e of a Cou

so far as a coat might, always expressed in its various combinations the condition of his mind, was buttoned close up under his chin, giving to his slender

. If his purpose, suh, is to ignore me al

the firm's mail?" said

e, suh-not

either intercepting the challenge or of pacifying the object of the colonel's wr

ers had been sent to his apartment the night before, and that a telegram had

Run like a dog! Like

has he

ceman, I gues

n expression of profound c

s to go about with a constable taggin' after his heels, y

te office in undisguised disgust,

d Klutchem has either left town or is at this moment at police headquarters. If so, the

half hour in the hope that he might turn up, and I completing the arrangements for the

sufficient real estate to make good his bond being in readiness for any emergency. One o'clock came, then three, then five; the colonelall the time keeping to the seclusion of his private office, Fitz watc

find Klutchem either at his office or at his lodgings, the colonel was still without any reply

at he and Judge Kerfoot would arrive about noon, and another from the

the effect these combined troubles were making upon his otherwise happy coun

I had the faintest hint of the impending tragedy, it being one of the

' but good of the dead; and when you cannot say that, better keep sti

uld get hold of Klutchem the whole affair-eit

vely old idiot he is! But I tell you, Major, something has got to be done about this shooting business right away! Here I have arranged for a meeting at the colonel's house on Saturday to discuss this new coal devel

s,-"here come a gang of fire-eaters who will make it twice as di

t. The red-faced man was carrying a carpet bag-not the Northern variety of wagon-curtain canvas, but the old-fashioned carpet kind with leather hand

raw hat and uncovered a head slightl

Colonel Caarter

e and rapped twice. The colonel must have recognized the signal as familiar, for

u would come, Tom; but the Jedge I did not expec' until I got yo

; both of you com

men, of the district c

Yancey, of

were brought in, the door again cl

th glass buttons, and skin-tight light trousers held down to a pair of high-heeled boots by leather straps. The space between his waistband and his waistcoat was made good by certain pu

his traveling expenses from Kerfoot, who in turn had borrowed them from Miss Nancy, keeping the impending duel carefully concealed from that dear lady

he colonel; "but the sc

atchin'

e he's got away, Colone

? He hasn't had the dece

ly the facts, clung to the hope that

ball, and a man is killed or wounded ez soon ez the ink is dry on the papah. The time he has to live is only a mattah of muddy roa

d that everything that a Carter could do had been done, read the copy of the challenge, gave the details of

, and then in an authoritative tone, made the more impressive

a high-toned Southern

uh, is witho

be a ponderous sort of old-fashioned county judge, and who a

r of profound secrecy, another sort of consultation of a muc

se private office the colonel was at that moment occupying as a council chamber. It was addressed in the colonel's well-known round

oprietor wanted to throw it back into the box for remailing, believing it to be a Garden Spot ci

t the door, and laid the letter under th

21, Star Building, Wall S

and broke the seal. Ou

get this?" he

ier. It was he

oded the effect could not

he first man

ter. I'll go through this town like a fine-tooth comb but what

ights, could be sent at all. The traditions of the Carter family were a word and a blow, not a blow and a word in two days

ut stamps. The Government was running the post-

umbfounded that a man who had been raised as Colonel Carter could have violated so plain a rule of the cod

er had sat in a heap buried in his coat collar,-the military bu

ng a stamp about him, had dropped the document into the mail-box with the firm's letters, presuming that the clerks would affix the tax the Government imposed. That the document had reached the

ity. He owed him a humble apology, and he shook his hand. Colonel Carter had done all that a high-bred gentleman could do. The lette

oes not trust him enough to deliver to him a letter in advance of a payment of two cents, such action, while highly dis

int was well taken, and

ry lawyer who had tripped up a witness, deco

he gemman at once, hand him the orig'nal challenge, and demand an im

could not hide from a challenge he had never received. I

gonist that he would have to acquit him of this charge

o had listened to Yancey with a face like a stone god, his knees shaking w

on't think Mr. Klutchem'

r struck the floor with a thump. Both sprang to their feet. The judge and I remained qui

the colonel. "He was familiar,

acked him with a gesture, and asked the

at the ceiling a m

nd sweet potatoes, all my road would git for

e man. They will form a very large part of our freight. Any

the judge, and said reluc

onel," cont

rade a yaller dog for enough of o

g?" said Yancey searchingly,

N

onnected with y

ay that

ailroad a y

d the colonel, now thorou

judge a moment in one corn

tzpatrick, and consider yo' action hasty. Now, if you had pressed the gemman, and he ha

his statements were fals

id not ta

; on'y l

way that sounded lik

uld not rememb

ed, and Fitz n

nature. You are young and impetuous, but I know my learned friend, Judge Kerfoot, will agree with me"-here Yancey patted his toy balloon compla

easily Fitz fell into the ora

his ignorance he estimates the value of a large block of our securities as far below the price set upon a light, tan-colored canine, a very inexpensive animal; or, as he puts it, and perhaps too coarsely,-a yellow dog.

er, when the judge raise

s own county. The language used is not objectionable, either under the law or by the code. The prisoner, Klutchem, is discharged wit

bowed to him with the pleased deference of the winning attorney, gras

ustr

verworked judge, out into the street, down a flight of stone steps, and into an underground apartment; from whi

ed behind. He was in no