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FRANCIS CLUBDE.
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CHAPTBU XXIV.
i nion.oat later tiio servants in tho hall
, —a scream of such horror
«r’fc-r' f’ " that thev the scarcely sound. recognized They n
toth'cir n vo ieo in sprang
feet scared and trembling, and for
* fes seconds looked into one another’s
faces. Ahem 83 curiosity got tho. upper
boldest took tho load and all
hurriV'.l nellnieil courtyard,‘where lo tho door, issuing Ferdinand in n
nob into the
Cludde who happened to ho near and liad
also beard the cry, joined thorn. “Where
fg As'tho if, Baldwii)?” I think,” ho exclaimed. the steward
• back, an
Escrcd He alone had had the coolness to
A;™ out a lantern, cf and the ho house. now led Sure the
toj toward the rear
tEougli, foiimi close to the edge of tho moat, they
Martin, stooping with his hands on
bis knees, a great wound, half bruise, half
cat, upon’Ms criedshtrply. forehead. “Whodidit, ‘‘What is it?” man?" Fer- \
oinaiul his light
Baldwin had aiready thrown j
on tlio fool’s face, and Martin, seeming to
become conscious of their presence, looked |
jttbcm, but in a dazed fashion. “What?” I
to nattered, time “what nearly ia what?” in the j j
By this every one
house had hurried to the spot, ajnong ;
thcra not only Petronllla, clinging to her
fetto's arm, but Mistress Anne, her faco
ptoand gloomy, and half a dozen wom
afoll; who clutched ono another tightly
mil screamed at regular intervals.
“What is it?” Baldwin repeated rough¬
ly, laying his hand on Martin’s arm and
j (lightly mat)?’ shaking him. ‘ 1 Como, who struck
Iyou, 1
'd think,” tho fool answered slowly, ;
gulping down something and turning a ,
dull eve on tho group, “a—a swallow flow j j
by and hit me!”
: They shrank away from him instino- j
iivei.v, ami some crossed themselves. “Ho
iiinoneof his mad fits,” Baldwin rout- •
tered. Still tho steward showed no fear.
“A swallow, man!” he erica aloud, j
"Como, talk sen so. There aro no swallows •
flying they at this time fly of year, night and if there give |
vere dut not by nor j i
kb wound* like that. What was it? Out
'
with it now! Do you not see, man, ” he
Hided, giving Martin an impatient shako,
that tiir Anthony is waiting?”
The fool nodded stupidly. “A swal
lev;," ho muttered. “Aye, ’twasa svral- j
tat, a great big swallow. 1—X nearly put !
ay foot on 1dm. “
lace?’ "And iio iloiv up and.hit you in tho j
Baldwin said, with huge contempt j
in Ms tone.
Martin accepted the suggestion placidly, j
.‘Ave, ’liras so, A great big swallow, and
ho flew in my face,” ho repeated. 1
; Sir Anthouv looked at him compassion- j
Wv. "Poor follow!” ho said, “iv.ldwin, j
tethimself • is him. He has had one of his fits and j
“
"i never knew him to hurt himself,"
[iW'Tii! muttered darkly. j
j "her somebody see to him, ” tho knight
r Htv aMjdisregarding tho interruption. “And I I
tome, Petronilla Why, where has !
Not goner”
far. Only round to tho other side j
^ him, that she might bo a littlo nearer j
s Martin. The curiosity in tho other]
lumen s faces was a small thing in com
. fen
with the startled, earnest look in
Wtigfct, gazed ut the man With eyes not
but of eager, avid questioning,
Arot’gli her parted lips tier bvoatii
in gasps. Her check was red and j
tiuie by turns, and for her heart—well, j
W4 termed to stand stiii a moment, I
P now was boating liko tho heart of ;
Floor captured bird held in the hand I
I p '“d not seem to hear her father speak ]
,, Pj-f and !
ho had to touch her sleeve,
r tiie started as though she were
faming from a dream and followed I
ptidiy into the house. j
Ft?; P" l,lci and had yet there was a light lo her
> not been there five minutes
FA swallow? A great big swallow?
