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a me arena ee corer mare: Ae TEA Se PRN TE PORTE eS IR IR ENR mF IN RR ora REP RIT RT . Monday, November 22- 1915 The Evening World Daily Magazine When Liberty Was Born A Romance of Love and of Our Country’s Fight for Freedom answer to the goldsmith. “I but wish The general set a stiver whistle to the constable or some other to take his ips and blew a shrill note thereon, (Ooprright, the Prank A. Monsey Company.) this scoundrel off my hands. [°—— “An tor thin Hereules,” he CHAPTER I. “Turn him loose,” requested the went on, “I su) your t be foldamith, in a voice whose outward must reward toad of 1 Lose My Temper. seemed barely to mask STARED down open-mouthed, dumfounded, at the mischief my elumainess or stupidity, or both, had wrought for me. gentleness wo concealed emotion. ‘Turn him loose!” I echoed, while bad him cool his heels in the city prison. prooer fine giant he ts, f ry from the litte crowd t th- ‘Three troopers, summoned by the ‘There, strewing the muddy enow of the gutter, lay the ecat- Preval teten hia loose ta tt hee whistle, came down the nrean os a tered sheaf of great ecarlet roses. the great clty of Boston deals with run. Howe broke off in his The bonbons, too, were everywhere—sonked, spoiled. pretty porceiain-and-gold bor that had held them was smashed te a hundred Pieces against the ground. And there, barring my way, with arms akimbo and fire-fiasbing eyes, stood the daintiest, flercest atom of girlhood my country-bred eyes had ever beheld in city or country. criminals? If so, | thank my stare I be @ rustic, Is there no justice in this town of yours?” No!" bellowed a shock-headed blacksmith in the crowd. free-born Americans. For such as we there is but"—— one for Da speech, turned to them, a cating my captive, safd: “st dered the goldsmith, cringing soldier. Howe For @ @pace we stood looking at each other—I, looming up bulky and He spo quietly. Yeu there was a toward me. gawklike in my homespun sult, coonskin greatoont and long, muddled beots; of authority in his deep vol “You have done an iil thing,” quoth she, indesoribably lovely in her ecariet silken cloak and hood, her Httie flower-face aflame with wrath and her great brown eyes ablaze, Then it occurred to me I had some~ Her sweet voice was calm, steady, JOHN PuT Your “TURKEY WHERE f ied the blacksmith and hushed Increasing murmur Of the crowd. You treason-breathing 2 he. “in venturing to lay hands on a soldier of the King. If such acts to pass unpunished, you ‘Yi WE CAT CAN'T | howled the soldier, getting bi would @oon get the notion you were . a human beings. And then whei @trous bad manners to gape openly at phat she should have the insane au- a A taste good British justice, one and ail Nevertheless, you say you are . atrangere, Now, for manners, im dacity to order me, a man, to—— —= of ye! And there shall not one stone And have been so lucky as to do those days, 1 gave scant care, Yet an ‘ then (to this day [ know not por xe, ooyte gg town be lett feaeaaee lady @ servios, Se teke thie unknown something (that annoyed how it came about) I euddenly found standing on another. A century hence . the very name,of Boston shall be for- He filpped « golden gutnes as much as it perplexed me) suddenly ree ied Bape Cera thee kot. An for this outrage unon @ aol- m6, T caught It and @ung ft the’ the made me averse to the idea that this req roses from snowdrift, walk and | mud at his feet, little town-bred aristocrat should think me the uncouth and unsophistt- cated youth I was. gutter, My face was purple with self-con- tempt and with a wild, unreasonin, Sy | dier of King Georg “Down with tyrants!” was shouted. A stone whiszed through the alr, The missile grazed the soldier's pow- » He reddened at the bold act. Then, with a shrug, observ “As you will. Mistress a Bo T contrived to drag my eyea trom fury nguinat the Intle lady whe ston. dered, head, and struck me full on Te avtnat mere mold. ‘sceme” te. ita hers, and made shift to step past her task. wih Agnin in impotent fury, stung by 8% dross by comparison. Shi we along the Beacon Street footpath to my destination, But tt seemed I had reckoned with- out my host (or hostess), For she Oh, if my patient, toll-bowed mother or my buxom, obedient have seen me, Roger Seusi ! IT thanked heaven that braham was a