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SERIAL
STORY
The
Princess
Elopes
By HAROLD McGRATH
Author nf
’The Man or\ the Box,**
“Heerte and Naake," Etc.
(Copyright. lUO6. Uobba-Morrlll Co.)
A
SYNOPSIS.
Arthur Warrington, American consul
to Barscheit, tolls how reigning Grand
Duke attempts to force Ills nelce. Prin
cess Hildegarde, to marry Prince Dopple
kinn, an old widower. Warrington does
not know the princess even by sight.
While horseback riding in the country
night overtakes him und ho seeks accom
modations in a dilapidated castle. Here
he finds two women and an old man
servant. One woman is Princess Hilde
garde and the other a friend, Hon. Betty
Moore, of England. They detain him to
witness a mock marriage between the
princess and a disgraced army officer,
Steinboek. done for the purpose of foiling
tiie grand duke. Steinboek attempts to
kiss tho princess and she is rescued by
Warrington. Steinboek disappears for
good. Max Schnrfensteln. an old Ameri
can friend of Warrington’s readies Bar
sclieit. Warrington tells him of the prin
cess. Scharfenstein shows Warrington
a locket with a picture of a woman in
side. It was on ids neck when lie, as a
boy, was picked up and adopted by ills
foster father, whose nume lie was given.
He believes it to boa picture of ills
mother.
CHAPTER IV.—Continued.
“You poor old Dutchman, you! You
can buy a genealogy with your in
come. And a woman nowadays mar
ries the man, the man. It’s only
horses, dogs and cattle that we buy
for their pedigrees. Come; you ought
to have a strawberry mark on your
arm,” I suggested lightly; for there
were times when Max brooded over
the mystery which enveloped his birth.
In reply he rolled up his sleeve and
bared a mighty arm. Where the vac
•cination scar usually is I saw a red
patch, like a burn. I leaned over and
examined it. It was a four-pointed
scar, with a perfect circle around it.
Somehow, It seemed to me that this
was not the first time I had seen this
peculiar mark. I did not recollect ever
it on Max’s arm. Where had I
it, then?
“It’s a curious scar. Hang me, but
I’ve seen the device somewhere be
fore!”
"You have?” eagerly. "Where,
■where?"
“I don’t know; possibly I saw it on
your arm in the old days."
Ho sank back in his chair. Silence,
during which the smoke thickened and
the pup whined softly in his sleep.
Out upon the night the cathedral bell
boomed the third hour of morning.
“If you don’t mind, Artie,” said Max,
yawning. “I’ll turn in. I’ve been trav
eling for the past fortnight."
“Take a ride on Dandy in the morn
ing. He’ll hold your weight nicely. I
can’t go with you, as I’ve a lame
ankle."
“I’ll be in the saddle at dawn. All I
need Is a couple of hours between
sheets."
•
CHAPTER V.
That same evening the grand duke’s
calet knocked on the door leading into
tho princess’ apartments, and when
the door opened he gravely announced
that his serene highness desired to
speak to the Princess Hildegarde. it
was a command. For some reason,
known best to herself, the princess
chose to obey it.
“Say that I shall be there present
ly," she said, dismissing the valet.
As she entered her uncle’s study—
called because of its dust-laden
bookshelves, though the duke some
times disturbed their contents to
steady the leg of an unbalanced chair
or table—he laid down his pipe and
dismissed his small company of card
players.
“I did not expect to see you so soon,"
he began. "A woman’s curiosity some
times has its value. It takes little to
arouse it, but a great deal to allay it.”
“You have not summoned me to
make smart speeches, simply because
I have been educated up to them?" —
truculently.
“No. I have not summoned you to
talk smart, a word much in evidence In
Barscheit since your return from Eng
land. For once I am going to use a
woman’s prerogative. I have changed
my mind.”
The Princess Hildegarde trembled
with delight. She could put but one
meaning to his words.
“The marriage will not take place
next month."
“Uncle!" —rapturously.
“Walt a moment,’’ —grimly. "It shall
take place next week.”
“I warn you not to force me to the
altar," cried the girl, trembling this
time with a cold fury.
“My child, you are too young In
spirit and too old in mind to be al
lowed a gateless pasture. In harness
you will do very well." He took up his
pipe and primed It. It was rather em
barrassing to look the girl In the eye.
