March 5, 1896, or JOS CJVH'OHT 18 9ft. gY MACMILLAti. (Continued from last week.) The next day comb oinion with a bag Of 600, which lie tells over with in finite care, groaning and mopping his yes betwixt each four or five pieces with almost rueful visage, so that it seemed he was weeping over this great expenditure, and then he goes to prepare the court and get servants against Moll's arrival Then, by the end of the week, being furnished with suitable clothing and equipment, Moll and Don Sanchez leave us, though Dawson was now as hale and hoarty as ever he had been, we beinff Dersnadod to rest at Chatham vat. another week to give countenance to Jack's late distemper and also that we might appear less like a gang of thieves. Before going Don Sanchez warned us that very, likely Simon would pay us a visit suddeuly to satisfy any doubts that might yet crop up in his suspicious mind, and so, to be prepared for him, I got in a good store of paper and books such as a merchant might require in seeking to re-establit-h himself in busi ness, and Dawson held himself in readi ness to do his share of this knavish busi ness. Sure enough, about three days after this, the drawer, who had been instruct ed to admit no one to my chamber with- vuu iuj vuumui, cuiuus up 10 say U1UL the little old man in leather, with the eu eyuH, wouiu see me, so 1 Dacio mm n a high voice bid Mr. Simon step up. um setting myself before my table lapor engage in writing a letter (already mlf writ), while Dawson slips out into uc luuiLu xn&u u num., mix. Qiew- Vrd," says I when Simon entered, can m hand, and casting a very prying, cu- ious loot around. "I must keep vou a lainute or two. " And so I feim to be ighty busy, and give him scone for bservation. Well, sir," says I, finishing mv let- fer with a flourish, and setting it aside, nowao youiarer" He raised his hands and dropped hem like so much lead on his knees, asting up his eyes and giving a doleful hake of his head for a reply. "Nothing is amiss at the court, I ray your lady, Mistress Godwin, is 'ell?" "I know not, friend," says he. "She ath taken my keys, denied me entrance her house, and left me no privilege of y office save the use of the lodee puse. Thus am I treated like a faith. prnuLV after toiling night and dav 1 these years, and for her advantage tner man my own. " That has to be proved, Mr. Stew- rd," Bays I severelv. "for von mnst unit that up to this present she has d no reason to love you, seeing that, ,d her fate been left in your hands. would now be in Barbary, and like ena ner days there. How, then, can b think but that you had some selfish, oied end in denyinir her the service who are strangers, have rendered k?" 'Thee epeakest truth, friend, and yet Knowest tnat 1 observed only the Ihteoua prudonoe of an honest serv- ' We will say no more on that head. you may rest assured in my prom knowing as I do the noble, gener nature of your mistress that if she done you wrong in suspecting you Eise purpose, she will be the first to it her fault and offer von renara- t seek no reparation, no reward, iiing in the world but the right to pish this estate, "cries he in passion, upon my looking at him very curi as not understanding the motive ich devotion, he continues : "Thee it not believe me, and yet truly I am er a liar nor a madman. What do toil for? A wife children ds the gratification of ambition or I have no kith or kin, no ambi- no lust, but this estate is wife. . evervthini?. tn f of vanity a carved image that a may give his whole life to making, yet die content if he achieves but approach to the creation of his I have made this estate out of ing; it hath grown larger and lar- richer and more rioh, in answer to Sill; why should I not love it, and y whole heart in the accomplish of my design, with the same de n that you admire in the maker of n images?" spite his natural infirmities Simon ared this astonishing rhapsody with ain sort of vehemence that made xjuent, and indeed, strange as his m was, I could not deny that it a reasonable in its way as any no- t 01 self sacrifice. to understand you, Mr. Stew- says I. ten, good friend, as thee wouldst he man in peril of being torn from ild, render me this estate to gov- kave it trom cne nanus ox uium. lawyers, men of no conscience, to this Spanish don would deliver the speedy satisfaction of his 11 Uy, my claim s as great as bis," "and my affairs more pressing," glance at my papers. "I am un my credit lost, my occupation ee shalt be paid to the last far- Examine my books, inquire into ue 01 my securities, and thee d full assurance. " ii. 1 rogues. J8r PRANK BARRETT itno off ? GUT SPeRMA ttCOILIHC MWNC I rutfr Of THE W5 Or DMTK Crc. Ttt. f 4 CO. 