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pa The Evening World. Daily Magazine, Monasay, Augus saiiaitiatineall — Ta... tae ant . : ~ mp _ a titeiesnieaaae ome eaee ite | | ceeitks By Maurice Kette SY OWEh RS COMES ‘ E SPLENDID spuR || Lhe Day of Rest sik» By Maurice Ketten rin ete Wy AT QUEER COUCH : maaNNILINNS | oe ee ee A ronance of England in ings. with a } By FRANCES 1.5 kOe WN nee AO the Ne AP at ttt i y hey 1 West ~ the ” | hero whom adventure marked tor a series s fares al " Pi. ual a i \¢ of thrilling experiences in love and war, personality bigger ; 4 i virile than the old j 3% ne nn nn rane — —— eevee } or ee a ee BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD saad CHAPTER 1. A RONG OOO RRRD AS UO NE I Rite intne Renin tes ener i o4 WARK on Now 08 A. DL 166m ote footy dayethat the King at ‘ ¥) | eqs ° te 1 t With the Prince of Wales (newly recovered of the | bedding 5 - That's “5 aneme 4 the Princes Kupert and Mays) pany of lords pA ny # added \ vat be and gentiomen, horse foot, came marehing back to ue from where f had + # s ial Reading. | wae a scholar of Trinity ¢ in Oxford at that porriest-Jookin owen ' EY time, and may begin my history on the same afternoon, when going to Mr oT a hash ener ye Mab Drury tor my fencing lesson, f found bis lodgings empty, and, Mndii : o 8 ‘4 o? ane Ae OR CARY CUN)ION in the Window, nat down to awatt hin. | tly raw-boned th _ Treg pinn d The window looked do fot Young a tit » nat the height of ten feat oF #0, upon a be (twas drawing near noon fOg-wreen at the back of the Crown Tavern, and across It to @ rambling tink CONE GAS Geer, Wid ' Wing Of the mame inn; the fourth side being but an old wall, with @ eyoa r sertully on the rfully More growing aguinat it, "Twas alrewdy twilight; and in the dark'ning é house, over the green, wan now one casement brightly Ht, the curtains undrawn, and within a company of noisy drinkers round a table Were gaming, a@ was easily told by their clicking of the dice and frequent | oaths. The sycamore was a broad tree, and Fested. On this a man was now seated, He was reading @ little boon, but Seis ‘With a sharp look now and then to- this was the last I heard. For now ward the lighted window, ae it tho ¢ tering at the door 4 and lipt a iT th Feveliors disturb'd him. Hin back Garkness and “downstaira inte tee y friend the pickpocket, and Peren, jhe sat before a fire of dry sticks @ little way back fr * “hn hahtman -alites : ° Al ten o'clock, f day! ‘The 0 Good World; no atop and 4», Batty ron, but eeariane ta the ulled up my ray. Counsell, | eane Rentlewemnan counsell'd, bed 4 you find it 90," Ta red; opinion a nee Gl nt? hold @ high igh chanoe to compare it “Twas about five in the THE JACKMAN jae not thy hand so oft tis a "sure index ‘ot haden jainst the trunk « garden bench : mee ‘was partly turn'd to moe; and I could etreet, wita My , te lant ni! h and Tatil! laboring alon, but make a guess at his face, but « Seas? Es aie Ot bb eee the tow hedae pleaty of silver hair fell over bis tur CHAPTER II, I owe thee something and here's a Age be y 09 © swal- collar, and his shoulders were bent 9] WAS 4 o'clock before 1 hedgehog teat 1p five minutes will be e ‘of mel where ben ne Pes great deal, 1 judged him between dropped asleep in my bed “While [tethered my horse) blew hia. plated an’ path, a Qty and y. in ‘inity, and my last at the embers, wherein lay a good- fa: stol was in my i And now one of the dicers upsets thoughts were still busy nized ball of olay, baking. bter 5 ee before 1 could lay hand to my nike . while he pul e clay ball out of ” RE se, aren ene ee ee acaet, toe heres. L Ban the fire, cracked tt, and lo! Inside na evening!” said 1 ry Ba feet. Looking up, I saw his fea~ . Nor, on the morrow, did it was a hedgehog cooked, the apikes ), growlea tna’, about you doubt. teres for a moment—a slight, pretty fare any better with me; go that, at sticking in the clay, and coming AWAY w voice that made me siart? And it son’ BOP, @carce above eighteen, with fair rhetoric lecture, our president—Dr. yoo @arle and fush'd cheeks like a girl's, Ralph Kettle—took me