CHAPTER XXX--THE END OF THE WHITE HOODS, AND OF THE STORY
“Thank heaven for that mercy, Jenny. Your mother and sisters-in-law will be out of the fighting,” panted Muriel.
As the words left her lips there came a loud “view-hallo!” from the direction of the southern end of the lake, and, glancing thitherwards, Sergeant Dick and Inspector Medhurst saw a dozen or more canoes and rafts making for them.
For a moment the inmates of the ark believed that they were taken in the rear by Indians, broken out on the warpath again. But the next moment torches burst into flame in the leading canoes and revealed that the new comers were cowboys and settlers from the surrounding district. The red coat and Stetson hat of a police-trooper showed up conspicuously in the foremost canoe under the bright torchlight.
Medhurst and Sergeant Dick recognized the man as the trooper who had been dispatched for reënforcements immediately after Dick’s rescue from the White Hoods.
Hails were exchanged between the troopers in the ark and the would-be avengers in the canoes; explanations were called for, and given freely.
“It means that we’ve rounded up and cornered the last of the White Hoods, men,” Inspector Medhurst shouted to those in the canoes. “Old Man Arnold and his sons, his wife and two daughters-in-law with the two Seymours, ‘Bud’ and his wife, formed the entire gang, as we discovered. They tried to blow us up in the hills, where they’ve got a secret duffing-yard stocked full of cattle, sheep, and horses, all awaiting identification now. But we escaped the diabolical plot, thanks be, and here we are with Amos and Abner Arnold and the two Seymours prisoners, and just waiting for Mrs. Arnold and the other women to come out before falling on and capturing or wiping out the last three male members of the band--Old Alf and his two eldest sons.”
A yell of vengeful rage and fierce execration went up from the canoes on the words; and the cowboys and settlers in the canoes were all for attacking the “castle” from the other three sides in conjunction with the police in the ark.
But Inspector Medhurst again called out:
“No, no, men, you must keep at a distance. This is our affair--for us police to settle. And you wouldn’t rob us of any of the glory of the capture of the place? We are strongly entrenched inside this vessel, while you’d have no more chance in your canoes and on those rafts than the redskins had in their late siege of the place. I cannot allow you to throw away your lives in any such foolish attack. You would all be wiped out and not be able to accomplish anything.”
The canoe containing Aunt Kate and her two daughters-in-law, Bella and Deborah, now came up to the little gate in the timbering under the “castle.” Unlocking the padlock upon it, the women opened it and paddled out.
“You had better come aboard the ark, Mrs. Arnold,” called the Inspector.
The women were nothing loath to do so, dreading with reason the reception they would get from their infuriated neighbors in the canoes and on the rafts. Every man’s hand was against the White Hoods, and all belonging to them; their atrocities had enraged every one, English, French, and Indian.
As the three women stepped aboard and passed by Sergeant Dick behind the tiller-screen, they each gave him a look of awful hate and vengeful longing.
Barely had the cabin door closed upon them than from three of the front windows of the “castle” three rifles rang out and as many bullets clanged again against the tiller-screen covering Sergeant Dick and Troopers Bell and Watts.
The police still held their fire, but Sergeant Dick saw the after-door of the ark open cautiously a few inches again, and Inspector Medhurst peep round it and beckon to him--indicate by jerking a finger that he and the two troopers were to move the tiller-screen close up against the door.
This the trio promptly proceeded to do. They contrived to do so without exposing themselves in any way, but caused two of the outlaws in the “castle” again to blaze away furiously at their shield.
When it was alongside the after-door, Medhurst put into Dick’s hands a small barrel or keg, with a candle thrust into the open bunghole.
“Sergeant,” he whispered, “here is a keg of gunpowder. Slip under the verandah in the canoe and put it just beneath the door, then light the candle and get back as smartly as you can. We shall have to push off promptly to escape the force of the explosion. Will you do it?”
