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10 TIIE OMAnA DAILY BEEi SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1002. - i ill, if -TJgrSWII Mil tMfErlsmmmt'f (Copyright, lfl. by B R. Crockstt.) CHAPTER XXII Continued. Again after a apace I came to myself, out of tbe clang and hammer stroke of some great foundry, where for infinite yesrs I bad been confined, while the unreitlng workmen day and night kept up their tnultltudlnoua din. "Open open!" I could dlecern con futed clamor of voices outalde the door. I felt to make aura that I waa completely dressed. I waa quickly aaaured. Discom fort and Itching ill-humor were in tbe very clinging of my clothe. There waa alao a curioua chill in the apartment. I roae and made my way a beat I could to the door. I did not, however, aucceed in reaching It, for moat peratatently I kept bumping agalnat the angle of tbe furniture. "Open, or we will break down tbe doort" The rolca waa that ot Mr. Gregory Olendonwyn. Thla waa too much for me. So I bade them break down fifty doors, but, Instantly recollecting that Kate and the child might be frightened. 1 asked them to stay a mo ' ment. Mr. Olendonwyn had given ua a few bozea of luclfer matches, which were then thought curioua and wonderful invention. By orienting the position of tbe window I managed to scramble back to the bed aide and presently atruck a match, which burned with a blue flame with much odor of an evil sort I looked about. Kate's bed had not been slept In. Doth she and the babe had ranlshed. I hardly know bow I managed to remove the heavy cheat of drawera. My head was still ditty and drowsy with my Bleeping draught and the room reeled about me when I strove to push tbe obstruction aalde. At laat I could unbolt the door and turn the key. Mr. Olendonwyn cam In hastily without any greeting. Hn had a tin lantern In his hand, of the common stable pattern then In use. He turned it about the room. "Where la your sister?" he demanded, with an oath, unusual upon hla lips. "Warner, I believe the Jade baa given us the slip." I could only tell him that I bad been sound asleep and knew nothing of the mat ter. I could not help adding that Surgeon Warner could probably explain to him why I had been asleep. But he never answered me. I think now that he never even took my meaning, for at that moment he espied the little door which led out upon the platform of the tower. It was open, and I understood in a moment why it waa that the room bad felt ao damp and cold when I awoke. Kate bad eacaped that way, driven on by her fears tor the aafety of her child. She had escaped. But bow hampered with a baby aa aha waa and but recently recovered herself from the deadly weakness of childbed. I went out oo the tower top, following Mr. Olendonwyn. Aa we stood on th little platform the . laird awung his lantern this way and that. A great black cartwheel of shadow rayed , about us. Tbe wind blew keen and chill over tbe water. Beneath the wall was sheer. No foothold or swinging rope told a tale of possible exit. Tet my sister was gone, leaving' the bed unpreased, the door bolted and barred. Only her cloak of dark blue and soma few of the babe wrapping bad been taken. I caught up my own cloak and followed the man out. Mr. Olendonwyn took bis way straight down to the pier. As wo passed the door of the boathouse I saw that It waa open. There waa a light ahead of ua aa we stumbled on, my heart beating wildly with th fear of I knew not what. We reached the little aheltered bay where the landing atag waa. There waa old Hamlah McColl, busy with a boat I bad ' never Been be'ore. That In which Mr. Olendonwyn and the Burgeon had crossed was gone. The rop by which It had been tied bad been cut with a knife and now flapped a little In the wind aa It drooped from the post. 80 much waa eertaln, Kate and her babe were out on the wast of water. They had fled a aoon aa I waa asleep, the blank darkness of a November night Instantly awallowlng them up. "Oet In and help ua find her!" So aald Mr. Olendoqwyn roughly. "It will ruin all If aha appeara with her child at Caatli Gower! Or even" (he muttered the final ' worda In a lower ton, aa If to himself) ','lf she meet Rupert!" , CHAPTER XXIU. Bab Hapert. The voloe of Kate Olendennlng, speaking, soft, monotonous, low-toned. In th bushed silence of a little room th fir in th grate the only light th winter gray of tha noontide carefully tempered by drawn curtains, I, Fairlle, alone by the bedside. That waa the acene. But a little farther off, bidden behind the hanging waa another, even our father, David Olendennlng. He, too, waa listening unseen, his head aunk in bla pal ma. For, thank God, ther waa no need to tide anything from him any more. Ah, If only I bad taken him Into my confidence from the first I And Indeed ao I would. If the eecret had been mine. Nor would have left blm to go away with nine Johns that la. without telling blm first. But Kate's vole waa relating a strange An Accepted Fact BLATZ MILWAUKEE IS A QUALITY LEADER. Original Methods Ibav bad much to do with ta unpreceden- A euoceta of tba brew. Net bottle of Blata Bear leave th plant that baa not been thoroughly ma tured aad terlllsad. BLATZ MALT-VIVINE (Xea-IatosJoaat) Tonlo. Drucgtat or direct. VAL BUTZ WtEWlIW cCwiVMki OMAHA amANCH. MIS De.