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4f FLOWER O' THE CORN.
By CROCKETT.
( (Capyrlnht, 1902, by P. R. Crockett.) J
4
4HAPTF.fl V.
The Itoml to Keltonhlll.
"And now, Rllly," said tho wagoner, ab
ruptly dropping the manner and speech of
Pierre Dubois and assuming those of Cap
tain Maurice Halt h. "how came you here?
I left you a corporal In the Camoronlans. I
find you ragged desprter, shout to be kid
naped and pressed Into the service of the
enpmy. You dpserre to be had out and
shot, so far an I con see!"
Hilly Marshall replied In the hAiad Gall
oway speerh which a dozen years of desul
tory military aervlro had not overlaid:
"Mnlster Rallta," ho said, "ye hae dune a
guld turn to Billy Marshall this day an'
dell tak' him and preen him In reld pltflre
gin he forgets It. Put, do you hoar that?"
"I hpnr NVIlllnm." said his lady. She waa
aentpd bulslly preparing a fowl f ir tho pot,
which sho had found straying upon the
road, and had nlppd up beneath her apron
without permitting tho moribund to emit
even a cry of surprise. It was for this
craft (among other merits) that Billy, her
husband, graciously permitted Bet to ac
company him upon his marches and cam
paigns. "Oct on with your talo, Marshall," Inter
rupted Maurice Ralth. "I have heard noth
ing yet to prove that, you am not tho do
sorter I thotiKht you at first."
"And what for no should I no be oot on
julst sic a wee bit quiet Job as your nln,
captain." Insinuated the gypsy, shrewdly.
"NYhat I nm doing hero does not Immedi
ately concern you," snld the dlagulaed ofTI
cer. "I have saved you from the drill ser
geants of King Louis. I want to bo sure
before you and I go further whethor I shall
have to deliver you to the hnlter of the
queen's provost marshal!"
The gypsy gave vent, to a low chuckle.
"It's easy seen that ye are no a rloht
Onlloway man, captain," ho raid, "or ye
wad hen that no for a' tho hangln' pro
vosts and cornels In thn alrmlos or r." the
queens an' emperors and slcllkn In KlrseH
dom, wad Billy Marshall miss Keltonhlll
fair. Sno said 1 to Cornel drier o' the
Saxand Twentieth, says I. 'Yo ken Billy,
air, an' that If he doesna get leave to gaug
to Keltonhlll fair, he will tak' loavo and
syne bn hnnglt for his pains! And he
cornel, him kennln' me an' mo kennln' him,
bade me drive aboot my business and ta'
Bet wt' mo. But he garred me swear on
the crossed horn-spupes that I wad be back
to lilm In throe months' tlmo. An' sao
will I gtn the sole o my fact dlnna wear oot
on the road!"
"But," said Maurice Ralth, who knew the
colonel of the Camoronlans and recognlied
that the tale was worthy of credit, "in
that case what are ye doin' here on a
mountain In the very m'ddle of France?"
The gypsy looked at him cunningly. "It
la no' possible that we may hae your rea
sons and that 1 may bao my reasons," he
said quickly, "there's a sea to the south as
weol as to the north of France. And the
shortest cut Is whylos the longest travel!"
With which collection of proverbial lore
Maurice Ralth had for the time to be per
force content.
By this time tho horsos were thoroughly
wearied. The long ascent of the Causae
had tried them severely, and It became
necessary to rest them, either at the first
wayside Inn which presented Itself, or to
make their camp upon the open face of the
desert. They wero, however, so close to the
disturbed regions that iue utmost care waa
necessary. Maurice Ralth took out a small
caae of arms which had been cunningly con
cealed In the sacking under the first wagon.
The eyes of ;he gypay glittered at the sight.
"I hae naethlng, but this gullyknlfe." he
said, "an' faith, a pistol or twa doesna
come wrang whiles tn this ootlandtsh coun
try!" He strapped the satchel of powder and
shot carefully about hla waist under ht
tattered blue blouse with chuckles of un
concealed satisfaction.
Mind." said Maurice Ralth, "none of
your calrd tricks here! Ye are to threaten
node, take no man's purse, put no wayfarer
In fenr. You are to consider yourself un
der my orders as much as if you wore In
the camp of my Lord Marlborough himself.
And more, In word and deed, ye are to
treat me as Tierre Dubois, the wagoner of
Roche-au-Bayard and Hoo, who has picked
you up on the way."
