The evening world. Newspaper, August 31, 1916, Page 13

Cor meee The Evening World Daily Magazine. Thursday, August 31, 1916 : " Can You Beat It! weleBive. By Maurice Ketten| | SU XT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE SPLENDID SPUR a THE REAL MAN By A. T. QUILLER COUCH By FRANCIS LYNDE A romance of England in 1642, with a tele at aed W the Bast hero whom adventure marked for a series a pe = ya. v7 Seman. Bee — new of thrilling experiences in love 1 gee 73 Fr alee Se BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY'’S EVENING WORLD —_ be views! ? mE Down | | q € ceny Caren ee , we =—_/ An® 1AM Gong FLAN RED " R Fa! ; ‘0 Mane Lore jae mint 2 5 oF JOS aw —- ( PRESERVES 3 fearon tort ter, 1 tom s must rem lady @ me and b Le ~, thinking to save Ub i aint tes le off the @ ©, and be nd Nie won, ale Ard with @ mocking laugh he ( arose / hegltlen tile son Anthony, « headstrong clapped to the areting ta imp fact Ere ad Neots lng Mupbaotors, “atast ‘ihet't 4 bay seen & lg, By. Mt, A. nu CHAPTER XV. it muat bave / | ZAnd hie daughte o Detar 7 Wa st ! Rwy Se AF being (hue properly togled, in cf a fi 4 dead And the wort w= the > Why, to be sure but let us talk om ee ho Way to mend It, for he Eee. WM . . a the barricade between ue { en afl acnmele waa / S/f a 1 4 | wan Yet only hurt my * and the went CHAPTER froven, and perhaps a _-_ ae ihe mus pe on he edge of it Don ~ | Loow at The Cieitit -_——__——- i 4 (hie thie did iiy's beck 1 could We aCramtied Up on # \ a emcape lili, for he pave ine a " (Continwat.) : getered and beeeshiom || | OGM OF See Tuese) fi Line My Tey sharp took, and ther e very quiet | more reach the FER ® comrade and 1 now drow lwuked at the wintry sun, ihe waste, | | MEETS THE Rocks (VERY Worpuy | "lbmetwas orualiy bited ey. hehe tor it but to { Up to consider If we should Bn {Ne ta Lett rine de ee ie Sun |! a men, at ihe oT wn the pill, whieh enter the town oF avoid | | miles out of Munger end of my ‘ to the west, pat Mag TA “fe the atrugato had buret open} ) Ws the ‘tof Docomber tant iting Wt bitte ae all Wai y m a o ° “ ” hie @ ore rush of joy came “ow comewhal wan the re # Ureskéat tn wuma tavern mY wound axaln, and the biood wan | over ine, and I blurted out, deitgited Laat hie threats wore, Maly on the way. Hocuum ve hnew not with nny Magetgh Ahad Mig gM sup thei 2 vere, mr you are wrong! Her enough, mere vagoring, for of amy Gertalnty tho temper of the country, inure amt ten in tie matte! ue, th Bas “ U | father was killed on the night of which chin the late compact between git ee@med vest tw choose Hila rscond od hor sharp to the rlaht | 5 | bay: but Mistreae Delle Killigrew ose ever socened et nctity Gating. an COURS, #9 We fetched around by cor hove, on the hillside, « votce!} | 4 aed, ‘Twas I had the happy fore wiven Up to peace thae thor th rg tain barren meniows and thougut the steeper vides | | tune to help her to escape, and, under % in the morning Ourselves lucky to Nit on a road that, Goda hand, to bring her sa f land had been Verne by the wine, must bo the one we ant here a yoko ly | watt « on in Borore & O04 @ carters VaR Silico shape-a woman, ’ ty }tel Mo, standing before him, Le qave on this vt Standing at the entrance, not three fp we in ny stirrups and ah } hin my and @ history of all my NOIAIT o tolarh 1 pode , Srvara BUnshots from the town walls. Ait) and the sound of b -| | | lil lc if hd ly 4 by on 8 La ne ‘nal revenge urn match aod « sweet “Now Providence hath surely led *'6)ed the plough and, hand pany my the hour nf waw hy he rey ‘ looked da ' ope, ” vee rat in the it t Hungerftor rill a Ww nat in t hitchen when MO-8) drealitant” oid Delia, and giriy cating the chaineron they Keeping ‘hie finger onthe page, ne & UPtived, tor the bn atepped before me into the yard, yoKon newles waned, (A jteard me to id attentively, but aft tee f Pag i any fi * joward t! Wi . Mo to with «a curling of Ge ly the on the be Oy ne i oe Bowe elf up the ter few yards ang era such aa 1 did a Aud ne or twiee, t etabled the 128 wee following her when, mnaide of [)t Us the ter fos ache 