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By STANLEY J. WEYMAIL
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SYNUi HI H.
M uy is tfl 5 •11 of Kti>r!iiti<). Frail C ! s
Ofi'iiM is liv with Ids uncle, /- r
A r, fanny. tin H cousin Pef.rouillii,
n'nol'W'meliuSl.er, Autfvat'V’s daughter. Gardiner, visit to bUh Sir
pays Catholic a is
Anthony, and being a dls
liked bv FranoK who is at heart v .
Protestant. CHAPTER H.—Gardi
ner tells Francis who his father is. that
lie is a tr liter and informer, man’s fortune and offers if he,
pi make the young
will e „t.er his service as a spy Francis
ns'u for time, to reply and runs away,
iat-nding to carve out his own fortune,
ill.—He i* overtaken bv Clarence, an
agent af Gardiner, against whom he in
cites the mob by tolling and them Die man
i-a press raiig leader, escapes on
Blarenee’s liorke and with his dispatches
IV.—Francis goes t.) aninn at He.
li.t’is, ami showing the tii-parches is
thought to he a queen’s courier.
renoe arrives, and he escapes with the
ail of a waiting; maid, V. and \ I.- fie
reaches London and Venders aid to two
women. He and the women escape in
a boat, YU.—They sm Attacked, and re-cuml Francis and is stun put
ued. are
-.n board a vessel bound for Holland
One of tha woman proves to b« the Otich
ess of Hiiff iik, v.ho has married a man
named Bertie. The other is a kinswo¬
man twined Anne Brandon. Bertie is
ou heard lot- Biting 1’ otestants, they
tuft* were lleeinsc from England. Francis
them liis name it* Carey. Vi It —
’nicy ascend the river Rhine in a boat
and remit the liott-e of a friend named
hind-t om. IX, X arid Xi.—0 a r e y
saves JlymphtiH, l.ands r >m's dathjbt *r
from the violence, of a soldier arid kills
the man. They decile to bury the
Spaniard, but. Carey sees a ghost Van
Tree, i.’yui dma’s Dover, warns them
that they are discovered, arid they li e.
XII.—TheV reach Emmerich b? X>"at.
The Dutchman’s party go to Saucon.
While. Carey, Bertie and the two women
start for We ml on hors back.
char'. :;k xxii.
Only to feel that wo were moving Was a
rDief, though our march child was very slow.
Mosicr Bertie carried the slung in a
cloak before him, and thus burdened could
not well go beyond u smooth amble, whist
tlio guides, who were on foot, and the
pack horses found this pace us much as
they could manage. A little while, and
the exhilaration of the start died away.
The tine morning was followed by a wet
evening, and beforowobad loft Emmerich
three miles behind us Master Bertie and I
had come to look at ono another meaning¬
ly. Wc were moving in a dreary, silent
procession through heavy rain, with tho
prospect of tho night closing in early.
The road, too, grew mere heavy with each
furlong and presently began to ba covered
with pools of water. We tried to avoid
tMrthconvenierics by resorting to the bill
slopes on our left, but found the attempt
a waste of time, as a deep stream or back¬
water, bordered hy marshes, intervened.
The narrow road, raised hut littlo above
tile level of the swiftly flowing river on our
tight, turned out to he our only possible
path, and when Master Berlio discerned
this iiis faco grew more and more grave.
Wo soon found indeed as wo plodded
along that a sheet of water, which psticly
reflected tho evening light, was taking tho
place of viio road, and through this wo
had to plash and plash at a snail’s tiaeo,
one of the guides on a pack horse loading
the way and Master Bertie in charge of
his wife coming next; then, at some dis¬
tance, for her horse did not take kindiy to
the water, tho younger woman followed in
My care. The other guido brought up the
rear. In this way, stopped constantly by
the fears of tlio horses, which were scared
hy tho expanse of flood before them, v. e
crept wearily on until the moon rose. It
brought, alas! an access of light, but no
comfort. The water seemed continually
to grow deeper, the current on onr right
swifter, and each moment I dreaded tho
announcement impossible. that farther advance was
It seemed to liavo como to that at last,
for I saw tho duchess and her husband
E (op and stand waiting for me, their dark
shadows projected far over the moonlit sur¬
face.
