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TTTT ! nrATTA T ATT."V i"V A "V 1 i X 1 innn Author of "The StlcUlt Minister , " "The Raiders , " "The Lilac Sun.Honnct , " "Cleg Kelly , " "The Keif Axe , " Etc. COPYRIGHT. 1898. UNDER TUB NAME OF "LITTLE ANNA MARK. " DT R. S. CROCKETT. Cll MM Hit l\ . M'I'M ( i I nriiliiri. ThD next part of the talc I will tell briefly as I may. Philip Stansflcld , my father , was tiled nml condemned to death according to the word of the king's advocate The two women with him , Jnnet Marl ; nnd Roblna .Johnston , were sent "need to be carried nway over ncas nnd there 'o bo soM for sHvcs Jn the Virginian or Can.Mnlan plantations Now nil these Ihrco lay In the Tolbooth of Edinburgh walling their ncver.il dooms and mcanwhllo many things Happened to lib who nbodo nt New Mllns In the vale ot Morcham. Tor three or four days after the taking nway of my father I felt all the son nations of terror as strotiRly as before , but aftur a while the feeling was blunted and In a surprising degree I plucked up heirl Especially as hoon as I hoard thdt 1'lilllp Stnnslleld was condemned to death , and would never come back to trouble us again , vMch , I take It , IB a strange thing for a sou to feel about his own father. I was still abiding with m > mother , no morn In the pleasant , humming Mlln bouse bv the Weir , btit Instead at the lonely llttlo ooltngo of the lodge Yett , sunk In the glcomy pines of Moreham wood. I h.ul liatod It from the first , and now took over opportunity of slipping off to Humph ray Spurwaj's mill In the \alley , where I coillfl bn happy with the weavers and dyers and with all the hum anil bustle of the mill going bllthosomcly on about mo. Hut after a whllo Umphr.iy Spurway would not permit mo to come so often "Is your mother left all alone In that gloomy house' ' " ho would ask , nnd when I told him "ajo" hovould frown and shake Ills head and fold the webs of cloth all wrong. So that oven William Bowman would smllo covertly , and taking the piece out of his master'H hands would do It him self. "Flo on you ; go your ways home , laddie , " ho would say. "It Is not meet tint jour inothor , u young and fair lad ) , should be thus left alono' I'shaw' ' " And he would knock .v drying rack with his foot nnd then kick it again for falling Whereat , very gravely , William Hownun would pick It up and sot the harmless thing In Us place again , Knowing his master's wajs and custom when troubled. "Then why did jou send my mother away from jour house , Umphraj Spurway ? " I would say. "Why did jou not ask her to Htay altogether with jon when she was here If jou think no much of her being lone some In the lodge Yctt. I did not want to go , and I am sure that she did not " "What's that what's that ? " ho would Walter out , looking as if ho would knock my head off. "God'H help ask jour mother w to stay ! What does the loon .say ? Out o' my mill with you1 Ask bib mother to stay ! Ah , would 1 not9 The varlet , to wpeak so Hot homo to your mother at a dog's trot or I will set the bloodhounds on you And nee , take this basket of trout with jou , sir- In lah , and do not dare to show jour face at the Miln house for a month of Sundajs ! " "Not to tell jou how my mother liked the trout ? " I would adventure , for I was beginning to know Umparay Spin way as well as William How man knew him , and to sc scmi lount upon the knowledge mi "Well , at any rate , let mo not see your fie face before tomnnow , " ho would grumble "I will not ha\o bojs like jou setting my cirdlng and spinning lasses by the ears al and wasting my men's times for which Iliac thwl lia\c < to piy so dear. ( ! et awaj ! " wl Yet for all that I went Juut when I was th rcid > . sh Hut I must hiihton to tell rtbat befell my- th H > lf soon after this , whllo my father lay In fe the Tolmooth , under sentence of deith. I In think I hive not hlthoito mentioned my wi he Unelo John , have by Infeience , as It vveie , fo when Sir James , my poor giandfather , complained an plained to his friend that his second son , to whom ho had looked to be some comfort to i Ills old ago , wiiN faht following In the footsteps - lai stops of his bi other In Now Mr John Staimlleld was a youth ot quite illflerent appearance from my poor COng father. Tor ono thing ho was very thin ng nnd wlie-drawn , with a palo face , almost on bloodless as It seemed , with his fnco all ono pared down till It was like a bird's , with a vvl hallow skin drawn tightly over prominent fO cheekbones and a no e a llttlo hooked. pi Ho was a lawyer to hirf business , but not on of the busy soil of thorn , like the gray-ejed ev klng'd advocate , Sir James Dalrjmplo of 'n Stair Ho had never hid any work to do In BI' . his lifo at his own propoi bushier , but