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! Ca ” a | The Splendid Spur. By A. T. Quiller Couch. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. Jack Marvel, Uxford student, during bare aries 1. and Oliver Crom- hare) one ‘Capt. Settle to murder Sir Deakin Kjil- ‘and the latter's children, Anthony ‘and ‘Settle causes the death of Anthony fr Deakin, but Jack rescues Delia. Della are captured by Crom- wal'stmen, but escape, ‘They are pursued: i, @ gray-bearded man bribe (Ay permission of George Munro's Sons.) (Copyright. 1808, by George Munro's dons.) ? CHAPTER U1. A Flight and Proposal. 3 fied down a side street, our pursuers still on our track, until we were suddenly brought up *wtanding. ‘We had reached the water's edge, and there at our very feet lay a two-masted schooner. With the soldiers ever drawing nearer, * we had but*one alternative, We jumped aboard and'made for the hold. As we passed the cabin Btepped out and confronted us. “1 be Capt. Bill Pottery of this craft, The Godsend!" he thimdered, “and I be stone deaf. Who be ve?" Snatching a bit of paper I scribbled my name and added that we were pur- sued, He spelled out the words by the ‘Aght of his lantern. ‘Then he gripped us each bythe wriit and dragged us down the deck. Lifting a trap door he motioned us to descend a ladder into a man sna i M Ss presence. My request, after some iesl- tation, was granted. 1 was led to a t whieh ft) rier knocked pi aid a voice that seemed familiar to'm Behind six candles sat the venerable gentleman whom I had seen in the coach. now wearing a plain sult of black and reading in a great book that lay open on the table. AT peak, 1 Delleve, ‘to Master Hanni- bal Tngcomb, steward to Sir Deakin Killigrew.”” ea. Young sir, that is my ird to the late Sir Deak “Then you urely I know that Sir Deakin and Gaugbter wero cruelly Aiiled by inn, some miles out of Hungerto: he fate given me is the third of Decem! sir, you are wrong. Her’ kiled on the night of which k—cruelly enough, as you say: tress Della Killigrew escaped and after the most incredible ndven- ures" —— Standing before him, I gave him my name and a history of all my adventures in my dear comrades company from the hour when T saw her first In the inn at Hungerford. And when I had done, to my amaze. he spoke out sharply and as If'to w whipped schoolboy, Abashed indeed I was—or at least taken aback—to see his holy indignation and the flush on his waxen cheek. He continued solemnly. | "The sing of her fathers have over- |taken her, as the Book of Exodus pro- claimed: ‘Therefore is her inheritance nathe— in Kill late?” cried I. his highwaymen at the ‘Dhree Cu JACK’S ESCAPE. Ty, “Leave me—I am taken—and ride, dear lad, ride!" the-body of the ship. The hold was {ull of barrels. He motioned each of us to craw} into one of these, and clapped tops on them. Then he returned to the Geck, leaving us in pitchy. 1!l-smelling darkness. ‘Jack! ‘Delay “Wpost feel herolcal at all? “Not one whit. There's + trickle of water running down my back, to begin with,” “And my nose, it ttches; and oh, what @ hateful smell! Say something to me, Jack.” “My dear,” sald I, “there 1s one thing Itve-been longing these weeks to say; but this seems an odd place for it." “What ts It?" I pursed my lips to the bunghole and waid: T.love you." There was silence for a moment, and » then, within Delia's cask, the sound of ‘ murtied laughter. Dolia,” I urged, “I mean it, upon my cath, Wilt marry me, sweetheart?” “Must get out of this cask first, Ob, Jack, what a dear goose thon art!" And the laughter began again, I was going. to answer, when I heard @ loud, shouting overhead. ‘Twas the sound of some one hailing the ship, and thought I, “the troopers ure on us!" ‘We heard the tramp of feet on the deck above. Ten minutes later, the searchers were gone, and wo in our casks drawing long breaths of thankfulness and strong odors. And so we crouched till, about midnight, Capt. Billy brought us down @ supper of ghip's. biscuit; which we grept forth to eat, belng sorely cramped. He ‘could not hear our thanks; but guessed them. Bay Not & word. To-morrow we sail Yor Plymouth Sound; thence. for Brittany. Hist! We be all King’s men aboard the Godsend, though hearing hauwht, I says little, - For tour days we safled on this odd eraft.”