With this he strode off to test the hal
ters and heel ropes of hla horses. For the
true Caussenards, Caratsard and Cadeta of
the Cross alike were famous horse stealers,
and every stable In the limestone country
had two doors, one which opened outward
and the other Inward, and that In spite of
drawn bolts and shot bar.
So Maurice Ratth, till he should find him
self safe In the camp of tha Caratsard lead
ers, preferred to stable his horses at the
sign of La Bella Etolle, and guard them
himself with his pistols upon his knees.
Maurice wrapped his cloak closely about
him and sat sleepless, listening to the
voices of the night. It was almost the
first time he had had time to think since
he loft the camp of the allies before Na
rnur. He had dealt severely with Billy
Marshall, as he told himself for the good
of his gypsy soul, but he knew the good
qualities of the some tlma corporal of La
meronlans, his courage, fidelity and
strength, his unswerving purpose and ready
resource In time of danger.
Maurice resolved that Billy should not
see Keltonhlll fair this year It possible, but
bide with him upon the perilous tableland
of the Cevennes If money or love could keep
him there.
The stars swung silently overhead, de
scribing their longer or shorter circles
round the polar star, and Maurice con
tinued to look Into the gray, indefinite j
waate of nothingness. Ills mind went back
Involuntarily to the glowing vision he haj
seen among the corn that day above the
Mouse the light, glrllah figure, the lips as
tonishingly red, the eyes bluer than the
skies, at once sapphire-dark and diamond
bright. Would he ever see her sgaln? A
voice seemed to speak from very far away.
"Go buck and see that my lord's letters
are prettily copied or you will bs whipped!"
Then It waa that Maurice Ralth slept,
and as he slept he dreamed, and as he
dreamed he smiled.
4 H1PTK.R VI.
The Mertea of l.ove.
Perhaps, for who knows the mysteries of
the influence of soul on soul, the dream of
the night which descended upon Maurice
Ralth as he sat with his pistols on his ;
knees wrapped In his cloak upon the tufted I
scalp of the Larr.ac had overpassed a mile
or two oi mls'y frost-scented darkness from
a little doublc-wlndowcd roof-chamber
where sat a girl, her chin sunk In the
Joined palms of h-r hin.la. her bre dim
pled t-lbows rest Ins lazily upon the sill.
Floer-o'-iiio-( rn meditated and bcr
meditation was sweet to her, aa a free
hearted maiden's ought lo bo.
Flover-o'-the-Crn's world si exclu
sively a wo.-ld of men. Yet of all these she
knew but one well her father. As for tha
rent, the ste.-a-faced vetersrs of Ardmll
Isn's regiment circled her about like a wall.
She was watched and guarded like virgin
citadel. She night have been spoilt by a
too ready service aad homage had she not
teea accustomed ta thesa as ta her daily
rations, ever slnrp the time when, while
ypt a young subaltern In "Levon's Foot,"
Colonel Ardmltlan had been accustomed to
lift her high In the air in both hinds, or
ride her till she screamed w:th delight upon
(ho tippers of hla military boot.
Yet for all her ease of mind as to men,
Franros smiled, not Ill-pleased as she
thought of that day among the Namur corn,
by the side of the sunken road, when at tho
parting of a buah of broom an eager-eyed
youlh of handsome aspect had stood dumb
stricken before her the fullness of his
honiMge presently mounting to his broif
and telling Its tale In the stammering ac
cents of his tongue. Maurice Ralth also
smiled, as if a good nngol had visited hlra,
In sleep. And so, perhaps, It was!
As Frances sat at the window and
watched the late moon rise, she was
aware of a trouching line of dark figures
that disengaged themselves one by one from
the rude wall of tho mountain village and
stole across the space which separated the
last houses from tho outer defenses. For
a long moment each bowed head and bent
pair of shoulders were silhouetted against
the great flattened oval of the moon as it
reared Itself slowly up out of the valley
mists. A gunbarrel rose black here and
there. A scabbard clinked, sharply on a
pebble, or In the distance as the light fell
more sideways, a slant bayonet gleamed
momentarily.