with BI'mi mi othcin like him ho spent most of his time lai In telling stories to the detriment of other laimi mi people , notably of tlu > inert ! successful mem nil bers of his own profrsslen. So I found out 611 afterward , for at this tlmo ho wrared but PO little of his Iclsuie on n lad llko me 1'or jeais the blethers ha 1 hated each other , father with ' ha roldlallj mj the prodigal's contempt of the IOMI open blnnei , whom he In eilled the ' ' dork' ' CO 'lawjei's or Illue Hags , vlth other grosti and Insult Ing names that I gr will nut vv.lu . here \\hi1o John haitl noth wl ing to his bi other , having a great dlsllko teA on rlt an go ; up CO ar hihi ill gn ; fn he as thTl A Non-intoxicating Tlmi Malt Utract that is mi ils especially Recom- Wl menJed for Weak of Nmi's , Indigestion OS and Insomnia. Jn Jnmi BLATZ mi MALT-VIVINE faie fL ' - * _ ij _ " , LJ fyqT-ipir' pt ffi GttifUEEa&B * e BUILDS UP A DEPLETED SYSTEM. dli th HAVE YOU EVKR TRIED IT ? bl ALL DRUGGISTS fr ; Prepared by VAU BLATZ BREWING CO. to > lii.vvi uii : , i. , \ , I' ! ' onujli.i branch el' ; ' 1412 Douglas St. , Tel. (081 ( el'P to blows and open warfare , remembering toomaiked bonea and the merry clink of the doubtless the beatings and bullIngs heslher coin. " hul received from bis senior In . youth. So TnlB , uia the mnn whom my Unolo Jolltl he said nothing , onlj bode his tlmo and sup-hm , ciloscll , n&ssl | hn | , lu hls purpose , piled my grandfather with everything hoAH , from , | , nol n , col of f0vcn,0 ( umn | could hear or Invent to the discredit of hlsmy father m , nc.oulll ot hla ttlfo llld ho HutnZr the0' ' ' " "llh ' * - Philip Stanslleld came home , laet time from the low countries and began lor fcnul Mark"I1011 M < t rcl"rul"Ul , "C" to be a ehamo over all the country side there l1' ' t circumstances ns ho found them , cnmo a day when the brothcrr met It vvrw8nBely revolving tu make the most out of .it Luck } Uarton's hotel In the Orassmarkettnem- ivhere the north coaches stop. Their greeting must have sounded strange rom brother to brother. "Hej , Dell's rattlebag , lang-nebblt Jock he supplnnter , where away ? Come nnd ake a drink with an honest man for once n jour worthless , peevish life' " That was Philip Stansllold's salutation , Tied from the farther side of the wide iquarc. And so , leaving his legal com- unions , John had gene to speak to hla irothor. From that time he had icircelj left my father so long as ho re- nalned In Edinburgh. He had Philip Stans- ield In his rooms He plied him with drink le kept knives nnd pistols away from him vhen ho waxed desperate In his cups. In ill this ho was assisted by one Saul Mark , ho husband of the buxom besom Janet , vhoni we wivv Hrst at the change house by ho cross roads of New Mllns Saul Mark was a strange man , rather hortlsh and thlcklsh , his skin browned like' ' hat of a nan long In hot countries where ' ever and rum had salted him against all 1 nfectlon nnd other feebler diseases He i vore largo silver rings In his ears , a thick loop of the same metal ot. . his left thumb or luck , . .ml . when he was In no company md awaj from a town he often wore a red landkerchfef tied about his head Instead of decent blue kllmarnock bonnet And that nst feared people more than anything as be- ng , of a spice piratical and murdeious. Ho had appeared quite Middenly In the ounlrjslde ono fair day about nine jears go Ho get up a dicing and gambling table in the green at Moreham , to which all the oung sparks and bold , swearing blades ilthln twenty miles re-sorted From this time orth ! the silent man with the rings twinkling nlcly in his cars had plajed many a day in Moreham green with varjing luck One vcnlng there came an olderl } laborer elbow- tig , among the laird's bens , who put down n .oat ' or two , which he saw swept off In n few noments in the quick give nnd take of n i.rgor game 'Iho amount of his loss was not iitich , but It was the elderly countrjman's 11 There sconud to him dishonestj In the udden disappearance of his long-cherished locket keeping pieces. With n spasm of sudden anger ho sot his anil to his hip to draw a dagger , and , grasp- ng ; the keeper of the gambling table by the ollar , he found himself looking Into the Tinning face of death with n readiness thich seemed unean.iy and unnatural to the .lookers The brown man with the eai- Ing.s had divined the Intention of his asball- nt before he know them himself , and , while olng on with the game , had kept his hand ipon the but' of a pistol which laj ready ocked In a drawer at his right hand The countrj man gasped and gurgled In- rtlculately. A gluey foam gathered about ils lips Ho uttered no Intelligible word , lift mouth was too dry. Ho might have lied there nnd then by thu hand of the