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\ o 4 | } ' Se aaa i i this great news and all that would come of it. He knew a little and I enew leas, but we pieced # all together beaco: 10" for there was no enemy now to tare Bo we chatted as wo walked along the clean, bard sand, and looked out at the old North Sea. How little did Jim know at that mo- ment, as he strode along by my slide 0 full of health and of spirits, that be had reached the extreme summit of his life, and that from that hour would, in truth, be upon the down- slope. was @ little haze out to sea, for it bad been very misty in tho emily moraing, though the sun UMinned it, As we looked seaward we denly saw the sail of a small boat freaie out through the fog and come Yobing along toward the land. A sin- man was seated in the sheets and vawed about as she ran, as though he were of two minds whetuer to h ber or no. At lust, determined, be, by our presence, he made = for if ana her keel grated m the shinglo at our feet, He pped his sail, climbed out and pulled her bows up on to the beach. “Great Britain, I believe?" said be, around and facing us. ‘was a man somewhat above middie height, but exceedingly thin. eyes were piercing and set close : between them, and beneach gi A & R = £ ac dressed in a sult of brown 9 buttons, and he wore high ich were all roughened and the sea-wator. ce and hands were #o dark might have been a Spaniard, he raised his hat to us we saw upper part of his brow was ite, and that it was from it that he had his swartliness. looked from one to the other of and his gray eyes had something them which I had never seen be- . You could read the question, there scomed to be a menace at back of It, as if tho anewer were @ right and not a favor. “Great Britain?” he asked again, with a quick tap of his foot on the ingle. “Yes,” satd I, while Jim burst out deughing. “Bogland? “Scotland, ie iti gz ge § $ cree Hy Scotland?” But it's England past ler trees.” yond “Bon! I know where I am now, I've been in a fog without @ com~ pass for nearly three days, and I didn't thought I was ever to see land again.” He spoke English glibly enough, but with some strange turn of from time to time, x did you come from, then?” saked Jim. “I was in a ship that was wrecked,” waid he shortly, “What is the town dqwn yonder?” “It ig Berwick.” “Ah, well, I must get stronger before He turned toward the boat and as he did 60 he gave @ jurch and would have fallon had he not caught the prow. On this he seated himself and looked round bim with @ face that was flushed and blazed like a wild beast's. “Voltigeurs de la Garde!” ho roared im @ voice like a trumpet call, a then again, “Voltigeurs de la Garc He waved his hat above his head and, suddenly pitching forward upon his face on the sand, he lay all bud- died into a little brown heap. Jim Horscroft and I stood and stared at cach other, The coming of the man had been strange, and his questions, and now thia sudden turn, Wo took bim by a shoulder each @nd turned him upon his back, There he lay, with his jutting nose and his cat's whiskers, but his [ps were bloodless and his breath would carce shake a feather, 7 “he's dying, Jim," Leried, “ayo, for want of food and water, Thore's not a drop or a crumb in the oat. Maybo there's something in the bag.” He sprang in and brought out a black | r bag, which, with a large blue coat, was the only thing im the boat, It was locked, but Jim hag it open in an instant, It was halt full of gold pieces, Neither of us had ever seen 90 much before-—no, nor a tenth part of it, here must have deen hundreds of them, all bright new British sover- elgns, Inde so maken up we wo that we had forgotten all about their owner, until a groan tock our thoughts back to him. His lips were bluer than ever, and his jaw had dropped. [ can sec his open mouth now, with ils row of white, wolfish he “He's 0! cried Jim, “Here, run to the burn, Jock, for a hatful of water, Quick, man, or he's gone! TU loosen his things the while,” Awiy 1 . and wat back in @ minute with as much water as would atay in my Glengarry. Jim had pulled open the man's coat and shirt, and we doused \ over Mim, and forced some between his Lips, It had EY ory effect, for after a gasp or two ‘eat up, and rubbed hie eyes slowly, The Great Sh "4 “Well, the question a long, sharp nose jutted ,° qank A Romance of Love and European War 4 By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Author of “SHERLOCK HOL Gte. = . B | Uke a man who is waking from a deep sicep. But neither Jim nor I ‘was looking at his face now, for our a" fixed on his uncovered est. There were two Rag. Bg Duckers in it, one just below collar-bone and the other about half-way down on the right side. Tho skin of his body was extremely white to the brown line of his neck, and the angry ae looked the more vivid inst ft, ‘rom above I could see that there was @ corresponding pucker in the back at ono piace, but not at the other. Inexperienced as I waa, I could br via that foe Two bullets ad pierced his chest—one had passed through it and the other had re- mained Inside, But suddenly he staggered up to his feet and pulled his shirt to with a quick, suspicious glance at us. “What have I been doing?’ he asked. “I've been off my head. Take no notice of anything I may have eaid. Have I been shouting?” “You shouted just before you fell.” “What did I shout?” I told him, though % bore little sharply’ at ue abd thon he shrugged ly at ue on his shoulders, the words of a song,” said he. , what am I to do now? I didn’t think 1 was po weak. Where did you get the water?” I pointed towards the burn and he staggered off to the bank, Thero he Jay down upon his face and he drank until I thought he would never have done. His long, skinny neck was out- stretched like a horse's and he made a loud, supping noise with his Mps, At last he got up, with a long #igh, and wiped his mustache with his sleeve, “That's better,” said he, “Have you any food?" I had crammed two bits of oatcalke into my pocket when I left home, and these he crushed into his mouth and swallowed, Then he squared his Leer gel La Bg his chest and patter w the fat of his bands. “Lam sure that I owe you exceed- ingly weil,” said he. “You have been vory kind to @ stranger. But I see haa that 4 ade) had occasion to open my “We hoped that we might find wine or brandy there when you fainted,” “Ah, I have nothing there but just my little—how do you say it?—my savings. They are not much, but I must live quietly wpon them until © find something to do. Now one could live very quietly here, I should say, I herve not have come upon a more peac: Dl thout, perhaps, so igenharine nearer thas that “You haven't told us yet who are, where you come from, nor what you have been,” said Jim bluntly, The stranger looked him up and down with a critical eye. “My word! but you would make a grenadier company,” said he, “As to what you ask, I might take offense at it from other 1ij but you have a right to know, since you have re. colved me with so great courtesy, My name t# Bonaventuer de Lapp. Iam a@ poldier and a wanderer by trade, and I have come from Dun- kick, as you may eee printed upon the joat.”, “I thought that you had been ehip- wrec¥ed?” said I. But he looked at me with the straight gaze of an honest man, “That ts right,” said he. “But the sip went fram Dunkirk, and this ts one of her boats. The crew got away in the long-boat, and she went down #0 quickly that I had no time to put anything into her, That was on Mon- day.” “And to-day’s Thurelay. You have been three days without bite or sup.” “It is too long,” said he, “Twice before I have been for two days, but never quite so long as this, Well, I shall leave my boat here, and see whether I can get lodgings in any of these Lttle gray houses up on the hilisides. Why ts that great fire burning over yonder?” “It is one of our neighbors who has served against the French. He ts re- “Oh, you have a nelgbor who has then? T am glad, for I, too, een @ Httle soldiering here and there.” He did not look glad, but hi drew his brows down over his ke: eyes. “You are French, are you not?” 1 asked, as we all walked up the htt! together, he with his black bag in his hand and his long blue cloak slung over his shoulder, “Well, Iam of Almee," said he, “And you know they are more Ger- man than French, For myself, I have been in #0 many lands that I feel at home in all. I have been a great traveller. And where do you think that I might find a lodging?” I can scarcely tell now, on looking back with the great gap of five-and- thirty years between, what imprea- sion this singular man had made upon me, [ distrusted him, [ think, and yet I was fascinated in his bear- ing, In his look and his whole fashion of speech which was entirely unlike anything that I had ever eon, Jim Horseroft was a fine man and Major Elliott was a brave one, but they both lacked something that this wanderer had, It was the quick, alert look, the flash of the eye, the nameless ‘dis- tinetion which Is so hard to fix. And hen, we had saved him when he lay