juSy - jv BY GEORGE- I1ARR MCUICHEON Copyright. 1906, by Dodd, CHAPTER 111. In Which Dog Trespasses. ENELOl'E was a perverse mid calculating young person. She was her own mistress anil P privileged to ride as ofteu as sbe pleased, but it seemed rather odd although splendidly decorous that she did not venture upon Mr. Shaw's es tate for more than a week after her first encounter with the feudal baron If she found a peculiarly feminine sat isfaction In speculating ou his disap pointment, it is not to be wondored at. Womanly iusight told her that Ran dolph Shaw rode forth each day and watched with hawklike vigilance for the promised trespasser. In her imag ination she could almost hear him curse the luck that was helping her to evade the patrol. ' One morning after a rain sbe rode with the duke to the spot where Shaw had drawn his line in the road. She felt a thrill of something she could not define on discovering that the wet soil on the opposite side of the line was disfigured by a mass of fresh hoof prints. She rejoiced to find that his vigil was incessant and worthy of the respect it imposed. The desire to visit the haunted house was growing more and more irresistible, but she turned it aside with all the relentless per verseness of a woman who feels it worth while to procrastluate. Truth to tell. Randolph Shaw was go ing hollow eyed and faint in his ceaseless, racking watch for trespass ers. Penelope laughed aloud as she gazed upon the tangle of hoof prints. The duke looked as surprised as it was possible for him to look after the wear i of the past night. "Hang it all. Penelope," he said. "1' didn't say anything, don't you know." '1 was just thinking," she said hasti ly', "what fun it would be for us to ex plore the haunted house." "Oh, I say, Pen, that's going out ot the way for a little fun, isn't It? My word, it's n filthy old house with rats and mice and all that no place for a ghost, much less a nice little human being like you. They're all like that." "I think you are afraid to go," said she. "Afraid of ghosts? Pshaw!" sniffed the dukot.stlcking,.ouJ: his. chest "Yes, Shaw; that's "whom you're afraid of." "Now, see here, Pen, you shouldn't say that. Shaw's a d , a cad. See what Cecil did to him. Remember that? Well, pooh! What would I do to him?" Penelope looked him over critically. "I'll admit that you're larger and younger than Cecil." she confessed grudgingly. "But they say Mr. Shaw is a giant killer." The duke dropped his monocle and guffawed loudly. "Good!" he cried in the ecstasy of pride. His worn, dissipated face light ed up with unwonted Interest "I say. Pen, that's the nicest thing you've said to me in a week. You've been so deuced cold of late. I don't under stand. I'm not such a bad lot, you know." Tell that to Mrs. De Peyton and Mrs. Corwith. They're looklug for the good in everything." "By Jove, I believe you're Jealous! This is the proudest moment of my life." "Don't be silly! And don't try to make love to me any more. Wait un til I'm married." she added, with a laugh, the Irony of which escaped him. "But, hang it all. suppose you should marry some one else aud not me?" "That's what I mean." "Oh." lie said, perplexed Then, as If his stupidity cnlled for on explana tion: "I had n beastly night. Didn't go to bed till 4. Rut. I say. why can't I have the same nrlvileco as these othei chaps? Corwith makes love to you aud so does Odwell. and. hnmr lr. ! they're both married. It's rotteu mean of- "Thelr wives are accountable for their manners, not I. But. come; will you go to Renwood's with me? I'd rather talk to you in tat nice little corner of the billiard loom ,! eonieo to narrow wun natreu. Hazei hotne if you" I uurst had told the men privately that "But I don't need a bran.lv and soda.' sh( wn Pnssi"K ""copies nights In or Oh!" This exclamation came with the' dor t0 ",,n,e t,mt fll,ow Slmw" t0 h"r discovery of an approaching horseman. fu" cnPn,',,v- "It's Mr. Shaw, I'm sure." "Mv ,,,-,,r- 1 h"ve Kiven positive or- Randolph Shaw, loyal to his feudal! Aor to Tompkins, and he swears he'll promise, appeared In the road a couple! r,,rrJ' 0,lt" nM ho ""lly. of hundred yards away. Ho drew rein ""I'P"' Tompkins Is to throw him and from that distance surveyed the! ,nto tlu' rivpr B"n,n-" two who were so near to encroaching i "" 1" to shoot that fellow Shaw uin his preserves. He sat straight! ,r le doesn't keep oil our land I've and forbidding lu the saddle. For a I naJ enough of It. They say he' rode full minute the two factions stared at j h's confounded plow horse all over the each