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He takes passage on the steamer Warrior and makes the acquaintance of Judge Beaucaire, rich planter, and of Joe Klrhy (the Devil's Own), notorious Rambler. Knox learns Judge Beaucaire has a daughter, Eloise. and a granddaughter, Rene, offspring of a son whom the judge has disowned. Rene's mother Is a negress, and shs and her daughter, never having been freed, are slaves under the law, although the 'girls have been brought up as sisters. Kirby induces the Judge to stake his plantation and negro servants on a poker hand unfairly dealt by Joe Carver, Kirby'? partner. Kirby accuses the Judge of cheating. Beaucaire. infuriated, drops dead. Knox tries to Induce Kirby to give up his stolen winnings. ' Kirby and Carver throw Knox overboard. The lieutenant swims ashore and reaches a hut. Knox lies unconscious for ten days. Recovering, he finds he Is In a cabin owned by Pete, a "free nigger," who had shot him, mistaking him for an enemy. His dispatches have been forwarded. Recovering from his wound, Knox sends Pete to bring Havnes, Beaucaire's lawyer, and they arrange, with Pete's help, to get the women to the cabin of an abolitionist, Amos Shrunk, before Kirby corties. At the Beaucaire place Knox overhears-a conversation between the'sheriff and his deputy, and learns the truth about the situation. He Is witness to an Interview between Kirby and Rene Beaucaire. ' not warned by anyone before their I arrival?" i "No, there was no warning. Did | anyone tn this neighborhood under-1 j stand?" i "Haines the lawyer did. He furnished me with much of the information 1 possess. "But I am the one where the others are--Delia and Miss Eloise. Perhaps they have had warning and fled already," I urged desperately. . Her eyes were starinj down at Klrby's body. "Look, he--he Is not dead," she sobbed excitedly. "Did you see thenpuzzled now. If the truth was not one of his limbs moved, and--and-- CHAPTER VI--Continued. ; ^ ;:«I know," she said distinctly, "l am M longer a free white woman^ I an; a jnegro and a slave." **Oh, you know that, do yod? Then you must also be aware that you are ny property. Perhaps it will be well for you to remember this in answertag my questions. Now tell me who Informed you of all this?" "I cannot answer." , „ ••Cannot! You mean you will not. Well, young woman. Til find means to make you, for I have handled your lrind before. Where Is Eloise Beau- Olrer "Why do you seek to find her? There It no slave blood In her veins." "To serve the necessary papers, of course." He spoke Incautiously, urged on by his temper, and I marked how quickly her face brightened at this intelligence. To serve papers! They must be served, then, before--before you can take possession? That is what I understood the sherifT to say. Then I an not really your slave--yet?" her voice deepening with earnestness and Uderstanding. ,"Ob, so that Is how It Is--even if I am a negro I do not belong to you until those papers have been served. If you touch me now, you break the law. I may not be but I am free from you. I am to know that!" "And d n little good It Is going do you." he growled. "Sheriff or nd sheriff, my beauty, you are going to St. Louis with me tonight; so I ad- •Ise you to keep a grip on that tongue of yours. Do you think I am going to be foiled altogether by a technical point of law? Possession is the main thing, and I have you where you can't gat away. You hear me?" She had not moved, although her form had straightened and her hand no longer rested on the table. Kirby had stepped close in front of her, his eyes glowing with anger, his evident Intention beliig to thus frighten the girl Into compliance with his wishes, her eyes, defiant and unafraid, leoked him squarely in the face. **I certainly hear," she replied calmly,. "Your voice is sufficiently distinct. I am a slave, I suppose, and la your power; but I despise you, hate you--and you are not going to take me to St. Louis tonight" "What can stop me? The sheriff? *uh 1 a few dollars will take care of Mm. The Judge Is a friend of mine." . "It Is not the sheriff--nor the judge; |pl ace reliance on bo friend of tr* He grasped at her arm, but she flepped back quickly enough to avoid ttratact, and the red lips were pressed together in a thin line of determination. Her hand had suddenly disappeared within the folds of her skirt; but the angry man, apparently blinded by the violence of his pnssion, -his ffigerness to crush her spi.1t, thought ibly that she counted on outside aid *>r deliverance. "You silly little fool," he snapped, *ia mustache bristling. "Why, what Arald you do to stop me? I could freak your neck with one hand. So jjfpn Imagine someone is going to save fou. Well, who will it be? Those jiokels down at the Landing? Haines the lawyer? You have a surprise up .Jour sleeve for me, I suppose! H--1! It makes me laugh; but you might as well have your lesson now as any other time. Come here, you wench!" He caught her arm this time, brutally jerking her toward him, but as Instantly staggered backward, grasping at the table, the flash of anger in his eyes changing to a lpok of startled surprise. A pistol was leveled full In his face, the polished black barrel