asping on the shingle, and one's heart always softens towards what one has once helped If you will come with me," ead I, “T have little doubt that I can find you @ bed for a night or two, and by that time you will be better able to make your own arrangements,” He pulled off his bit and bowed with all the grace tmaginable, But Jim Horseroft pulled me by the sl ve and led me aside, You Jock,” he whispered, “The fellow mmon adventurer, What do you want to get mixed up with him for? But I was al ys as obstinate a man as over laced his boots, and If you jerked me back it was the finest way of sending me to the front, “He's a stranger, and it's our part to look after hit," sald I, “You'll be sorry for it," aid he, Maybe so.” “If you don't thinks of yourself you might think of your cousin.” “die can take very good care of herself.” . ell, then, the devil take you, and you may do what you lke," he cried in one of his sudden flushes of anger, Without a word of farewell to el Can You 5, 1AM STILL UNDER 1 DOCTOR'S CARE, of us he turned off upon the track that led up toward his father’s house, Bonaventure de Lapp smiled at me as we walked on together. “I didn't thougut he Uked me very much," said he. ‘I can see very well that he has made a quarrel with you use you are taking me to your home, What does he think of me, then? Does he think, perhaps, that I have stole the gold in my bag, or what is it that he fears?” “Tut! I neither know nor came,” eaid I, “No stranger shall pass our door without @ crust and @ bed." With my head cocked, and feeling as if I was doing something very fine, inatead of being the most egregious fool south of Edinburgh, I marched on down the path, with my new ac- quaintance at my elbow. CHAPTER VI, A Wandering Eagle. ¥ father seemed to be much of Jim Horecroft’s opinion for he was not over warm to this new guest, and looked him up and déwn with a very questioning eye. He set a dish of vinegared her- rings before Lim, however, and I no- ticed that he looked moro askance than ever when my companion ate nine of them, for twd were alwaya our portion, When at last he had finished, Bonaventure do Lapp's ids were drooping over his ey for I doubt not that he had been sleepless as well as foodless for these three days, It was but a poor room to which I led him, but he threw himself down upon the couch, wrapped bis big blue cloak around him, and was asleep in an instant. He was a very high and strong snorer, and, as my room was next to his, 1 ‘bad ‘reason to remember that we had 4 stranger within our gates. ‘When I came down in the morning I found that he had been beforehand with me, for he was seated opposite my father at the window table in the kitchen, their heads almost touching, and @ little roli of gold pieces be- tween them. As I came in my father looked up at me, and | saw @ light of greed in lis eyes such as 1 bad hover geen before. He caught up the money with an ¢ clutch, end Swept dt into his pocket. “Very good, mis sald he “The room's yours, and you pay always on the third of the month,” “Ah! and here is my first friend,” cried De Lapp, holding out his hand to me with a smile which was kindly enough, and yet had tnat tough of patronage which a man uses when he emiles to his dog. “Lam myself again now, thanks to my excellent supper and good mght’s rest. An! it ts hun- wer that takes Uhe courage from a man, That most, and cold next.” “Ayo, that's right,” said my father, "T've been out on the moors in a enowdrift for six-ar irty hours, and 1 ken what it is “Ll once saw three thousand men starve to death,” remarked De Lapp, putting out his hands to the fire. “Day by day they got thinner and more like apes, and they did come down to the e& of the pontoons where we did p them, and they howled with rage and pain, ‘The firat few days their wis went over the whole clty, but after a week our son. tries on the bank could not hour them, 80 weak they had fallen,” “And they died?” I exciaimed, ” Beat It? CUT OUT THE DOCTORS ANO You ‘Lt BE ALLRIGHT “They held out a very long time. Austrian grenadiers they were, of the corps of Starowitz, fine, stout men, as big as your friend of yesterday; but when the town fell there were but four hundred alive, and a man utt them three at a time, as if they were litde monkeys. It wasa pity. Ab, my friend, you will do me the honors with madame and with mademoiselle.” It was my mother and Edie, who had come into the kitchen. He had not seen them the night before; but now it.was all I could do to keep my face as 1 watched him, for, instead