* Pottery agreed to put us ashore on the Cornish coast: near the spot Where the King was encamped. On: vhe afternoon of the fourth day we Inyjed and made for the nearest Jan, [p eearch:of horses for the rest of : ‘entered the inn first. I paused on the threshold to gaze ata group of wweating horses. One of them I recng- nized as my own mal Molly, had stolen trom that Luke Settle's gan; .Tne “when cached from them at Then I heard a loud eee in the house, wan the voloe of Capt. Rattle apeak- doce ‘Soncealinent, ‘by the open T hi his shout as he caught sight I saw his crimson face as he ut and gripped her, a out For a moment I hes: sas je my pretty comrade's voice, the hubbub: have horses outside! am taken—and ride, nt wy Say my decision was thken, tor worse. I dastied out around "fe hour, vaulted the ‘rate. ‘and ‘catch- aft folly’s mane, leaped into the rush and I tree gia nhc, atone estat 5 encam) . It ‘of his artotes that T carved, Wheto’ fog ~ might save his cause. ot falloped, through the town of @ fast driven carr tad Smet ‘one glimpse of Its occupant, Bop her ig whose.face ight familiar, 7 aefed a bystander might And wi porter to he taken Into Tingcoml wasted and given to the satyr and the wild ass,’ . “And whih of the twain be you, sir?” T-cannot tell what forced this violent rudeness {rom me, for he seemed an honest, good man. ‘He arose and walked {toward the door, when suddenly I, that juad been staring stupidly, leaped’ upon | him and hurled him back into his chair, r I had marked his left foot trail- and, by the token, know him for the white-hatred man whom I had ieear a Lou Luke Settle to murder the three Killigrews. is “Master Hannibal Tingcomb," T spoke in his ear, “dog and murderer! What last November? And uke Settle? Speak, dog was | did you in Oxfor j how of Capt. | before 1 serve you twerved that night!" | I dream yet, in my sick nights, of the |change that came over the vile, hypo- critical knave at these words of mine. To see his pale, veneraple face turn green and livid, his eyeball start, his hands clutch at’alr—it frightened me.) “Tf Mistress Della be alive as did not think—I will make restitution, I will confess—only tell me what to do, Ui Im as the y die in peace,” he faltered as the spasm passed, “1 must. have a” confession, | written before I leave the room.’ ‘The tears by this were coursing down his shrunken cheeks, but I. observed him watch me narrowly, as though to find out how much I knew. So I pulled out my mistol, and. setting pen ind paper before him, obtained at the end of an hour n very pretty confeaslon of his sing, which lies among my papers to, thie ‘day, Rut when Ted brio taken leave and the heavy doors had creaked behind me I heard a voice calling after me down the road: “Dear young sir! Dear friend! T had forgotten somewhat.” Returning I found the gate fastened, and then the tron shutters slipped hack. “Well?” I asked.leaning toward it. ‘Dear young friend, I) pity thee. for thy paper {s worthless, To-day, by my advices, the army of our most Christian Parliament, more than twenty thou- sand strong, under the Ei ford, bas overtaken Chi followers, the malignant gentry, Stratton Heath, in the northeast. are more than two to one, By this hour to-morrow the Papists ail will be run- ning ke conies to thelr burrows, and little chance wilt thou have to’ sek Della Killigrew, much less to’ find her, And, remember. I know enough of thy late services to hang thee; mercy. then. will Ho in my friends’ hands; put be sure T shall advise none.” ‘And with a mocking laugh he clapped to the grating in my face, (To Be Continued.) then, near They Ow TO ENJOY A WALK-—First of All Learn the Science of This Old Exercise — The Correct Way to Stand, and the Proper Position of the Feet in Walking. 