shining ominously In the light of the overhead lamp. "Now perhaps you know what I mean," she said. "If you dare to touch me I will kill you like a dog. , That ts no threat; it is true as God's gospel," and the very tone of her voice carried conviction. "You may say I am a slave--your Blave! That may be so, but you will never possess me never! Life means nothing to me any more, and I never expect to go out of this house alive; I <i0 not even care to. So I am not afraid of you. Do not drop your arms, you low-lived cur for you have never been nearer death in all your miserable life than you are now. God knows I want to kill iou; It is the one desire of my heart t this moment to rid the earth of such a beast. But I'll give you one chance--Just one. Don't you dare call out or answer me. Do what I say. Now step back--back along the table; . that's It, a step at a time. Oh. i knew you were a cowardly bully. Go on--yes, clear to that window; don't lower those hands an inch until I say you may. I am a slave--yes, but I ara also a Beaucaire. Now reach behind you and pull up the sash--pull it Up X higher than that." sight of me, emerging from the black shadow Just behind her victim. Kirby ftlso perceived the quick change In the face fronting him, read its expression of fright, and sought to twist his head so as to learn the truth. Yet before he could accomplish this or his lips could give utterance to a sound, my hands closed on his throat, crushing him down to the sill, and throttling him into silence between the vise of my finger*. CHAPTBH VII. to Save a "Nlga*ft» It proved to be a short, sharp struggle, from the first the advantage altogether with me. With all the oldtfme dislike In my heart, all the hatred aroused by what I had overheard, I closed down on his throat, rejoicing to see the purple of his flesh turn Into a sickening black, as he fought desperately for breath and as he lost consciousness and ceased from struggle. I was conscious of a pang in my wounded shoulder, yet it seemed to rob me of no strength but only added to my ferocity. The fellow rested limp in my hands. I believed I had killed him, and the belief was a Joy as I tossed his helpless body aside on the floor and stepped through the open window Into the room. In my heart I hoped he was dead, and In a sudden feeling of utter contempt I struck the inert body with my foot. Then, as my eyes lifted, they encountered those of the girl. She had drawn back to the table, startled out of all reserve by this sudden apparition, unable to comprehend. The pistol yet remained clasped in her hand, while she stared at me as though a ghost confronted her. "Who--who are you?" she managed to gasp in a voice which barely reach my ears. "My God! who--who sent you here?** "It must have been God," I answered, realizing instantly that I needed to make all clear In a word. "I came only to help you and was just In time--no doubt God sent me." "To help me? You came here to help me? But how could that be? I--I never saw you before--who are you?" I stood straight before her, my eyes meeting lier own frankly. I had forgotten the dead body at my feet, the Incidents of struggle, the pain of my own wound, comprehending only the supreme Importance of compelling her to grasp the truth. "There is no time now to explain all this. Miss Rene. You qaust accept the bare facts--will you?" "Yes--I--I suppose I must." "Then listen, for you must know that every moment we waste here in talk oqly makes escape more difficult. I tell you the simple truth. I am Steven Knox, an officer in the army. It chanced I was a passenger on the boat when Judge Beaucaire lost his life. I witnessed the game of cards this man won, and afterward, when I protested, was attacked and flung overboard W 1*.". ffa: Hands Closed on His Throat, Crushing Him Down to the Sill. into, the river by Kirby here and that fellow who Is outside guarding the door., They believe me to be dead; but I managed to reach shore and was taken care of by , a negro--'Free Pete' he calls himself ; do you know him?" "Yes--oh. yes; he was one of the Carlton slaves." Her face brightened slightly in its bewilderment. "Well, I knew enough of what was bound to occur to feel an Interest, and tonight he brought me here for the purpose of warning you--you, your mother and Eloise Beaucaire. He has his cart and mule out yonder; w« intended td transport you across the river, and thus start you safely on the way to Canada." "Then," she said slowly, seeming to catch at her hreath, her voice trembling, "then* it must be realljr." true Her eyes dilated with midden anon-1 mother•"'toe'?""