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I I THE NEBRASKA INDEPEDENT. lor ROGUES ..jLCi vf I ? Guar HtsA mcoamc wcar C2v6NT Ufft. gV MACMILLAN (Continued from last week.) "Aye, but when that's gone?" says I 'That's a good way hence, Kit, but there never was such a man as you for going forth to meet troubles half way. However, I warrant I shall find some jobs of carpentry to keep us from beg ging our broad when the pinch comes. " Not content to wait for this pinch, I resolved I would go into the city and inquire there if the booksellers could give me any employment, thinking I might very well write some good ser- Jtpied her sitting by the window. mons on honesty, now I had learned the folly of roguery. Hearing of my purpose the morning I was about to go, Moll takes me aside and asks me in a quaver ing voice if I knew where Mr. Godwin might be found. This question stagger ed me a moment, for her husbund's name had not been spoken by any of us since the catastrophe, and it came into my mind now that she designed to re turn to him, and I stammered out some foolish hint at Hurst Court. "No, he is not there," says he, "but I thought maybe that Sir Peter Lely" "Aye," says I. "He will most likely know where Mr. Godwin may be found. ' ' "Can you tell me where Sir Peter lives?" "No, but I can learn easily when I am in the city." "If you can, 'write the address and send him this, " says she, drawing a let ter from her breast. She had writ her husband's name on it, and now she pressed her lips to it twice, and putting the warm letter in my hand she turned away, her poor mouth twitching with emotion. I knew then that there was no thought in her mind of seeing her hus band again. I carried the letter with me to the city, wondering what was in it. I know not now, yet I think it contained but a few words of explanation and farewell, with some prayer maybe that she might be forgiven and forgotten. Learning where Sir Peter Lely lived, I myself went to his house, and he not being at home I asked his servant If Mr. Godwin did sometimes come there. "Why, yes, sir, he was here but yes terday," answers he. "Lideed never a day passes but he calls to ask if any one hath sought him. " "In that case," says I, slipping a piece in his ready hand and fetching out Moll's letter, "you will give him this when he conies nest. " "That I will, sir, and without fail. But if you would see him, sir, he bids me say he is ever at his lodging in Hol born from 5 in the evening to 8 in the morning." " 'Twill answer all ends if you give him that letter. He is in good health, I hope." "Well, sir, ho is and he isn't, as you may say," answers he, dropping into a familiar, confidential tone after casting his eye over me to be sure I was no great person. "He ails nothing, to be sure, for I hear he is ever afoot from morn till even a-searching hither and thither, but a more downhearted, rueful looking gentleman for his age I never see. 'Twixt you and me, sir, I think he hath lost his sweetheart, seeing I am charged, with Sir Peter's permission, to follow and not lose sight of any lady who may chance to call here for him. " I walked back to Greenwioh across the fields, debating in my mind whether I should tell Moll of her husband's dis tress or not, so perplexed with conflict ing arguments that I had come to no de cision when I readied home. Moll spying me coming, from her window in the front of the house, met me at the door in her cloak and hood and begged I would take her a little turn over the heath. "What have you to tell me?" asks she, pressing my arm as we walked on. "I have given your letter to Sir Peter Lely's servant, who promises to deliver it faithfully to your husband. " "WIL" says she, after a little pause of silence, "that is not alL" " You will be glad to know that he is well in health, ' ' says L And then I stop again, all hanging in a hedge for not knowing whether it were wiser to speak or hold my tongue. "There is something else. I see it in your face. Hide nothing from me, for love's lake," says she piteously. Where upon, my heart getting the better of my head, which, to be sure, was no great achievement. I told alias I have set it down here. "Mr dear, dear love I Mr darling 4 CO, says she in the ena, ana tnen she would have it told all over again, with a thousand questions, to draw forth more, and these being exhausted she asks why I would have concealed so much from her, and if I did fear she would seek him. "Nay, my dear, " says L " Tis t'othi er way about For if your husband does forgive you and yearns but to take you back into his arms it would be an un natural, cruel thing to keep you apart Therefore, to confess the whole truth, I did meditate going to him and showing bow we, and not you, are to blame in