0 thority has safd: ‘To walk graco- fally 1s to walk well and, other things being equal, to be able to walk @ great distance without exhaustion.” it (s extraordinary what a peculiar ef- fect the long straight-waist corset has haa upon the walk. ‘It made the so- called new walk, which is so exagger ated by most young women. It Is cer- N the subject of walking an au- tainly correct that the head should he up, chin tn, the chest up and the abdomen held in, which- naturally throws the hips out, But this should be done naturally, perhaps at first the| muind will have to direct these motions, ‘the trouble ts that girls who wish to| be very stylish are apt to over-do everything. They look as though thbir | whole mind was concentrated upon | keeping thelr stomachs in and sticking | their hips out and some, indeed quite 4 number, affect a roll of the hips, which Js, If they only knew, extremely vulgar, The walk to be beautiful.should be ratural and Individual, A stately walk would not be becoming to some young | persons, because not characteristic, whereas a too abandoned manner makes most largely built’ women ungainly, ‘The steps should’ be adjusted to the| sht. A Uttle woman loses her cute- ness {f she affects a mannish stride. | ground almost together. | place, The Illustrations. 1—The correct walk. 2—The dawdilng walk. 8—Correct pos! tion for the feet. 4—The languid walk. 6—How to hold the skirt. But a big woman looks undignified If she takes little mincing steps. ‘The armg must swing,quite a little, but not be violently swung. Hold the leg straight, but not stlff, and let the ball of the foot arfd the heel touch the| | The most correct position for the feet! Is to have them turned slightly out. | Nothing #0 ungainly as the, foot is turned in—commonly spoken of as “toes turned in.” | There 1s no exercise so stimulating as that of walking when done correctly. Hut a dawdiing wall is not going to} benefit us, elther in warm weather or cold. Besides, a slouching gait is a sign of laziness in a young person. Stout people and lazy people are apt to drag one foot after the other, slowly | and languldly, and then they complain | of getting “so tired’? when they walk, | ch is perfectly natu |. for they are not enjoying themselves, in the first and in the second, they carry thelr bodies in an unwilling, strained manner which abuses some muscles and leaves others dormant. To derive ben- THE w EVENING » WORLD'S 2 HOME » MAGAZINE w [A Graceful Walk Will Always Be a Delight. eft from this exercise, the step should be light and energetic, the body should swing easily and freely, which gives sense of buoyancy and pleaaure. In winter it will not be necessary for you to lond yourself down with oll kinds’ of flannel petticoats, &c., in order to| keep warm—for if you walk briskly vou will never enteh cold—and if you are weighted with superfivous flesh tt fa the easiest, surest way to get rid of it, Of course, a short gown ts the best thing to walk in, but that Is not always possible, so the next best thing is to learn tq hold the skirt gracefully and easily. It sa very sensible and healthy style now to hold the gown quite high. ls much easier to hold one's gown up eFacefully when it ts permisaible to take a good grip and not have to worry about its being a little too high Home Dressmaking, ” ” By Mme. Judice. A Black Velvet Coat. Dear Mme, Judice: HAVE a skirt like sample and can match it, I also have an etaming skirt which I would like to wear at times, Shall I get a coat to match the heavy skirt or get n velvet coat? I have a krimmer cape that I could use for collar and cuffs, Mrs. B. P., Richmond Hill. I think you will have better satisfac- tlon with the black velvet cont if you wigh to wear it with both skirts. Vel- vet 1s very much In vogue, and from | present Indications will be worn late in the spring, mer fur collar and cuffs made separate- ly, to be removed when necessury. To Make a Waist Fit. Dear Mme. Judi | ts almost new, but which 1s too tight for me. It ts a loose front on a tight ning. Kindly suggest somet! that I could trim it with that would make it ft It ts a mandolin sleeve. I am very stout. 