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THE SECOND DANDY CHATER By Tom ee RR as ee CHAPTER XVII—(Continuedd “The circus!” he exclaimed, slap- ping his leg with much vehemence. “That's the very thing! I’m a goin’ out to see them move the show quite early to-morrow mornin’—just to see ow it’s done. They’ve got to start precious early, so as to reach the town they’re a-goin’ to in time for the per- formance at night. Now, wishin’ to identify myself with the business as | early as possible, I've asked ’em to send in one of the caravans to fetch me, so as to make a sort of percession they don’t mind a gratifyin’ a little weakness like that. Now, if you can’t ‘ide in a caravan, w'ere can you ‘ide, Phil?” f “It sounds like the very thing,” re-| plied Philip. “You can drop me quiet- { iy on the road when we are clear of the towa, and nothing need be known of me. But what of this girl, who has been so brave and loyal to me? 1 can't leave her behind.” “That's easy arranged,” responded the captain. “Let ’er stop ‘ere; the missis’ll be glad to give ’er shelter as jong as you like; an’ you may be sure she’s in good ’ands.” Philip gratefully accepted the offer; and, neither of them being disposed to i sleep, they sat and talked the night away, or such part of it as remained. ; Philip duly impressed upon the cap- tain the necessity of preserving si- lence concerning the real story of Dandy Chater, making his plea more forcible by telling the worthy man of the difficulties he might find himselt in should it become known that he had harbored a fugitive, or assisted him to escape. Soon after four o’clock in the morn- { ing wheels were heard outside in the quiet street, and a knock sounded at! the door. The captain—spying out? the land from the window—signalled | to Philip that all was right, and they prepared to set out. Mrs. Quist nad | come down stairs, and had announced | that the girl w: leeping soundly. “Then t won't disturb her,” said | Philip; “I know that she will be well | cared for, and | am more grateful than I can express. Will you tell her when she wakes that Lam safe, and have gone with the captain; that I will find an opportunity of seeing her mother and assuring her that her child is safe? And now, if the captain can jend me a cap of some sort, I am ready.” The captain would have pressed his ; own gorgeous silk hat upon his friend, but, being d vaded from this with } some difficulty, provided him with aj; cloth cap, which would be less likely to attract attention. Then the captain sallied out, to be sure that the coast was Clear; and, there being no one in sight, Philip | took leave of Mrs. Quist and darted into the caravan, which moved off at once. it was still quite dark when they } got clear at last of the ‘streets of | Chelmsford, and Philip Chater was be- | ginning to congratulate himself upon ; the fact of having got out of his dith-: culties so neatly, when the man who | acted as driver, and to whom the cap- tain must have given some word of warning, rapped smartly on the side of the vehicle. The captain, who had begun to fill his pipe, and had quite ; setiled down to the enjoyment of his ride, popped open the little window in the side of the caravan and put out his head. “What’s wrong, messmate’?” he asked. The man informed him rapidly that } there was a gig—so far as he coulda; make out — judging by the twin lights—coming over the hill behind them from the town, and evidently coming at a great rate. Indeed, in the silence, the caravan having stopped, they could hear the swift beat of a horse's hoofs. “Ask him what road we are on,” sald Philip. The captain did so, and the man re- plied promptly that they were heading toward Bamberton. “Just where I want to go,” whisper- ed Philip to the captain. “Now, | don’t want to get you into trouble, old friend, as you would most assuredly if i were found in your company. ‘There- fore, you can drop me here by the roadside, and go on without me.” “['m blest if,I do!” said the captain, sturdily. “But you must,” replied Philip. “It { remain here I shall certainly be taken, quite apart from getting you into difficulties. On the other hand, if i drop out in the darkness I can lie close under a hedge until they’ve gone by. And you, for your own pd tion, can give them a false direction. This last point appeared to settle the matter with the captain; Philip Jeft him chuckling hugely to himselt. Just as the caravan was beginning to move on again, and while Philip lay crouched behind a hedge, the gig dashed up and drew rein within hear- ing of him. “Wot!” exclaimed the captain, in a yoice of apparent indignation, the mo- ‘ment he heard that a prisoner was missing, and was believed to have taken the road to Bamberton; “you don’t mean a tall, clean shaven, dark chap. without a ’at?” On being as- sured that that was a correct descrip- tion of the fugitive the captain became more indignant than ever. { in the mind of Philip Chater. Gallon. “If you goes along that ’ere road to the left, about a ’undred yards further back, you'll nab ’im, sure as eggs,” he exclaimed. “’E was runnin’ like a good ’un—tol’ me ’e was a-doin’ it for a wager. W’en you ketches ’im, guv- nor, ’it im one for me—will yer?