1 JLr ROGUES. 'Pg7g7 Yi?' llBY PRANK BARRETT author or &5fcclW5r V?i I T 6KAT HCSPCRaA RCCOILtHC VfNGEANC' COVRIGMT I805.tff MACMILUN 4C0w (Continued from lant week.) CHAPTER XIL The house, like nearly all Moorish donees of this class, was simply one !vge and lofty room, with a domed sailing built of very thick masonry, to Resist the heat of the enn. There was 'aeither window nor chimney, the door xrving to. admit light and air and let Jut the smoke if a fire were lighted within. One-half of this chamber was dug oat to a depth of a couple of feet lor the accommodation of cattle (the litter being thrown into the hollow as it is needed and toaught removed till it iches the level of the other floor), and above this about eight feet from the ' ground and four from the roof was a kind of shelf (the breadth and length of kt half tUv tnAAn. a-ryA ':ht half t for the Rtnriicfl nf fodder and i sleeping place for the inhabitants, (with no kind of partition or any issue ior the foul air from the cattle below, f "Are we to live a year in this iutch?" asks Moll in affright J "Have done with your chatter, Moll, " answers Jack testily. "Don't you see I'm a-thinking? Heaven knows there's anough to swallow without any bug bears of your raising. " I With that, having finished his inspeo aon of the interior, he goes out and looks at it outside. I "Well," says Don Sanchez, "what Why, sonor, 'tis no worse that I can than any other in these parts and ,th this advantage, which they have ot, of being in a sweet air. With a bit contrivance we could make a shift to ve here well enough. We should do iss neither for furniture, seeing that f tis the custom of the country to eat off ie floor and sit upon nothing. A pot to the victuals in is about all we need that way. But how we are to get any thing to cook in is one mystery, and," clacking his tongue, "what we are go ing to drink is another, neither of which I can fathom, for. look von. senor. if pne may judge of men's characters by eir faces or of their means by their abitations, we may dance our legs off Moors will bestow a penny lece upon us, and as lor their sour ilk I'd as lief drink hemlock, and liefer. Now, if this town had been as we count- on, like Barcelona, all had gone as erry as a marriage bell, for then might e have gained enough to keep us in jollity as long as you please, but here, if we die not of oolio in a week, t'will be at say you, Kit?" I was forced to admit that I had never a town less likely to afford a sub- tence than this. Then Don Sanchez, having heard us th great patience and waited a min- te to see if we could raise any further injections, answers us in measured tones. "I doubt not," says he, "that with a ittle ingenuity you may make the house labitable and this wilderness agreeable, ily friend, Sidi ben Ahmed, has offered o provide us with what commodities ire necessary to that end. I agree with rou that it would be impossible to earn he meanest livelihood here by dancing. :t would not be advisable if we could. For that reason, my knowledge of va rious tongues making me very service able to Sidi ben Ahmed, who is the most ionsiderable merchant of this town, I lave accepted an office in his house. Chis will enable me to keep my engage nent with you. You will live at my barge, as I promised, and you shall vant for nothing in reason. If the Moors brink no wine themselves, they make ixcellent for those who will, and you hall not be stinted in that particular. " "Come, this sounds fair enough," ries Dawson. "But pray, senor, are we o do nothing for our keep?" "Nothing beyond what we came here o do," replies he, with a meaning lance at MolL "What?" cries poor Moll in pain. 'We are to dance no more?" The don shook his head gravely, and femembering the jolly, vagabond, care- adventurous life we had led these past two months, with a thousand pleas- int incidents of our happy junketings, we were an downcast at ine prospect oi L-for a year without change. "Though I promised you no more ihan I offer," says the don, "yet if this prospect displease you we will cry quits ind part here. Nay," adds he, taking a purse from his pocket, "I will give you he means to return to Alicante, where IrUU AUtljr aa uciiu ranooo juu. It seemed to me that there was an un- signed carelessness in his manner, as if he would as lief as not throw up his dons enterprise for some other ore sure undertaking. And indeed I lieve he was then balancing another alternative in his mind. At this generous offer Moll dashed Way the tears that had sprung to her Byes, brightening up wonderfully, but uhen, casting her eyes upon the don, her race fell again as at the thought of leav- ig him, for we all admired him and e prodigiously for nis great reserve id many good qualities which com- ded respect, and this