by the care AL “I think the dev! in these dice!" before the whole claps. But even a yom Eheard him crying, and a pretty hub- rhetoric lecture must have an end, : Bub all about him; but presently the and #0, tossing my gown to the por- Y° @rawer enters with more wine and he ter, I set off at last for Magdaicn| @its down quietly to a fresh game. Bridge, where the new barricado was ; reve, _-A® Boon at ‘twas started, v..6 of the building, along the Physic Garden, in| with it, So he divided the fi Nie ken and upon a from hin ‘wallet It made ve: hia voice and figure Inthe yee) knew him for Capt. Settlo, ry sorrel with the h XK eating; though [doubt tf Fecognized the mare, Moly, teens | aa much aa did my comrade, who Anthony Killierce, hae ugs that poor swore over and over that the world most with his last bo | wan good, and as the wintry sun broke ‘The bully did not know. Out, and’ the hot ashes warmed bie but meen me for an ‘rove ra, DANN knees, began to chatter at a great Crown,” and then in very mat pact attire, r roke off at the sound of wheels, “I have but « few ins,” and @ coach with two poatilions spun answered. er past us on the road, “Then hand ‘em over.” Thad Just time to entch a giimpesot ,,."Be shot If 1 do!” sald t tn « pan. a figure huddled in the corner and a #0n, and pering out @ handful from sweet, pretty girl with chestnut curls, MY Pocket, ¥ dashed them down in seated beside it, behind the ginas, the road, After the coach «ame @ heavy, broad. | For a moment the captain took his shouldered servant, riding on a stout Pistol from my face and stooped t» ho flung us & sharp glance clutch at the golden coins as they ray, whe Pi | trickled and ran to right and left. tance turned again to look. The next I had struck out with my aye few that bad been piaying but w front of the “st *e, now dropp'd out, lounges up . in his) The day was dull and low'ring and , @eat, and, coming to the casement, scarcely was I past the small -ate tu © &U> Pures it open for fresh air. Ho was the city wall when a brisi One that till now had sat in fui VIEW Dall and sect droc tee ey momer Of ‘ y ‘ 0 sheler in —w tall bully, with @ gross pimpled the P nose; and led the catches in a bull's the Pig Market (or Proscholium) b - velce., rae nee fore the Divinity School. Here I found | uring the late racket ad for a great com | got for a while my friend under tho driven by the mene ca ele already sycamore, but now, looking that 'y the samo cause. | ‘Way, to my astonishment 1 saw him I heard a stir in the crowd behind | YY) rascal Tight fist and down he went stagger: from his bench and stealing me, and some one calling, “Who'll = Ne "put he of Malian with {ne Hie [na dropped out of hiv mm OOS noon as he came pencath the CU”? Who'll buy? ¥ tho an far an Hungerford, where we Pevaned. to Molly, caught her bride Racer be tt hd Balled west Turning, I saw a young man, very ~ Mould turn into the Bath Road. The ang leaped ‘back, "Twas a Reece ance t ne Hopped & YF gully dreat, moving quickly about at any wetacwn apace ao that "twas Rest thing: for the captain was rush (© The bully gave a start and look’d the far end of the Pig Market, amd high time to week an inn, We found Wf townrd us. But at the call of my MThe other stands close under the ble with then ec gin key: (bent dou- quarters at the Horn. and sought the turned, and down the road 1 Ww window, as if to avoid this, and calls baskets that he carried, The bathers [Ko oS Srevellaza! oom 008 © OF "0.947 SE ‘Noung, NADA a8 8 Seatner,, “ae re piled with books, clothes and hi 3 at!” says he, and beckons with gcwgaws of ‘all kinds: and ‘ees vat @ finger. oun, t ops 5} After a bit, the bully lifted a hand, Saree ,feutioman that hawked bis ~v* and turning back into the lighted * room, walks up to one of the pi CHAPTER V. ~ S ECURE of pursuit, and full 5 glanc'd to right and left, “If these when from the room above comes the With @ shout, the door was fung Bath road. I must have taken a intend *my hurt indeed, crash of @ table upsetting, with @ wide, and on the thi old the wrong turn to the left that led me By his curls and womanish face, no " game, which y= leas than the amber cloak with the ytd seem—they lose t oir labor; nolse of broken glass, chairs thrust Watch, their lanterns held high and of delight in the mare's easy _ t r round to the south; for, coming about Face two snails up ® pane of glass & have tray= &| ease eereny gently lifted, und {ue same J bad seon yesterday among "Ang why is that?” ting out a food of light and curses, thrown open. found it to be, not Faringdon, but ee te ng aon as In the 7 oo led’ the heavy term of the bully yce, “cers. At length he came to a i tell thee, Jack, tho" I deserve and down files a drawer, three steps In numbers they were six or elght, Wantage. ‘The town was full, but at | Drawing near, | myseit wot set te fore the moon rose. / bn 4 ng softly over the grass. . ani front of me, to be shot. Iam bound with a letter at a time, with a red stain of wine led by a small, wry-necked man that length at the "Boot" tavern— a emall OAKer ie ;panion drow my notice frosty aky raya sparkled cheer- aka Gully’ iain have closed the pluces meet Pe painer ce his from Hix Majesty to the Army of the trickling down his white face, | held a long staff and wore a gilt chain hou es A found a bed Just yacaed by oe ex a ot riting on the window fully, and by them I saw on the hol- ve ele + and bo ow, We hal pt “Murder!” he gasped out; and ait- over his furr'd collar, a couple of drovers, and having co- te ! i 4 x we \ Soor, behind him but carslossly, {OF scholar, I peroeive, Let me serve you, fathers mie— aie teaciy illacemay ting down one dials, fe ¢@ mopplug “in. the King’s name, I arrest YOU send the chesberruld to alisy cle over “which they were crawling. tera the sliver demt-bear that I kne } YL), . Rardly could ho take a dozen step Hero ts the ‘History of Saint Gieys in Cornwall, ‘Tis a swoer coune his face, all slek and trembling, all—to help me God! Now, what's the u clean pair of sheets, went upstairs (7m as & not of Vern tohed with (© be the crest of the Killigrews He Opened ARIS Wich © coum GeOree, Od he picked out a thy certo e mee ite enee ereae Ur moe al st him, with the matter?” very drowaily, and in five minutos that must have been scratched with 1 ioe tne fellow to it engraved to. ima the laree {naseersog: DaIODEIaE. b mn quarto and held it up: write goat tt ye Over dalord at my hecia when'three men . "Sire" said Z, laying poor Anthony's was sleeping ‘sound. Perens ane. tun’ a echolarbe my sword hilt, So now I was ov }) @ vicious snarl and snap of the teeth. hook they tell me, and the’ prices SWAY: Horotee Be RITA Rtemehe AER ARITA Un AMER ket Pe irre edad baad ed IE Frierctictperiy ay terre tt ‘ene Molly thas $:beatronet ee “Twas enough to scare the coolest, poor two. shillings, y, noe ‘or ho married a French down stairs, and in Hale, & minut ‘a. “Then, young man, thou must come Close, her hand the writing ran, for T copied It ta cocasion of the light to explore the as the futiow parm’ an Uf shots and Now ail this white 1 was consia. MUmets Jack, God rect eg dear oui” Hears the rig of etal and was tat roughiye weounceito waytardingara, to) Nolatare and eaddle dap. * ering what to do, 4 be . bear? pped him fairly by the throat, fang qweat (© do. Bo, as I put my that country, near Morlaix, in Brite — ‘There was now no light within but What's amiss? I eaked, rubbing week The Splendid Spu Poor Anthony’s pistols gone— fj Fi man had his lege planted well shillings, I said very slowly, looking ‘®8¥, among my mother’s kin; my what was shed by the fire and two “Not on the necks of prince or hyene, filched, no doubt, by the captain; but i ert ing ere 4 -«-YoU may guess my satisfaction when, cred bind: a ft apart. I saw bis shoulders heave uD him in the eyes (b: grandfather refusing to eee or speak tallow candles that guttered on the al Gnd bend as he tightened the press tie tackes ment not hears; © |S With him for wedding a poor woman mantel shelf. ‘The Temaining candles Meee tootgt™ 1 orto. “The gqDownataits | found a giant's break gare of bis fingers: then camo a mo. ws thus you feed your expenses Without his consent. And in France sticks lay in a pool of wine