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La THE GREATESF OF ALL LOVE CHASE Printed by « womdn nare Ww yO by the. Brench ani takes. retuge burn eeu by Jumpt Mehthouse. 4b y and bealege the lighthouse. Patling te aistoy M Browt arate of the a CHAPTER IV. The Pint and Counterplot. Pie the Ighthouse the French, the sea having calmed after the storm, rowed back to thelr frigate, Within. the Ighthoure the flames roared upward like mad. They could make no (mpression on the outer walls of stone; but they swiftly gutted the interfor. Where the fugitives crouched, tn the lantern, the heat oon grew unbearab' Round the open space they ran, looking Gown the outer slope: ae n Jet shot up within the larfern, Margaret uttered the high cry: “Oome!"* Is To Golde's ineffable wonder ahel arrangement with The J. it jhousemald uoemip ‘Tat seriotion of ved to call there nested him’ 1 and hoate: rc rls Mistakin Lise tee Lady Grandoourt Murgaret told of ed urn’ the Duke, [his Line pron: AL once. arkaret sat patiently awaiting the Duke, “while Line hurried away to per- fect hei tof the abduction, ne the Duke ae he was leaving | the sti suggested a mtroll in the twilixht. “He gladly ussente started out, Live skitully and ‘direst jars © moors, where the hinen were awaiting him. King at his wateh sat last in the ering darkness, the Duke saw that it was J.90, the hour for his Ink nap, tnd suggested that they re- turn to Grandcourt. They, were at the very bane of the rtelio tower at the time. ars spoke twelve men rose allently ES, t Company.) ertonr aArblay flasied across her mind Rurhing from the house she started at toy speed In purmult of the horse: Lise the a tof Mitel horse wheeled out highway tt shied violently at aman with a ntern and gun. He wan very old, but stalwart, large: honed, tall; « mist’ of white hair floated from ‘his ‘uncovered head: his *eard reached his middle, He looked like a prophet, or a madman. nothing but w blanket, tie left ghouder, from which a lank rn hune out. Wondering ai what produced upon her the tmpreseion of av loped past, while two pipes of burs-slug. shot at her hea over the horse's haunches. When Margaret, twenty. minute reached the spot, no aged man there, There are two roads which, between them, clasp the domain of Grandcourt like two arms. Hy one, the southern, 6 ern, Tins round the north of ‘Grandcourt Park; and these two meet in a single rond, half a mile beyond the tower, Along) this single Foul the party walked & mile, and the road again spilt Into two. one the branches being 2 mere footpath. Thia perhaps wax why. on coming to that . not noticing the footpath (their way). they waked along the other some fitteex minutes Then the voice of Danda war heard: ‘Btop! we have come wrong somehow.’ A masa of masonry had confronted him at a turnin ‘A halt waa made. The man with the lanthorn ran forward and came back crying: tis some old castle. wnt has happened ts thi into plunder: whizzed ater wae here THE CAPTURE OF WELLINGTON. legged over the railing and vanished, seeming to hurl herself into the sea. | But running he saw her seated a cornice-beading four feet down, hardly five inches wide, where, senses, {t seemed Impossible that creature could remuin one second, crackling lantern, however, was con-| tributory to comprehension, and an other glance showed that Murxare welght hung chiefly, not upon th cor- | f hice, but upon a rod; the Hshining-con- luctor, It ran through staples, admitting an arm between it and the wall. Golde, hunted from behind, stepped over th edge, trusted hin welght to the rod, reached the cornice, and with his aim above Margaret's, on the other clung on, sltting. But the rod, unusual weight, bent {ts free top slight- ly outward. They felt it yield with a chill of tntensest horror, Above them roared the flame; yet, coming a4 they did, Into the cold upper alr, out of that flery furnace they were chilled to the bone, Weaker and wearler the hours passed "More and more the Nghtning ductor had given to thelr weight, hend being oovious now. ‘Thelr limbs, moreover, could not long hoid on for! very torpor. Tu be able to move but} @ muscle—this was thelr longing. } They ware sinking Into the comatos stato that precedes death when a boat- Joad 9f men (the third Mghthouse weoper:| id the doctor returning with other government employees from shore) reached the Mmhthouse. { A line was shot up to them, and they | Were lowered sitfely to curth. But to uj) inquiries they could only murmue drowaslly the word “French- men,” as they sank tnto the deep sleep | Of utter exhaustion. And in this con-! sdition they were rowed ashore and | Dutta bed in an inn at Weymouth. It chanced to be the same inn where Ljse a’Arblay had \been wont to meet tho Sypey chief In’ planning the latter's share In the kidnapping. It wa) 6. ocr eas evening, when jaret awoke. | Hor firs! lot te abaust (tne ‘Duke, he any The they grew us to his Murrted | 7 Pa Utti out Lise screamed and ran The Duke tude of de hopelessly walking nw, What t# It you men are sloom. Nerdler stepped Yor topped, | ! ” we are ? 