feeling was ged in her case, I believe, with a id of growing anection. Seeing this sentiment in her eyes, the ion was clearly touched by it, and so ing his hand gently on her shoulder says: "My poor child, remember you the ;ly old women we saw dancing at Bar- a.? Thar were not more than 40. " truai, win tney be like in a few years? I Who will tolerate them? Who will love them? Is thut the end you choose for your own life that the estate to which our little princess shall fall?" "No, no, no!" cries she in a passion, clinching her little hands and throwing up her head in disdain. "And no, no, no, say I," cries Daw Bon. "Were our case ten times as bad, I'd not go back from my word. As it is, we are not to be pitied, and I warrant ere long we make ourselves to be envied. Come, Kit, rouse you out of your lethar gies and let us consult how we may im prove our condition here, and do you, senor, pray order us a little of that same excellent wiue you spoke of, if it be but a pint, when you feel disposed that way. " fPUrt The don inclined his head, but linger ed, talking to Moll very gravely and yet tenderly for some while, Dawson and I going into the house to see what we could make of it, and then, telling us we should see him no more till the next day, he left us. But for some time after he was gone Moll sat on the side of the well, very pensive and wistful, as one to whom the future was opened for the first time. Anon oomes a banging at our garden gate, which Moll had closed behind the don, and, going to it, we find a Moor ish boy with a barrow charged with many things. We could not understand a word he said, but Dawson decided these chattels were sent us by the don by perceiving a huge hogskin of wine, tor which he thanked God and Don San chez a hundred times over. So these commodities we carried up to the house, marveling greatly at the don's fore thought and generosity, for here were a score of things over and above those we had already found ourselves lacking namely, earthen pipkins and wooden vessels, a bag of charcoal, a box of car penter's tools, which did greatly delight Dawson, he having been bred a carpen ter in his youth j instruments for gar dening, to my pleasure, as I have ever had a taste for such employment ; some very fine Moorish blankets, etc. So when the barrow is discharged Dawson gives the lad some rials out of his pocket, which pleases him also mightily. Then, first of all, Dawson unties the log of the hogskin and draws off a quart of wine, very carefully securing the leg after, and this we drink to our great re- The don lingered, talking to Moll very gravely. freshment, and next, Moll, being awoke from her dreams and eager to be doing, sets herself to sort out our goods, such as belong tons as tools, etc. on one side, and such as belong to her as pip kins and the rest on the other. Leav ing her to this employment, Dawson and I, armed with a knife and bagging hook, betake ourselves to a great store of canes stacked in one corner of the garden, and sorting out those most proper to our pur pose we lopped them all of an equal length, and shouldering as many as we could carried them up to our house. Here we found Moll mighty jubilant in having got her work done, and admira bly she had done it, to be sure, for hav ing found a long recess in tne wail sue i had brushed it out clean with a whisp of herbs and stored up her crocks, ao- i cording to their size, very artificial, with a dish of oranges plucked from the tree at our door on one side and a dish of almonds on the other, a pipkin standing betwixt 'em with a handsome posy of roses in it She had spread a mat on the floor and folded up our fine blankets to serve for cushions, and all that did not belong to her she had bundled out of sicrht into that hollowed side I have mentioned as being intended for cattle. After we had sufficiently admired the Trformanee she told us she had a mind totrivens a supper of broth. "But," savs she. "the don has forgotten that we must eat, and hath sent us neither i bread nor flesh nor salt" This put us to a stumble, for how to get these things we knew not, but Moll declared she would get all she needed if we could only find the money. " Why, how?" asks Jack. " xou Know not their gibberish. " "That may be," answers she, "but I warrant the same language that bought me this petticoat will get us a supper." So we gave her what money we had, and she went off a-marketing, with as much confidence as if she were a born BarbaryMoor. Then Jack falls to thank ing God for blessing him with such a daughter, at the same time taking no small credit to himself for having bred to her such perfection, and in the midst of bis encomiums, being down in the hol low searohins for bit hammer, he cries: "riagne take the careless Wggagn. She bus spilled all our nails, and here's an hour's work to pick 'em up I" This accident was repaired, however, and Moll's transgression forgotten when she returned with an old woman carry ing her purchases. Then were we forced to admire her skill in this business, for she had bought all that was needful for a couple of meals, and yet had spent but half our money. Now arose the difficult question how to make a fire, and this Jack left us to settle by our own devices, he returning to his own occupation. 