other. Then., without a sign of' wost c"d the other day." Teuelope recognition, Shaw turned and rode rap. Idly away. "Hp rides llko a gentleman," com mented Miss Drake, after reflection. "Indian blood In him," remarked hei companion. "Let us go home," said she. whirling her borse like a flash. The duke had some dllllculty in keeping abreast of her during the ride, nnd he lost sight of her altogether after they dismount ed at Bazelhurst Villa. Tho momentary glimpse of a real man set PeneLr.c's pilnlo,ns .99 edge a r 'i -x - I .. . . r .: ..j. Mead (3 Company. for the rouialiulor oT the day and night. Shaw, whatever else he might i be. was a man. Even while others ' addressed her in conversation she was j absentmindedly recalling to memory l certain Engljsh gentlemen at home who could stand comparison with this handsome fellow across the dauger line. Rut to compare any one of the men In Lady Hazolhurst's house party oh, it was absurd! She looked them over. Dull eyed, blase, frayed by the social whirl, worn out. pulseless, all of them. They talked automobile, bridge, women and self In particular. In the seclusion of a tete-a-tete they talked love with an ardor that lost most of its danger because it was from force of habit. One of the men was even now admitting In her ear that ho had not spent an evening alone with his wife in four years. "There's always something doing," he said. "A week or two ago, by Jove, you wouldn't believe It. but we had an evening turn up without a thing on hand. Strangest thing I ever knew. Neither of us had a thing on. We said we'd stay' at home and go to' bed ear ly just to see how It felt. Well, what do you think? We sat up and read till half past 10 o'clock, and then both of us thought of it at the same time. Wo dressed and went down to Rec tor's and waited for the theaters to let out. Three o'clock when we got home. You can't imagine what a queer experience it is being all alone with one's wife." "Don't you love your wife. Mr. Od-1 well?" "Certainly! ' Rut there's always a crowd." Iioth of them glanced over at pretty Mrs. Odwell. She was look ing down at hor plate demurely while Reggie Van Voort talked straight Into her pink ear, his eyes gleaming with the zest of Invasion. "I say, Miss Drake, you won't mind talking to me awhile after dinner, will you?" went on Odwell. something like relief in his voice. ' After dinner she was obliged to set him straight In a little matter. They were sitting cn the terrace, and he hud thrown away his half smoked ciga rette, an act In Itself significant. She had been listening patiently, from sheer habit and indifference, to what he was saying, but at Inst she revolted. "Don't! You shall not say such things to me. ( am not your kind. I fancy, Mr. Odwell." she said. "I don't ! she would come but n sudden thought know why you should tell me of your I struck her like a blow. She turned chorus girl friends, of your suppers j white aud red by turns. Had he tired and all that I don't care to hear of j of the sport? Had the irovelty woru them, and I don't intend that you shall off? Was he laughing at her for a use me as a subject of illustration. I ' silly coquette? The riding crop came am going upstairs." j down sharply upon her horse's flank. "Oh, come now. that's rather rough, and a very deeply agitated young wo Just as we werp getting on so well ' man galloped off toward Bazelhurst All the fellows do the some" "I know. You need not tell me. And you all have wives at home, too," with Intense scorn. "Now, that's where you wrong us They're not at home, you know. ThntV Just it" "Never mind, Mr. Odwell; I'm goln In." She left him and entered tt house. For a minute or'tw&"helook after her in wonder and then, softlj whispering, made his way over to where Do Peyton, through some over sight, was talking to his own wife. De Peyton unceremoniously announc ed that ho was going upstairs to write a letter. Penelope, flushed with disgust and humiliation, drew near a crowd of men and women in the long living room. Her brother was haranguing the as- Bcmblago. standing forth among them like an unconquered bantam. In spite of herself she felt a wave of shame and pity creep over her as she looked at him. "Barnmlnster says the fellow ran when he saw him today," his lordship was saying. "But that doesn't help matters, ue nas uoen on my lanu nRaln nnd nlln Tompkins says, and Tompkins oucht to know." "And James, too." said the duko with a brandled roar. "Can't Tompkins and his men keep that man off my land?" demanded Lady Baslohurst. Every one took note of the l,n,,,0,,n IIer