1 had done, to he Inet Off up the torenida to & gate to the right of the house, 1 Ly: ‘af the usddie wnt eetoog. uinped sharply oe cammht the gleam of tes aud turned * Y vie le USE A Pound | Cover ny WHAT 'S THE Ibo. nay med something ery righ “” . ory 41 be od A nt daash ; aside to look. ». anne irl wae o half-naked cavage, OF SUGAR To A/ | JEWES WITH USE To WASTE which f Ooeld’ Bape to kas ct and, subbing Unser ane looking. | saw SS my diemay Grove sleod near & jh aiiiy reached her knees, Gad aacent PINT oF Juice PARAFFINE GASOLINE 6 TAL ushamed. Mix Weekw in your company! ® #Feat hole th the hill—-facing the re of chargera in this second court, podicn of the wame, laced tn front IN MY JELLY ANO THEY, . 9 and in boy's babit? Surely southwest and out of this a beam of saddled and dripping with sweat, My with pock tread, that le’ her bosom Do THar CAN enough the pure v happy maid a! men weotne, and brown ams free, Yet she ap. pe dead, Without such vile slander on reeping near on tip-toe, I found eee ven Wed fo run anor Della, peared HO wat abashed, but. leaned AT HOME her fame, and fron you, that were huge block of granite that before but @ quick surprise made me rub oh the plough tall ond regarded me, my eyes with wonder. easy and frank, as a man would, ‘Twas the sight of a sorrel maro i me a borse,” 1 blurted out, amens th -a mare with one high, iw pty guineas will I give for one white stocking. In a thousand I oA haat Ad Nad knowa, wir, to b and on that nix) ers. Boy, © evidence that, taken the base resting on another well-nigh with your confession, would weave 4 big-was now rolled back, having [you # halter, and an a Justice of the been fixed to work smoothly on ao » been at that inn, | seemed bedded, ainong a doaen with her murder. fellow boulders, against the turf— be good! I ride on the King’s er- |Peace. He thankful, then, that Tam PIVot, yet no like nature that no eye. could have told her for Molly. rand, 4 merciful man; yet bo abashy.” but by chance, could detect it. Now, ‘Three seconds after I wax at the “Thon get thee back to thy master Abasht, indeed, I was, or at least WO In the beginning designed this tavern door, and in my ears @ voice #0’ Say, no horas shall he have o' taken aback, me—nor any man that uses horse. sounding (hat stonned me short and Aes ‘80. Bhe pointed to Molly's told me in ono Instant that without knees, that were bowed and shaking, God's help all was lost, and the bloods froth from her mouth. “ ales But Lwaw her no longer; only called Twas The co trente ee etu® “Oh!” Oh!” twieo, like w litte enlla, Poraking in the taproom, and already ang, sipping my hold of the saddle, Jolla stood, pest conovalment, by he drovned forward on her bredot. /pen door. Pie Cock a ee 4, I heard his shout as he caught sight = Waking, T fou d myself in dark- hiding place T leave you to % None Frere Mag AL fd and whether it was the Jews or chesk Like a fool I stood stagnered, Gace worked tie Mine ea ties teat and wondered dimly where U had fur imager tees Cee =. heard that thin voice before. lined with slabe of srentts, Lp eens 4 Ho had risen, and was moving with of ore in ich, I noted, were the dignity to the door—to show me out, pointe of Nght that had once pussies as T guess. When auddenty I, that had me, And here was Joan's bower, ang been staring stupidly, leapt upon him Joan ‘herself Inaide ve is and hurled him back into his chair, She was sitting with her back to A a a tert, cSONDE La ae a Sig analy the kt thence ae eee ber, left “hand “nolding up. Q u . G om where ie '# hav Su f : t out after him. For a momen esl this hardiy seemed a thing to be the trouble that was on my mind. I Oh, bloody work this day!" found the long street lined with booths oheerless day—before the bi! ke \ i” wre ‘ form tated. Stas ae rir Gets erika. becwrereeh Vitae Been OF peat ne | ogee iain aay eed And I ewooned again, hey shows, and nigh blocked with and let me bave alent’ oF a eee: spele tn hist een Mle aattmeheaeatt tres eocblecs ehh come ree we Ce, a ni’ pout. sently 3 y nd yr : 1. “Jack—thoy have horses outalde! roused