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THE MEDKASKA INDEf edent, My 7, 1896. 11 or fffvmm IIH.IV MACMILLAN (Continued from last week.) .ror Kline timo we spoke never a word, Dawson aud I, lie with liis head lying cn his arm, I mated in a chair with my bands hanging down by my side, quite etunned hy the blow that had fallen tipou ns. At length, raising his head, his eyes puffed and his face bedaubed with tears, he says : "Han't you a word of comfort, Kit, for a broken hearted man?" t I stammered a few words that had more sound than sense, but indeed I needed consolation myself, seeing my 'own responsibility for bringing this mis fortune upon Moll, and beiug more J heartily ashamed of my roguery now 'twas discovered. " You don't think he'll be too hard on poor Moll, tell me that, Kit?" "Aye, he'll forgive her," says I, "sooner than us, or we ourselves. " "And you don't think he'll be forever a-cauting it in her teeth that her father'; a a drunken vagabond, eh?" "Nay. I believe he is too good a man for that." "Then," says hestanding up, "I'll go and tell him the whole story, and you shall come with me to bear me out. " "Tomorrow will be time enough," says I, flinching from this office. " "lis late now." "No matter for that. Time enough to sleep when we've settled this business. We'll not leave poor Moll to boar all jthe punishment of our getting. Mr. Godwin shall know what an innocent, simple child she was when we pushed her into this knavery, and how we dared not tell her of our purpose lest she should draw back. He shall know how she was ever an obodient, docile, artless girl, yield ing always to my guidanoe, and you can stretch a point, Kit, to say you have ever known me for a headstrong, mas terful sort of a fellow, who would take denial from none, but must have my own way in all things. I'll take all the blame on my own Bhoulders, as I should have done at first, but I was so stagger ed by this fall " "Well," says I, "if you will have it SO" -: r- 1 ' I will, " says he stoutly. "And now give me a bucket of water that I may souse my head and wear a brave look. I would have him think the worst of me that he may feel the kinder to poor MolL And I'll make what atonement I can, " adds he as I led him into my bedcham ber. "If he desire it, I will promise Uever to see Moll again. Nay, I will iffer to take the king's bounty and go a-sailoring, and so, betwixt sickness and the Dutch, there'll be an end of Jack Dawson in a very short space. " , When he had ducked his head in a bowl of water and got our cloaks from the room below, we went to the,door, and there, to my dismay, I found the lock fast and the key which I had left in its socket gone. "What's amiss, Kit?" asks Dawson, perceiving my consternation. "The key, the key!" says I, holding the candle here and there to seek it on the floor, then giving up my search as it struck me that Mr. Godwin and Moll could not have left the house had the door been locked on the inside. "I do believe we are locked in and made pris oners. " "Why, sure, this is not Mr. Godwin's doing I" cries he. " 'Tis Simon," says I, with convio tiou, seeing him again in my mind, standing behind Mr. Godwin, with wicked triumph in his face. - "Is there no ether door but this one?" asks Dawson. "There is one at the backbut I have nef er yet opened that for lack of a key. " And now setting one thing against an other and recalling how I had before found the door open, when I felt sure I had locked it fast, the truth appeared to They part silently. me namely, that Simon had that key and did get in the back way, going out by the front on that former occasion in haste upon some sudden alarm. "Is there never a window we can slip through?" asks Jack. "Only those above stairs. The lower are all barred. " " A fig for his bars. Does he think we have neither hands nor wits to be hin dered by this silly woman's trick?" 