ladyship's temples smiled reflectively. "Trampled the new fern beds out of existence and all that. Hang him, Tompkins will get him if ho persists. He has told the men to tako a shot 'at the rascal of: sight Tompkins doesn't love him, you know." Penelope wont her way, laughing, and forgot the danger that threatened Randolph Shaw. , Tho next morning, quite early, sho was off for a conter. Some magnetic force drew her toward that obliterated lino in the roadway. Almost as she came up Jo It aniJRtopj)ed Randolph Shaw rode dowu the" hiVlalile liiroiu the trees and drew rein directly oppo site, the noses of their horses almost touching. With a smile he gave the military salute even as she gasped in self conscious dismay. "On duty. Miss Drake; no trespass ins." he said. There was a glad ring in liis voice. "Please don't run away. You're on the safe side." "I'm not going to run." she said, her cheek flushing. "How do you know where the line Is? It has been de stroyed by the ravages of time." "Yes. It has seemed a year. This thing of acting sentinel so religiously is a bit wearing." His great friendly dog came across the line, however, and looked bravely up into the enemy'd face, wagging his tall. "Traitor! Come back, Bonaparte!" cried his master. "What a beautiful dog!" she cried, sincere admiration in her eyes. "I love a big dog. He is your best friend, I'll wager." " 'Love me, love my dog,' is my mot to." The conversation was not prolonged. Penelope began to find herself on rath er friendly terms with the enemy. Confusion came over her when she re membered that she was behaving In a most uumaldenly manner. Doubtless that was why she brought the meet ing to a close by galloping away. The ways of fortune are strange, look at them from any point of view. Surprising as it may seem, a like en counter happened on the following day and aye, on the day after and every day for a week or more. Occasions there were when Penelope was com pelled to equivocate shamefully in or der to escape the companionship of the duke, the count or others of their ilk. Once when the guardian of the road was late at his post she rode far into the enemy's country, actually thrilled by the joy of adventure. When he ap peared far down the road she turned and lied with ail the sensations of a culprit, and he thundered after her with vindletlveness that deserved bet ter rpsults.- Across the line she drew reiu and faced him defiantly, her hair blown awry, her cheeks red, her eyes sparkling. "No trespass!" she cried, holding up her gloved hand. lie stopped short. for that was one of t ho terms of truce. The next day he again was missing, but she was not to be caught by his stratagem. Instead of veuturing into the trap lie had prepared for her. she remained on her side of the line, smil ing at the thought of him in hiding far up the road. If any one had suggested to her that she was developing too great an interest in tills stalwart gen tleman she would have laughed him to scorn. It had not entered her mind to question herself as to the pleasure she found In being near him. She was founding her actions on the basis that he was a real man and that the little comedy of adventure was quite worth while. At length an impatient line appeared on her fair brow, a resentful gleam in her eyes, Impertinence! Ills remissness was an It was the last time Villa, hurrying ns though afraid lie might catch sight of her in .flight. A quarter of a mile "brought u change In her emotions. British stubbornness arose to combat an utter rout. After all. why should she run awny from him? With whimsical bravado she turned ofT suddenly into the trail that led to the river, her color deepening with the consciousness that, after all. she was vaguely hoping she might see him somewhere before the morning passed. Through the leafy pathway she rode at a snail's pace, brushing the low hanging leaves and twigs from about her head with something akin to petulance. As she neared the river the neighing of a horse hard by caused her to sit erect with burning ears. Then she relapsed Into a smile, rememberlug j that It might have come from the game warden's horse. A moment later her searching eyes caught sight of Shaw's horse tied to a sapling and on Bazelhurst ground, many hundred feet from his own domain. She drew rein sharply ind looked about In consider able trepidation. Off to tho right lay the log that divided the lands, but nowhere along tho bank of the river could she see tho trespasser. Careful ly she resumed her way, ever on the lookout, puzzled not a little by the unusual state of