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THE, SUNDAY OTIEGONIAN, PORTLAND, JASTOABT T, 1900.
Figures by G.A.SMPLEY
old Caleb Cllnkaberry, that I know the I cursing ttf Philip Stangfleld, fio soon as she
order of events, as it were, by heart.
My mother lay on the bed to which Ca
leb had carried her, with her eyes closed,'
and I stood beside with white rags and
Hniirlerits in my hand, gasping and
swallowing In my throat at the sight ot
moddf while :aleb, with a pair of little
had fallen into a douahlnsr doze. Caleb
sjtoke In a" hoarse, repressed whisper, but
1 heard hiiri Well enough from the great
chair by the dead fire when I sat and
nodded, now asleep and now awake.
The Very last memory I have of this ter
rible night of February 29 (being leap
scissors t!Ut tipen ray mdther's bodice, so i year) Is that of waking to see Caleb
mat m a inue he round the wound m
her right shoulder. Then I can recall
hearing "him murmur to himself (for alt
ih6 world like a mother over a bairn),
"Mary Digfey, my little Maryf that I
brought up by the hand ever since Sir
Eubule did give you into my care at
Theobald's inn it was, the hour before
he"diedl An ill chance an evil star, &
heathenish country and the devil for ah
husband. Ah! my little Mary, that 1
who wert thy nurse should live to see thy
blood flow."
But, nevertheless, he staunched the
wound, and having done that which he
could, he found my mother with her
Cllnkaberry, the .palms of his hands
pressed together and his eyes lifted up,
saying softly: "Desolation and destruc
tion and famine and sword! The fury of
the Lord is upon us, the rebuke of our
God!"
When I awoke the new day had come,
and I Wafl conscious of a ghastly feeling
ef discomfort and a horror of myself al
most like- that which comes with fever.
I did not know that this arrives to all who
Sleep In their clothes for the first time.
It was light and I saw a man by my
mother's bedside. A woman was on the
Other, both busied with matters that I
Sjrnppslsjof Previous Chapters.
Sir -James iStansSeld, or New Milns, in com
pany with Ms grandson, young1 Phillip, meets
In anlnn-'house his son Phillip and his eon's
paramour. Janet Mark. They quarrel; Sir
James goes home taking alone his grandson.
That night he is murdered by his dissolute eon,
and Janet Mark. They take his body outside,
and lay It upon an Ice-floe, in the effort to
fasten the crime upon other shoulders. But
the boy Phillip has witnessed the crime. He
tells ills grandfather's chief fenant, Humphrey
fipurway, and Spurn ay succeeds In having the
real murderer brought lo Justice. He la sen
tenced to be hanged, his woman accomplice to
be transported.
Copyright 1SSS, under the name of "Little Anna
Mark," by S. R. Crockett. Copyright,
1S83. by S. R. Crockett.
So It came about that my father being
in prison ready to meet his end, my uncle
appeared at 2Cew Milns with a paper
signed and sealed, bearing that Philip
Stansfleld the younger, being heir to all
the properties and estates of his grand
father, his father, Philip Stansfleld the
elder, being under sentece of death, had
appointed his brother and Saul Mark joint
curators of all the aforesaid Infant's goods
till he should be of age. This to take
effect only In case of the death of the said
Philip Stansfleld the elder, presently in
the Tolbooth of Edinburgh."
My mother was much troubled at this,
and grieved sore at it, as at first did my
grandmother also, down by the Great
House. But John 60on reconciled her to
It by accompanying her regularly to the
kirk, and especially by speaking ever
praisofully of Mr. John Bell and his ser
anons. But all these projects and purposes,
overt and secret, "were in a moment blown
upon by certain startling occurrents which,
in a moment, put a new face upon all our
lives. And these I will tell in order even
as they happened, that the reader may fol
low their effect upon us, even as my moth
er and I felt them In the Tett house of
New Milns.
CHAPTER X.
The IRst Mglit in February.
The last night in February came upon
ts, a night ever memorable to all of us
who had been affected by the sad death
of Sir James Stansfleld. It was the very
day set for the execution of my father
in Edinburgh, and we hoped for news
In the morning.
