The
Doom
Trail
— By —
Arthur D. Bowden Smith
| Author of FOR TO BELLO COLD. Etc.
l® by BrenUno’*.) WNU B.rrloe
THE STORY
CHAPTER I.—Harry Ormerod. pro
scribed traitor to King George as a
Stuart partisan, returning from France
to London, rescues Alderman Robert
Juggins from a band of assassins. Jug
gins proves to be the grandson of a
former steward of Ormerod's father, to
whom Juggins feels himself indebted.
Ormerod tells Juggins he has aban
doned the Stuart cause.
CHAPTER II—Juggins tells Or
merod of a Jacobite plot In the Ameri
can colonies to weaken England by
forwarding French interests Theii
aim Is the return of King James to the
English throne. At its head is on*
Andrew Murray, a Scotsman, and <i
Frenchman. De Veuile, deadly enemy
of Ormerod The two are in London
furthering their schemes. Ormerod
sees them. Anticipating the plotters’
early return to America, Juggins ar
range* for Ormerod to go there with
letters to Governor Burnet, friend of
Juggins, and wrork to foil Murray.
CHAPTER III.—Disguised as Jug
gins’ servant, Ormerod takes passage
to America. He meets a Scottish girl
daughter of Murray, and ardent Jac
obite. De Veuile recognizes him. and
their enmity flames. The Frenchman
denounces Ormerod to the girl as a
traitor to the Stuart cause. Believing
him, she repulses Orrherod’s proffer oi
friendship. He is thrown into the sea
by an unseen assailant.
Murray’s daughter! I rebelled
against the Idea. It could not be It
ought not to be. What right had he
to a daughter—and such a-maid a*
this? ’Twas absurd! Manifestly oh
surd!
Why. I must hate the man. I had
no other recourse. And he had a
daughter! And above all. this daugh
ter!
When I came on deck the next morn
fng we were driving down-channel be
fore a smart northwest wind. Mur
ray stood by the weather rail with
the negro, who I learned afterward
was called Tom, at his elbow. As 1
emerged from the companion way Tom
leaned forward and whispered some
thing to his master. Murray walked
straight across the deck to my side, his
eyes fastened upon my face.
“How, now. Master Juggins,” he
said heartily, his hand outstretched
“and did yon leave your good uncle—
or Is It cousin?—well?”
I perceived that he took me for th*
lout I was dressed to represent, and
Rtrove to play up to the disguise.
“Well enough, sir,” I answered sul
lenly. shifting clownishly from fool
to foot
" 'Tis good !” he exclaimed. "Faith
I am vastly relieved. I have a warm
regard for honest Robert Juggins. He
has spoken of me, perhaps?"
The question, designed to catch my
simple mentality unawares, gave me
considerable amusement.
“Oh, aye,” I muttered
“We have been rivals In our ven
tures, as you doubtless know,” con
tinued Murray.
"Hut he doesn't take It seriously,
sir,” I assured him gravely.
"Eh? What’s that?”
“He laughs about It, sir.”
And I giggled at him stupidly. After
a moment's Inspection of my counte
nance he seemed constrained to ac
cept the remark as witless Innocence,
for a grim light of humor appeared Id
his eyes.
"Laughs, does he? Zooks, I might
have known It. He Is a merry soul,
Robert Juggins, and I should like to
see him footing a morris to a right
merry tune. Mayhap we shall see it
some day. Who knows?”
"Who knows, sir?” I repeated va
cantly.
"And you are to cast your fortunes
In America, lad? You may count upon
my good offices in New York. Faith,
I shall be glad to do a favor If I can,
for Robert Juggins’ nephew—or did
you say cousin?"
“I am—”
But he saved me from the lie.
“AJi. here Is come one of our fel
low passengers," he Interrupted.
I turned to see De Vsulle approach
lng us.
“T,« » French gentleman,” pursue
Sturm.' hcnt upon winning my conf1
rlcnic with Ills easy manners and gll’
f on cue. "on his wav to Cnnada. Hi
chevalier, meet a voung eountryma;
of mine. Master Juggins—the Chevs
Her de Veulle.”
All unusupeetlng. Pe Veulle mad'
ine a slight how. u look of IndlfTeren
disdain on his face at sight of my pie
helan figure. The disguise was good
and I hoped I might cozen him for i
time at least. But no man forger
another who hns toyed with his life
and his Indifference was dissipated the
Instant his eye met mine.