'>bafc is to be done?” Master Bertio
called out as vro raovecl up to them. “The
guide tells me that there is a broken piece
Site wl t “ thl ° depth f rt W of f hic!l water.” W “ be lmpaSSabI °
T 1 uad expected to hear this, yet I
fluinfounded—for, was so
this being t me, we
tfrye lost indeed—that for a time 1 could
not answer. No one bad uttered a word
Blinking. nnproach, but I knew what they must
, I bad brought them to this,
ft Was my foolish insistence bad done it.
JXo .' Ck poor um beast under ''“Is. mo “Wo shivered. must go I
f, otwartll «>? what?
’ I said desperately. "Or
onat do you thinkf Go back?”
^teadv, the steady, duchess Master cried in Knight, her calm, Er
rave voice. "I never knew you so bad a
Wtnsdor before!”
11 is , uy fault that you aro here,” I
, ,, looking
Perhaps dismally around.
the other road is ns bad,”
replied. “At any rate, that
-1‘ist and gone. Tho question is, What
s. e Z° 10,11 t0 ,?° a::tl uow? »****• To remain To kero back is may to
he n t>run into 80
tbo enemy’s arms. 'Xo go
wvard —
d ill lie to lie drowned!” Mistress Anne
^ 1 could with a pitiful hl-s-ue sob. -Ioomv
«i'-.ck.h«cu4 tint ^™«*onourtad2d her \ I'-nTe
tod the te=n tn cc te • jr th0 t:n:c 01 y
SitTw^ ana 1 .“ ' Vln(1 - pivreed , !' ub our garments “ Dy “°
° U T S -
fcnmte. 1 '"leht , begm . afresh and the
n k e overcast. Of ourselves, we could
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CONYERS, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1895.
longed only 'aui to return. '
■•Vet I for going forward” the
finch ess urged. -If tliere ho but this one
bad place, wo rony pass it with ears,’
"We mar," her husband assontedduhi
onsly. “But suppose when wo ii.-vo pn.s-d
it wo can go no lart-her Papeete ti-"—
"Jt is no good supposing!” Site retorted
with some Hiiiirpnes.s. ’ lo t us cross this
ntnee iiisr-. Hiehnrd and we will dial with
tin, other ininiieil when we ca!i« .*.1 in it ”
i!e assent •• t ■ me veil co'fiis’ c'mvlv
bnwr.nl IiFtlds^ef oonriet'itw «^d tie- eeidesto luu^m!
urn sumo
With v,,ids through water Which rew ..........
each -fhei s>.p, until it roe nearly to our
g , n!ts the lads swpoed
-Are wc over'-” saiiUJiedm-hcsaca»erly
I'm-answer me of them pointed to tho
fl ooa Iicforo him, and peering forward 1
made oat a ©torrent, swooping silently and
swiftly across our patli.—a current with an
ominous rush and swirl.
"Over?” grunted Master Bertie. "No;
this is the place. See, tho road has given
way, and tho stream is pouring through
from the river. I expect it is getting
worse every minute ns tho banks crune
bio.”
We nil craned forward, looking at it. It
W as impossible to say how deep the water
was, or how far tho deep part mtcht cx
tend, and we hud with us a child and two
women.
"We must go back!” said Master Bertie
resolutely. ‘'There is no doubt about it.
Tho flood is rising. If wo do not take
care, wo shall be cut off and bo able to go
neither backward nor forward. I cannot
eco „ foot of dry land, as it is, before or
behind us.”