by the touch’ ef shee fonts men tat Cacnapnent Bier trai tho crowd, for the revel began early Nor, till the noise of the surf was in What did you in Oxford last Novem- maneo—that already she had roughly ‘Leave mel am takea—and ride, dear thrust in agalast my naked: breast, Ruthven, with the Vanguard oe voneiss CHAPTER X11. “Now ny own Gratiisiness was ici came iid mark fths house fDi? AM how of Capt. Liclis Higgs, braided. "A Dall of water mond. be. 4 lad—ride!” over my heart, Was now at Liskeard, With but # bare HERE had, indeed, been With @ tailor, for the clothes wore was bound for) “tl” OF the house T otherwise Capt. Luke Settle, other: aide her, and around lay acnttered e Ip & flash my decision was taken, — “Who ta it?” 1 whispered day's march between the two, and aww Be etn DOO Seah taeda lntotearperiin aoras me NH 4 He ot NN Mi Xt Speak, before I serve you score or more of long thorns, eut {> ‘for better or worse, I dashed out “Joan,” answered a voice, and the Bone but L to curey the warnits. Down Tek On mddock Gack, hid been a0 wadly Momed With, RrAnite: perched ee Ue eet ty Of aN tho dog was served that night!” the ‘shape of batrpins. around the house, vaulted the gate, hand was withdrawn, And "Ob, Joaut” L cried, “my com- Down that nineteenth of nd afterward cut, to free them & narrow neck of land, where eve that opmartrac’ ites Tie Probable that after a minute's and catching at Molly's mane, leapt — "Jonn o the ‘Tor folks call me, but Pde! left upon the road. Brighter January, For Sir Ralph from my wound, that now all the Wind mfght sweep it-and the waves eel eccrine on watching T let some laughter eacape ritical knave at these word mine. To see his pale, venoval turn green and livid, his ey peg By peares Jad, an’ ery out #0 cavete fend ay) featt ree ae Hopton with the Cornish tunic I wore was of suck-cloth, con- beat on three sides the cliff below. A t-sleove Fubelw’ bands. Alas! that I could grandes had made short business of {Ved and stitghed together by Joan, thin Ine of smoke blown level from into the sad A dosen troopers were at the i me, At any rate Joan turned, spied 2, aad two had their pistols levellod. I fol me, and scrambled 9 with an angry a ripping of my ja i eh So le ut once for a decent shop, one chimney was ail the sign of life 4 red on her cheek. n I saw ¢t T set my teeth and put Molly at the and shirt, now clotted and stuck to Butnee eave: nor help, but Must stil Ruthven's army—driving it headlong wher, iy, 1 teuné & anit to Mh im the bundle tos toe nenee Hehte ine} ‘pease clutch at air—it her bodice waa neater laced than us. * Jow wall. As she rose Mke @ bird in the Mosh. It pained cruelly, but 1 atruck aes within tae tales of wap back to Liskeard at the first charge, me, one taken (the tailor said) off a of the upper story were almost shut- “Hrandy!" he gasped wendy! ual, and a bow of yellow ribbon alr the two pistols rang out together, shut my teeth, and after that came goal—t, that have travanen - Chasing it through that town, and Very promising young gentleman that tered, and the lower floor was hid there—quick—for God's xa (fahed up heaven knows whence) burni Seemed to tear tho smart and delicious acho of water 5 ave two hun from'me by: high wall tnclosi roa lor sake stuck in the bonos t =f AIR Pain Neen Ne SOR SEA Pines: Abd Halicions A dred. And if the Cornishmen be not taking 1,200 prisonors (including Sir Erna erro ne te re ele on COUFHIRO 13 frente Cee af nCaInE A “And the next moment Ne had slirped eat thing wan to note the affect ne Mare alighted eafo on the other | Sho Dandayed the sure with linen Suined to kive faht before Lord shilaton Calmady), toxether with PTs Myscit aguin and offered to take With boughe tortured and bent to, fol MY grasp, and was wallowing In {ity hew tidineas upon her,. for sh: Stamford come up, all's lost, Even 7 8 fit on the T ran to the cup- filuging me forward on her nock, torn from my shirt and tled it round » many colors, all the rebel ordnance Joan to see the Fat Woma wards the matniand, stood by the took a step forward as if to cuff me