on the guttty onen have escap'd these ten fant spread for me, and ate (he whole, ment’s dead silence, then @ hideous at tho dice: and my shilling, no W%4,! born and bred, and came to floor, amid broken glasses, bottles, tinutes, Now, stop me who dares", Ghd felt, the better for it; and there yn qrurgie, and the mastiff dropped back, Gout Luke Settle, ax well as England two years agone; and this gcattered coins, dice boxes and pew. "And dashing’ my. fist on the nose of UPC Pald my scot, reslating tho land. na sildinn tebe: his hind legs trailing limp. tha vest 2 last July the old curmudgeon died. So ter pots. In the corner to my right who would have eeincd (ed¥'a endeavor to shares me double fhign golden navies ‘weep their freight. ‘The bully held him ao for a full r the moment, under my look, that my father, who was an only son, cowered a pot-boy, with tankard Hed be bed, and walked out to see minute, peering close to make sure no went white to the lips; then # even now in England returning to dangling in his hand, and the contents the Wve. ming on’ fast, “ERO scarlet hat, the laurell'd stave he was dead, and then, without loosen clapped his hand to his aword, with- Ra,oetater! and with him my only spilling f d_dropp'd out upon the DOwIINE jostieg my way along, kovping ght wort iii alta yes! 4 errifled eyes ‘ : ‘ Be ald aeeirdow, By the aycer Crew, lt; and anawered me, red as @ he ‘way. To think of Ite (ard of the room, where Anthony and the ""A"Pretty shout wont up as I pick’ Mold on my pockets for foar of cuts Ins wife's lap ord, made # run for the casement turkey-cock: 3 Jy, about halt- Man's h earth. 1 I ted in th 6 but only to shift h “Shalt be vet, or clare the tears sprang to his e; brute Settle stood, with a shattered myaci¢ off the turf and rush'd for the BUre% whon presently, Dur guineas, as I count In the moon. find so, swaying on BIS scholar: but arias damn’d hurry, “Delia Will be a wo and chair between them, ‘Thotr swords back door. "Twas unbarrd, and in a Nay down the stroct, there arose the Bravely to ati Nght; not to speak of this ineompar- hips, sent the carcass with @ bh it seems.” * ah! to dear Cornwall together were crossed {n tierce, and grating moment I found myself tearing down "°)* uting. 4 ealbihat The fut in this loud yor'd. ong treed able Molly. , ever tho wall. 1 was standing there and looking High business,” said T together as each sought occasion for the je and out into the Corn , TWAS &, meagre old rascal that Alp-high among the whisp'ring ithe clatk won obit) eases ta ueaaae All this while the man ith the after him, turning over in my hand to carry the King’s a lunge, which might have been {lr Market, with a score of so tumbling #9 one had oharg picking hy ir had rested quietly on On® the “Life ‘of Sani 8 letter. Not one in four of his messen- enough but for a dog-faced trooper ae hice But now he steps UD fingers wore aaine Geor Sip wt paray Kors comes through, they say. Dut In a froway black periwig, who, as T to where the bully stood mopping Mi8 between the pages. Pulling It out, T "nee it keeps you from the dic entered, was gathering a handful of and, with a finger between tho saw ‘twas scribbled over with writing Uhat's true, To-night I make an coins from under the fatien table, and very politely, and figures, as follows: end a now ran across, sword in hand, to air, cholcely “Mr, Anthony. Killigrew, his acct. |. nornieht! the Captain's ak pocketa, and they were dragging him “Trust in th: off to be ducked. Now in the heart of shall Wantage, the little stream that runs nothing of the road, wi this through the town is widened into & hour Ry, quite deserted. So that, ‘orb. cistern, about ten feet square and five Of sight and sound— tall hill with Tin deptty over which hung @ duckiig Count tt the lists that God hath, built Periing os leagth te 6 tok Be . my very bones after the heat of the late gallop; and, serene, 3 knew pass'd or haughty hearts to ride a-ti! well,” 5 3 “Why, yes. To-night I go for my Now, I 4; but selzing suppose, to interfere. But a many S00) for aoolding wives. A long } 1, : a — 3 ; no sword: ‘ a