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SYSOISIS.
Mary queen of England. Francis
Cludde is living with Ids uncle, Sir
Anthony, and bDcoussn Fetronilla, Sir
Anthony’s daughter, ( ardiner, bish¬
op of Winchester, pays a visit to Sir
Antlmriv, and being a f.-atholic is dis
liked Protest by Francis, who is at heart a
t. CHAPTER H.-Gardi
per tells Francis who his father is. that
he i- a traitor and informer, and offer s
to make the younsf man’s fortune il he
will enter his service as a spy Francis
as ks for time to reply and runs away,
intending to carve out hisown fortune.
Ill—He is overtaken b‘ Cl r ue, an
agent of Gardiner, agains? whom !’ lie ii -
cites the mob by teTin j them me man
is a press gang leader and escapes on
Clarence’s horse and with Ids dispatches
CHAPTER IV.
A younger generation has often posed
ino finely by asking, -‘What, Sir Francis!
Did you not see one bishop burned? Did
you not know one of tho martyrs? Did
you never come face to face witli Queen
Alary?” To nil which questions I have
olin answer. No, and I watch smnll eyes
grow large with astonishment. But, the
truth is a man can only be at one place at
a time. And though, in this very month
of February, 1555, Prebendary Rogers—a
good, kindly man, ns I have heard, who
had a wife nnd nine children—was burned
in Smith field in London for religion, and
tho bishop of Gloucester suffered In his
own city, nnd other inoffensive men were
burned to death, ami there wns much talk
of theso things, nnd in thousands of
breasts a smoldering firo was kindled
which blazed high enough by and by—
why, I was at Coton 1 m> or on the Lon
don road, at the time, and learned such
things only dimly ami by hearsay.
But the rill joins tho river at last and
ofttimes suddenly r.ml at a bound, as it
were. On this very day, while 1 cantered
easily southward with my face set toward
St. Albans, Providence was nt work shap¬
ing a niche for mo in tho lives of certain
pcoplo who wore nt Cm time ns uneon
minus of my existence ns I was of
theirs. In a great house in the Bar
bican in London there wns much
stealthy going and coming on this Keh
rutiry afternoon and evening. Behind
locked doors, and in fear and trembling
mill s were being packed and bags strap
peil and fingers almost too delicate for,the
task were busy with i:, is and h."turners
securing this and elosi (hat. Tho pack
ers knew nothing of i nor I of them
.
Yet hut for me nil that .-eking would have
been of no avail, nnd b :t> for them my fate
might hate been very ifferent. Still tha
sound of tho hammer did not reach my
ears, or, doing so, v. s covered by the
steady tramp of the Aster, and no vi
sicn, so far" as I eve; heard, of a dusty
youth riding London wind came between
the secret workers ami their task.
1 had mado up my nr id to sleep at St.
AH- that night, nnd for this reason,
ami for pthors relating to tiio sheriff of
Buckinghamshire, in which county Stony
Stratford lies, I pushed on briskly. 1
presently found time, I jwcvot, to exam¬
ine the packet of letters of which I had
marie spoil. On the outer wrapper I found
there was no address, only an exhortation
to bo speedy. Off this came, therefore,
without ceremony, and was left in the
dirt Inside I found two sealed epistles,
each countersigned on the wrapper,
“Stephen VYinton, ”
“Hoi ho!” said I. “I did well to take
them."
Over tho signature on tho first letter—it
seemed to bo written on parchment—were
the words, “Haste! haste! haste!” This
was the thicker nnd heavier of the two
nnd was addressed to Sir Maurice Berke¬
ley, nt St. Mary Overy’x, Southwark,
London I turned it over ami over in ray
bands and peeped into it, hesitating.
Twice I muttered, ‘ All is fnw in lovo and
war!” And nt last, with curiosity fully
awake and a gianco behind me to mako
spin that the net was unobserved, I broke
the seal The document proved to be as
short and pithy as it was startling. It
w., an order commanding Sir Maurice*
Berkeley forthwith in tho queen’s name
nnd hy tho authority of the council, and
so cn, and so on, to arrest Katherine Wil¬
loughby de Kresby, duchess of Suffolk, and
to deliver her into the custody of tho licu
tenant.of tho Tower. “Thesopresents to he
his warranty for tiic tir..< ution of the said
Duchess of Suffolk until her grace's pleas¬
ure? in the matter he known.”