ys Ne ow they be outnumbered, So litt 4 jor POwrd at which he had pointed, and, ‘then y ms jordgy Fe Piles pled PRUE ReR cay Bern Cn Ree. cies Joun, and set me astride Molly, &hd ammunition, and most of thelr We saw her, and the Acthiop, and Gor, alno locked, “wan let tate ine finding there a bottle of atronk waters Be Po rolls, stopped, ver: dug my hecls into her flanks. * 1 found her arms under mo and my- 49d F'l win to Bodmin yet, arms, irmatienoceros (which put mo in gute, and in this again & shuttered fFced some drops between hia teeth; “Why, Joan,” sald I, “don't be self lifted as easy as a baby Reckon, Jack, thou’d best hand Delirious of a high fever that fol. Mind of poor Anthony Killigrew), and fate grating, Hard by dangled a And hard work it was, he gnashing at angered, “It nults you’ eboreohy=" if @ minute more and I was on ee a you lcely’ ; gee me thy letier” : ah the Pig-faced Baby, and the Cudgel- i me all the time and foaming at the erate bakit vires cater Del wher nse Bright hilisite, not NOW, 1'did not at once catch the in- OWSd mY wound, not tM throe good play ‘und presently halted before a gturdiiy, PY St which T turned iioth eth coming T doubt." She stool dear Twenty miles and more lay fifty “paces from where. tho plow (eit of these "words, so” eimpiy Weeks after was T recovered enough Cheap-Tuck that war crying his On thie a cracked bell sounded, far vently he ceased to writhe and ooking heavily askance at m Me ee cats fare hens Yards Yet stood in the furrow. Down the t ekired at her like an owl, to leave my bed, nor, for many more, Wares In w prodigious Voice near the in the house. and ae fae ee at 1. litting, Caat himia Bla chair, ““On my faith, no; and what © tes horse in stall, lad" sho did my full strength return to me, town wall. xound of footsteps shuffling ncrous 6 ere limp bundl, "thouga no Grey Robins No scther could have wreape ten- Outside the throng was 4 carriage, the court within, The shutter of the Staring and blinking, Bo T wat down name, and straw- stopped for a minute, and a servant grating was slipped back, and a voice, cing him, and waited his recovery, before wes start. . AM she carried me, picking the soft. ‘adlecad d est turf and moving with an easeful | 0 swing that rather lulled my hurt Tearaway's th tiring bower the Jew's Kitehe . “ rh n, art certainly a handsoi CHAPTER XI. than jolted It. berry the color, derer nurse than was Joan through- at'the horses’ heads. By the look of cracked aa the bell, soked tie Wore ena ee yg ZUNE, tira’ he began at sini give mea kine!" “ ND I did tndeed aba: ity this time we had como down to But, Joan, Joan, if you do this out this time. © It, ‘twas the coach of some person nexs, length feebly, his fingera searching lastead of flying out, as I looked for now in MPAR- the road. We crossed, descended un- {el inside my coat here, to the left— In the first days of my recovery of quality, and, glancing at it, Laaw "To see Master Hannibal Ting the ible before from force of ane faced round, and amewered me don myself to despair. Few other slopo and camo all at once on YOU Will save an army, girl, maybe @ inside an old gentleman with a grave, comb," anawered I. habit. “Kind young ‘an old, B. , would have given a groat a low pile of bullilings that a moment throne Here ‘tis, Joun, see—no, not News came to us (I forget how) that Yunuean Old Kentleman with # grave, com. anawere Tae and my. sine Rave found STNS S's win acts got t6 any but ay for my life with chat crew before had been hid. "Twas but threo there! Say the seal is that of a solemn sacrament had bees taken ment, it flashed on me I had seen _ “He shall hear it in time. fay that Me out. Only yesterday the pzeician iu y master.” “And who is that? “No man yet; nor shall he til! he has beat ine sore; him will T love, an’ 1 Delian be alive (as follow Ike a dog—it so be be whack T did not think), T will make me often enow’.” somewhere, and cud- £ come on business concerning the #t Bodmin told me that m Thin Is the ole it between the parties in Devon and him. befor > at my heels; and I least of shape of a hoadless cross, the from me for a while; but the : . ; wits to think Where 1c had eatate.