(lM . T4. I4M1, BEER 47 5 i simple tale infinitely touching, at least to us who bad been part of that history, and who now held the wanderer to our heart against a world of slanders. "You must forgive me, Fairlle, dear (she wa saying). It waa wicked and cruel of me. But then I did not know what I waa doing. I thought that you were In league with those who wanted to take my baby from me. 80 I aald nothing to you of what I meant to do. I waa afraid you would tell them. I wanted to get to Ru pert It seemed a If I must get to Ru pert, and I knew you hated him. O, yea, you did! I always knew that though. In deed, he always spoke nicely about you. I think at heart he was a good man, my Rupert that Is, If bla father would only have left him to me. He never meant me any barm. I knew that. God will never be ao cruel to me as to let mo be lieve that he did. "So when you were busy in the house I stole out it waa after these two had com back. -1 beard them go Into the dining room where the guns are, and I slipped past ao quietly, and went round to th back of the peatstack. That la where Hamlsh keeps hla tall ladder. At first I thought I could never be able to carry It and aet it against the wall. But just when I waa going to give up I heard baby cry. And then all at once I could. "I got It up bit by bit, a little at a time. And once I had a terrible fright and was obliged to sit down for a while behind the peat atack. And, Ob, Fairlle, I felt ao happy to see tbe babe again and to think that there waa a way out for blm and me. It was hard to wait. I knew that their boat would only be tied with cord. Because the day after Rupert went away I unwound the chain and threw It over the cliff Into the sea, before Hamlsh carj back from rowing him. And I alwaya meant to tell you of It, Fairlle. But the devil, or else that little tickling thing in my head, kept saying that I must not. You would not let me go It I did. "Yes, It was very wicked! But do not ta angry. Well, the old hateful thing kept saying all the time, 'Give Fairlle some of that aleeplng tuff you got for toothache,' And I dropped thirty drops In your wine glass before dinner only there were more than that. Ob, I can't think what made me so wicked, Fairlle. But that night everything that I wanted to do, and Just how to do it, popped up In my head without needing to think of it at all. It waa the funniest thing!" "No, I am not the least tired, dear at least not If you will put little Rupert upon tbe bed and let him bold my forefinger. I would rather tell you all about It now. Is my father there? Why do you love me ao much, father, dear? I have been such bad daughter to you. I wouldn't It I wer you!" "Oh, yea, about th boat no, I waa at your going to aleep. It waa funny to watch I mean li would have been If It bad not been ao wicked to tee you trying to keep awake. "Then, when at laat you went upstairs, I had to help you to bed and I Juat opened youf dress at the neck and covered you p comfortably. Then I laughed yea, I did. But I waited a long, long while, till I heard them come up and listen at the door. Then I waa dreadfully afraid they meant to com in and that I could not wake you to help me. And, oh, I waa ao frightened! 80 It was after that that I dragged the chest of drawera In front of the door- after they bad gone, I mean. Fox when they wero ther I just walked about the floor, hushing baby and talking to blm to ahow them that I waa awake. ."Then I heard Mr. Olendonwyn and Burgeon Warner go down again and shut themselves Into the gun room. And I took baby In my arms. Oh, how I prayed that be would not cry! I opened . the window and put out my hand, trembling for fear the ladder . would not be high enough or leat some one should have taken It away. "But It waa ther only ao steep, and thla that I knew not bow I wa going to truat baby upon It. . However, I took a long breath and let myself out backward, creep ing very quiet and alow, leat anyone should hear me. I expected to see them all rushing out and catching bdld of me before I had time to