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THE MEETING. - IL
“By the Lord Harry! but this is too much, and I vill meet you
were you the lowest of the low; 80 name your friend, and Mr. Raytord
here will arzance with him !” hotly said Schuyler Cluett.
“T have no friend, but that gentleman wili do, and he is all we need.
T will meet you "at sunrise, at any. place you may state, for I do
not know this city, and our weapons will be revolvers, the distanca
ten paces, that gentleman to sive the word to fire, and to keep it up
suntil one or both are killed.”
“That will suit me,’’ was the cool reply, and turning to his. friend,
‘the continued :
“You will.act for us, Rayford, in this affair this mad fool has
forced upon me?”
“Certainly, and there is a pretty spot, on the banks of the Schuyl«
&ill river we can select, for I know it well, and I will give this gentle-
aman written instructions how to reach there.
“At sunrise you say ?” and he turned to Kent Lomax,.
OY es, and sooner if it could be so.’
“‘Tbat is soon enough, and here is your directions to reach the spot,”
and he jotted down a few notes upon a paper.
“Thank you; and Schuyler Cluett if you prove yourseli a coward
g-nd do not come, I wall prove merciless and kill you at sight, ao I
would 2 snake,” and Kent Lomax left the rooms.
CHAPTER IV.—Tue MEETING.
ey NTIL the time for him to seek some means of reaching the enct,
‘ch salected for the meeting, that he intended should be fatal to
=" one of them, Kent. Lomax walked the streets of the city,
Srooding deeply over his sorrows, and his determination to avenge
Ruby, whom he looked upon with pity rether than anger, and her
snother, whose death had been brought on by the act of Schuyler
Ne
At daylight he sought a livery stable, and asked for a horse to ride
cut to the rendezvous.
‘You can get a horse, sir, but you are unknown to us, and we must
ask a deposit cf his value,” said the man.
“Abt that is it, you fear Iam a horse-thief ; well, hi toh t a carriage
for me and send a driver, one who knows how to reach this place, ”
and he gave the directions where he wisked to go.
Soon after be sprang into the vehicle and was driven away ata rapid
pact and in an hour’s time was set down at a lonely spot on the river-
dan
Up the stream some distance he saw another vehicle draw up, and
out_of it sprang Schuyler Cluett and Rayford, and-he ;walked hastily
éoward them.
“Tam glad to see that you are not a coward,” said Kent Lomax,
oddressing Schuyler Cluett.
“You are all wrong in this, Lomas, much as appearances are agains
ena,” goid Cluett.