'Tm like to be no better till 1 cu Vv. ahlv of my own and be to sea arjain." "WCil, Olie Ol UiUSO UttJO luuui,,,, says I, as if to put him off. "Nay, come at once, I implore thee, for until I am justified to my mistress I stand like one betwixt life and death." "For one thing," says I, still shuf fling, "I can do nothing nor you either to the payment of our just claim before the inheritance is safoly settled upon Mistress Godwin." "That shall be done forthwith. I know the intricacies of the law, and know my way," tapping his head and then his pocket, "to get a seal, with ten times the dispatch of any attorney. I promise by Saturday thee shalt have as surance to thy utmost requirement. Say, good friend, thee wilt be at my lodge house on that day." "I'll promise nothing, " says L "Our poor Captain Evans is still a prisoner in his room." "Aye," says Dawson, ooming in from the next room in his nightgown, seem ing very feeIe and weak despite his blustering voice, "and I'm like to be no better till I can get a ship of my own and be to sea again. Have you brought my money, Mr. Quaker?" "Thee shalt have it truly; wait but a little while, good friend, a little I white. " j "Wait a little while and founder alto gether, eh? I know you land sharks, and would I'd been born with a snack of your cunning, then had I never gone j of this venture and lost my ship and twosoore men that money'U ne'er re place. Look at me, a sheer hulk and no more, and all through lending ear to one prayer and another. I doubt you're minded to turn your back on poor old Bob Evans, as t'others have, Mr. Hop kinsand why not? The poor old man's I wortn nothing, and cannot help him- self." With this he fell a-sniveling like an siri. "I vow I'll not quit you,. Evans, till you're hale again. " "Bring him with thee o' Saturday," urged Simon. "Surely my mistress can never have the heart to refuse you shel ter at the court, who owes her life to ye. Come and stay there till thy wage be paid, friend Evans." "What! Would ye make an honest sailor play bum bailiff and stick in a house, willy nilly, till money's found? Plague of your dry land 1 Give me a pitching ship, and a rolling sea, and a gale whistling in my shrouds. Oh, my reins, my reins ! Give me a paper of to bacco, Mr. Hopkins, and a pipe to soothe this agony, or I shall grow desperate." I left the room as if to satisfy this de sire, and Simon followed, imploring me still to come on Saturday to Chiselhurst, and I at length got rid of him by prom ising to come as soon as Evans could be left or induced to accompany me. I persuaded Dawson, very much against his greed, to delay our going until Mon day, the better to hoodwink old Simon, and on that day we set out for Chisel hurst, both clad according to our condi tion he in rough frieze, and I in a very proper, seemly sort of cloth and with more guineas in our pockets than ever before we had possessed shillings. And a very merry journey this was, for Daw son, finding himself once more at liberty and hearty as a lark after his long con finement and under no constraint, was like a boy let loose from school, carol ing at the top of his voice, playing mad pranks with all who passed us on the road and staying at every inn to drink twopenny ale, so that I feared he would certainly fall ill drinking, as he had be fore of eating, but the exercise of rid ing, the fresh, wholesome air and half an hour's doze in a spinney did settle his liquor, and so he reached Hurst Court quite sober, thanks be to heaven, though very gay. And there we had need of all our self command to conceal our joy in finding those gates open to us, which we had looked through so fondly when we were last here, and to spy Moll in a stately gown on the fine terrace before this noble house, carrying herself as if she had lived here all her life, and Don Sanchez walking very deferential by her sido. Especially Dawson could scarce bring himself to speak to her in an un couth, surly manner, as befitted his character, and no sooner were we enter ed the house but he whips Moll behind a door and falls a-hugging and kissing her like any sly young lover. While he was giving way to these ex travagances, which Moll had not the heart to rebuff for in her full, warm heart she was as overjoyed to see him there as he her Don Sanchez and I paced up and down the spacious hall, I all of a-twitter lest one or other of the servants might discover the familiarity of these teo which must have been a nne tr.z u iouuu gossip in wj household and elsewhere), and the don mighty somber and grave (as foreseeing an evil outcome of this business), so that he would make no answer to my civilities save by dumb gestures, show ing he was highly displeased. But truly 'twas enough to set us all crazy, but he, with joy, to be in possession of all these riches and think that we had landed at Chatham scarce a fortnight before with out decent clothes to our backs, and now, but for the success of our design, ' might be the penniless strolling vaga-1 bonds we were when Don Sanchez light ed on us. I Presently Moll came out from the side room with her father, her hair all tum bled, and as rosy as a peach, and she i would have us visit the house from top to bottom, showing us the rooms set apart for us, her own chamber, the state -u; i. it.