* "**• 8k. Mdc.Wh,, "iou dld „!, "-.'i; ^, Iotl were known to any of you how does ,Jt happen the others are gone?" "So far as I am aware that Is merely an accident. They walked 'over to the old Carlton place early this evening; there is sickness Ir. the family, and they hoped to be of help. That Is everything I know. They were to return two hours ago, for I was here all alone, except for the negroes In their quarters. I cannnt conceive what has occurred--unless they have learned in some way of the trouble here." "That must be toe explanation; they have hidden themselves. And these men told you why they came?" "The only one I saw at first did. He came In all alone and claimed "to be a deputy sheriff. I was terribly frightened at first, and did not at all understand ; but I questioned him and the tnan liked to talk. So he told me all he knew. Perhaps I should have thought he was crazy, only--only some things had occurred of late which led me to half suspect the truth before. I--I wouldn't believe It then, but--but I made him repeat everything he had heard. Horrible as it was I--I wanted to know all." And you acknowledged to him that you were Rene Beaucaire?" Her dark eyes flashed up Into my face questioningly. Why--why, of course. I--I could not deny that, could I?" "Perhaps not ; yet if noiw of them knew you, and you had claimed to be Eloise, they would never have dared to hold you prisoner." "I never once thought of that; the only thing which occurred to me was how I could best protect the others. My plan was to send them warning in some way. Still now 1 am vefy glad I said I was Rene." Glad! Why?" 'Because it seema.lt la Eloise they must first find to serve their papers on. They dare not' take .away the slaves until this is done. As for me. I am nothing--nothing but a slave myself; Is that not true?" To look Into her eyes, her face, and answer was a hard task, yet one -I saw no way to evade.. "Yes; I am afraid It 1s true." "And--and then Delia, the housekeeper, Is actually my mothrt*?" "That is the story as It reached me." She held tightly to the table for support, all the fresh color deserting her face, but the lips were firmly set and her head remained as proudly poised as ever above the round throat. Whatever might be the stain of alien blood In her veins, she was still a Beaucaire. Her eyes, filled with pain as they were, met mine unflinchingly. And--and knowing all this, convinced of its truth--that--that I am colored," she faltered, doubtfuRy, "you came here to help me?" "1 did; that can make no difference now." "No difference! Why do you say that? Are you from-the-North, an abolitionist?" No; at least I. haye never been called one or so thought myself. I have never believed in slavery, yet I was born In a southern state. In this case I merely look upon you as a woman--as one of my own claBs. It-- It does not seem as though I could ever consider you in any other way. You must believe this." "Believe it! Why, you and I are caught In the same net. I am a slave to be sold to the highest bidder, and you--you have killed a man to save me. Even if I was willing to remain and face my fate I could not now, for that would mean you must suffer. And--apd you have done this for me." My eyes dropped to the upturned face of Kirby, on which the rays of light rested. The flesh was no longer black and horrid, yet remained ghustly enough to increase my belief that the man was actually dead--had perished under my hand. He was not a pleasant sight to contemplate, flung as he had been in a shapeless heap, and the sight brought home to me anew the necessity of escape before those others of his party could learn what had occurred. "From whatever reason the deed was done," I said, steadying my voice, "we must now face the consequences. As you say, it Is true we both alike have reason to fear the law If caught. Flight is our only recourse. Will you go with me? Will you trust me?" "Go--go with you? Where?" "First across the river Into Illinois; there Is no possible safety here. In a way your danger Is even mo>e serious than mine. I have not been seen-- even Kirby had no glimpse of my face--and might never be Identified with"4he death, of this manl But you will become a fugitive slave and could be hunted down anywhere this side of Canada." "Then being with me would add to your danger." "Whether It will or not counts nothing; I shall never let you go alone." She pressed the palms of both her hands against her forehead as though in a motion of utter bewilderment. "Oh. I cannot seem to ealize." she exclaimed. "Everything is like a dream to me--Impossible In its horror. This situation Is so terrible; It has come upon me so suddenly I cannot d^lde; ! cannot even comprehend what my duty is. You urge me to go away with you--alone?' "1 do; there is no other way left. You canuot remain here in the hands of these men; the result of such a step is too terrible to even contemplate. There are 3j§ mean* of determining why, he Is beginning to gasp for breath." "All the more reason wh^ we should decide at once. If the fellow regains consciousness and lives, our danger will be all the greater." "Yes, he would be merciless," her lips parted, her eyes eloquent of disgust and horror as she suddenly lifted them to my face. "I--I must not forget that I--I belong to him; I am his slave; he--he, that hideous thing there, can do anything he wishes with me--the law says he can." The indignant Color mounted into her face. "He can sell me, or use me, or rent me; I am his chattel. Good God! think of It! Why, I am as white as he is, better educated, accustomed to every care, brought up to believe myself rich and happy--and now I belong to him; he owns me, body and soul." She paused suddenly, assailed by a new thought, a fresh consideration. "Is It so, Is it the law that these men can take possession