I had been over all day at the' mills
of Umphray Spurway, where, flnding he
could not prevent my coming about him,
the Englishman had set William Bow
man to give me lessons, together with the
little tangle-haired maiden, Anna Mark.
It was work that "William Bowman liked
well enough. For not only was he a good
scholar, but he was glad to be quit of
the thankless task of superintending the
"workers in the mill for the best part of
an afternoon.
Then when it began to grow dark, Um
phray Spurway look me by the hand and
we went ladsomely together over to the
little house among the pines, where xny
mother dwelt. At first the Englishman
talked easily and answered all my ques
tions, of which, as is the wont of boys, I
asked very many and of a very foolish
sort But as we neared the cottage of the
Yett Umphray, he waxed silent, and when
he replied at all his words were mostly
spoken at random.
It had -already all the promise of a wild
night. Overhead the scud was riding
eastward, flecked and sullen, yet going
fast as spume on a raging tide race. Low
er a thin, almost invisible, mist steamed
along the land and combed Itself through
the trees like long blown maiden's hair.
.tne reeK of the lum rose from the hearth
stone through the rafters up to the out
er air. peeped once over the chimneys,
and then with a sidelong dive sped east
ward also down the wind. Spite of all
this it was not yet dark, and sometimes
in the bright blinks the sun himself look
ed slantwise through the forest aisles and
ruled the shadows of the tall trunks black
on last year's leaves, blue on the few
half-melted wreaths of the winter snows.
I did not notice all these things at the
time, but they come back to me now as
all the natural surroundings of my boy
hood are wont to do, with vivid and even
startling clearness.
For about this time I -used to be haunt
ed with a fear lest I should forget, or, as
it were, grow out of myself, and as the
years went past become some other per
son. Why I was so anxious to keep my
personality I know not But the case
stood so in my mind. For instance I
remember well a close fence of split
pines which extended from the back of
the great house of New Milns to the
wateiside of Esk. It was, perhaps, 400 or
uw ieei in lengtn, and the pales were set
exceedingly close together. Yet I made
it my business to know every several one
of them by headmark, back and front all
the green mould on the split side, the
bluish rotted places where the wet had
eeeped in. the clear yellow blobs of the
resin running like tears down the bark.
And know them I did, back and front
above and below. I could bind my own
eyes and wander till I laid my hand on
a paling, stop, cautiously uplift the corner
of the handkerchief, take my marks, and
then run over to myself on the next two
or three on either side of me, there still
unseen. In all this there was no apparent
advantage to myself, nor, indeed, hope of
any. But the experiment may be accept
ed as typical of the many trials I made
of my memory at that time. A year or
two afterwards, having other things to
think about I cared no jot for all the
split-pine fences in the countryside.
wen, as j. say, I went skipping home
to my mother by Umphray Spurway's
side, propounding" Innumerable questions,
and not listening to one answer in 0
Dtiring the latter half of the walk, how
ever, both question and answer were
mostly blown away by the wind, which
disconcerted me nothing. For I was in
high glee at bringing my mother so de
sirable a -visitor.
When we came to the door of the lodge
Te't I knocked, and heard old Caleb
Cllnkaberry withdraw the bolts, clearinc
the rust from the holdfasts of the iron
rods, and hs own throat of the roony
Weather at the same time.
Come thy ways, Master Phil- thy
mother hath been in a rare takin' about
thee. Eh, Measter Spurway; an' she will
be glad to see thysen."
And so hobbling forward with eacer
politeness, mixed with an under grum
bling of complaint concerning his stand
ing for that ancient "loom-bagus in the
back," our old English servant led the
way to where my mother was sitting
looking younger and prettier than ever
' I had seen her. in the rom that looks
. to the west ihrough a kind of Ions allev
cut out .amg 4Ue,r'nes. The sunshine
or something efee)f&L. 4 on her cheek
&a she jumped nib vgtsS&t . her guest
and. le'Uns all her, enffiroigi., -:-tff -an
'" ::u,Munjr tjouu; ss gaseTv iavlir
She rose and moved to the cup-
take our fdtir
eems to come
nor saying a word save to scold me for dows.
being such a trouble In bringing the gen- board
tleman all tbe way hither on so cold a t "It is almost time to
night hours," she said. "It
"Oh, he does not think that," I said:
"he was as anxious to come as a cat is
to see her kittens."