4 'Tis no silly trick. He's not the man ' to do an idle thing. There's mischief in this." "What mischief can he do us more than he has done, for I see his hand in our misfortune? What mischief, I say? Out with it, man, for your looks betray fear of something worsa " 44 is5? Wr rT. i "ill rogues. )CV CD A Kihf DADDPTTuiTMiMUff 7 f GUTHSRAIKC0IUNG VfNCf 9N(r WOTTVt JAWt Of OfTH trr.rtf J 00b jraun, jupic, 1 flreaa ne aim gune tu fetch help and will lodge us in jail for this business." "Jail!" cries he in a passion of des peration. "Why, this will undo Moll forever. Her husband can never forgive her putting such shame upon him. Rouse yourself, man, from your stupor. Get me something in the shape of a ham mer, for God's sake, that "we may burst our way from this accursed trap. " I bethought me of an ax for splitting wood that lay in the kitchen, and fetch ing it quickly I put it in his hand. Bid ding me stand aside, he let fly at the door like a madman. The splinter flew, but the door held good, and when he staid a moment to take a new grip on his ax I heard a clamor of voices outnide Simon's, higher than the rest, crying, "My new door," that cost me seven and eightpence!" "Tho lock, the lock!" says L "Strike that oft" Down came the ax, striking a spark of fire from the lock, which fell with a clatter at the next blow, but ere, we had time to open the door Simon and his party, entering by the back door, forced us to turn for our defense. Perceiving Dawson armed with an ax, however, these fellows paused, and the leader, whom I recognized for the constable of our parish, carrying a staff in one hand and a lan thorn in t'other, cried to ns in the king's name to surrender ourselves. "Take us if you can," cries Dawson, "and the Lord have mercy on the first who oomes within my reach!" . Deftly enough old Simon, snatching the fellow's cap who stood next him, flings it at the candle that stands flaring on the floor and jostles the constable's lanthorn from his hand, so that in a moment we were all in darkness. . Tak ing us at this disadvantage, for Dawson dare not lay about him with his ax, for fear of hitting me by misadventure, the rascals closed at once, and a most bloody, desperate fight ensued. For, after the first onslaught, in which Dawson, droppiug his ax, as being use less at such close quarters, and I grap pled each our man, the rest, knowing not friend from foe in the obscurity and urged on by fear, fell upon each other, this one striking out at the first he met, and that giving as good as he had tak en, and so all fell a-mauling aud bela boring with such lust of vengeance that presently the whole place was of an up roar with the din of cursing, howling and hard blows. For my own lot I had old Simon to deal with, as I knew at once by the cold, greasy feel of his leath ern jerkin, he being enraged to make me his prisoner for the ill I had done him. Hooking his horny fingers about my throat, he clung to me like any wild cat, but stumbling shortly over two who were rolling on the floor we went down both with a crack, and with such violence that he, being undermost, was stunned by the fall Then, my blood boiling at this treatment, I got astride of him and roasted his ribs royally, and with more force than ever I had conceiv ed myself to be possessed of, and grow ing beside myself with this passion of war I do think I should have pounded him into a pulp but that two other com batants, falling across me with their whole weight, knocked all the wind out of my body, oppressing me bo grievous ly that 'twas as much as I could do to draw myself out of the fury and get a gasp of breath again. About this time the uproar began to subside, for those who had got the worst of the battle thought it advisable to sneak out of the house for safety, and those who had fared better, fearing a reverse of fortune, counted they had done enough for this bout, and so also withdrew. "Are you livingrKit?" asks Dawson then. "Aye," says I as valiantly as you please, "and ready to fight another half dozen such rascals," but pulling the broken door open, all the same, to get out the easier in case they returned. "Why, then, let's go," says he, "un less any is minded to have us stay. " No one responding to this challenge, we made ado to find a couple of hata and cloaks for our use and sallied out "Which way do we turn?" asks Daw son as we come into the road. "Whither would you go, Jack?" "Why, to warn Moll of her danger, to be sure." 1 I apprehended no danger to her and believed her husband would defend her in any case better than we could, but Daw son would have it we should warn them, and so we turned toward the court. And now upon examination we found we had come very well out of this fight, for save that the wound in Dawson's hand had been opened afresh we were neither much the worse. "But let us set our best foot fore most, Jack," says I, "for I do think we have done more mischief tonight than any we have before, and I shall not be greatly surprised if we are called to ac count for the death of old Simon or some of his