of our homety Scottish nod, he bent up his back like a louping trout, and slid his foot, and clapped his hand over his heart in the queerest way. My mother stared, for she thought he was making fun of her, but Cousin Edie fell into it in an instant, as though it had been « game, and away she went in @ great courtsey, until I thought she would have bad to give It up, and sit down right there in the middle of the kitchen floor. But po, she was up again as light as @ piece of fut’, and we all drew up our stools and started on the econes and milk and porridge. He had a wonderful way with women, that man. Now, tf I were to do it, or Jim Horscroft, !t would look as If we were playing the fool, and the girls would have laughed at us; but with bim {ft seemed to go with his style of face and fashion of speech, 80 that one came at last to t look for it, For when he spoke to my mother or to Cousin pd he was never backward in speaking~it would al- ways be with a bow and @ look as it it would hardly be worth thelr while to listen to what he had to say; and when they answered he would put on a face as though every word they sald was to be treasured Up and re- membered forever. And _ yet, even while he humbled himself to a woman, there was al- ways a proud sort of look at the back of his eye, as if he meant to say that it was only to them that he was so meek, and that he could be stiff enough upon occasion, As to my mother, it was wonderful the way that she softened to him, and in half an hour she had told him ail about her uncle, who Was a surgeon in Carlisle and the highest of any upon her side of the hous Bhe spoke to him about my brother Rob's death, which I had never heard her mention to a soul before, and he looked as if the tears were in his eyes over 1t—he who had just told us how he had seen threo thousand men starved to death. As for Edle, she did not say much, but she ‘kept shooting 11 glances at our visitor, and onco or twice he looked very hard at her, had gone to his reom, When ho after bronkfast, my father pulled out aid them eight golden pounds, and on the table. "What think ye of that, Marthar’ said he you" r all? “No, but {t's a month's Day for board and lodging trom Jock's friend, and as much to come every four sold the two black tups af! weeks." But my mother shook her head when she heard it, “Two pounds a week {9 overmuch,” satd she. “And tt in not when the poor gentleman ts in distress that we should put such @ price dn his bit food,” “Tut!" cried my father, “He can very well afford it, and he with a bagtul of Besides, it's bis own a sneriaht, 1074, at Ran tion, By FoLtow MY Advice CUT OUT THE DocTORS “No blessing will come from that money,” said she, “Why, woman, he's turned your head wi’ his foreign trick of apeech,” eried my father. “aye, and it would be a gdod thing Mf Scottish men had a little more of that kindly way,” she said, and that was the first time in all my life that Lever heard her answer him back, He came down soon, and asked mo whether I would come out with him. When we were In the sunshine he held out a little cross made of red ston one of the bonniest that ever I had set eyes upon, “These are rubies,” said he, “and I got it at Tudela, in Spain. There were two of them, but I gave the other to a Lithuanian girl. you will take this as a m your exceeding kindness to me yes- terday, It will fashion into @ pin for your cravat.” I could but thank him for the pres- ent, which was of more value than anything I had ever owned in my am off to the upper muir to count the lambs,” said 1, “Maybe you would care to come up with me end eee something of the country?” He hesitated for a moment, and then he shook his head, "I have some lettera,” he said, “which I ought to write as goon as Possible. I think that I will stay at quiet this moraing and get them writ- egy, All forenoon I was wandering over the links, and you may imagine that my mind waa turning all the time upon this strange man, whom chance had drifted to our doors. Where did he gain that style of hte, that manner of command, that haughty, menacing Da of the eye? And his experiences, which he referred #o lightly, how wonderful the life must have been which had put bim in the way of them, He bad been kind to us and gracious of speech, but still I could not quite shake myself clear of the distrust with which I had regarded him. Perhaps, after all, Jim Hore croft had been right and I had been wrong about taking him to West Inch, When I got back he looked as though he had been born and bred