom. "But 'e'll be 'ere shortly, Oi p resume?" "I dunno. I don't thi:rtk he wants any horses." "Never mind what you think. This 'ere 'orse is just to the king's taste. 'E's been rode by, a dragoon, too. You can tell it by his 'igh stepping." "Well, you'll have to see him.' "0' "Course I will. 'E knows all about 'orses an' you don't. Oi'm dealin' with principals, Oi am, but o' course, if you speaks a good word, Oi'm givin' you somethink fur it, d'ye mind?" "Well, that's handsome." "No, it .ain't 'andsome, it's roight. Oi'll look arter you, me boy. You said you didn't know where 'e went." "No." "Nor when 'e'll be 'ome?" "No." "Don't you know nothink? Think a and Dick jingled some coin in his pocket. "No, I don't. He's been gone since noon. He went off on hotseback vrith an under groom, and hasn't been back since ." "You'll tell 'im about the 'orse ?" "Yes." " 'E can 'ave 'im for 'is own price, tell 'im." "All right." "Oi'll be back ter-morrer, tell 1 'im, if Oi don't see 'im on the road." "Very good . V/hat name?" "Oh, 'e wouldn't know it. That's all roight; 'ave a 'alf gallon on my account," and Dick tossed the groom a s hillin g. Thm1 he and Bob rode out of the yard: "He has not been hor.1e since noon, said "He is our man." "I b e lieve you, Dick." CHAPTER XV. LOOKING FOR A HIDING-PLACE. Jack and hili twq comrades set off in quest of a place where one' was !il,i:ely to hide some one he did not wish to be found. A cave, a :l\idden no o k in the rocks, a deep ravine or s ome little mountain glade would be just a . place. "We want to get in the hills first ," said J ack, "and then we can lopk for a likely plac e ." Jack knew the Short Hills most thoroughly. He was accustomed to a hilly region, and knew how to look for odd nooks and corners. He struck out for a pass in a different direction than that in which the camp lay. "He wouldn't go too near us," he. said, "for fear of running across us son:e time." "Quite true," said P a ul. "It wouldn't be safe," added Mark. Entering the pass, Jack began to look a bou t him. He looked up several hill paths, he g l a nc e d down one or two little holes, and he look ed up at a cluster of rough boulders. "See any likely place yet?" asked Mark. "W.ell, there's none of them such as I would choose, and I suppose this fellow Hogg knows a good deal about this • region." . "Wo uld he?" asked Paul. "Yes. He rides and hunts and spends most of his time out-of-doors." "But he might have had to take her somewhere in a hurry," suggested Paul. "Perhaps." "And has not found as g ood a one as he would like." "Very true ." They at last came to a po in t where a mountain stream w ent "tumbling down the rocks iT'to a ravine where the trees were so thick that it was like twilight down there even at noonday. Jack jumped off his horse and looked about him. "Down there," he said, "there are nooks among the rocks where one might hide in safety. " At that moment the sound of a horse coming along ihe rough road was heard. Jack looked around. A man attired as a groom appeared riding an ordinary horse. At sight of the y1mths he stopped and said: "Loo kin' for rabbits, masters?" "No, for foxes, " s aid Jack. "There's none in these parts that I ever heard of. You're not fox hunters?"
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• 'i"IIj LID:CR'i'Y BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 15 .. But we're looking for one," said Jack! "and he's a sly "Thon you've seen him?" , "Not brt we think he's in the neighborhood." "There's moles and r:::bhits down tho ravine the1e," said the groom, "if you want 'em. You do11't lo ok like hunters, masters." "Oh, but we are." "Well, you don't look it," and the g1'oom rode on and shortly disappeared. "I think we've made a mistake," said Jack. "How so?" asked Mark. "In koep'ng on our uniforms." "But this is tho only man we've met," saici Paul. "Hf'! may be just the or.o that we should not h:::ve met." "vVhy so?" "He's ri groom." "vVell ?" "Wouldn't Hogg have a groom ? " "I suppos_e he might,'' said Mark. "He probably has ." "And ... .:rnrd not that groom be helping him in this work?" "If he were sneak e no uirh," was Paul's comment. '.'You don't lo ok for all the manly qualities in _ a groom," said Jack. "What one wants is a servant." "Thon you think that--" "That there is no use in searching that place," into the ravine. "Why?" asked Paul. "Becan:;e that fellow called our attention to it." "Yes, but what has he to do with our affair?" "I know,'' said Mark. "Jack suspects him. He cfi.d look at our, unifo1111s pretty sharp." "Of course ho did,'' said Jack, "and if that isn't Roger Hogg's gro6m he's a fellow that the scoundrel has employed to help him." "I think you are right,'' said Mark. "I am afraid we went off in something of a hurry." "Iv'[aybe not," said Jack. "Let us go on. 'There is no use looking further here." Jack \Valked ahead. l eading hi s horse, the others, who had not dismounted, following. Jack kept his eye s on the ground and pretty soon stopped short. "The horse stood here," he sairl. "Now where did the g;-oom come from before h e mounted?" There were evidences of a horse haYingbe e n tethered to a little tree and of his having grazed on the sparse grrss and also on the leaves . • Tl1ere were the marks of his hoofs also, showing where he liad moved about. "Crin you see any footpricts ?" askio
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16 THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND, drinks like a fish an' don't tell the truth he's erbliged ter; thet's what Roger Hogg is, an' I don't care who hears me say it." "Yes, I've heard somethin' like this afore," drawled Dick. "Had some trouble with these Liberty Boys, didn't he?" ' "Yes, an' one on 'em lashed him an' another knock e d him down." "And what has the young woman got to do with ther case?" asked Dick. "Well, they do say that one o' ther Liberty Boys has been seen goin' there pretty reg'lar, like as if he was keq,in' comp'ny." . "And this here Hogg wanted her hisself?" The man laughed. "You seem to know all erbout it," he said. "I'm Jest er argerin' from human nater You j est look inter this case an' I guess yer'll find thet Muster Roger Hogg i s at ther bottom er this carryin' off business hisself." The man gasped. "Waal, that's sol" "I shouldn't wonder if he had." "It doe s look reasonable, I decfare ef et doesn't." "Never looked at it in that light afore." While the men were all talking and wondering Dick and Bob s lipped away. "Didn't I tell you so, Bob?" said Dick. "This fellow has been circulating evil reports about us in order to cover his own tracks." "So it seems." "And now people will begin to re;i.son it out for them-selves." "Ve1y true." "And estimate the feltp:w at his proper value." "So they will." "We have satisfied ourselves on one or two points, and now we must locate this scoundrel." "He has been about circulating these evil reports." "Yes, and is no doubt still doing it." They rode to another tavern and entered. Here they found the frequenters discussing the disappearance ' of Faith Courtenay and attributing various causes to it. They did not remain here long and took no part in the conversation. "The trail is freshening, Bob," said Dick, as they left. "Yes." They stopped at' one or two other taverns and finally entered one, where they saw Roger Hogg sitting at a table with a pot of beer in front of liim and smoking a long clay pipe. • CHAPTER XVII. THE PLACE FOUND. "A horse stood below for a few minutes," he said, "just where my horse is standin g no w." Paul now stood in Jack's saddle. Jack helped him up. A s he climbed up he rubbed his boot against the ro c k. A few shreds of leather were rubbed off. "Just like the other on e," said Jack. " Look after the horses , Mark." "Where are yo'u goin ?" a sked Paul. . "Straight ahead. Don't you see an op e ning in the rocks?" Paul hurried forward and quickly disappeared. "Look out!" continued Jack. The n h e heard the sound of a fall, followed by a sudden startled cry. _ H e advanced cautiously throug h the opening. He passed between great rocks into a sort of nook, where he could see the sky overhead. Then h e came to a point there was a steep descent. It was down this that Paul had fall e n. Jack saw him pickin g himself up at the foot of a rock which was as slippery as g l ass. ' "Anything there, Paul?" the boy asked. "Yes, thel'e's a hole in t h e rocks." . "All l'ight, I'll come down." Then Jack made his way down at one side of sl ippery rock by means o f rough steps. "Now go ahead," he said, "and b e cautious. Yo u might get worse than just a little tumble l ike that. " Paul advanced eautiously and pnssed through the hole in the ro & ks, as he called it. In a few moments he came to a circular space from which there appeared to be no exit. In front of him was a wull of ledge and earth reaching high above his head. The openin g was a bo u t t en feet across and seemed to have just on e entrance. "We c an't go an y farther," said Paul. "Don't b e s o sure about that," replied J ack. "Well, I don't see any, at a!ly rate." "That may be very true and yet there may Jje an entrance to a cave or to another ]Jasi n lik e this." "Through the face o f the rock '?" asked Paul. " C ertainly." "But that is impossi b l e." "Not at all," and J ac k gave a laugh. "Well, but how--" "Push aside that mass It's like a curtain, isn't "Yes." "Push it aside." Paul obeyed. ,. of hanging vine s in front of you . it?" He disclos e d an op e nin g i n the l edge large enough for a person to enter. As he stepped inside he heard a savage growl as of a dog . "How are you going to find the place, Jack?" asked Mark He quickly stepped back. in a low tone. "What is it?" asked Jack. "Look around," said Jack tersely. "There's . a