“Certainly, inspector. Where did you find the keg?”
“Inside one of the store-cupboards. The sight of it suggested the idea.”
“One moment, sir! Would it not be better to blow in the western or eastern wall? You remember what I told you about the drop-floor in the front room? The gap would want some getting over, if they let it down, even if we got in the front as the Ogalcrees did, in the face of their fire from the inner rooms.”
“Just as you like, sergeant. Very well, let it be the western wall.”
Sergeant Dick, hugging the keg of gunpowder under his left arm, dropped on his knees and crawled round the farther end of the tiller-screen. His head was below the level of the verandah, and so he was hidden from the fierce, watching eyes at the “castle” loopholes.
Wriggling noiselessly and cautiously over the scow’s bulwark, he stepped on to the cross-timbering between the piles supporting the verandah, and the next moment he had dodged through the open gate, by which the three Mrs. Arnolds had come out in the canoe, and was under the verandah.
The canoe was alongside the gate, but tied to the stern of the scow. He stepped into it and cast off the painter; then, leaving the paddles lying where they were in the canoe at his feet, he soundlessly began to work the canoe along the inside of the piles by shifting his hands along the timbering.
In this way he worked himself under the house itself and over to the west side. He set the little keg against one of the piles supporting the western wall, immediately between the two bedrooms on that side--Aaron’s and Abel’s, as it happened. The keg fitted neatly in the crook formed by the pile and a cross-brace.
Then he struck a match softly and lighted the candle in the bunghole, immediately hurrying back diagonally in the canoe the way he had come, for the gate.
He gained the opening and wriggled noiselessly back over the bulwark of the scow. That the candle-fuse was still burning all right he could see through the piles.
The next moment he was behind the tiller-screen and safe inside the after-cabin, where, on hearing his report that the mine was set, Inspector Medhurst at once gave orders for the ark to be thrust off from the verandah. She had been hooked on to the piles with boathooks, that was all, and the current, flowing southward, at once began to drift her away from “Water Castle” back towards the gate of the outer palisading or “dockyard.”
Sergeant Dick saw that none of the prisoners were in the after-cabin, and concluded that they had all been kept from the windows and in ignorance of what had been done.
Then it came--a great blinding, lurid flash, round and under the house, a deafening bang! Bits of the roof and fragments of the shattered wall and floor of the “castle” hurtled into the air and fell splashing into the water around.
“Round to the side blown in, quick, men!” yelled Inspector Medhurst, while all the women in the fore-cabin screamed in terror, to know what had happened.
The troopers at the windows told them, and the three Mrs. Arnolds indulged in the vilest abuse of Inspector Medhurst, Sergeant Dick, and all the Royal Mounted Police in Canada.
Paying no heed to the vituperation, the police-troopers under their two officers sailed the ark hurriedly past the verandah to the west side, where they beheld a great gaping hole blown in the wall of the “castle.” The hole showed the partition between the two bedrooms and their communicating door, and was high enough and wide enough on either side of it to allow of two horsemen riding through abreast.
A dense cloud of smoke was still pouring from the two rooms exposed, and part of the flooring was gone, along with the piles and cross-bracing that had supported it; so that, though the holes into the bedrooms were so large, the aforesaid two horsemen would have found it difficult to find any footing, to get inside.
But the police-troopers made nothing of such a difficulty. As Sergeant Dick ran the ark close up against the shattered wall, they all swarmed out of the after-cabin door beside him, revolvers in hand. Then, led by him and Inspector Medhurst, they crowded to the bulwark immediately opposite the gap, like bluejackets boarding an enemy ship. Sergeant Dick headed the intrusion into Aaron’s bedroom, the inspector that into Abel’s.
All the women, of course, had been shut up, without arms, in the fore-cabin of the ark--locked inside it so that they could not get out and interfere in any way.