Ho was right. Far and wide, wherever
our eyas could reach, tho moonlight was
reflected in a sheet cf water. Wo were
nearly up to our girths in water. On one
side was the hurrying river; on tlio other
woro the treacherous depths of the back¬
water. I asked tho guide as well as I
could whether the road was good beyond.
Ho answered that ho did not know. Ho
and his companion were so terrified that
wo only kept them beside us hy threats.
‘‘I fear wo must go buck, ; ’ I said, as¬
senting sorrowfully.
Even tho duchess' agreed, and wo woro
In tho act. of turning to retrace our steps
with what spirit we might when a dis¬
tant sound brought us nil to a standstill
again. Tho wind was blowing from the
quarter whence wc had come—from Em¬
merich—and it brought to us the sound
of voices. Wo ail stopped to listen. Yes;
they were voices wo heard—loud, strident
tones, mingled now with tho sullen plash
of horses tramping through the water. I
looked at the duchess. Her face was pnlo.
but her courage did not fail her. She un¬
derstood in Ulrica that tho danger wc had
so much dreaded was up on us; that wo
were followed, and the followers were at
our heels, and she turned her horse round
again. Without a word she spurred it
back toward the deep part. J seized Anne’s
rein and followed, notwithstanding that
the poor girl in her terror would have re¬
sisted. Betting the guides go as they
pleased, wo four in a moment found our¬
selves abreast again, our horses craning
over tho stream, whilo we, with whip and
spur, urged them on.
In cold blood wo should scarcely have
d me it. indeed, for a minute, ns our
steeds stumbled and recovered themselves
and slid forward, only to drawback trem¬
bling—as the water rose above our boots
or was" flung by our fellows in our eyes,
and nil was flogging and scrambling aifd
splashing—it seemed as if we were to bo
caught in a trap despite onr resolve. But
at last Master Bertie’s horse took tho
plunge. His wife’s followed, and both,
partly floundering and partly swimming,
set forward, snorting tho while in fear.
To my joy I saw them emerge safely not
ten yards away, and shaking themselves
stand, comparatively high out of tho water.
"Come!” cried my lady imperatively as
sho turned in her saddle with a gesture of
fleiiance. "Come! It is all right.”
Come indeed! I wanted nothing better,
for I was beside myself witJi passion. But,
flog ns I might, I cotiid 'not get Anne’s
brute to take tho plunge. The girl herself
could give me no aid. Clinging to iier
saddle, pale and half fainting, sho could
only beg me to leave her, crying out again
and again in a terrified voice that sho
would he drowned. With her cry there
suddenly mingled another—tho hail of our
pursuers os they sighted us. I could hear
them drawing nearer, and I grew desp.er
ate. Ludkiiy they could not make any
speed ill water so deep, and time was given
me for ono last furious effort It succeed
ed. My horso literally foil into tho
stream. It dragged Anno’* after it. liew
wo kept our scats, how they their footing,
X never understood, but gomcnow, splash
ing and stumbling and blinded by the wa
ter dashed in our faces, wo earns out on
tbs other side, where tho duchess and her
x insl);(1K ^ too faithful to us to save them
se ] V es, had watclied tho struggle in an
suspense. I did but fling the
girl's -in to Master Ik rtie, and then I
wheeled my Jiorsc to tho stream again. J
■ i Vi - at j e t,‘ vp my mind what I imiRt do.
.. Go r icd. waving my hand with a
|j, gaftUT0 Q f farewell. 'Ho on! I can keep
cln h ,. ro fnr awhile.”
--.\obscijco!” I heard tho duchess cry,
her ^ voice hi'-h c' ami shrill. "It is”—
on [ (tied "Go on! Do not lose
a moment, or it will he useless.”