“You shall wed Doppelkinn next
week."
“You will find it rather embarrass
to drag me to the altar,” —evenly.
"You will not," he replied, “create a
scandal of such magnitude. You are
untamable, but you are proud."
When these two talked without ap
parent heat it was with unalterable
fixedness of purpose. They were of a
common race. The duke was deter
mined that she should wed Doppel
kinn; she was equally determined
that she should not. The gentleman
with the algebraic bump may figure
this out to suit himself.
“Have you no pity?”
"My reason overshadows It. You do
not suppose that I take any especial
pleasure In forcing you? But you
leave me no other method.”
“You loved my aunt once," —a
broken note in her voice.
“I love her still,” —not unkindly;
“but I must have peace in the h#use.
Observe what you have so far accom
plished In the matter of creating tur
moil." The duke took up a paper.
“My sins?” —contemptuously.
“Let us call them your transgres
sions. Listen. You havo riflden a
horse as a man rides it; you have rid
den bicycles in public streets; you
have stolen away to a masked ball;
you ran away from school In Paris
and visited heaven knows whom; you
havo bribed sentries to let you In
when you were out late; you have
thrust aside the laws as if they meant
nothing; you have trifled with the
state papers and caused the body po
litic to break up a meeting as a conse
quence of the laughter.”
The gill, as she recollected (his day
to which he referred, laughed long and
joyously. He waited patiently till she
had done, and I am not sure that his
mouth did not twist under his beard.
"Foreign education is the cause of all
this,” he said finally. “Those cursed
French and English schools have
“Is He Dead?" She Asked.
ruined you. And I was fool enough to
send you to them. This is the end.”
“Or the beginning,"—rebelliously.
“Doppelkinn is mild and kind.”
"Mild and kind! One would think
that you were marrying me to a horse!
Well, I shall not enter the cathedral.”
"How will you avoid it?”—calmly.
“I shall find away; wait and see.”
She was determined.
“I shall wait.” Then, with a sudden
softening, for he loved the girl after
his fashion: “I am growing old. my
child. If I should die, what would be
come of you? I have no son; your
Uncle Franz, who is but a year or two
younger than I am, would reign, and
ho would not tolerate your madcap
ways. You must marry at once. 1
love you in spite of your willfulness.
But you have shown yourself incapa
ble of loving. Doppelkinn is wealthy.
You shall marry him.”
“I will run away, uncle,” —decidedly.
“I have notified the frontiers.” —
tranquilly. “From now on you will be
watched. It Is the inevitable, my
child, and even I have to bow to that.”
She touched the paper in her bosom,
but paused.
"Moreover, I have decided,” went on
the duke, “to send the Honorable Bet
ty Mooro back to England.”
“Betty?”
“Yes. She is a charming young per
son, but she is altogether too sympa
thetic. She abets you In all you do.
Her English independence does not
conform with my ideas. After the
wedding I shall notify her father."
“Everything, everything! My friends,
my liberty, the right God gives to
every woman —to love whom she will!
And you, my uncle, rob me of these
things! What If I should tell you that
marriage with me is now Impossible?”
—her lips growing thin.
“I should not be very much sur
prised."
"Please look at this, then, snd you
will understand why I can not marry
Doppelkinn.” She thrust the bogus
certificate Into his hands.
The duke read it carefully, not a
muscle In his face disturbed. Finally
he looked up with a terrifying smile.
“Poor, foolish child! What a terrl
ble thing this might have turned out
to be!”
“What do you mean?”
“Mean? Do you suppose anything
like this could take place without my
hearing of it? And such a dishonest
unscrupulous rascal! Some day 1
shall thank the American consul per
sonally for his part In the affair. 1
was waiting to see when you would
produce this. You virtually placed
your honor and reputation, which- I
know to be above reproach, into th*-
keeping of a man who would sell b‘-
soul for a thousand crowns."
The girl felt her knees give way, an.
she sat down. Tears slowly welled ui
In her eyes and overflowed, blurrlm
everything.
r l*ie duke got up and went over t
his desk, rummaging among the pa
pers. He returned to the girl with i
letter.
“Read and learn the treacher;
of the man you trusted.”
The letter was written by Steinboek
In it he disclosed all. It was a venom
ous, insulting letter. The girl crusher
it in her hand.