1 Moll resolved we should do our cooking outside the house, so here we built up a kind of gate with stones, and contriving to strike a spark with the back of a jack knife and a stone upon a heap of dried leaves we presently blew up a fine flame, and feeding this with the ends of cane we had cut and some charcoal we at last got a royal fire on which to set our pot of mutton. And into this pot we put rice and a multitude of herbs from the garden, which by the taste we thought might serve to make a savory. And indeed when it began to boil the odor was bo agreeable that we would have Jack come out to smell it, and he having praised it very highly we, in re turn, went in to look at his handiwork and praise that. This we could do very heartily and without hypocrisy, for he had worked well and made a rare good job, having made a very seemly parti-, tion across the room by nailing of the canes perpendicularly to that kind of, floor that hung over the hollowed por tion, thus making us now three rooms out of one. At one end he had left an opening to enter the cavity below and t the floor above by the little ladder that stood there, and these canes were set' not bo close together but that air and , light could pass betwixt them, and yet from the outer side no eye could see within,' which was very commodious; also upon the floor above he had found sundry bundles of soft, dried leaves, and these, opened out upon the surf ace of both chambers, made a very sweet, con venient .bed upon which to lie. Then, Dawson offering Moll her choice,' she took the upper floor for her chamber, leaving us two the lower, and so, it be ing near sundown by this time, we to our supper in the sweet, cool air of evening, all mightily content with one another, and not less satisfied with our Btew, which was indeed most savory and palatable. This done, we took a turn round our little domain, admiring the many strange and wonderful things-that grew there, especially the figs, which, though yet green, were wondrous pleas ant to eat, and I laying out my plans for the morrow, how to get this wilderness into order, tear out the worthless herbs, dig the soil, etc., Dawson's thoughts running on the building of an outhouse for the accommodation of our wine, tools and such like and meditating on dishes to give us our repast, and at length, when these divers subjects were no more to be discussed, we turned into our dor mitories and fell asleep as happy as princes. CHAPTER Xm. The surprising activity with which we attacked our domestic business at Elche lasted about two days and a half, Dawson laboring at his shed, I at the cultivation of the garden and Moll quit ting her cooking and household affairs, as occasion permitted, to lend a helping hand first to her father and then to me. And as man, when this fever of enter prise is upon him, must forever be seek ing to add to his cares, we persuaded Don Sanchez to let us have two she goats to stall in the shed and consume our waste herbage, that we might have milk and get butter, which they do in these parts by shaking the cream in a skin bag (a method that seems simple enough till you have been shaking the bag for 20 minutes in vain on a sultry morning) without cost. But, the novelty of the thing wearing off, our eagerness rapidly subsided, and so about the third day, as I say, the heat being prodigious, we toiled with no spirit at all. Dawson was the first to speak his mind. Says he, coming to me while I was still sweating over my shovel : "I've done it, but hang me if I do more. There's a good piece of work worth 30 shillings of any man's money, but who'll give me a thank ye for it when we leave here next year?" And then he can find nothing better to do than fall a-commentingonmy labors, saying there was but precious nttie to show for my efforts ; that had he been in my place he would have ordered mat ters otherwise, and began digging t'oth er end, wagering that I should give up my job before it was quarter done, etc. , all which was mighty discouraging, and the more unpleasant because I felt there was a good deal of truth in what he said. Consequently I felt a certain malicious enjoyment the next morning upon find ing that the goats had burst out one side of his famous shed and got loose into the garden, which