When it was too late, I trembled to
think what I had done. To meddle with
matters of state might be more dangerous j
a hundred times than stealing horses or :
even than ducking the chancellor’s mos- j
6enger! Seeing at this moment a party of
travelers approach, I crammed tbo letter ;
in; my pocket and rode hy them with a
red face and a tonguo that stuttered so j
. teeWiy that I could scarcely return their j
greetings. When they had gone hy, Ij
pulled out tho warrant again, having it
itv mind to tear it up without a mo
meat’s delay, to tear it into the smallest 1
dangerous. morsels and But so get the rh: g.cat of a red thing seal. most dan j ’
-
gliug at the foot of the parchment, caught
?>? eye. and I paused to thiuk. it was so
large, so imposing, it seemed a pity )
* to dKroy it. it must sureiy ba good fur
soniAliing. I folded up tbo warrant again
and put it away in my safest pocket- Yes. j
it might be good for something.
I took out the ether letter. It lias
bound with green ribbon and sealed wirb j
extreme care, being directed simply to
Mistress Clarence—there was no address.
But over Gardiner s signature on the
wrapper were the words, “These, on your
peril, very privately.”
I turned it over and over and raid the
CONYERS, GA„ SATURDAY, APRIL 13 , 1895 .
same thing about love anil war and even
Uprated to myself my old proverb about a
sheep and a lamb. But somehow 1 could
not do it. The letter was a woman’s let¬
ter; the secret, her secret, and though my
fingers itched as (hey hovered about the
seals my check tingled too. So at last,
with a muttered, “What would Petronilia
say?” I put it away unopened in the
pocket where the warrant lay. The odds
were immense that Mhtress Clarence
would never get it, but at least her secret
should remain hers, my honor mine!
It was dark when I rode, thoroughly
jaded, into St. Albans, I was splashed
with mud up to tho waist and wetted by a
shower and j (joked, I have no doubt, from
the effect of my journeying on foot and
horseback, ns disreputable a fellow as
might he. Tho consciousness, too, that I
was without a penny, nn l tho fear lest,
oareful as I had been to let no ono outstrip
me, the news of tho riot nt Stratford
might have arrived, did not.tend to give
mo assurance. 1 poked my head timidly
into the great room, hoping that 1 might
havo it to myself. To lu.v disgust it was
full of people. Half a dozen travelers nnd
as many townsfolk were sitting round the
fire, talking briskly over their draft. Yet
I hail no choice. I was hungry, and the
thing had to ho done, nnd I swaggered in,
something of tho sneak no doubt peeping
through my bravado. 1 remarked, as 1
took my seat by the fire and sot to drying
myself, that I was greeted by a momen¬
tary silence, and that two or three of the
company began to eye me suspiciously.
Thera was one man, who sat on the set¬
tle In tho warmest corner of the chimney,
who seemed in particular to resent my
damp neighborhood. His companions
treated him with so much reverence, nnd
he snubbed them so regularly, that I won¬
dered who lie was, and presently, listen¬
ing to tho conversation which went on
round me. I had my curiosity satisfied.
Ho was no less a personage than the Bailiff
of St. Albans, and his manner befitted
such a man. for it seemed to indicate that
he thought himself heir to all tlio powers
ot the old abbots under whose broad
thumb liis father ami grandfather had
groaned.
My conscience pricking mo, I felt some
misgiving when I saw him, after staring
at me and whispering to two or three of
his neighbors, beckon t he landlord aside.
His big round faoc and Burly figure gave
him a general likeness to bluff King Hal,
and he appeared to be aware of this him¬
self and to he inclined to ape tho stout
king s ways, which, I have heard my un¬
cle say, were ever ways heavy for others’
toes For awhile, however, seeing my
supper conio in, I forgot him. Tho bare
armed girl who brought it to mo and in
whom my draggled condition seemed to
provoke feelings of a different nature lug¬
ged up a round table to the lire. On this
she laid my lileni, not scrupling to set
aside some of tha snug dry townsfolk.
Then she set a chair for tno well in the
blaze, and folding her arms In her apron
stood to watch mo fall to. I did so with a
will, and with each mouthful of liccf and
draft of n!o spirit and strength enmo back
to me. The cits round mo might sneer
and shake their heads ami the travelers
smile nt my appetite, In five minutes )
cared not a whit. 1 could give thorn buck
joke for joke and laugh with the best of
them.