1 have a forty-four bust. Is there any thing to clean gray crepe de Chine that T used on a dat? A. B, If you set in bands of either white or black lace insertion from the shoulder to the belt you can widen your waist and have a becoming effect of long lines to your stout figure. The sleeve is quite fashionable as {t 1s, but for extra width you can carry out the same idea, Naphtha or gasoline will clean gray or any shade of crope do ’ 0 I would have the krim-| HAVE a silic waist like sample which | Chine. Immerse tn bowl and wash sume as in water. Keep from fire, as | both fluids are explosive. |A Challie Waist. Dear Mmey Judice: | 7 HAVE four yards of inclosed sam. | ple of challle which I would like to! use for a waist. Could you adviso }me how to make it? What shade of red could I use for a girdle on a dress of black amd white Mberty satin? I am a blonde, 6 feet 2 inches, 36-inch bust. A B.C. | ‘Tho large size moss rose pattern and satin stripe in your pink challle will tn. terfere with much trimming or fancy! making. The simpler your waist the prettier it will be. Use a plain blouse pattern, and if you wish add a Uny four-pointed yoke extending up Into a stock collar, and deep cuffs of pink panne velvet or cream lace. Pome- granate, Indian red, or the revived shade of burnt orange will make an artistic girdle ta combine with your black and white foulard. Mercerized Cotton. Dear Mme. Judies: INDLY suggest to me some tnex- pensive goods for a waist for a young girl of seventeen years. I want it to wear with a dark-blue skirt. isn't enough to save." “Mother,”’ said Wille, when he had in very handy when there 1s a little bit ting on it. tle girl on the cheek, she sald: “You're hairs always, won't yout’ “Oh, I don't know,’ Mamma just hates them, Philadelphia Ledger. She says they SMART SAYINGS BY TOTS. Teacher—Why, Johnny, T thought you knew your alphabet? | Johnny—I don't know the names of the letters nor the way they come, but |] when I see the alphabet altogether I know ft fast enough, ‘Wille, you may finish this piece of ple if you want tt,” sald mother, Mother—What {s the matter, my dear? Bobby (gobb{ng)—I left my toffee on that chair, and the gentleman's sit- Mme. Milka Ternina, the great soprano, attended an entertainment and noted with pleasure how Icind the children were to an old man. Patting a lite sald the child; “it's according to whom they grow on. ne finished It, ‘a boy in the family comes of ple over, doesn't he?” Why are you crying? @ dear little pet. You will love white ought to be snatched out at once.”— The New Torpedo-Boat Turbans Suggest Other Spring Millinery Possibilities. t ghic and novel. Meezwve OF FIVrr WAR SYMPATHIZERS: Also please suggest a pretty way to make {t, I have n white taffeta silk walst that is solled. Can I wash it? If not, how can I clean tt?) L, R. Mercerized cottons are so very fash- lonable and serviceable and come tn such pretty designs and blending of colors that a shirt waist made tallor style in white or white striped or dotted In blue will be effective and suit- able for a girl of seventeen, A plain pattern neatly machine stitched in the princtpal color of waist or in dark blue will give you the tallor-made effect, Gasoline or naphtha is better for taffeta than water for cleansing. Keep away from fire while using, To Wear in the Spring. Dear Mma. Judice: INDLY give me your advice In re- K ward to making a black broad- cloth suit. I want tt made so it will be fashionable in the spring, as it is to bo my best suit. I would Uke to have !t made very stylish, I am a young lady, twenty, a brunette, with Ught blue eyes and dark brown hair and clear white skin, I am 6 feet 4 1-2 inches tall and slender, LL.B, Quite the newest vpgue in design and trimming Js the full skirt with fancy sleves—Hton jacket trimmed in self toned velvet. A recent mode tn biack broadcloth showed this {dea—with the vet set in in large round disks with & buttonhole stitch as a border