- , "-""a me tore ciosera xor Plate ana linen, etc., all prodiarions . . - - - uuc? (uju iu uiunt CAUClieilt UUUaillOD, IOr the scrupulous minute care of old Si-' mon had Buffered nothing to fall out of repair, me rooms being kept well aired, the pictures, tapestries and maeniflcent furniture all preserved fresh with linen covers and the like. From the hall she took us out on to the terrace to survey the park and the gardens about the house, ana nere, as witnin doors, all was in growth orrunaweeds anywhere, nor any sign 01 neglect, uut i observed, as an indication of the steward's thrifty, uu- poetio mind, that the garden beds were planted with onions and such market able produce, in placo of flowers, and that instead of deer grazing upon the green slopes of the park there was only such prodigious cattle as sheop, cows, etc. And at the sight of all this abun dance of good things, and especially the well stored buttery, Dawson declared he could live here all his life and never worry. And with that, all unthinking ly, he lays his arm about Moll's waist. Then the don, who had followed us up and down stairs, speaking never one word till this, says. "We may count ourselves lucky, Captain Evans, if we are suffered to stay here another week. " CHAPTER XVI. The next morning I went to Simon at his lodgehouse, having writ him a note overnight to prepare him for my visit, and there I found him, with all his books and papers ready for my examina tion. So to it we 6et, casting up figures, comparing accounts and so forth the best part of the day, and in the end I came away convinced that he was the most scrupulous, honest steward ever man had. And truly it appeared that by his prudent investments and careful management he had trebled the value of the estate and more in the last ten years. He showed me also that in all his valu ations he had set off a large sum for loss by accident of fire, wear, etc., so that actually at the present moment the es tate, which he reckoned at 75,000 pounds, was worth at the least 125, 000. But for better assurance on this head I spent the remainder of the week in visiting the farms, menages, etc. , on his rent roll, and found them all in good condition and held by good substantial men, nothing in any particular but what he represented it. Reporting on these matters privily to Don Sanchez and Dawson, I asked the ion what we should now be doing. "Two ways lie before us," says he, lighting a cigarro. "Put Simon out of his house and make an enemy of him," adds he betwixt two puffs of smoke, "seize his securities, sell them for what they will fetch and get out of the coun try as quickly as possible. If the prop erties be worth 1 25,000, we may" (puff) "possibly" (puff) "get 40,000 for them" (puff), "about a third of their value not more. On 10,000 a man may live like a prince in Spain. The other way is to make a friend of Simon by restoring him to his office, suffer him to treble the worth of the estate again the next ten years and live like kings" (puff) "in England." , "Pray, which way do you incline, senor?"saysL "Being a Spaniard," answers he gravely, "I should prefer to live like a prince in Spain. " "That would not I," Bays Dawson stoutly. "A year and a half of Elche have cured me of all fondness for for eign parts. Besides, 'tis a beggarly, scurvy thing to fly one's country, as if we had done some unhandsome, dishon est trick. If I faced an Englishman, I should never dare look him straight in the eyes again. What say you, Mr. Hop; kins?" "Why, Evans," says I, " you know my will without telling. I will not of my own accord go from your choice, which way you will " ' Since we owe everything to Mistress Judith," observes the don, "and as she is no longer a child, ought not her wishes to be consulted?" "No," says Jack very decidedly, and then, lowering his voice, he adds, "for was she Judith Godwin ten times told, and as old as my grandmother into the bargain, she is still my daughter and shall do as I choose her to da And if, as you say, we owe her everything then I count 'twould be a mean, dirty return to make her live out of England and feel she has a sneaking coward for a fa ther." "As yon please," says the don. "Give me 10,000 of the sum you are to be paid at Michaelmas, and you are welcome to all the rest." "You mean that, senor?" cries Jack, seizing