The other ceased mopping to BB fine Ni; fervccitin Ae for enmity revenge, and ride straight from the tho Wenkend tem the potcboy's hand, must have joind in’ the chase for boam on a pivot hangs over the Dock vrinig_Mtuster ‘Tucker's Farewell.” look at him. my coat, 6d.; at bowls, 58 10d.; for ‘8 door, T hurl'd it at the dog-fac'd trooper. It presently the street behind me was oa ra Lf ¢ OR sa “And a very pretty moral on four some distance from the “But sure,” he went on, swag hard bleading’ me, 1a. od; for ye King's cae ; Lad Aud you to the struck him fair between the shoulder- Sisk with ater, of, fomtetepe ‘ery bid tar bw clraneed th gentlemen thas pase thelr afternoon wince brightly Ub and pushed , that had never heat 4 vy] oP . ‘Crown,’ I cried, very tive, + 1 in he spun. ories of je! reams, a-setting snails to race!” Op the peer uciue, Hips gees, 84.1 for eplo'd wine (with Mare “ite dropp'd playing with Nis curt, Cinta; and with @ yell of pala, te Spe birat wear wretel, whove gray locks suENt "AY there words, ‘apaken tn a dell. The building was an inn, though 44.3 at ye Ranter-go-round, 6%4.; for #24 look'd me In the face, his mouth glittering In a way that turn’d me cold. A bright thought had struck me, Well have won mercy for 5 cate forelan voice, we all started sorry one. Nor, save for the ted man hoarse! @ palr Hy silver button for ‘Witching with a queer smite T gave ka pace, snatch’d up u and taking a fresh wind, I set off Souse! be wae plunged, hauled up round; and saw @ young lady standing Window, did tt Wear any oe hos- be us aay X'-I prefer it.” 4; for ale ta ‘dico, , "Then be at the corner of All Hal- chair and with my back against the 48#ln around the corner of Oriel Col- choking and dripping, then just behind us. pitality; but I climbed off Molly and, ‘The old gentleman, as he said this, for’ spic'd Wine (again), 48. 08 Church in Turl Street at 7 lege and down Merton Street toward he found tongue to shrick—wsous door, walted his charxe Now, that she was the one who had Pressing my hat down on my head on one side, laid the to-night. I lo a " Master Timothy Cart how my again, pixsed Uy in the coach | saw at once, struck @ loud rat-tat on the door, a right hand across the Sha etiean nd rea fa Out me "Twas in this posture that, filnging ® mothers cousin. ‘This gentleman "Twas a dismal punishment; and Put iivsctine hereto be platen t cage vCurlously, Tt opened at once: and I to be considering. And 40 on A A hts ffaira” glance across the room, I ow ae who was town clerk to the Mayor and this time they kept him under for @ not, having tried a many times, Bo 84 @ couple of men in the lighted "As the old gentioman paused, one »,48 1 glanced my eye down this “ita wont his way up the grove, hia “APtain’a sword dercribe a am Corporation of Oxford—wan also in &® (ull half minute., But as the beam let mo ly th H paper, & great feeling of pity came jet me say only that she was the pret of the dicers above stuck up to sing of light, and next moment, with @ sense my guardian, holding tn trust f ‘ amber cloak flaunting like a belated Ld Anthony caught at the blade stout my of tautek waa ell wee ine was lifted again I heard a bullab = tlest creature on God's earth (which, ‘d the mare's heels on the road, over me, hot only at the name of An- sharp ¢ 1 ry— ope, wat } and Hillo! What in the fend’s @ catch. While this din Bonrtaued, b thony--the namo I had heard spoken buttery, wnden the Jrasiong trees, and and stagger'd against tho wall, pinn’d heritance), and spending the same (ind & crys, Phebe wit nin Fy aR) AG Hale ab naine ts this?” eee ae ee oe oe weenain, {8 the bowling-green last night--but y alent, through the chest to the wainscoting. jealously on my education. And turning, | saw @ great brown Vrenchified grace, Said I: "If you are he that keeps Reseeening 5 pian the Sates of ble also to see that monstrous item of £17 “Out with the lights, Dick!" hawl'd ° . ° . . form lumbering down the street be- entiemen, my father is sick and this house, 1 want two things of you ing still ween » odd spent on the dice, “Twas such @ CHAPTER Ill, Settle, tugging out