“Is he dead?” she asked, all the bit
terness in her heart surging to he>
lips.
"To Barscheit,” briefly. “Now
what shall I do with this?” —tappinr
the bogus certificate.
“Give it to me,” said the girl wear
ily. She lipped it. into halves, inti
quarters, into infinitesimal squares
and tossed them into the waste-basket
“I am the unhappiest girl in th
world.”
“I am sorry,” replied the grand duke
“It isn’t as if I had forced Doppelkinr
on you without first letting you have
your choice. You have rejected the
princes of a dozen wealthy countries.
We are not as the common people; we
can not marry where we will. I shall
announce that the marriage will take
place next week.”
“Do not send my friend away,” she
pleaded, apparently tamed.
“I will promise to give the matter
thought. Good night.”
She turned away without a word and
left him. When he roared at her she
knew by experience that he was harm
less; but this quiet determination
meant the exclusion of any further
argument. There was no escape un
less she ran away. She wept on her
pillow that night, not so much at the
thought of wedding Doppelkinn ns at
the fact that Prince Charming had evi
dently missed the last train and was
never coming to wake her up, or, if ho
did come, it would ho when it was too
late. How many times had sho con
jured him up, as she rode in the fresh
fairness of the mornings! How manly
he was and how his voice thrilled her!
Her horse was suddenly to run away,
he was to rescue her, and then de
mand her hand in marriage as a fitting
reward. Sometimes he had black hair
and eyes, but more often he was big
and tall, with yellow hair and the
blue-.t eyes in all the world.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Animals Fight in Shack.
From Bristol's woods. In Southern
Prospect, a village near VVaterbury.
Conn., a wildcat pursued a big deer
until from exhaustion it fell through
the roof of the side hill hen aback of
Edson Black. Guinea fowls aet up a
great commotion, and with th»» deer’s
desperate struggles for liberty, cooped
up In a shack 15x12, with newly 80
fowls, there was such a racket *.hat a
trusty watchdog awoke Black He
went to the henhouse to find 32 fowls
trampled to death, every pane of glass
and all the roosts broken and the deer
dying of a broken neck. Its flanks
were lacerated from the claws of the
wildcat, tracks of which were In the
coop, where It remained until fright
ened away by the approach of Black.
TIMBER SUPPLY
DISAPPEARING
ONLY ENOUGH IN THE COUNTRY
TO LAST 20 YEARS AT PRES
ENT RATE OF CUTTING.
MUCHTBOUBLECOMIBG
GOVERNMENT FORESTER 80UND9
NOTE OF WARNING AND URGES
REFORESTING.
Washington.—“ln twenty years the
timber supply In the United States, on
government reserves and private hold
ings, at the present rate of cutting, will
be exhausted, although It Is possible
that the growth of that period might
extend the arrival of this time another
five years.”
This is the announcement made by
Gifford Pinchot, tho government for
ester, who has just returned from a six
months’ inspection trip, on which ho
traveled 10.000 miles.
In sounding his warning Mr. Pinchot
urged that the danger of the situation
should not bo underestimated. He said
that the United States uses more tim
ber per capita than any other country,
and that every man, woman and child
would be effected. lie decried the pol
icy of discounting the future of tho
country by failure to protect the nat
ural resources and he advised every
one who has not already done so to
read President Roosevelt’s speech at
Memphis on this general subject.
About one-fifth of the forest area of
the country is in government reserves,
but Mr. Pinchot called attention to the
fact that as privately owned timber
lands are better than the government
reserves, .as a general rule, the govern
ment does not control one-fifth of the
timber supply.
The forest service will ask Congress
for more money and more men in or
der to extend the service, and will push
tho work of reforesting the denuded
timber lands. Mr. Pinchot says, how
ever, that it is utterly beyond the pos
sibility of the service to meet the situ
ation and prevent serious trouble. One
hope entertained is the Appalachian
forest, and an effort will be made to
protect this and promote the growth
there.
A scheme advocated by tho state for
ester of California is being watched
with a great deal of interest. Under the
police i>owers of the state the forester
is endeavoring to protect the water
sheds and prevent private owners from
devastating these lands in such man
ner as will injure irrigation of lands
below.