—for a tryin’ ter deceive.” “I should like to have a look inside your caravan,” said the man, quietly, jumping down from the gig. “W’y, certainly,”. responded the cap- tain. “It’s a nice roomy place, pervid- ed yer don’t git yer feet in the fire- place. I’d ’ave ’ad it painted special if I'd knowed you was comin’.” The man looked in the open door ot the vehicle; looked sharply at the cap- tain and at the driver, and climbed into the gig again. “Drive on,” he said, and the gig turned back on the road it had come. “Drive on, messmate,” said the cap- tain, climbing into the caravan. Philip Chater, lying behind the hedge, watched the two vehicles until they were out of sight in the darkness; then, when there seemed nothing more to be feared, he crept out and struck off toward Bamberton. “What was the message?” he. mut- tered to himself. ‘“‘I love him, and believe in his innocence.’ Dear girl! Y'll see’ you to-night—if I die for it!” CHAPTER XIX. Haunted. That one thought dominated all else She be- lieved him innocent—and she loved him. True, the message was not for him, in reality; it was for the man who lay in an unknown grave. But, having taken the dead man’s place, he claimed this message also, as belong- | ing to him. “I have taken the burden of his sins upon me—I am in peril of my life on account of them,” he thought. “Surely I have the right to claim this sweeter portion of what was his, as some leav- en in the weight of my punishment. Yes, I'll see her first; after that, if they capture me, I'll go back with a light heart.” Caution was necessary in approach- jing the village; for, by the time he reached it, daylight had fully come aud the people were astir. Keeping well on the outskirts of it, and yet in a place from which he could easily and rapidly reach the spot he had marked out in his mind as his destination, he came to a little sopse on the edge ot some fields, and settled himself, comfortably as possible, in a deep, dry ditch, overhung with brambles and bushes, which completely hid him from the sight of any one passing near. Knowing that he must wait until night- fall before daring to venture out, he resolved to remain in this place, with all the patience he could muster. He had borrowed from Captain Quist a little tobacco and a pipe; and, after cautiously looking about him, he filled and lit this, and began to feel more re- signed to his position. From where he ‘lay he could see, through the tang- led growth above him, the towers and | chimneys of Chater Hall: raising his head a little he could see a path, which wound across some slightly ground and appeared to lead from the Hall down to the road near which he tay—entry to the road from it being obtained through a wooden gate in the high palings, which surrounded the grounds at the point where they joined the road. The Hall being high above him, he could see this path in its wind- ings and twistings very clearly; and, as it was a short cut to the village, it appeared to be used pretty often. It amused and interested the fugitive lying there, to watch the path and those who came down it; he found himself wondering idly whether he should ever tread that path again or set foot in Chater Hall, and under what circumstances. Knowing nothing of the locality, Philip had not chosen his hiding-place so well as he had hoped; for presently he was startled by the noise of wheels behind him. Rising hurriedly he look- ed over a bank, sheer down into a road below—a road not so broad as that which lay at some distance in front of him, but broad enough for ve- hicles. In deed, the vehicle which Philip had heard had stopped immedi- ately below him, and a man in it was alighting. So close was it, and so im- mediately underneath where he lay in the thick undergrowth, that Philip could hear distinctly what this man said to the driver. “I brought you this way because I have a fancy for going to the Hall un- announced—just a mere whim of mine. I can get over from here. It'll be—ha, ha!