STORY.
How
of
neither
us
ARMY
AND
GRAIN
was
Has
Hanged. AN
"FARMERS'
THE
five November day, been the hospital having on ac horseback, up, I was companying a train :of convalescents, We en route for Harper's Ferry. not out from were five miles Win a couple of troopers, in chester when the' uniform of our escort, calvary from behind, rode to me up quickly to and asked me excitedly go with
On weeks broken
them
at
boys
who
skulker
attend
to
once
had
been
of
one
shot
OR
FURTHER
RICH
TERMS.
The
& Co..
STREET,
Life
Equitable
ana
of
way
the
Society
old,
Assets Surplus
States.
and secluded where seemed less,
to
was
a
spirited not
far
off,
be
camp
for
the
a
to
The to
the
wait morrow."
we'll
So, for
me
of the
get the
till
-
£10,508,995
-
valuation
than
larger
Best Test of Strength Future Bonuses.
conducted
the
on
Forrest, G.
Esq., H.
F.R.G.S,
Johnston,
BRANCH
Plan
Mutual
;
that
of
any
even.
However,
colonel
comes
an
innocent
noose
Manager.
Special
A.
and
man,
107
J.
all
Surplus
T.
Edward
Representative,
Hoolet, S. J.
spite
.
where, guarded by a to on await my doom They did not take the relieve me of my medicine-
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
PRIZE
all,
though
Bank
Reference,
was
at
of New
they
CLARKE
South
life
.
.
of of that
in .the T recognised my late,orderly corporal did .not He
as
!
Petheringtbn and in however,
a
moment
;
AND
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July 8th. 15th. July
was
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gone.
a
Turning from
vial
a
had
one pocket of medicine-case my back to the
iri
tablets
of
jug
also
I
cup. my
in
case
my
morphine
of
produced
to
flask.
my I.
said
night,"
:
I've
drink
Wales.
Sight-Testing
a
Yank,
me.
I
there
was
put
do
you
there
was
arm
?" no sign ; in stretched in the dark
Carefully, the into hand; cup and the cup returned a gulp, the
The
empty. drop
me
mind
an
furtively,
ness, to
don't
moment
a
then, toward
for
you
with
For
here, whiskey having a
got
some
.
Johnny;
had
victim
drank
!
every
I went the dumb through then a drink myself, taking man for sat my eagerly watching the drug. the of of working signs
KNAPP,
SPECTACLEMAKERS,
seem to Never did time drag so the head began to but at last slowly then nod and itself jerk up again ;
Perth.
Arcade,
the
stealthy
DRAKE &
.
& and
Ironmongers BUILDERS'
GENERAL
REQUISITES',
thrill
me,
and
of
Cold
"
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Importers, IRONMONGERY,
and
BTUBBS, Hay
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Perth.
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FITTINGS
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for
Merryweather
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GIRDERS
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&
PLUMBERS
FITTINGS,
Alston's
Windmill.
Telephone
foe.
the
to
sought
fight
then, narcotic
Softly,
powerful
I
off
his
crept up, declared
mastery,
it of despoiled laid it comfortably
Sizes),
& Melbourne; Ltd., Son, Fire London. Brigade Appliances.
as
soldier
I the fall deftly caught arid gently the ing carbine supported head and swaying body. drooping into Then I dragged the limp figure the dark chamber of the prison-pen its
but
John
was
whiskey
took
I
a
A grunt was the only Pour reply. ing but some whisky into the drugged I offered the potion to the sentry, cup, as as I could, saying nonchalantly while my heart beat fast
as
person see
of
had
I
Quickly of
&
OPTICIANS
arid
the
;
show
of despair settled upon me, stupor in the till, the hours passed. unheeded roused I was by the tramp afternoon, of an approaching1 body of men, whicn to be the relief I rightly guessed sentries.. its rounds, on .changing guard As
flask
"
,
out glanced of the guard advanced corporal to the turned keenest my stupor
water,
:
means
I
myself
chicken-house
and
tatiously
LIST
Free
and revolver.
I looked for possible Eagerly but none There of escape, appeared. no in the chicken-house was opening and although the except the doorway, effect door was place was gone its on a filled ually by a big sentry, sitting The the iambs. set-between barrel
Carelessly
excited
This done while yet daylight I waited with what patience remained, I could till be halfmuster it should when seven a time o'clock past I have fallen and when night would minutes before should yet have thirty That the coming of the relief guard. I took a favour hour having come, when the able moment hap sentry and osten me, pened to look toward
M.L.A.
Esq.,
my
found
ran
I
an make as heavily opiate stupefying them as would be safe, and dissolved water. in the cup by the aid of a little
belongs
Chenhall.
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farmyard,
the morrow. to trouble or search me case, belt took away my
re
scheme.
a
enough
CHARLES).
MONSTER
!
I
were
the
at
sentry,
TATTERSALL'S (C/o
store
in and in
guards
—
W.
to
was
thoughts,
when
my overcoat, in another.
:
Chairman;
M.L.A.,
the
'
The next only. would be at of relief, then, when it would already o'clock, rapidly
a
ADELAIDE
then,
sentry,
is
Society
in brought twelve and one,'
hours
four
In the
Policy-holders.
guard.
of my recog green sash, surgeon's warfare as nised in regular marking once and At the non-combatant a of unceremoniously sergeant burly an me to old, the guard marched within tumble-down chicken-house the
business
the of
of
just
been
between
Thus
1897.)
in
the
—
is
PERTH A.
-
laying
every
31st,
Surplus standard
Guarantee
looked dis charge to better find that nothing gusted doctor had been caught, than a poor " for and said to me, surlily, Sorry I have but reckon doc', you'll you, You-uns of to swing. strung up one us been the other day, and so we've officer
The
on
away
by a small
held
now
guerillas,
quickly
farmyard to
office
(December
£49,349,231
-
liabilities in the world.
ASLargeZSurplus
!
I
life
other
-
over
was
it
;
had
I
plainly in
mind POSITION
FINANCIAL
who
guerillas again, know better, caught by an was use old trick Resistance
Mosby's should
I,
that
watch
my
I As this itself, thought presented that also noticed above the trooper's beard was the of a toper red nose across and then there flashed my
But
the
and
time
at
sentry newly-posted the consciousness that with sudden about my size, and wore he was just cut to a full beard of similar my own. and stations ex Were the uniforms how in the then, easily changed, the could the one personate darkness other!
rear.
were we out of sight of hardly on each side road, when suddenly of my head a big calvary pistol while a its black muzzle, pointed determined voice hissed in my ear, doctor. or "Our Keep still, prisoner, man !" you're a dead
some
staring
Pr.ttTH.
Assurance
United
o'clock.
before.
never
be dark. APPLY
our
I
four
TO
PURSER
WlLUAM
as
looked
eight
PARTICULARS
I). 128
some
by
acceded, rode to a hollow a little the turnpike and to the
we away off from
FOR
by.
near
Unsuspectingly
.
CASH
dull
a
later,
work
lieved round
(Concluded.)
hope,
sure
felt
I
so
Australasia.
now
I
to
gives better any other drill
than
in
DRILL.
and
sale
largest satisfaction
STORY.
SURGEON'S
FAVOURITE"
FERTILISER
the
revived within me, that in any way that himself would not compromise John me as I had saved would help to save him. So now my wits set themselves But
for
.
OUR
pallet,
358. !
covered
as it
if
with
in
and cap down on natural my
own
overcoat
;
;
straw my and sleep, cap and coat.
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