And after that I had all the talk to my
self for some time.
Umphray Spurway sat down on a chair
by the fire at mv mother's invitation, and
in turn he asked her not to make a stran
ger of him, but to go on with her embroid
ery work as before. And this, after a
little blushing demur, she did. I can
see her now. Her roseleaf skin was
bright as I
lZ5L T i VJ I yT S u Sfeat mahogany chest of drawers In Her
hardly yet lost When she threaded her , dressing-room. I went gladly, for sUch a
needle she would lift her soft, Bad eyes cnance came not often, and certainly Was
of blue a moment and nod at something I not to be missed. And as I stood by the
was saying, or. as It might be, smile at curtain of the bedroom, cleansing the
Umphray Spurway In a manner which stickiness from my fingers and wiping
besought him to forgive the youthful folly my mouth with the silken lining, I saw a
of my speeches. For I mind on that oc- dark figure pass from side to side of tho
i pfinli-1 tint tife.
senses restored trying to sit up in ner The had not obaerved me shrunk u
?ho SStAnS rlTr7vhu Z ' in the corner of - lack ken settle.
SrJ Srtf r vJJ SBth5 fno. n W ' 3Ta " 3nd Crled: " mother
Sandat tlfewnTdow0 " " f I rnothe?" "
And in this fashion we sat all night. L raouier- ,,,
I quaking with fear lest the curtains i The man who was stooping over the bed
that hid the barred lattice should again haf turned an saw me ready to fly like
be parted or the dooT below burst open I a banan. ro?k at J?im- He d,a not re"
with a ciatiic, and the murderer rush , mve ls hands, or disengage himself from
upon us with a horrid cry, But Caleb w,hat he was d?l?s' But Instead he lifted
hnri ail cnfAiv hnrrorf ani n rriiicVflt . n-3 vuicB over ins snouioer anu saia in a
early tonight, and to Be more welcofiie
Mici Mum, j.l uuiaciu. ajjdte. w m yuu naa an saiely oarrea and a musket , ;-""- - "- """"- " "" m -be
-pleased to stay and drlng a cup of tea? loaded, toward which he Idoked often Quick, rasping tone: "Umphray Spurway,
V.J uiuui, mi; vjuiueiiuiuu, uruufa-nt mo as ne went aoout, muttering and shaking i " ""; , "r . ""' """ .
some after his last voyage. He got it his head. Then I knew that he was the surgeo
his head.
"For this will I yet stay his career.
The bloody and evil man shall riot live
half his days!"
I must not forget to say that Caleb was
a follower of George Fox, being one of thfe
folk called Quakers only he Said but llt-
for having rendered some service on his
homecoming to a China ship."
"I thank you, madam," said Umphray
Spurway, making my mother a courteous
little bow. "I ought to be stirring, but l
must needs wait for that creat nleasure "
Then my mother sent me unstalrs for ' tie about ft. For thw -ww rtPrtr.1t. nt
had not Been It for lon I th WeSt Tnd,an 8Ugar' whlch au8t ln 1 little esteem ,n Scotland. Yet nOw when
preached peace so long, turned out as
great a mat! of war as the best of them.
So we Sat and for my part I quaked
every tlmo that a rat ran rumbling from
garret to cellar, which they did all night,
or even a mouse scratched in the wainscot.
Then my mother, growing heated and fe-
surgeon
from Abercalrn who had come to the Mlln
house when the plague broke out among
the weavers a skillful but an arrogant
man. Then came Umphray Spurway ln,
looking bleached and gray, the light failed
out Of blB eyes, and tho color faded from
his hair and beard or bo, at least, it
seemed to me!
But though I was glad to see him, he
pulled me roughly out and railed upon me
for crying out at such a moment, being
jangled in his speech and ever with an ear
on the door of the room where my mother
wa3.