Frances and her father had reached the
country of the Cevennes In the simplest and
swiftest way, by the Rhine and the Protest
ant cantons Of Switzerland. The pastors of
Ooneva and tho political leaders of that
place iiad their own means of communi
cating with the districts where their fellow
religionists continued to make such suc
censful head against the forces of the king
and the all-puwerful church. It was easy
enough, therefore, for Patrick Wellwood
and his daughter to pass Into the faat
neRBe of tho e'evonnes nearly a month
bofote a certain Pierre, the wagoner of
Rocha-a'-Baynrd and Hoo made his en
campment upon Its outer margin.
Novertholess that night, so mysterious
arc tho waves of apprehension which pass
across certain sensitive spirits, Frances
Wellwood, a maid of camps and barrack
yards, felt something that was not the
chill of (he hoar frost run cold through
lier marrow at tho sight of these dark
shadows crossing the ashen oval of the
moon's disk.
Aa they passed from her view she went
quickly to her father's room. The door
was unlatched. She went In without knock
ing nnd, pausing a moment on the threshold
to listen In vain for hla breathing, at last
entered on tiptoe. The bed Trau intact. It
had not been slept In.
"He Is not here!" she murmured, step
ping back quickly.
Frances had bound her father by a great
oath not to go out alone and wander about
hour after hour as was his habit ever
since he had well nigh been shot by one
of the camp sentries at a former siege of
Namur.
"Either he has broken his word or has
taken to dreaming again," she. murmured
to herself unhappily.
Frances stood a moment thinking swiftly.
Then she went to the corner of her cham
ber and, taking dor n a dark fold of Spanish
lace, threw it about her head, drawing It
round her neck In the manner of a man
tilla. Then, since' the night promlred to be
cold, she drew her father'a great cloak
about her. The window was high, and save
to an athlete Impossible, though In all eon
science the stone work of the old wall
built by the Templars waa crumbling
enough. But Frances Wel.wood knew an
other way of It. Her father had gone out,
and by the same road he had taken she
could descend also. She was positive he
had not passed her door she had been too
wide awake.
She remembered, however, that the low
archway which her father used for an en
trance Into his prayer niche had a door
that opened somewhither, and accordingly
she turned back there and set her hand
upon the latch, easily pushing the Iron
bound portal open. She came up against
the outer dark aa against a wall and found
herself at the head of an outside stair,
which (as in many of the houses of the
eastern part of her native land) connects
the second and even the third story of
houses In the Cevennes with the ground.
When she had time to look, lo! the atari
wore blinking merrily. The heat haie In
the valley had altogether vanished and
there was a smell and plercelng breath of
frost abroad.
Still there was neither sight nor sound
of her father.
Frances stood still aa death while one
might count twenty, listening. Every
where there was great silence. The black
windows of the Mamtsard village beneath
seemed to be spying upon her. The streets
of La Cavalerte were narrow. Irregular and
drowned In deep shadow. The moon, grown
old and atckly of aspect, seemed unabla to
make her pale beams penetrate. Her light
sifted down scarce brighter than so much
starshlne.
But Flower-o'-the-Corn had set her hand
to the plow, and she would not go back.
Resolutely she drew her cloak about her
and set forth to look for her father. He
had taken his little red double-volume Cov
enanter's Bible with him. She had made
sure of that. So it appeared to Frances
that the errand upon which he had gone
must-be a religious one. Indeed at that
hour, and in that place. It was not likely
that he would have gone forth on any other.
But the old fighting blood of the man who
had ridden with Grey of Cry at on and the
two Camerons a Ayrsmoas might possibly
have persusded h'm that It waa still a re
ligious duty to hew Agag in pieros before
the Lord. In short, Patrlrk Wellwoid's'
mission might very well be religious with
out bring at all pacific.
Swiftly nnd lightly she glided up one
narrow close rnd down another, till she
found herself within the outer belt of gar
dens whose multitudinous Intersecting
walls made such excellent forecove- to
these Puritan peasants, militant among the
high Cevennes. .
She had often enough found her way out
of the labyrinth by day. It was a task
more difficult by night. But with a keen
rense of direction (when outside of the
walls of a house), Flower-o'-the-Corn
presently suvcedcd In suriounting the last
clone dyke, and stood In the last ditch, or
dry trench rather, which defended the forti
fied village of La Cavaltrte.
A little to the left, upon a low earthen
rampart, Frances could see the head and
houlli r of a sentinel. At times she could
heir the bj.gpipe drone of his chanted
psalm! Anon there came a metlllc sound
as he grounded his piece on the battle
mints and gazed away northward, motion
lrta aa those pallid limestone pinnacles on
the sky line.