>; n stcr Bertie hesitated, but be, too,
« w that tips was the only chance. The
Snaniards nuut v/ere on tho brink of tho stream
d H they passed it, overtake
us'easliy. lie hesitated, I iiava said, for
„ Kmlen t Then lie seized iiis wife's rein
and dte-w her on. and 1 heard the three
horsCi to i-ishing away through the
fiord 'j I tlir'-w a gianco at them ever my
sh <1cl , botliink'iB.t me that 1 bad not
to]d thu duche-- my story, and that Sir
J,,, ,‘pis'b! and Petrunilia would never—
t What was 1 thinking of? That
’ ‘ had only
wa tU<mgi - t ft>r s woman. I
to j lur de n m V heart Dow ami sot mv teeth
together Mv tatk was very simple in
deed I had Just to keep lb« so men—there
were four—here as long as I cmiul and if
T" -ihv in it.mf’-r P mc-'s pur-uit alto
or
horse stopped suddenly with its fore feet
S[)2V3( , f ut , „ the edge of the stream, and
,
h's dark face grew darker as be saw the
sw j rl j ag eddies and mo standing fronting
y..„ ■■,-**-t,t e-i.v* roy.swonLiialt
^oc.-^crr.z~ -
u£ position. Whero 1 stood the water
was freely l,v, r tuy horse’s fetlocks.
whcte ,!0 ' stood it was over his horse’s
knees, and between u.s it Dewed nearly
.
four feet deep.
Ho held a hasty parley with his com
P anto "** »»*' then ho hailed me. "Will
- V ' JU surrender!” he cried i.i English "Wo
wl;l « iv ° you quarter.”
feurnuiuer? To whom?” T said. ’ And
why—w hy should I surrender? Are you
robirrs and cut purses?”
"Surrender in the nnmoof the emperor,
f«» <«ol!” he answered sternly and rough
]y -
‘ X know nothing .about thoompororl” 1
retorted -tVliot empem?”
"Ju tlio queen’s name, then!”
"D'ho Duke of Clews Is queen hero!” 1
<*'«>. "and « tlio flood Is rising,” 1 add
od scornfully, "I would advise you to go
home again. ”
"You would advise, would yon? Who
aro you?” ho replied in a kind of wrathful
curiosity.
X gave him no answer. I have often
since reflected,‘ with a fuller knowledge of
certain facts, that no stranger interview
ever took place than this short colloquy
between us; that no stranger fight ever
was fought than that which wo contone
Plated as wo stood there bathed in the
May moonlight, with the water nil round
113 aml "io ™ld sky above. A strange
fight indoed it would have been between
him and me had It ever come to tho sword s
P olnt ‘
Xlnt this was what happened. His last
words had scarcely rung out when my
hor3e began to quiver Under mo and sway
backward and forward. I had just time
to take the alarm when the pour beast
sank down ami rolled gently over, leaving
mo bestriding its body, my feet, in tho wa¬
ter. Whatever tho cause of this, I Had to
disentangle myself, and that quickly, for
the four men opposite me, seeing me dis¬
mounted, plunged with a cry of triumph
into the water and began to flounder
P .toss. Without inoru ado I stepped for¬
ward to keep the ford.
The foremost and nearest to mo was
Clarence, whose horse began, half way
across, to swim. It was still scrambling
to regain its footing when it came within
my reach, and I slashed it cruelly across
tlio nostrils. It turned in an instant on
its side. X saw tho rider’s face gleam
white in the water. His stirrup shone a
moment as tlio horse rolled over; then in
a second the two were gone down the
stream. It was done so easily, so quickly,
it amazed me. One gone, hurrah! I
turned quickly to tho others, who wore
about landing. My blood was fired, and
my yell of victory, as I dashed at them,
seared back two of tho horses. Despite
their riders’ urging, tinny turned and
ser<ynrbJed out on the side from which they
had entered. Only one was left—the far
fchrofc from me. Ho got, across vpfc t
ho was tho most unlucky of all, for his
hor?G stumbled on landing, camo down
heavily on its head and flung him at my
very feet.