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THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. 17 He was chained, but no one could enter the door with-out encountering him. "Hello!" cried Jack. "Is there any one here?" There was no answer. Then Jack's match went out. "I'm going to get in there," said Paul, with determination. "Let us have some light, Jack." "The door is only barred, isn't it?" asked Jack. "That is all thz.t it seemed to be." • "But you can't open it without shooting the dog?" "No. " "I don't think y&u mind that?" "No." Then Jack lighted another match. The dog gave a savage growl and flew at Paul. Suddenly the chain gave a loud snap and broke. Crack! Paul's pistol. rang out sharply, the sounp echoing through the cavern and making a terrible din. The place was full of smoke, but when it cleared away the dog was seen lying dead at Paul's feet. He had fired not an instant too soon. Paul 'stepped for !'lard and tried the rough slab door . There was a bar in front of it and also a couple of rude bolts and a r'ough hook. Removing thes e, the boys threw the door open. CHAPTER XVIII. AN UNWILLING GUIDE . . ,, Roge r Hogg looked up as Dick and Bob entered. He gave them an impudent stare, but did notl seem to recognize them. mister. d'ye think ye'll know me ag'in w'en ye sees me?" asked Dick, in a broad accent. . "You're not much to know, anyhow!" snarled 'Hogg. "That' s a matter o' 'pinion, o' course, an' I bean't axin' :,r ou for yours." • "A cat can look at a king," growled Roger. .,. "Aye, so she . can, but I bean't a king, nor yet are ye a cat. Ye'rc worse, ye're a cur." "How dare you!" cried Roger, breaking his pipe on the table. "Easy," ro ared Dick. "Av you want anythin' else broke, I'll try your head." Some of those in the place laughed coarsely. "Who are you, to come in here unasked and isult gentlemen?" snarled Roger angrily. "I haven't insulted any gentlemen yet. Ye don't call y er-self one, do ye?" asked Dick. . This caused anothe r laugh. The laugh irritated Roger more than Dick's vef'Y pointed remarks. He upset his pot of b::!er, arose in a rage and said: "I'll not stay in a plac e where every Tom, Dick or Harry is allowed to enter and in sult gentlemen, and I'll see that none of my friends com e h ere, either." The n he strode out in a fit of passion without paying his score. Dick and Bob followed. Ro g e r sprang upon a horse at the door and would have ridden away, but Dick seized the bridle. "Not s o fast, Hogg!" he said in a tone of command. The bully gave a start and looked at Dick. "Who are you ?'1 he asked, trembling. He had partly guessed, for Dick had spoken in his natural tones. "I am Dick Slater and this is Bob Estabrook." "What do you want?" have you taken Faith Courtenay?" The bully started and changed color. "I have not taken her anywhere," he gasped. "I did not know she was missing." . "Now, I . want to know where you have taken the young lady, for I am satisfied that you have taken her somewhere." "She went with me wiHingly," snarled Roger. Dick's brow grew black on the instant. "Another such insulting lie as that," he hissed "and I'll choke you." "And serve you right, too." said Bob. "Now, then, where is she?" "I won't tell you," said the bully doggedly . Two or three men were looking out of the tavern door. "Come away, Bob," said Dick . ' They l'ode out of the yard and upon the h i ghway, the b u lly between them. Then Di<;k suddenly seized Roger' s neckcloth and gave it a twist. "Where is she?" "I won't tell you . " Dick gave the cloth another twist. Roger began to turn blue in the face. "Stop!" he gasped. , . Dick untwisted the cloth and Roger took a deep b r eath, Bob had his eyes upon him, and he could not do ar1ything without being detected. "Now," sai d Dick, "where is the young lady?" "Up in the hills, confound you, where you will n eve r find her." "You took her there?" "Yes." "You and your groom?" "Yes." is it?" "You'll have to find out," Eaid Roger. "You are going to take us to the place," said Dick, catch ing holt ahcar:me; across the room and kneeled at her ' side . It was Faith. "Here she is, Jack!" he cried. "She has fainted or has been drugged. We must get her out of here at once . " Then he lifted the girl from the ground and found that her ankles were bound . He quickly cut the cords, supported her upon his shoulder and hurried out. When they were in the o!Jen air Jack said: "We must get away as s oon as we can. That groom may think better of leavingns so near tll this place and return." "1;3ut Mark would e;ive warning?" "Yes, but Mark is alone and that fellow might bring others. " They reached the nook where Paul had taken h is slide down the smooth boulder.
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I • 18 THE LIBERTY BOYS' GALLANT STAND. faith had not yet recovered. . We must fii:d some water," said Jack. "Th.at will revi';';e her :=is quickly as anything." .. rer e is some at the ravine you were looking at " J e s . Be careful in going up those steps Paul" "Yes , " said Paul, "and you are quite safe ." "Come," said Dick. "It is growing late. \Ye before it is dark." CHAPTER XX . 'le ack went UJ.? fir s t and gave Paul his t,'hen . he to the edge of the ledge. • FAREWELL TO THE JERSEYS. H e llo, Mark!' he cried Faith Courtenay rode on the s addle in front of P a ul on ;;Hello! What was the shot I heard?" the way back to her house . .. has sh.ot anothe r one of that bully's dogs." It was quite dark before the y reached it. " ave you discovered anything?" Then Dick rode ahead to prepare the gid's moth e r. have found the young lady." He found her in a very anxious state . . "She ha b d . . "Have you heard 'lnything, Captain Slater?" s he ask ed . her." 5 een rugged or has famted and we must revive "Yes; that villain Roger Hogg has been telling p e ople that I ran off with your daughter." then Paul appeared with Faith in his arms. "What an idea!" ari1 .tdo get her down ther.e ?" he asked. "And-then I gue s sed that he had d o ne it himself." and com: aclosre1.f. • sa1 Jack. "Sit in your sadd l e, Mark, "You did? he?" cried the lady. "Yes, and I sent three of the Libe1ty Boys off to find out Mark at once obeyed. where he took her." Then Jack lowered him self over the edge of the rock "And did they; have they returned; was Paul one of nnd stood in his own saddle them?" "Now give her to me he said, "and I will "Well, they're coming on as fast as the y can, for, you r:r ato Mark,; It isn't an' easy task to manage a see, Paul and Faith have to ride double and--Now swoon. don't go to fainting, please." he Th.ey hqukkly got the girl to the ground, where Paul took The glad mother did not go into a swoon. r m , JS arms. She embraced and kissed Dick instead. l .'C!>me back t? the ravine," said Jack "and we'll revive The rest of the party arrived in a short time and r e c e i ve d rnr m a few mmutes." ' a royal welcom e . They back along the path. Mrs. Cotntenay wante d them all to stay to su ppe r , b u t tTieachmg tumbling mountain stream, Paul laid the Dick said: s 1 unconsc10us it}rl upop the ground. "No, I don't think we can. I mus t get back to c amp, he filldd his hat with water and to bathe the at all events, and I want Bob." All tee an forehead. while Jack chafed her hands. P,aul looked a bit disappointed until Dick added: S dd lncfh they heard the sounds of hoofbeats. "However, if these three young fellows, to whom a ll the shen Id 'te hgroom and an evil-looking fellow appeared credit of the rescue is due, want to stay for the e v e ning, I "Cl ou n ave trusted them," cried the groom don't see any especial objection." Ho!'11.'eafh otut of he!e!" Jack. "and tell your "I would like to stay, Dick. if I may," said Paul. "G'' a a rope wa1tme: for him." ' "And you and Mark, Jack?" me.JhJat 'i' oung lady!" snarled the groom, advancing "Oh, we'll stay, of course. H e mi ght lo s e his w ay, g o in g sa1 ac c home in the dark, thinking of othe r things ." . th '!".he p:t1 • 01m nnd the evil-looking fellow suddenly drew Dick and Bob then returned to camp, the three bo ys r e eir pis o s and fired. turning later. The bullets spattered against the rocks Roger Hogg had evidently planne d the abduction o f Faith Liberty Boys opened fire, while Jack uttered a Coi.tenay in advance. He and the groom had met h e r in the road , an d w hil e groom gave a sharp cry and d:...Ejlied down a side path Roger had stopped to sp eak to her he had clapped a c!rug"Hs almost headlong mto the ravine soaked handkerchief to her r.ose. e o enc ack . Then she had been taken to the cave in the hill s, r e cov ftoofbeaRts were he ard and a horse and rider appeared ering con s ciousness only once unt il afte r her r es cu e . was ,oger Hogg. Ro ger had threatened to kill h e r uTlless s h e marri e d . quickly past the boys, darted a look at the him and had told h e r that her friends w ou ld n ev e r find h e r. gir ymg on .the grass ai;d aimed a pistol at Jack. The g irl had d e fied him and then she had b e e n drugge d hfiretd JUSt a.s he did and carried away his hat again and the scou ndre l h a d gone a w a y , leaving t h e g ro o m tu. JS Sdod. flew Wild, and then he dashed around a •sharp and a savage clo g to g u ard her and pre v ent h e r escape . m an, 1 s appeared. Dick gave the three L iberty Bo ys all the credit fo r t h e Then shouts were heard rescue, but they said that D i ck deserv e d as m uch a s thr-y "That's Dick and Bob;, said M k "Th I did, for he h a d fas t er.eel the thing upon R oge r Hogg, u:1,l lo;;ed Ho g g to this ar ey have fol-thus prevented his return to the n e ighbo rhood . Or made him lead them here,, lau"'hed Jack He disapp eare d, w ent s outh, jo i n e d the B ritis h army a nd "Hello'" cried Paul h 11 t' "' was l,1.lled at tl1e s iee:e of Yorktow n the fo llowin ."' v.2a r . "Fiello,,, h t d D. ikn s n ones, which the rocks echoed ' .. . .. . s ou e ic and Bob The hiding-place in the hills had been u s ed a s a hunt-.:r s ' Jhen in a few moments they appeared.' refuge, but no one would ever use it afte r that, and it was "Have you seen Hogg?" asked Dick. closed up and abandoned . Yes we exchanged 1. t The Liberty Boys rece ived a great deal of prais e fo r ,.. . • . comp 1men s," said Jack "Mine took 011 his hl'.t; his were wasted on the rocks." driving Hogg out of the neighborhood , and man y of his Jhe n D1ck and Bob dismounted. sort di sappeare d after he had gone. You have been very lucky I see,, sa'd D. k "You The Liberty Bo ys did not remain m u ch lon ge r in the re-foun d the hiding-place i" ' ' 1 JC • gion of Short Hill s . h "Yes, but it was a job. It was partly luck and partly There was work fo r them to be done els e wh e r e . ard work." The French tfeet was expected to arrive at N ewport, in . you any salts?" asked Paul. "This poor g 1 . the State of Rhod e Island shortly, and Dick and the Liberty de1the1,, In a dead swoon or has been given som e pow 1errfu1s1 Boys were d espatche d there to meet the Count Rochambeau rug. and coorierate with hi m . "Let me see what I can do,, s d D. k . . Paul Ben son was sorry to l e ave Faith, but his duty was He took a little vial from i:;ide ic the first con s i deration a nd he made no compl aint, coat, uncorked it and held it under waistAfter peace was d ecbre d he r eturne d and in a short lSdhet • . choked, stirred, opened eyes time was manie d to F nith Courtenay, who had remaine d . g e . o a s1ttmg posture. faithful to him during his ah sl' n ce . Fruth sat up, looked about her and asked in a bew'ld d Leaving New J e rsey. thr Liberty Boys went t o Rh o de way: i ere Island, where they were to fight with Fre nch alli e s, and Oh "Whhat a1e all you boys doing here? What place is th1s? ;vhere there would be pl enty for them to do in the cause of ' ave you taken me away from that d l . . mdependence: Hogg1" scoun re• Roger Ne x t week' s issu e will c ontain "THE LIBERTY BOYS OR. THE BATTLE OF FORT MIFFLIN."