Frances continued to crouch quietly In
the ditch till the man had taken btmaoir
off to the other end of hla beat. Hit
watch tonight was doubtless aomeahst per
functory, knowing aa be did that th? greater
part of the effective fighting force of the
village waa out upon tha Cause.
At last the chant rf his paalm. lilted la
Cam I sard fashion with copious grace aoles
and quavers, grew faint In the distance.
Frances eauKht up her rloak and skirts and
sped hastily across th sparse grass of the
sheep pasture In the track of the expedi
tion she had 'seen leave the Village so
silently.
The moon wss for the time being behind
a cloud and shone through various thin
tilaces here and there, like a lantern that
ib moved to and fro In a tent.
There was no trail to be followed upon
the dusty, pebble-strewn grayness of the
llmestono upland. But as the dark figures
took their way across the moon's disk,
Frances had almost involuntarily observed
thst a long, low, jagged scarp of limestone
showed like a broken too'h against the ris
ing moon, also In tho line of their march.
This now appeared rety obvious Imme
diately In front of her, lying pallid and un
earthly right across her path, the moon's
rays striking mistily upon It.
Flower-o'-the-Corn felt a sudden terror
overpower her. She was, of course, armed
as usual. But there seemed to be some
daunting Influence abroad tt.at night upon
the face of the waste. It was so high up
under the moon that somehow spirits of
good and etll alike might be expected to
choose It as their natural playground In
preference to the warm, homely, farm-bestrewn
valleys beneath, where dogs barked
at night and cocks crowed clarionlike In
the dawn.
Frances stole on Into a little circle of
blanched and moonlit crags which rose out
of the bald plain, casting long flat shadows,
like a lunar crater.
There there quite near her, because the
circle of pallid rocks measured nowhere
more than 200 yards acroas, were men who
crawled nearer and nearer to a certain point
on the opposite face of a natural amphi
theater. Suddenly on a rock, flat on top like a ta
bel, she saw a man spring erect and throw
up his hands. He showed black against a
slate-blue horizon. Instantly here and
there half a dozen shots went off, clanging
loudly among the rocks and reverberating
from Innumerable narrow gorges. The dark
crawling figures raised themselves erect
and rushed upon a group of wagons and
horses encamped some distance out on the
plain.
It aeemed to be no surprise, for flashes
of fire met them hero and there as they
came. There was no shouting on either
side. Only a knot or two of dark bodies
writhed and struggled oa the ground, and
anon grew still.
The camp of Pierre, the king's wagoner,
was In the hands of bis enemies sooner than
he had anticipated. He himself lay gagged
and helpless while the Camlsard leaders
Investigated first the royal marks on his
wagons, then the commissions In his pock
ets, and last of all the official seals which
had been set upon his casks of wine.
One after the other a dark lantern was
upon the faces of the three prisoners.
"Let us question the servant," said a tall.
red-bsarded man, evidently a leader among
the assailants. "We will make him tell
us what the king's wine and the king's
wagoners are doing here so far from the
marshal's camp."
"Kill the accursed of God I bid you.
brethren, the enemies of his people!" com
manded another voice sternly. "Let them
that carry the wine for the lips of evil
doers drink deep of the cup of wrath and an
ger and trembling. Kill I say kill!"
And among that throng of fierce, grave
men there arose an ominous murmuring.
"Well spoken, Castlnat the Prophet. Have
they spared us? Have they not slain young
and old alike the mother with the babe
gray hair and goldilocks? Kill! The ac
cursed of God shall not live half their
dayal"
The tall man with the red beard had
meantime been Interrogating the gypsy.
But he could not get Billy Marshall beyond
the muttering of threats and oaths In an
unknown tongue which sounded profane to
hla questioner.
"I can make nothing of him. He la either
a fool or a madman," he said at last, ris
ing up from hla knees. "What ta your will,
men of the bond? Shall these die?"
"Aye, lot them die!" cried the crowd,
pressing fiercely forward each with
weapon !n his hand.
But before a weapon could be unsheathed,
the light figure of Flower-o'-the-Corn
flashed through between them.
"Stay!'- she cried, "Brother of the Bond.
These men are Innocent at worst they are
but servants of those who do ua evtl. Re
member him who said that all they who
take the sword shall perish by the sword.