this matter, and then telling him where he might find you, if on reflection be felt that he could honestly hold you guiltless, but ere I do that, as I see now, I must know if you are willing to this accommodation, for if you are not then are our wounds all opened afresh to no purpose but to retard their healing. " She made no reply nor any comment for a long time, nor did I seek to bias her judgment by a single word, doubt ing my wisdom. But I perceived by the quivering of her arm within mine that a terrible conflict 'twixt passion and principle was convulsing every fiber of her being. At the top of the hill above Greenwich she stopped, and, throwing back her hood, let the keen wind blow upon her face as she gazed over the gray flats beyond the river. And the air seeming to give her strength and a clear er perception she says presently: "Accommodation!" And she repeats this unlucky word of mine twice or thrice, as if she liked it less each time. "That means we shall agree to let by gones be bygones and do our best to get along together for the rest of our lives as easily as we may. " "That's it, my dear," says I cheer fully. "Hush up the past, continues she in the same calculating tone. "Conceal it from the world if possible. Invent some new lie to deceive the curious, and hood wink our decent friends. Chuckle at our success and come in time" (here she paused a moment) "to chat so lightly of our past knavery that we could wish we had gone further in the business. " Then turning about to me she asks, "If you were writing the story of my life for a play, would you end it thus?" My dear," says I, "a play's one thing, real life's another, and believe me, as far as my experience goes of real life, the less heroics there are in it the better parts are those for the actors in't ' ' She shook her head fiercely in the wind, and, turning about with a brusque vigor, cries: "Come on. I'll have no ac commodation. And yet, " says she, stop ping short after a couple of hasty steps and with a fervent earnestness in her voice, "and yet, if I could wipe out this stain, if by any act I could redeem my fault, God knows I'd do it, cost what it might, to be honored once again by my dear Dick." ' " "This comes of living in a theater all her life," thinks L And indeed in this, as in other matters yet to be told, the teaching of the stage was but too evi dent. CHAPTER XXXni. Another week passed by, and then Dawson, shortsighted as he was in his selfishness, began to perceive that things were not coming all right, as he had ex pected. Once or twice when I went into his shop I caught him sitting idle be fore his lathe, with a most woebegone look in his face. "What's amiss, Jack?" asks I one day when I found him thus. He looked to see that the door was shot, and then says he gloomily : "She doesn't sing as she used to, Kit; she doesn't laugh hearty. " I hunched my shoulders. "She doesn't play us any of her old pranks," continues he. 'She doesn't say one thing and go and do t'other the next moment, as she used to da She's too good." What could I say to one who was fond enough to think that the summer would come back at his wish and last forever? She s not the samo, Kit, he goes on. "Jno, not by ao years, une would gay she is older than I am, yet she's scarce the age of woman. And I do see she gets more pale and thin each day. D'ye think she's fretting for him?" . "Like enough, Jack," says L "What would you? He's her husband, and 'tis as if he was dead to her. She cannot be maid again. 'Tis young to be a wid ow and no hope of being wife ever more." . 'God forgive me," says he, hanging his head. "We didit for the best," saysL "We could not foresee this. ' ' It so happened that night that Moll oould eat no supper, pleading for her excuse that she felt sick. "What is it, chuck?" says Jack, set- tins down his knife and drawing his chair beside Moll's. "The vapors, I think," says she, with a faint smile. "Nay," says he, slipping his arm about her waist and drawing her to him. "My Moll hath no such modish humors. 'Tis something else. I have watoked ye, and do perceive yon eat less and less. Tell us what ails you. " "Well, dear," says she, "I do believe 'tis idleness is the root of my disorder. " After this we sat silent awhile, look ing into the embers ; then Jack, first to give expression to his thoughts, says : "I think you were never so happy in vour life. Moll, as that time we were in f-iUUi, li'H tun 1 leiuiiMi't trr Itfiiiijf b i frj from care uiyself after we got out of the bauds of that gentleman rob ter. There's a sort of infections briht ne in the sun, and the winds, blew which way they may, do chase away dull thoughts and dispose one to jollity. Eh, sweetheart? Why, we met never a tattered vagabond on the road but