Indeed I had clean forgotten tho bailiff
when he stalked back to his place, Hilt
the moment our eyes met 1 guessed there
wns trouble a toot The laudiord came
with him and stood looking at me, soml
ing off the trench with a Uea in her ear.
and 1 felt under his eye an uncomfortable
consciousness that my purse was empty
Two or three late arrivals, to whom I sup
pose master bailiff had confided ills suspi
cions, took their stand also in a half cir
do and scanned me queerly. Altogether it
struck me suddenly that 1 was in a tight
place and had need of my wits.
■ A licni!” said tho bailiff abruptly, tak¬
ing skillful advantage of a lull In the talk
“Wherefrom last, young man?” Hespoke
In a deep, choky voice, and if I was not
mistaken he winked ono of hts small eyes
in the direction of his friends, as though
to say, “Now see me pose him!”
But 1 only put another morsel In my
mouth. For a moment indeed thetempta
tion to reply “Towcester," seeing that
such a journey over a middling road was
something to brag of liefore the highway
law came in, almost overcame mo. But
in time I bethought mo of Stephen Gar
diner’s maxim, “Bo slow to speak!” aud
1 put another morsel in my mouth.
The bailiff's face grew red, or rather
redder “Come, young man, did you hear
me speak?” ho said pompously. “Where
from last?”
■From the road, sir.” I replied, turning
to him ns if 1 had not heard him before
“And a very wet road it was.”
A man who sat next me chuckled, being
apparently a stranger like niyself. But the
bailiff puffed hiiuself into a still more
striking likeness to King Henry, and in
eluding him in his scowl shouted at me:
•Sirrah, don’t bandy words with me
Which way did you come along tho road,’
I asked.
It was on tho tip of my tonguo to an
swor saucily, “Tbo right way!” But I re
fleeted that I might be stopped, and to be
stopped might mean to he hanged at worst-,
an(! smn th:ng very unpleasant at best. So
x controlled myself and answered, though
tll( . nian ' s arrogance was provoking
en0UB ti: “I have come from Stratford,
|in j j am going to London. Now you
know as much us I do. ”
d 0 jy j )C pa ui t with a sneer ar.d a
w i nk a t the landlord,
“Yes, I think so. ” I answered patiently,
••Weil, 1 don't!' he retorted iu vulgar
triumph “I don’t It is my opinion that
ljav0 from London. ”
you w mie
j went- on with my supper,
..i) 0 y ou bear?’ he asked pompously,
sticking his arms akimbo and looking
rmim l tor sympathy “You will have to
pjve H „ socolI!lt 0 f yourself, young man. and
U wtiJ haro no penniless rogues A1
. tu ,dy vagabonds wandering shout St. ,
.
. Penni e £ (!n not ao a-horse | i
hack, 1 answe^h But it wasjvonderfo. wonderful |
bow my sp- >• * ,
l'T n 'T“ jt
WOr 'to raidna rw-ln, his finger i
Wait a bit, he Raid, s .id
tion to command AN bat nttent is you ^...^ B> < S ^ 8
mad?”
.Qh,” l replied. D uttip X down_i-i/
knife nm! looking open scorn nt him, ‘you
are nn inquisitor. aro yon?" At which
words of rn.no there was a kind of stir
• You would burn me ns 1 hear they
burned Master Sandars at Coventry last
week, would you? They "* were talking
alrout it down the road.
'• You will come to a bad end. his' young
maul’ ho retortod viciously, out
stretched finger shaking as if the palsy
had seized him. for this time my taunt
had gone homo, and more than one of the
listeners standing on the outer edge of tho
group, nnd so beyond his ken, had mnt
tered ‘‘shame.” More than one face had
grown dark, “You will come to a laid
end,” lie repeated, “If it he not here, then
somewhere else. It is my opinion
you have come from Londoa and that you
have been in trouble. There Is a hue and
cry out for a young fellow just your ago,
and a cock ot your hackle, I judge, who is
wanted for lieresy. A Londoner too.
You do uot leave here until you have giv
on an account of yourself, Mast* Jack a
Dandy!” The party had all risen round
me, and some of the hindmost had got on
benches to see me tho better. Among these,
between two bacon flitches, 1 caught a
glimpse of the serving maid’s face as slio
peered at me, pale and scared, and a queer
Impulse led me to nod toiler__a rcassnr
lug little nod. I found myself growing
cool and confident, seeing myself so cor
nered.