•«»Was December, when the swai
at the bottom of the horse /
A* She only knhw of one swallow i
If *34 «t«rn ono was swallow—aye, possible in winter. though But the j !
ir!» i^watcr lic should ittchca freeze deep in in her the chase I
room—
r.“ ! make a summer for her. Could it
W 01)e ? Could it he? Petronllla’s
b ;' ntii3 S so loudly as she went
oirs r-i after h er father that she won
.ueaid uot hear it.
A Smsp left round Martin gradually j
piav-ay. P=«dcal Baldwin with him was in the bis onJy mad man fits, I I
jv r thw servante > with a shudder j
. ®>5K\vard glance, gladly left him to |
=n ' Mistress Anno had gone in j
ttv tee Only Ferdinand Cluddo j
re
he stood a little apart and [
’.ore deeply engaged In listening ]
sound which might betoken Die ■;
j,." vp;. ; a than j n hearkening tq
K^tlon. sVm Listen as he might ho
'° gainsd litt!e f«wa the latter,
P" made up entirely of scolding on
jJ 1 ?,' 1 s tu P’d reiteration tho
_ on
-'“‘’’'mid, . and
ever suspicious :
l ,!!Ust have felt sonic interest !
p* ••i.h^t n t!r f al ! Cd V ,est0 rq
H in “ , W f r ! ? r Ensvci -, he ,
* «*din imn “ d6 ^ j
i- - U tuo el°om a few f pace, -
IfeiwV. H geo 'Gus , , . shoulders, ,. ,, , but . re-j
e , "'bat \V!u;t
' happened?
tiff A" - ft kU?” Ferdinand pett: |
IbV'I'l srisi':.” lS C 'h“lf, - T " s " 1! thertcwayd’S who flid it?” face. i
• or
| lw ‘y Ohfl uoflilcd tor
vfcfj I expect you will find •
fttr it there,” be eald grimly. •
a man save Fir Anthony
1 s Nft Martin yet but he
.
®‘*°d w.ien hu temper is UP ho !
-I* as mad, and better;
, rn;;s fellow, ” Ferdinand |
: F- shivering a little. It
Kw™ 1 to shi.er and abate, hut
ir luoods ’
ibe steward answered.
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and 3 - t uneasy, turned t on n las n'. heel and
wont into the homo, ejecting at the door
a servant who cjiiuo to tell him that, Sir
Anthony was calling tor him Bakl win
Moor, left alone, stood i\ moment think
iug nuU Iheu Uirnod to speak to Martin.
gone and was nowhere to
b-J seen. The lights in the ha’l windows
twinkled chotrily, and tho great lira cast
it.? glow halt way across tho courtyard, as
lights and fire had twinkled and glowed
at Cotojj Km" on many a night haforo.
But neither is. hall nor chamber was there
any answering merriment. Baldwin,
coming in, cursed tho servants who were
in his way, and the men moved meekly
and without retort, taking his oaths for
what they were—a man’s tsars. The
women folk sat listening, palo and fright
oned, and one or two of tho grooms, those
who hhd done least in tho skirmish, had
visions of a tree and a ropo and looked
sickly. Tho rest scowled and blinked at
the fire cr kicked up a dog if it harked in
its sleep.
“Hasn't Martin come in?" Baldwin
growled presently, setting lii3 heavy wet
hoot cn a glowing log, which hissed and
sputtered tmd it. “Where is lie?”
“Don’t know!” one of the men took on
himself to answer. “He did not come in
here.”
“I wonder what ho is up to now?”
Baldwin exclaimed, with gloomy irrita
tiob, for which, under tho circumstances,
he had ample excuso. fi 0 knew that ro
sistanco was utterly hopeless and could
only make mutters worso and twist the
ropo more tightly about his neck, to put
the thought as he framed it. Tho suspi
cion, therefore, that this madman—for
such in his worst fits tho fool became—
tpigiit bo lumping round tho place in dark
corners,' doing what deadly mischief ho
could to tho attacking party, was not a
pleasant ono.