If this plan works well the govern
ment forester believes it will he taken
up in other states and federal authori
ties will bo aided greatly by the co-op
eration. In annealing for the protec
uu‘> oT lUv.- iiutitml
chot said that there is a changing senti
ment throughout the country and that
the people are beginning to see that the
right to use such resources does not
carry with it the right to destroy
them. The forest service will make ad
ditional efforts to educate the people
along this line.
Massachusetts Election.
Boston. —Gov. Curtis Guild of Bos
ton, Republican, was re-elected for a
third term Tuesday by a plurality esti
mated at a late hour Tuesday night at
100,000, tho largest given a guberna
torial candidate in Massachusetts
since the free silver movement.
The rest of tho Republican state
ticket was also successful, and the
party will again control both houses
of the legislature by a proportion of
about three to one.
Gen. Charles W. Bartlett, tho anti
merger candidate, polled about 13,000
votes, compared witli about 83,000 for
Whitney and 73,000 for Hisgen.
The state officers elected were:
Governor —Curtis Guild, Jr., of Bos
ton.
Lieutenant Governor —Ebon S.
Draper of Hopedale.
Secretary of State —William M. Olin
of Boston.
Treasurer—Arthur D. Chapin of Hol
yoke.
Auditor—Henry E. Turner of Mal
den.
Attorney General —Dana Malone of
Greenfield.
Governor Guild was opposed for re
election bv six other candidates —
Henry M. Whitney of Brookline. Dem
ocrat, and also running on two sets
of nomination papers; Thomas L. His
gen of West Springfield. Independence
league; General Charles W. Bartlett
of Newton, Anti-merger; Herever S.
Sowell of Ashburnlmm, Prohibitionist;
John Brown of Worcester, Socialist,
and Thomas F. Brennan of Salem, So
cialist Labor.
The total vote of Boston for gov
ernor was: Bartlett, 3.44 G; Guild. 33,-
4 12; Hisgen. 19,993; Whitney, 25,511;
Moran, 50.G71.
Gold Pouring In Rapidly.
New York. —The German liner Kron
Prinzessin Cecilie was reported ofl
Fire Island at six o’clock Tuesday
morning, and soon after ten o’clock
had docked and was unloading $7,
100,000 of the yellow metal, which will
go to strength the New York re
serves.
The new Cunard liner Lusitania will
follow closely In her wake with $lO,-
000,000, and $14,000,000 more will fol
low during the remainder of the week
and early next week.
The additional withdrawals from
the Bank of England for the United
States and $125,000 for Canada brings
up the total gold engagements on the
present movement to about $3G,000,-
000.
The news that the Bank of Franco
bought Tuesday $16,000,000 in sterling
bills on London was regarded here as
an event of the first importance, as
indicating that French financiers were
not only able, but willing to help Lon
don, and thus indirectly help America
by relieving the strain on tho Bank
of England caused by the heavy Am
oilcan demands v’or gold.
THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION.
Governor Buchtel Recounts Reasons
Why Colorado Bhould Be Grateful.
Denver.—Governor Buchtel Has Is
sued his Thanksgiving proclamation as
follows:
“In tho Providence of God we have
In tho United States two national Sab
bath days. They are exactly six
months apart. One of these national
Sabbaths Is our thirtieth of May
That is our national sacrament day
when w r e commemorate the sufferings
of the brave men who died that the
nation might live. The other national
Sabbath comes on the last Thusday In
November. It Is the Jubilee Day of the
year when we rejoice with a glad song
over all tho amazing mercies of God.
“ ’He hath not dealt so with any na
tion’ is one of the songs of Israel. It
ought to be a dally song with all true
Americans. Each year wo have a
larger opportunity to influence the life
of tho world. Each year we have a
better opportunity to work out our des
tiny. We are to provide an asylum for
the oppressed of every land who crave
the freedom to do right. It is not our
business to provide an asylum for
those who crave the freedom to do
wrong. Wo need frequently to remind
ourselves that it is the business of the
nation to create men and women of fine
moral fibre.
“Wo in Colorado have abundant oc
casion for thanksgiving. Our people
have been blessed with every material
comfort. We have had a year of peace
and prosperity. Possibly some other
state may have known equal prosper
ity. Certainly no other community in
tho world has enjoyed a more general
or a more substantial prosperity.
"Another and a higher reason for
thanksgiving is found In our growing
appreciation of tho life of the spirit.