enabled me to won der that two such feeble creatures could undo such a good 80 shillings' worth of work, etc. But ere I was done galling him I myself was mortified exceedingly to find these mischievous brutes had torn up all the plants I had set by the trees in the shade as worthy of cultivation, which gave Jack a chance for gibing at , me. I But that which imbittered us as much as anything was to have Moll holding her sides for laughter at our attempts to catch these two devilish goats, which to our cost we found were not so feeble after all, for getting one up in a corner she raises herself up on her hind legs and brings her skull down with such a smack on my knee that I truly thought she had broken my cramp bone, while t'other, taking Dawson in the ankles with her horns as he was reaching for ward to lay hold of her, lay him sprawl ing in our little stream of water. Nor do I think we should ever have captured them but that, giving over our endeav ors from sheer fatigue, they of their own accord sauntered into the shed for shel ter from the sun. where Moll clanncd to ine aoiir upon them and set her back against the gap in the side until her fa ther came with a hammer and somo stout nails to secure the planks. So fur the rest of that day Jack and I lay on our backs in the shade doing nothing, but exceedingly sore one against the other for these mischances. But our heartburnings ended not there, for coming in to supper at sun down Moll has nothing to offer us but dry bread and a dish of dates, which, though it be the common supper of the Moors in this place, was little enough to our satisfaction, as Dawson told her in pretty round terms, asking her what she was fit for if not to give us a meal fit for Christians, etc. , and stating very ex plicitly what he would have her prepare for our dinner next day. Moll takes her upbraiding very humbly, which was ever a bad sign, and promises to be more careful of our comfort in the future. And so ended that day. The next morning Dawson and I make no attempt at work, but after break fast, by common accord, stretch us out under the palms to meditate, and there about half past 10 Don Sanchez, com ing round to pay us a visit, finds us both sound asleep. A sudden exclamation from him aroused us, and as we stum bled to our feet, staring about us, we perceived Moll coming from the house, but so disfigured with smuts of charcoal all over her face and hands we scarce knew her. "God's nierey!" cries the don. "What on earth have you been doing, child?" To which Moll replies, with a courtesy : "I am learning to be a cook wench, senor, at my father's desire. " "You are here," answers the don, with a frown, "to learn to be a lady. If a cook wench is necessary, you shall have one"(this to us), "and anything else that my means may afford. You will do well to write me a list of your requirements, but observe," adds he, turning on his heel, "we may have to stay here another twelvemonth if my economies are not sufficient by the end of the first year to take us hence. " This hint brought us to our senses very quickly, and overtaking him ere ho reached our garden gate Dawson and I assured the don we had no need of any servant and would be careful that Moll henceforth did no menial office ; that we would tax his generosity no more than we could help, etc., to our great humili ation when we came to reflect on our conduct. Thenceforth Dawson charged himself with the internal economy of the house, and I with that part which concerned the custody and care of the goats, the cultivation of pot herbs and with such instruction of Moll in the Italian tongue as I could command. 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MILLER tneirtnuxiuie mating or butter 1 quick ly renounced) and watering my garden night and morn, which is done by throw ing water from the little stream broad cast with a shovel on either side, I did no more than Dawson, but joined him 1 in yawning the day away, for which my ' sole excuse is the great heat of this re gion, which aotn beget most siotniui humors in those matured in cooler climes. With Moll, however, the case was otherwise, for she, being young and of an exceeding vivacious, active disposi tion, must forever be doing of some thing, and lucky for us when it was not some mischievous trick at our expense as letting the goats loose, shaking lemons down on our heads as we lay asleep beneath the tree, and the like. Being greatly smitten with the appear ance of the Moorish women (who, though they are not permitted to wan- j der about at will like our women, are yet suffered to fetch water from the publio fountains), she surprised us one morning by coming forth dressed in their mode. And this dress, which seems to be naught but a long 6heet wound loosely twice or