‘ ■ Kasy easy!” get’warmed I said. “Let a man finish
his supper and in peace.”
‘Bishop Bonner will warm youl” cried
tho bailiff.
‘‘I dare say—as they warm people in
Spain!” I sneered.
“lie will ho Bishop Burner to you!”
shrieked tho bf.iliff, almost, beside himself
with rage at being so bearded by a lad.
’•Take care!” I retorted. ‘‘Do not you
speak evil of dignitaries, or you will be
getting into trouble!”
Ho fairly writhed under this rejoinder.
‘ Landlord,” ho spluttered, "I shall hold
you responsible! If (Ids person leaves
your house and is not, forthcoming when
Wanted, you will suffer for it!”
The landlord scratched his head, being
a good natured fellow, "but a bailiff is a
bailiff, especially at St. Albans. And I wns
muddy and travel stained, nnd quick of
my tongue for one so young, which the
middle aged never like, though tho old hear
It bettor. He hesitated.
‘‘Do not lie a fool, Master Host!” I said.
•‘I havo something h ere”— nnd I
touched my pocket, which happened to bo
near my sword hilt—‘‘that will mako yon
rue it if yon interfere with me!”
“Ho! ho!” cried the bailiff in haste and
triumph “So that is his cone! Wo have
a tavern brawler here, have we? A young
swashbuckler! His tongue will not run
so fast when he finds his feet in the stocks.
Master landlord, eail tho watch! Call the
watch nt once, I command you!"
“You will do so at your peril!” I said
sternly. Then, seeing that my mannor
had some effect upon all save tho angry
official, 1 gave nay to the icniptntiou t0 |
drivo. the matter home and secure my
safety by the only means that seemed pos
sihio. It is an old story that one deception
leads inevitably to another. I solemnly
drew out tho white staff I had taken from
the, apparitoi. “ 1,0011 here!” I continued,
waving it. “Do you see this, you booby?
I am traveling in tho queen’s name and
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“Bishop Bonner will warm you!"
on her scu ioe. By special commission,
too, from the chancellor. Is that plain
speaking enough for you? And let me tell
you, master bailiff,” I added, fixing my
eye upon him, “that my business Is pri¬
vate, and that my Lord of Winchester will
not ho liest pleased when ho bears how I
have had to declare myself. Do you think
the queen’s servants go always in cloth of
gold, you fcol? Tlje stocks indeed!”
1 laughed out loudly and without effort,
for there never was anything so absurd ns
the change in the bailiff’s visage, His
color fled, his cheeks grew pendulous, his
Jip hung iooso. Ho stared at me, gasping
like a fish cut of water and seemed unable
to move tos or finger. Tho rest enjoyed
tho scene, ns people will enjoy a marvelous
sudden stroke of fortune. It was as good
as a stage pageant t-o them. They could
not take their eyes from tho pocket in
which I had replaced my wand, nnd con¬
tinued lony after I had returned to my
meal to gaze at me in respectful silence.
The crestfallen bailiff presently slipped
out, and I was left cock of the walk and
for tho rest of tho evening enjoyed the
fruits of victory.
They proved to be more substantial than
I had expected, for os I was on my way
up stairs to bed, fhc landlord preceding j
me beckoned with a light, aside a man mysteriously. accosted me and j
me i
“The baiiiff is very much annoyed,” he !
said, speaking in a muffled voice behind mine, { j
his hand, while his eyes peered into !
“Well, what is that tome?” I replied,
looking sternly at him. I wns tired and j j
sleepy after my meal. “He should not
make such a fool of tut! himself.” You misunderstood j I
•‘Tut, tut, tut,
me, young sir,’’ the man answered, pluck i
ing my siceve as 1 turned away. “He re j
grots the annoyance ho has caused you. A I
mistake, lie says, a pure mistake, and he |
hopes yon will have forgotten it by mom
ing ^g ” Then, with a skillful hand which j
^ ^ un|)gcd ^ ^ t!lsk> he b „d
two coins into my rmint. 1 looked at them
for « moment, ltot perceiving his drift,
Tben x foull fl they were two gold angels. ;
and I began To understand. “Ahem!” I |
said, fingering them uneasily. “Yep look j
Well, wefo I will lyok over tt ±I svijd
over it. .ell him from nip." I continued,
gaining confidence as I proceeded with my
new role, ' that ho shall hear no more
about it llo is zealous, perhaps over
zealous '
That is it, " muttered tho envoy eager
ly ‘That is it, my dear sir. Yon see
perfectly how it Is Hoiszonlous—zealous
In t-ho queen's service."