And who restored the ear of the high
priest's servant which Simon Peter cut
off!"
This appeal was precisely that which waa
best suited to influence the men about her.
Frances Wellwood waa not her father's
daughter for naught.
"I ask net that tha two men and the
woman should go free," she cried. "Take
them back to the village with all their
horses and gear. Then if they have done
evil let them die the death. But let not
the Brethren of the Bond slay the inno
cent tn cold blood!"
Some were for mercy and cried, "To the
Tillage with them! Let the ministers
Judge!" But there remained a dark-brow-vd
minority, men of much suffering and many
travelings, eye-for-eye and tooth-for-tooth
men, who continued to edge nearer to the
prisoners, fingering restlessly at their
weapons.
Tha quick Instinct of France Wellwood
caught the movement. She drew her pistol
and set herself determinedly In front,
standing almost across the prostrate body
of Pierre tha wagoner. In the small un
certain light of the lantern she saw that a
cruel gag had been thrust Into his mouth.
She bent down and released the V-shaped
twig wrapped about with a handkerchief
which had been used to hold the Jaws
apart.
"At least let the man answer for him
self!" she cried "Who and what are
you?"
The wagoner was too much exhausted
with his late rough experiences and pres
ent pain to do more than lift up his finger
and point to the second of the three
wagons that which carried the largest
cask of wine. It was marked with much
distinctness, "For the prtvste cellar of the
Marshal de Montrrvel, a present from His
Most Chrlstisn Majesty." .
'There," said Pierre, the wagoner,
hoarsely, "let what you find 'here speak
for me!"
CHAPTER VII.
Tho Chief of tho t aatlsards.
Then was seen a wonderful sight. The
plunder of a klng'a wagona by the Camlsard
peasants of the mountains.
Pierre the wagorer, from where he lay
still bound (though new ungaged) upon the
rough pebbles, said hoarsely to Frances j
Wellwood:
"Tell them to knock In the upper bung,
but, for the preaent, to leave the lower!"
Instinctively the men obeyed, and this is
what they found. Across the whole length
of the great cask, just above the lower bung
hole, a flooring or partition bad been built.
Beneath la the lowermost hollow there was
silll a sufficiency of wine to satisfy many
thirsty aouls. that is. If any one had taken
the notioc to tap it.
But above all was dry as a bone, and the
Camtsarda, all unhindered, drew from its
roomy depths, a multiplicity of arms and
gunpowder of the best ErttUh manufac
ture, Genevan Ribles and Camlsard banners
with various Inscriptions, medicines and
comforts for the wounded, together with a
considerable packet of papers wrspped In
I tak I a and indorsed as follows:
To be opened only In the presence of the
accredited leaders of Ui people called
Camlsards and of our own envoy and plenl-potentl-ry.
I Irre Dubois, preepntly rouller
at Roi he-a-Hayard and Hoo.
MARLHOROUOH.
Kl'liENE.
By this time the amnll surprise psrty of
fighting Usmlpards who had made the at
tack waa reinforced by others, most of
whom carried lanterns and rough protected
lamps of tin, such as are used In stables
and barns In the counLy.
Frances Wellwood stood beside the man
whose life she had saved. And when out of
tho Inst cask (addressed to Mons le Mare
chal de Montrevel) a small fleldploce com
pletely equipped was extracted, she became
nearly aa excited as the poor village folk,
who, lifting their clasped hands toward the
heavens. Joined with one voice in the old
Huguenot chant:
Jehovah! Jehovah!
. , Crolre en tol, e'est la vie.
lYoIre en tol, e'eat la vie.
Amen! Amen!
For the shining fleldplere with Its In
scription In letters of gold:
"To our fellow religionists struggling for
liberty. From their brethren of the States
General of Holland," seemed to bring thesa
poor Ignorant peasants, driven and harried
by the great and powerful of their own
folk Into one company with the whole
church of the First Born, militant on earth.
At last they knew that they were not alono.
The glitter of the polished eteel barrel was
more convincing to them than many em
bassies. The Lord's folk, embattled on
their fields, remembering Slon by other
Babylonian waters, wore not unmindful of
them. God's poor persecuted remnant on
the Cevennes.