If, was no time for quarter—I had to
think of my friends—and while with ono
hand I seized tho flying rein asHho horso
scrambled, trembling, to iis feet, with the
othoT 1 lunged twice at tho rider as he
fyilf tried to rise, half tried to grasp at
me. The second time I ran him through,
and ho ©creamed shrilly. In those days I
was young ami hotheaded, and 1 answered
only hy a shout of defiance as I flung my¬
self i”'to the saddle and dashed away
through the water after my friends.
Vce vietjs! I had done enough to check
the pursuit and yet escaped myseif. if !
could join tlio others again, what a tri
ump.h it would be! I bad no guide, but
neither had those in front of me, and
luckily r .1 this point a row of pollard wit
lows defined thu lino between the road
and the river. Keeping this on my rigid,
I made good way. Tho horse seemed
strong under me, tho water was shallow
and appeared to be growing more so, and
presently across the waste of flood I dis
i 'ki^Y-ivts. 'a ,y
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AJffvi-' V' « ^hz^=4d—-»-S___ U • ’(.A '
{ } hcd u erucUl/ner<m u, c nostrils.
=frned before mo a dark, solitary tower
the tower seemingly of a church for it
was topped by asturapj spire, wmc i day
wonW prouaDiy nayo suown to Door
vvood.
Thero was a little _ dry^ ground round
% cM a r^ro ^ u ^: sea o. wa
*- e ‘? * n > J '°.“ 1 !" n ° s V
ot and arcbed its .. , as
every sign joy nec.. , i&
trotted tip to the neighborhood of the
church, whinnying with pleasure. Iren,
the back of tlio building, I v.»s
prised, camo an answering As J
pulled up a man, his weapon in his uand,
came from the porch, and a woman ■
lowed him. I called to them W* "
fancied }«)« wou.d bo hire tho mm l .
saw too church: i sun, tl|(U.o xj uic
gWBW!. safe!’ hedueb
"Thank heaven yon am
ess ansvteted, and to my astonishment n e
flung her arms round my neez: and kissed
>«'-'■ "What has happened? sue asked,
looking . in niy oyos, her own full of tears.
"4 tnink l have stopped them, i a, •
**orod, turning suddenly shy, though,
boyliko, I had been longing a
before to ta.k ot P>J victory. in..ytr.
W w-ss, and —
l had not sheathed my sword. Master
Bertie cangbt piy wrist, and If-ng uio
blade looker* at it. "too, so. *ie said nod
ding Are you hurt.'
touched! 1 anstnwtf. Bolore ,
more was saul he coin polled bis wife to go
back into the porch. The wind blew keen
porcll -herded tbo best shelter to
^ ! Yts upper admitted part was of open wood
” c k and freely the wind, but
^---— , (i . nrr , 1 ,. 1 — cte mm d ' m ovex tbeggi _ 28!
dry tvithin. By huddling together on the
Door against the windward sulc wo got
some protection 1 hastily told what had
happened.
"bo Clarence is gone." My indy’s veteo
as she said the words trembl'd, hut not in
sorrow or pity, as 1 judged—rather in rc
lief. Her dread and hatred of the man
stranjto and terrible, and so seemed
to me then After'., arsl 1 learned Mint
smiierhlng had between them which
uiado almost, natural sucth feelings oil her
part am! made natural also a l.itrer resent
ment on his. Hut of that no more. "Von
sure,' she said, pressing mo
anxiously for confirmation, "that it was
h ‘’ ! "
"Vos, but I am not sure that ho is
dead,” I explained.
” You seem to boar a charmed life your
scl*. sno said,
“Hush!” cried her husband quickly
“Do nod say that to tho hut. It is un¬
lucky. But do you think, 5 ' ho continued
—tho porch v. a.'j in darkness, and wo could
scarcely make out one another’s faces—
••that there is any further chance of pur
suit?”
“Xot by that party tonight,” I said
grimly. “Nor i think tomorrow.”