A gray haired man in tho warmest nook
by the firo seemed to read his thoughts.
“Thera is one in the house,"iio said slow¬
ly and oracularly, his eyes on Baldwin's
boot, “whom no lias just as good a mind
to hurt, has cur Martin, as any of them
Cloptuu men Aye, thus 1ms he, Master
Baldwin.”
"And who is that, gaffer!” Baldwin
asked contemptuously.
Blit the old follow turned shy. “ Weil,
it is not tiir Anthony,“ bo answered, nod
ding his head and stooping forward (o
caress his toasting shins. “Bayou very
sura of that. Nor the young mistress, nor
the young master as was, lior the new lady
that came a month ago. No, nor it is not
you, Master Baldwin. “•
“Then who is it?” cried tho steward
Impatiently,
“Ho is shrewd, is Martin when the
saints iiavo net got their backs to him,”
said the old fellow slyly.
“Who is it? ' thundered tho stowiird.
well used to this rustic method of evasion,
“Answer, you dolt!”
Ylut no answer came, and Baldwin
never got one, for at turn moment n man
who lmd been watching in trout of the
house “They ran nro in...... hero, ho cried. A good
hundred of them, and toreuca-cnouga for
St-. Anti,any’s eve. Get you to the gate,
porter Sir Anthony is calling for you. Do
? ua hear?’ - •
There was a great uprising, a great clat
teriug of feet and harking of dogs and
some wailing among tho women As tho
mesfcongor finished speaking g iKirrJi chul
lengc which penetrated even tlio courtyard
arose from many voicces witno.it and wip
feilowed by tho winding of a Iiorn. tins
sufficed. Ali hurrieu \\ ith one accord into
tho court, where the porter looked to
Baldwin fur instructions.
“Held a minute!’ cried the steward, si
Voicing the loudest hound l;y a sound idea
ar t .iisreg ding Sir Anthony 4 voice,
.
which cauifi Irani tiie uirec, mu of tae gate
way. ‘ Let us see if they ore at tho back
too.”
He ran through the passage, and em.erg
ing on tho edge of the moat was at once
saluted by a dozen voices warning him
back. There were a score of dark figures
standing in the little close where the light’
i !a d taken place. “Right,” said Baldwin
to himself. “Needs must when the old
gentleman drives! Only I thought I
would make sure."
jio ran back at once, nearly knocking
down Martin, wlio, with a companion,
-, vas making, hut at a slows? pa op, for the
front of the house.
“Well, old comrade," cried tho steward,
Eln iting the fool on the back ns he passed,
“y OU are here, are you? I never thought
,, t you aa d X would bo in at our own
' } e ,,that" “j,j
a nD t riotieo, in the wild humor
w ],j C h lind sized him, who Martin’s com
nanimt was, thougli probably at another
would ' j have j„, tfritck him that there
"“j n g 0 na n t ],, nlS u .suica so tall. He
0J) wlt; . scarcely a glance, and in a
eminent .Ciitiiciiv wits under the "gateway, where
^otiv '.and was souudiv rating every
particularly the porter, who,
u C y Ui tiiedoa'r. found, or affected |
thote-kof turning it a difficult
o Be ““as the steward canus up, from however, him
„ “oaUril 1Q bi „ a6 som« sign
on their hinges, and tho knight,
h js staff ‘ in Ids hand and with the lanterns, servants ]
c j usfc rin , i, c iiir.d him
waikcii forward a pace or two to tho end
hearing himself with ’
o( t :, c bridge, some
^gnity r.f disturbs ° ’ at this hour?" be
V ho ns
„ rjo( j across the moat and signing
Baldwin to hold up his large lantern.
sin ,. 2 the others, uncertain of their recep
tiou, had put out t: torches By its
)ight h0 andthrsn behind hint could make
out a eroupofhaff a dozen nguresn koto
oJ y aT qs -away, while in support of these
there appeared a bowshot off mG still in
tljn open' ground a clump of, it inigut be,
a i,,, n drcd men. Beyond all lay tbs dark
jj ac of trees, above which tho moon, ur .v
r re LUj was sailing through a watery wra- a
of c jouds. " Who are yc? ! tno kuignt re
QgRjcd. Cludde?”