The process of disintegrating Tlerre'a
atores waa almost concluded when, with
the fast brightening light of the autumn
morning, breaking In waves of rose and
crange up out of the eastern valley whence
the eun must rise, there appeared two men
upon the scene. As they came in sight
Flower-o'-the-Corn recognlied the taller of
the two as her father and ran to him fleet-foot.
"Where have you been?" sho cried. "Why
did you not tell me you were going away?
Are you returned safe and sound?"
"I am well a little fatigued, mayhap,
with being so long upon my feet," said the
old man, patting ner soft cheek; "but very
greatly Is my soul enriched within me. This
night I have seen cause to sing songl of de
liverance." The dawn grew brighter, a cool, lucid
clearness. Frances looked about her with
eager curiosity to sea the face of the king's
wagoner, Pierre of Roche-a-Bayard and
Hoo.
But to her disappointment he had with
drawn himself with the companion woo had
arrived with the old minister upon the
camping ground. The two were walking at
some distance from the busy throng, who,
with the somewhat surly assistance of Billy
Marshall and his wife Bet, were now har
nessing the horses In the wagons in order
to convey the whole within the defenses ot
the village.
But with the swift recognition and ac
knowledgment wherewith men of power
visit each other, through all disguise this
young man had seen that Pierre the wag
oner was other than he seemed. The two
withdrew together, and In five minutes the
sealed oilskin package ot Instructions had
passed from hand to hand.
With the swift elan with which he did
everything, the young man waa about to
tear It open, when Maurice Ralth directed
his attention to the superscription, written
tn my Lord Marlborough's own hand. "To
bo opened only In presence of the Accred
ited Leaders of the People called C ami
sards." The young man laughed lightly, anl even
a Ultle scornfully.
"Ask them." he said, with a wave of the
hand to the men ot La Cavalerte, "the
Camlsards have but one leader, and the
name of him Is Jean Cavalier."
He boweu a little mockingly as ha spoke.
The disguised wagoner of Roche-a-Bayard
and Hoo fell back in astonishment.
"You ." he cried, "you! Why, you are
but a boy. You are never that Jean Cav
alier before whom the best generals of
France the Marshal da Montrevel him
self "
"No not I," said the young man, gravely
lifting his hat, "of a truth, not I. But the
God of Battles. He haih given us the vic
tory! I myself am nothing. The men are
good fellows and willing, but with little
knowledge. Still they will follow, and so
the great thing Is that someone shouid
lead. I do aa well as another. Never
have I seen a hope so forlorn that I could
not find ten men to follow me. And you,
who are a soldier, know that when ten men
arrive upon any one place. It there are ten
there already, there la not room for twenty.
One band or the other must leave. That Is
all!"
"You have enunciated a great military
truth," aaid Maurice Ralth. "and one which
my Lord Marlborough constantly practices
in his campaigns. But I have one thing to
ask of you, General Cavalier "
"I am no general," Interrupted tha youth,
flushing a little, "only a poor Ud of the
Cevennes. I claim no rank and use none.
"You bad, I think, something to ask ma?"
added Cavalier, as It unwilling to discuss
the subject further.
"Only this." said Maurice Ralth. "I have
made you acquainted with my rank anc cre
dentials. You know that I am fully em
powered to treat by the allies. It will, as
you must perceive be moat hampering to
me to be known tor what I am. Let me re
main, save to you and those whom you
deign to honor with your confidence, no
re ore than poor Pierre tha wagoner of Bra
bant."
"Your incognito shall be safe with me.
said Cavalier, courteously, "I sea your
point. You have to carry our answers back
to the duke, and It may be (If thlnga march
prosperously), return here again to these
mountain lopa. I give you my word that
your wish shall be respected."
"Nevertheless, you will guard my se
cret," repeated Maurice, anxiously, "and
especially (I have my reasons for asking
It) from the Genevsn minister presently
sojourning with you. pssteur Wellwood."
There was an unmistakable air of relief
on the face of the young leader of the Ca
misards as he gave the promise required of
him.
"You will not take ft 111. then." he said,
"If after thla occasion I treat you aome
what distantly and If my orders are even
as those which I give to my own men."
"I thank you," said Maurice Ralth. "I
have been for a long season under the
personal orders of my Lord Luke, and
heaven knows they are plainly enough ex
pressed." The two young men laughed and parted.
Cavalier calling after him- that all hla per
aonal properties would be found In the sta
bles of the Templars at La Cavaliie, and
that he was to report if, by mischance any
thing was larking.