amestcr had not a girl wailed sudde.ilj . rom behind. "Do not kill my father spare my father1" The pistol was still steady nt the man'n lead The gambler's hand did not quiver his dark , beady eyes wandered once to he beauteous , Imploring face nt his elbow rhi'ii , with a sudden Jerk , ho threw the nan back from him so that he measured ; length on the ground. The assailant ins Andrew Jolnibton , cottier of the farm Hoglc Thorn and the girl wan his young- ( daughter , the came whom wo know us 1111 ct Mark. They were married in a week and In n nonth Janet Mark was back with her ather and her husband on his way to the I eaport town of Aberlelth , with cards nnd llto and painted tables Then , not for' hrco yearn was I hern heard In the land the lithesome : lilt of bis Ben-songs or the .e- ralu of his summonti when he called < us- omers : to Ills table. "Tho cards , the cards , the bonn } , bonny ilcturs1 Ombre , trlc-trao and lanterloo leek and dice ! Money to feet , money to pend , money to burn ! Come one , come all the painted paper , the rattle of the pock- So It came about that my father , being In i prison ready to meet his end , my uncle ap peared at New Mllns with a paper signed and sealed , bearing that Philip Stansfkld the jounger , being heir to all the prop erties and estates of his g.andfathor , his father , Philip Stnnslleld the eldei , being under sentence of death , had appointed Ills brother and Saul Mark Joint cuiators of nil ( ! the aforesaid infant's goods till ho should be ot age This to take effect only in case of the death of the said Philip Stanslleld the elder , presently In the Tolbooth of Edlnbu.gh My mother wai much troubled at this and g.Ieved . sore at U , as at first did my grand mother also , down by the Q.eat House Hut John soon reconciled her to It by nccom- panjIiiK her regularly to the kirk nnd tb- poclally by speaking ever pialbefully of Mr. John Hell and his sermons. Hut all those projects and purposes , overt 'and Fcc.et . , were In a moment blown upon 'by certain startling oocunenecs which In a moment put a new face upon all our lives And these 1 will tell in order even a& they happened , that the reader may follow tholr effect upon us , even as my mother nnd I felt them lu the Yett hoi.bo . ot New Mllnb. \ . Till' l.fixt Mulit In rrlirilllri. The last night In Tebnmry came upon us , a night ever memorable to all of us who had been affected bj the sad death of Sir James Staiibflold It was the very daj set for the ! execution of mj father In Edinburgh , and j we hoped foi news in the morning I had been over nil daj al the mills of Umphray Spin nay , where , finding ho could , not prevent my coming about him , the ' Englishman had eat \VII1I in. How man to. give mo lessons , together with the lltllo I tangled-lnlied maiden , Anna Mn.k. . It was weirk that \Vllllam Howm.m liked well enough. Kor not only was he a good scholar , bit1 he was glad to bo qull of the thankless . tafak of superintending Ihe workers In thu | mill for the beat part of nn afternoon ' Then when It began lo grow dark Umph ray Spurway look mo by Iho hand and we went gladsomely togcthei over to the lllllo house among the pines where my mother dwelt At flr-Kl the Englishman lalkod easily anil answeied all my eiuestlnns , of which , as Is the wont of bojs , I asked verj many and of nery foolish sort. Hul as vvo neared the rottago of Iho Yolt , Umplnaj ho wa\ed silent , and when he replied at all his words were mostly spoken nt random. It had already all the promise of n wild night. Overhead the scud was ildlng east- waik , flecked nnd sullen , yet going fast ns J spume on a raging tide race. Lower a Ihin , almost Invisible , mist stcamenl nlong the land and combed itself through the trees I . like long blown maiden's hair. The leek of | the lum rose from the hearthatoiio through the rafters up to the outer air , peeped once over the chlmnojs , and then with a ( fide- Ion1 ; dive sped eabtward also down Iho wind Spite of all this II was nol yet dark , and snmetlmew In the bright blinks the sun him self lee > ked slantwise through the forest aisles and ruled the shadows of Hie tall trunks lilaik on lent } car's leaves , blue on Iho few half-melted wreaths of the winter snows I did not notice all these things at the tlmo. but thej come back to mo now as all the natural hurroundlngs of my boyhood - ' hood are wont to do , with vivid and oven startling clearness Kor nbout this time I lived to be haunted with a fear le.st I should forget or , ns it were , grow out of myself , nnd as thecais went past become some other perhon Why I was so anxious to keep my personality I know not Hut Hit ; case stood so In my mind , Tor Instance , I remember well a close fence of split plnoa vvhlrh extended I c from iho