Our churches and our schools are
growing In a great way. Everyone
who knows history can see that the
permanency of tho life of the state is
possible only as wo have whole
some and strong development in the
life of the churches and the schools.
It would be a calamity indeed if we
developed our material resources at the
! expense of the higher life of the spirit.
“Everywhere in Colorado this growth
t»f moral sentiment can bo clearly seen.
‘Who is wise and will observe these
things even they shall understand the
loving kindness of tho Lord.’
"Now, therefore, I, Henry A. Buchtel.
1 governor of the state of Colorado, by
virtue of the authority vested in mo by
law, and in accordance with the pro
clamation of Theodore Roosevelt. Pres
ident of the United States, designating
Thursday, November 28th, 1907, as a
day of Thanksgiving, do most earnestly
urge all the people of Colorado to ob
serve that day with appropriate relig
ious services both in their homes and
In their churches, and do further most
earnestly urge that all the people shall
take some time on that day to show
kindness to others both in words and
deeds.
“All ministers and teachers are re
minded that it is only with ‘line upon
line,’ and ‘precept upon precept’ that
we can make our people see clearly
that ‘righteousness exalteth a nation;
but sia is a reproach to any people.’
Let e\ery one make the prayer of the
“ ‘Search me, O God, and know mv
heart; try me, and know my thoughts;
and sea if there be any wicked way in
me, and lead me in the way everlast
ing.’
"In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused tho great seal
of state to be affixed at Denver, the
state capital, this second day of No
vember, A. D. 1907.
"HENRY A. BUCHTEL.
“By the Governor.”
Attest: TIMOTHY O’CONNOR,
“Secretary of State.”
Gold from Denver Mint.
Colorado Springs.—Thousands of
dollars in gold have been flowing into
Colorado Springs from the Denver
mint and the flood of yellow metal
will continue to pour in so long as it
is needed to meet the payrolls of the
reduction mills at Colorado City and
the mines and mills in the Cripple
Creek district. The following state
ment concerning conditions here has
been prepared for publication by the
{Clearing House Association:
“Much has been said in the papers
in regard to the efforts of the banks
of New York and other cities in ob
taining gold, but nothing has been said
in regard to what business men and
banks here havo done.
“We understand upon the best au
thority that, by an arrangement be
tween the United States Reduction
Works and the Portland mill and one
of the banks of this city, about $70,-
000 in gold has been received in this
city from tho mint this week. These
shipments of gold will be continued
indefinitely. This gold is not to be re
tained The arrangement is that it
shall be paid out to meet the payrolls
of the mills at Colorado City and of
the mines and mills at Cripple Creek.
“To show in what perfect harmony
the banks are working in this city and
also in Cripple Creek, this gold is to
be paid out for the mines’ payrolls re
gardless of which banks the mines
keep their accounts in.”
Farmers Will Hold Their Corn.
Lincoln, Neb. —The financial trou
oles in New York, with their later
echo In the West, has not alarmed
tho farmers of Nebraska. For the
last decade farmers of this state have
disposed of their crops by contract
{ before they were harvested, but this
year conditions are changed.
! During the week word came to Lin
coln from all sections of tho state
to the efTect that the farmers are
building bins to store away the corn
they are soon to harvest. They say
they will hold their grain for higher
prices, although as high as 48 cents
is now being ofTeied.
Some of them, of course, will sell a
part of their yield within the next
few weeks; some of them will sell
their entire crop, while a few have
qlr ?ady contracted for the disposal
of their grain. These, however, are
v n the minority.
A majority of tie farmers, local
;rain men say, w LI hold their crops
'or a higher Genre, and some expect
t 5 cents a bushel. They feel assured
hey will bo 4 that price befor *
-nring.
DECISION OF
SUPREME COURT
AFFECTB POWERS OF HUMAN*
SOCIETY IN CARING FOR NEG
LECTED BTOCK.
CANT CET FEED BILL
SOCIETY WILL HAVE TO PROSE
CUTE OWNERS INSTEAD OP
CARING FOR ANIMALB.
Denver.—According to an opinion
handed down by the Supreme Court
Monday the officers of tho Board of
Child and Animal Protection will have
to exert other efforts to cause stock
owners to care for their animals than
the method heretofore employed.