he was hallooing of ditties, and a kinder, more hospitable set of people never lived. With a couple of rials in your pocket you feel as rich and independent as with 100 in your hand elsewhere." At this point Moll, who had hitherto listened in apathy to these eulogies, sud denly pushing back her chair, looks at us with a strange look in her eyes, and says under her breath, "Elche!" "Barcelony for my money," responds Dawson, whose memories of Elche were not so cheerful as of those parts where we had led a more vagabond life. "Elche!" repeats MolL twining her fingers, and with a smile gleaming iu her eyes. "Does it please you, chuck, to talk of these matters?" "Yes, yes!" returns she eagerly. "You know not the joy it gives me. " " 'Twas near about this time of the year that we started on our travels," said I. "Aye, I recollect 'twas mighty cold when we set sail, and the fruit trees were all bursting into bloom when we came into France. I would we were there now; eh, Moll?" "What, dear?" asks she, rousing her self at this direct question. "I say, what would you give to be back there now, child?" "Oh, will you take me there if I would go?" ".With all my heart, dear MolL Is there anything in the world I'd not do to make you happy?" She took his hand upon her knee, and caressing it says : "Let us go soon, father." "What ! Will you be dancing of fan dangoes again?" asks he, and she nods for reply, though I believe her thoughts, had wandered again to some other mat ter. "I warrant I shall fall into the step again the moment I smell garlic, but I'll rehearse it an hour tomorrow morn ing, that we may lose no time. Will you have a short skirt and a waistcloth again, Moll?" She, with her elbows on her knees now and her ehin in her hands, looking into the fire, nodded. "And you, Kit," continues he "you'll get a guitar and play "tunes for us, as I take it you will keep us com pany still. " "Yes, you' may count on me for that," says I. "We shan't have Don Sanchez to play the tambour for us, but I wager I shall beat it as well as he, though, seeing he owes us more than we owe him, we might in reason call upon him, and" "No, no; only we three," says Moll. "Aye, there's enough in all con science, and seeing we know a bit of the language we shall get on well Moll, looking into the fire, nodded. enough without him. I do long, Moll, to see you a-flinging over my shoulder, with your clappers going, your pretty eyes and cheeks all aglow with pleasure and a house full of senors and cabal leros crying 'Holal' and casting their handkerchiefs at your feet. " Moll fetched a long, fluttering sigh, and turning to her father says in an ab surd way : " Yes, dear, yes. When shall we go?" ' Then, falling to discussing particulars, Dawson, clasping his hands upon his stcanach, asked with a' long face if at this season we were likely to fall in with the equinoxes on our voyage, and also if we could not hit some point of Spain so as to avoid crossing the Pyre nees mountains and the possibility of falling again into the hands of brigands. To which I replied that, knowing noth ing of the northern part of Spain and its people, we stood a chance of finding a rude climate, unsuitable to traveling It this time of year, and an inhospitable reception, and that, as our object was to reach the south as quickly as possi ble, it would be more to our advantage to find a ship going through the straits which would carry us as far as Alicante or Valencia. And, Moll supporting my argument very vigorously, Dawson gave way with much less reluctance than I expected at the outset But, indeed, the good fellow seemed now ready to make any sacrifice of himself so that he might see his Moll joyous again. When I entered his shop the next morning, I found him with his coat off, cutting capers, a wooden platter in his hand for a tambourine and the sweat pouring down his face. "I am a couple of stone or so too heavy for the boleros," gasps he, com ing to a stand, "but I doubt not by the time we land at Alicante there'll not be an ounce too much of me. " j Learning that a convoy for the Le-. , vant was about to set sail with the next j favorable wind from Chatham, we took j horse and rode there that afternoon, and by great good luck we found the Faithful Friend, a good ship bound for Genoa in Italy. Whereof Mr. Dixon, the master, having intent to enter andvict ual at Alicante, undertook to carry us there for 10 a head, so being we could get all aboard by the next evening at sundown. Here was short grace, to be sure, but we did so dispatch our affairs that we were ernburkeJ m tiue time, and by day break the following morning were under weigh. (To be Continued.) Heart Disease Cured By Dr. Miles' Heart Cure. 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