the don's hand and raising his left. "By the Holy Mother!" answers Don Sanchez in Spanish. "Done!" cries Dawson, bringing his hand down with a smack on the Don's palm. "Nay, I always believed you were the most generous man living. Ten from t'other. William Jackson," says he, turning to me, "what does that leave us?" "More than 100,000!" "The Lord be praised forevermore !" cries Jack. Upon this Moll, bv advice of Don San. taws, kmos ror e mon, ana teinng mm she is satisfied with the account I have given of his stewardship offers him the further control of her affairs, subject at all times to her decision on any question concerning her convenience and reserv ing to herself the sole government of her household, the ordering of her home, lands, etc. And, Simon grasping eager ly at this proposal, she then gives him the promise of 1,000 for his past serv ices and doubles the wages due to him under his contract with Sir W. Godwin. "Give me what it may please thee to bestow that way," cried he. "All shall be laid out to enrich this property. I have no other use for money, no other worldly end in life but that" And when he saw me next he was most slavish in his thanks for my good offices, vowing I should be paid my claim by Michaelmas if it were in the . v -v" power of man to raise so vast a sum in ci. CUWV oureiy, mints x, mere was never a more strange, original creature than this, yet it do seem to me that there is ( no man but his passion must appear a madness to others. I must speak now of Moll, her admi rable carriage and sober conduct in these new circumstances, which would have turned the heads of most others. Never once to my knowledge did she lose her sion, and this was due, not alone to her own shrewd wit and understanding, but to the subtle intelligence of Don San chez, who in the character of an old and trusty friend was ever by her side, watchful of her interest (and his own), ready at any moment to drop in her ear a quiet word of warning or counsel. By his advice she had taken into her serv ice ataost commendable, proper old gen tlewoman, one Mrs. Margery Butterby, who, as being the widow of a country parson, was very orderly in all things and particularly nice in the proprieties. This notable good soul was of a cheery, chatty disposition, of very pleas ing manners and a genteel appearance, and so, though holding but the part of housekeeper, she served as an agreeable companion and a respectable guardian, whose mere presence in the house re lieved any questiqn that might have arisen from the fact of three men living under the same roof with the young and beautiful mistress of Hurst Court. Moreover, she served us as a very useful kind of mouthpiece, for all those mar velous stories of her life in Barbary, of the pirates we had encountered in re deeming her from the Turk, etc., with which Moll would beguile away any tedious half hour, for the mere amuse ment of creating Mrs. Butterby's won der and surprise, as one will tell stories of fairies to children, this good woman repeated with many additions of her own concerning ourselves, which, to re flect credit on herself, were all to our advantage. This was the more fitting, because the news spreading that the lost heiress had returned to Hurst Court ex cited curiosity far and wide, and it was not long before families in the surround ing seats, who had known Sir W. God win in bygone times, called to see his daughter. And here Moll's tact was taxed to the utmost, for some who had known Judith Godwin as an infant ex pected that she should remember some incident stored in their recollection. But she was ever equal to the occasion, feigning a pretty doubting innocence at first, then suddenly asking this lady if ' she had not worn a cherry dress with a beautiful stomacher, or that gentleman : if he had not given her a goldpiece for a token, and it generally happened these ' shrewd shafts hit their mark, the lady, ! though she might have forgotten her gown, remembering she had a very be coming stomacher at that time, the gentleman believing that he did give her a luck penny, and so forth, from very vanity. Then Moll's lofty carriage and her beauty would remind them of their dear lost friend, Mrs. Godwin, in the heyday of her youth, and all agreed in admir ing her beyond anything, and though Moll, from her lack of knowledge, made . many slips and would now and then say , thines uncustoirary to women of breed-! Headache Destroys Health Besultlng in poor memory, Irritability, ner vousness and intellectual exhaustion. It induces other forms of disease, such as epi lepsy, heart disease, apoplexy, insanity, etc. Dr. Miles' Nervine Cures. Sirs. Chas. A. Myers, 201 ITanria St., Fort Wayne, Ind., writes Oct. 7, 1894: "I suffered terribly with severe headaches, dizziness, backache and nervousness, gradually grow ing worse until my life was despaired of, and try what we would, I found no relief until I commenced using Dr. Miles' Nervine. I have taken five bottles and believe I am a well woman, and I have taken great com fort in recommending all of my friends to use Nervine. 