Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1895, Page 10

4 stealthy enemy approach. Her hand trem- ! had come out at my lady's bidding to follow - bled as she lafd it on my arm. him secretly, T stepped up to him till I could “What avails good swordsmanship when | look over his shoulder, RSN Lt ] one comes from behind and one before, as in | “‘Walter!” I said, putting my hand on his my dream 1 saw them do upon my Walter | arm. urniture an arpe ept. out of the house of my Lady Wellwood. They But he never minded me In the least, nor GASOLINE THE RELIABLE is, as the name indicates, me upon him and left him lying on the appeared surpj d to find me there. Only a snow. Ah, go, dear cousin Willlam!" she black and bifterYyorror sat broodicg on his sald, breaking 'Into a sharp cry of entreaty | soui. lest 1 should fail her. “It is you that can | e continulll o gaze, fascinated, at the STOVES the Best and most reliable mode, We bought a ~ carload at halt manufacturers’ price, and offer them this week at from one-third to one.half other dcalers’ prices. fave him. But let him not see you follow dark thing Cabinet Stove like cut, price. ... $18.00 h d. or It will make him more bitter against me. | (o0 od o lbr L TWO BURNE 3-16 00 he sobbed, the horror of For if you cannot play with the sword you | i taking him short n the throat. *“Will, do can shoot with the pistol; 80 I have heard, | you see this?" dnd they tell me that no one can shoot %0 | Such abject terror never have I fieard be- truly as thou. They would not let thee | fore nor since in the utterance of any living shoot for the siller gun, though thou art|man, § Doiers, UROAUA 1t Wwere 10 faif AMS. 18| "Dy you ses thist he Adked. “Bes what it not true?” fell at my feet as I came through the arch And so she stoked and cuitled me with |or the Bow upom, mine errand! The wind flattery till I declare I purred like our Gib | brought it down." cat. I had b:gun there and then to tell Above us the moon pushed her way upward, her of my prowess, but that she Interrupted fighting hard, breasting the cloudrack like a Price v me laboring ship. 8§ HUTN iR STANCR TS HOPYS goes by the High street. Hasten up | Hor beams fell on the dark thing in Wat 8 BURNBR GENERATOR, 12.00 ie South Wynd and you will overtake him | Gordon's hand Price ‘ R T Aot . t ere he comes upon th> open road. Great God!" he shouted again, his eyes ONE BURNER, LOW, 2.45 She thrust two pistols into my belt, which | starting from their sockets, “it is mine own Price AT L e ok ) I laid aside again, having mine own more | father's head!"” carefully primed with me, to the firing of [ And overhead the fittul, flying winds nich- which my hand was more accustomed—and | ered like mocking fiends. that to a marksman is more than half the| [t was true. I that write It saw it plain THREE BUR) W, le. When I reached the street the wild- [ 1 held it in this very hand. It was the head Phios 4.45 nées of the night justified my prophecy. | of Sir John of Lochinvar, against whom. in AR Ao AR The snow was falling athwart the town in | the last fray, his own son had donned the Prices on other Patterns Equally as Low. 3 broad, wet flakes, driven flat against the | war gear. Gfissled, black, the snow cleaving This Offer Is Good for this Weok Only, 7 " ; DB th (s 1a ew. | face w ore the gusty westerly | ghastly about the empty eyeholes, the thin § CHAPTER IX—CONCLUDED. were but dirt beneath the fest of the few. | face with a splash before the gusty westerly | ghas : . " : e TEN { t tha o v of ind wind that roared among the tall lums of the | beard still straggling on the chin—it was b WULLCAT WAT DAR el "”‘llnl:m‘(\ y ‘:"\ :'l 'i\ l:url‘ll«u l:n‘:n would be | steep-gabled houses—a most uncomfortable | N8 own father's head that had fallen at ‘Refl'lgfira'qrs and Ic. ch!" HBLL. driven with whips of scorpions, or one that | night to run the risk of getting a dirk in | Walter Gordon's feet, and which he now held A GOOD ICE BOX, s2 68 § It was about the end of October when the [ coyld be drawn’ with the Ight of ladies: | on's ivs. in his hand, Solid oak, worth $5.00, price........ . | & days are beginning to creep quickly into their | eyes? I saw my cousin before me, linking on | ’T'w’" 1 r»".";mhrrwl, “‘]Ilhv 1 ’xllmddn;( of A GOOD REFRI( ATOR, 4 98 i shortest, that my aunt, Lady Lochinvar, came | She sighed and gathered up her skirts through the snow, with his cloak about his | @Dprehension, his own words so lately spoken Solid oak, worth $10.00, price.. ..., .. . to town. I \\.HY, asked only meat and house [ Ave. all too readily,” she said, thiab%g. | cars and his black-scabbard rapler swinging | “Heaven and hell shall not cause me to $ price ¥ e . s graver | 1 00ubt not, of Walter ‘Gordon and my Lady | at his heals. | break my tryst tonight. g Toom, comvanled not much with the graver | oo'swoy oo I had to slink behind like a Holyrocd | Walter Gordon stood there, dazed and folk who sought the socicty of my cousin of | It was dusking when we stepped out. MY | dyvour—a bankrupt golng back to the yaue | dumbfc and there | qunt took my arm and desired we should walk tuary, jooking and cowering craftily in the | His w him but | home, unded, with th> Thing In his hand lace ruffles touched it as the wind Carpefs and Mattings. For Wat glanced here bravery every day, and I hough 1 already had called a chair for | jee.side” shadow of the houses, For, though, | blew them BODY BRUSSELS CARPIT, 75c b seldom. But my lady aunt came to see me |[her. So we went up the narrow, dirty street | o5 \i1q a night, 1t was not dark. There I plucked at him. Price tettiisiniieaes 4 ¥ and came slowly to her lodgings. Walter met when «ho had been but three days in town, e henoon up there somewhere among the | ~“‘Come,” I said, “haste you! Let us bury smother, though she could not get so much | it tn the Holyrood ere the moon goes down as her nose through the wrack of bank:d | Thus he that boasted himselt free of snow cloud which was driven up from the | heaven and hell had his tryst broken by the west. Yet Wat could have seen me very ' Thing that fell from ghastly gate on | us on the stair of the lodging. He was shin- for she was punctilious about the clalms of | 1.0 ailk ‘and velvet, as was his wont. Lace blood and kinship, which, inde women | rufles were at his wrists. He had a gold think much more of than do men. | chain about his neck and 8 Joweled rapier “A gool morning, cousi id she, “an1 | flashed and swung In a gold-brodered velve! A good morning, cousin,” sald sh 00 {ERATA dRof At GOOD CHINA MATTINGS, 7c 15¢ TINC GOOD JAPANESE M4 Price i v speeds the suit?" CARPET HASSOCKS, how speeds the suit? Ho seemed no little dashed by our coming Pilca 480 , © Then I told her somewhat of the law's de- FaUIsiy Aertbod Lt 1 had . IO RS e 1 lay, and how I an excellent lawyer, albeit | thought his mother safe out of the way, and choleric and stormy in demeanor, one of mine | wondered how I should keep the peace be Own name, Mr. William Gordon, though his | tween them, for by the tremble of her hand pleas were drawn by James Stewart, presently | UPon my arm I felt that the storm was nigh il e ’ o | the breaking. Sj g, What Gordon said weat down wll | Vo9 a1l that he atopped and Kisted her With my lords of the council meeting in Holy- | dutifully, standing on the step. with his hat ! b 4 100d, for he was a great swearer and d [in his hand, to let her pass. The flickering Skt O WINDOW SITADES, ALL COLORS, 20c Price other. nly, through the hush of wait- freely in his speech. But Hugh Walla light of the cruisic lamp was on his head, and ing, came ruaning footsteps, and men’s fig- | 9 that was the king's cash keeper, claimed the | 1 thought he had the noblest figure of a youth ures darkened the moonlight on the snow be- . 0 ’ that ever my eyes had re:tel upon, fore the arc A e -y e o+ e | B 550 e i b e e e 1o || FUTNiture and Draperies conformity to the acts of Parliament made| ‘“Attend us to my chamber, Walter,” she catch the glitter of the fire as it flew from | fgainst these delinquencies and conventicles | said; “I have that concerning which I would their first onset. Walter poised himself on in 1670 an inting the fines of ak with you.” his feet with a quick alternate balancing heritors bei ar sors to come Into the | Sy we went upward, turning and twisting movement, keeping his head low between his " treasury. And Sir rge Mackenzie sald: | up the long stairs, till we came to the door shoulders, and his rapier point far out. He R S0 T { this plea be no James Stewart's drawing | where my lady lodged. She tirled at the pin, was in the dark, and those about the mouth 3 1 have no skill of law. Tell me, Gordon, gin | {ho servant o d opened, and we went in. of the arch could not well see at what they b %g :lln“i this yoursel, or is James Stewart in | Tha window stood wide to give a draught to were sriking, whereas he had them clear 3 otland ? the fire of wood that burned_on the fire grate, against the gray of the moonlit sky. Then my lady of Lochinvar asked of me | I went close to it, and, as I did so, a broad Steel had not stricken on steel three times i aro Then T (HghL iy mitiers Mgt b broughe | Rakeror o (10 30 2 broad piee hai nat sirickin on'stcl Tirce