“Hood,” he answered, “for 1 enn seo
nothing hut water ahead, and it would bo
madness to go on by night without a
guide. We must stay her© until morning,
whatever tho risk'. ”
lie spoke gloomily, and with reason
Our position was a miserable, almost a
desperate one, even on the supposition
that pursuit had ceased. W e had lost all
our baggage, food, wraps. Wo lmd no
guides, ami wo were in tho midst of a
flooded country, with two tender women
and a baby, our only shelter t he porch of
God’s house. Alistress Anne, who was
cioiiohing in tho darkest corner next tho
church, seemed to have collapsed entirely
i icni’inhered afterward that I did not
once hear her speak that night. Tho ouch
ess tru'd to maintain our spirits and hor
own, but in tho face of cold, danij^ and
hunger sho could do little.. Master Bertie
aud l took it by turns to keep tv kind of
watch, but by morning—it was a long
night, and a bitter one—wo woro worn
out and slept despite our misery. We
should have been surprised and captured
without a blow if tlio enemy had come
upon us then.
1 awoke with a start to find tho gray
light of a raw, misty morning falling up
on and showing up our wretched group,
Tho- duchess’ head was hidden in her
cloak, her litisbmiiVs ltntl (•link on lm
lirc-ast, but .Mistress Anno—1 looked at
her and ghmlflcrod. Had she sat so all
Bight—sat staring with that stony face
of pain and those tearless eyes on tho
moonlight, on the darkiic?;, which had
been before the dawn, on tho cold first
rays of morning? Stared on ail alike and
seen none? I shuddered and peered at her,
alarmed, doubtful, wondering, asking
myself what this was that had happened
to her. Had fear aud cold killed her or
turned her brain? "Anne!” 1 said timid
ly. “Arfne!”
, c *ho did not answer nor turn, nor did
the fl:\ed g;vM>uf her eyes waver. I thought
she did not hear. “Anne!” 1 cried again,
so loudly that the duchess stirred and
muttered something in her sleep. But the
girl showed no sign of consciousness, I
put out my hand and touched iior.
{Sho turned sharply and saw me and in
an instant drew her skirt away with a
gesture of such dread, loathing repulsion
as froze roe, while a violent shudder con¬
vulsed her whole frame. Afterward fhe
seemed unable to withdraw her eyes from
me, but sat in tho same attitude, gazing
at mo with a fixed look of horror, as one
might gaze at a serpent, while tremor
after tremor shook her.
I was frightened and puzzled and was
still staring at her, wondering what 1 had
done, when a footstep on the road outside
called away my attention. I turned from
her to see a man's figure looming dark in
tho doorway. Ho looked at us—1 suppose
he had found tho horses outside—gazing
in surprise at the queer group. I bade
him good morning in Dutch, and ho an
swerejd as well as ids astonishment would
let him He was a short, stout fellow,
with a lug face, enpabio of expressing a
,-ood deal of astonishment. He soemed to
bo a peasant or farmer. "What do you
here?” ha continued, his guttural phrases
tolerably intelligible to mo. could that
I explained as clearly as I
wo were on tho way to Wesel. Then I
awoke the duchers and her husband, and
stretching our chilled and aching limbs
we went outside, tlio man Stitt gazing at
us- Alas! the day was not much hotter
than (ho night. Wo could see but a very
litt.lv way, a couple of hundred yards
round us onljz The rest was mist—all
mist. Wo appealed tq the roan for food
and shelter, and ho nodded, and obeying
his signs rather than Ids words wo kicked
up our starved beasts and plodded out in
to the lop. by hla $ulo. Anne mounted si
lontly ami without objection, but it was
plain ^ S012ic thing strange bad happened to
cmidw , n lvas unnat ural Thu
duchess gazed at her very anxiously, and
,, ( , lC j 1)r , no answers or very scanty ones to
g er rtU e Stio ns shook ,mr head gravely.