back of Ihe greal house of Xevv | r Mllns to the waternlilo of Esk It was , perhaps , 100 or COO feet In length , nnd the r pales vvero set exceedingly clo. o together v Vet I made it ms business lo know everj I Eovcral one of thorn by headmurk , back and front il the croon m < - > iUl ) on thi spli pM. the IhiMi niul pln > ps whin the wtt had seepu' in the clear jellovv bli h of the rrnln running like tears down the bark And know them I did , Inck ami front , and below. I could bind my own and wander till I laid my hnnd on a paling , stop cautiously uplift the corner of tlio handkerchief , take my snnrks , and then run over to mjsclf on the nt-\t two or three on either silo of me , there still unseen. In all this there was no apparent advantiKe to myself , nor , Indeed , hope of any. Hut the experiment may be accepted as typical of the many trials 1 made of my memory at that time A y ir or two afterwards , having other things to think nbout , I cared no Jot for all the spllt-plnc fences In the countrj side. Well , ns I say , t went skipping homo to my mother by Utuphray Spurway's side , propounding li.numer.iblo . questions , and not listening to one nnswcr In twent } During the latter half of the walk , however , both I question nnd answer were iiKstly blown away by the wind , which disconcerted me nothing. Tcr 1 was In high glee at bring- In ? my mother so desirable/ visitor When wo cniuo to the door of the lodge Yctt I knocked , nnd heard old Taleb ninka- berrj withdraw the bolts , clearing the lust from the holdfasts of the Iron rods , and his i ' own tin oil of the roopy vvcntlior nt the camp time. "Come thy wajs , Measler Phil , thy mother hath been a rare t.ikln' nboul ll.ee . Eh , Me.ister Spurwny ; nn' she will bo glad to see th > sen " And so bobbing forward with eager polite ness , mixed with an under grumble of com plaint umccrnlng his standing for that not thu limn and plirn nnd all else M"in while the vilnl grow wilder and wilder with out as It were rushing up the open alley of the pines , collecting Itself In the little open court janl and then illnging Itself In fury upon the small panes of the window , with the sudden impetuousnes * of n tiger's leap. Suddenly the night dropped like a curtain. Hut the flro onlj blazed brighter on the hearth. "Will jou bo pleased to draw In } our chnlr , hlr' " enid my * mother , ns , i fiercer gust than before shook the window , rattled the door , hroted In the- chimney nnd then Ioil ! , laughing fiendishly , down thu darkening aisles of the wood. I aw my mother shiver nnd glance out of the window. The creaking nnd straining beeches nnd pines could bo both seen nnd heard In the pauses of the furious gustn Their stilt arms otaod out like tall , gaunt gallow trees outside the windows. She rose nnd moved tow aid the cupboard. "It Is almost tlmo to tnko our four hours , " she said. "It seems to come early tonight nnd to bd moro welcome than tmtint. It darkens npace Will jou be pleased to stay and drink a cup of ten. My brother , the Gulncamau , brought mo some after Ills last ' vojage. Ho got It for hiving rendered flome service In his homecoming to n China ship. " " 1 llmiiK jou , madam , " said Umphraj' Spurwny , making my mother a courteous little bow. " 1 ought to be .stirring , but I ] must need * wait for that great pleasure" ' Then 111 } mother sent me upstal.s . for the Weal Indian sugar , which ( Just In case of accldcntH ) she kept locked In the grcal ma- hogniy chest ot drawers In her dressing. . - I . s > , . ftgfc JL ! 'i "TRAITOR AND TRAITOHHSS. I HAVE YOU HOTH ! AND NOW I WILL SEND YOU TO HELL TOGETHER ! " HE CRIED. ( indent "locmi-hagits In the back , " our old English servant led the way to whore my mother was silling , looking jounger and prettier than ever 1 had seen her , in the room that looks to the west through a kind of long allej' cut out among the pines The bunshlno ( or something else ) wab red on her cheek ns she Jumped up at sight of her guest , and letting all her embroidery stuff fall In a fluttering cloud , she gave Umphray Spurwaj he. hand , never looking nt him nor sajlng a word save to sc-old me for being such a trouble In bringing the gentleman all the vvaj hither on s-o cold a night. "O , ho docs not think thai , " I said , "he was , as nn\ln i lo come as a cat Is to see her klllens. " And aflcr Ihat I had all the talk to my self for some time. Umphray Spuiway sat down on a clnlr bj the lire at mj miothcr'b Invitation nnd In turn ho asked her not lo make a slr.inger of him , but to go on with her emhroldoiv wo.k . as before. And this , after a little blushing demur , she did I can boo her now Her roseleaf skin was bright n I had not seen it for ling joirs The flush of her vo.ith seemed hirdlv jet lost When she