get ten yarda away. But It waa Just the same with everything . that sight. I waa going to find my husband and speak to him about our love, and bow he muat help m to take car of our loveliest. And till I found him everything went well until I found blm. Yes, I will finish tbe story though. In deed, I cannot understand why you do not let Rupert come and see me and th boy, if (as you Bay) he really loves us. But perhaps be la 111 again? Perhaps "Ah, well, I won't talk about Rupert any more. There, kiss me! I will Keep my promise and tell you everything. Well, found the boat easily enough, almply walking straight to it. It waa all dons In a moment. Indeed, aa aear as might be I loat tha boat myself. I had to make a lump for It. Tha tide waa coming In and the boat waa dancing on th little Jabbling waves. 'But I scrambled In somehow no, X never hurt myself a bit. Everything waa aa easy aa If Ood bad sent bla angela to bear me and my baby up in their arms. Well, aa I got farther out, the tall drew better and the boat went more swiftly. I could see the little, twinkling atar whkah was the light In th kitchen window on Inch Jonet, dancing and dipping. 80 I kept that straight In my back, and steered to leave It behind. 'And I do not know how long It was very, very long and much battering or winds, and the wavea leaping up in a kind of foamy way about ua, but not angry or clutching only glad, a I thought, that they wer helping ua to etcape. "Aad then I cam right Into th midst of an awful sound. It bad been alowly grow ing and growing not a loud aound, but low and booming and awful. It made th lump In my throat go quiver-quiver Ilk a leaf that tha wind shakes. "And all at one I knew it muat b th wavea breaking on tha shore. Now, I knew not on direction from another, but just drev straight away from tbs Island. But th wind bad carried me almost a atralght to the place w started from with Mr. Olendonwyn aa if I bad aalled It by com pass, and all th navigations and stars In th world could not have don more. Ther was th lonely house and there before m th little pier. Th foam of tha breakers ran whit for mile on either aid of me, but I turned th boat and let the sail down with a run and a clattsr. And ther I I could hardly believe It. In a moment th boat -waa gliding amoothly lot th tlay harbor. . . "Th boat bad passed th pier and put lta nose Into a creek at th aid. But th tlds waa on th turn, and, th water begin ning to run down, soon brought m back till th aid of th boat rubbed lightly against th landing stag. I caught baby and stepped ashore. "After that ther Is not much to tell. Ther wer two beasts in th little stable shed where we saw tha carriage' horses tossing their beads that morning at their feed of corn the morning when we came first to Inch Jonet, I mean. "And on of these two waa spirited and tossed his head. But the other stood and smelt baby and blew on htm through hla nostrils, so that It tickled blm and mad him laugh. And for that I loved blm. I ven thought I could trust him with baby on his back, ao I loosed him and led blm to the door, where I got first upon ths corn chest and so upon bla back. Then I lay down on hla neck that I might not hurt FIRST HE PLAYED AN AIR, SIMPLE AND my head against the arch as he went out. I told the horse to go very ' quietly, be cause he waa carrying Rupert the second borne to his father. Also because I could not alt very securely, aa ther was no saddle. "I had grown deadly tired all of a sud den and Indeed bad enough to do to hold baby and alt atralght on the horse's back. However, I remembered that he would be sure to go right back to Castle Cower, be cause his atable waa there. And indeed ao he did never stopping and never trot ting bard all the night and I praying to Ood to give me what waa beat for my baby which of course waa that I should see Rupert, his father. - "And all at once, as the morning began to com up gray over ths black hills, I hoard a faraway aound of galloping and I grew deadly afraid. I slipped off, alighting on a green bank at tbe top of a deep detcent under trees, at th toot of which a river ran. But th horse, after etandlng a moment with bla ears turned back, listening, took fright at th aound of hoofs and with a flourish of bis heels be scampered oS down tha road. "And I ran as fast as I could down, past a little house and a whit sign post like a tall ghost ons of those all about 'Tres passers.' ' And then all In a moment It earn t me where I waa. The good beast bad not carried me wrong. I waa at the lac called the Oreen Dook, at the end of th path by which Rupert used to slip through th policies to meet me at th old burying .ground. . "And I stepped to laugh happy that I wss ao near Rupert. And thinking bow happy I ought to be to have such a lover and uch a butband. When the noise of the galloping cam suddenly louder and nearer, tt seemed almost at th top of the Dook. And then a strange and terrible thing happened. I was just going to hide myself In the fir plantation, where It Is black as pitch, when I heard oh, it cannot be that I really did hear It. But I seemed to hear my Rupert's vole crying out terrible worda worda that It hurts me even to think about and cursing bis brother, and you, Fairlle, and the day that ever he saw me! v "Then I knew that the little tick-tack demon In my brain waa at his tricks again. 