The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 7, 1903, Page 1

v e second installment of MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE,” t strange things be- reckless John Law dark-haired tempt- e, when, leaning adoringly on his arm, of Newgate Prison golden-haired rival, the Knollys, who had ssible this thrilling jail de- their hurried flight basely deserting the d risked every- g ° € allment, next Yy, W ear the mys- f w happened to puilty lovers after Sir Arthur Pem- ke, fell into the hands of elentless Iroguois. No more ro- ic history of England, France d America two centuries ago, true the life and manners of these two tinents, has ever been written. And immediately following “THRE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE” you will get & new novel, the very latest cre- etion of Mrs, 0. N. Williamson, call- ed “BETWEEN TWO FIRES.” Those ave read “The Mystery Box” d “Tainted Gold,” both by the e aut ss and published com- ete in the Sunday Call since the ew literary policy of giving its readers the best fiction of the day by he most famous writers in the free—was inau- have to be told the L.:ill‘..':g fascinating qual- of her new book. Then in rapid succession will fol- w that thrilling new American vel, “The Master of Appleby,” by L “Crittenden,” by The Two Vanrevels,” ton, whose famous eman From Indi- t been concluded in these Turnpike House,” by e, etc., etc. o A NDfllY Yet though the au made full search in London, in other of the prineipal citfes land, they got no word of the escape prisone: The clouded dawn which the Thames told its own sto deck of the good sh” outbound from same John Law. busy scenes His gaze, d out joy upon ti upon the far h in all his Iife J Letween his Not so Mary Connynge. “Good sir cried she, merrily, “’tls morning. Let's break our fast, and so set forth proper on our voyage.” “E0 Now we are free” sald Law, du “I could swear there wers shackles on Yes, we are free,” sald Mary Connynge, ‘and all the world is before us. But saw you ever in all your life so dumfounded as was Sir Arthur when he discovered "twas I, and not the Lady C stepped into the carriage? 1 sion of the carriages was llke to have cost us everything. I know not how 3 brother made such mistake. Ha = would fetch me home the It sure seems a long way ab t where may be your brother now, or Arthur, or the Lady Catharine—wh as much confused as though "twers a! & play!” “‘But Sir Arthur cried that my ship was this brigantine is bound for the mouth of the St. Lawrence, in America. W then, of this other, and what of my br “Why, I think nynge, calmly. be rid of London part, ‘tis a rare gives mel Upon the same mor at this very moment Is for the ship of McMasters, bound for the port Bhe came dow breathed—w this fate? her home, and now return uns a man who s at this the other woman friend! Wha her?” Will Law groaned and buried his own head deeper in h “What is there lett for any of he. *“What Is in Rrest, or "Tis somewhat do not said Yaw. “The sepa means somewha for me.” “Surely you do not mean—you have reference to Mary Connynge?” cr Arthur. Wil bowed his head abjectly and the other to guess ] his mind. Sir and stopped down. t ran on for weeks,” said Will Law “We were to have been married. T had no thought of this. 'Twas I who her to and from the priso 'twas {hus that we met. Sir Arthur drew a long, “Then I may say to you your brother, John Law. times more traitor and felon now I thou(‘u him. Yonde: st which onder he goes, somewhere, v warning, where he deems no trail sha be left behind him. But I promise 1 whatever be y own wish, T shall fo low him into the last corner of the earth, but he shall see me and give a sccount for this! > has not dece 2 black-hearted villain. Hs shall aceount for it, though it be years from now. So now, inch by inch, fathom after fathom, cable length after cable le: soon knot after knot, there sped E English ships out into the open seaws Before long they began to toss restless! and to pull eagerly at the helm as scent of the salt seas came in. Y neither knew fully the destination of t other, and neither knew that upon the deck of tha® r there was full solut! of those questions which now sat so heavily upon these human hearts. Ti silently, slowly, steadily, the two d outward and apart, and before that morn was done, both were tossing widely upon the swell of that sea beyond w! lay so much of fate mystery CHAP‘XER I THE DOOR OF THE WEST *Nearly a league farther, Du Mesna. and the sun but an hour high. Come, let us hasten.” seated himself on the thwart of the boat in-whose bow he had been stan “Hend to it, mes amis John Law turned abo ing back over th which had brought thus far on the wildest journey ever undertaken. Six paddlers t! for this great canot du Nord, and s enough they sent the thin shellgd eraft along over the curling biue waves of the great inland sea. d now their volces in one accord an ancient bo on the seat, gaz- arked tims for- the sweeping d ‘under the added impetus the paper reinforeéd close laid splints' of céddar b 2l Y- and braced by the fiber fastened thwaris N , i 3 \ fairly yielded to the rush of the waves g I N 2 7 as the stalwart paddlers sent it flying - . from him his “forward. A tiny blur of w showed You say, & young gentleman, and with set all the'dock astir. Straightway thers row Thames, and.even-as the anchor had confined John Law, convicted of ‘the - turnkey at the gats, taken f T lini him was @ young woman. I misdoubt the came up another wherry with two lusty song of the crew. struck up. « ‘murder. of é“ gentleman.” It keys and so forced bis way out Into Lon- about (h,' \ln x4 ?-:r-’n.r ,wm?".J ",a’:, o ady was 1" fellows, who laid her at the stalr where —_— was discovered that th.-.ld John ‘Law don city. spl 1.ul_,:r::‘ A e dn'm”:w “Get me a boat!” cried the newcomer. £tood the impatient stranger. CHAPTER XVIL had, in some ‘upcrhunun fashion, climb- Far and wide went forth the proclama- little -v\ ”‘:“, i athes i, :n".“\r b Y ereign, fi overeigns, ten sover- “Hurry, men!” he cried. *’Tis life'ana e ed the spiked walls of the inner yard. The tion of reward for the apprehension of ths the n e -“p.l“ w e g“:’. S a bundred—but that ship must not death—'tis more than life and death! WHITHER. _jaiter pointed-out the very spot where 'escaped convict. The streets of London We shall o oy till I "board her, do you And such fertune aftended Sir Arthur A few hours later the coppery sun dis- this act had beeridone. It was mot so were placarded broadcast with bills hear- friemd/” rejoined th Piin of, the voy Pembroke that forsogth-he went over the .persed. the morning mists above the . plain how he had passed the outer gates- ing this description of the escaped pris. agewrs o n;: <\‘\”§n’ :::x. a‘.‘cwss '.: ing of the imperative voice and side of the Polly Perkins, cven as the Thames. The same sun warmed the court of the prison, yet those were not wanting oner: 3 A great l"n:r}r:a[;ulr e u“" °'“": . the ring of good English coin gray dawn began to breuk over the nar- yards of the London jafl, which lately - who said that he had overpowered- the ive hundred pounds rewa: or In- under a thre 5 2k wesp an