! ‘To he sure, and so 1 will report him.
Tell him that, so I will report him. And
here, my good friend, take one of theso for
yourself,” I added, magnificently giving
him back half my fortune, young donkey
that 1 was. ‘ Drink to tlaiqueen’s health,
and so good night to you.”
He went away, bowing to ti*o very
ground, and when t lie landlord likewise
had left me I was very merry over this,
being in no mood for weighing wonts.
The world seemed—to ho sure, the ale was
humming in my head, mid 1 was in the
landlord’s best room—easy enough to con
quer, provided ono possessed a white staff,
Tho fact that I had no right to mine only
added—be it remembered I was young and
foolish—to my enjoyment of its power,
I went to bed in all comfort with it under
"iy pillow and slept soundly, untroubled
by any dream of a mischance. But when
did a lie ever help a man in the end?
When 1 awoke, which I seemed to do on
a sudden, it was still dark. I wondered
for a moment where 1 was and what was
tho meaning of the shouting and knocking
I heard. Then, discerning the faint out
lino of the window, 1 remembered tho
P'-'ce in which I had gone to bed, and I
sat up and listened. Someone—nay, sev
oral people—were drumming and kicking
against the wooden doors of the inn yard
and shouting besides loud enough to raise
the dead. In tho next room to mine I
caught tho grumh ing voices of persons
disturbed, like myself, from sleep. And
by and by a window wns opened, nnd I
heard tho landlord ask what was the mat
for.
“In the queen’s name," came tho loml,
impatient answer, given in a voice that
rose above tho ring of bridles and the
stamping of iron hoofs, “open, and that
quickiy, Master Host. Tho watch are
hero, nnd wo must seurch."
I waited to hear no more. I was out of
bed and huddling on my clothes and
thrusting toy feot into my hoots like one
possessed. My heart was heating as fast
as if 1 had been running in a raco, and
my hands wore shaking with tho shock of
the alarm. The lmpationt voice without
was AIa»ter Pritchard’s, nnd it rang with
nil the vengeful passion which I should
iiavo expected that gentleman, doped,
ducked nnd robbed, to ho feeling. There
would be litt le mercy to bo hail nt his
hands. Moreover, my ears, grown ns keon
for the moment as the hunted hare's dis¬
tinguished the tramping of at least half a
dozen horses, so that it wns clear that lie
had come with n forco nt his hack. Re¬
sistance would bo useless. Aly solo chalice
lay in flight, if flight should still bo possl
bio.
Kve „ h(18t0 j ((id not forflrtko the
tnllistnai) which had served me so well,
b„t staid nn instant to thrust it into my
k( . r ThoClml(lc9 j,,,™.! flinr , a hi,oak
of keeping cool in emergencies, getting
Indeed tho cooler the greater the stress.
By this lime tho inn wns thoroughly
aroused. Doors were opening and shut
ting on all sides of mo. and questions
were .being shouted in different tones from
room to room. In the midst of tho hub¬
bub I heard t.lio landlord come out, mut¬
tering, am! go down stairs to open the
floor. Instantly I unlatched mine, slipped
through it stealthily, sneaked a step or
two down the passage nnd then came
plump ill the dark ngnlnst somo one who
moving ns softly as mysoM. The
surprise was complete, and I should have
cried out nt tho unexpected collision had
not tbn unknown laid a cold hand on my
mouth and gently pushed mo buck info
my room.
Herd there was now n faint glimmer of
dawn, and by this I sow that my comp nn
ion wns tiio serving maid. “Hist!” she
said, speaking under her breath. “Is It
you they want?”
I nodded.
“1 thought so,” she muttered. “Then
you must get, out through your window.
You cannot pass them. They are a dozen
offmore and armed. Quick! Knot tills
about the liars. It is no great depth to the
bottom, and the ground is soft from the
rain.”
“he tore as twisting she spoke the coverlet from
the bed. nnd it into a kind of
ro|.« helped me to secure ono corner of it
about the window bar. “When you are
down,” sho-whispered, “keep along the
wall to tiio right until you conio to a bay
stack. Turn to the left there—you will
have to ford tiio water—and you will soon
be clear of tiio town. Look about you
then, and you will see a horse track,
which leads to Klstreo, running in a line
with the London road, hut a mile from it
and through the woods. At Klstreo any
path to tho left will taka you to Barnet
and not two miles lost.”