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THE LIBER.TY B O YS OF '76. 19 HELP . YOUR COUNTRY! HOW YOU CAN FORM A WAR-SAVINGS SOCIETY. It is the desire of the Government that a War Sa vings Society be formed among the employes of . every commercial and industrial establishment-in e.very office, store, factory and plant. This is be lieved to be tlie most practical method of creating an? keeping up interest in the War-Savings Cam paign; of encouraging people to avoid the things needed to win the war, of developing the habit or regular saving and investing in Government securities. . The chief purpose of the War-Savings Societies is to put team-work into a plan for bringing every man, woman and child into a relationship of per sonal responsibility and personal service for the na tion's welfare. It is expected that at least 3'0,000,000 men, women and children will be enrolled as members of War Savin gs Societies before the end of the year; that means the enlistment of 30,000,000 of men, women and children of America in the greatest Thrift or ganization the world has ever known-the binding together of the peo ple of America for the purpose of systematically saving to help win the war, and at the same time becoming ever-increasing holders of Government securities. This is more vital than the raising of money. Call a meeting of your employes. Have the War Savin gs Society plan explained to them. (If you like, call upon the War-Savings Society Bureau for a speaker.) Point out to your employes that in or ganizing a War-Savings Society they are enlisting as members of a company of savers, which is to back up the boys who have gone from their own group to fight for them. Explain to them, that in joining a War-Savings Soci ety, they agree to try to spend less for things they do not need now, and loan their savings to the Government, in order that the boys at the front may be supplied with what they must have if their bodily health and fighting efficiency is to be maintained. Get each emp loye enrolled. Have a chairman and secretary elected. H ave a name chosen for the War-Savings So ci ety , identi_.fying it with tli_e establishment: or better still-suggest that it be named after one of the boys in France. If theie are a large number of employes, get a number of War-$avings Societies organized, one in each department or bureau, and let COf9petition and rivalry between War-Sa vings Societies be developed. Call on the War-Savings Societies Bureau at 51 Chambers street, for all material and help needed, incl uding pamphlets, membership cards, advertising matter, speakers, suggestions, etc. Eac h member of a War-Savings Society is entitled to wear a War-Savings Service badge, containing the torch of Libertyf as evidence of the pledge which he has taken. Many other methods of getting employes to buy WarSavings Stamps have been instituted. Each is . producing encouraging results, but it is confi dently believed that the War-Savings Society plan will not only expedite the sale of War-Savings Stamps, but will lay the groundwork for cont inu. ous saving more effectively than any other pla!1 so far devised. It r.elieves the employer of the duty and responsi bility of continuously urging the purchase of the stamps. It places the matter wholly in the hands of the employes. It affords a much needed remind er, for the duty of the S e cretary of the WarSav ings Society : is to see that each member liv es up to his promise. It creates an incentive based upon the comp any of the Savers idea. It introduces the spirit of group emulation and competition which has an immedi ate and marked effect upon individual saving. It re sults in the introduction of a new group attitude towards saving, and the evolution of suggestions as to how money can be saved, which only the group method can develop. In every office, shop or factory a Company of Savers behind every Service Flag! If every Trade Committee wiII make this its ob ject, the War-Savings Campaign will succeed beyond all expectations. FROM CONNECTICUT TO THE NATION. "After warning the people of Connecticut that they may be on short rations this year, former Gov. Simeon E . Baldwin, a jurist of international repu tation, and a profound student of all public prob lems, has is s u e d a statement calling upon Connecti-. cut to increase her productivene ss . Unite d States just now is risking a good . deal of discomfort for its ovin people. Connecticut is going to feel this soon if sM does not pro duce more to eat. She has not been accustomed to rely on her own fatms and pastures for the support of her inhabitants. . We could buy food chea pe r • outside. But things are no longer so cheap. Con necticut must begin to look out for herself and work her own farms to better advantage. "Her people must and can produce more food than they now do. It is not simply the farmers to whom we must look. Everybody can help. Waste makes want. Work makes plenty. Every garden patch can be made to produce more, and women and chil dren can do the work if the men are away on public service."
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20 THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. FROM ALl.. POINTS HIGHEST TELEPHONE. Engineers of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company have installed what they believe to be the highest telephone service in the world, says the Electrical Ex1Jerimenter. On the Denver-Lead ville toll route the company has constructed the section of the line that cross e s Argentine Pass at an altitude of 13,200 feet . The newly built section is only one and three-tenths miks in lenr.:th and it is estimated that the cost of 'was more than $12,000. PETROLEUM SUPPLY OF THE UNITED STATES .. The United States produces about two-thirds of the world's output of crude p e troleum, and has pro duced about 2,750 , 000 . 000 barre l s since the first oil well was drilled in 1859. Our future supply, according to careful estimates of geoiogists, amounts to about 7,402 000,000 barrels , . wli.ich would la'St only about twenty-five years at the present rate of consur.1ption. In view of these figures, the Bureau of Min es urges radical econo:rpy in the use of this valuable substance. The history of our oil fields is R history of incredible waste and carelessness. Fields have been abandoned while a large part of the oil was still in the ground. Water has been let into the oil sands, ruining areas that should have produced hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil. A large part of our artificial gas is made from pe troleum because it is , at present, cheaper than coal; but in the long run this is an extravagance, since our coal supply is probably adequate for centuries to come. The Bureau declares that petroleum should not be used in any way to compete with coal, when the oil supply is so li mited. h1significant in comparison, there remain others in and near the city which will continue to uphold this town's reputation for remarkable time pieces. The Colgate clock, commanding the North River from its position on the Jersey City water front, is in a class by itself among all the clocks of the world. There is only one dial, but that is thirty-eight feet in diameter, measured from inside the black cirCie of numerals. It has an area of more than 1,134 square feet, 544 more square feet than in the face of the clock on the Philadelphia City Hall. The minute hand is twenty feet long and its tip end travels twenty-four inches every minute. The hour hand measures fifteen feet. The pendulum weighs 350 pounds and the weight that moves the mechanism 2,000 pounds. Two hundred persons could stand on the face of the dial if it were laid flat on the ground. On a clear day the hands and numerals may be distinguished for three miles. The Colgate clock has been ticking away the hours since May, Hl08. Before that time the clock in the tower of the St. Rombaud Cathedral, in Ma lines, Belgium, held the world' s record for size, but it is now no more, the Germans having demolished it when they bombarded the city in September, 1914. The famous chimes of St. Rombaud also were de stroyed. The extreme diameter of the Malines dial was thirty-seven and a half feet, six inches less than that of the clock. The clock in the Metropolitan Li f e toweJ. has four dials, each 26 1-2 feet across and eac h runs independently of the others. The figures a r e four feet high. A master clock on the ground floor controls the entire mechanism and that of a hundred other clocks in the building. The chimes W8igh from 7,000 to 13,000 pounds. NEW YORK'S TOWN CLOCKS. The dials in the clock of T rinity Church are Should anyone object that the placing of a bell twelve feet in diameter and the largest bell in the 'Yith . the clock in the new cupola of New York's chitnes weighs 7,000 pounds . St. Paul's clock, City Hall to toll the hours to the downtown popula-which is wound by hand, was put in v.lace in the tion smacks too much of a small village, it may be last century. . r e called that so large a community as London has The clock in front of the Hall of Uecords is one ncYer disdained town clocks. of the most expensive fo the country, the cost havCoin pared with some of the timepieces in the ing been ,more than $35,000. The con-.. B ritish metropclis the City H:.tll clock will be a mod-trols the clocks in all the several departments of est affair, the single bell weighing only 1,500 the building. It stopped one day several years ago pou n ds. This was cast forty years ago for the vil-1 at 4 o'clock in the afternoon and the clerks in the lagc o f Tremont and was used to warn Tremonters Register's office worked eleven minutes overtime beof visits by the fire demon. It bec::-,me the property fore they realized they were giving their services for of the city when the little burg was annexed. nothing. The Westminster clock in London has five bells, Cooper Union's clock is regarded as one of the the smallest of them weighing 2,100 pounds, while best in New York. It also operates a system in the the largest, Old Ben, which strikes the hours, weighs different offices of the building. In the Hoboken thirteen and a half tons. terminal of the Lackawanna Railroad is a self-wind-But if New York's new town clock is to be some-ing clock with a dial diameter of twelve feet.