Then in a little, being come to myself
and the feeling that my clothes were made
of hay having a little died away, I would
w ' a t ilhp iorc."NW -i ivNvia: mi mT -n 'v. w v -. w ri "v
1 certain dogged and perverted pride ln so
formidable a father.
'Yes," he growled, "I was naturally
afraid that I would not find him."
Then he ordered me back to the Yett
house as he would have ordered a dcg.
For never was a man more changed than
Umphray Spurway about this time. He
cared nothing for his looms or lils work.
Half his men were constantly at our house
in the woods, and as for the others, they
did only what work they willed to do.
And every night till they removed my
mother to the Great house, Umphray Spur
way would take a sword and pistol a lit
tle before the hour of dusk, and go out Into
the darkening woods like a hunter who
goes on a long hunt.
CHAPTER XII.
Tlie Great English. Dro-vlnrr.
But of Philip Stansfleld, the murderer of 3
his father, the almost assassin or his -svite,
nor hilt nor hair was seen In all the coun
tryside. Bands of men went, 20 together,
scouring the wild places," beating the
"woods, quartering the muirs with blood
hounds and scent dogs-. All was in vain.
Not a footprint, not a shred of clothing on
a thorn. Only some few of the searchers
tvmiid pome back whispering under their
breath of a mocking laugh which they had
heard (or thought they heard). It seemed
to hang about the skirts of the party as
the night came on, and they turned wear
ily homeward. But It might have been no
more than a blinking cue-owl seasoning
for field mice in the early twilight
Only those who have known what St 13
to have a red-hand murderer at large in
their very neighborhood can conceive the
agony of fear that seized on the whole
countryside. Umphray Spurway was the
one man who kept his head, and even he
shrank into himself, his fine robust body
waxing thin and bis rosy cheeks falling
slack and wrinkled.
It was curious that, though the cause
of all this panic was the man. who gave
me being, I felt no Icterest in the affair
save that I hoped they would soon catch
and hang him. But I enjoyed the mount
ing of the guards, the passwords, the
glancing musket barrels of the brave
weavers, the red coats of the soldiers
whom the government sent from Edin
burgh to seize the murderer.
Every morning a new tale ran from Up
to Up. Every evening a fresh alarm cir
culated from gable window to gatale win
dow. Women shrieked and fainted. Sev
eral children appeared untimeously In the
world. A carrier was found clubbed, his
cart and pockets rifled on the Edinburgh
high road, within a mile of the city lights.
Every family in the country put up' fresh
bolts and bars. Poor folk barricaded their
door with heavy furniture, and filled up
their windows at nightfall with slabs of
whlnstone from the nearest rock face.
At last they took my mother away in &.
Utter, borne on the shoulders of men, all
the 15 miles of the plain road to the town
of Abercalrn, where there was a hospital
equipped with physicians of great skill. I
was not permitted to go with the party,
which, ln the first Instance, consisted of
Umphray Spurway's weavers, with himself
walking on one side of the litter, and Caleb
Cllnkaberry on the other. The old Quaker
refused to be separated from his "little
maid," even for a moment, and so fierce
were his denunciations of woe and desola
tion upon all who withstood him that he
gained his point.
So I was left at the mill house with
little Anna Mark, under the goverance of
William Bowman, which was just as good
as none at all.
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Union Depot. Sixth, and J Street,
TWO TRAINS DAILY
FOR ALL POINTS EAST
"FAST MAIL AND POB.TT.AXD - CHI
CAGO SPECIAL nOlKTEw'
Leaves for tho East via. pokan dally at 3.42
P. it Arrives at 8 A. M.
Leaves tor the East, via Pendleton, and Hunt
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toa and Pendleton, at 6.43 P. M.
THROUUH PULLMAN AND- TOURIST
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"Water lines schedule, subject to changa with
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OCKAX AND RIVER SCHEDULE.
OCEAN DIVISION Steamships sail Xrom A.ns
worca dock at 8 P. M. Leave Portland Coam
bia sails Tues. Jan. 2, Pri.. Jan. Vi. Hun..