full hundred mil the pain, 1 shook the redooat untl he b limp and gasping, in my grip. goldsmith had turned suddenly the crowd. bame!’ he erted, “Is this the self- continue our walk? I fear the agit of to many rebels has spoiled your morning. In summer, ih winter, the rebels, I know not control I and the others bi soul out halted me at my first move. from Boston, and that no visiting fo'teach you? Would you spoil ail? @ word and t ‘away. But “Wait!” she commanded. And even "Cighbor was like to behold me. | Do you want (o spend the rest of your as they went she cast her shoul- in its anger, her voice rang as eweet- ais a ordered my sca: clad days In the barracks prison while der @ look—not at the fan the ly clear as a silver bell, anlage ‘Over ao 1» the loft! your wives and babes starve? Have amith still I stopped, involuntarily, at the tm- 10 paling bers hak “ena” oad | done, 1 tell you und Siaparee|* 4 bereng er . py ‘Lor jum inons. n _— be father,” remarked, aa the met. could Perwait!” she tepeated sharply. “Is Now wipe off the stems. ‘They are all JoxN| MOVE TDONT SNOW, | | ion hesitated, “has told me the Hos. read the look in hers. Yet somehow omn plunder against a geatieworan , Red. mortified, raging, T scrambled | E THINKS THE DARN THING? danger tothe icing’s peace from such twice before T could draw away my 5 to my feet, gripping the recovered LTH SPRAY IS s i‘ e wn dazed gli from the dainty ip Beacon Street, upset the 9reclous Seat ot rosag in my Huge Mat | § Rises Umit folk who can be cowed Into awn dased glance fram the Salute inge 6! Ld ne a BIG yeuce by one tradesman's word and onward without one word of @x- ,,{ had made no effort to arrange! be by ale of & redcoat. Whore ia the out of ight the world seemed couse?" ee nets teen oat Is arene S| | constable, Master Goldsmith 2” atrangely dull. g 1—I was not looking.” [ muttered, Tertion from my fingers like hay- | bashful as uny unbirched achoolboy; did not see you until | chanced to Jog your shoulder with my sw.nging wisps. “There! Take them!" I snarted, | thrusting the disordered handful of As L have told you,” urged the goldsmith, “let the fellow go. Thanks to your courage and strength, | have The goldemith was leading me to- ward hia shop, a few doors away. “You are hurt” he was saying. “Come in and let me stanch the flowers toward her, | back what be stole, Seldom te it that F Baa eg Lr agar My ANS “A norvice 8 robbed of ite grace if! Were we to hale him to the guard- Through the slash made the bay- William Howe himself seat me this morning. Yes, aud my cumfit box of Milan porcelain! There ts not suci nother In the colonies.” “Well,” growled |, glancing down at yy. the shattered box and bedraggled courtesy go not with it,” ahe rebuked | me primiy, as tf teaching a simple; lenson to some atupld o*.td. “What more do you want?” Igrum- ‘There are your foolish roses! ‘oolish enough the poor blossoms ‘house his word would be taken be-~ fore ours. He would be set free, and some of us would sleep In jail this night. You are from the country, young alr, and you do not understand. | Bork are a pack of cowards,” I onet drops of red were spreadin, In my excitement I had taken no note of the Injury, Even now it seemed to me too petty a matter to call for such sollcitude. i Nevertheless I suffered myself to be led into the quaint, dtm “But you Interior ete Nr ee et cok as you hold them now,” she \atormed. “If none of you will ald me af the shoo. The woldainith me perwhat?™ . Yo, 0 T shall take this cur to the guar je he bu Rune hen own tater: eee way, Dut with the heada t jester: ‘got | house singid-hagded, In whlch direo- In search of lint and warm water. eens oer ered i etitt mere aui- Vew'— avhoethg baie od | tlon does it ile damith, “be onttty Towa, nad melted avr ly pa bg repeated ich fuss over a “Oh, take them and let there be an| eNO, nO," bewwed the goldsmith, one or two and apprentices re- handful of weeds and a few bits of °d to this farce!” | sugar? As for the china box—if six- pence will make good its los: “On!” she broke in, @ little whirl- wind of fury. “You lout! You trap- per of the forests! Must you destroy my pretty gifte-and (hat without 4 Again I shoved the flowera at her, But once more she drew back. “When a gentleman offers me a bouquet he does so with a bow,” shi chided, “Not as if he would thrui it