-Are you Sir Anthony came
an3 wcr
“j am .- Sir An
“Then in tho queen’s name, gel
thany,” the icatler pf ilia troop cried
e . Dn iv I call on yea to surrender. X heir,
a warrant for vocr arrest, and also for the
arreit wiTMoor, o£ j anH 4 priest, and Bold
who. I am told, is your stew
ald I am backed by forces Which it will
hg y;i.i tn resist '”
"X run,” th, shorin' answered earnestly,
" a,Hi as “ 1 '*e M>»- *ir Anthony.
to avoid useless bloodshed and further
oa«so for offense. Sir Thomas Grom iio,
the KovortiorV.f Warwick cr.sUo, and "iio
nci Bridgewater nro with mo. I implore
yon, my friend, to surrender, ami 1 will
do you tv lint good offices i may.'
The knight, as we know, had made up
his mind, nod yc-t fora second ho hcsltat
There woro stern, grim faces round
him, chougctl by the stress of the moment
intol!io &eniblancaof ihirk
facc.3 of men, who, though they numbered
hut n dozen, were his men, liontul to Iron
by every tie Df instinct and breeding and
custom, and lie had boon a soldier and
knew tho herco joy of a desperate struggle
against odds. Might it not be better, after
all?
But then ho remembered his womcn
kind, and, after all, why endanger these
faithful men? He raised Ids voice and
cried clearly; “X accept your good offices,
Sir Pbiiip, and I take your advice. I will
bavo tiio drawbridge lowered, only I beg
you will keep your men well in hand and
do my poor house as little damage as may
he.”
Giving Baldwin tho order and bidding
him as soon as it was performed coino to
him, the knight walked steadily back into
Urn courtyard ai;d took his stand there.
Ho dispatched tho women and some of
the servants to lay out a meal in the hr,11,
but it was noticeable that tho ihoh went
reluctantly, and that r.l 1 who could find
any excuse to do so lingered round Sir
Anthony ns if they could not hear to aban¬
don him, as if, even at tho last moment,
they had some vague notion of protecting
their master at r.11 hazards. A score of lan¬
terns sited a gloomy, uncertain light—
only In places rc-cnforccd by the glow from
the hall windows—upon tho group. Sel¬
dom had a Coton moon peeped over the
gables at a sceno stranger than that which
met tho sheriff’s eyes as with his two
hackers he passed under tho gateway.
■‘X surrender to you, Sir Phillip,’’ the
knight said, with dignity, stepping for¬
ward. a (inco or two, "and call you to wit¬
ness that I might have made resistance
and liavo not. My tenants arc quiet in
their liomeg, and only my servants are
present. Father Carey is not here nor in
tho house. This is Baldwin Moor, my
steward, but I beg for him your especial
offices, since ho has done nothing save by
my command. ”
“Sir Anthony, believe r;o that I will do
all I can,” the slieriif responded gravely,
“but’
“But to set at naught tho queett’s proc¬
lamation and order!” struck- in a third
voice harshly—it was Sir Thomas Gre
vilic’s—“and she but a month on tho
throne! For shame, .Sir Anthony! It
smacks to me cf high treason. And many
a man lias suffered for loss, let mo tel!
you."
“Had nho been longer on tho throne,”
tho sheriff put in more gently, “and were
the times quiet, the matter would have
been cf less moment, Dir Anthony, and
might not liavo become a stato matter
But just now”—
“Tilings nro in a perilous condition,
Grcviilo raid bluntly, “and.you have done
your little to malm them worse!”
Tho kuiglit, by a groat rffoit, swallowed
h)3 rage and humiliation. “What will
you do tvit.ii mo, gentlemen?” ho asked,
speaking with at least the appearance of
calmness.
“That is to hs seen,” Grcviilo said,
roughly overriding his companion “l«\r
tonight wo must 1 make ourselve3 and our
mDO comfortable here.”