tn the steading. He sat tn the big wood- en-armed ingle chair, with the black cat on his knee. His arms were out, and be held a skein of worsted from hand to hand, whten my mother was busily rolling inte a ball. Cousin Exlio was sitting near, and I could see by her oyes that she had been crying. “Hullo, Edie!" said I; “what's the trouble?” “Ah, mademolsell true women, has a soft heart,” sald be. “I didn't thought it would have moved her or I should have been sl- lent. I have been talking of the au’ fering of some troops of which | knew something when they were crossing the Guadarama Mountaing in the winter of 1808, Ah, yes, lt was very had, for they were fine men and fine horses, It is strange to seo men blown by the wind over the prec pices, but the ground was so alippory, and there was nothing to which they could bold, So companies all Unked arms, and they did better tn that fashion: but one artilleryman's hand came off as I held tt, for he had had the frostbite for three days.” I stood staring, with my mouth open. “And the old grenadiers, too, who were not so active as they used to be, they could not keep up; and yet if they lingered the peasants would catch them and crucify them to the barn doors with their feet up and a fire under their heads, which was Uke all good and Maurice Ketten SEENS TONE pity for these fine old soldiers. Bo when they could go no further it was interesting te see what they would do, “Yor they would ett down and say their prayers, sitting on an old sad- dle, or their knapaacks maybe, and then take off their boot and thelr stocking and lean thelr chin om the barrel of their musket. Then they would put thelr toe on the iigeer. and pouf! it was all over, and thero was no more marching for thone fine old gronadiers. Ob! it was very rough work up there on the rama Mountaina.” “And what army waa this? I asiced. Yh! I have served in eo many armies that I mix them up sometimes, Yes, I have seen much war, Apro- pos, I have seen your Beotch men fight, and very stout fantassaine they make; but I thought from them that the folks over here all wore—how do you say It?-—petttooata, “Those are the kilts, and they wear them only In the Highlands.” “Ah, on the mountains, But there Ina man out yonder, Maybe he is the one who your father said would carry my letters to the post.” “Yes, le te Farmer Whitehead’e man, Shall I give them to him?” “Well, he would be more careful ot them if he had them from your hand.” He took them from his ot and gave them over to me, hur- ried out with them, and as I did so my eyes fell upon the address of the was written very topmowt one. It Jarge and clear, To His Majesty, the den, Stoockholin! I did not know very much Frenoh, but I had enough to make that out. What sort of eagle was this which bad flown tonto our humble little nest? POLL, tt would weary me, and W went with us after this man With the women it was quick work good-will as well as my own, Indeed, CHAPTER VII, The Corriemuir Peel-Tower, Tam vory mure that it would weary you alno, If I were to attempt to tell you how life came under our roof, or the way in which he gradually came to win she affections of every one of us. enough, but goon ho had thawed my father, too, which was no such easy matter, and had gained Jim Horseroft's we wore but two great boys beside him, for he bad been everywhere and geen everything, and of an evening he would chatter away in his Umping English until ho took us clean away from the plain kitchen and the tuo farm-steuung, Wo plunge us into courts and camps and battleGelds, and all the r f the world. Horscrott bud been sulky enough with him at first, but De Lapp, with and his owsy ways, soon drew nd Huth he hea quite won bis heart, and Jim would eit with Cousin Kdie's hand in bis, and tho two would bo quite lost in Hstening to all that ho had to tell us, 1 will not tell you all this, but even now, after #0 long an interval, I can trace how, week by k and month by month, by this word and that deed, he mould- 6d_us all as he wished. One of lis tinst acts wee to sive my ( play a wholly new and crime-drama. His newest exploits are OF THE TIGER.” q father the boat in which he had come, roworving only the right to have it back in case he should have need of it. The herring were down on the coast that autuian, and my uncle, be- fore he died, bad given us @ fine set of neta, 8 the gift was worth many @ pound to us, Sometimes De Lapp would go out in the boat alone, and 1 have seen him for a whole summer day rowing slowly along, and stop- ping every