times We carry the largest and UL RS Bt sald T; “it seems siow | O WHISt It fold me that It was o be when it shines from east to west, 1 saw Wat's g b SR Ll wild night—the first enow storm of the long rapicr dart out, and a man fell forward : » enough, year, belike vard | clinking on the stones with the I)CSt StOCI\ m thC west at All law is slow, save that which my man My lady came back from*her own bed led armor. Yet, armor or no d the fellow with his foot, lest in falling he should grip to pull him down, which was a common trick of the time, and sometimes resorted to without a wound; but the dark, wet stain his body left on the cob blestones told us that he was sped surely enough In a moment the others had come up, and and your father g chamber in a moment. She had merely lald I was astonished that she should mention | geida her plaid, waiting not to change he GRH [ wILCthat cotirage and cotintenance, | Bown leat her. on, Kbowid ob bonc %04 the atory not six months old; indeed, his | *\Waiter Gordon stacd discontentedly enough 3 BOERT o ckinm onitiesNettiertiowsnot /a1 a¢) tha nide ot this Airel moate Foap e B ave Wlked, But shs saw | Liowing embers It KIS B non shoe, care some part of this in n and._quickly [ f57 78, Sotfiers, with, his began to say on Ot ornathuEnel “You Gordons never think you die honest ML /L Lowest Prices. will you not giyve b 285 yo 3 g 3 up your company tonight?t the whole archway seemed full cf the flicker d g:‘.‘: ;}m)‘:x .‘,',‘,i \'»".-||Mx‘:v‘:~-|’y'|‘"'r“mn']xu:,hukh k,‘.'.'y.gr “I cannot, my lady,” said Lochinvar, with- of flashing swords. Wat's long arm wavered A hand 15 agalnst every man. And that is why | 04t l0oking up; I have made an engagement here and there, keeping them all at b: ] TO F N T ] I, that am but a tacked-on-Gordon, come tp | elsewhere.” could have cried the slogan. He was the fn DEWEY & S NE UR I URE CO. | s help you, it 5o be I can, though I and my | He spoke baldly and harshly, as one that comparable sworder indeed, and John Varlet 4 boy stand for the king, ‘and you and your | PUts a strain on himself, that misbegotten rogue, had not taught him 2 e 5 rebel brother, Sandy, for the iants. His mother looked at him with her eyes in vain. tablished 1864, 4 Weary fa’ them-— took my man from | like ¢ from which the leaping flame ha: “Let off!" he cried to me, never taking hi me—for he was a god man to me, though | just died out. For a moment she sald noth. We agreed but 11l together on kings and poli- | ing, but her soul within her looked out of ties the windows of her house of clay, fiery and ndy," I said. “I| passionate. It had come to the close and es from his foc ase me a little to the " right. They are over heavy for my iron or 1115-1117 FARNAM STREET. that hand.” with that, oven as I was bidden, and se there was nothing else T could do, 1 struck with my broad Itallan dagger at & surly visage that came between me and th peak for my brother 2 no strang sufferer, and so shall get me, I | deadly pineh with her, and it was on the fear me, no golden garment 8o T spoke in my {gnoran dice’s throw whether she would lose or keep for the witty, | her son. DI OOIPOPNNDDODDD909. HOP PO P0 08 70 @ igwn-warm alr of Kdinburgh in spirituai b~ wwulior Gérdon ahd sald at Tatti<nay sky, and tumbled a tall fellow out of a niche b :gg::fan'h;l.““ e opinans HEN] 5o <l or adkdaved thus e te b oS on the top of the first, Kicking like a rabbit dicians. Now that was a word of my mother's, that suffering was the Christian's golden garment. But to my aunt, to whom religion was mostly family tradition (or so I thought), I might as | *°,* b iy well have spoken of fried fisl ‘Mothe said Wat, moved in spite of s AT ! himself, “you do yourielf not justice when But ot Walter,” she went on, as one that , ! 4 & § gomes to a real subject after beating about YOU speak so. I would spend many nights The rest were a little dashed by the fall of these two. Still there were four of them, and one great loon determinedly set his head down, and wrapping his cloak on his arm rushed at my cousin, almost overbearing him for the moment. He broke within Wat's guard, and the swords of the rogue's com- purpose, that, now she is here, you will not do her the honor to spend a single night in her company? Since when has she become 50 distasteful to you 66456” 66456” 66456” To Retail Dealers of Cigars: To introduco our new brand “45¢" without expense of “ \ aniots had been in his heart but that then avelln e wa A tho bush “tell me of him. You have been | ¥ith vou, for all yRlpvesandiiscyice s NO HEAVEN; NO HELL SHALL GAR ME,” Laohinvar” gave: them . snocher aste ot Hio of l'(')“ ":“”'l:“"“”l;"“’;l’”” the : : yours; but tonight I canno o . Lightly leap the side Just out ma a or ; "‘n’,':" ‘:x::y'l’“,"‘“‘.