hirelings. " "I know not how that may be," says he, "but I must answer for knocking of somebody's teeth out. CHAPTER XXXIL In the midst of our heroics I was greatly scared by perceiving a cloaked figure coming hurriedly toward us in the dim light ... ' "'Tis another, come to succor his friends," whispers I. "Let us step into thih:,-" i .n LiU:" irtnrn I.e. "lut oa & . TUouly one," With a swai riug gait and looking rtraight Mnr no, we had jN-d the flur, when a voie calls "Father!" and there, turning, we find that 'tis poor Moll in her hnwbawl's cloak. "Where is thy husband, child?" asks Dawson as he recovers from his aston ishment, taking Moll by the hand. "I have no husband, father," answers she piteously, ' "Why, sure he hath not turned you out of doors?" "No; he'd not do that," says she, "were I ten times more wicked than I am." "What folly then is this?" asks her father. . " 'Tis no folly. I have left him of my own free will, and shall never go back to him. For he's no more my husband than that house is mine (pointing to the court). "Both were got by the same means, and both are lost. " Then briefly she told how they had been turned from the gate by Peter, and how Mr. Godwin was now as poor and homeless as we. And this news throw ing us into a silence with new bewil derment, she asks us simply whither we are going. - ! "My poor Moll !" is all the answer he can make, and that in a broken, trem bling voice. " 'Tis no good to cry, ' ' says she, dash ing aside her tears that had sprung at this word of loving sympathy and forcing herself to a more cheerful tone. "Why, let us think that we are just awake from a long sleep to find ourselves no worse off than when we fell a-dreaming. Nay, not so ill," adds she, "for you have a home near London. Take me there, dear." . ;' ' "With all my heart, chuck," answers her father eagerly. "There at least I can give you a shelter till your husband can offer better. " She would not dispute this point, though I perceived clearly her mind was resolved fully never to claim her right to Mr. Godwin's roof, but only begged we should hasten on our way, saying she felt chilled, and in passing Mother Fitch's cottage she constrained us to si lence and caution. Then, when we were safely past, she would have us run, still feigning to be cold, but in truth, as I think, to avoid being overtaken by Mr; Godwin, fearing maybe that he would overrule her wilL This way we sped till Moll was fain to stop with a little cry of pain, and clapping her hand to her heart, being fairly spent and out of breath. Then we took her betwixt us, lending her our arms for support, and falling into a more regular pace made good progress. , We trudged on till we reached Croy don without any accident, save that at one point Moll's step faltering, and she with a faint sob weighing heavily upon our arms, we stopped, as thinking her strength overtaxed, and then, glancing about me, I perceived we were upon that little bridge where we had overtaken Mr. Godwin and he had offered to make Moll his wife. Then I knew 'twas not fatigue .that weighed her down, and gauging her feelings by my own remorse I pitied this poor wife even more than I blamed myself, for had she revealed herself to him at that time, though he might have shrunk from marriage, he must have loved her still and so she had been spared this shame and hopeless sor row. . At Croydon we overtook a carrier on his way to London for the Saturday market, who for a couple of shillings gave us a place in his wagon with some good bundles of hay for a seat, and here was rest for our tired bodies, though little for our tormented minds, till we reached Marsh End, where we were set down, and so, the ground being hard with frost, across the marsh to Green wich about daybreak. ' Having the key of his workshop with him, Dawson took us into his lodgings without disturbing the other inmates Of the house, who might well have marveled to see us en ter at this hour with a woman in a man's cloak, and no covering but a handkerchief to her head, and MolL taking his bed, we disposed ourselves on some shavings in his shop to get a lit tle sleep. Dawson was already risen when I awoke, and going into his little parlor I found him mighty busy setting the place in order, which was in a sad bachelor's i pickle, to be sure all littered up with odds and ends of turnings unwashed plates, broken victuals, etc., just as he1 had left it "She's asleep," says he In a whisper, "and I'd have this room like a