his point. “Quick, Pt» be short, ten o'clook was strik- hind, and driving the people before It will taste no water but’ whats is vil tongue, and next @ bed.” book. ty boys!” he sal the noise boy, too, after all. T hurried after fool—the window!" ing from St. Mary's spire when. with jike chaff, freshly drawn. | ask you but to step get neither, then.” Pretty boysl” ne sald. Mea easily it and laid a hand on his shoulder. ‘T wanted, maybe, aquarter to Dick, with a back sweep of his thirty guineas in my pocket (which ‘The crowd at the brink of the pool ou! into the rainy yard and draw me r sigh says chat you keep an died aways ti Wied iby pluek. 1 Uutnk, sir," said 1, “this paper is seven that evening, when, hand, sent the candles flying off the was all the loose gold my uncle had), £ scatter'd to right and left yelling. Up @ glass full from the pump there, for mean hot of ey, DIUCKINE. jy rr era tae passing out at the College *belf; and, save for tho flicker of the walked forth from Master Cartera flew the beam of the ducking stool, our servant Is abroad In the town. the ‘Three Cups;’ but we're ou," he red, ‘ e copped do eved sight and dow ro my deep disguat, befoi 20 WAnd If-he were, Why NOt? Bure i qnerAomy Ne answered, taking Gata cn my way to All Hal. Meartts Wo were In darkness. 1 felt, door and stepped briskly forward oM relieved of their weight and down — To my deep diswuat, before f could sou've picked a feather or two before ji rather than saw, his rush toward me, my travels with a splash went the pickpocket at find a word ul that villainous old pick+ I bked the feliow's voice so Uttle You wish to. say lows' Chureh, I saw under leapt aside, and brought down my 3 Y (be far end, As well for my own pocket had cought the glass from her thet ‘Us odds | would have remounted Per ane eet pete ter cuets nna | mayne, If your n@ne the lantern there a mas loltering and chair with a crash on his skull. He CHAPTER IV king wake da Out of pity to ave him hand and reached the door, “Hut T Mole and ridden away but az this , 0 ” . 4 0 n i dc > the yi ye insta ere ed do’ he man, “next time you crack one of “ostuster Anthony Killigrew is my ‘ilking with the porter, ‘Twas Master Went down like a nine-pin, but drowning, I jump'd into the water r, and out into the yard we imstant there (louved down the stair N ; < ed h *¢ ped toxethe: ere ed and out through the drink-smelling head Jokes over the wall name, sir; noweserving under Lord Anthony's lackey; and as I came up Srrambieg Vb JR8 Aloe, BAG WAR Taos YT till % wae over the bridges eee eee Tee ate eg Teor necpped, tomethor, Fe AL TT SM eee at US rer cere ie ter the dog. What's to pr Hiraary Bioware in His Majesty's he held out @ note for me, shout below as the Cantal Hirst the and climbing = the high cut Cx sirens away ana pul them was he, too, thet gained the “Twas a gels ole ats s caida ‘Ven! ” 5 ‘90 buards, | P : i two nd beyond South Hinck- up. The pickpocke! o crambled thanks on our return here Was no doubt about | he + “Why, this,” answers the old fellow, | ae i Deare Jack lattice ‘open: another, and the grou ks s not p : - There Ww oubs about ¢ cheerfully There's money. to be qn Me He nck Marvel” sald 1 Wo. goo to the “Crowe” at VE PUES: Rae: Gerine eagananl” ead ey could T wpare time (or ® Clb clothes, ee Ame SMES une inetd ‘atta, GUE eae’ mood WoraRA'H RAG iat ae HoGueT ema Tee me ath muah ee ea : Dat hardly aa Datta ont iateeaa Beles } beving mete with Captain dropp'd into the bowling-sreen below. look at the letter that Anth- Hen cove—'tis @ good world. My will. Confess, now, for his edificas turned sharply toward the landlord, » 3% of the nen on een, Sett » Who is c# “empty with the — Ky this, I had made my way across ony had given me. In the moonlight thanks!” on for he pound on a lo and . 