As Sergeant Dick sprang through the hole in the wall the door in front of him, leading into the central passage, was thrown open, and the three Arnolds appeared, reeling like drunken men under the unexpected shock of the shattering of their stronghold, and mad with fury and despair.
Each of them gripped an automatic in either hand and looked more like a demon than a human being, in the semi-gloom and dusty fog of the place.
Sergeant Dick promptly flung himself on his knees. Simultaneously all six weapons in front of him spoke rapidly, and the bullets went whizzing over his head.
As by a miracle, none of the troopers behind him was struck down. None, as it happened, was just in the line of fire, and, hurriedly ducking and dodging to one side, they pelted back a quick return fire, while Dick slipped swiftly to one side, dived out of the way like a cat or some wild thing.
There were two ringing screams, and Aaron and Abel fell heavily against their father, throwing the old man down. Then with a rush, the police under Dick disarmed and seized the trio. Sergeant Dick had not fired a shot--had had no need to--and he was glad in his heart that he had not been obliged to do so, on Muriel’s account.
He did not wish to have the blood of any of her relatives on his hands, even though shed in fair fight and in defense of law and order.
Inspector Medhurst and those following came flocking through the intervening door. But their aid was unnecessary. Aaron and Abel had both been shot dead, and Old Man Arnold was dying.
“Inspector Medhurst, I would tell you something before I go,” Old Alf exclaimed, with difficulty. “The girl Muriel is--is not my niece at all, but--but your daughter. She is no relation of mine. You believed your wife and child were killed by redskins. They were not. It was I who stopped them, I and--and--Bud--I mean several others. Your wife resisted us, and--and I shot her; and then we threw her body over the cataract, and some of the others wanted to throw the child after the mother. But my wife wouldn’t hear of that. Yes, she was there--I’ve let it out now--but her saving the life of your child should speak for her. She said she would adopt the child--pretend it was my sister’s child, and we threw the little thing’s hat and shawl after its mother, to make you believe it was in the river too.”
“Great heavens! Is this true? Your supposed niece, my daughter--my little Agnes?” cried Medhurst, staggered by the revelation, as well he might be.
“It’s the gospel’s own truth, as I am a dying man, Medhurst,” groaned the old bandit chief.
The next moment he had breathed his last.
His wife readily admitted that Muriel was Medhurst’s daughter, on learning of her husband’s disclosure, and that he was dead and her two eldest sons the same. The meeting between father and daughter we shall not attempt to describe, beyond saying that both were too stunned and affected by the dreadful happenings of the last hour, their grim surroundings, to be very demonstrative. Indeed, Muriel seemed too stunned by the news to quite grasp its import.
So the dreaded White Hood Gang was no more--broken and rounded up to its very last member. The difficulty of bringing home any actual murder or atrocity to the prisoners, as none of them turned King’s evidence, resulted in their all escaping the death penalty and receiving various terms of imprisonment instead.
Amos and Abner, however, within three months of their sentence, attempted to break jail and were both mortally wounded by their armed guards. As for “Bud,” or Bill, Seymour and Aunt Kate, they both died in prison.
Eighteen months after Muriel or Agnes Medhurst had been restored to her father, she was led to the altar-rails in the little backwoods church of Paquita Springs by Inspector John Dick, for he was sergeant no longer, having been promoted to control of a far-stretching territory adjoining Lonewater for the prominent part he had taken in the detection and rounding-up of the dreaded White Hoods.
As for Jenny Arnold--the poor, innocent half-witted daughter and sister of that evil family--Muriel or Agnes Medhurst had taken her under her wing from the hour which witnessed the capture and ruin of the stronghold on the lake, their joint home up to that hour. And the two girls were not parted by Agnes’s marriage; Jenny went to live with the married pair, and was as a sister to them both, under their roof.
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Stories of the great west, with cattle ranches as a setting, related in such a style as to captivate the hearts of all boys.
1. THE BOY RANCHERS or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X
Two eastern boys visit their cousin. They become involved in an exciting mystery.