threaded her needle she would lift her sofl pad eves of blue a moment and noj nt some thing I was sajlng , or , as It might be , hmlle nt Umphray Spurway In a manner which be- Fought him to fo.glvo . the jouthful folly of my speeches Koi I mind on that occasion , as Indeed mostly when Mr Spurway ca'iio with me to FIO my mother nbout this lime , j ! I took the conversation In my own hands and conducted In person at least nine-tenths of It "Philip used to bo n silent child , " said my \ mother once , when n lull gave her a chance. ' I used to call him In Jest 'the Oraven Imago , ' fci he would Fit smiling j In his llttlo cot all day without a sound or , a cry Indeed he never spoke n word till J ho was more than two jears old Then one day all snddcnlj he began to speak , and , except when asleep , he hab never rightly slopped since " "Ho and lltllo Anna Mark arc n fine pair , " h.ild Umphiay Spurwaj' . "Ho Is properly niatohod Ihoro. I can hear thorn half nc.oss . the mill and I cannot loll vvl.lch Is talking the faste-r or which cares least what Iho other IH halng. " "Vou have Ihat child in the house with yon'aid my mother. And I knew bj her volco Unit hho was lebb pleased than usual. The name teemed somehow to grate upon her An , indeed , was email wonder. "YPH , " Hald Umphiay Spurwny. bending foiward a llttlo eagerly and leplylng more to my mother's tone than her words ; "jew. she Is a p.etty . bairn nnd when she grows as biddable as hhe Is clever I mistake muth bill she will prove a credll lo mo" My mother seemed to bo deep In thought , pulling . .bsent-mtndedlj at the thread and biting It off repeatedly without answering. "It may bo , " ho Mild at last , musing upon his woidx , "It may bo1 Oed grant jou are not deceived In her1 The ovll In the blood is hard to exorcise' ' " "hho is a rare good runner , " I said , In terrupting them "Sho can catch William Hovvman with 100 jnrds sla.t. " It was curlaui thai when my mother nnd i Umphiay Spurwaj wore together they gave much moro earnest consideration to my fool ish hoylEh upeechfH than either of them did when npa.t . So now Umphraj Spurway smiled with a grave altenllon ho never vouchsafed mo nt the mill where. Indeed , ns llko ns not , ho would liavo cuffed mo well for the JnicrruptJon. i "Can bho outrun jou ? " be asked. And J my mother nlt > o seemed to hang on my words "Oiilj up hill. " I said "I can match her on the level Holds and beat her hollow at running down hill " I did not add that this last was owing to my legs being each half a foot longer. Tor why bhould u boy confers thai a girl tan btal him al anything ? bo wo eat ami talked , and aa I tbluk , for- ' room. I went gladly , for such a chance came not often , and certainly was not to bo missed. And ab I stood by the curtain of the bedtoom cleansing Iho sllcklness from my flngero and wiping my mouth with the silken lining , I saw a dark figure from side to side o the wide , west-looking alloy In which a certain reddish light jet lingered , reluctanlly lo deparl altogether. Hut I thought nothing of this To. a servl- toi going lo Ihe great house or one of Mr. Spurvvaj's weavers In scaich of a hare to boll the pot woe no unusual sight at the Lodge Yett. I went down , and as I came near the door of the llltlo parloi in which 1 had left Um phraj Spurway and my mother , I piused for no reason at all connected wllh them , no : ( God wol ) vvilh an idea of spying upon their converse For espionage at least ( whatever my olhcr faults ) was never any p.rt of mj nature 1 heard my mother sij' , "It Is useless , Mr. Spuiway U Is , indeed , most useless I will not listen no. 1 can never llhten Heforo all I have my duly lo the boj' , and this of all daj s Is not the lime lo speak of such thing" . Think of him that wns my husband and Is so no moro ! " 1 could not heal what was said in reply by U.npliray . Spurwny , though I am sure mj mother W.IK vvooplng. Tor nt that moment I felt a hand close on the lobe of mj right ear , and old Caleb Cllnkaberrj bore me triumphant ! } to the door of iho parlor , wllh a j ' great piece of West India sugar In m > mouth , which I could neither swallow nor of } ct rid myself of , so high did he hold my head. Ho opened the door , crying , "See , nndam , what I caught this fine young gen tleman at1" Hut Ihat which vvo saw turned us to stone In the very doo.way. . My mother had dropped her | brolde.y . work and otood erecl Umphray Spuiway was ji.bt . Ictllng go her bind , which ' In ' ho had been holding. Hut that was not the , st srrprlbo and terror for me. al M } cjes vvero drawn irrcslhtlbly lo the window. It was ono of the narrow nnd high | he j Piench sorl opening in Iho middle , for the i hot-bo had been built In King Charles' timefi llmt il might be a summer