80 I let my cloak drop and ran out of the gat to meet Rupert and cast myself on bis bosom. , "It was dark, yst I seemed to tee every THE FIGURE OF A WOMAN CLOTHED BUNDLBi WHERE THE LITTLE WOODLAND PARK. f if! 1 -,11 ffllpf 4PP ' thing. They aay mad people see In th I night Ilk. cat, and I was mad that night. I dear ratrlle-m.d-n.ad. or I should never 1 have teen the terrible thing I did see. A . . - First. I teemed to see my Rupert come iaiiufiug lui'uuniy along vu viv. uv,"Vt looking over his shoulder at a pursuer who rode etfll faster and ever called on him to stop. Then at be came opposite tbe turn atlle gate I atepped out to him and held up baby in my arms. I was all in white, and baby, too, for I had dropped my cloak to look pretty for my husband. I liked that he should see us first like that. And In tbe darkness of the night he taw us or whatever fiend of darkness was riding there in his shape yes, ! saw him and he saw me. "And then, O, what a cry went up, like that of a poor damned soul out of th Ter rible Pit! And in a moment all was whirled out of my eight down to the bottom of the Oreen Dook, pursuer and pursued, and aa it seemed amid the galloping of many furloua horsea. Then terror took me by the throat I ran aa fast aa I could down the path till I waa lost and could hear and aee no more terrible things. After that I remember no more, except just wrapping the babe tighter and going on and on and always on, with my feet burning like fire and my knees trembling beneath me, and the dust rising up In my eyes, till somehow I cam to the place where Rupert and I had been so happy, beyond the cleft tree In the old burying ground. But even there I could QUAINTLY WORKED IN RHYTHM LIKE not rett very long. "For the galloping of horses was always about me. I heard the ring of their shoe Iron. I saw the aparka fly from the atones beneath their feet. And I went ever fatter, and faster till Fairlle, that la all! I am very tired. Let. me try to sleep. No, do not take baby from me! Let him He on the pillow bestds me. I think I shall know that be Is there even in my sleep!" CHAPTER XXIV. Possessed With St Devil. (Being the second manuscript written by John Olendonwyn.) He nodded and smiled as If he had ex pected nothing else than that I should In trude upon him at that lonely house and In the middle of a winter's night looking debonair and well .pleased to see me. There waa something of almost demoniac ' self possession during these last days about my brother Rupert. "Ah, reverend air," be said, speaking wholly without anger or aurprlss, Indeed lightly and carelessly, "what brings you so far from home on such a night? And on the Sabbath day, too! A poor lost soul Ilk mine may wander, seeking rest, but our family holy man, combed, curled, trimmed and adorned with all the graces of the spirit to be found blackguarding it at midnight upon the Corse o' Slakes! For shame, sir!" He unscrewed bis flute and wiped it deli cately. Then, putting It together again, he motioned me to a chair and pushed th bottle and glass toward ma. I refused both with a motion of the band. 1 could bear no more. "Rupert," I said, "there Is enough of this I bave found you out. I know who helped you In your knavery, even our father, who till now haa been to me as a god sitting on a throne. I cannot tell why he haa done this. I cannot tell why the girls have lent themselves to it But I am here In the name of their father and their family to demand of you where that car riage drove to that night when they left their home with Gregory Olendonwyn tor their coaebman and Surgeon Warner left to bind up a leg that never was broken." I had depended upon this to surprise and cover him with confusion, but again I waa mistaken. He did not even deny th charge, as a weaker man would have done. "Some mischance has helped you, dear Don Innocenclo," be said, smiling, ."you would never have found out so much for yourself no, not if you had stumbled over ALL IN TCRN8TILB GATE LED INTO