"I do not wish," he aaid, "that when you
return to your masters you should be able
to report to them that we of the Cevennes
are thieves and robbers!"
Whereupon Pierre of Rocha-a-Bayard
and Hoo saluted and fell in at the tail ot
his displeniahed wagons. The young Ca
misard leader looked about him for his
companion of the night. The pastor was
standing in close speech with bis daugh
ter. As Maurice Raith glanced back over his
shoulder young Cavalier crossed toward
them, walking quickly and eagerly. The
sun rose.
(Ta be continued.)
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CONDITION OF Oil All A'S TRADE
All Kinds of Seasonable Goodi Moved Ver
Freely Last Week.
JOBBERS REPORT GAINS OVER LAST YEAR
General Tendency of Prices Doelderil?
Inward mad a Knmber of Import
ant Advances Have Re
cently Takes Uffect.
There waa a lively movement last work
of all seasonable llnea of goods. The city
waa full of buyers and as a general thing
their ordera were very liberal. A good
many new facea were noted among the ar
rivals and as practically all of thorn bought
their stocks before leaving, tho city Job
bers naturally felt that they hnd ninde
new friends. Several large opening stocks
were also sold Inst week which helped ma
terially to swell the total volume of bus
iness. Wholesalers and manufacturers In
all linos agree t ha t spring trade so far thla
year has been the boat ever experienced
and, more than that, It has far exceeded
their expectations, which is saying a good
deal when It la remembered that It was
fenernlly predicted that the spring demand
or lt3 would break all prevloua records.
A good trade is expected for this coming
week and In fact preaent Indications point
to a continued liberal demand throughout
the season.
Advance orders are also coming forward
as freely as could be expected this early
In the season and with average rropa Job
bers expect a big fall demand. They have
placed their orders with manufacturer as
though big crops were assured and they
are going to carry larger and more com
plete stocks than they did last fall.
Prices are still In a very tlrm position
on practically all kinds of goods. During
the week under -review a number of Im
portant advances have taken effect and
present Indications point to firm markets
for some time lo come. Manufacturers
ore finding a ready market for all the
goods they can turn out and In fact aro
largely oversold, so that local Jobbers ar
still having a hard time to get prompt de
liveries. Freight Is olao moving slowlv
tho same aa It has been for some time
past, so that there la more or lesa delay
all along the line. So far, however, re
tailers have been caused no great Incon
venience, but It remains to be seen how
the late buyers will fare.
Another AdTanro la Sonar.
The grocery market Is In a very atrong
position, with the tendency of prices de
cidedly upward. The demand Is verv brisk
and local houses are working their full
force to keep their orders filled up to dale
Another advance of 6c In the price of siiKar
went Into errect last week. This advance
covered ihe entire line. The demand is
reported on the Incr-ase and an active and
strong market la looked for.
There has been very llttlo change since
Inst report In the canned goods 8itu;itln-i
There Is, however, a little better demand
ror corn and some sales have been made
that would necessitate an advance of 6W10e
per dosen In the selling price. The onn
ners almost without exception have with
drawn thplr prices on future corn, and
wner'L-tney' nro offering quotations they
are 6-ffTHc per doxen higher than the open
ing prlcea. '
There Is alao a better demand for dried
fruits than there waa a short time sao.
but the market la without material chance
8.Aar a" Quotations go. Some lines nre
getting in very light supply and particu
larly is that true of prunes. It Is thought
that any great Increase In the demand
w5'!d result In an advance of prices
The cofTee market Is still In a very atretic
position and prices on both green nnd
roasted coffees have advanced Vie. The
will rule still higher In the future.
As predicted a week ago, the market on
syrup la In a very strong position and nn
advance of 4 scales went into effect last
Friday. Manufacturers are largely over
sold and many of them are not taking or
ders to be shipped ot an earlier date than
the last week In March. Those who are
best posted on the situation sav thnt mer
chants cannot go wrong by placing their
orders at present prices.
The Lenton demand for fish Is now In
full swing and Jobbers say that It looks
aa though the demand would he unusually
Bn J j" pcod """Ply. however,
of all klnda unless It be of mackerel, which
It Is thought will be well cleaned up be
rore the new catch comes on the market
??iiu,y.' "I?1 r!"1" fl"h ' of course not
.t.l2'7Hlfcthe lJ't- ,Tner' na
material change In prices during the week
for any line.