4 teh yerson as. a and the rele 1, Your ¢ us nere now repr t tage of our Ov: Ace's pres ent | te iat | of need ards nF 4 n ary 10 | Your Ora Grace | pothing but, oO expect frut a “ We are a npany ere is tt yougmedn to ha a frigate off and a boat near the shore werious the const, The w . and how far ix it? ething over twelve miter, Your “So Grace, Well, then, let us be Koln. He xt forward, pull ver hix eyes. “The ni {n pre-arranged order about him, dler by his side, a head ehorter than he, As they marched along in silence the Duke Yexan to go over in nie ral Eke cvente that had led up °. falnt suspicion of his f. hy uu fag now vanished) entered his mind. He turned Verdier, know a Mrs, Ope?" he sald. his hat! ir Grace? No, And now he was a lit! {for suspecting a lady, and concluded that her presence with’ him in the nve must have deen mere coincidence. ‘An for Lise d'Arblay, eure of his cap- ture. ste had hurried back to the Abbe: made fot the line of stables northwar fourm! the crib where she had seen her horee atulled, left saddled by her dires~ tions. The livery-men were al All was still. nshe went aver the exon Rey ou (OH avenue, embark with ¢ party, having followee On hoteeback. be- that -very hin ing-room wins @ suspicion, een dier, “at the meeting ot two paths we have taken the wrong o: : cried Dende. eG tie’ In the Report t hae been Geserted for. cen: ‘ace, we haye taken th ring for Your Gra nd our own, some victui ’ 0. Tam rather ery," aald ee Duk It was the day of imposatblo “suppers | after: dinner, and heavy ones. The party moved forward. Iw. if we can get "wall Verdier, . et there war ren belie Aitches. ‘The bu i? Mostly ru in, Your ho diMculty, the chapel in re room a refectory, they inte? tt Md not (kan made of rough nth V the! castles Here, evidently once used a found @ table tthe table was aur] seem old. an clang—a ay dat aang! me pushed into | toevers: heart, hat entere a door Nited with a door of old [ron baract: cin which, In the opposite ‘wall. was another ar door, thiv opposite door that now from the other door (of A rich votce® Fang out: Hands up! And out with rg Ir purses, or you are dead men all! ; (To Be Continued.) —___ “|“LOTTA” IS OUT OF DANGER. Actress Was in Critical Condition m PMomaine Polson Miss Lotta Crabtree, the favorite “In: genue" of the theatrical pubiic of a decade ago, \s recovering from ptomaina polsoning at her apartments én the Ho- tel Navarre. Mins Crabtree bec! after eating supper last Sunday even- Inz. Tho attack was so woakening that relatives were rummoned to her bed- aide, Dr, John Wilson Gibbs brought her around successfully, and to-day he wald she was entirely out of danger and recovering rapidly, Miss Crabtreo lives with her mother, who han been her business mani: since ee went on the stage thirty y, un eed sited fssesulaiion is @ @eriously 11 ns thet blood went rushing : ; t THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1901. EFFIE ELLSLER | AT ACH ACADEMY. Plays Part Sco Barbara Frietchie with Old Enthusiasm. Whatever may have been the gar of Barbara Frietchle Is a matter of appar- ently ttle historical interemt, John Groonceat ponitties made a woman of at © yeara and ten, and Clyde Fitch ae a dpamatiat didn't seem to care whether sha was olf or yourfx. When the Fitch drama wns produced. year ago Miss Jutfa Marlowe playod the part of Marbara. ording to the best authorities Miss Marlowe was born | idbeck, England, tn 1883, She was « very attractive and ingenuous Barbara, and pleased numerous audieaces. Last evesing at the Academy of Mus Minx Effie Elister easayed the same role iss Elisler, according to the same au, thority which announces the birth Miss Marlowe, was born InP: nta, In 1868, I simply call the attention of the pub- tle to these discrepancies In age as show- ing what Fitch and Frohman and Whit- er may do when determined upon a: ‘aricious career. Admitting that Dar- Fretehie wan a ticthtious