“ {aithe olty” the best part ‘ot 780" promised without-belng mansworn and ( black on the narrow strip of enow had he] which the traltors’ heads are set In o row. | 3pelity ,,.hi‘..':i’.,,".’..‘;"‘..,‘?.,,"‘," 1 r:'vuchmx E 2 2 ”. Ofie monkelaratly Now, Indéel, T saw plainly enough what it | trystbreaker. And you have taught me | ever thought of looking over his shoulder. __ CHAPTER XI. sideways, he struck the man heavily on the With each thousand cigars purchased. These cigars was that had’ procured me. the. honor of | that the Gordons are nelher» But Wat the Wullcat of Lochinvar was| THE BICKER OF SWORDS IN THE with his dagger in his left hand are without doubt the finest $35 00 cigars in tho marikat, wisit 80 early from my lady of Lochimone. “'Wat," she sald, hearing, but not heeding | not the one to look behind him when he SNOW. panting ‘with the force of the blow, so that 3 gl bl o “In this city I have indeed been, my aunt,” | his words, “bide you tonight. There ba | strode on to keep tryst. I minded his bit-| Then, seeing him both agitated and un- [ he fell down like the dead. At the same GUARANTEED TO BE FIRST CLAS: T replied, “but not with Waltcr, for T am not | sweet maids a-many that will give thelr lives | ter, reckless words to his motner. M| o rtain which way to turn, I took out of his | moment he leaned far forward, engaging all lord of Lochinvar, but only the toor suitor of | {Or you. You are too young for such quest- | heaven nor hell shall make me. posak my | shaking hands the poor mishandled head, | the points of the other sword fhe king's worcy. And I spend uot that whick | ing and companionry. Go mot to my Lady | tryst tonight.” Heaven was shui cue by the | wrapping it in my plaid, and so led the way | They gave back at the q A trial order will convince you. k, unexpected Terms 30 days—2 por cent for cash, 1 have not, nor yet can I afford to burden the | Wellwood tonight O, do not my son!|storm and the tall, close-bullt hous: s, and) down the Canongate toward the kirkyard of | attacks, and the points of their swords rose, =48 estate which may ne be mine." i 'Tis your mother that makes herself a begger | Walter Gordon had an excellent chance of | the Chapel of Holyrood house, where it |as It seemed, for no more than a second. DUl<l.Y & CO-, Olflflllil, Nel). Sho waved her hand as at a Whig scruple, | to you standing a bout with the other place seemed to me most safe to bury the Thing | But in that pulse beat Wat's rapier shot out which good king's folk made light of. At the name of my Lady Wellwood Walter [ No doubt my Lady Wellwood bided at the | thot had fallin in such marvelous fashion | Stralght and low, and yet another clapped “But what of W well with the lad? al vou have scea—ls it | Gordon started from bis place: as though he | window and Iooked out Tor sim.to. some. ig | by 20, ! that! night. his hand upon his body and cried an oath had been stung, and glanced over at me with | her through the snow. And I. that had hag The place I knew. well enough. I had | e be, too, fell forward upon his companions She spoke cagerly, and laid her hand on |a sudden and fiery anger. for common no thought of lass or lady, can- often meditated there. It was half ruinous, | Then the little man, who had stood all the R i 3 ol e “ i 4 ! e ous, (o ackground, took heart of grace | Royal by the mob in the riots of the revolu- amy arm. i It my cousin— fot say that T was without my own envyings | apq I looked to meet with no man withiy :y::;l(;-;:;y(fllf(;vrl\)\::r«;(rn‘:::’l"l‘(’u‘l‘)lwxl“:m- ():“‘a Face | tion year. But after all, xl.;- business was not mine, | But I kept my eyes clear upon him, as full | that the love of woman was not,for me. Or the precincts on such a night. But short of the steel pistol in his hand. He crouched Yet, even at that time, It was not a place 3 R bes(des e t s my lady mient v | o Are mayhap as his own, and even'in that toine least 1 (haug)}n. even as a I ahielded 1oy | deceiving and ostrich-blind ars all our hopes Kon bl hanie ha e e B Crokghal fo L8 S B INAE DG L A lefer have 3 —18 D ¢-PIEt, as my lady might well | moment I saw the thought pass out of his [ eves under my bonnet and drave through | g, of g o ;i i g G co | been going decently y lodg- have known. mind in the uncertain firelight the snow with the pistols loose in my belt, | {F bY BOINg that way I brought us into the | Bt T had him eloar n ho meomiorme 1S | boen golng oo ntly to my bed in my lod R 400 ) 'sal0 1. il the Gavaigt - imindhigsn ] I ! log BT rocst danger we could possibly be in. | pullet on a dyke, and just when 1 saw his | g8 in the \West Bow indeed, at that HaiayaL, Gordon il L, s the gayest and ¢ “Your eousin );;::P:‘uh:)l;:e”n::‘l:(l!ngl,";hnl:fic ‘\’\‘:lb?:c‘:,r;:;r‘;nr.::a‘rflHl,,|r.