"Juggins?” he exclaimed In hewll
derment. “Parbleo I TIs Harry Or
mernd, the Jacobite refugee I”
Murray snapped hls fingers to Tom
the negro, who had been a silent wit
ness to our conversation. In an In
stnnt he stood beside us.
“Is this the man who came wltl
Master Juggins to the hearing hefor*
the lords of trade?” snapped Murray
"He de man. massa.”
“You are sure?”
"Yes. massa.”
“Tom doesn't make mistakes,” re
marked Murray with a gesture of db
missal to the negro. "May I ask whi
you are. sir?” he addressed me.
“I suppose you may,” I replied
coolly; and with a sense of relief I
ripped the bobbed scratch-wig off mi
head and tossed It Into the sea. “Doe
that help you at all?” I Inquired of
De Veulle.
He stared hack at me, hls face all
drawn with hatred.
“I knew you with It on.” he said sav
agely. “It became you. Why should j
a deserter wear the clothes of a gen
Neman?”
I laughed at him. but Murray Inter
vened quickly.
"What do you mean?" he demanded
De Veulle made a gesture In my di
reotlon.
"This person, who was In the Imme
dlate entourage of the Pretender
abandoned hls leader not long ago and
fled to England to seek a pardon, re
pudlaled and detested by all honor
able men In Paris But In Englan-’
hls protestations of loyalty were re
fuspd. for they naturally doubted the
sincerity of one who wearied so soon
of an unfortunnte cause."
"Is this true?” Murray asked me.
“Within reason,” I said.
Murray stared from one to the other
of us. "Slap me. hut I rejoice to see
(hat we may look forward to an enter
ninlng voyage!" he exclaimed. “I hail
feared 'twould he most tedious. Are
you seeklne satisfaction from the gen
Neman, chevalier?”
“I shall fight him when I choose, on
ground of my own choosing," replied
De Veulle curtly,
“And by no means with small
'•words," I Jeered.
He gave me a black look.
“You will pray me to kill you If you
ever fall Into my power, Ormerod. I
can wait until then.”
“Aa you please."
He turned and left ua. Murray t«,nk
'-nuff very deliberately, flrat offering
the box to me—which he had not done
before—and scrutinized me politely
from head to foot.
“I fear I have been patronizing In
my conduct, sir," he observed. “Pray
accept my apologies. 'Twas a perfect
disguise. And your manner, if I may
say so, was well conceived.”
“I thank you.”
“In short. I find you an opponent of
totally different Importance. You are
an opponent?” he shot at me.
“Sure, sir. that Is for you to say,”
I made answer. "So far as I know at
this time we merely happen to he pas
sengers together on this craft”
He laughed.
“1 might have known It I” he ex
claimed. “’Twas not like Jngglns to
rend a bumpkin to Burnet He hath
been an enemy I might not scorn at
any moment But I must go below
now. I have some papers to attend to.
And I shall also attempt to Induce the
Chevalier de Veulle to preserve the
amenities of life whilst we are re
stricted to such confined quarters."
“He shall not have to labor against
my hostility," I promised as he de
parted.
Despite myself, I was taken with
the man. Hls unmistakable breeding,
hls ready wit, the assurance of power
and self-sufficiency which radiated
from him and explained, as I thought,
hls readiness to admit himself in the
wrong, all these Joined to Inspire re
spect for hls pacts. If not admiration
for hls character.
During the rest of that day I made
myself at home about the ship, talking
with the seamen and their officers and
watching vainly for the lady of the
green cloak who had awakened me
with her song. But she kept her cabin
until the second afternoon, when we
were sailing easily with a fair wind
abeam. I found her then as I re
turned from a walk forward, stand
Ing with her hand on the poop-railing
to steady her.
“I have met your father,” I said,
coming to her side, “and I make no
doubt he would present me were he
here, so—"
“Sir,” she said stiffly, “I have no de
sire for your company.”
I stared at her, mouth agape.
“If I have offended—” I began.
“I may as well tell you," she Inter
rupted me again. “I have heard that
about you which will make me have
no Inclination for your company."
“And 1 shall ask you to tell me what
that Is,” I retorted with mounting In
dlgnatlon. “It Is not fair that you
should accept the slura of an enemy
behind my back.”