® ‘all néw that my dear comrade was arnt polnting ont toward the moor, WFiing will be Known for the King’s; Cornwall, a ee SONU WAG RP Ten’ RUE h ROC EE Intron dane | aiie Vales tiuiered something, and \ Wate The wound la my shoulder was Around the wholo ran & battered wall Ai" Aa Hand but yours must touch It Pouce, Little I cared, at the Uma aiilrad wig” pemmns an JONEeT ee a olotene Went Cae ene and une Lill you stand before Bir Ralph Hop- but was content —- now sp : Klekir heels there fort ) Weeding soreI could feel tho warm PACHA wih Tae oor and flung tm The King shall thank ver, Jouo, Levys now Spring waa went on down the street with Joan, Kicking my heels there for twenty novels of mud, Luck together in the Ue Governor of Bristol, whe matt “It Mistr ome-— rr ty ‘4 you Minutes or more when they returned, {6 : i and God will bless you for tt" come-—to loiter about the tors, and, By the way," said I, “did you ¢ restitution—-I will confeas—onl; 11 “A strange way to love,” laughed 1 Sa heest, Oné 1 precced a4 Ie wile nae bi Gh 4844 be She hid the letter in her bosom, While watching Joan at hor work, to mark carriage just outside ue Sella tee. alee at ee hg ALY me what to do, that I may Ai She looked at me straight, alpetr: ford 2 adereg Kitchen-—tbo furniture but two rick: 4d stepped to the door, On the think upon Della. Kor, aloeit I had crowd, by the Choip-Jack's booth stiffly back. peace.” with an odd, gloomy ight In hor eyes ; tate the saddle-flap and Wondered eee ye ee es ices Mhreshold who thened: Ustle hope to see her again, my late. Witt A white-halred wentioman seats Phot Te ae fellow Indeed, he looked pitiable, attting “Think so, Jack? Then I give thes what the end would be. sunk Into tho earth, a keg of strong ,. “J4ck=-forgot to ax--what be all 4 . nae 1 extraordinarily old and bent, with a there and stamimering, but I hardened leave to try. ? this bloodshed about? Pretty comrade held my thoughts the — Joun nodded. “Master Hannibal aoe taney can Bad Bent, with & my heart to say! I think there is always a brutality ‘The sorrel mare was galloping, free waters, a ladder leading up to # loft, ¢ ‘ day long. I shared them with nos ‘Tingcomb, steward o° Cleve,” wizened face, one eye only, and a ™Y, ality, aadstrong, her delicate ears’ fala and In two of the corners & few DUD> itn: game knowlecee beet both DOsY, fF though ‘tie probate Tired TIGRE, ateward o' Gey chin that almost touched his owe, “T have 8 conteasion, then, Wurking Jp a man to leap out UE Sad the actwork of velua under dies of bracken atrown for bedding. | _Iit'mi same knowledyy ha’ f deariy !*t some words full in my dolirium, — T jumped into my saddle, and with He wore a dirty suit of Mvery that » tare tee tine Gane oon that have never found on: ™ ott skin working with the heave inline stepped scrogs she Kitchen and ive fie digas Joan pever hinted wt this, and I 4 pull at the bridle brought Molly to oe hed been canary yellow, and wn nis shrunken chtaee Rite Ttakt hand on hor shoulder, and tn \ [ Thi Behe tor okex and gave | She was gone. In @ minute or so Never found out & standatill, ar AE SR DALEK , 1 ch wly 4 mom had me and e i ld then and then, with a. scurry of hoote K the sheep or waiting on her gir Deakin Killigrew that was?” young man,” he speaked, nodding his. L2OHEN to Om nik Pod 2 Rerup he beard Ct agian “ ah + ake 8 Sher ete Joan Wee Ge On the ielkoe ond bo ahe ploughed or tying tult ie eth Right, iad, exdept the Inst word. i Mad ai ; psd Buled Sue Tay Blatal: ana e¢ the ene Sag tt ee dreamed, to fina i tho: pul e bad y ue and rid fray he hillside alking With ber Phat is,’ should’st rathe . © led the way into a stone cor. Mr 4 ‘ . obtained Been i Rhy: agai ¢ ety must have fallen short; at least ease the pain of yas she de® Ub a Peete Ms vehi ; coca ee but Ofwar aud batt hat In ae ul rat ra ber ay, he's ridor, Tater him. Along this he hur. @ vhs ond “ * hour @ very pretty hae o she BAarly overmasg od me Tiksard none whis past. Hut the a