pavilion for n | j0 former lady of New Mllns. Now the I | ) lattice stood open , and the wind rushed I aj howling triumphantly througn iho hou e , | 'u shutting- every door with diuidful clanging | c of Iron and the clatlcr and clink of falling | n and breaking ciockery. Trained in Iho blank blackness of the ope.ilng . appeared a head , wild , dlshcvclc'l , liniilly human , the tbioii bare and the ragged collar of a coal far lee wide appear ing benealh. Il was my falhcr , iho iinn vvo had thought already hanged by the neelc j In the ( Jrai-smaiket of Edinburgh ! I'hlllp Stanslleld , the pairleido. Ills ejo glanced nleing the level tube of a pislol barrel. "Trailer and Iralliehs , I have jou both1 And now I will bond jou to boll together' ' he cited , and so , without anoiher word , with shuttering distinctness , llred. With a little shrill cry my mother ( ot tered , HVVajed , cheeked herself , and then boftly bank back Into Umphray Spurwaj a arms. Then , quick as thought , the faeo van Ished from the window The leaves cHalu-d to The Englishman gave my mother into thi ! arms of Caleb Cllnkaberry and , without walling lo find his hat , ho pulled a pistol from his pockel , looked nt the priming , am ) rushed through iho front door of my mother's houeo Into Die black night in pur suit of the double murderer. til U'TIMl T. Till' I.HNl Muhl In I'rlininr ) , The last night In February came upon us , a night over memorable to all of us who hail been nffoclcd by the sad death of Sir James Slansfleld It was the very day net for the execution of m } father In Edinburgh , and wo hoped for news In the morning I had been over all day nt the mlllH of Umphray Spurway. where , finding ho could not prevent my coming about him , the Kng- llthnien had set \Vllllam How man to gito . 'me lessons , together with the lltllo tangle- h.trel mudon Anna Mark It was work Hat \\llllam Howuian Ilkrd well enough , for not only was hei a good wholar , but he was glad lo be quit of the tbanklres task of superintending the workers In the mill 'or the bet linn of the afternoon. Then when It began to grow- dark I'm- ' phray Spurwiv look me by the hand nnd wo v.ent glndsome'j ' together over to the llltlo heu e among the pines where my mother dwelt. At first the Englishman talked easily nnd answered all my questions , of v\hlch , as Is tht wont of bo.v , I asked very many and of n very foolish sort. Hut ns , wo neared the cottage of the Yett Umphray i waved silent and when he roplle-d nt all his | words wcro mostly spoken nt random. When we cntue to the door of the lodge Yctt 1 knocked , and henrd old Caleb Clink- nterry withdraw the bolts , clearing the rust from the hoUUnMs of the Iron rods , nnd hh old throat of the loopy weather at the same time i "Come thy wnjs , Macster I'hll , thy mother hath been In n rare takln' nbout thce. Eh , Mnester Spurwaj , nn' she will bo glad to sco ihjsen. " And so , hobbling forward with eager po liteness , mixed wllh an under grumble of complaint concerning his standing for that ancient "loomb.igus In the back , " our old English servant le > d the. waj lo where my 1 ' n.other wns sitting , looking jounger nnd prettier than ove. I bad seen her. In the loom that looks lo the west through a kind . of long alley cut out among the pines. The sunshine ( or no.nctl.ltig . . else ) wns red on her chee-k ng she Jumped up nt sight of her gt.est , and letting all her cmbrolderj stuff fall In n Muttering cloud , she gave Umphraj Spurwny her hand , never looking at him o" sajlng a word , save to scold mo for being such u trouble In bringing the gentleman all the way hither on so cold n night. "Will jou be pleased to draw In jour chair , sir" " said my mother , as a fiercer I gust than before shook the window , rattling the door , hooted In the chlmncj and then fled , laughing llendlshly down the darkenIng - . Ing aisles of the wood. ' I nw my mother shiver nnd glance out of I the window. The creaking nnd Ktralnlng beeches and pines could bo both seen and heard In the pauses of the furloim gusts Their stiff aims stood out llko tall , giunt ' gallons trees outtddo of the windows. She rose nnd moved to the cupboard I "It Is almost time to take our four hours , " nho said. "It heems to come carl } tonight | and to bo more welcome than usual It darkens apace. Will jou bo pleased to stay and drink n cup of tea ? My brother , the gulneamnn , brought mo some after his last vojage Ho got It for having rendered some service on his homecoming to a China i ship. " "I thank jou , madam , " said Umphray I Spurway , making my molher a courteous j lltllo bow. "I ought lo be Bllr.lng , but I | must needs wait for that great pleasure" Then my mother sent mo upslalrs for Ihe ' West Indian sugar , which ( just In case of accidents ) she kept locked In the great mahogany - hogany chest of drawers In her dressing room I went gladly , for Mich n chance came , not often and certainly was not to be missed. I And as I stood by the curtain of Ihe bedroom - ' room cleatifilng Ihe stickiness from my | fingorb and wiping my mouth with the silken lining , I c > aw a dark figure pass from side lo side of Iho wide , west-looking alley In which a certain i eddish light } et lin gered , reluctantly to depart altogelher Hut I thought nothing of this Kor a servitor , going to the great house or ono of Mr. Spurwaj'H weavers In search of n bare to boll the pot was no unusual night nt the i Lodge Yetl 1 went down , nnd as I came near the door ' of the lltllc pallor In which I had left1 Umphraj Spurwaj' and mj' molher , I paused for no reason nt all connected with them , nor ( God wet ) with any Idea of spji.ig . upon their conveinu , for espionage nt least ( whatever my other faulls ) was never any , I part of my nalure I henrd my molher say "It Is useless , Mr. Spurway. It Is , indeed , most useless 11 will not llhten no. I can never listen Be fore f ( all 1 liavo my duty to the boy , and Ihls of all days Is not the tlmo to speak of suchI things Think of him that was my husband J nnd Is no more' ' " | I could not hear what was said In reply by Umphraj Spurwaj' , though I nm sure inj' molher was weeping Kor at that moment I felt a hand close on the lobe of my right ear , and old Caleb Cllnkaberry bore me tri umphantly to the door of the parlor , with a great piece ot West India sugar In my mouth , which I could neither swallow nor jet rid mjfaelf of , so high did he hold my w head Ho opened the door , crying "See , madam , what I caught this fine young gen tle.nan . at1" Hut Unit which vvo saw turned us to stone In the very doorway My mother had dropped her embroidery wo.k and htood ciecl. Umphray Spuiway was Just Ictllng go her hand , which ho had been holding. Hut that was not the burprlso and terror for me. My cjcs were drawn irresistibly to the window It was one of Ihe narrow and high Trench nort opening In the middle , for the house had been built In King Charles' tlmo Ihat It might bo a summer pavilion for a foimor lady of Now Mllns. Now the lattice stood open , and Ihe wind rushed howling triumphantly through the house , hhutttng every dooi with dreadful claiming lion and the clatter and clink of falling glass and breaking crocket y Trained in the blank blackne > s of the opening appeared a head , wild , dishevelled hardly human , the throat bare and the ragged collar of a coat far lee wldo appear ing beneath It was my father , Ihe man wo hid thought alrenly hanged by the neck " the Grassmaiket of Ellrihurgh ! Philip Stanslleld , the parricide His eyes glanced along the level tube of a pistol barrel "Traitor and trallress , I have jou both' And now I will bend jou to hell togethei1" .I cried , and so without anoiher word , with shattering dlstlnclncss , llred Will , a lllllo shrill crj my mother loitered tered , swajcd , cheeked hoi self , and then softly Mink buck Into Umphray Spurway's arms Then quick ns thought the face m vanished f.om Iho window. The leaves or ( clashed ! to The Englishman give my mother Into the arms of Caleb f'JInkabcrry HI and without waiting to llnd his hat. he pulled n phtol from hit * pocket , looked at j'n the priming nnd rushed through Ihe front door of mj mnther's house into the hlnrk . night It. pursuit of the double murderer j I enIM r.u M. j I Cnlpli riliiKiilirrrj , HHlimKcr. . My mother lay on the bed to which Caleb 1 had earrled her , will. he. . eji * elo od , nnd I / stood beside with white rags and liniments In mj hands , gasping nnd rwnllowlng in my throal nt thu sight of blood , while Caleb , wllh a pair of little selssors cut open mj mother's bodice , to thai In a llttlei he found the wound In her right shoulder. Thru I can re-call hearing him murmur to himself ( for all the world like n mother over u bairn ) . "Marj Hlgby , my little Mnry that I brought uj ) by the hand cve-r since Sir Eubtilo did gl\e jou Into my care nt Thro- bald's Inn It wns , the hour before he died1 " An 111 chance an evil star , n , heathenish countr < } nnd the deVIl for an husband Ah' in } llttlo Mary , that I who wert thy nurse bhould live to see thy blood fl v\ " Hut nevertheless , ho staunched the wound , nnd having done that which he could , ho found my mother wllh her senses lestored trjlng to sit up In her bed nnd asklni ; In God's name what was the matter. And a gre\ii mercy It was that she minded nothing of i the dreadful fact Itself , nor jet ot the face ; of hei Imslwiml at the window. Ami In this fashion wo sat all night I quaking with fear lest the curtains that hid the | barred lattice bhould again bo