“Heaven bless you!” I said, turning
from the gloom, the (lark sky and driving
scud without to peer gratefully at her
“Heaven bless you for a good woman!”
“And God keep you fora bonny boyi”
sho whispered. hands—a
I kissed her, forcing into her
thing tho remembrance of which is very
pleasant to me to this day—-my last piece
of gold.
A moment more, and I stood unhurt,
but almost up to my knees In mud, in an
alley bounded on both sides as far as I
could sec by blind wails. Stopping only
to indicate hy a low whistle that I was
safe, 1 turned and sped away as fast as 1
could run in the direction which sho had
pointed out. There was no one abroad
»n<l in a shorter time than I had expected
I found myself outside the town, travel
ing over a kind of moorland tract boundec
in tho distance by woods,
Hero 1 picked tip the horse track easily
enough, and without stopping, save fore
short breathing space, hurried along it to
gain tho shelter of the trees. So far ac
good. I had reason to he thankful. Bui
my case was still an indifferent one. More
than onco in getting out of the town J
bad slipped and fallen. I was wet through
and plastered with dirt owing to the* j
mishap*, and my clothes were Jn « woefu j
plight. For a rime excitement kept m< I
up, however, nnd I made good way, warm
cd by the thought that I had again baffle, ,
the groat bishop. It was only when th l
day had come and grown on t o
f sow no sign of nny pursuers, that
thought got t ho upper hand.
Then I began to compare, with some
bitterness of feeling, my present condition
—wet, dirty and homeless-with that
which I had enjoyed only a tvu k before,
and it needed all my courage to support
mo. Skulking, half famished, between
Barnet and Tottenham, often cumixilled
to crouch in ditches or behind wails while
travelers went by, anti liable each instant
to havo to leave the highway and take in
my heels, I had leisure to feel, and I did
feel, more keenly, l think, that afternoon
than at any later time, the bitterness of
| fortune. 1 cursed Stephen Gardiner a
dozen times and (hired nutlet my thoughts
wander to my father. 1 liml said Mint I
woijjd luiUd in* house afresh. Well, truly
I was building it from tho foundation.
It added very much to my misery that
It rained all day a cohl, half frozen rain
The whole afternoon I spent In hiding,
shivering and shaking, In a hole under a
ledge near Tottenham, being afraid to go
into London before nightfall lest I should
be waited for nt the gate mid be captured
Chilled and bedraggled ns I was and weak
through want of food, which 1 dared net
go out to beg, the terrors of capture got
hold of my miml and presented to me one
by ono every horrible form or humiliation,
tho stocks, tho pillory, the cart tail—so
that even Master Pritchard, could he have
seen me and known my mind, niiglit, have
pitied me; so that 1 loathe to this day the
hours I spent in that foul hiding place.
Between a man's best and worse there Is
little but a of food.
Tho way this was put an end to 1 well
remember An old woman came into tho
field where 1 lay hid to drivo home n Cow.
I had had my eves on this cow for nt least
an hour, having made up my mind to
milk it for my own benefit ns soon ns rim
dusk fell. In my disappointment at si o
Ing it driven off and also out of a desire
to learn whether the old diitno might not
bo going to milk it In a corner of the pas¬
ture, in which case I might still get nn
after taste, I crawled so far out of my hole
that, turning suddenly, she caught sight
of me. I expected to sec her hurry off, but
she did not. rdie took n long look nnd
then came hack toward mo, making, how¬
ever, as it seemed to me, as if she did not
see mo. When she had come within a few
feet of mo, she looked down abruptly, and
our eyes met What she saw in mine !
can ouly guess. In lirrs I rend a divine
pily. ‘‘Oh, poor Istl!” she murmured.
‘Oh, you poor, poor lad!” and there wore
tenrs in her voice
I was so weak—It was almost 24 hours
tlnco 1 hud tasted food, and I had conic 21
miles 111 (he lime—Hint nt that I broke
down ami cited liked a child
I learned Inter that the old woman took
me for just the same person tor whom ths
bai'iff nt St. A limns had mistaken me—a
young apprentice named liunti r who had
got into trouble about religion and was Ht
ibis time hiding tip and down the coun¬
try, Bishop Bonner having dapped ills fa¬
ther into jail until the son should come to
hand. But her kind heart knew no dis¬
tinction of creeds. Fhn took me to her
cottngo as soon ns night fell and warmed
and dried and fed me. She did not dare
to keep mo under her roof for longer than
an hour or two, neither would I have staid
to endanger her. But she sont mo out a
new man, with n crust, moreover, In my
pocket. A hundred times between Tot¬
tenham nnd Aldersgnte I said “God blesa
her!” nnd I say so now.