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THE LIBERTY BOYS oF '76. 21 ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST AUSTRALIA'S TRADE IN FROZEN RABBITS. New South Wales exported 36,000,000 frozen rab bits last year, out of the 70,000,000 exported by all Australia, the total value of which was $14,599,000. "Rabbits are tfapped at night," reports U. S. Consul General J. I. Brittain, from Sydney, "and motor trucks belonging to the freezing companies collect them early in the morning and deliver them to the nearest freezing works, where they are graded under Government supervision. They are then put into wooden crates and placed in freezing cham bers, where they remain for nine days until frozert solid and ready for shipment. "The prices vary according to the distance from the freezing works, and the grades change from 25 cents per pair for specials down to 7 cents per pair for kittens (very small)." WHAT " COMRADE" MEANS IN WAR. A writer in "The American Magazine" says: "I saw one man coming whose trousers had been torn clean away. He was so caked with mud and b lood that his features were almost unrecognizable. He did not walk. He staggered from side to side. Sometimes he almost fell. But on his back he car ried his comrade, his pal, who couldn't walk himself. "I look e d at them, and the tears came to my eyes -as they w ould come to the eyes of any man if he c o uld w atch the se walking wounded. But those two? N o tears from them! They looked at me-and s miled. "It i sn't only for their comrades that they are willing to suffer. Over and over again I have seen a n English Tommy, badly wounded himself, take the cup of hot soup; or coffee, or the tobacco our Y . M. C. A. men were handing out, and give it to u wounded German." 1,9 _ 67 RIVETS IN A DAY . . All reco r ds for driving buttonhead rivets in ship work a ; e believed to have been broken by a team at the Su bmarine Boat Corporation's yard at Porl Ne\vark Te rminal. In a nine-hour day August Eck steiR and his cre w drove 1_,967 rivets. The best prev i ou s rec.ord at the yard, and as far as known for the count ry, w a s 966 rivets in. a nine-hour day, made the other we e k afte r Chairman Hurley of the Shipping B oard off ered as a prize a trip to Wash ington and an introdu c tion to President Wilson. That was made by a riveter and four helpers. Eckstein i s said to be the fastest riveter in the Port Newa r k yards. He work's at such speed that it is necessary for him to have two heaters and at times two p a s s er-boys. Most riveting gangs are made up of the riveter, the bucker-up or holder-on, heater, and the passer-boy. Eckstein recently worked so rapidly that an extra heater had to be put on his gang and also an extra passer-boy was added. KNITS FOR SOLDIERS. Even though an accident deformed him so he cannot join the army, Thomas McElvain is full of the spirit that caused his brother Donald, age seventeen, to enlist in Company F, stationed at Camp Shelby. The most of his time is spent in knitting for the soldiers. "If I had two good legs I would be with my brother," he says. When two years old Thoma s suffered a fall, leav ing him a cripple. He walked with the aid of crutches until he was thirteen, and since that time has been unable to walk, his means of locomotion being on his hands. He is a musician. At the age of ten he took up embroidery and crochet work and has made many articles, such as bedspreads, pillow tops and 1ibrary scarfs. He has learned to t a t and knit. Recently he made a guest towel and a pillow top which was sold at the indoor carnival held here for the benefit of Company F. He has spent the last two summers with his aunts in Indianapolis. The two boys are the sons of Mrs. W. R. Platt, South Main Street, Winchester, Ind. SEASHORE SAND. The sand on the seashore is nothing more nor less than the ground-up sandstone. In dealing with the inanimate things in the world we find that a very important element of all of tmm has been given the name silicon. When the crust of the earth, which is the part we call the land and rocks and includes the part under the sea, was a molten mass, this sili con was burned, combining with the oxygen which surrounded everything, and produced what is known as silica. Silica is the name given . to the thing which is left after you burn silicon. A very large part of this silica was deposited in parts of the earth, and when .the crust of the earth cooled off it was sand. By pressure and contact with othe r substances it be came stuck together, just as you can take wet sand at the seashore to-day and make bricks and hou se s and tunnels, excepting that in the case we speak of it was something besides water that pressed and stuck the little particles of sand together, says the Book of Wonders. They stuck together more per manently. Then when the oceans were formed , as shown in another part of this book, much of the sandstone was found to be at the bottom ar.d on the shores of the oceans. The action of the water continually washing against the sandstone gradua ily broke the sandstone up into the tiny P.articles of 2and again, and this is what makes the sand on the sea shore. ' .
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THE LIBERTY :eoYS OF '76. CURRENT CROOKED FINGER CUT OFF. Some men "lase a finger" to keep out of military service; but not so with Thomas Thoman, Denison, Tex., who had one taken off so he could get in. Thoman tried to enlist as a stenographer, but examination disclosed the little finger on his right hand was crooked and stiff. "That finger will have to come off if we take you," he was told. Without a word Thoman left; half an hour later he returned. "Well, sergeant, I had her cut off," he said. He was accepted . While two grabbed him by the neck, two othe.rs pulled at his coat tails. A fifth tugged at the suit case and got it out of his hands. They smashed the bottles against the pavement and returned the empty case to the astonished man. . A crowd of men stood by and laughed at the calls of the officer for help. CAT CHUMS WITH RACCOON. An old gray wliich was adrift and without found a home and friends among the rac . coons in the zoo in Forest Park, St. Louis, Mo., four months ago, and spent the winter as sharer of their lairs and their food. Attendants have several times GUNS OF ICE. I attempted to drive the cat away, but she has invaril'for e than 175 years ago some ingenious Russian ably returned to the raccoons. workm e n c on ceived the idea of constructing a buildThe raccoons seem to enjoy the cat's company, ing of solid ice in the city of St. Petersburg, now and although they fight viciously with one another, Petr ograd. It was 50 feet long, 16 feet wide and they never molest her. As a sort of requital of their 20 feet high. Before the palace they placed six canhospitality, the cat has adopted some habits of the non of the s ix-pounder size, and these too were made raccoons. She spends her time in the lairs with entirely of ice. They were turned on a lathe. The them when the weather without is disagreeable, hut cannon were more than ornaments. They could on bright days climbs to the upper branches of the and did shoot actual charges of powder, says Poputree inside their inclosure and stretches herself, as lll;r S c ience Monthly . Although the bore of the bar-they do, to enjoy the sun. rel was only four inches, the ice was sufficiently In addition to her distinction as the party to an strong to withstand the force of an explosion of unusual fondness for raccoons, the cat is the only nearly 2,000 $rains of powder. member of her species on exhibition in the zoo. ' HOLDS ON TO HIS $10 DESPITE A BEATING. A $10 bill these "le!48" da;1rs is worth fighting for, eve!l against odds, believed George K e eler, ten years old, of 917 Central street, Kansas City, Mo., who is at the general hospital suffering from a scalp ' ' vound which he received while defending his 10s pot. At Sixth street and Grand avenue the other 'night, a negro highwayman held up .and robbed Keeler of his green currency. Then Keeler turned on the highwayman, knocked him down and recovered the money. J nst as he wa s congratulating himself, hvo ne groos rushed him from behind and knocked him do,vn. But Keeler held fast to the money. LIBJRTY BELL WORKERS HAD GOOD APPETITES. An odd memento of the Liberty Bell, whose repli cas on every side to-day remind us that the battle for freedom has once more to be fought, is the bill for food served the workers who set it in place. It was first hung in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House, according to a claim filed by Edmund Wo0ley, dated April 17 , 1753, "for sundrys ad vanced for raising the bell and frame and putting up the bell." Wooley declared that he had on that date sup plied food and other refreshment to the workmen engaged in the task, the list including the followng: Forty-four pounds beef, 4 gammons, 2 pecks of poWOMEN RAID SHERIFF. ta'toes, 300 limes, 36 loaves of bread of Lacy ye While Sheriff T. S. George was carrying a suitBaker, 3 gallons of rum of John Jones, mustard, case full of contraband liquor which he had taken pepper, salt, butter, a cheese, cooking and wood, from a bootlegger on a train from Kansas City to earthenware and candles, and a barrel of beer of his office at the Court House, Princeton, Mo., he Anthony Morris." 1'.his formidable list cost the was "raided" by a number of women. The sheriff province a total of pounds 13 shillings 10 pence, had just reached a church when the attack was . or about $27.75, a .modest figure judging by pres made. ent day prices. Later the bell was recast from the "Booze," cried a woman as she spied the heavy same metal, but with slightly different combinasuitc2 . se in his hand. tions, to give a better tone. The bell itself cost a Instantly a dozen women surrounded the sheriff. little over $300. • •
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• THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. • 23 STEEPLE JACK, THE BOY OF. NERVE OR THE M YSTERY OF THE OLD BELL TOWER / By CAPTAIN GEORGE W. GRANVILLE (A SERIAL STO R Y) C HA PTER XI (Cont i n u ed). The boy i n the belfry, as awa re, found it,' "They are members o f the notorio us B l ack C ir-and thus it has strangely come'fack into my p o s cle," he reflected, ''and this passage is e v i dent l y o ne session again. Its c ontents are of vital i nterest to of their m eans of moving around under ground like two facticms of men , but their possessi o n of it will 111oles. It looked to me as if I were stmnbling on revolutionize the peace o f this p lace, and may l ea d their secret hiding-place, which has baffled the poto a serious interruption of our secret hidingp l ace . lice so long . If I find their hangout I will notify It is advisable that the box be destroyed with its the aut ho r ities, and they will be raided in short contents , and I therefore decree that one of our o:der. Old Tom Grimes is in with them, that is m imber be deputed to boa r d a f erryboat to -night cer t a in. Now, I wonder what they are going to do and drop i t o verboard into the middle 9f the river. with the box, anyway?" . To make sure tha t the work is well done , it will be A cold, damp chill struck into the boy, as he pe nwell for o n e to take the box, and all the rest of t his etrated the dark passage un der the arche d op en i D g, assemb lag e to follow him in s uch a way that yo u and he fou n d that he was i . n a narrow tunne l m ade I will not be s us p ected . Should any accident befall of old 'bricks which were sweating gree n moisture. the m a n w ho carrie s the box, let t h e m a n ne arest to Jack crerrt; a h ead c a utiously about t e n feet, a n d I him carry out m y will in this matter, or should h e extinguis hed his light, as he had a n idea that the be attacked, let . all ten of the brethr e n to . d e )assage was short, and might bring him upon the fend the man who is attacked. Is it well?" men he was pursuing almost at any instant. " Aye!" came a chorus in respo n se. Nor was he mistaken, for a s he turried an abrupt ' ' N umber 7, the task is your s . " bend in the passage he sudd e nly caught sight of a "It shall be done!" responded on e of t he m ' asks , dim gh t shining thr ough a red curtain which shut rising and s tepping forward to the d a i s , and the off t he further end 'of the place. old man pl ac ed the box in his hand s . • The murmur of v o ices came to his ears, and he " You will