of nothing here "until after Eloise has been found and theli papers served upon her?" "Yes, I believe It Is,""I said. "She Is the legal heiress of Judge Beaucaire; the estate is hers by inheritance, as I am told there was no will. All this property, including the slaves, would legally remain In her possession until proper steps had been taken by others. Serving of the papers would be necessary. There is no doubt as to that." She drew a deep breath and stepped toward me, gazing straight into my face. "I believe in you," she said firmly. "And I trust you. You look like a real man. You tell me you serve in the army--an officer?" "A lieutenant of infantry." She held out her hand and my own closed over It, the firm, warm clasp of her fingers sending a strange thrill through my whole body. An Instant she looked directly Into my eyes, down Into the very soul of me, and what I read In the depths of her brown orbs could never find expression in words. I have thought of it often since--that great, dimly lighted room, with the guard at the outer door; the inert, almost lifeless body huddled on the floor beside us, and Rene Beaucaire, her hand clasped In mine. "Lieutenant Knox," she said softly, yet with a note of confidence in the low voice, "I am going to trust you absolutely; there are reasons why I so decide which I cannot explain at this time. I have not known you long enough to venture that far. You must accept me just as I am--a runaway slave and a negress, but also a woman. Can you pledge such as I your word of honor--the word of a soldier and a gentleman?" "I pledge It to you, Rene Beaucaire," I answered soberly. "And I accept the pledge in all faith. From now on whatever you say I will do." I had but one immediate purpose in my mind--to escape from the house as quickly as possible, to attain Pete's cart at the edge of the woods, and be several miles up the river, hidden away In some covert before • daylight, leaving no trail behind. It would prove decidedly to our advantage if I was not seen or recognized. The very mystery, the bewilderment as to who had so viciously attacked the gambler and^lfasplratlon. then spirited away the girl, would serve to facilitate our escape. I stooped and removed a pistol from Klrby's pocket, dropping It, together with such ammunition as I could find. Into one of my own. The man by this time was breathing heavily, although his eyes remained closed, and he still lay exactly as he had fallen. "Keep your own weapon," I commanded her. "Hide It away la youf dress. Now come with me." She obeyed, uttering nc word of objection, and stepping after me through the open window onto the narrow bal* cony without. I reached up and drew doVta the shade, leaving us in comparative darkness. The night waa soundless and our eyes, straining to pierce the black void, were unable to detect any movement "You see nothing?" I whispered, touching her hand in encouragement. "No evidence of a guard anywhere?" "No--the others must still be out in front waiting." , "There were only the four ofthexa, then?" "So I understood. I was told they came up the river in a small keelboat, operated by an engine, and that they anticipated no resistance. The engineer was left to watch the boat and be ready to depart downstream at any moment." "Good; that leaves us a clear passage. Now I am going to drop to. the ground; it Is not far below. Can you make It alone?" "1 have done so many a time." We attained the solid earth together and in silence. "Now let me guide you," she sug* gested, as I hesitated. "I know every Inch of the way about here. Where & the negro waiting?" "At the edge of the wood where the wagon road ends, beyond the slave quarters." "Yes, I know; It will be safer for us to go around the gardeq." She flitted forward, sure-footed, confident, and I followed as rapidly as possible through the rtnrkness. barely k *1% MFAl "Can You Pledge Such aa I Your Word of Honor--the Word of a 8oldier and a Gentleman?" keeping her dim figure io light. Our feet stumbled over the ruts of a road, and I seemed to vaguely recognize the spot as familiar. Yes, away off yonder was the distant gleam of the river reflecting the stars. This must be the very place where Pete and I had parted, but--where had the fellow gone? "Here Is where he was directed to wait," I explained hurriedly. "I am sure I am npt mistaken in the spot." "Yet he is not here, and there la no sign of him. You left no other instructions except for him to remain until your return?" "I think not--oh, yes, I did tell him If you women came without me he was to drive you at once to the boat and leave me to follow the best way I could. Do you suppose it possible the others reached here and he baa gone away with them?" She stood silent and I fctrove by peering about to discover some marks of guidance, only to learn the uselessness of the effort. Even a slight advance brought no result, and It was with some difficulty I even succeeded In locating her again in the darkness-- indeed, only the sound of her voice macje me aware of her immediate presence. "The negro's boat la some distance away, is it not?" / --- » "Four miles, over the worst road I ever traveled." 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