So twice In ono day, nnd that tho gloom¬
iest day of my life, I was succored by a
woman. I have never forgotten it. I havo
tried to keep It always In mind, remem¬
bering, too, a Raying of my uncle’s, that
there is nothing on earth so merciful na
i good wom.-r. or 60 pitiless as a had ono. ”
1.10 BS OWTtKCED.J
i
PEHF clke VOXf foe HEADACHE headache.
Ma r. n'fd.v foraHfonuRufHead
chn Elecfr.c Bitters has proved to
IS.ho very b *t It eflac te *
mneut cure a d the inont. (headed
ahitual sick headaches yield to its
,flnei.ee. We urge afl who are nf
icted t< procure a bofc'l*’, and give
■lie remedy a fair dial Iu m aos of
xhifunl eonsipa ion El wine. Bit
“> s chips by giving tho nopdvd
no to tho bowels, and f< w ( a-cs
•ng r.sist >he uso of this iu> dicities
by it once Lar<(e l>ott es only
Fiftv (cats at Lee * S >n’s Rrugstorc
If yonwanttodisplay nnythingat the
international exhibition of agricultnr.il
machinery in Vienna May 4, 5, (5 awl
7, yen ronst havo it in place by April
30. Tho lists tiro open for entry till
April 15. Here is a chance for American
manufacturers to mako Europe well ac¬
quainted with tho best agricultural ma¬
chinery in tho world. A good display of
our steam reapers, mowers and plows,
our steam road rollers and thrashing
machines, as voll as of tho admirable
mechanical contrivances used in our
-real creameries for turning out.bntter
ind cheese, will ho millions in the
pockets of tho United States. Europe
makes u* import her toxfno fabrics and
nany other things. Let us make her in
turn import our farming and dairy ma
diinery. Isst thc.ro he a big show at
Vienna.
__
Tbo national homo of representatives
Will MVU1 vm strange next December
Vh. n it opxus wU.iniit either Mr. Sprin
, er of Illinois or Mr. Holman of Indi
urn in bis scat to answer the roll eail.
dr. Holman was first elected to tho
Thirty-sixth congress in 1859, and he
,as been a member of every congress
ince tben except one, the Thirty-ninth
- u,.
Jl, when he was probate jnrigu of Dear
xirn county He is now 72 years old.
Chat is a long time to have boon iu pnb
iclifa And this is Mr. Holman’s opin
on ci public life nnd offleebolding
‘ ‘There is nothing in it B does not pay,
NO. 15.
* iyr yj r VC r P r '''N '
“ '
-
Svllicn ... the JX'OJile of the South
are resenting, is the*effort* of
stll ‘ tliem 11 imii.h'nns ynitaUoiw tor
'* ,v: rctti oimnjohs Elver lvejzil
lator, because lliev make more
i |V .i p . _,,A
, •? > I,
*«••*/ Care lltlie that they , SWindtO .
(he people in Selling them an
j„f ' jj.,| Tt’s tho
en . art e * 1 nirnirv '
,I1C , .> are Hirer, . ana , tllC people can
look out for thcmselvc3. Now
(I. jg E •* j, ls ‘ w l, a t thp Jiioj ncnnla it am
Going, , . tUKl , merchants . having
are
a hard time trying to get people
to ta |- e ( j, e t | )e _ ie‘ them
. , f u
<U llliltor—wllicll place Of oioimons LlVer firg
is the “ King of
Jjiycr Medicines ” because it never
» f ..
UU8 6,, ru,el ,n 811 * lver
troubles. ,, Be sure that JOll get
Simmons Liver Bccillalor You
. .. ,
’, v 16 . tDe ®
■? *
01(1 , stamp of the lull
j £ on the p) :[ Xv Sr * package A.'
” j 11 , s vj never Iali
ed you, i m aud jKopIt
who have hern per*
la i lL i 1 f r ,aKt tnmp(h someiltinpj ; n eigcnate „
_
always conic back again to The
Q|d Friend, Better not take any- vV
( li i , . . »
^Ef j^ lm LIN S CIS & . out Co., lilac made W «l. XL.