half-dozen strokes to throw over @ stone at the end of a string, I could not what he was doing until he told me of his own free will. “Lam fond of studying all that has to do with the military,” #aid ho, “and I never lose @ chance. [ was won- dering if it would be a diMeult mat- ter for the Commander of an army corps to throw hia men ashore hare.” “It the wind were got from the east,” wid 1. “Ab, quite so, if the wind were not from the east. Have you taken meyndings here?" "No." “Your line-of-battle ships would have to lie outside, but there is water enough for a forty-gun frigate right up within musket range, Cram your boats with turatileura, deploy them behind these sand-hills, then with the launches for more, and a atream of grape over their heads trom the frigate, It could be donel It could be done!” His mustaches bristled out more Mie @ cat's than ever, and [ could see by the flash of tis eyes that he was carried away by hie dream, “You forget that our solilers would De eee (ie, Boneh eee ey ee nantly. “Ta, ta, tal” he cried, “Ot course it takes two sides to make a battle. Lat ut vee now! Lat us work it outi ‘What could you get together? Shail we say twenty, thirty thousand? A jon!” I shouted, “Oh, you, very brave men, but im. ‘decile; ab, mon Dieu, tt ts incredible how imbecile they would be. Not they alone, I'mean, but all young troops, ‘They are #o afraid of being afraid that they would take no precaution. Ah, I have seon tt! In Spain I ha’ ween a battalion of conscripts attack ® battery of ten pieces, Up they went, ah, #o gallantly, and presently the hili-side looked, from where [ etood, iike-how do you say it in Knglish?t—a raspberry tart, and where waa our fine battalion of con- scripte? Then another battalion of young troops tried it, all together In «rush, shouting and yelling, but what will shouting do against a mitra’lle? —and there was our second battalion jaid out on the hillside, And then the foot of the Guard, old sol- ders, were told to take the battery, and ‘there was nothing fine about thetr advanoe, no column, no shout- ing, nobody killed, just a few scat- tered lines of tlrailleurs and pelotons of support, but tn ten minutes the funs were allenced and the Spanish wunners out to pieces, War must be learned, my young friend, just the same as the farming of shee “Pooh!” said I, not to be outcrowed by a foretqner. “If we had thirty thousand men on the line of the hiil yonder you would come to be very glad that you had your boats behind you," “On the ine of the hillt said he, with @ flash of his eyes along the ridge, “Yes, if your man knew his Dualoaes he would have hts left about your house, his centre on Corrlamutr, omd hia right over near the doctor's house, with bis tiratlleurs pushed out thickly tn front, His horse, of course, would try to cut us up as we de- ployed on the beach. But once let us form, and we should soon know what to do. There's the weak point, there at the gap. I would sweep it with my guns, then roll in my cavalry, push the infantry on in grand col- umna, and that wing would find ttaelf up inthe air. Eh, Jack, where would your volunteers be? “Close at the heels of your hind- most man,” said I, and we both burst out into the hearty laugh with which guch discussions usually ended. Hometines, when he talked, I thought he was joking, and at other times it wan not quite so easy to say. I well remember one evening that uner When he was sitting in the hen with my father, Jim and me, tor the women had gone to bed, 16 began about Scotland and ite re- lation to England. “You used to have your own King, and your own laws made at Hdin- burwh,” said he; “does i not fill you *u with rage and despair when you think that all comes to you from London now Jim took his pipe out of his mouth, “Tt was wo who put our King over the English, so if there's any rage it should have been over yonder,” eatd he, This was clearly news to the etran- ger, and tt silenced him for the mo- but your laws are made down nd surely that ts not quod,” he sald, at Inet “No, it would be well to have a Parliament back in Edinburgh my. fat ‘hut Tam kept with the sheep that IT hav enough time hink of such “It ta for fine ¢ men lik two to think De “When a young m {t looks to avenge Aye, tho Enelish take too much mselves sometimes,” sald Jim, f there are man that way of thinking about why should we not form them Into battalions and mareh them upon London? erled De La hat would be a rare little ptonte," anid, I, wughing; “and who would lead us?" Tie foumped op, bowing, with