report h ere to m e to-morro w ni g h t a t softly app1:oached the drapery, and slightly mo v ed the usual time,': the old b ell-ri11ger wen t en. " I o ne side o f it. no w de clare this meeting adjourned." An old stone vault met his gaze, circular in " All the mas ked m e n arose, and forming in line, with a low ceiling, and around the walls was a r I they filed pas t the dais, the one with the box in the r anged a row of chairs in whi c h were sea t ed the l e ad, and each o n e bowing low as he passed the old m en in black, with masks on their faces. bell-ring er. They all looked exactly alike, and they were facThem w as an open door in the w all opposit e Jac k, i:J.g a dais at one end, whereon sat the o l d bell-ringer and the men passed into it, and on e b y ope the y i n his quaint costume, a t a t a bl e . disapp eared from his view. U p on this t able r e s te d the old, rust y iro n box ! As the last man vanished the old b ellr i n g e r arose A s the startled b oy pee r e d in, t h e old man was sayand strode stra ight t oward the curta in beh i n d w hich i n g : Jac k w a s hiding. "Gee w hiz0! " m uttered the boy, "Brethren o f t he Black Circle, before we were r ecoili n g. "I'd better m a k e tracks ! If I remain a l armed b y the no ise of the boy in the belfry I here anothe r instant h e will catch me. " heard your reports, and am we ll p l ease d with t he He r e treate d along the subterranean p assag e as result of yo u r work. A short time more and we swi f tly a s he dared , and heard the footsteps of Tom w ill have e nough treasure in our possessi o n s o that Grimes following him . e ach man will be we althy, whe n we have a fina l d i -Finally he reache d the o l d burial v a ult. The be l vision of the money . We can then d isband, and fry door was shut, y e t the boy d i s tinctly remem scatter to all parts of the earth, and the po lice will bered that h e had l eft i t wid e o pe n w h e n he emerge d never know who we are. But a new factor i n our i nto the vault fro m the stairca s e . It had no knob, tives has risen. This old iron box is one v\fhich I and he made an e ffort to op e n it, but to h i s d ismay hid many years ago. An unfortunate aberration he now fo.und that it was secured with a spring of my mind caused me to forge t its hidi ngplace. l ock ! H e did no t know how t o get ou t of the musty
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• 24 • THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. vault, and crouched back against' the wall, hoping of the past \.vas a blank-a man who v{hile scem that Tom Grimes would pass him in the darkness. ingly sane at times, was only actuated by the natBut it was not to be so. The old man carried a queer-ural cunning and fntelligence of a very deep maniac. shaped lamp in his hand, high above his head, and The boy saw that hi s words had taken his wan as he stepped into the vault the first thing his eyes dering mind off of their present situation, and he rested on was Steeple Jack! There was an intf:!rvr.! was quick to take advantage of it .. of deep silence; then he muttered, as he stood the With a tigerish leap, t he boy suddenly caught .lamp on the oor: him by the throat, and as a hoarse, choking cry "You here?" burst from his lips he flung the man down on the "I came down from the steeple," explained Jaclc stone floor, and pinned him down with all his "Of course. There is no other way of getting -:trength. here. So you have learned our secret, eh?. Well, The steeple climber knew what unnatural power it will never avail you, for he who once enters here of mu sc le lunatics display at times, and hi:fd keyed unbidden never leaves this place alive!'" • him self for a terrible struggle. CHAPTER XII. ON THE FERRY. The mysterious air assumed by the old man did not fool Jack in the least, for he knew very well that he had to d ea l with pure flesh and blood, and that the m "an was the leader of a gang of expert. crooks. The only question that bothered him was the fear that the ancient ra::;cal might h ave some of his masked gang in easy reach of his voice. Jack was determined to get out of the old crypt as quickly as he could in order to make an attempt to head off the men who were going to toss the old iron box into the river. He therefore asked the old fellow: It is true that the old bell-ringer made a desper-ate attempf to release himself from the boy's deadly grip on his windpipe, but Jack had caught him in such a manner that he could scarcely move. Besides that his head in falling had hit the stones heavily, and this partly stunned him, and sapped his strength. All the advantage was on the boy's side, and he quick ly rolled the old fellow over, and pulling out his h;:mdkerchief, he tied his wrists firmly behind his and arose. "I'll find out all I want to know about Daisy Gray later on!" he muttered, shaking his fist at the old fellow who now began to yell a t the top of hiR voici, 'and to swear furiously, as he writhed and squirmed in a futile effort to liberate himself. . Expecting that the man's yells might bring as sistance to him, the young climber hastened over to the door, and began to examine it very carefully in sear.ch of the hidden spring that opened it. "Can you op e n this door?" He had some experience at this sort of thing, and " I am the only person who can. It is controlled finally gave a cry of satisfaction as his fingers by a secret spring." touched a big brass near the bottom . "Then op en , it; I want to get o'ut of here." A pressure, and the door swung open. "You shall never pass, the poi;tals of that door The boy rushed out of the cript, and dashing up nlive afte:r \Vhat you have l earned about our se-the stairs he soon entered the chu r ch, and hurried crets."' was the reply. out. to the street. "Guess again, old fellow. I not only intend to A quick glance into the burial ground on each have your Black 'Ci:ccle nabbed by the police, but side of the old church showed him several dark fig you, as theil' lead2r, shall s uffer the p enalty of your ures on the Vesey street side, going out through a crimes, too." space in the fence made by removing one of the "Indeed!" sneered the old man. iron bars. "Yes, ind eed, a nd I m-;: m it, too. But I shall '•Just in time to catch the m, but no t in time to se e spare you, r.1011e, upon one conditi011, Tom how they came up out of the ground,'' thought Grime s--" Ranger. "However, I may be able to save the box "Ha! Y o u know my name ?" gasped the bellfrom loss if I can manage to dog them to the ferry." ringer, with a violent start. i:md he bent a bnrning He saw the men scatter in Vesey street, some goglance upon the undaunted boy. , ing down the street, oti:lers crossing to the other "I know your name, and I know your history. side, and some coming toward him. Now, I want to know if you recognized the y oung He knew that he had a hard job, for these mystelady who in here the other night-the girl who rious thieves no doubt were always on the lookout J',"'n up in the b elfry with you. 'Vas she your daugh-to guard against detectives shadowing them, and ter?" might po ss ibly see him in pursuit of them. A wild look suddenly blazed up in the old man's Concluding that Broadway was the safest plac e deeply sunken eyes, and he pas sed his left hand over to stay in, he went over to the St. Paul buildin g, his brow, and began to tremble. and watched the men in black. Jack saw then that he was dealing with an insane man who had lucid intervals-a man whose memory (To be continued.) /
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• • THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. J 25 INTERESTING TOPICS WHEELING'S SCHOOLS TO DROP STUDY OF GERMAN. The teaching of the German language in the grade schools of Wheeling, W. Va., was discontin ued the other day. In response to petitions signed by 4,650 persons the Board of Education has voted to discontinue the teaching of the language in the gr2.de schools at once, and in the high schools at the end of the school year. Eight thousand pupils in the grade schools gave up their German. classes to-day. Twelve teachers in the course 'Yill be given o ther employment. The work that has been done with the above result is shown in the following letter on the subject writ"'.. ten by the Food Administration which reads: "We have followed the elusive ground glass story from Maine to Califorma and from the Lakes to the Gulf for the past four months. War Intelligence; Navy Intelligence and the Department of Justice are doing the same, and in the thousands of cases that have been reported we 'have found but one genuine case of deliberate intent in putting ground glass in food. This case was where a disgruntled employe of a bakery in Fort Smith, Ark., placed glass in one loaf of bread. This was done for the purpose of injurFIRST MINT. jng the business of the baker and succeeded so well The first United States mint was established inl that the baker is out of business due to untimely Philadelphia under the provision of an Act of Con-I publicity." gress passed 126 years ago. The Quaker City was t!1en the seat .of Gov ernment, and the money-making "CARRY ON." plant was there_. This building After the drive comes the On" spirit. the fi:st authonze.d by We have _reached "Carry On" period of the m. the Umted _Ritten War Savmgs Campmgn and that means-bras:;i house, d1s tmgu_1shed as a and tacks; the organization of War Savings Societies. was the first director. The commg presses, m "Carry On!" Search out every conceivable number, were brought over Eur?pe, and 111 O_cplace where a little War Savings Society would fit tober, 792,_ they began turmng ?ut corns. well and put it there-just like a thumb tack and mmt was the onlJ'.' one i;i the until just about as simple to ?o. Fill the spaces; everyl80u, when one W41.S established m New Orleans. body is ready to help-Just ask, that's all. WHEN BUTTONS WERE INVENTED. Those who complain about the time it takes some people to dress may be comfortecl to know that it used to take much longer, because a few centuries ar.-o clothes had to be fastened on without buttons. buttons of gold and gilt \Vere worn in the fou rteenth century, but only for o:rnament; it was not until a hundred years later that they were put to t heir present use. The always popular brass button date s from 1689, and .in 1750 there was a boom in England in the manufacture of the common varieties. In Birmingham fortunes were made by men who started in the new business with little or no capital. The first American button factory was started at Easthampton, Mass., in 1827, and many are still produced in that locality. The detachable collar button is about seventy-fi v e old. I "Carry On ! " Get your second wind, if neces sary, and go after the organization of these . War Savings Societies just as you would your own busi ness. The. pledged war saver is an asset to his country and his l:Ommunity-and he knows it and is happy . . Make happy. "Carry On!" Millions of individual savers, with the best intentions "forget" to save unless they are linked together in a War Savings Society, whose business it is to see that they do not for!{'et. Plant these "forget-m e-nots" everywhere. "Carry On!" Step lively! The ;Third Liberty Loan is on; corral all the little neighborhood, church, school, office and factory units in your district and make them into working bodies. They will be a mighty help. Joined together by a common interest, enthu s ed by a common purpose, helped by habit which grows stronger and stronger each day through organized effort for systematic saving, they constitute an integ:ral part of the greatest GROUND GLASS IN FOOD. machine in the hi story of the world. Get your so-The frequent and widespread publication of state-cieties organized. The great American "Thrift ments concerning the presence of ground glass in Tank" which we a,re building will "carry on" over foodstuffs has led the Committee on Public Inforall the obstacles, no matter how many great and mation to inquire into the authenticity of these re-pressing needs may come to demand its help to win ports. It has been advised by the Food Administra-1 the war. . t'i.on that thorough investigation of more than 200 "Carry On!" To-day! Organize War Savings of the cases has di s closed only one instance in which Societjes. It answers the question for you of-how ground glass was found in the foodstuffs inspected. to keep up the sales, hot or cold, .rain or shine.