j, nt WQ , vcr8 on ,; l0 vnrgo of ono pleas
uru When wc reached tho bos
!t . l!)ln latchon ef the farmhouse, it was
. to sta „d before tho great turf
Jj r( . , lf , ftK ) ,j )0 ),eat stealinf; Spin our half
frozeu UlJ dlcs, to mm and warm hack nnd
frollti w )iiio the good wife set bread and
j j0 , Jn }jjj j, 0 f ore u . How differently W
threo felt in Half an hour! How tbo doeli
once more! I Cow easily
r , reo tho lau.qit to our Jlpsl Joy l,ad indeed
w j.j, t ; u , morning. To be warm and
. , a v _ oll fe d after being cold and wet
an(J hungry—what a thing thisisl
jj 0( . on ono neither food nor warmth
. tohavc any effect. Mistress Anne
tli(1 indw)j j„ obedience to my bidyte
• f | iar f‘he ., words, raiso her bowl to her lips,
|, a t tu t it down quickly and sat look
Jn ap;|t , jy at tll0 eiowil , B peat.
\ V)lat j, a ,j conii . 0V1 . r ],«•?
Ma Uer Bertie went out wit^ thu /armor
to attend to tho horses, *nd when be came
^ ^ ^ ^ ; .
- T ; j Zt, „, j .. ‘who l | a( | 1 m said in -••mo
0XC1 has; st seen thru, i r
lo 7„i I imstif
1 wnistieu -The-, i.it.i Clarence Clarence.got got m (
"“L d '^'d; .^rugging
v "LsssSCt that.U (3* ' UasifiE •>—? —r 9,1
•>\vci\ it*, t .< i.t tw» r~T. *...*. 1 il., biioliu.
'The qnr.ii.5oTi arises again, Whet is To bo
iloiH’r" J:u continued. “Wo may follow
them to Wi'sri, but tho good man says rho
Hoods arc 0/cp between hero und the town,
and wo .shall have Clarence and his party
bo fore ns all tin- w;iv—shall perhaps run
straight into their arms.’’
“J5nt what list 1 can wo do?” I said. “It
is Jmpossime . .. , , to go iwe...
Wo held a long conference, and by much
host . lenrm (1 . that . half . .
questioning < t our
a league away was a ferryboat, which
emild carry as many ns two horses over
tho river at n time. On the farther sum
we miyat hit a road leading to banton,
three Matters distant Mioud wo go to
Iran urn utter all Tho farmer thought tho
roads on thatisuloof thei river might not
bo Hooded. We should then bo in touch
<mee more with tint Dutch friends and
might profit; by Master Llndstrom’s ad
vice, on which I, for one, was now iti
dined to set a higher value.
“Tho river is bank full. Aro you sure
tho ferryboat can cross?” I asked, Our
host was not certain, and thereupon an
unexpected voice struck in.
“Oli, dear, do not lot us run anymore
risks!” it said. It ^vas Mistress Anne’s,
ilho was herself again, trembling, excited,
bright eyed, as different as possible from
tho Anno of a low minutes before. A
great change had conio over her. Perhaps
tho warmth had done it.
A third course was suggested—to stay
quietly where wo were. Tho farm house
stood at some little distance from tho road,
and though it was rough— it was very
rough, consisting only of two rooms, in
one of which a eovr was stalled—still it
could furnish food and shelter. Why not
stay there?
But the duchess wisely, I think, decided
against this. “Itisunpleasanttogowan
dering again,” she said with a shiver,
“But 1 shall not mst until wo are within
tho walls of a town. Master Lindstrom
laid so much stress on that. And I fancy
that tho party who overtook us last night
aro not the main body. Others will hnvo
gone to VVese.l by boat perhaps or along
Uui other bank, There they will meet, and
learning wo have not arrived they will
probably return this way and search for
us.*'
“Clarence”-—
“Vos, if wo have Clarence to deal with,”
Master Berths assented gravely, “wo ean
not afford to loso n point. Wo will try the
ferry. ”
It was r.omothing pained to start dry
. llK | ^vc.rni, but tho women’s palo fa cos—
for little hy lit tin the f.Uif'iro, tlio tvnnt of
riw(i tlio ie«r, weio tolling oven on tho
duchess—were sad to seo. I was soro and
st jff myself. Tho wound I had received
mysteriously had bled afresh, probably ail
during last night’s tight. Wo needed
our courage lo put a bravo faco on tho
matter and bear up and go out again into
the air, which for tho first week in May
was cold and nipping. Suspense and anxi¬
ety had told in various ways on all of us.