5 anothe urpriae. fn ‘tis tate, wod best talk business at when he trerrupta nes ont tion for he is bound on a long Joi and was met by another surprise ence.” I think, Meester Marvel, as youre te horse to-nite, am, must to Abendon fhe Foor, and fond, Anthony, munk the brown smear of his blood was wont With thls scant gratitude be bid hoy woatward, oneres they tall A — Moone mem shel, bh Jaw hat They moved away toward the seat like to be a story of same moment, | PY IX. I tooke @p youu— A. HK Staion ameamels Wad Uothing ne plain to sec, running across the eu- Pick'1o tne sign of “The Loot" where look avail naught” with womankind pearing forward, and deveuriak Melty under the sycamore, ind now their wii sxond (his fellow back to my lodg- Being put in a great dread by this jer out toward me, groping for my Perscription: the chambermald led me upstairs, and beside a dashing manner,” with his gage. "Twas hard to read hig Words reached me no longeronty the ing: change cf hour, I pelted off toward hand and at the samo time whispering "To our trusty and well beloved Sir took away my clothes to dry by tho — The young gentlewoman laughed, features, but then und there L would Per Murmur of éhelr yo 0, Prosent, ! dismnisned his lackey and strolled the Corn Market as fast as legs could in a thick, choking voice: » Ralph Hopton, at our Army iw Oorn- fire, I determin’d to buy @ horse on shaking her curly have wagered my life he was ao iy ; h Tapped out. and of with ine to the Trinity Grove, (ys ine “Here, Jack, here: pocket tt quick!" oir tne, the morrow, and with my guineas and — "ll give him in that case three bet- other than Luke Settle's comrade, #aw the bully start up, “Hus! ' ae! wh walking up and down, I told 4 tt s fi a ‘Twas a letter, and as my fingers hese 5 _ the King's letter under the pillow, ter counsels yet; first (for by his Black Dick orieg the oth _"and hark yo him att t had heard and seen the The windows of the "Crown" were gioyed on it they met a damp smear, "Twas no more than I look’d for; dronp'ed off to slumber again habit I see he ison the king’s slide ‘The landlord Was for slamming the ‘Re’ at ine Leen Fee derek night Rorors, lana 4 cheerfully lit behind their red blinds, the meaning of which was but too yet the sight of it and the King's red = My powers of sleep must have been «a cireuit from this place door in my face, when the other oer avr A Bue melher ib ‘And fn ow said A ‘ean you te Ime in the passage I met the host of Plain. seal quicken’d my step as I set off 20/8 abroad by the hostess: for next th, for the road between caught bim by the arm and, pulling pacinx ucroas th Ning-ereent, if you have any wuch enemy ax this (lic passage T met the | “Button it—sharp—in thy breast: ; morning at breakfast the dealers and Gariborough and Kristol is, they tell him a little back, Whispered a word je by aide, tho older man trailing haired man, with the limping ‘he ate van Pavenant: now feel for my sword.” again drovers laid down knife and fork to ime, all held by the rebels; next, let or two, I guessed what this meant, a) para aity te , er . My, a Ne na ' ‘Top of the stairs,” says he, ine 1 groped beside him, found the hilt, Having no desirg to fall In with any stare as I entered, him avoid all women, even though but resolved not to draw back; and een sites Rit eateat rey nee ees ae mieemeicies egan; “but dicating the way, “and open the and held it up. F of the royal outposts that lay around For & while I affected to eat undis- th ask but an innocent cup of presently the landlord's voice began OF this foor Anthony, and all you find “think” salt | ‘you had better be 200F ahead of you, if y'are the young ‘So—'tis thine, Jack; and my mare, abingdon, I fetched well away to the turbed, but lost patience at last and and lastly, let him shun thee, again, betwixt surly and polite: a palr, which (1 wage ey passed out of hearing, aud “Hark ye," be lean'd forward and 1 had my fvot on the bottom step, \ ‘ an are Molly, and the leiter to take. Say to Addresh'd a red-headed gazer—— ines’ thy face lie more than th¥ “Have ye too high a Bo — considering what to do, Gentleman Mastor Killigrew spoke of.” Hella-Hark! they are on the stairs, West, meaning to shape my course for ~ “It any of you," J sald, “could sell tongue, Shall say more?” ‘= straw vl mach Ve Ge Bay to"— Faringdon, and @o into the great me @ horse’—— “Why, no—perhaps better not,” re- (To Be Continued) 4 § t | ’ . <a °