~:n‘llé;lu;|;]|:r“gtinlznufi: For, 88 We came by the side port of Holy- | forefinger . twitch " to. tho hammer pull | moment I should, but for thit dafe heathercar cus blade for metal, and there are none | eurtly. “Young men hang together like ad. | carriage, light and careless, which I vouch | 7%0 house and took the left wynd which dropped him with a bullet fair in the shoul- 'r’ a wui~ n ‘1' m ’:i' with ..1.1, ‘,N antries, golng. it &Irl. I had glven ten years of my lifo if just steps coming after | beside the z , e Ay, ladies, that T ken” sald my aunt, :?gln't“:|“fi.:oc“;r‘::yw'ih?";:l":z“h.orx‘:e?'"k;e: 30T could have taken Tne Syaq of women, ™| me. "1t was'stll might of suow. bt the Then-the remaininx two threw.down thelp | 8lons, and L hardiy St i te imlaminy *What of my Lady Wellwood? the fire is bright and the lamp ready. 1| AS clear as if I had listened to (he words, I | Plast of flakes was wearing thinner and less | tools and ran, whatever they were fit, in the l“‘" mage ‘“'": i fll e h““rl‘ “I'"‘; "":‘- Now, 1 had a very clear opinion of my |will be a wild might witheut presently.” could hear him saying over within himsclf | BUSty. The moon was wading among great | direction of the town. ThoLan ayar {hat B o undeagt vards RRLICTUtliwoad, thouahi T knaw' hernot, for | irromatrow: motker et e'en shall | the last sentence he had used in the contro- [ White-edged wreaths, as though ths snows | Walter ~Gordon with much philosophy | It Was ittle that T cout da tn tareo, Jards. SEARLES & SEARLES Chronic, she would not have waved (he back of her |y i " Fo- | Xersy with his mother: ‘“‘Heaven and hell [ had been driven right up to heaven and were | striked his sword on the lapel of ane of tha | ful place. But I unwrapped the poor head Nervous, Uiy band to me in the street. But she was | mignes gkt O MY canbot Chongh Becaucs |SBAI) not cause e o brézkc my rast fomigreh | crere rien right doad men's eoats. bent s point to the pave- |1 had brought with me and put It A Privat A handsoms woman, and I admired hep 30U akc.ine, With all my hoace Bk ben Alack! poo- lad, littlo understood he the | It was I who led, for my cousin, Wat | ment to try its soundness, and returned it to Sigedinkl o ar”.p\‘. corner ”'-1‘ he diss . Tivald ERRETTOE that 0ajaho went by.iBeaties, the | Y Then hiatmatner rom ot ould by | resources of elther. And he had yet to pass [ Gordon, being stopped dead in his heart's | its velvet sheath, Then he solemnly turned Wrapping my piald abo; me for warmth, for the fire and went up to him. She laid her | Peneath Traitor's Gate. desirc, lke a dog quivering for the leap, | and took me by the hand SVilliamitt he salt | tha nialt BLaL (bl ot as it ever doss Diseasss, hand on his arm and loked into his cyen. For once the narrow High strect of Edin- | that suddenly gets his desin wotind, “sow |« ~2X91 Are & f0AD, Lonain Wiliam,"! As e I I AT ey i w0 Walter, my boy, go not forth tonight,” BUrgh was clean and white—sheeted down in | went forward as one blieg any staggered ¥ SRR Xk Binking T/haR done In | I ad time o soire tor thinking upon m ATMENT BY MAIL Consultation Fres (here I declare to God the proud woman |the clinging snow, that would neither melt even in the plain places. Also, it was well | 1°aF and the thought of wha had o I y the taking of life and the sending of my [folly and how I had damaged the cause 1 had | __Wecure Catarrh, all diseises of the fellow creatures to their account. Also the ?n (1‘1‘.|I|Iy un(nwll by my unlucky interference | Nose, Throat, Chest, Stomach, Liver, 4 ) ckets o e 0 T ears came hopping down my cheek, which is | in Walter's vanities. It came fo me that no Sltd i i i sake—for your ‘mother's sake, that neyer {\"”‘;"“","”‘;",l the: sro lia of the roof. . The | "Wy “were at the adgle Of the wall, and, premiylosg b L i el At B Bl B b R S Earlstoun and Loehmvar | 21ood, Skin and K“"‘"’y,”"{’,"",’l F% denied you anything. There is evil boding in Taed CiftsHird and roared In, sren B fver- | going slowly down among the eumbering In spite of this weakness he shook me again | would pass wholly away from the Gordons | Male Weaknesses, Lost Manbood, an the’ air, m:'” e et woneertaln, tumultuous | heaps of rubbish by the dykeside, when I cer- ( by the hand, and said only and we become attatned and landless like the | ALL PR.VATE