chair and wat beside ine. Presently | title reat had I High noon’ The ONS evenbrg—"twas early in May-= go qian youre » wou’ muttering all’ the way, and Confession of hin wing, wiich Lies Dut at length by stubborn play wore Tels’ shouting was clear ewugh faintness mastered me, und my ey 1 door stood open, and outside on the We bad climbed to the top of the Ww 8 this House of Gleys, for halted before a door at the end {RON My papers to th When Per out. Her breath caine short and thud of their gallop. be- closed, But the picture they closed ‘ < iD tray ths Pe oy ! les Witueut iene a open “848 written and signed, in a weak, fast, then fainter: and in the end, gallop Wall the winter sunshine wee tying. & Above Tempie, whence We morrow I twat tile there? Vithout knocking he pushed tt open ; A PPon Me Maia henge with the gow very bright and clear’ “°2 ‘Y138 coula spy the white wai of the two "Ts easy to find out, for tt stands 4nd, motioning me to enter, hastened PMI ha Mt Unrough, still boldiag her of. & turned her by had yet no clear idea how to forward, chin im hand, with the glow es! clear, Channels moving uid, stretched upon Llp Made pias gated ck as he bad come. folded tt, plac y coat and the shoulders, and let her drop quiet- on her brown skin and tn T crawled to my feet, rested a mo- my leav . In front the moors rose grad- of the fi the short turf there, 1 was telling iny iy on the turf. No thought had | 0. 1 idineas, p roitefive mile from any- “Cor rald @ voice that seemed Ned out der to th vt ft het ly, swelling tc the boriaon line, and the depths of b dark eyes. ment to stay the giddiness, and tot usual tale, Joan lay beside me, her a seg te Flas ep 1a ry sled out an orde o the a on) ol jssing her, but stood there broken into steep, jagged —e tered wcro: door, where I chin propped on one eurth-stained nl vixteen from Temple, due f naan, Og et iN © my mare and back, heartily sick and ashamed of a der me was 1. jown in ie 4 a af eyed t J . praying an heseeching niyvaelf, heights, The road under 1 a CHAPTER XII leant, lis\ ‘ar d in the hand, her great solemn eyes wide hinhe dee ine inet was: ati praying and} ni If, sound, white granite and strotch ae wouth, th HW @ sound that set open'as who listened TH] that phy high day, In the room where now I me in the courtyard till the last mo- Mor a while she lay, turned over an , @way till lost ong these fastnesses UT the pain of my hurt fol- my heart leaping: ment T bud regarded her rather ae & CHAPTER XIV. mand yale: Was every appearance ment ‘or when I was mounted her side, with hands suarding her in all of it, no sign of man’s habl- lowed Into my dreams, [T ‘Twas the crackling of musketry. man-comrade thin @ girl, but now x uf ot DY cRe emubnars wae, Sates would anything serve but he must head, as if expecting me to strike her, woke with @ start and tried There was Ho mistaking if i he some feminine trick of gesture awoke PRY oarlyencext morning I ms tan Pg aetcaee er heen pile ‘ at He me yy Bing eae Then gathering her up, she came and mile. ile, w seed nolse ran lke wi re along the hills, . 0 » fanc ra awoke, he - he - But when had briefly taken leave, put her hand in mine, ve r ene Sr pae re oft must to sit up, before echo could overtake it a low We Perbabs, for my fancy begun BW KS. 7 (rable gentleman whom I had ween and the heavy door had croaked be: “Hud liked. tt better Badan t HY ~ Er stres-duarere of oa Eas Within the kitchen all rumbling followed, and then’ tho germany her with Delias and 1 broke Art carly abroad,” Joan in the coach, now. wearing @ plain hind me. [heard @ voice Galina after stamped the life out of me, almost. Nt cl t etirred; brisker ching again. 1 caught “sey wore, Gnd sighed, sald, as wo sat toge sult of pluck ‘and reading in # great ine down the trond: ; ue » almout, work. Glancing back, I saw tho way quiet, Tho girl had not stirred; « ht “Art longing to be hence? she ht ; But there, lad~-am thine forever! pera scattered: fare behind, but Sie Tue oe eee window note, &¢ (ue doorpost and cried, faint with asia over the breakfast Gok tHay (ay onaa Mole De ited ng Peer YoUNK sir! Deay friend! 