2. THE BOY RANCHERS IN CAMP or the Water Fight at Diamond X
Returning for a visit, the two eastern lads learn, with delight, that they are to become boy ranchers.
3. THE BOY RANCHERS ON THE TRAIL or The Diamond X After Cattle Rustlers
Our boy heroes take the trail after Del Pinzo and his outlaws.
4. THE BOY RANCHERS AMONG THE INDIANS or Trailing the Yaquis
Rosemary and Floyd are captured by the Yaqui Indians but the boy ranchers trailed them into the mountains and effected the rescue.
5. THE BOY RANCHERS AT SPUR CREEK or Fighting the Sheep Herders
Dangerous struggle against desperadoes for land rights brings out heroic adventures.
6. THE BOY RANCHERS IN THE DESERT or Diamond X and the Lost Mine
One night a strange old miner almost dead from hunger and hardship arrived at the bunk house. The boys cared for him and he told them of the lost desert mine.
7. THE BOY RANCHERS ON ROARING RIVER or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers
The boy ranchers help capture Delton’s gang who were engaged in smuggling Chinese across the border.
8. THE BOY RANCHERS IN DEATH VALLEY or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery
The Boy Ranchers track Mysterious Death into his cave.
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The Speedwell Boys Series
By ROY ROCKWOOD
Author of “The Dave Dashaway Series,” “Great Marvel Series,” etc.
12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume, 65 cents, postpaid
All boys who love to be on the go will welcome the Speedwell boys. They are clean cut and loyal lads.
The Speedwell Boys on Motor Cycles or The Mystery of a Great Conflagration
The lads were poor, but they did a rich man a great service and he presented them with their motor cycles. What a great fire led to is exceedingly well told.
The Speedwell Boys and Their Racing Auto or A Run for the Golden Cup
A tale of automobiling and of intense rivalry on the road. There was an endurance run and the boys entered the contest. On the run they rounded up some men who were wanted by the law.
The Speedwell Boys and Their Power Launch or To the Rescue of the Castaways
Here is an unusual story. There was a wreck, and the lads, in their power launch, set out to the rescue. A vivid picture of a great storm adds to the interest of the tale.
The Speedwell Boys in a Submarine or The Lost Treasure of Rocky Cove
An old sailor knows of a treasure lost under water because of a cliff falling into the sea. The boys get a chance to go out in a submarine and they make a hunt for the treasure.
The Speedwell Boys and Their Ice Racer or The Perils of a Great Blizzard
The boys had an idea for a new sort of iceboat, to be run by combined wind and motor power. How they built the craft, and what fine times they had on board of it, is well related.
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The Saddle Boys Series
By CAPTAIN JAMES CARSON
12mo. Illustrated. Price per volume, 65 cents, postpaid.
All lads who love life in the open air and a good steed, will want to peruse these books. Captain Carson knows his subject thoroughly, and his stories are as pleasing as they are healthful and instructive.
The Saddle Boys of the Rockies or Lost on Thunder Mountain
Telling how the lads started out to solve the mystery of a great noise in the mountains--how they got lost--and of the things they discovered.
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cove
A weird and wonderful story of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, told in a most absorbing manner. The Saddle Boys are to the front in manner to please all young readers.
The Saddle Boys on the Plains or After a Treasure of Gold
In this story the scene is shifted to the great plains of the southwest and then to the Mexican border. There is a stirring struggle for gold, told as only Captain Carson can tell it.
The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch or In at the Grand Round-up
Here we have lively times at the ranch, and likewise the particulars of a grand round-up of cattle and encounters with wild animals and also cattle thieves. A story that breathes the very air of the plains.
The Saddle Boys on Mexican Trails or In the Hands of the Enemy
The scene is shifted in this volume to Mexico. The boys go on an important errand, and are caught between the lines of the Mexican soldiers. They are captured and for a while things look black for them; but all ends happily.
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, Publishers--New York