Tt brought back all you fellows so dis
tinctly. Bv the way, I wonder if be
will ever know how near that little love
tune saved his life? Talk about the
value of little thiugs. the stars might
all have fallen from their spheres, and
never have affected me as did the few
simple bars whistled by the traveler
along the moonlit road.
"I recovered myself after a little or
rather lost myself again and began to
wonder at my weakness; and then, just
as I had stra'ightened myself np and
taken a new hold on my resolution to
do something desperate, I heard the
rattle of carriage wheels far away on
the moonlit, w hite-ribbon of road. In
stantly I was on the alert, with every
faeult'y qnkkened, I raised my pistol
and examined the lock, wondering at
the same time whether my sentence
would be tianging,' or transportation,
or Imprisonment for Hfe, wita hard
labor. Before I had settled the matter
: . mi,i the carriage had come
nearer.. The wheels were rattling fu
riously. Who could it be, driving at
' v Ki,-nv - need? Then sud
denly U came In sifcht, and at the same
moment I heard the terrific screams of
wonwn, saw that the driver was ndss
ing from his place, and that the horses
rwee running away.
"In an instant, forgetting everything
else at those cries of distress, I dropped
my pistol and sprang into the road.
Just for a moineut. the startled horses
paused, and in that moineut I seized
the bits. Then commenced a furious
battle with the frantic plunging steeds.
a inrown down, trampled upon.