—a little surprise for them—won’t it?” ' The driver muttered something which Philip could not catch, received his fare, turned his horse’s head, and drove back the way he had come. The man stood quite still in the road until the vehicle was out of sight, then be- gan to climb the bank which led to the place where Philip was concealed. At first Philip was afraid that the rising | straight for him; he dived down and lay flat, scarcely daring to breathe. But the stranger, who evidently knew the place well, came on steadily, until he stood within a few yards of the spot where Philip crouched; then he stopped and looked straight across at the distant chimneys of Chater Hall. As he stood there Philip found himself watching the man with an eagerness greater than he would have felt at the appearance of any chance stranger, for he knew the face of this man. Once again he seemed to stand at the entranée to a little court, leading down to the river, at Woolwich; once again, to see a man dash past him, and to catch a glimpse of his face—gone in an instant, and seemingly forgotten —but well enough remembered now. Again, too, he seemed to stand on the terrace at Chater Hall, on the night of the burglary, striving to peer in through a window; to see the curtains suddenly flung back, and the room bright with lights, and that same face staring out at him. Small wonder that his heart beat heavily as he lay crouched among the bushes looking up at the man above him. The stranger, for his part, seemed to hesitate what to do; rade a step forward more than once, as if to go boldly across the road and up the path to the house before him, and as often stopped and turned about and waited where he was. Philip Chater was beginning to wonder what was to happen, and was half-resolved—in the wild hurry of his thoughts which came crowding upon him—to jump up and confront the man, when another figure seemed to spring almost from the grass near at hand, and to make rapidly toward the first comer. Philip, raising his head quickly, no sooner caught sight of this second man than he dropped down flat again at the bottom of the ditch, It was inspector Tokely; and that gentleman came forward with a threat- ening aspect, and stopped within about a yard of the other, who was much taller than himself. “Mr. Ogledon, I believe?” said the inspector, grimly; and Philip almost jumped out of his-place again at the mention of that name. “Well, what of it?” was the surly re- ply; and it almost seemed to the listen- ing man as though the speaker looked Tokely up and down superciliously as !he spoke. | “What of it, sir?” cried the other, fiercely. “This of it, Mr. Ogledon— {that you have insulted and maltreated the law, as personified by me—in me, sir! That I have been lured into your presence, and, while in the execution ‘or my duty, have been struck on a ‘tender spot—to wit, the head—by a | debauched companion of yours, and | with a hard and heavy substance—to | wit) a decanter; such assault being | committed in order to delay, frustrate, postpone, or prevent the arrest of a acted person against whom I held a |; warrant. And now, sir—what have ‘you to say to that?” exclaimed the lit- tle man, suddenly losing his legal tech- { nicalities in an outburst of fury. | “I daresay you think you have cause jo complaint against me,” began the other coolly; but Tokely burst in again, more furiously than ever. “Cause of complaint!” he almost }shrieked. “When a man — and that man an officer of the law — has a i bump raised on his head which com- ‘pels him to wear his hat like a giddy ‘youth on a bank-holiday excursion, ‘and which prevents his lying with com- ‘fort in bed—and the abettor of the out- | rage talks about cause of complaint! ....I1 wonder, sir, what you will {think when you occupy a cell on ac- | count of this—eh, sir?” j (To Be Continued.) ——— POCKETS WIRELESS. Interesting Future for Recent English Invention. An English electrical engineer, Er- ‘nest Oldenbourg, has recently in- vented a new telegraphic receiver which, it is declared, is sensitive enough to detect the most delicate impulses which even a pocket battery could send out. This instrument, which is at pres- ent known as the capilliform receiver, is “more sensitive than the |brain;” it is said to transcend all previous in- ventions in delicacy. It depends on the fact that mercury in a vertical ca- pillary tube—like that of a thermom- eter—rises and falls when an electric current is passed through it. This fact has long been known. Mr. Oldenbourg’h invention consists in magnifying and in utilizing it in a shape which enables it to be used practically as the receiving instru- ment of a telegraphic installation. Its peculiar value is, it is claimed, that it will respond to far smaller currents than those at present used; a mere fraction of a volt is sufficient to work it. 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