In tho future the Humane Society
will not have the right to take up starv
ing cattle on the range and after feed
ing and sheltering them, hold tho own
ers for tho expense of keeping tho cat
tle.
There were two cases which In
volved tho question. In both of them
Efllo Jenks, humane agent in Canon
City, was plaintiff against W. Stump
in one case and W. J. and J. T. Witcher
in tiie other. The cases have been ap
pealed from the District Court of Fre
mont county.
Miss Jenks found the cattle on the
plains to the south of Canon City. They
were in a desperate condition from the
want of water and food. She took the
animals to shelter and fed them. Stump
claimed the cattle and would not stand
good for the payment of tho food and
shelter. The case went to the courts
and tho District Court ruled that the
defendant did not have to pay the costs
of tho keep of the stock.
Such was the Stump case, and that
of tho Witchers was identical.
The casese were appealed and Jus
tice Caswell, who gave tiie opinion, lias
confirmed the decision of the lower
court. In the opinion handed down the
court questions whether the agent of
the society should be allowed to take
up cattle on his own initiative simply
because he thinks the stock is suffer
ing, no one else being consulted, and
of holding tho owner liable for the
costs.
The law says that when the Humane
Society shall provide neglected animals
with food, shelter and care it may hold
such animals until the expenses in the
keep of the animals are paid by the
owners.
The opinion goes on to say that the
agent is, under the statute, the final ar
biter and has to consult no tribunal nor
even tho owner before taking up the
cattle.
There is no penalty for a failure of
the agent to return any of the proceeds
from the sale of the animals to tho
owner, and the only redress he lias is
In the courts. The court has ruled that
there Is a question whether public ne-
WfiPttTi'hWT'STrtn iirYniW'snoTiTfi'-m* tfuiit
to the owner of the property and oppor
tunity given before some court to de
termine the truth of the allegations.
The ruling makes null and void the
statute in question. Concerning the
matter Secretary Whitehead of the Bu
reau of Child and Animal Protection,
said:
"It seems to me, from what I know
of the case that in the future wo will
have to pursue the course of prosecut
ing the owners first and not taking in
the stock. The delay will give time for
tho auimal9 to die."
Walker Tragedy.
Washington. Although two men
havo surrendered, claiming that they,
In self-defense, killed Secret Service
Agent John A. Walker at the entrance
of a mine at Durango Sunday, Chief
John E. Wilkie of the secret service
said this morning that he was con
vinced from such details as are at hand
that tho killing was nothing less than
cold blooded murder. Chief Wilkie to
day received a partial report of tho af
fair by telegraph. In speaking of tho
death of Agent Walker, he said:
“I am informed that Mr. Walker with
three assistants, named Callahan,
Chapson and Harper, went to the Hes
perus mine, owned by tho Porter Fuel
Company and controlled by tho Union
Pacific railway, to make certain inves
tigation. The three men were lowered
into the shaft, and Agent Walker re
mained on top. When the three men
were ready to ascend the rope they
found no line at the bottom of the
shaft, it having been cut above. They
made their way with difficulty to the
top and upon arriving atx>vo ground
found Walker’s body. He had received
two bullets, ono on the left side of the
neck, another had entered his back.
When the party reached Durango with
the body, seven miles away, they
found that two men by tho
name of Mason and Vander
weide had preceded them and deliv
ered themselves to the authorities.
The men claimed that they were out
hunting ami passed tiie mine. Walker,
they said, had ordered them to throw
up their hands and when they refused
to do so, they claim that Walker shot
at them. Vandcrweide said that he re
turned the fire, killing Walker.
“I discredit this story. Walker was
not a man who was looking for trou
ble, and there is no reason why he
should have objected to the hunters
passing the mine."
Girls Stolen and Go’d.
Battle Creek. Mich. —That girls are
being stolen from American homos
and sent to Panama for Immoral pur
poses was the statement made at the
national purity congress here by
Rose Johnson, a missionary, who has
spent several years in Colon, where
she established a hoarding home for
American boys. Miss Johnson told of
a twclvc-year-old girl she had at
tempted to rescue in Colon, who told
her she had been enticed from One
Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, New
York, by a strange woman. Miss John
son said she was attacked in her ef
forts to get the girl out of a den, and
later received worj that *ho girl had
been beaten to death.