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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Is an apparent pool of rustling vardur
In th summer, then, turning rapidly, al
most at right angles to Itself, crosses a
brldgs and ascends the opposite bank with
a more gradual slope.
The Green Dook might never have ex
isted but for a piece of obstinacy on my
father's part, who, having a little seldom
used lodge gate 100 yards or so on the
south, had refused either to permit bis
svenue to be shortened or to pull down the
lodge that the road might pass straight
serosa. 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