little palace against she comes into it, so do you lend me a hand, Kit, and make no more noise than you can help. The kitchen's through that door. Carry ev erything in there, and what's of no use fling out of the window into the road. " Setting to with a will, we got the parlor and kitchen neat and proper, plates washed, tiles wiped, pots and pans hung up, furniture furbished up, and everything in its place in no time. Then, leaving me to light a fire in the parlor, Dawson goes forth a-marketing, with a basket on his arm, in high glee. And truly to see the pleasure in his face later on, making a mess of bread and milk in one pipkin and cooking eggs in another, for now we heard Moll stirring in her chamber, one would have thought that this was an occasion for rejoicing rather than grief, and this was due not to want of kind feeling, but to the fond, simple nature of him, he being manly enough in some ways, but a very child in others. He did never see farther than his nose, as one says, and because it gave him joy to have Moll beside him once more he must needs think hopefully that she will quickly recover from this reverse of fortune, and that all will come right again. Our dear Moll "did nothing to damp his hoiies, but played her part bravely and well to spare him the anguish of re morse that secretly wrung her own i heart. She met us with a cheerful coun tenance, admired the neatness of the parlor, the glowing fire, ate her share of porridge, and finding the eggs cooked hard dolared she could not abide them sort. Then Mm w.nm w tier lamer Work hi Lithe, to hi delight, and beg ged ho would make her some cups for gg m being more to our present fash ion than eating them from one's hand. "Why," says he, "there's an old bed post in the corner that will serve me to a nicety. But first I must see our land lord and engage a room for Kit and me, for I take it, my dear," adds he, "you will be content to stay with us here. " "Yes," answers she, " 'tis a most cheerful view of the river from the win dows." She tucked up her skirt and sleeves to busy herself in household matters, and when I would have relieved her of this office she begged me to go and bear her father- company, saying with a piteous look in her eyes that we must leave her some occupation, or she should weary. She was pale, there were dark lines be neath her eyes, and she was silent, but I saw no outward sign of grief till the afternoon, when, coming from Jack's shop unexpected, I spied her sitting by the window, with her face in her hands, bowed over a piece of cloth we had bought in the morning, which she was about to fashion into a plain gown, as being more suitable to her condition than the rich dress in which she had left the court "Poor soul!" thinks L "here is a sad awaking from thy dream of riches and joy!" Upon a seasonable occasion I told Dawson we must soon begin to think of doing something for a livelihood a matter which was as remote from his consideration as the day of wrath. 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The rainfall has been very general and for the most part heavy amounting to over two inches over most of the east ern half of the state and in limited local ities in the western. On the night of the 27th and on the 28th a general and heavy rain storm passed over the state accompanied by high winds. This was followed by showers nearly every day in the week in the northeastern section and work has been much retarded through out this as well as the middle sections of the state by the wet condition of the soil. The weather has been very favorable for the growth of vegetation especially small grain and grass which have made very vigorous growth during the week. Rye is beginning 1o joint in the south ern counties. Alfalfa is reported from six inches in height in the central por tion of the state to a foot and a half in the southern. In the southern counties considerable progress has been made in planting corn which is-now about half completed in the southeastern corner of the state; else where but little progress has been made during the week owing to wet weather. REPORT BY COUNTIES SOUTHEASTERN SECTION. Butler Grass aud pastures in fine con dition, Corn planting well under way. Potatoes and vegetables doing nicely. Fruit trees in full bloom. Cass Wheat, oats arid all vegetation making vigorous growth. Rain has de layed work and but little corn .planted. Fruit prospects unusually good. Clay All vegetation making rapid growth. Grouud