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Then one day, there being quite a dozen visitors in her stateroom, she brings down her Moorish dress and those baubles given her by friends at Elche, to show the ladies, much to the general as tonishment and wonder; then, being prayed to dress herself in these clothes, she, with some hesitation of modesty, consents, and after a short absence from the room returns in this costume, look ing lovelier than ever I had before seen, with the rings about her shapely bare arms and on her ankles, and thus array ed she briugs me a guitar, and to my strumming sings a Moorish song, sway ing her arms above her head and turn ing gracefully in their fashion, so that all were in an ecstasy with this strange performance. And the talk spreading, the number of visitors grew apace as j bees will flock to honey and yielding to their urgent entreaties she would of ten repeat this piece of business, and al- , ways with a most winning grace that charmed every one. But she was most a favorite of gentlemen and elderly ladies ; for the younger ones she did certainly put their noses out of joint, since none could at all compare with her in beauty nor in manner either, for she had nei ther the awkward shyness of some nor ; me boldness of others, but contrived ever to steer neatly betwixt the two ex ireines Dy ner natural sell possession ana learlessness, i Of all her new friends, the most eager m courting her were Sir Harry Upton and his lady (living in the Crays), and they, being about to go to London for the winter, did press Moll very hard to go witn tnem mat she might be present ed to the king, and, truth to tell, they would not have had to ask her twice had she been governed only by her own in clination. She was mad to go that au dacious spirit of adventure still working very strong in her and she, like a win ning gamester, must forever be playing for higher and higher stakes. But'we, who had heard enough of his excellent but lawless majesty's court to fear the fate of any impulsive, beauteous young woman that came within his sway, were quite against this. Even Don Sanchez, , who was no innocent, did persuade her from it with good, strong arguments, ! showing that, despite his worldliness, he did really love her as much as 'twas ' in his withered heart to love any one. As for Dawson, he declared he would sooner see his Moll in her winding sheet than in the king's company, adding that 'twould be time enough for her to think of going to court when she had a husband to keep her out of mischief. And so she refused this offer (but with secret tears, I believe). "But, ' ' says she t to her father, "if I'm not to have my , own way till I'm married, I shall get me a husband as soon as I can. " I And it seemed that she would not have to look far or wait long for one either. Before a month was passed at ' least half a dozen young sparks were ng. her' ?b?n W?act!d "ot only .hf Wlt b.ea. but X ofcher being known to all how Simon had enriched the estate. Ana twas this abundance of suitors j which prevented Moll from choosing any , one in particular, else had there been I but one I believe the business would have been settled very quickly. For now , she was in the very flush of life, and j the blood that flowed in her veins was ; of no lukewarm kind. But here (that I may keep all my strings in harmony) I must quit Moll for a space to toll of her father. That first hint of the don's bringing him to his senses somewhat, like a dash of cold water, and the exuberance of his joy subsiding, he quickly became more cir cumspect in his behavior and fell into the part he had to play, and the hard, trying, sorrowful part that was neither he nor I had foreseen, for now was he compelled for the first time in his life, at any length, to live apart from his daughter, to refrain from embracing her when they met in the morning, to speak to her in a rough, churlish sort when his heart maybe was overflowing with love and to reconcile himself to a cool, indifferent behavior on her side when his very soul was yearning for gentle, tender warmth, and these natural crav ings of affection were rather strengthen ed than stilled by repression, as one's hunger by starving. To add to this, he now saw his Moll more bewitching than ever she was before, the evidence of her wit and understanding stimulating that admiration which he dared not express. 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