AN ELECTION
FOH CONYKUs SCHOOL, BONDS.
Thirty or more b *nn fide idtlr- 'tis of
the eby of Conyci«, hiving petitioned
the city council of Conyers, for an el'o*
1’ri for the i-miance of live thousand
’ollsis for Conyers School Bonds, and
»n order having bpen ps-g d for*n elec¬
tion therefor to be lirbl on Saturday,
April 20, 1895. Now, in purguanre of
.sid petit ion and ordey, and «n act to ea
rublirh Public Schools tn aid oily, etc.,
approved September li,l880,an election
will he heal on Saiiir av.April 30, 1800 i
at the Court House in said oily, to an.
:bruize Hie issuing of t nil)ers School
Bonds to t e Hiiiuniit of Five Thousand
Dollars for the purpose of pur.-l suing
suitable lots and erecting sutfnbl build
in ;s thereon,an I f irtiishi g and equip
ping the same for Public SoliooL of sa d
city if Conyers. Said elec ion to l>u held
under the same rules and regulation*
as prescribed for the election of Sfayi r
a id A1 lermeii of said city. Ail of s d
Bonds to be payable within twenty
years from date of issue, ami to bear in
terest at tile rate of six per cent, per an¬
num Iroin that date, and of the denom
(nation of fifty dollars each. The said
School Bonds to become due and pay: *
hie. as follows: The first ten years from
date of issue—$200 of the principal ot
said Bonds to become due and pays hi
eaeli and every year, on the 15 h of De¬
cember of said years, beginning on 1 e
ccaiber 13, 18115, and annua Jy theieaf
'* T *" the yeRf VM ' ArU,T ,hc
ren M frojn (l)lte of j MUe m0ol „ 1#
^ f mU , tondi to b come du
Himu.l.y’thereafter t . V ery year from
rl , e J ,, Hr 1!r . 6> «„d 7.
t ,c An d B , 1 " , ,he cr
*' c a " <1 , "" »» <•* ;
sail Bonds to be payable on December
15 •’* M ‘ l1 U f - ,, » begin.
•ling on Decendier 15, 18 5, nndaniiu l
Hmrcaffor »p the• 13th of said month,
i'‘H the |iriueq>n! »nd tnterpsl of^ said
holds are inti-lied,
The t silo's for said e’ectlon shsll hnve
vritte.ii, nr printed thereon tilt 1 words,
•‘For the ls-ne if 11 “ids” or “ A gainst '
th Ur!IC ,, f ij,,, ,is ” Said eip tint! to
lip it-Id in pur-uunceof e-licus 11 and
!2 of said act. to c-t b!| hI’uld « School*
etc , in the city of ronyors, approved
Sepiembpr 1', l‘R9, and Cite Ih«> got*
eruirig Bond dei t’Oiis.
Bv ord rof Hie city rotii'eil of Con*
vers, Ga , this March 11), 18;i5.
A.C. MoCam.a, Mayor.
it o. T. Tillky, Cleik.
MAKVELUU8 liErsU^TS.
> 7' u “ , ' y r > »
Onwlmn, „ of Diuwnd.1-, , Mtch, u'
^aro p.rin t ed to make 'h,s «
tract: “I have nn iiemtHtion in rec
^ 0f . m „? H Sew Di8 .
w reBlI were almost
warve |, )U8 in the case of my wife,
Whj j waJ , pft » lnr „f t |,, Baptist
church a Lives Juii -I on she was
brought down with Pijoum >tiis sue
! ceediug L*’0'i»'P • Te rihle pir
joxisms of coughing- would -ast hour*
! with little interrupt loft and t seem
! ed as if she omld n <t surv,ve tboai.
| N A I ieud Hiscoorv, roccotuiueu it ltd (puck Lr Ktng it* a
J v Was in
1 worL, nnd high’y *at ; sst'‘!< ,r *‘ Dr. ’n re- W.
i -ults.” T -a 1 bottles free at
. . T i » T j>
•*”'
gag' SHOWN’S IRON BITTERS
Cnnes IndipartSoo, hlilonun^F*.
.i, Ner«UMi»«, *wl GeMwl lability, rttjgk
..aos recommend it. AH dealer* sell it. Q«q«|m
U s trade mark %ud crowed red Unct um wt fpm
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