THE .. ... . m. AND HOLDINO A th carriage, horse and coachman on your ths kirk. But. after all. what ere 'olj J0?" T!' T rd rour back with, ' bu little gain to yourself. TMiet might your dtep4Weih,p b, g0ni to do with yourself tiomV' I do not stir from your elbow." I cried. "till I have found out what brings you here!" He raised bis eyebrows with an air of well-bred aurprlse, exceedingly Insolent. "No?" he said, "you are, Indeed, gener ous of your society. Well, since I sm to have the pleasure of your company If I do not tell you the truth, I will e'en humor you. What I am going to do now I am here is far beyond your comprehension. But since even asset havs an ear for music, so, perhapa, a little tune may do you no 111 Which things are an allegory!" Where he learned the knack of It I know not, aa It wer not from hit own familiar tplrlt. For no one of th Olendonwyns ever had an ear for music sufficient to ena ble them to follow a psalm tune In church without making all their neighbors turn round to look at them. But certainly there was never heard anything In this country side like the playing of my brother Rupert. First he played an air, simple and quaintly marked in rhythm, like the overword of a bairn's hymn. Then, atrlking Into a higher, bolder atraln with birdlike turna and amor ous allurements, he led on to such a tu multuous and soul-shaking back-and-forth of hurrying sound that scraps of melody THE OVER WORD OF A BAIRN'S HYMN seemed tumbled together headlong, as If soma heavenly songsters had been caught fluttering in a net, whence they sent forth piteous appeals and wlng-flapplngs-r-all gradually subsiding into tne Burden 01 an ancient psalm, slow, sustained and solemn aa a burial march. The musician stopped, unscrewed bis in strument again and turned upon me. "There you bave It that Is my parable" he said; "you ar a professional Inter preter of auch. What do you take out of that?" "You have 'come here," I answered blm a quietly as I could, "on an errand tha purport of which I can only Imperfectly guess at. But this I do know, that I shall not let you out of my sight till I discover the mystery of the disappearance of these two poor Innocent girls!" "Innocent?" he cried, laughing, "bow do you know they are Innocent?" "I would answer for it with my life!" I cried, starting as If aa adder had biased at me out of a bush. Then sudden aa an Inspiration there cam Into my head a way to answer him. "You 01 all men," I said, drawing a bow at a venture, "bave the best reasons for knowing that they are Innocent as children newly born!" "No," he aald, quit calmly, "my father has better!" "Or had!" he added, looking at bla watch while I waa atruck dumb by his assurance, "Now, parson," he went on, with th same quiet Insolence as before (a year ago should have smitten blm In tbe teeth tor It, but of 1st the Lord had begun to apeak to me), "now, most holy churchman, I will tell you what I am going to do. You have obtruded your company upon me, but after all blood la thicker than water. I will not turn you out. I am going to stay her an other two hours no more and no leas. Then, if you will accompany me, why you ar at liberty to do so if you can. Good night, John Knox!" So saying my brother deftly pushed chair under the calvea of bis legs bo that tbe little allver spurs on bis heels might not embarrass him, drew a lace-edged pocket handkerchief over bla face and ap peared to go to aleep. From the kitchen of the Inn I heard the measured rack rack of tbe old woman's nursing chair and her low moaning croon. After about an hour she came in and looked keenly about. Then, having lit another farthing dip, she went at noiselessly out again. I must bave taxed from that point on ward, for the next I knew was Rupert standing over me, tapping my thoulder with tbe key of tbe atable door. "xou are Dut a poor spy. - no said; "no detective force would employ you for week. For all you knew I might have been six long miles away by this time, with a Sabine maiden over each shoulder and a scalping knife between my teeth. But was kind to you, my good, stupid police officer. Take a glass before we go and I will try the mettle of your cart horse along the road. There are eight miles between ut and the ancestral towert of Oower. Come 1 1 will give you a mile ttart and beat you at tbe gatea lor luu guineas! How long he had been awake and watch Ing me asleep I could not tell. But it did not take much penetration to aee how he bad been employing bis time. There waa already one empty bottle upon the table and at he spoke he poured out another full tumbler for himself, together with a glata for me, which of courss I did not touch, Yet all