thrice about the body, buckled on the shoulder, with holes for the arms to be put through in the man ner of the old Greeks, became her sur prisingly, and we noticed then for the first time that her arms were rounder and fuller than when we had last seen ' them bare. Then, to get the graceful, noble bearing of the Moors, she prac- t ticed day after day by carrying a pitch er of water on her head, as they do, until she could do this with perfect ease and I sureness. In this habit the don, who I was mightily pleased with her looks, took her to the house of his friend and employer, Sidi ben Ahmed, where she ingratiated herself so greatly with the women of his household that they would have her come to them again the next day, and after that the next indeed, thenoeforth she spent far more of her time with these new friends than with us. And here, from the necessity of making herself understood, together with an excellent memory and a natu ral aptitude, she learned to speak the Moorish tongue in a marvelously short space of time. Dawson and I were fre quently asked to accompany Moll, and we went twice to this house, which, though nothing at all to look at outside, was very magnificently furnished with in, and the entertainment most noble. But, Lord, 'twas the most tedious, wearisome business for us, who could make out never a word of the civil speeches offered us without the aid of Don Sanchez and Moll, and then could think of no witty response, but could only sit there grinning like Gog and Magog. Still it gave us vast pleasure to see how Moll carried herself with this company, talking as ireeiy as tney, yet holding herself with the dignity of an equal, and delighting all by her vivaci ty and shy, pretty ways. I think no country in Europe can be richer than this Eiche in fruits and vegetation, more beautiful in its sur rounding aspects of plain and mountain, more blessed with constant, glorious sunlight, and the effect of these charms upon the quick, receptive spirit of our Moll was like a gentle May upon a nightingale, so that the days were all too short for her enjoyment, and she must need vent her happiness in song. But on us they made no more impression than on two owls in a tower, but if any thing they did add to that weariness which arose from our lack of occupation. For here was no contrast in our lives, one day being as like another as two peas in a pod, and having no sort of ad versities to give savor to our ease we found existence the most flat, insipid, dull thing possible. I remember how, on Christmas day, Dawson did cry outr against the warm sunshine as a thing contrtry to nature, wishing he might stand up to his knees in snow in a whistling wind, and taking up the crock Moll had filled with roses (which here bloom more fully in the depth of winter than with us in the height of summer) he flung it out of tlje door with a curse for an un -Christian thing to have in the house on such a day. As soon as the year had turned we i began to count the days to our depar ture, and thenceforth we could think oi naught but what we would do with our fortune when we got it, and, the even ings being long, we would set the bag of wine betwixt us after our supper of dates and sit there for hours discussing our several projects. Moll being with us (for in these parts no womankind may be abroad after sundown), she would take part in these debates with as much gusto as we. For, though she was not wearied of her life here as we Were, yet she was possessed of a very stirring spirit of adventure, and her quick imagination furnished endless vi sions of lively pleasures and sumptuous living. We agreed that we would live together and share everything in com mon as one family, but not in such an outlandish spot as Chiselhurst. That estate we would have nothing to do with, but selling it at once have in its place two houses one city house in the Strand and a country house not farther from town than Bethnal Green, or Clerkenwell at the outside, to the end that when we were fatigued with the pleasures of the town we might, by an easy journey, resort to the tranquillity of rural life. Dawson declared what wines he would have laid down in our cellars, I what books should furnish our library, and Moll what dresses she would wear (not less than one for every month of the year), what coaches and horses we should keep, what liveries our servants should wear, what entertainments we would give and so forth. Don Sanchez was not excluded from our deliberations ; indeed he encouraged us greatly by ap proving of all our plans, only stipulat ing that we would guard one room for him in each of our houses, that he might feel at home in our society when ever he chanced to be in our neighbor hood. 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