affairs. Near tho river trail she came upon the man. but he paid no heed to her approach. He sat with his face in his hands, nnd she could not believe her eyes nnd ears ho was sobbing bitter ly. For an instant her lips curled In the smile of scornful triumph, and then something llko disgust came over her. There wns mockery in her voice ns she called out to him: "Have you stubbed your toe. little boy?" He looked up. dazed. Then he arose, turning bis back while he dash ed his hand across his eyes. When be glanced back at ber he saw that sbe was smiling. But she also saw some thing In his face that drove the smile away. Absolute rage gleamed In his eyes. "So It is real war?" ho said hoarsely, his face quivering. "Your pitiful cow ards want It to bo real, do they? Well, that's what It shall be, hang them! They shall have all they want of It Look! This is their way of fighting, Is It? Look!" He pointed to his feet Her bewil dered eyes saw that his hand was bloody and a deathly sickness came over her. He wns pointing to the out stretched, Iqnnl.mate, fojra of .the dog that baoTbf n his triehti'ahd'eoiurade. She knew that the beast was dead and she knew that her brother's threat bad not been an Idle one. A great wave of pity and horror swept over ber. Moisture sprang to her eyes on the moment. , "He he Is dead?'1 she exclaimed. "Yes; and kriled by some cowardly brute whose neck I'd like to wring. That dog my Bonaparte who knew no feud, who did no wrong! Your hrother wants war, does he? Well, I'll give him all" "But my brother could not have done a thing like this." she cried, slipping "Accident! Don't come near me." from her saddle and advancing toward him quickly. "Oh. no, no! Not this! Ho Is not that sort. I know. It must have been an accident and" "Accident! Don't come near nie! 1 mean It. (Jod. my heart, is too full of 1 vengeance. Accident? Is this blood on my arin accidental? Bah! It was a deliberate attempt to murder me!" "You you, too?" she gasped, reeling. "Yes; they've winged me, too. Oh, God. If I only had been armed. There would have been a killing." "Let me see, let nie help you!" she cried, coming up to his side, white faced and terrified. "I won't stay nwny! You are hurt Please, plea I am not your enemy." For a long minute lie held back, savagely resentful, glowering upon her; then his face softened nnd his hand went out to clasp hers. "1 knew you hi d nothing to do with It. Forgive me forgive my rudeness. Don't he alarmed about me. Two or three scattered shot struck me In the arm. The fellow's aim wns bad when It came to nie. But he he got the dog! Poor old Bonaparte! It's ns If ho were n-n brother. Miss Drake. I loved him nnd h loved me." "You must let me see your arm. I will not take no for nn answer. It must need attention" "Believe me. It is nothing. I have tied my handkerchief about It two lit tle shot, that's all. The first charge riddled the dog. But I forgot. I am r II I on your sister's land. At any min ute I may be shot from behind some tree. 1-1 couldn't help crying, Miss Drake. It was cruel fiendish! Now, If you'll permit me I'll take my dead off of your land." "Stop! I must know about It Tell me; how did It happen?" "I can't talk nbout it to you." "Why not? Do you think I condone this outrage? Do you thiuk I can sup. port such means of warfare? You do not know me, Mr. Shaw; you do not know so Englishwoman's love of fair ness." "By Jove, do you menn It?" Ills eyes lighted up. "But. after all, you belong to the other camp," he added dejectedly. "I I wish to heaven. Miss Drake, you were not one of them!" "My brother Cecil would not have permitted this," she tried to apologize, remembering with a cold heart that Lord Bazelhurst had given the very instructions of which tills wns the re sult. "We can't discuss it. Miss Drake. Borne one from your Bide of the line killed my dog nnd then fired at me. I'll admit I was trespassing, but not until the dog was shot. He was on Lady Rnzelhurst's lnnd when he wns shot. It was not until after that that I tres passed. If you are pleased to call it su'jh. But I wns unarmed, bnng the luck!" The way be said It conveyed much to her understanding. 