down my throat, Try again.” such joyalty in dress, It is a comfort to find it im the botbed of provincial ton, They were bronzed men who soldier, 1 will ask you to remempe had seen many lands, Their uni- that I was but twenty-one, that mill- Qn ugly litte cut in my forearm. But my right fist had caught the soldier ‘I may I shall do it!" L raged, “If thera is justice in Boston"-— “phere ts not. And™ Halle! poke up @ drawiing, au- thoritative voice from behind me. “What treasonablo coil and brawling T glanced about the shop in real In- terest. The walls were hung with odd prints, save where shelf space was taken up with rows of gold and sliver ornaments that gleamed lividly from behind their thick glans cases, prs a here? Odsooks, paille, Bits of filigree work, rings, fans and \ * “f pgret—b To will !" 1 fumed. am no rebellion. forma were gorgeous. They bore them- tarism was in the very alr about me, on the jaw, and had dropped him Iinp have, we 4 . is bese to Gira & cain aooanet ‘gentiem and I have told you ao, 1 was watching hei selves with a haughty disdain toward that 1 still smarted from Marjory’s and sputtering in tho frozen mud of re h eae f'. li table Senind “th roman ‘na pour Spend your sixpence on n ‘Book of | have debased myself enough for you, shadow as of disap the townsfolk. | longed, secretly, to gihexs at my uncouth country ways. y eeeiaee ts aie . room atood a tiny forge, and near it Bene Jour te’ They are tor sale at Ol» well, here the nny little face at his flattering be one of that gilttering ban Alno, that it was my first sight of I picked up the fan, rejoicing to ace TMP" ry the bookstall in Mik Street, And ‘twill profit you! Or stay out of Bos- ‘@ you Rosion folk. We do not frill Impelled again by the same annoy- ing, incomprehensible force, I bobbed Very deliberately s| aside the scarlet cloak she wore and 1 bad read ang beard that Boston soldiers and of town life. was a hotbed of rebellion, Here, in Out of Beacon Street into a ni come to no hurt tng, thrust it in it had apparently from its rough hance CHAPTER IIl. crowd sulkily gave way, A @ printing press. At a window waa a bench with a set of Soorevers’ Goat: And through that same window I at RL ay my head, ducked my shoulders and let it hang across her arm, with ite 1770, bad turbulent citizens been shot ro thoroughfare swaggered th and turned to the fatlen 7 treet sign’ f ton until you have learned the Way# Of cla the’ flowers sheepishly toward White fur lining turned outward, down by the troops in the publio trooper. By tole time T'was close be: 1 Change My Mind. Poul 100s. Sh0 ORIN ° “We be as ‘civilized’ in my home te air, ae erates jl tart id ce had belay orted ike for insurrection against the hind him. aring, writhing, Unreatening, be ‘T the scornful command the oogeoegers Michail Biles a ne was graciously jock display. ng. ; de-win- was siowly's , ae at Wilbraham,” quoth I hotly * pleased to take them. The wrath in “The morning grows warm,” ab 6 He came abreast of a wide-win- WAS sioWly StagK to his feet PAUL REVERE, : ed Mere, too, in 1774, @ party of rebels dowed shop above w! My blow had been a basty and glan- Goldemith and ver, 4 ft Git apeceh with, fal-Inis und. spend Met Di’ Brown eyay had softened to a answered. "Spring will soon be here.” nad sliown’ their disapproval of His Goldernithee chee: “Aa he Doneta fhe cing one, else he had lain long where man and a girt had just} Go Bageven: oe our good money for china boxes and ‘Wie 2 rated = ‘Bpring!” sighed Howo, “And that Gracious Majesty's tea tax by dis- doorway a soberly dressed, stout man he fell emerged from a cross atrect “w.. next moment my host had re- roses, But, for ail that, it ill befits 4. © bear teach you that how?" will mean the pestilent rebels will guising themselves as Indians and of forty emerged from the threshold. 1 caught tne struggling thief by the leading down from Beacon tured, hie arme full of bandages and j you to make mock of my home. Even queried innocently. ere! make some crazy demonstration. And, hurling a ship's cargo of tea over- R.) " ve erked bia) H ; . } ne | Was wrong to mock you.’ For, after as legal servant ot King George, I poard. In his outstretched hands the new- collar of bis uniform, Jer! i, Though it was the man who such stuff. if we cannot boast a populace of ai you have made such amends am shail have to order the poor wretches “yy. comer carefully bore a long peacock angrily to a standing posture, ad. had spoken, and who now came for- | He deposited his burden om the 17,000, as does Boston, we teach our yoi Coun. And yi Os 1 bad been propared to find brawls feather f. such those that were turuing, propelled him roughly before floor, stripped off my coat, and with women to hold their, tongues and not You could. And you hate me. 1 can mowed dows. qe ob every corner, But, to my SUr- in use among ladies of duality, Its mo asl retraced my steps toward the Ward ahead of his companion, Yet It tng tender touch of a woman pro- rail at their betters, Fou tect ee, OME 8 your face, | “Seu Go net enjoy the prospect?” prise, a quiet, even & gloom, bung sticks of Wrought gold, daintily goldamith's shop. was tho girl on whom my eyes first ceeded to lay bare my throb¥ing arm, “Thetr betters?” ahe repeated You would not he ill-looking, air, if ehe asked in @ curiously muffled over tne city, ‘Men glanced darkly at chased and carved, Inlaid with tiny He was a powerful fellow, and fell The ont was not deep nor in any blankly, evidently taken aback by my Y)U,cuuid Wipe that acow! and leara voice. the aWaggering trovps, it is (rue, bUt seed pearls and othor gems of price. nearly my own size, But, tue and a, 1 knew her W4Y dangerous, But the east den torrent of heavy sarcasm, yournenre ‘hese Glaat eheuldere ef |S ams @ celdier, Mistvege Moret?) spake not aloud of mutiny, TG GRIP aT Teanenh, Gi Mle Chlatiaa ie Would, he GORld ROE UAE htc, Cy ctr ete eval meee 4 of Boston had gotten into it and bette: FEMA anraren ie aupatiae “Never mind my looks." I broke in, eat kus RHE T ccanes L Was disappointed. I bad hoped to holder bore it carefully, aw though it off my grip. Nov had his appalling fr Marjory Winthrop, The big #¥¢3 4+ tung cruelly. of woman? Doth not St. Paul say’ embarrassed. Then, against my will, relish marching my men againat a ‘Brass some rebel for speaking iil of had been a sick child. He moved threats moved me, widened from amused recognition to she cried rage, “if only one of my fi eys had escorted me abro He should cane you until"— I broke into a laugh of honest T added: “What was ami was not a cringin salute, but"— “What was amias with it?’ she r - with my bow? It » dancing school rabble of farmers and shopfoik. These rican peasants will never show ght. & riot, a charge by the regu- lara—and their puay insurrection will be at an end.” the King ere I returned to Wilbra- ham. It would have been a fine tale to bear back to my Tory father. I bad been jonsing for such adven~ ture, and had also in lost in wo: toward @ coach that stood in mid- street and from whose open door @ neat lady's-maid leaned, Doubtless, thought 1, this portly man was the goldsmith himself, The So onward 1 drove him, for my rustic brain was sull full of resolve to take him back to the place of his theft and there to turn him over Wo Lie authorities, an admiration not unmixed with trouble as she saw that I held captive « wriggling British soldier, Meantime her companion, Sir Wiil- Also I was a trifle Se Bie ot of Mood and from eo mi ~ ment. ‘Therefore I willingly allowed the wash woldamith to and bind the "hte dere wound, leaning back, ole ; der at the town's lofty tuilding®—- fan had been pent to him for - We rounded a corner and came face dd made way watching with admit amusement. 4 peated. bia do? 1 CaRDol, Ome r fanned into a flame that all ome of them full three atories bigh— {ny, und be would A betas panties a es isi ye cette War tti rye to eenpiliceh pe hos ky bag hgloeabgee itp) S cargoes. “On Springfleld Mountain,” I inter- pints. RS a wou we understand, King orge’ power can never When J had biuudered into Marjory nd to return it to ite owner's en. One oF two apprentices, shopkecpers, the goldamith, the soldier and I were "M188 4 siomect first hurt you have rupted, lasily fexing the mighty mus not-see you the gentioman who has quench!” she cried impulsively, Winthrop at @ corner of Beacon yoy, und idler had joined inthe chase, "standing, pushing his path through dressed,” I hasarded. 