that he had drank aeemed to have no effect upon him that night savs for ths extraordinary lightness and vivacity it im parted to bis motions and tbe brilliancy of his eyes, which at timet burned with lambent glow, as if tba Area of bell were already alight behind them, "It is no use waiting longer,", be aald with mork gravity. "The friends whom havs been 'expecting have evidently played me falsa. Yet I have apent the evening agreeably enough with the 'Newgate Cal endar' and in the society of my dear and only brother. Tonight I have read of twenty men robbers and bloody murder era and yet I take my oath every red banded one of them dlad penitent certain of their election and edifying tbe specta tors. I should think Peter would get tired of so much belated repentance, and I ask for a little consistency as a Changs. 'You need not rattle your keys for ms, old fish erman,' I will say, 'keep them at your belt. Aa I lived I dlsd. and now ask no better than to bs treated according to the record, Aad I wager thai tbe pUet f the OalUeaa WE SET THE PACE STYLE AND PRICE COUNT. Brand new poods in up-to-date stylos with the largest assortment to select from in all the best makes of vehicles of all kinds is the magnet" that draws the crowd to our newly remodeled store the handsomest and best lighted carriage emporium in the west. Vehicles Bugglea from $45 00 to $250.00. Runabouta from $50.00 to $225.00. Surreys from $75.00 to $300.00. Stanhopes, Burkboardt, Park Phaetons and all the novelties at all prices. A full line of Top and Open Delivery Wagons, 'and a va riety of alses in everything from the smallest Pony Rig to the Heavy Teaming Truck. A ff-j-a, tn ar-mf-tl f r .f-. liLUl 1 KJM I H. E. FREDRICKSON, lake will be ao surprised that 10 to 1 he will let me In." Then was my soul stirred within me. "Brother," I said, "why should you blas pheme and make a dare of your Maker? You are a young man, even aa I am. God Is merciful. If you have done wrong, do justly now. Why have you come among us to work this change? My father was a man honorable above most before you came back to alter him out of all knowledge. There waa not a happier house in the country than that of David Olendennlng. Think well what you have made of them!" "If no more dishonor is ever brought on either than I am responsible for," he an swered, defiantly, "both my father and David Olendennlng will pasa oft the stage with lest discredit than most." "I would that I could believe you!" I cried. "I would give all I possessed to be Hev you." He shrugged hla shoulders and helped himself again to the glass upon the table. . "I can only speak the truth," he said, "1 cannot make you believe it." He picked up a pair of gloves which lay on the table and drew them on his fingers with the diligent particularity of a woman. "Now," he continued, mockingly, "we will open the stable and put our beasts to the proof. Bravo should bs In fine fettle for the road after bis est. 'Deuch-an-dorrla to you and likewlae 'Sblainte!' " And one more be drained bla glass. In ten minutes we were on the road. Rupert growing wild with excitement as the night air In strife with the alcohol he had drunk took effect upon his brain. "One let me upon Bravo'a back," he cried, "and I will show you how a gentle man should go home to bed. John, you prig you always were a prig and hated a bottle even when your nurse filled one with milk ride for your life yours against mine! Rids, then, and keep within 500 yards of me if you can! I will beat you at the gates which gates,, do you ssk, you cur? Soms gatea any gales the castle gates hell gatea. If you like." And then began a acene which even now I shudder to recall a wild chaae through the parish of which I had been ordained minister but a few months before. For I waa determined that on no account or con- alderatlon would I let Rupert out of my sight that night. I think that aomebow In the atable my decent staid old Peden the Prophet must have imbibed a part of the wilder spirit of Bravo, for nsver had I known that such speed and staying powsr were lodged in bit venerable thanks. Rupert went off with a shout of defiance and a fleering toaa of the hand. "Now for the blue eyes of Fairlle Glen denning!" he cried- And though I said not a word tn reply, I took tbe words aa a cartel of defiance and accepted the gage. I would stick to him, I muttered grimly, or Peden and I should brsak our necks tb waa all. CHAPTER XXV. The Oreen Dook. 80 there ensued a great and notable race along that noble highway which to this day atretches from tbe Ferry of the Slakes to the gates of Castle Gower. At first the road was happily mostly level and we flew like the wind