on the sicirt and Jacket and up the panel front of the skirt. The under blouse and lower sleeve of this comtume was gray Kun-plaited chiffon. It was decidedly Yeorothy Dix, The Most Famous Woman Humorist in Amer= ica, Writes for The Evening World. FABLES OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN f The Ungrateful Parents. NCE upon a Time there was an Hon- est Couple, who did not have the Advantage of coming over in the Mayfivwer, but who, by dint of much Hard Labor and Shrewdness, succeeded In getting in on the Ground Floor of #0 many Good Things that It did not mat- ter What sort of a Raft they floated tn on, Now theve Parents had an Only Daugh- ter, and having much Pelt, they deter- mined to eive her all the Advantages of | the Higher Education, and so they sent her to a Fashionable School, where she learned to Speak Golf and do her Hair m a Pancake Pompndour. After her Kind hers had held her up for all the Gold Brick Extras in the Curriculum they gave her a Blue Rib- boned Diploma that cost aa much as a Yacht, and she returned to the Home Nest to Elevate and Refi so the Father leirned to Dress for, Dine “It ts most Unfortunate,” sald the} ner and Smoke Clarettes though they Daughter as she surve her parent8}made him il, but, not content with through her Jorgnette and perceived] this, the Daughter insisted. that they that they looked Ike Back Numbers.) must have a Town House, a Long Isle “that you did not have the Op for acquiring Culture in your I had. However, one is never Too Old to learn, and if you will follow my lead son, a Cottage at Newport and a Vila ut Palm Beach, and that they must spend thelr Tithe chasing from one to the other. “Here,” sald the Parents, “is where we drop out of the Game, ‘for we have never been Tramps and we do pot DrO- boxe to Join the Weary Willy Profes~ sion at thie late day,” and with that they eut back to their Old Home and Old Ways Thia greatly grieved the Daughter, “Alas,” she sald, as she prepared to play a Lone Hand in Society, “no one knows the ‘rinks of a Daughter. who attempts to bring up her Parents Properly. If my Father and Mother had only, taken my. Advice and. Bad Beet tea Niomabte Instead "OF bala merely Happy. ; I will boost the entire Family into 80- ciety, and our firat move must be to ‘ay from this Hut to a Swell n on the avenue.” | the Mother, “I have} lived here for Forty/Yeurs, and | should not feel at Home anywhere else.” “That,” observed the Daughter, tuts no ice with me,” and as her Parents were well trained and obedient, they emigrated to a Stone Prison with an English Butler Jailer. Then the Daugh- ter began to reform her Father's Dress. “Pass up these Hand-me-downs for Glad Rags,” she commanded. “But,” protested her Father, “I was not brought up to wear Giddy Ral- ment, and I feel a misfit in a Fancy Bhell. 4 i 4 “Forget it," cried the Daughter; Boclety nobody remembers their MORAL. This Fable teaches hove sharper than othless Serpent it da ve. T pareht DOROTHY “in Save the Babies. . . NFANT MORTALITY iis something frightful. We can hardly realize that of all the children born in civilized countries, twenty-two cent., or nearly one-quarter, die before they reach one year per cent., or more than one-third, before they are five, and ey are fifteen! MeN Te donot hesitate to say that a timely so of Castoria would sare. majority of these precious lives, Neither do we hesitate to say that many of these infantile deaths are occasioned. by the use of ic preparations. Drops, tinctures and soothing syrups sold for children’s complaints contain more or lees opium or morphine. They are, in coi quant deadly poisons, In any quantity, they stupefy, retard circulation and to congestions, sickness, death. Castoria tes exactly the reverse, but ‘must see that it bears the signature of Chas, H. Fletcher. Castoria pins the blood to circulate properly, opens the pores of the skin and allays fever. Qenuine Castoriz. always bears the signature of y Amusements. i) TO-NIGHTI! 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