too wet in placps to plow. Pasturage plenty. Some dam age to buildings from high winds. ; Fillmore Plenty of rainfall. Small grass and pastures doing well. Alfalfa looking finely. Ground too wet to plow most of the week. Gage Small grain continues to look fine. Corn about half planted and the earliest coming up. Much high wind but no serious damage. Some chinch bugs in a few fields of wheat Pastures about ready for stock. Hamilton Ground rather too wet. Small grain and grass well along for the time of year. ' Jefferson Crops growing nicely. Fruit is not injured and isdoing finely. Plant-' ing more than half done. Some com plaint of chinch bugs. Johnson Light frost on night of the first but did uol damage except pota toes and beans on low ground. Early planted corn coming up. Corn about half planted. Some corn up. Some chinch bugs in the wheat. Lancasttr Good growing weather. Fruit tree set very full. Rye 1 e rinning to joint. Girden truck doing t e I. Nemaha Corn not yet half planted. Wheat, oat and potatoes look fine and have made gjod' growth. Plowing and listing for Coi n in progress. Nuckolls Corn about half planted. Seed coming well. Hard winds on the 28th have whipped small grain Consider ably and some buildings blown down. Otoe Smalt grain and pastures in good condition. About half the farmers have commenced planting. Some corn up. Fall wheat looks fine. Apple crop very promising. Grape vines not doing ho well. Chinch bugs numerous. Cher ries as large an peas. , Pawnee Week cloudy aud cool. Wheat looks very fine. Oatsuot looking so well. Corn looks rather pale but a good stand. Fruit doing well. Chinch bugs plenty.. . Polk Small grain three to eight inches high. Alfaifa one to two feet and a good stand. Heavy rains have retarded farm work. r Saline Much corn planted but not half done. . Fine growing week and ground in splendid condition. Saunders Heavy rains have delayed work half the week but planting has be gun. Rains came mostly at night in suring sufficient sunshine so that all crops have made splendid growth. Seward Plowing retarded by wet weather. Small crain looks well. Some planting done. Fruit prospects good. Thayer Small grain doing; well. Corn planting in full blast and some coming up. Alfalfa twelve to eighteen inches high. Fruit still in good condition. YorkWork has made little progress owing to rain. Pastures good. Many farmers are ready to plant but ground too wet. NORTHEASTERN SECTION. Antelope Small grain doing well. Pastures good. Some low ground too wet to plow. Some planting done. Boyd Corn planting had generally commenced but was stopped by the heavy rain of the 28 th and work at a standstill from wet weather. Alfalfa eight inches high. Cedar Small grass doing well. Ground very wet. Fruit trees well advanced. Grass three to four inches high. Some potatees up. Field work a week behind. Colfax Too wet. Bottoms under water and some grain turning yellow. Crops generally growing finely. Cuming Small grain looks well. Ground rather wet. Dakota Almost continuous rains have moistened the ground down deep. 1 iwm -YX ' ' mil; nm S raciffT.rm MH fti S moii ito rmn inch I , lpcnee 1 He well. Plowing fup corn commenced. Grass well adtanced for the season. Djxon Itainy days have retarded plowing. Ground well soaked. Very little corn planted. Heavy rains have washed plowed land badly. Dodge Small grain and pastures lu excellent condition. Some early pota toes up ana iruit in full bloom. Douglas Rain hasimpeded farm work! All small grain in excellent shape. Grass growing fast. Soil in excellent condition. Holt Everything growing very fast. Plowing for corn well advanced and planting begun. Early apples in full bloom. Knox Crops have grown rapidly. A good week for transplanting trees. Ground wet down very deep. Madison Rye and alfalfa have made wonderful growth wheat and oats doing finely. Corn planting begun but ground too wet. Beet planting commenced. Platte Good showers and high tem perature have made vegetation progress rapidly. Oats, rye and wheat are ae good as they can be. Alfalfa knee high and and a large acreage. Sioux City, Iowa Farm work delayed by rain. Pastures fine. Stanton Heavy rains have retarded all farm work. Ground ready for plant ing. Thurston Fine rains and all vegeta tion doing well. Washington Plowing for corn much delayed by wet weather. Rain on five days of the week. Wayne Prairie grass far enough ad vanced to afford good feed for stock. Small grain making remarkable