4 clea of my arms and cheat, “I met @ jin en ees F jorve him. As the impetuous words were sPO- street, just above the Common. But I bad acant time for surmise, At sight of us the hue and ery the press as though through e Kennel “I wish I might hope tt would be black r last year, when Lieut, And when be bows to me you will see ken I could see her bite her lip in &® “qnd’now back to my story. Even as [ gazed, the soldier I » baited in amazement, the Inst.” he made answer. “No, it4e Merrick's son and J had robbed her Hae poeiay that tens © eding can put sharp vexation as though at some My meeting with the girl, her open following cunningly tripped u b~4 Looking back on the acene, I can of dogs, not the first. I learned thts sort of rie ied neck ay Naked tanced aaa Toward, we wan HOt got eully'eaton Foes ade by SSH Mee guaaele cPiiewersag aotinmith, weet Me papas 18 Ihe wal ulema is inhaye ine mite In Rouhy Monde nnn, ey arg. ano the Pecaae an Teh Tape a eC t “sy y q . eelf, tho brief glimpae of Howe—all ground, snatched prec: astonishinent. In those days the mill- In haughty wonder, a inst the h 1 hands.” ala akesesaned uneuline WaRene 6 18h jie Pyecteieeell} side they, Dad saoved out of my hear bed filled me with vague resentment Som hla lconene’ je. eT soe tary were undisputed masters of Bow- watt Lag ~~ bevel 1, potertad, fiaelonant of meciflery there” . a a? ° ped, 0 p al 5 my uncouth ploughboy ways an fi ton. O angry to +4 J “A Ne 5 n on right face, | oe % ‘eral ? 5 hy should 1 spend my golden could “Stop, thief!" I had cle nist to raise bie hand against @ of @ red uniform to catch & ane ¢ lorty= ‘ you could, You are a giant frame of powdered wig looked forth & between gentleman and lout—-between vouth on a farm, the laughing stock his scrambling ody at a bound red trate or @ reverend clergyman bring hin to Justice.” gen Lig ad Ne ait: werent ‘Then, suddenly catching her breatn, Mire ik wen aed, a mee townsaman and farm lad. ‘The feeling of city folk, when I bad brains and was in full pursuit of the fleeing than against redcoat “May it please you, Bir William.” 1.16 talked, “Great events bring she returned to th Stincr, hed many a pictire + are ahi eta he sent a new rush of rage through MY gtrength that would make me th@ goldior, Yet here 1 was, @ strapping Yankee sputtered my prisone: this Yankee 7,4) the men to meet them. And ‘And the bear doubiioes bi aioe Meg Guew tack NemIRGHvaLy tate thee, ‘3 ood. equal of any man That 90 barefaced and wanton @ yokel in homespun, roughly propelling brute grabe me as i'm going aloD¥ +45 men often are mere lads. T was to you ber manners,” sh ashed, open oat OyiAk the newood fin A moment hi ‘A soldier, atroliing just ahead of theft should be achieved in open day- before mea squirming British regular peaceful-like and" —— woarce twenty-one at the time of ‘Though had she manners such OF ‘osrecttul admiration Taam, Mogionl resolve me, elbowed @ portly merchant off ight in a city street acted like fire in full uniform. Hilence!" ordered Howe curtly. Crown Point campaign. Yet our cap- yours, she richly = ited ¢ fa ‘\ , For this wan Gen. Willlam Howe, Snanse the whole current of my life. the narrow walk into the gutter, Why on my honest country blood. I Scant wonder the sight transfixed ‘Then to me: tain was but nineteen. Like mysel \ Hiven bears may, be trained by, the Por Gils, was Gen, William Howe You, and a resolve that was to change should 1 not become auch a jort of haved on lupuise, aa I sould have the «roup of pursuers “What do you mean, you young he was promoted from the ranks” Meare an oe Fock ur Crambler, duellist, man of, pleasure, te current of history as well. areation as this redcoat? I kneW done had I soon & wandering tinker “Hore he is!” | cried, exultant, shov- Goliath, by choking @ King’s man? ““wpor pravery? I asked, suddenly your Brat lesson from WF tearloes soldier, and coffesshouse wit, —-— there Was ever ® demand for recruits. making off with one of my father's ing iny captive in front of the gold- Unhand him!" Interested. Hhose roses and give them tome my he was the envied model of every CHAPTER I. I could turn my back on the farm, prize geewe, ninith. “And here ie tho pretty io) He te @ thief," £ said doggedly, "Hy tnughed, ap AMOR AL PAK) ROMUCHTAG. IN Be Oe asial tana, . enlist in King George's army avd ~ Down the twisting street fled the gaw he stole. Now, which of ye be 1"——- thing tn those days for a woman to dare order a man about. ‘We naturally expected our women- The General's Ured eves brightened as they fell upon