parted or , Ihe door below burst open with n clanlc nnd ( ihe > murderer rush upon us wllh n horrid rid , cr } ' . Hut Caleb had all safely barred nnd j a musket loaded , toward which ho looked | often ns ho went nbout , muttering and , shaking his head. "Tor this will 1 jet stay his career. The bloodv and evil man bhall not live half his ilajs. " 1 must not forgot to say that Caleb was a j follower of George To\ , being ono of the folk called Quakers only ho said but llttlo about It. Tor they were a people of llltlo J cblcem In Scotland. Yet now when Calebs "eiarllng maid , " ns ho called my molher , was touched , lo1 ho who had preiched pe.ico RO long j turned out us great a man of war as the best of them. So vvo sat , und for my part 1 quaked overj- time t n rat , ran rumbling from garret to cellar , which they did all night , or oven a mouse scratched In the wainscot. The vcrj last memory I have of this torrl- blo night ot Tcbruary 2 ! ) ( being leap year ) Is ' that of waking to see Caleb Cllnkaberrj , the t palms of his hands pressed together nnd his cjes lifted up , saying softlj' , "Des elation and destruction and famine and sword ! The fury of the Lord Is upon us , Iho rebuke of our God1" When I awoke the new daj' had como and I wns conscious of a ghastly feeling of dis comfort and a horror ot mjself almost like that t which comes with fever. I did not - know ' that this arrives to all who sleep T j in ' their clothes for the first time. It was light 1 and I saw a man by my mother's bed side. A woman was on the other , both busied with matters that 1 could not bee They had not observed mo shrunk up in * the corner of the black oaken settle. Hut at n slight groan from the bed I sprang up nnd cried. "Let my mother alone ! I will kill jou If jou lay hand on my mother " The man who was stooping over the bed half I : turned and saw mo ready to 11 v 11 ! o a bantam cock at htm. He did not runovo his 1 : hands or disengage himself from what ho ' 1 wns doing. Hut Instead he lifted hla voice over his shoulder nnd said in o qulnk , rasping tone "Umphray Spurway , lake this boy away and keep him away ! " Then 1 knew that ho was the surgeon from Abercnlin who had come to the Mlln house when Iho plague broke out aiming the weavers a skillful but an arrogant man. Then catno Umphraj' Spurway In , looking bleached and graj' , the light failed out of his eyes nnd the color faded from bib hair nnd beard or to nt least It seemed to me ! Hut though I was glad to see him ha pulled mo roughly out and railed upon me for crjlng out nt such a moment , being jangled in his speech nnd ever with an eir on iho door of Iho room where my molher was. Then In a Hllle , being come lo mj-self and the feeling that my clothes were miido of hay having a lltllo died nway , I would have asked him concerning his night adven tures , but he , having , ns It were , bis whole reasonable boul in the further room , bade mo hush and p.esently . gave me a cuff , hoi cut I sulked Also he Kept tlghl hold on my collar , ab If 1 vvero Inlent lo run back again , of which I had no Intcnllon Then , after a greal while , Hie surgeon came out with a changed and smiling countenance , and bald 'It Is out and all Is well , " holding up at the same time a llt tlo lound bullet , at sight of which the greit red Englishman turned very white and faint and cried "Take It away , man. God's sake , take It away' " This. 1 thought strange In a man BO bravo and btrong , whom 1 had been adventure upon such a desperate chance that very night. It was the boht part of an hour before they would let ne go In to see my molln r The nurse , one Marglt Tcrgus , a wl-m woman , slood nt the bed's head wllh some liquid In a dlbh , will , which she cont.nii . ally moistened mj poor mother's lips Tu- sii.geon . was gone , of which I was 1 i-l Then I took Umphrny Spurwaj's hand nn 1 would have made him come with me , but he would not , shaking mo off hirshly an I striding out of the house with his brown Lent and such a look of sadncHh as I had never till then been on any man H count- ) nance My dear mother smiled up nt mn wllh o sweet and peaceful a countenance Dial I fell to weeping , not knotting Hint U'.ii H Iho face which In women denotes the over coming of sufforlne ( To bo Continued ) The onlerw tit dc'oniilon worn bi t i Oennan emperor , in cording In a Hi riln vvspapi. . , a.o wort'i iibrnii l.ixw.nun murks ii llllle ovei fJIOdOO The knl-er pr n ipal nnd most valuable dei oration.in tli Insignia of thn Him k Eagle , tin ui'lr-r of John , Hie Ordi r of HIP ( ! nrUr nul llu > Oidir of the TuiMin il Or In all hi lui ovrr 2'1) ' ) crnsHfS , HlaiH , li idgi * " " 'I of IT Insicnln ' by ki-epin ; ; your bowels open. 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