growth. Farmers about ready to begin plantingr Yankton, South Dakota Rain every day until Saturday. Some little corn already planted but planting not gen eral. Small grain looks well. CENTRAL SECTION. Boone Crops in fine shape. Some corn planted, alfalfa showing fine growth. Some early corn up. Buffalo Some corn listed. Breaking for corn about completed. - ism all grain and grass making rapid growth. Custer Small grain never looked bet ter. Some corn planted. Early potatoes np. Pastures very good. Dawson Winter wheat and rye ad vancing rapidly. Grass the best ever known at this season. Alfalfa thirteen inches. Early potatoes coming up. Greeley Plenty of moisture. Wheat and oats making good growth alfalfa six to eight inches high and wild grass so good that cattle are being turned out to pasture. Plowing for corn well advanced and considerable corn planted in south ern part of the connty. Hall Cloudy aud cool. Small grain never better at this season. Fruit all t'v't rnul1' lie swkeij. A little eorn planted. Fruit trees budding hee.vier than usual. Howard Fine growing weather. Ground on splendid condition. Planting under way. Stock is now living on pas tures. Early potatoes up. Fruit trees in are the finest condition. Kearney Crops more forward than usual for the season. Corn planting well r under way. Light frosts in low places. Loup Small grain growing finely. Some corn planted. Merrick Heavy rains have retarded planting and set things back. Water standing every where. ' Nance Plowing progressing slowly from wet weather. Small grain and ffas--tures doing well. Fruit trees in bloom. Sherman Crop conditionsgood. Fruit trees in bloom and very full. Alfalfa six inches high. Some corn planted. Early ' ' potatoes coming up. Valley Weather has been favorable for work in the field and crops could not l6ok better. Cherries, plums, apples and peaches in full bloom. Wheeler But little work done. Grass growing nicely. Wild fruit in bloom. Little corn'planted yet. SOUTHWESTERN SECTION. Adams. Week favorable for crops but heavy rains have retarded farm work. hail on the 1st injured fruit slightly. Wheat and oats in splendid condition. (,hABP All ppnna trm roinrr nnftlv About one fourth the corn planted. Q DTnnnrl wet rlnwn varv Aaar "Rnrltr nn. 7 tatoes up. - Good prospects for sraali -fruit. S Dundy Severe wind and rain storm on the 28th but no damage except to tender garden stuff. Small grain doing well. Corn planting in full blast, pastures good. Franklin All crops making good growth. Corn planting in progress. Pastures good. Frontier Crops growing finely. Some high winds but no damage. Planting commenced in earnest. No frost to hurt. Ground in fine condition. Furnas Some rye nearly two feet high Planting well under way. - Corn coming well. Some potatoes up. Harlan Light frost on the morning of the 30th but no damage. Small grain lookinc well fVirn nlnntincr nnrlar full headway. Alfalfa big for the time of yeair Potatoes coming upnicely. 1 nitcncooK iTrnsa crnwinir tine y uea i iooks wen. some corn up ami a large acreage being planted. Ground in fine condition. Lincoln Small grain doine finely. Con siderable corn planted. Ground wet . down to two and a half feet. Red Willow Farmers are pushing the planting. Small grain and grass grow ing nicely. . Webster Good week for sraali grain; too cool for corn. Slight frost Wednes day night and fruit slightly damaged. WESTERN SECTION. Cheyenne Fine rains this week. Small grain about all up. Deuel A very favorable week for crops, and everything in fine condition. A large acreage of barley being put in. Fruit trees in bloom. Som' plowing for earn. Keith Wheat . covering the ground. Rye never looked better. Barley and oats coming up. Farmers plowing for corn. Some damage to spring wheat from heavy rains. Kimball We?k rather cool, but crops have made good growth. Some corn planted. Smali grain looking fine. Logan Wheat about all up and grow ing finely. Powing for corn in progress. Pastures good and stock Relf supporting. Ground in better condition than for years. Scott's Bluff Wheat looking well. Some oats up. Acreasre of corn will be small here. . Now is the time so subscribe. To say j that the opportunity will never return!'' again wouia be to predict the improH bable. but there in no time like the nm. Bent and no better use to which a dollar can uo put. Buy Coin's Financial School, read it, loan it to your neighbor. Push the good work along. We have them for eale at 15 cents per copy. 1 V