The woodenwar marbat i. ........ ...
2 .,n ,fact .ver' advances have taken
elTf,ct..s,Pc last "Port. Jobbers look for
still higher wires In the near future and
are advising their friends to place their
orders at present quotations.
Lively Demand for Dry Goods.
H-Hf7 ood!, lhbers experienced a verv
lively demand last week for all spring lines.
There were fully aa many buyers In the
city aa at any fon.ier time this season and
as a result all hands were kept busy wait
ing upon the customers. The general Im
pression now Is that the most of the heavy
nave piacea tntr tirst orders and
that there will be a little slackening In
the demand from this time on. A good,
brisk trade, though. Is expected throughout
the season, for although merchants have
bought vry freely, an enormous trade is
looked for In the country- which. If It mii
terlallsea. will soon reduce, merchants'
stocks to a point where they will have to
place additional orders.
Thla coming week Jobbers intend to start
their men out with fall samples and from
the way merchants talk, salesmen expert
to do a good business from the first. Tho
scarcity of many lines of fall goods and
the upward tendency of values will, of
course, make merchants buy earlier than
they would otherwise. Thev realise that
there Is danger of a shortage and also of
considerable higher prices and as none of
them care to be caught short, traveling
men hope to break all previous records In
the number of advance orders they will
take In the next fe"v weeks.
The cotton goods market Is still In a verv
strong position and In fact there was quite
a boom last week and nearly all staple lines
were more or less affected. Those who are
best posted look for continued firm markets
for some time to come and are very con
fident that early buyers will make no mis
take, aa everything potnta to higher prices
in the future.
Advance ta Wire aad Kails.
The only Important change tn the hard
ware market last week was an advance in
wire, nails amounting to 10c per cwt. Thla
advance waa not exactly unexpected, as it
waa announced some time ago that there
would be several advances during the
spring months. Other lines of hardware
are quoted as being In a atrong position,
but there have been no changes of im
portance since last report.
Local Jobbers experienced a very nice de
mand last week and say that aprlng busi
ness is starting out In vtry promising man
ner. Everything now points to a big trao'e
for the next several months and In fact
mora stock Is moving out than there waa a
year ago. There ts no special feat. .re to
the trade, aa the demand covers practically
the entire line of seasonable goods.
Kabber Clothing- la Demand.
Rubber goods Jobbers report a brisk de
mand for rubber clothing as well as lor
footwear. The ralnv and klnnnv v.ath.r ,.f
last wetk caused all kinds of tpYlng rubbers
it, pen i reei j in ine counirv a no Jobbers
also experienced a good demand. Whole
saler who handle clothing ay that with
normal aprinc thev will sell m.ir mtn. it
thla season than ever before. Macintoshes
a .d that line of goods are becoming more
popular every year and as people have
plenty of money this year, jobbers figure
they will spend some of It for rubber -i., Th
ing.
1 here has been no ehanre In the altimita.n
for fall rubbers. Traveling men are booa
ing a good many orders and ao far aa re
ported prices are belnc well maintained
with no prospects of any weakness. Wholr-
aaiers look lor merchants to soon ehanre
their tallica and begin ordering their fad
stocks freely.
1 h leather roods trade ia alao nf verv
satisfactory proportions. A good many
buyers are coming to market and are nlar-
tng very nice ordera. They renort the pros
pects for spring trade as being very flat ter
ms-.
Frnlta aad Prod nee.
Fruits and vegetables moved out oulte
freely last week, but on most staple lines
there waa very little chuuge In prices.
There was, however quite an advance In
green stuff, owing to the killing frosts In
ine aoutii, mat uestrcyea a large propor
tion of the crop of green onions, radishes,
spinach and that class of carden truck.
Very little stock was received on this mar
ket and the few shipments that did arrive
aold at fancy prices aa compared with
those that were In force the werk before.
There was not enough to sunnlv the lo'al
demand, so that very little was lent lo
the country. It Is not known yet what
turn prices will take In the near lnmr.
but dealers rather expect more liberal re.
celpts in a short time.
The egg market has fluctuated up and
down to aome extent this week, the price
depending upon the receipts. It onlv takes
on or two stormy dava o strtnathpn ih. 1
market materially. The poultry and butler
marieis nave snuwn vtry utile change all
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