DISEASES OF MEN. Kottt her oan: o) . T have put ofr [nOF fréeze, but only clung to every Joint, Jut, | thiat I must suide pier for 1oss ¢ was kopt | my pride, and pray you not to go for my | 590D and step of the house fronts and cloggei from thinking of the burden I carried, Im would come, suiden as a She shuddered and threw an arm over his tainly heard, through the soughing of the > 2 ma red Gregors, and Indecd Kenmuir's case wa 5 curtain drop in the playhouse, d q g 8 ou are a man W, b ok WEAK 3 VICTIMS 4 y | shoulder, as though sho had been his sweot. kT m’,‘m' hm', i ’:}.fla *‘""hfif',,“g'“m,'\l.’; Nind and the soft swirl of the nowflakes, the | Notwithatanding, I was not cheered, but not much better | Dobiiey Foah ot rest (TRt , ine heart and were fleeching with him. off the high-pitched roofs of tile. The light | 1UICK trampling of footsteps behind us, It continued to greet liko a bairn, only quietly, | So I wore the weary night away, black. voluntary Losses, with Early Decuy. b young For a moment I saw Wat Gordan waver, Y el T M| seemed to me that they came from the di- though I was grateful for his words and took | dismal thoughts eating like canker worms a | wnd middle aged; lacg of vim, vigor and weaks "Thwn he took her hand gently and drew it Dlokeraian Db ians 1 ”“{ (_‘I!“"‘h :l:"';t rection of the queen's bath house, by which, | them not 1. my heart. How T repented and prayed n Jisand ',".:‘A‘.}‘,’,"'fo"m:{.' :szr“:‘r‘::‘l'l‘:u:lml...lm.‘-:ll | fown from his shoulder, Taising her to her uately ‘thicker and (hinnor across her. tace, |15, ¢ JDow minded, ‘my Lord Wellwood had hen Walter Gordon wont forward to the [man Knows. For that is the young man's | 7104 Dower, Call op aoines with tans? 8 o N b AT ; d men and turned them over, looking at fronitance—after he has caten tho ‘sour | circuldre, free bosk and resipta, turned, and saw half a dozen of fellows | each, but saying no word. Las y he went to | fruit, to pray that he may not haye the | o id? . 5 1416 s - not, for I have plighted my word deep than an BIabureh IMrRD ARG oo o "“’" and one who seemed short of stature and ill shoulder. As he looked in his face, from Yet boing Galloway born, T had also in me | and fast, and I must go tonight.” S M‘““M‘:M lnklt:‘r‘ ';'.‘m_“‘!:“ "!"‘l"i at the running following after them. Then I | which the mask had fallen aside, he started | the fear of the unseen, which folks call | oll me." eald my aunt, “la it a matter [ 2aNd5 his w “and well-doer off tha. stre | Pulled quickly at Walter's sleeve and said 8o greatly that he almost leaped in the air. | superstition, and it irked me more than a1 A Now I felt both traitor and spy as I tracked Mother, for you I would do all save set s 4 > aln_ upon my honor. But this thing I | ™Y cousin down the brae. Hardly a soul | HANG! of tr ason to the King?" Lt R dtan J “Get you 10 #,goo posture of def or[ “Willam, William," he cried, “by the | other fears to bide all the night (and I Know Her eyes were, eager, expectant. And for h‘;d‘"l'“( :"’_‘H)f' e Qid ;'v*;m;(“{._nf:'""",‘: yao: | we are both dead ‘men, See behina you! king's head we must run for it, Thix is net | not how much longer) in that horrible vault. | ) S very pity of her I hoped that Walter eculd frozen toes by the fireside in some convenfent | At this he turped and looked, and the sight | a ‘horning’ but a hanging job. s the duke It seems little only to bide all night in ¥aois) Soub. give l:g‘ruiuxlulr:g::«:\x on the point. (Bt it | of calh seomed wonderfully, to steady him. He |of Wellwood himself?” i ‘H-;.ld where n..i:.'ul..um.n but quict bon ght, for who can a seemo t)y startled at the name of the great | of dead men. But, T warrant you, it is the 9 b ool R So meditating, for a moment I had almost | §o" ,‘1h‘("‘,fd“‘;:,'m“:‘H“r:";‘f‘zm“"',',','“"fl',‘f iBE{ pIriatartio st the name.of | king, T | burgher folk, who have never lain' anywhers | 1ONEer east his glanourie over whom he will, “Gord forbld! sald Wat Gordon, heartily, | forgotten whither we were going. [ $2haer7 Dacit Bt fae e oAt o | Baivy Counoliion:ana (avorite of | hiad falien | but blen and’cosy 1 thelr own beds at home, | DUt only over thosa who, ke witches und as one that is most mightily relieved 3 1"9,'“" us, "*;' el L "‘(‘“"' up the ;mxmu)y refreshing (9 Wat G:;-::;m:sr;;;fl:fur clear of the velvet mask with which it had | that are the boldest in saying this. ih vield themselves up to him as his s mother fell bac d he: v tlement d turrets of the Net ow g " < A ‘ f y agains y s nlotiTe iling subjects, 0| opped to sid g outh polled . beg 0 o0 w in the moon's uncertaj | tomb. T watched