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• THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76 NEW YORK, MAY 17, 1918. TERMS TO SUBSCRIBERS Single Coples .............. , • • . . .. • • . .. . .. • . • . . . . .06 Cents One Copy Tb)"ee Months .......... , ......• , • • • .. • .75 Cent• One Copy Six . . . • . • • • . . . . . . • • . . • . . . • • • .. one Copy One Vear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . • . • • . • • • • S.00 . POST AGE FREE HOW TO SEND MONEY-At our risk send P. o. Money Order. Cbeck or Letter: remittances in any other nl'C nt your risk. we nccept Postng-e Rtnmps tbe .nme ns cash. Wl1en silvPr wrnp tlie Colo ln a separate piece of pnper to nn)l<] cutting thr c111etopc. \Vr!te your name and address plainly. Ad to collectors and penions making fancy articles . With the money received from the sale of the stamps, this organization buys all sorts of delicacie s and comforts for the wounded Belgian soldiers who are under their care. I shall much appreciate all efforts on your part to send canceled stamps to me. , If you will be good enough to send the parcels containing same to this con sular office I shall take pl easm;e in forwarding them to Europe." ...... -GRINS AND CHUCKLES " . "What's the difference between a hospital and a. santarium ?" "About twenty dollars a week." ' GOOD CUR ENT NEWS ARTICLES I A ffi d t t . d She (indignantly)-You had no business to kiss here do con fam ad 1 l'ne ! He-But it wasn't business; it was pleasure. , , , en opene was co con am wen y gallons of whisky. . The b0otlegger had ordered a grave dug in a Huron cemetery. The coffin had been i:;J:-,ipped to Huron, S. D., from the East. "Cholly says his Europeon trip was completely spoi led." "As to how?" "Seems a ca reless porter lost a label off his suit-case." The completion a short time ago of a chimney 571 He-I am not taking part in the theatricals. I feet high in Tacoma, Wash., transfers the title of always think I am making such a fool of myself. the world's chimney from Japan to America. She-Oh, every one thinks that! The structure, which in respect to )leight held the . . world's record until recently, was the 570-foot chim"Woman is a the Wise Guy. ney at Sagonos cki, Japan, says Popular Mechanics. '_'Yes," agreed the Simple Mug. "She keeps us guess; While that giant flue is of reinforced concrete, the mg and we hate to g ive her up." one s u rpassi!1g it by so narrow a margin is of brick. I . . . The big Tacoma vent, like its rival in the O rient, is j Teacher-What 1s it that bmds us together a nd part of a smelting . plant and the :reason for rearing, us b_Y nature? "Corsets, it to such great height is to prevent the fume s dissir, piped a wise httle gll"l of eight. chai 'ged by it from harll).ing . vegetation, particularly in a park clos e at hand. Spiral puttees are s upplied to the troops of the United States Armies in France. puttees are issued as needed to companies actually sening in the trenches. When woolen spiral puttees are is sued to an organization they are not to be used for habitual wear, but a specific period of not to exceed ten days will be prescribed during which period the " men in the organization are required to wear the spiral puttec3 for instruction purpo ses . After this period they will be turned in and is s ued only to such members as are ordered forward to service in the trenches. Spiral puttees are not v10rn by officers or enlisted men except for instruction purposes as above indicated. An Army correspondent writes that an appeal has been made for canceled postage stamps of any value for t..he benefit of the Belgian soldiers. A letter re ceived recently from Mr. John Rickstiel, the Belgian Vice-Consul in New York City, whoss office • "Your lodgers complain that yo u read their let ters." "Well, I can't ask questions about their private affairs. That would be very indi s creet." Lady-I wish to get a birthday preesnt for my husband. Clerk-How long married? L ady-Ten years. counter to the right. Gadsby limp e d painfully off the .polished dance floor. "It's all right about this 'rings on my fingers,' " he exclaimed,/' but hang me if I can stand for the 'bell es on my toes' !" Iv.Ian With Wooden Leg-Your charge fer cre ma tion is exorb:tant. Porter at Cemetery-Well, we will throw off ten per cent. in your case, on t;Ccount of your wooden leg. Patient-Oh, doctor, my has suddenly lost the power of speech. She can't utter a word. Doctor-Well, why do you come to me? Aren't you satisfie d to let well enough alone?
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THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. 27 A SCARRED HAND. Col. Ralp h Fenton I was sitting in my p rivate office one bright spring morning, about four years ago, when my entered and informed me that a young lady wished to se e me. "Show her in at once," I said, and a moment later my visitor stood before me. She was a young girl of about twenty, a blonde of the rarest type with deep blue eyes and features of Grecian r e gula r ity. " Be s e ated, iniss," I said, handing her a chair. "You must have heard, sir, of the muder of Mr. Temple, which place last night," she said. ' "Yes, I read of it in the papers this morning. The old g entleman was found dead in his bed this morning, stabbed to the hea r t , and his son; Harry, was arrested for the crime." " Yes, sir, but he is not guilty." "Appearances are frightfully against him. The knife .with which the deed was committed was found lying by the side of the bed, and has been proven to be the property of the young man. D:i;:ops of blood were found up('.)n his night clothes and upon the floor of his room, which adjoined his father's. This is strong evidence against him." "True, sir; but I repeat, he is innocent." Old Mr. T e mple had been a wealthy Broadway m erchant for many years, and was a u1an of ac knowledged probity. His son, on the contrary, had the reputation of being somewhat dissipated in his habits and a source of great anxiety to the old g e ntleman. But who was this young girl who seemed so certain of his innocenc e ? She perhaps read this inquiry in my eyes, for before I could reply to her question, she said: "l, Mr. Ashley, am Henry Temple's wife." "His wife. I was not aware-that he was mar"And y ou will sav e him," .she cried. "I feel cer, tain of it, sir." She drew off h e r glove and producing . a pocket book, took from it a five hundred dollar note. "Acc ept this , '' she said , "as a retainer." At this moment I noticed tha t her beautiful, shapely hand was disfigured by a long scar, stretching from her wrist to the root of h e r middle finger. I . took tho note and agree d to visit young Temple at once. I did so, and was, notwithstanding my prejudices against him, con v inced that he was not guilty. He vehemently d e nied all participation in the crime. "Have you no suspicion of who is the guilty party?" "No, sir; I have no reasou to susp ect anyone." "Your room adj.oins your father's, I believe. Did you hear no voice during the night?" "No, sir; none whatever. I s l ept very soundlyso much so, in fact, that if I did J'\Ot kno w this to be impo ss ible, I should almo s t imagine that I was drugged. I was hardly a b l e to k ee p awake long enou g h to undress whe n I went to bed. " . "What did you eat or d r ink b e fore you went to bed?" "Both my father and my self took a glass of sherry just before retirin g ." This was about all I was able to l earn from young Temple. On l ea vin g h i m I went to the hou s e where tlie murder had been committed. Before !' l eft the place I had made a th' orough examinatio;n of the body of old Mr. T em pl e , and of such of his private papers as I could gain access to . Among these documents was a diary in which the old gentleman had apparently recorded each evening, the events of the d ay. The entl'y for May 6th-the night of the murder-read as follows: "I cannot write the horrible di s covery I have this day made. But thank heaven, I have learned the truth in time. He is saved. To-monow h e shall know all. But sleep overpowers m e , I c a n sca r cely see the words I am writing, and mus t , p e rforce, ried." put away my book for to-night. What ail s me?" " Mr. As hley, for a year I have been the governess So old T e mple, too, had be e n o:ppressed by this of old M r . Templ e's mothe rless . little girl, during strange dro ws ine ss. What did it mean? which time I have resid e d in his house. Of course I descend e d to the dinin g r oom and began a search H enry and I were brought together a great deal, for that bottle of sherry. and the r es ult was that we became much attached But there w as no sherry to be seen. It had been to each othe r and were engaged to be married about removed. six months ago. A serva n t passed the door. "Old Mr. Temple approved the match, but re"See h e re, sir, " I said, "I would like a glas s of quested that we should wait one year until Henry sherry and I can't find any h e r e . " reached his majority, for he is now not quite twenty"The decanter was sent up to Mis s Atkins' room one. this morning, sir, and hasn't be e n brought down "Now, Mr. Ashley, my husband is arrested for yet," he replied. a foul crime of which he is not guilty, and I want "Miss Atkins-who is she ?" you to save him. He sent me to you asking me not "The govern e s s , si r , Mi e s gov erne ss." to lea".e you until I .had obtained your consent toj Ah, yes, Hen r y Temple's young wife, whose mar-take his case. Oh, sir, do not refuse me!" riage had not yet b e come kno w n. "Well, Mrs. Temple," I said, "it looks like a des"How did the d ecanter happe n to be taken to perate case, but I will take it." . Miss Atkins' room?" I asked.