his Next Week’s Complete Novel in The Evening World “The Teeth of the Tiger” By Maurice Leblanc uthor of the “ARSENE LUPIN” Stories) Arsene Lupin, France’s arch-thief, was reported dead, and all the French Police Department re~ joiced. But the report was false. Lupin returned to Paris, and there proceeded to amazing role in the city’s related in “THE TEETH band on his heart in his queer fash jon, “Lf you would allow the honor!” he cried, and then, “ that we were all laughing, he tart Hairs detente re no EBS ee realty thought of @ joke I could never make out 4g» could be, nor could Jim either, Sometimes we thought ho was an oldi#h man that young, and at others that he jungish man who looked old. rown, stiff, close-cropped hair vq ed no cropping at the toy thinned away to a shining curve, akin, too, was interse bya sand fine wrinkles, lacing and in lacing, and was all burned, as I alread iy sald, by the sun, ‘et ho was as lithe as a boy, ho was as tough as wi we ing all day over the hille, or on the sea, without turning be Se tae te we thought mig! a it forty or forty- though it was hard to see ho could have seen so much of the time. But one day we of ages, and then he su I had been saying that I wae twenty, and Jim said that he twenty-seven. Iam the most olf of the Hig i el set # “Then back three,” said De Lapp. our father, “But not by so much” said arching his brows, “I was nine-and twenty In December.” astonishment, and laughed at it, “I havo lived. I have lived,” eriod, Baas le pyr em nn any niga a dette where five nations, were @@e eee a toe Wen at venus lo a Bn : a ee wos twenty, 1 had « hand a tod, butting « Great Rag upen 4 that dveame of ager Mee Stead have lived my life That was the most that I and he only shook hie laughed when we tried to some-~ thing more out of bim, were times when we thought that be was ® history In the past, You will remember an old officer of the who lived no great way with bie ale and the t witi tor wo had gone up to London ‘one baa ness about his pension money and the chance some work given not come back until late autumn, One of the first days after bis re turn he came down to see there for the first time be F eyes on De Lapp. Never in my did I look upon so astonished a and he stared at our friend for a minute Without #0 much as @ De Lapp looked back at him han, but there was no in his eyea, “I do not know who you are, he sald at lust, “but you look as if you bad seen me before.” “Bo I have,” the magor, ere, then?” “At the village of Astorge, im @he- year ‘8.’ Do Lapp started, and again at our neighbor. “Mou Desa! wone'e chance!" be cried; “and you were ¢he Pnglish pariiamentaire, I remember you very well indosd, sir, Let me have a whisper in your ear,” He took him aside, and talked very earnestly with him In French quarter of an hour, gestioulating his hands, and explainis while the major nodded ts old uled head from timo to time. At last they seemed to come to some agreement, and I heard major say “parole d*honnewr” several Umes, and afterwards ‘tortuve de la guerre," which I could very well derstand, for they gave you @ up bringing. at Bidewhistle’s, after that I always noticed that the major never used the same free fash~ fon of speech that we did towards our lodger, but bowed when he ad- dressed him, and treated him wi wonderful deal of, ® major more than once w! Pry>y) about him, but he shwage pat off, Jim Horscroft was at home all that Summer, but late in the @utumn he went back to Edinburgh winter session, and, as he Breided to work very hard and get Cr next spring if he could, said that he would bide up there for Goria MAS, there was & gr@ag taking between him oe Edie, and he was to put up his and to marry her av soon as he the right to practise, I never know a man love a woman more fondly than he did her, and she liked him wall enough in a way, indeed {n the whole of Scotland would not find a finer looking man; but when it came to mi Hy sda ey i arriage I Y she winced @ little at the thought that all her wonderful dreams should end in nothing more than being the wife of @ country surgeon. there was only Jim and me to choose out of, and she took the best of Of course, there was De Lapp but we always felt that he was of altogether different class to, us, #o he didn’t count, I was never sure at that time whether Edie for him or not. When Jim waa home they took little notice, of other, After he was gone er thrown more together, . whic! natural enou 9 had taken wo much of her time (To Be Continued.» * sdk ba nae tik Lbs