the white moonbeams sp; 8 {hie moon| eemed o to bes hen” $he sald, ‘it is my Lady Well. | remembered what it was that twelve months | ™ e, anallea Janity of the eourt, it io 1 AR R e Taesis Uioeriali llght, D aYOr. (e Goar. ahd- rods o neonkeam olora¥ | tall in my dream-sleep. {wood ! T had rather a thousand times it |and more ago had been set up the But [ { i (O, me. had Ae Lch P el il e L R IRLT Kreat state | swept clear or covered the moon's fase, 1| At seemcd then to me that I was starlng | had ‘been treason and rebellion, though jt|&m sure that, sharp set on his love matter, deed, T felt & lump rige in my throat, and my gnity, but there in the snow he looke ened to every sough of the wind with a | 8 the blackened head, with something rising had set your head on high beside your |llke a beast that hunts on a hot trail, Waf ed with fear: . : ivably mean, dirty and small e t the ¢ g halberts b i y throat like water in a sobe father's.” K "7 YOUT) Gordon had no memory ‘for the decorations | MOUth dried with feax; so that 1 couid bardly oy s g e o | fpar fost the clanking halborts of the witeh | f ! o, Walte % - bing well, when the ground stirred in the tl : : memory for th keop the tears {aam Tunning. beins oria oY v8,8 by wit the estate, noo, Walter,” 1 |should be in It, The sound of & mras waneich | ; 1y Lady Wellwood or another,” cried Wat, | of the NedharBow. <Fg i T lated s b | o eanel T A LAIAE 8 bonny | faid. “You and mo maun k' the heather | far awee ie 11¢ ear the grounding of | CO70eT Where the head lay, and oven as 1 nor heaven mor hell shall gar me break | Went, and stuck his hand deeper into the like the lave.” their axe shafte hey looked a beast came forth—a gray beast, with il “4X | breast of his coat. The moon came out as 1 | E&Tistoun and sy mother agatn. or any one | like aai o oslhens 88 they surrounded my place | OOR®E & bots blind of cye like a gray moudie. trzat, (i Bish > Jooked, 4nd for o moment, dark and grizzly | 86 I the plessant south country—and all [ 5o saying I snatched up the head wrapped in [ of concesiment. It i e ALONER 40 Bav ([ ori, “whish, Lok 1he el reiiay e And without another word Walter Gordon against the upper brightness | saw that row O & business that.l had no coneern with | the plaid, which I had almost forgotten. and ono's conscience against ome, but when cor v which took the hoad between ita fore- Solenoyn the siaire s one that stumbles | AFAIast the upper brig: the city folk regardeq | being only some; alght trokings of Wat Gor: | called him to ctme on. " For we were o the | soiencs. s reintonin "py (s DUt ®rounded | P rocked it to and fro as a iother deflantly to death, daring both God and don's. ’ gutskirts of the waste ground called the|fear of the hangman's rope, then \ha i | Focks a‘frotful bairn, sorfowing over it aed monpt 8t Guasrs he yar saw where we oguld best engage them; | away without passing a house Yol, in spite of all, I think I slept a little, | (¢ 208 UPOD the hess. “TI::»"]?:;‘ld(‘xlul\;:: WENT UP THE NARROW STRR 2 mHING . SHAPTER X, But s woon as Wat went under the black. | fOr io such (hings he ad the captain's eye, | But Walter was determined to return and | ror waon foite of o being red and near the | i1 454" VIng by its lone and went and digge: o de THE THING THAT FELL FROM TRAI. ’ SWIf and inovitable. It was at the angle of | 8¢ his mother, lost otherwise the horrur of | sepgies® \bhe M g red ant in the corner. As the moonlight swept acros — > . TOR i ness of the arch there came £o florce a gust e angle o : /0%, was shining through a great round | prons cORS: Dugh ¢ A beating ¢ basiness of Watt and my Lady Wellwood GATE. that it fairly lifted me off my feet and | tho wall, in which is a wide archway that | the news might take her unawares Walter [ hole in the ond of the vault, and that so e was none of mine. The Lady Lochinvar stood a moment still 2 verhead yelled | !€ads Into the enclosure of the palace. The | was ever his mothcr's boy, and 1 think his | brightly that I seemed to see motes dancin My lady Is in truth a fine woman,” I[Dby the fire, lstening, her hand raised as ff | 135hed me against the wall.' Overhead yelled | l ancing oy < ¢ . it dig the hole deeper and yet decper, h i by ell. rid ck- | $n0w had drifted round this arch a great|undutiful conduct that night now went hard | e l'ght as in a hayloft In the summer | 2oLt & A P AT ol Sald calmly, looking up as if I were saying "1'("“‘;";:‘;’!“““" T‘l""‘j"; r!