character] and that Stonewal; Jackson ¢ rone of his soldiers to the “death of a sox” for shooting at her old gray nead, It seems atrange that the Frohman man- agement should leap for a heroine from Julia Marlowe, born in is, to Eme Elster, born in 1888. So far as the consistencies of thls de Fitch drama are concerned, Mra. in Gilbert or Miss Maude Foaley inight woll have casayel the principal ml Wut it was made a self-wvident tnet at he Academy feat nicht that Harbara Krietchle, the Ereierick girl. ee netnon ted by ‘Eme held “beyond all Sian ther anectlons ace hee vas thtenly arattytng and as h that won admitere, even among. those ‘who peed to ‘aun ud her most vacifero: ‘ole of Hzael e wtag! magnificent: not only di the rage man- axer do his duty, Dut so ald all under his sentrol, WILLIAM RATMOND SILL. AT THE OPERA Dull Performance of “‘L.s Huguenots” with an Animated Ending. A dull and spiritless performance of Meyerbser's “Les Hugu presente) for the first time this season at tne stropolitan last night, wee saved from utter commonplaceness only oy the sing- ing of Breval and Saleza in the last act. Hour after hour parsed without a vivifying touch upon the IIfeleas pro duction. Fion, who conductal, did his best, but could accomplish nothing. Melba, who wax Marguerite de Vatols, was short of breath, Breval, aw Valen- tint, wore an unbecoming costum acted atiMy and deliberately saved her volce. Saleza’s Raoul was out of tune ene. unconvincing: frp stomer. Op rain, sang wi ry je harsh- Nevers. Even Edouard de Reszke's Mur- cel was once, at least, off the key. I con, as St. Brin, alone suntatned h nis rep: ‘As for the chorus: It was execrauvle an never better than toterabl ‘There was a iarge audience that, first, waa only too cager to be friendly, ite tolerance, however, oozed out gradit- 8 and the poute, ut once became cagerly attentive @_soprano's animation “nie teu he forced his but he sang with with fervor. “Tne red the night and tne nerous applaus “Ronieo et SSullerte™ Ix announced for lo-murrow night, at Jean de Resrke jelba Int ular parts, ane SYL' TER RAWLING, THE BROOKLYN THEATRES. “David Garrick” and ‘Saph: Among the I'inpa Bresen Admirers of 8, Willard turned out in force at the Montauk Theat in Brooklyn, last n'ght, where he began an engagement. presenting “David Gar- rick.” The piay will he repeated Friday evening. To-night Mr. Willard will pre- ) Are rjaent “The Professor's Love Stoi “Bapho,” dramatized by Clyde Fit from Daudet's novel, wa Olga Netheraole at the 10’ tre last night, It was the tresa's first appearance in Hrooklyn in the part, and #he was greeted by a large Int character uf terested the Th play at the aioe Th rational melodrama « Interont them in thts 1 Manager whame ‘ind much to AU the Orpheum, presented antl her long v ni Nat a Will the reator Johnson ‘and Benn, "Mert on, Mile, Lotty, Hard- Bulneon Nbr gid. Hale and’ Francie, Mite, ure produced at the Sion, with Gertrude Coghlan as itecky harp. The play was well mount- RETURNS TO VAUDEVILLE. Misa “Nina Farrington Well He- ceived at New York theatre, Reaplendent In n 310.0 opern cloak, Nina Farrington gladdened hundreds of hearts at the New ork Theatre Inst night by her reappearance In vaudevitty after an absence ‘of two years from tho oeith Ht Braailian husband, how a wile lenry | Berama if Misa” Farington| Bt, seport her=| and tne} iene een the J and eet a ‘Throng, ndemned | “THE STILL ALARM” WINS | Dashing of the Fire Engine, “The Stl Alarm’ night. It bits fair to prove atiraction, Harry Lacy made hls role of Juck Maly, the hero. He mupported and recetvet mach * Henveth Helle Gold, the clever and F was ans AIFLED TRUNKS PRAISE FROM NOIPUEIIOLS i yo soubrette, who took th: J Wilbur, was loadiy applaud [her dancing and singing at tt the s cond a ne of ihe he on the Stage Received Enthusiastically. w horses: 10 vupled wits ws, rivaled Het The audte engine the stare. entertained a large ence at the Grand Opera-d ‘HER | DRESS ALL IN FLAMES Matthewn and Children Saved by Qulek Nets of B® Grane ‘ANegclable Pr cparatio for As- similating the 4 ling the Stomacts and Bowels of H | Promotes Digestion Chrerful- ness and Rest.Conlains neither | Opium. Morphine nor Mineral. | NOT NARCOTIC. Jaseepe of Od. Dr SAMUEL PITCHER Aperfcc! Remedy for Cons! | a eeu Stomach, Diane | Worms Convulsions, Feverish- i ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. IAMMERSLOUGH BROS, |___ Amusements, nan vate in the other day. 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