VVliIlo 1 felt a flora) anger against those
who were driving us to these straits, Mas¬
ter Bertie was nervous and exoitod,
alarmed for his wife and child ami in
dined to sro an enemy in every bush.
However, wo uiii ereU up u little wlion
tee rpnehed the furry uml found the boat
cuulil ci'oss without much risk. Wo lmd
to go over in two detachments, and it was
nearly an hour past noon before wo all
stood on tlio farther bank and limit; fare¬
well to tho honest- soul whoso help had
been of so much importance to us. Ho
told us wo had three leagues to go, and
wo hoped to bo ct rest in Santon by 4
o'clock.
The tlirco leagues turned out to bo more
nearly five, whilo tlio road was so ftmnder
ous that we bad again and again to quit it.
Tho evening came on, the light waned,
and still wa were feeling our way, so to
speak—tlio women tired and on tho verge
of tears, the men muddy to t tee waist, euv
age and impatient. It was b o'clock, and
dusk was well upon us before we caught
sight of the first lights of Santon, and in
fear lest thu gates might be shut pressed
forward at such speed as our horses could
oompass.
"l)o you go on!" the duchess adjured
us. “Anne and l will ba safe enough be
hind you. Lc-t me take tho child and do
you ride on. Wo cannot pass the night in
the fields.”
The importance of securing admission
was so great that Master Bertie and I
agrml and ..•mitered on, soon outstripping
our companions, and almost., in tlieglooni,
losing Bight of them. Dark masses of
woods, the last remnants apparently of a
forest, lay about tho road we had to trnv
erse. We wore passing onoof these, scawo
ly SCO paces short of the town, and l was
turning in the saddle toseo that the ladies;
were following safety, when I heard Mas
te.r Bertie, who was a bowshot in front of
n »o, give a sudden cry.
I wheeled round hastily to learn the rca
son nnd was just, in time to *< -v three horse
men sweep into 1 the toad before him from
the cover of the trees. They were so close
to him-and they ,died the road-that Ids
horse carried him among them edmont be
fore he could cheek it, or m it s; ciucd to
me. I heard their laud challenge, saw his
arm wave ami guessed that bis Mvord was
out. J spiimil desperately tu join him,
giving a wild shout, of encouragement as I
did so. But before I could come up, nr i\t
deed cross half the distance, tho sen file
was over. One man fell headlong from
bis saddle, one V” f T 5'«d ndeile-s down
the mad, and at sight of this, or perhaps
of me, the others turned tail without moro
ado and mute off, tearing Master Bertio
in possession of tbofiebL Tbo whole thing
bad ■■ a. eit !ri tho aiindovv of tlio weed in
than half a minute. V-b-iH drew
rein l,y him, he was .|i,>athing bis sword.
"Is it Clan.pci ’ i cried eagerly.
No, no, I did net see him. T, think
nor," answered. He v.-iw lu- ..tiling
hard ami was very much excited. ' i'bey
v. -r • pour sweyd^mqn. for Span! mK ” be
aduK-,y poor, i tbou-.-M."
l jumped off my Imr.-e, »:::il kiieeiip.'' Ij
sido the man inrncd oi:n over I Jo was
badly hurt, if m-r. dvu.g, cut across Hm
neck- U- -...x ,mH »t M... by such
light as Iher- vn.s aim oil not recognize
him as ono of our a-allauU of .* . ..ight
over over him mm
• Xot a Spaniard?” Master Bertio said
stupidly. 'Kow is that?”
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[TO be continued.]
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