Rupert's fiery black stretch ing himself out like a greyhound coursing. He wa a noble beast and though spirited, exceedingly docile. But that night the de mon waa abroad, and Bravo, Instead of set tling down to hit work, threw bis bead high and capered like a still unbttted yearling on the spring pastures. Nor did the behavior of my brother mend matters. He stood up in his stirrups shout ing taunts at me over bis shoulders. The coarser mood of ye first night at Drum fern aeemed to bave returned upon him. The quiet Irony of the change-home had patted and he grew loud and boisterous. My brother spoke truth. I rode not ill. It is no source of pride to me this day, whose thoughts ara bent on things so very much othe"-but the accomplishment (such as It was) certainly atood me In good stead. I shall never forget the rushing psst of the landscape on either aids the hedges and dykea going behind as If in a dream of flying. I had tbe feeling, too, that I was riding against a vehement tree-bowing tempest, though I have since been told that the wind was still snd that sounds such at that of our tumultuout passage could be heard at a great distance. Rupert set the spurs freely to the sides of Bravo, so that tbe blood ran along the rowel to tbe very boot. Peden, on the other hand, waa nsver touched. I carried neither whip nor apur, but only urged him with my unarmed heel and with tbe loose rein laid on hla neck. And the poor brute seemed to understand what hs was to do, and, though bs could never get within 100 yards of Bravo and hit wild rider, he still stuck grimly to bis work and not once did I loss sight of my brother. Almost as soon ss ws had left tbe change bouse there leaped up In my mind one spot on tbe shoreward road that haunted me like the actual specter of fear. Th military road bad been carried over partly the lino taken by another and an older road made in tbe daya when abarp turna and steep descents were less carefully avoided than they are by modera road engineers. It was a spot called ths Green Dook that is to say, "dive" a place on tbe out skirts of my fsthsr's property where ths road. Instead of being conveyed upon a , bridge straight acroat th cp aad narrow wltn either steam, gasoline or electrlo motor power, from $650 to $1,600. . Phonographs ranging in price from $5 to $150. Also 5,000 Columbia Wax Records at SOc. 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Moreover, being of great authority on the board of the commissioners of sup ply for the county he had carried his point in the face of engineers and sur veyors and the all-powerful roada and bridges committee itself. But a few steps from the bridge at th bottom of the Dook he had made a wicket gate, and from thence a path led through the plantations and shrubberies to the Great House s road which In past daya was often chosen by Itupcrt and myself because in this way we could leave the grounds of Caatls Oowcr practically without ever show ing ourselves in the open. Tbe place, dangeroua at the best of timet, waa simply a death trap In the darkness of a wlnter'a night and aa we flew down ths slope half a mile from It I called as loud as I could to Rupert, "For God's sake to tsks care of the Green Dook!" But he stood up, still going at full apeed, and cursed m by name for an Interfering craven dog, telling me to pull up myself if my gallows'-cart garron could go no far ther." Faster and faster we went, and when we ' topped the rise in front of the Green Dook I was within twenty yards of Rupert and gaining at every stride. Now I do not know whether the heavier hoofs of Pedan tbe Prophet thundering ia hU wake aroused Bravo to fransy or whether It was altogether that which hap pened immediately after that caused the catastrophe I am about to relate. But cer tain it Is that the mischief was done not at the bottom, but In the middle of tbe Dook, Just where tbe private path makes off through the woods toward the mansion house of Gower. I was well nigh at Bravo'a heels and be ginning to congratulate myself that my brother would pai tba peril la aafety, when suddenly I saw before me. Illuminated faintly but distinctly visible through, aome skylight In the trree above ths figure of a woman clothed all In white and holding a bundle standing In tbe opening where waa the little turning stile gats Into tbs wood laud park. Rupert kaw or seemed to see the figure alao, for with a wild scream that wa al most a thriek be pulled bit horsea head sharp round aa it were, right into ths wall of tbs bridge, and th next moment Bravo crashed breast-high into the atone and Urn with a sickening sound and bis rider was) thrown over ths psrspet. iTo B Continued.) y