“Certainly—with Sir Anthony’s leave,
o, r r pIioiiitis Grcviilo," qnotb a voice from
i J£ -l j j n cl “But only so!”
More than ono started violently, while
ji 3 ,, Cluddo servants almost ton man spun
round at the sound of tlio voice—my voice,
p'raheis Cinddc’s, tliougii in the darkness
n0 one knew mo. How shall I ever forget
t j i8 j 0 y and lively gratitude wiiich filled
ray heart ns- 1 spoke, which turned the
night into day and that fantastic scene of
shadows into a festival, as I felt thot the
ambition of the last, four years was about
t Q p 0 gratified? Hir Anthony, who was
one of the first to turn, peered among the
servants. “Who spoke?” ho cried, a sud
den discomposure in his voice and manner
“Why spoke there?”
“Aye, Sir Anthony, who did?” Grevilla
sa jq iianghtiiy. “Some ono apparently
whq docs not quite understand his place
0I , t j, 0 s tato of affairs here. Stand back,
my men, and let mo see him. Perhaps we
may teach him a useful lesson.”
Tim challenge was welcome, for I feared
a so ene utid to be left face to face with
my onele moro than anything. Now, as
tho servants with a loud nnirnuir of sur
prise and recognition fell back and ilis
closed me standing by Martin’s side,!
turned a little from Sir Anthony and
faced Grcviilo. “Not this time, i think,
Sir Thomas,” 1 said, giving him back
glance for glance. “I have learned my
lesson from some who have fared farther
and seen more than you, from men who
have stood by their cause in foul weather
as wei! as'fair, and were not for mass one
day and a sermon the pc*t-”
-Wbat la this?’* V.acrtea nngrBy. “"Who
H0 you?” dutiful and lov
“Sir Anthony Clndde’s
j ag nephew," I answered, with a conr
icons bow. “Como back, I thank heaven,
j n time to do him a service, Fir Thomas.”
” Master Brands! Master Francis!’
Clapton exclaimed in remonstrance. Hs
| )a d known me in old days. My uncle
meanwhile gazed at me in the utmost as
tul .i S hmc:it, and into the servants’faces
them flashed a strange light, while many
«f them hailed me iq a tone which told
mo that 1 had but to give the word and
they would fail on tho veiy sherifl hiiii
^jjf. •-Master Krqqcfb,' 1 ’Sir Philip Clop
repeated gravely, if you would do
, onr U nclo a service, this is not the way
t q go about it Ho has surrendered ami is
pur prisoner Brawling will not tneiid j
matter, ” j
j laughed out loudly and merrily. Do
you know, Sir Philip, ” 1 said, with some
thing of the old boyish ring m my von*,
"I have been since I saw you last to Bel
Siam and Germany—a ye, and ( bland ant,
Hamburg? po you think X iiayepauni hack ,
a tool?" I
*' I do know what to tunik of you, ,
uot
be'replied dryly, “but you had best’’— head, 1
“Keep a civil tongue in your my
friend,” said Grevitle, with harshness,
i‘ afi d waurself cut -pfthiA bdiingsjj^—-
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“Sir Anthony, r,hnw them that!”
great red seal hanging from is by a green
ribbon—just such a packet ns (hat,which
1 had stolen from the bishop's apparitor
licar'y four years hack. “A lantern here!’ 1
I cried. “Hold it steady, Martin, that H'ir
Anthony may read Master Sheriff wants
his rere supper. ”
I garo tiie packet into the knight’s
hand, my own slinking. Aye, shaking, for
was not this tho fulfUlmentof thatJtoyish
vow l had made in my little rooftwn the
gable yonder, so many years ago? A ful¬
fillment strange and timely, such ns nono
but a lioy in his toons could liavo hoped for,
nor any hut n man who had tried tho
chances and mishaps of tho world could
fully enjoy as X was enjoying it, I tingled
with the rush through my veins of tri¬
umph and gratitude. Up to the last mo¬
ment I had feared lest anything should go
wrong, lest tills crowning happiness
should lie withheld from mo. Now I stood
there smiling, watching Sir Anthony, as
with trembling fingers ho fumbled with
the paper. And there wan only ono thing,
only ono person, wanting to my joy. I
looked and looked again, but I could not
anywhere spo Petronllla.