the girl, He quick= ened is rapid pace, advancing, hat 1 Meet With an Adventure. AM Roger Sessions, farmer's soldier with bis prize, And after bim 1 rushed. I was fleet of foot in those and few of our village lads earn the right to look down upon vere clyillans, me Even Marjory Winthrop might, per- days, the town constable? [ would fain turn this cutpurse over to the law. For contact with nim soils an honest If you undertook to choke ail thieves, those big hands of yotra would soon be worn off at the wrist,” “In the rough days of the French and Indian war," he answered, “there ws soant political preferment, Men ere promoted for ry—or “4 sole naMeuNN Ent tea Sthepeien ates in hans son, My father was the one haps, think me less like @ bear when coutd cope with mein racing. || man's hands. Take hia, one uf you. anawered Howe; “Lot tim go, 1 bay Rare bromews Sr Wave w ROROE ‘ wie YANG man of vote In our tiny #8@ sbould gee ine clad in @ smart Hre the thief had travelled a fur- "The ian that lays hands on me," "L will not. Ho stole a gold han in wave oft head of ther domed sees ee pli A Mendon Wp of 6 Bam att tna A he bowed low, aaee unity who wae not a Scarlet cout and with powdered hal. jong Iwas upon him. Veeling my «rip howled the wriggling sokiier, “wball fan from this woldsmith. And he het arent Come he command- And “Pick up my roses ed again, “Every one of them, hand them to me.” “Do you take me for a slave?" 1 the snow at her fret. It was the exaggerated salute of that time, Yet, as he performed it, it seemed but natural—the very poe rabid revoiutionist. He ré- mained stanchly a Tory, a devoted admirer of King George IIT. and of Yes, for good or for bad, my rew was taken, I quickened my pace, seeking to catch up with the trooper in front of @ on his arm, he dropped the fan and whirled about on me, drawing the short bayonet he wore at his belt, But I was too quick for him, Even anwwer to Gen. jam Gage or to sir Will- himself, Yes, and my fellows burn the roof over hia head ©, your hold on me, you Colonial whail go to Jail for st.” “Iva a ie, Sir William!" squealed the soldier, “I just"—— If he has been at fault,” said Howe, palzn against Crown Point,” said [, watching hia busy fingers tle the last knot in the bandages, “My father has tolt me how a handful of sturdy yew u Englary’ Colonists went forth es me, From him { would inquire the as he thrust at me with the weapon |, he rled over his shoulder “the provost marshal will know how jnt¢ roared, at at ‘onge finding my volce ry of inotion Lord North, And I, his only son, had way to the nearest barracks, there to I threw out my left arm to ward off Ke me, seeking in valn to tear free to deal with him, It is not for a pack {ate te fateh Maoe ee pom ey and my dazed w - ee She responded with a graceful curt- been raised to think and believe as be enlist. the murderous blow, At the same from my grasp Zounds! But things of Yankee ragcals to jay hands on His perc i d scene BU AD, is 8 rove cours sy, as though In a ballroom. Even aia If you who read are inclined to sneer time, J struck with my clenched right be at a pretty pass when a soldier of Majesty's uniform Let him go fre rf 1 A ET ie Pe a at the moment it struck me as odd ~ [¢ was not until the week after my &t me for the impulse to give up my flat that @ great General should thus de- y flat. and heir ‘The His Majesty's service y be life as @ rich farmer’ Savonet aefasied) ribbed A avin Bey DF ‘Ani encourage every other redeout tered treasures to mo ere thoy fairly mean himself beforo a mere woman, twenty-first birthday that, for the #7 the hard, ill-paid lot of a common through coat, shirt and skin, ploughing MEA ncelase at a wrse Dei! maoneis ee nae vot" beige PS touched the ground, and would have and 1 wondered It It were poseible first time, I strayed more than {0M jacana 1, “when His Majesty's uniform is‘ “Do you know who lam? [*— an whe Rasea oak “hatte cake ayerwbe! Fes me nite humble Apolo that my ideas of man's superiority miles trom my home, Then (great disgraced by such as you, Here, Mr, “{ know. But you By ee . AR Who dared oh pertia—ehrank * gentleman annnt could have been wrong, Then, shame- event of my ignorant youth) I was Goldsmith, is your thief. Take him. ter, And I hold thie scoundrel until soldier, Do neing years bring | "ao clumsy as to knock ‘sly, I