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28 THE LIBERTY BOYS OF '76. "She sent for it; sir; she took a glass just before she went out." ''Is Miss Atkins in now?" "No, sir, but I expect her in half an hour." "Well, tell her I would like to see her as soon as she comes in. I will wait in the library for her." As yet I had Il._O suspicion of the horrible truth. I only wanted to see Mrs. Temple in order to get the de canter from her for the purpose of having its contents analyzed. I went to the library and seated myself in an easy chair to await the young lady's arrival. The table was strewn with papers. I picked up the one nearest me and to my surprise found it to be a San Francisco daily paper, dated more than a year back. ....... I curiously ran my eyes over its columns, and presently my attention was arrested by an article bearing the heading, " A Female Fiend." I began the perusal of the article. It read as follows : "Yesterday afternoon, after partaking of a hearty dinner, the family of Mr. Thomas Granville, of 87 Gstree t, were seized with the most alarming symptoms, and it soon became evident that they had been poisoned. Within an hour Mrs. Granville and her two children, both boys, expired in great agony. Mr. Granville is still very ill, but will probably recover. The food was examined and the presence of arsenic immediately detected in several articles. In the midst of the confusion, the absence of Miss Elmore, the children's governess, was noticed, and it was discovered that she had the. day before purchased a quantity of arsenic from a neighboring druggist. The motive of the crime is suppose d to have been revenge, the governess having had a quarrel with Mrs. Granville about a weel< since, during which. in the hei:i.t of passion, she . made certain threats for which she afterwards apolog ized and which were overlooked." "This Miss .Elmore, as she called herself, was first employed by Mrs. Granville about a year ago. She brought no recommendations from former employ ers, but her appearance-was so prepossessing that Mrs. Granville accepted her at once. "The appearance of this woman is certainly not such as would lead one to suppose her guilty of so terribly a crime. She is about twenty-three years nf age, quite small, with a good form, very light "o . mplexion, golden hair, blue eyes and regular features. One distinguishing mark by which the police hope to be able to identify her, is a long scar upon the back of her right hand." 1 stopped to re::i.d no more. -I sprang from my seat and summoning a servant directed him to show me to Miss Atkins' apartment. He hesitated, but I soon convinced him, that I meant what I said and he obeyed me. The next fifteen minutes I spent in the room, engaged in an examination of her effects. This examination finished, I returned to the library. I had scarcely seated myself when Mrs. Temple entered the room. . "You wish to see me, a servant :ells me," she said: "I have discovered that Henry. Temple is an innocent man." "Oh, thank heaven for that! But how can you be sure of that, sir?" "Because I have discovered the r.eal criminal," I replied, looking her straight in the eye. " Oh, Mr. Ashley, who is it?" she cried. "A woman." "A woman ! " "Yes; a woman, the secret of whose disgraceful past old Mr. Temple had discovered, ahd who took thi(> means to silence him before he had divulged the .truth to his son. A woman who purchased an ounce of laudanum at Brown's drug store yesterday -I have the bottle in my posse ssion-and who mixed the drug with the sherry which she knew father and son would drink before retiring; her object being to induce them to sleep soundly in order that her foul crime might be safely performed.• At the dead of night she killed the old man with a knife belonging to Henry Temple." In an hour she was lodged in jail. Henry Temple was soon released. At first he refused to believe the terrible story I had to tell him, but when he was at last convinced of the truth h i s love for the wretched woman he had made his wife turned to hatred and he swore to be avenged for his father's murder. She was convicted and sentenced to death, but the night before the day appointed for her execution she committed suicide with a dagger which she managed to secure in some 1 unknown manner. It seems that old Mr. Temple, on making the dis covery regarding her past life, went ,to her at once, and informed her that he knew a p, and that in consideration of her engagement to his son and the disgrace which an exposure would he \vould give her twelve hours to leave the house which he agreed to permit her to do unmole sted. She consented to the next morning, and the old gentleman was to tell his son the whole truth after. her departure. But she had no ide:i of resigning H enry T emple , whose wealth she coveted, and she too k the means of ridding herself of his father, with which 'the reader has already been made acquainted. She attempted to throw the burde n of the crime upon her hus band, because all she cared for was on account of the money he possessed, ar.d to us e her own words, she "much preferred being a wealthy young widow to an obedi en t wife." So carefully had she laid her pbns that she had no hesitation whatever in coming to me in compliance with her husband's request; for she felt cer tain that her guilt would never be detected. But she was not aware of the existence of the California paper from which old Mr. Temple had learned the fatal secret and which was the direct means of her own destroyal
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.. Sept-ernber Morn Ring'7Free 'MOUSTACHE To accelerate the growth of a 11Iou1tache use KOTALKO. Tbe-beautliul rn' sed 11gure 01 ti;, A small box wlll be malled for 25 c ents; a large box, tor clrl le a wondertiil reproduction 1n metal, $1.00. Postpaid in plain package. Cash or stamps. John of the original palnt!n. The back1round la Hart Brittain, 150 East 32d St., (BC-103), New York, N. Y. _.. . Darken Your uar nor. AUCTION co .. D•nt. c Attleoorn. Mua. HOW to Learn Movie Aclinl ! A fascinating profession that pays Would you like to know if you are adapted to this work? Send lOc. for our Twelve-HQur ra1ent Tester or Key to Movie Acting Apltude, and find whether or not you are suited to take up Movie Acting. Instructive and valuable. Send dime or stamps today. In-' terestlng, Illu1trated Booklet on Movie .Act ing included FREE f Fllm Information Bureau. Dept. a. .Jack•on, Wch. coet to you nnder our euy condition1. 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Many a young soldie r has been given an especially good place in the Army because be could act as a secre tary or clerical aide. Prelldent Wll1on uses 1horthand; so do many other foremost men. You cnn learn K. I. Shorthand quickly, easily and at small cost. 'Vrite tor the free brochure off ered by the Kina lDsUtute. If you wish to look young and to and reliable. Defies detection. Your maintain attractive personality, do friends will be pleasantly surprised in not allow your dark hair to become or seeing you apparently become younger. to remain itray. You need make no exYou'll naturally become more cheerful periments. An efficacious, easy-to-apply and lithesome under the happy psyscho method is available. It is known as logical influence of beautiful dark hair. Koskott No. 4, and we offer it in powSend only 17 three-cent stamps (51 der form, ready for you to put in water' cents), to KOSKOTT LABORATORY, and use . . occasionally to make your hair 146 East 32d Street, LA-103, New York, beautifully dark, and keep it so. Safe N. Y. Satisfaction fully guaranteed. K. l. New Book FRE.E SHORTHAND Learn in 5 ller•'•'t-1,w• 110 ! "1'it• E u.. ""' t.opther. -JW baT• ' e venings ..... l _to •lat t•ui pl 11-Tia.aAcqm. Speed R.apWly plJ wrlW 't -1 with thNO bo HI)' Try This --mov•cta of your t>Gno11, 7ou )111.ve ' Jt11de a word thAt. Med, l e p e d c 1 1 IF YOU c-. lMrD llCl't'.-Dt.• w11,n ll"ritt.ab .in lon 'h&nd. the lesson (at \ . the ,i:lrht) with-Der•'• !, 110 it. u 0111 t.o si'ite in 6 niinutes, you j J \o , should learn the "\ IUld r e.!. J Bf 15 .ur .. c1y you have learned four 1t.t. bo t .n • $bortband aivia you won't forr;et. ura o 1p1are time f!tb th• other lien• and en. •'I di• wdhlch. BC>-rectlon1 you can lee.rn to ii{dicale rapidly. ..-r-1 word in the d \ c t io n a r 7 in Thia i1 the perquert.r to t.wenti11th or the t1111e 119 fected, QUICK, quired ln ordinory ttitl.ng, a• ra P::/[.1t;l1r.':r:.: EASY METHOD idly u word• '1'• '-'""" If you wish to l•to#f • know how fast it is.possible to wi;ite by: K. I. Shorthand, ask somebody to read this whole adv&tisement rapidly within three minutes by your watch. Thus you'll realize the speed with which you should write after pleasant practice. SIMPLIFIED STENOGRAPHY. FREE BOOK Hiadrancu of old 07otemo eliminatad1 no ehading; no bother about on, over or undor ruled lines-and you can read your own notel readily after months or years. Hence K. I. Shorthand la valuable for private notes. m.,_es. etc. • IC. L Shorthand can be learned oo and ea•ilY that It la Uke a paat!me. A SCORE OF DIFFERENT USES. Uoe it for lakins dictation, telephone meseaires. notes, 1ermon.a lectura. speech-. conferen.,.... )e1111ons.. evidence. For makinir notation• while wor-lrlng problem-. contldentlal diary or memoranda. ate. 1At. K. L ,.,._.-. 1ID" t.i ....U. wit.\ Opportu'"" ,,.,_..... tM Do.-.. S.--1 Wa si•• YOll a complete correapoad.nce coune. One teDt2I the uaual coet, times easier to learn. Y on'll be BU!l>riaed and dellsrbted with It. L Sb!'rthand. lt !a the acme of SIMPLIFIED STENOGRAPHY. Write for FREE BROCHIJRE with couvlncinir testlmoDJala to ahow that ours is I\ P.ractlcal method with which you can make a SUfCESS. Do not m111S this opportunity of a Utetime. To learn L ,_Short.hand will add to your efficiency and earnlns abilib, aleo to the pleaaure of your life. Write, or use coupon below, far free Brochute. Mention this newspaper. Addrna: K ' ING INSTITUTE Name ............................................... , .••••••••••••••• Addreaa ....• : .............................................. , .. EE-103