“What is it?" Sir Anthony said foobiy,
turning Hie packet over and over. “It is
for tho sheriff—for tho sheriff, i3 it not?”
“Ho had hotter opon it then, sir,” I an¬
swered gayly.
Sir Philip Wok the packet, and after a
glance at the address tore it opon. “It is
an order from Sir William Cecil,” he mut¬
tered. Then ho ran Ills cyu down tho brief
contents, while all save myself pricked
their ears and pressed closer, and I looked
swiftly from faco to faco as tlio wavering
light lit up now ono and now another—
old familiar faces for the most part.
“Well, Sir Philip, will you stop to sup¬
per?” I cried, with a laugh, when ho had
had time, as I judged, to reach tho signa
tore.
■ lie grunted, looking at me.
“Nice fools you have made of us, young
man!'' iio passed the letter to fircvillo
“Sir Anthony,” ho continued, a mixture
of pleasure and chagrin in his voice, “you
are free! 1 congratulate you on your luck
Vour nephew has brought an amnesty for
all things done up to the present time save
for any life taken, in which ease tho mat
ter is to bo referred to the secretary. For
Innately iny dead horse is tho worst of the
mischief, so fruo you aro and amnestied,
though nicely Master Cecil has beloolod
usl”
“Wo wiil give you another horse, Sir
Philip," 1 answered
But tiie words were wasted on tho air
They were drowned in u great shout of
joy and triumph which rang from a score
of Cluddo throats the moment the purport
of the paper was understood—u shout
which made tho old bonsu shako again
and scared tho dogs so that they (led away
into corners and gazed askance at us, their
tails between their legs, n shout that was
plainly hiard a niiio away in half a dozen
homesteads where Cluddo men lay gloomy
in their beds.
By ibis time my uncle’s hand was in
mine. With his other lie took off Ids hat
"Lads,” lie cried huskily, rearing his tall
form in our midst, “a cheer for the queen'
God hoop her safo, and long may she
reign!”
This was universally regarded as the
end of vvluit they still proudly call in those
parts “the Coton insurrection. ’’ When
silence camo again, every dog, even the
oldest and wisest, had bayed himself
hoarse and tied to kennel, thinking the
end of tho world .was coma. My heart, a
} joined roundly in, swelled high with
pride, and Shct'o were tears in my eyes as
well as in my uncle's But there is no tri
uinph, after ali, without its drawbac k, no
fruition equal to the anticipation Where
was Petroniiia? I could seo her liowher •
X looked from window to window, hut she
was ut nono. I scanned tho knot of maids,
hut, could not find her. Even tho cheering
had not brought her out.
It was wonderful, though, how the
cheers cleared the air. Even Sir Thomas
Grcviiie regained good humor and deigned
to shako me by the hand and express him
self pleased that the matter had ended so
happily. Then the sheriff drew him ami
Bridgewater away to look to their men’s
arrangements’, seeing, I think, that my
uncle and X would fain (to ulor.o awhile.
*nd at last 1 asked with a trembling voice
after Petronllla.
“To ho-sure,’’Sir Anthony answered,
furtively wiping his eyes, “Hind forgot- :
ten her, dear lad. I wish now that she *
had staid. back But tonight, tell p»» and Francis, ljow did bow |
oaroe you you j
manage this?”
Something of what he asked 1 told took him ]
hurriedly, bat then—ho sure l nd
vantage of the first opening—I asked again
after sir?” I P>etronU!n. said, trying “Where to conceal has my she impa- gom, j 1
tience. “I thought that Martin told me i
she was hcre-indeed that Ue had seen her ;
after 1 arrived.
“I ft.o not sure, do you know,’ Sir An
• qbseqtXy, , ***** !
tony answered, eying »no |
I was wise, bqt I considered she was safer ,
away, Francis. Ami she can be fetched
hack it, the morning I feared there might
be eoina disturbance in the house, as In
^oed there well might hare Ibeen, amt ,
though she begg-d very bard to stay with
;
me I sent her off .