'Tell mo, please." "I've hnd murder In my henrt for half nn hour. Miss Drnke. Somehow you soothe me." He snt down on the log again nnd leaned his head upon his hand. With his eyes upon the dead dog he went on, controlling his nnger with nn effort: "I rode down tho river road this morning for a change, intend ing to go up later on to our trystlng place through the wood." She heard him call it a trystlng place without a thought of resentment or shame. "When I came to the log there I stop ped, but Bonaparte, lnwless old chnp. kept on. I pnld no attention to him, for I was thinking of of something else. He had raced around in tho for bidden underbrush for some tlmo be fore I heard tho report of a gun near at hand. Tho dog actually screamed like a human being. I snw him lenp up from the ground nnd then roll over. Ot course, I well, I trespassed. With out thinking of my own Bafety I flow to whero the dog was lying. Ho look ed up into my fnce nnd whined Just ns he died. I don,' remember howI got off tbe horse. The next Tknew I was rushing blindly into the brush toward a place where I saw smoke cursing like a fiend. Then came tbe second shot and the stinging in my arm. It brought me to my senses. I stopped and a mo ment later I saw a man running down along the bank of the stream. I oh. well, there isn't any more to telL I don't know who fired the shots. I couldn't see his face." "It was Tompkins." she cried. "I know it wns. lie had his orders" but she checked herself in confusion. "His orders? Do you mean to say Miss Drake, did your brother Instruct him to kill me?" She quailed beneath his look. "I I can't say anything more about it, Mr. Shaw," she murmured, so plt- eously that he wns touched. For a seemingly interminable length of time his hard eyes looked into hers, and then they softened. "I understand," he said simply. "You cannot talk about it I'll not ask any questions." "My brother is weak in her hands," she managed to say in extenuation. "After all. it isn't a pleasant subject If you don't mlud we'll let It drop that Is, between you aud me, Miss Drake. I hope tho war won't break off our" "Don't suggest it, plense. I'd rather you wouldn't We are friends, after all. I thought it wns playing at war, and I can't tell you how shocked I am." "Poor old Bonapnrte!" was all he said in reply. She stooped and laid her hand on the fast chilling coat of the dog. There were tears in her eyes as she arose and turned nwny, moving to ward her horse. Shaw deliberately lifted tbe dead animal into his arms and strode off toward his own laud. She followed after a moment of Rule-1 ei.slon, leading the horse. Across the line he went and up tho side of the knoll to his right At the foot of a great tree ho tenderly deposited bis burden. Then ho turned to And her al iii()s'tl)esi(le lilm. "Y'ou won't mind my coming over hero, will you?" she nsked softly. He reached out) nnd clasped her hand thoughtlessly with his blood covered fingers. It wns not until long after ward that sbe discovered Ills blood upon the hand from which she had drawn her riding glove. "Y'ou nre always welcome," ho said. "I am going to bury him hero this aft ernoon. No; please don't como. I'll bring the men down to help me. I sup pose they think I'm n coward nnd a bounder over at your place. Do you remember tho challenge you gave me yesterday? You dared me to come over the line as far into Bazelhurst land as you had come into mine. Well, I dared last night." "Y'ou dared? You came?" "Yes, and 1 went farther than you hnvo gone, because 1 thought it wns play, comedy, fun. I even sat upon your gallery Just outside the billiard room nnd smoked two cigarettes. You'll And the stubs on the porch rail ing if her ladysblpis servants are not too exemplary." She was looking at him lu wide eyed unbelief. "I wns there when you came out on the lawn with the Frenchman." "Did you hear what he was what we were saying?" sbe asked nervously and going pale. "No. I was not eavesdropping. Be sides, you returned to the house very abruptly. If you remember." "Y'es. I remember." she snld, a sigh of relief accompanying the warm glow thnt came to her cheek. "But were you not afraid of being discovered? How imprudent of you!" "It was a bit risky, but I rather en Joyed It The count spoke to me as 1 left the place. It wns dark, and ho mistook me for ono of your party. I couldn't wait to see If you returned to renew the tete-a-tete" - "I did not return," sho said. It was his turn to be relieved. (To He Continued.) A Log on the Track of the fast, express means serious trouble ahead if not removed, so does loss of appetite. It means lack of vitality, loss of strength and nerve weakness. If appetite fails, lake Eleolrie Hitlers ipiiekly to overcome the cause by toning up tho stomach and curing the in. digest ion. Michael Hessheimor of Lincoln, Nob., had been sick over three years, but nix bid ties of Licet ric Hitlers put him right on his feet again. 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