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To.Men Who Are Bald or are Losing Their Hair Let me tell you of my own case. I was almost completely bald, and as I had tried many tonics, lotions, etc., without benefit, I expected to remain bald for the rest of my life. But instead of baldness, I now have a complete growth of hair upon my head. This is all the more remarkable because I am 66 years old. 1 The way that I obtained a perfect hair growth was as simple as it was astonishing to me. While traveling I met an old Cherokee Indian who gave me a pomade or ointment to use upon my scalp. Although my confidence was meager, I used this compound. He told me it contained se lected components from the Three Kingdoms of Nature. After several applications my looking-glass reveuled a slight fuzz. This from day to day to a heaithy growth of hair. Imagine my satisfaction in being able actually to brush the hair where there had been a bare scalp! Yet it was true. Soon I was able to corpb it--and i have been able to do so ever since. I traded with the old Indian obtaining the recipe. It was crude and thll ointment was almost nauseating. So I had it modernized, by a practical chemist, holding to the original principle, and now from the recipe a cosmetic pomade is prepared. . Men and won_ien have used it--and many are now domg so. In numerous cases remarkable re sults are being reported. This ointment contains no alcohol nor anything else that has a tendency to dry the hair, the scalp or the roots. The way for you to prove what it will do for you is to try it. I will mail you the recipe free of charge. Your own physician will tell you that it is safe and you may obtain a supply from the druggist. Or you may get it from me. It is call ed Kotalko. A proof box will be ma:iled, with the recipe, if you send 25 cents, silver or stamps, to John Hart Brittain, 150 East Thi:ttyseconq St., BE-103, New York, N. Y. This is a genuine announcement de void of the lavis h phraseology of the usual advertisements, but it means exactly what it says, and I, being a business man of good reputation, stand ready to prove to you. How to Reduce Your Weight Simple, Safe, Reliable Way If you are carrying around ten to sixty pounds of unhealth f.OU are unnecessarily weakening your vital organs and are bearing a burden which destroys the beauty of your figure. Why continue to be a victim of superfluous fat ? If you want to reduce your. weight in a simple, safe and reliable way, without starvation diet or strenuous exercise, here is a test worth trying. Spend s9me time daily in the open air, iieven deep breaths each morning and night and get from any i'OOd druggist a box of oil of korein capsules; take. one after each meal and one beforf your whole body and mind. If you are overstout you shoulq give this treatment a trial. You are very likely to be surprised and delighted. Amaze your friends, ! I have. nn Important conftdent!al for ;you. How to conquer the liquor habit in three days and make home happy. H will come in a plain enTelope. Wonderful, Hfe, D lasting, reliable, inexpensive m1!thod, guaranteed. :Write Edw. J. Wood•, WM103 Station E. New York, N. 'Y. Sh .., i' to others. had bun 1•ac.hlric '" ....... Cigarette Habit WILL P 0 WE R How to Overeoqie It Quiekiy and Easily / If you are lacking in will power due to a lack of ment1tl energy or timidity; if you feel dull or lazy; if you see others g(ltting ahead .of you who, in fact, are not so cleve r as you. and if you are seeking a stimulating remedy, try Woods V Tabules. Contain no alcohol nor any "dope," yet are wonderfully efficacious as an lnvigorant. Send for a box, at 50 cents or $1.00, to Edw. J. Woods, VA:103 . Station F . New York. N. Y .. and It will come to you promptly. Each tabule has potency. Let this remed y prove an aid In giving you the necessary physlcai and psychological start so ns to dev elop your Will power and make a success. Unless you ha"te )leen e"csptionaJly careful the cigarette habit has a hold which yQU cannot shake off by will power. The lure of the cigarette is powerful. Is it the nicotine that is po oning your system, making you nervous, heart weak, dzspeptic, eye strained and irrit;i.ble? .../ Are you troubled with sleeplessness at night and dullness in the morning until you have doped yourself with the nicotine of cigarettes or pipe, or chewing tobacco 1 They're all the same , you know. r Give your poison-saturated body, from your pale yellowish alfin right into jour pale yel . ( lowish liver, a chance to be free from the mean slavery of nicotine. Get rid or tile Vicious habit. Lengthen your life. Become contented and spread hap piness amonr others. Enjoy tranquillity com bined with forceful thought and real efficiency. I know what will conquer the tobacco babit in three days. You gain the victory com pletely and privately at home. My new book will be very interesting to you. It will come to you in a plain wrapper free, posti;iaid. You will be surprised and d elighted 1f you write to Edward J. Woode, WT-103, Station F, New York, N. Y,
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I A Big Chanc e Now for You! H o w to Get a Better Position and Double or Treble Your Earnings by the Nt.W System YOUNG man, here is one of the best tips you ever received in your life. It is fact--not fiction. It concerns you and your future welfare. You have many years ahead. What are you going to do? Will you keep on a low level or will you join the ranks of the leaders? Sutely you want to become one of those who do things. Tl:en don't remain a dreamer. You must act, and do so right now. You Need No College Many a man who never had much scbool.ing-who never saw the inside oI a c o llege or even a high school-has made a notable success in life. So can you . You will be what you make yourself. Twenty years hence you may be grubbing for enough moi'U?y to pay your bills from week to week and with very li t tle pleasure in life. It may be a case of work, plus work-and worry about where or you will have a chance to enjoy life. Prosperity For You! I Watch For Your Chancel As a messenger, when calling at the office of a lawyer, broker, physician, business man or other important person, you would have a chance, when you least were looking for it, 'to take down a message, or conversation, o:r; directions, or rapidly dictated tele gram, in K. I. Shorthand. The would be amazed at your cleverness, and it would easily mean a better po sition for you with fine . prospects of advancement. If you expect to get into the Army or Navy, you will make the mistake of your life if you don't learn K. I. Shorthand at once. From the very outset, this capability is likely to put you in line for quick promotion. If you are already in the Government service you know full well the advantages gained by those who could write shorthand. As a clerk, bookkeeper, assistant, salesman, porter, . nriver, chauffeur, farmer; indeed. in any capacity, the know ledge of K. I. Shorthand will give you a great opportunity to gain promotion. Oz:, twenty years hence you may be Opportunity Awaits You Now. earmng many t h ousands of dollars Those who can write shorthand are yearly. You may be able to take a everywhere in demand now. If you trip to the seaslio1 e , ihe mountains, have the desire to become a stenograto Europe, or to China. You may Ph er and typist--in makmg a starteven have your own pnvate yacht for here is your opening. There are thouwater journeys . You may have your sandsof clerical positions open in the automobile-and even your aeroplane. Government additional to the Army You mav spend what you wish be-and Navy. There are many thoucause the mone y is coming to you. sands of openings in professional and Now, young man, this is all possible business offices. A young man who fer you . Start. now and make it come can take down dictation in shorthand true . and who can operate a typewriter Rise above your present position. (easy to learn) may obtain a pleasant Learn the new system of stenograposition. and soon be earnphy, not b eca use you care to become m g , twenty to thirty-five dollars a a stenographer but to help :your adweek. Legions are doing it. vance in your regular job . I You probably have thought that to :Ko !\fatter What You Are No.w. learn stenography is a hard undertaking, and so it would be if you were to try to learn one of the old, extensive systems such as the Gregg, Graham, Pitma n and numerous others. Those systems demand months of intensive study; it is discouraging to attempt leiirniiig suqh systems. Only a percentage of those who start studying those systems ever succeed in master ing them. Learn So Very Easily. hours-of one week. Then you acquire speed in writing by easy practice whenever you find an opportunity. You will be aml)J:ed at your progress. No need to. go to school. You re ceive the lessons and learn them in your own bed-room, or in spare halfhours during the day. Only ten of those half-hours are needed before you can write any word in the dictionary! Other Systems Are Expensive. The cost of learning the other systems is high. Usually from thirty to a hundred dollars is the tuition fee, additional to which you must put in an almost endless amount of hard study. Even if you start to learn in a Y. M. C. A. or other association you will fin'1 it necessary to take two or three courses. Reckon the cost, and the time! With K. I. Shorthand we have a special offer to make to you. Pay only one dollar down; then fifty cents a week for eight weeks. Total, five dollars! Your success in learning K. I. Shorthand is g-uaranteed or you ma'y have your money back-every cent of it. This is a genuine offer to you, backed by the eminent King Instit u e which is incorporated with $100,000.00 authorized capital. CLIP THIS COUPON. To take advantage of this special offer of easy payments, write to us, enclosing one dollar and ah;o the Coi,, pon, here printed which you are to EF-IOS cut out. RemeID<; " J K. I. her the t e rm s . $1.00 down an d SPECIAL eight weekly pay-EA s y I' A Yments of 50 cents .IIBN'l' COUPON each . . You may s e n d stamps, or money-order. Or if you prefer, you may send for the free book, then en roll, but in such case atta ch this cou pon to your letter just t he same as if you were enclosing money. Addr'.)SS: As an. office bey you could easily the boss by taking down important telephonic or other messages in K. I. Shorthand (that's the name of the new system) and reading them accurately to the manager, who might say: "You bring me verbal messages so clearly that I am amazed at your accuracy... Then you give the mana ger a surprise by telUng him that you use shorthand, which enables you to write words dowp as rapidly as a person tal.ks. Thi<; will mean promotion for you-it positively will-very soon. King Institute, 154 East 32nd Street, EF-103, New York, N. Y. Mention your age and your present occupation. There is another advertisement • of K. I. Shorthand in this issue which will help you in understanding the With the new K. I. Shorthand, the great value to you of learning our secret of quick and easy learning is . Double or treble your pay! solved. You should learn the whole I Others have done it. Why not you? system in the spare time-say five This is the time for you to awaken!
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