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trains in unimportant stations like
G rover. My writing bad been rubbed
out by a moist band, for I could see the
linger marks clearly, and in place ot it
was written in blue chalk simply:
C. B. k Q., 2G387.
"I sat there drinking brandy and
muttering to myself before that black
board until those blue letters danced
up and down, like majic lantern pictures
when you jiggle the slides. 1 drank
until the sweat poured ofT me like rain
and my tooth chattered, and I turned
sick at the stomach. At last nn idea
Hashed upon me. I snatched the way
bill off the hook. Thocarof wool. that
bad left Grorer for Boston the night
before was numbered 2G337.
"I must have got through the rest of
the night somehow, for when the sun
came up red and angry over the white
plains, the section boss found me sitting
by the stove, the lamp burning full
blaze, the brandy bottle empty beside
me, and with but one idea in my head,
that box car 26337 must be stopped and
opened as soon as possible, and that
somehow it would explain.
"I figured that we could easily catch
it in Omaha, and wired the freight
agent there to go through it carefully
and report anything unusual. That
night I got a wiro from the agent stat
ing that the body of a man had been
found under a woolsack at one end of
the car with a fan and an invitation to
the inaugural ball at Cheyenne in the
pocket of his dress coat. I wired him
not to disturb the body until I arrived,
and started for Omaha. Before I left
Grover the Cheyenne office wired me
that Freymark had left the town, going
W2st over the Union Pacific. The com
pany detectives never found him.
"The matter was clear enough then.
Being a railroad man, be bad hidden
the body and sealed up the car and
billed it out, leaving a note for the con
ductor. Since he was of a race without
conscience or sensibilities, and since his
past was more infamous than his birth,
be had boarded the extra and bad gone
to the ball and danced with Mis3 Mas
terson with blood undried upon his
bands.
"When I saw Larry O'Toole again, he
was lying stiff and stark in the under
taker's rooms in Omaha. He was clad
in his dress clothes, with black stocks
ings upon bis feet, as I had seen him
forty-eight hours before. Helen Mas
terson's fan was in bis pocket. His
mouth was wide open and stuffed full of
whito cotton.
"He had been shot in the mouth, the
bullet lodging between the third and
fourth vertebrae. The hemorrhage had
been very slight and had been checked
by the cotton. The quarrel had taken
place about five in the afternoon. After
supper Larry had dressed, all but his
shoes, and had lain down to snatch a
wink of sleep, trusting to the whistle of
the extra to waken him. Freymark
had gone back and shot him while he
was asleep, afterward placing his body
in the wool car, which, but for my tele
gram, would not have been opened for
weeks.
That's the whole story. There is
nothing more to tell except one detail
that I did not mention to the superin
tendent. When I said goodbye to the
boy before the undertaker took charge
of tho body, I lifted his right hand to
take off a ring that Miss Masterson had
given him and the ends of the Angers
were covered with blue chalk."
"Can you tell me what time it is, my
boy?" said a gentleman to aj urchin he
mot on a country lane.
'Twelve o'clock, sir."
"H'ro," said the stranger, "I should
have thought it was more than that."
"It never is nioro than that here, Bir,"
replied tho child. "It always begins
agaiu at unci"
rHE HORRORS OFST. DOMINGO.
It Wan Juat a Ilnniire.1 Years Ago That
They Occurred.
An hundred years ago tho islund of
St. Domingo was tho fairest and rich
est in tho western hemisphere, Buys
the Hartford Courant. For fifty years
it had been growing in production and
wealth more rapidly thun any other
European colony in America. It was
the emporium of the western world.
It filled the coffers of Europo from tho
exuberant fertility of its soil and well
arnod its title of "La Heine d's An
tilles." Tho French portion one third only
was the most productive, and tho
Talue of its prouuets was estimated at
175,000.000 francs an increase of
100.000,000 francs in a quarter or a
lentury a sum which represented the
"neaaure of toil exacted bj human
jlavery. The population of the colo
ay was 570. 000. Of this number 40.
D00 were whites of all classes, 30.000
rere mulattoes or free people of col
ors, 500,000 were negro slave-. Among
jhe white was a class of vagabonds
icatterd throughout tho colony, a
worthless set on which the mulattoes
oestowed tho epithet of "les petits
blancs." The African slave trade was
jt its height at this period. More
;han 300 vessels left the coast of Africa
!aden with their human freight in
:hains; l.",000 annually perished on
Jie passage; 20,000 yearly found thei
vay into the slave marts of Saint Do
ningo. The revolution in France created
political disturbancej and differences
imong the whites in the colony. The
people of color claimed equal rights
with tho whites; their claims wero re
jected, their leaders wore arrested,
tried, did put to death. They turned
) the negroes fornid. These had been
juiet witnesses of this war of caste.
Fhey w ero now wakened by a sensa of
'.heir own condition. They joined with
he people of color, and insurrection
aegan on the night of Aug. 21, 1791.
Incendiary fires broke out in several
plantations in the plains of the north,
riie negroes, under the lead of one of
;heir number, a fearless giant named
Boukinan, now commenced to plunder
.nd bun; indiscriminately. By tho
JtJth one-third of the plantations in
he great plain wei'o in ashes. In a
reek the whole plain tas swept by
5re. The desolation and ruin was
ilmost complete from the sea to the
nountains. The coil ran with tho
jlood of tho unhappy planters and
Jieir families. Thus began that series
)f events and disasters known in his
(Ory as tho "Horrors of Saint Domin
go," events and disasters which re
nilted in tho loss lo Franco of her
4chest colony and tho establishment
i 1804 of tho free black government
tf Hayti.
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