She hesitated.
“That may be so," she admitted,
“but you will be willing to answer me
two questions?”
“Surely.”
“You are Captain Ormerod, former
ly chamberlain to King James III?”
"Yes."
“And you not long ago abandoned
, the king's service and fraltleaSfy
sought a pardon In London?”
‘‘Yes."
"That Is enough for me. Yon are
a traitor, a deserter, proven out of
your own mouth.”
“Hut—”
"No. sir; there Is naught you can
say would Interest me. 1 should de
spise you none the less had you de
serted In the same circumstances to
my own side. It makes It no less oul
puble that you deserted from my side
because our fortunes were at low ebb." |
"Hut yon shall hear me,” I protested ■
"This Is absurd, what you say. You |
hnve taken two bare statements of i
fact and twisted Into them the ini I
plications skillfully made by a per
sonal enemy. You—"
“Last night, sir." she said cuttingly |
withdrawing the folds of her clonk
so that they might not touch me. “you
played upon my sympathies with your
tale of exile and a brother burled In
the flan Donald country, and I was
all for sympathy with joo nnd sorrow
for your sorrow. You ns much ns told
me you were one of the flood People, j
You let me deceive myself, after you ;
had deceived me first. Oh, you will
hnve acted unspeakably!"
"What I told you was true! I wns
out In the TO; I tied to Scotland with |
my brother; he died and was burled
there; T escaoed with the remnants
of the expedition: I am an exile at
this moment."
"An exile! Phaugh! Tldnk on the
honest men can truly say that In their
misfortune this day! And you—1
could weep for the shame that your
dead brother and the mother that bore
you will be feeling ns they look down
upon you!”
With that she was gone, and 1 was
left cursing De Veulle. whose treach
erous tongue had planted the distorted
shreds of truth In her mind; cursing
Murray, who must have stood by and
listened to It all. smugly amused;
cursing my cousin who had put me In
such a plight, after winning my Inher- j
ltance; cursing the men and women at I
St. Oermaln who repaid years of sac
rifice and ungrudging l<y-nlty with
such canards; cursing Juggins for hav
ing embarked me upon the sMp with
the girl; cursing myself for getting i
Into such a fulse position ; cursing the
girl —
Hut no. Common sense came to my
rescue then. There wns something un
accountably fine nbout her attitude,
something I should never have thought
to uncover In Murray’s daughter, how
ever beautiful und attractive she
might he. There was devotion for you,
faithfulness to a lost cause, the single
minded truthfulness which only a good
woman can possess.
The twilight faded rapdlly, and I
found myself with no appetite for the
crowded main cabin, where De Veulle
and Murray played piquet, or my stuffy
berth. I strolled the deck, Immersed
In thought. I conned over what Jug
gins had told me. memorized anew
many of the messages he had Intrusted
to me, speculated upon the possible .
turn of nffalrs. I planned In some
vague way to win a fortune in that un
known new world ahead of me, and
with the proceeds In one hand and a
pardon In the other, return and re
claim ^oxcroft from those abominable
Hampshire conslns.
With chin cupped In hand I leaned
npon the starboard rail In the black
well of shadow which was formed by
the overhang of the forecastle, and
the towering piles of canvas that
clothed the foremast. Somewhere be
yond the wastes of watery darkness
that veiled my eyes lay Kngland, the
home which had disowned me. I—
Without uny warning a huge arm
was twisted around my Rhoulders and
a hand so huge that my teeth could
make no Impression In It was clamped
down over my mouth. Another arm
encircled my waist. My arms were
pinned to my sides. My legs kicked
feebly at a muscular body which
pressed mo against the bulwark. Fight
ing hack with all my strength, I was
nevertheless lifted gradually from the
deck and shoved slowly across the flat
level of the fife-rail.
Do what I might, I could not resist
the pressure of those tremendous
arms, which seemed to have a reach
and a power twice those of my own.
I gasped for breath as they squeezed
my lungs—and In gasping I sensed a
queer taint In the air, a musky odor
which I did not at once associate with
the seamen or anyone else on board
the ship.
It was no use. I could not resist.
The snakelike arms mastered me. fine
shifted swiftly to a grip on my legs. I
was whirled into the air and dropped
dear of the railing—falling, falling.
Until the cold wataag aognlfed me.
(Continued Next Week.)
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