‘‘This evening, sir? 1 stammered, s«d- ... f
dc-nly chiiied
‘/eg; an hour ego. u
But hour approach vra. !
an ago every
guarded, Sir Anthony, " letted in sur^’,
prise. I had tiiegrcatestdifliculty in sbp .
ping through from the *“**'“* ]
well as I know every held and tree, io
escapejrom within even fora mam much
legaa —bl fi h. W. \ i , 11 1 ■>. v U- ccc im possible
'01:0 wlirTiiVve been flopped
I tliiuk not, bo said, with a rmilo at.
onco sage and iueluigeiu. which soeuaul to
add, “ Von think yourself a clover lad but
roil do not know everything yet ‘
"1 sent her out by the sir rat passage (<•
• !;e ini.'lliouse, you see. ho e.\pi um i, a>
>.,ot\ as i houvd Lives.hmilV s party outside
I tv.nl,l have {'ivo.u them thu slip my vox’
had i please.t
“The mill house?’ i answered Tho mih
stood nearly a puarter nt a nnfo fro*n t*o
ton i’.nd, beyond the p unions aiid in the
dimotion of tho village I rnuenihcret!
vaguely that 1 had heard from tlio serv
ants in old days .some talk of a secret out
lot leading frank--tho hiuiso lo it., but they
knew no particulars, and its existence was
•Hily darkly rumored among them
*■ Von did not know of the passage, ! * Sti
Anthony said, chuckling at my astonish
UlCOt
“No, 1 remember, but the girl did
'/our father and his wife wont with her
Hu <|u;;o agreed in t ho wisdom of sending
her away, and Indeed advised it On
reuching tho mill, if they found all quiet, .
Uo y were to walk across to Watney s j
ferto ™ t!l °y eoiihl get horses am ,
might, ride at their leisure to Stratford
and wait the event. I thought it host for
her am! Kerdluaiul agreed. "
“ And my t ;cher—went with her?” 1
muttered hoarsely, feeling myself growing
chill to the heart. Hardly could 1 restrain
my indignation at. Bir Anthony’s tolly or
my own anger and disappointment mid
fear, for though my head seemed un i.re
and there was i\ tumult in 1113 brain, 1
was cool enough to trace clearly my fa ;
tiler’s motives and discern with what a
doliberatopurposelio had acted. “Ho went
with her?” j
” Ves; ho and his wife, ” tho knight an
swered, nuttciug nothing in his olituso
ness.
“Von have been fooled, sir," 1 said bit
teriy “My father yon should bavo known,
and, for His wife, she is a had, uiiscrupu
Ions womanl Oh, ilio madness of it. to
put my cousin into their hands!”
‘‘What do you mean?'" tin. knight cried,
beginning to tremhio • l our fattier H u
changed mail, hid. Ho has coino hack to
tho old faith, and in a dark hour too
He”—
“Hois a hypocrite ami a villain!” I re
tortod, stung almost to luadnoss by tills
wound in my tendcrest place—stung in
deed beyond endurance. Why should 1
spare him, when to .spare him was to sac
rifice tho innocent? Why should 1 pick
my words, when my love was in danger?
flo, had had no mercy and no pity Why
should I shrink -from exposing him?
Heaven had dealt with him patiently ami
given him life and lie (ini hut abuse it i
could keep silence no lunger ami told bir
Anthony nil with a stinging tongue ami
in gi Mug words, oven at last how my (n
thor had given me a hint of the very plan ,
he had now and carried goading out of his coming brother down into j j
to Coton
some offense which might leave his estate
bitterly “But I might have known timt j
tlin leopard docs not chan go Ira spots and j
How you, who know him years ago
since, knew that ho hud plotted liim again—to against trust you j
runic to trust j
your daughter tu iittu—passes my fancy!" ,
“Ho was my brother, “ the knight uiut
mured, loaning white and stricken on my
shoulder
“And my father—heaven help usl’ 1
rejoinud.
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