1 "Twas like @ bultet te the fees for lowing, Ths heights were stil a Put looking to yaeety iat Sudden Joy: 1 felt ashamed to bo thus caught, — "Ye#, for T must ride to Gloyw thin flernad it fo be the Bible, but noted had forgotten somewhat, me. "What!" I cried. Weary way ahead, but I could mark I saw night outside and a frosty star ou angel, Joan!—thou angel!" and was allent “a rae neo mbades about 1 found th te tan Nhe looked up in my face—dear their stoop aldes ribbed with boulders. sparkling far down In tho west. Voing both weak and loth to mise “"wyhye $M would mot have Morning: them, ao disposed a@ to throw the te dren shutter slipped Heaven, that L should have to wets TiN these were parsed there w “Joan, What's the hour?" @ Round of it, f Kank down on tho mo dwell here always?” Bromising to be beok by nightfall, Vesk, Hel Be She. perm: But en. the “i : it!=-with eyes brimful, sick with love: CEace to hide, The parties In “Sun's been down these four hours” (yoni and there, lay. with iny “She inade no newer for a while, J went presimtly to saddle Bolly, wid, “uty old gentioman, having bid “Hyon youre flere oe tears tt. tried to" apeak but Could oMly nod, Tace could see each other all the "Sun's been down iheae four hor $yeu turned southward through 4 gab qnd then with a chunge of tone’ following Joan's direction# and her me enter, went on reading for eee Paper ta wer tie ae, Hee: fOr and broke Into @ wild ft of tears, Maan tee Cae the Foun kept Le sib teflon lying here.” musketry died away, and I wondered, g halt vider, me to Hodmin Fair warnings against quags and pitfalls, ax though wholly upaware of” tn advices, the army of our thowt 1 Wits sanding there with her Nad, Filla, “i bed no sane to sese’ ihe "Ghowe to come, lad; nono axed but ought T could sth at times Great Turk und the Fat ‘Goman and Wat soon riding wth cry Which € found somewhat nettling, detian ratiament, more than shy "hoary when T heen tte Slee ‘en by pulling off my heavy: “ mark & low sound as of men shout. hooup. , moor and well on my road to " REPORM ONG OF FOR SE) 8 otes of a bugle blown, , Sack boot with one urm (ond that Hak Agi ay Must set me {ie and fais, ge ¢ learned after, was ae ee about nine in the House of Gieys plete $0 Master Hane allenatt cana, teas eee toh At HM ORY, 08a right) dangling useless. Once she a the true battle, morning, we sot’ off Jou pH Ee kin K oe ne Y Naseer the antlers Lge Looking that way T saw a RRL bat weadtond Leeusst Rent accone ner books oot and iet me ride ito there I lay helpless, til, at strawberry” balanced cautyoncn hg MY way loading me by Hoeeaeet ete Mcoken Up. "Tes, young air, ther ental, the, nocthenst, Tanya ee se as Suminn’ donc tea r nostrils, red as fi 4 on. Bightfull, there came the trampling sack, which was all her saddle, and | DWN, [turned aside for a while to Pid Part HESS A ep eA leas Limit ahi ig ate try Noe ot cp Maree in stable, wit fetlocks of a horse and In rusicd Joan, her on Molly, that now was ecard gain examine the ground of the late fight hes ning Like contes to thelr burrows, and thei? arms and & green standards that, swelled like puddens, Chose to come, eyes Iit up, her breast heaving, and and chagng to be wo lle though by now little was to be seen The late” cried I; “then you litle chuuco WIL thou have to seek they bore in their midst, ny lads an’ choose or no, must bid {n her hand a naked sword Rodwin town aught but a nar- but @ plece of cartiwork left unfin- know'-— Delta Killigrew, much less to find her, Joan spied them the same instant, Lids t th en » "Ch © w » hed a le le ” ft | + ( ed OF no, must win there this night.” clang on to the table, “Church and fles mainly along the south vide of ¢ mounda whore the dead were laid); 2°84: Bre He. opened ‘Kia then WIN Is in Moveietde aneet seapth on ‘dhe tur? ts Caen And thereupon I broke out with all King! Ob, brave day's work, jad— etcep vale, and this May morning we and oo ‘twas high hoou~and a duu, if in wonder, but be sure T shall advise none,” ba) Be Continued) 4 © ‘ \ >