llstoned to their talk, sont to Boston to transact some busi- adva' I mocked boor- ‘Thank heaven, I am no fop! tricks and pretty A Ishly, As for parlor nus has sure forsaken Olympus to brighten the provincial soll of Boa. ton!" erted Howe gayly, as he rose again to his full height, news for my fathor, The task accom- plished, 1 had wandered about the streets to fill in the few remaining hours until the stage coach should ONE OF THE MANY THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO ARE READING THE EVENING WORLD'S My part in the task is done." “Your part is that of w gallant if rash man,’ answered tho goidsmith, speaking In @ pleasantly modulated the constable comes. “Then you will hold him ti! dooms- day, you Yankee rebel! I aay, let him” cowardice?” “Young man,” he sald sterniy, “tt is | ever the way of youth fo judge a} jewel casket’s contents by its exterior, | oy " voice, nd from my beart I thank “Lam no rebel!" I flashed, “Iam Therefore I overlook your insult, The speeches, I have sense enough to re~ ‘o think Mara for his gift of get out. you. The fan could not bave been as stanch a King’ man as yourself, name of Paul Revere may not live in | them aa time wasted, Where- Foss.” she replied in the ame e- Roaton, tn the early spring of 177 mp ete NOV Cc) ee placed “for '® hundred guineas: (9 Thie poldier tole « Yuluable fan. my country a history: aggerated yi was @ vast and teeming metropolis, " loss I could 4l! afford, And I could Thera it {s"—Indicating the trinket not ‘twill “SeWhereas” she caught mo up, ieaeanie foral ted to masan your At lenat, a0 It seomod to my count " Sah JON are repping. yourself of the richest fietion treat ever SUull leas afford to note the grief its the goldsmith was still holding—"and coward, Let that suffice.” ” 4 the divi 1) of Hfe's cloak,” sat je, * 0" cheeks pu pred ideas. it contained no fewer ottered Owvepaper, lo it hav cost Mistres Mar- I"-—- bs j rdon If 1 have offended,” eee ae ee as Tick’ up tDele blush “to shame: druly, our than 17000, tohabltanta.” Often ‘one awh evening World, avery weeks priate 9 novel by some famous lone fanet have coat, Mintreee Mar Lyon may tenth ered Mariory, oatch> mulated: bolt manna: Re st those roses!" may rejole ow ad Ajesty’s might gee full eight or nine folk on a or. ene novels are lesued compl jarge daily Imente. for mending. ibuned ing sight of tt. “My fan!" a Crown Point hero cringe before a | “L will not!” I snapped, “I am red cost when Mistress Marjory Win- a single block of its narrow, twisting They are selected with a view to guiting the testes of all readers. Marjory Winthrop again! She hurried forward, Sir William thieving redcoat irked me. The jewels | no"—— throp sets the fashion 1 econ streete. ‘ed. And I, thick bead that I was, had glanced whimsioally from her to the 5 ick them up!” “Pick them up yourself, tf you value the silly weeds, I"—— “Pick them up!" Enough of this childish folly! Marjory Winthrop! that was the dainty, flery dameel'’s name? Daughter, no doubt, of old Simeon Winthrop, who was the richest Tory in Boston, even as mine own father Not only plain burghers, demure maidens and farm visitors, but every- whera the amart, white-wigged, red- coated British soldiery as well, Fo almost 3,000 of His Majesty's regulars unwittingly prepaid her scorn by do- ing her this monstrous great yervice! Once more my tanned cheeks grew red with anger, And I vented some “T want no thanks,’ | made surly fan, and then back to me, “This puts a new face on the affair,” he observed carelessly, “Mistress Marjory, I am at your pretty feet im. Believe me, he shail be punished.” must be over fine to justify as tars nished a casket." Yes, [t was @ boorish, brutal epeech, I know that. I had the grace to real« ize it, vaguely, even th of my rage by giving my fuming ploring fifty thousand pardons that a | What better can one expect of a | oad w was the richest Tory in Wilbraham. were garrisoned there. prisoner an extra shake to still bis roan ft mine should have laid sacri- farm lad pn his frst contact with real . “Yqu_will pick 2m up, bear! At “His Gracious Majesty should be t was these soldiers, above all the atruggies and his profanity Jegiov® hand on aught you cherish. men? as |) once. Do you hear pleased,” Sir William wet on, “with things I saw, who roused my admira- . ; To Be Continued.)