‘,’;’ "“I“ T&n to the :ylnlhm Tu:::‘gp:rt::l'mn“ .;':‘1‘, »rn\lxl\:f“n;'ll':rl“"! oy rounded wreaths, and glistened | With bim, sceing how the affair had turned | season 13;:‘ not \'vi‘:”-hvuu;: of the' hu’u‘n”l Drm‘v rlrh: what must please my visitor, Dor” paa,h YOUng 1ass, With & Ught foot and | farmemics "8, wrapped us both In its gray | *moothly white in -the mobnbeams, but the | out | ihls was not the warst of it. 'In my | man 0ot e throwing the earth, which was The Lady Lochinvar struck ome hand on | her hand on her heart. The steps cam smother. Hands pulled at me out of the [ PAved gateway itself was clear. Wat thrust| I argued with him that it was the maddest P ny 288 lollowed the direction of the | o\ babind I ax dog does, but in front, out otbher hastily and rose v | fainter up the stairs, and in another mo- darkness, lifted me up and flung me down [Me behind Fim, and, throwing down his | play thus to g0 back. Hlis | 1gin 14 cer- [ broad beam, and lo! they fell dir on the | oo s Y o o8 e iod thAt ‘digs a grave. tend me home," she said; “I seo atter | ment wo heard the clang of the outer door A iroat amy face in the smoor of the snow. | cloak, cleared his sword arm with a long, | talnly be searched as soon as the duke Was | poon. Lo bead of him that lad ¢ han, ors tbe moonbeatds guite lelc 1 and . y0u arc a man, aud 50 must defend | My lady turned to me. A Sroat access of fear fell ou me. As the |S0bbing Intake of breath, which, having 4 | found, and the two who had escaped should | o John Gordon of Lochinvar. The auns | pegsa lo min o (HloonUs I seemed to see the aod wdmire all women Have you your pistols by you?' ghe gust overpassed I rose, choked and gasping. | Certain great content In it, was strange to | return to assist the watch. But I could net and ralns had not dealt kindly with hi B i i AW M my heart, 1 heard, the groat gray moudies und oll | ck Thing to the edge and i ior your ladyship's sske I do.” | whispered, fu a hoarse and angry voice. “Go, | Funt, o orPased mighty blast go roaring and | hear Oysrcome his determination. He had nother | now the face looked llko mothing eartisy | Diast roll tho black T i s P nswer, For in thoze days we were (man' Go, follow him! Ho fushes to o howling ' among the rocks ad crags of | 1 was behind him in the dark cf the arche plan to set agalust min as I suw it tn thie moonlluht” of tho ugsons | SpeT 8P drawing tho carth over it fiaar D b Sgurteodn 1o the clder lulies | death. And he is all that I have. Go and | houpnf Amo \vay, and there | Grst lald down my ghastly | “There fs & vault hercabout that I u hat it seem 00K 3 , d Lo vault. T could have screamed aloud, f. tha "paita . th them becowing compliments, [ save him!" Then I arose, shook the snow from my |burden fn the corner, wrapping it in my | hide in as a boy, Silly folks say that it 1s | seomed 1o bo a frown on the hrow and 8| tear T'Siarted up o Res, lsts the beast abould ¢ e flee, lest the beast should of being & forgotten art| She that had fleeched with her son, like dress, glanced at the barrels and cocks of my | cloak. I made my bistols ready, and aiso | haunted, But lndced thers Lo few that know writhel grin on the mouth that boded Irke | (684 T started up Lo fies, - N a dove succoring its young, lald harshly her | pistols 1o see (hat they were not stoppod | loorensd in my belt & broad Itaan dagger, | cf It. You can bide there and walt till 1 some ovils to come ome toward me—and with that I knew pg commands upon me. with snow, and stepped out of the angle of | thaped Nke a leaf, Wherewith I meant tg | come. Now, haif a dozen times 1 have resolved to | MoF° To Do Continued.) “I am no fighter, aunt,” sald I. “What the Bow to look after my cousin To my | stick and thrust if an ild atlempt to S0 we went thither, and found the place leaye out of my tale that which I saw hap- roigetion can I be to Walter Gordon, the | utter astonishment he was standing within | run in while I waz steniing on guard. Be- | commodious enough, indeed, but damp uud pen in my dream of tho night. For what I kee hay the Lougbest man in Amer- t swarder In Edinburgh town this night | four feet of me. He held some derk \hing lo | twoen me urd the lght I could sce Walter | unkindly, It was situate by the chapel wall, am about te selate may not meet with beliot {e]l #ix storles through a two-inch from ‘Holyrood to the castle?" . | his hand and stared open-mouthed at it, as armed in the #n ‘ashlen, with king and astride an eogine, buf By lady logked about her as one that sces | one demented. = Withous remembering that 1 ¢ 10 &0 ambulan but of late years it bas been flled with rub- in these times, wh. 0 the power of Satan ia his dagger In the | bish since the pulling down of the Chlyullmunflulh‘ i alned; and when he can no