Jan. 'Si, Thurs.. Feb. 1. Stita ot caUtunua
sail bun. Jan. T; 'Wed., Jan. It, Sat., Jan. -. ,
'rues , Feb. 0.
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"Wed., Jan. 3: bat., Jan. 13, Tues.. Jan. -o,
Frl., Teb. 2. Columbia sails, ilon., Jan. 3,
Tnura. Jan. 18; bun., Jan. 23.
COLUMBIA RIVER J0IVISION.
PORTLAND AND AUTORIA.
Steamer Hassao leaves Portland daily, except
Siindaj, at 8 P. il.; on Saturday at 10 P. M.
Ki turning, leaves. Astoria dally, except Sunday.
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VILLAMEarTE RIVER DIVISION,
PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS, OR.
Steamer- Ruth, for Salem. Alhanv. CorvalUj
( and way points, leaves Portland Tuesdays.
Ihursdays and Saturdays atbA. H. Returns,
leaves Corvalli3 ilondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days at B A. iL
bteamtr ilodoc, for Salem and way points,
leave Portland ilondaya. Weanesaays and Fr.
days at li A. If. Returoiajr. leaves balem Tues
days, ahsuradays and Saturdays ufiA.lL
YAMHILL RIVER ROUTE.
PORTLAND AND DAYTON. OR.
Steamor Elmore, for Dayton and way points,
leaves Portland Tuesdajs, Thursday and Sat
urdays at 7 A. iL Returning, leaves Dayton for
Portland and way points .Mondays, Weanesdays
and Fridays atUA.il.
SNAKE RIVER RODTE.
RTPARIA. "WASH.. AND LEW1STON. IDAHO.
Steamer Spokane or steamer Lewl3toa leases
Rlparia dally at 1:20 A. M.. arriving- at Lew.stoa
at 12 o'clock noon. Returning, tbe Spokana or
Lewlston leaves Lewiston dally at 8.J0 A. M.
arriving as Rlparia. same evening.
W. H. HURLBURT.
General Passenger Agent.
V. A. SCHILLING. City Ticket Agent.
Telephone Main 713,
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"TRAITOR AXD TRAITRESS, I HAVE YOU BOTH! AND NOW I WILL SEND YOU TO HELL TOGETHER," HE CRIED.
wide, west-looking alley, ln which a cer- I verish with her green wound, rambled on
tain reddish light yet lingered, reluctantly about Clleveden and Marlow, with many
to depart altogether. But I though noth- I names and places, pleasant sounding, but
lng of this. For a servitor going to the to me unknown. And Caleb as he bent
great house or one of Mr. Spurwaj's over and put a paste of water mixed with
weavers in search of a hare to boll the ' elderflower wine to her lips murmured:
pot was no unusual sight at the Lodge i "Yes, my pretty, and so thou shalt! To
Yett. Marlow thou shalt go with old Caleb and
I went down, and as I came near the gather water lilies yellow and water lilies
door of the little parlor ln which I had left white!"
Umphray Spurway and my mother, I "I love the white best!" she said, smil-
paused for no reason at all connected ing a little and looking so vouncr like out
oiq. linen one aay all suddenly he began j " uiwxi, uur iuoq woi; wun any mea i " ejus, iur umi iiiuumut, sue seeraeu
to speak, and. except when asleep, he of si,lnr upon their converse. For cs- scarce older than I. Nor was she, for my
was never rightly stopped once." I Peonage at least (whatever my other
"He and little Anna Mark are a fine . faulta "was never any part of my nature.
pair," said Umphray Spurway. "He is nara my mother say: "It Is useless,
casion, as indeed mostly when Mr." Spur
way came with me to see my mother
about this time, I took the conversation
in my own hands and conducted in per
son at least nine-tenths of it. ,
"Philip used to be a sUent child," said
my mother once, when a lull gave her
a chance. "I used to call him In jest
the Graven Image,' for he would sit smil
ing in his little cot all day without a
sound or a cry. Indeed he never spoke a
word till he was more than two years
mother had again become Mary Dlgby,
the squire's little maid, of Great Marlow,
and was pulling flowers ln the fair wooaa
properly matched there. I can hear them ' Mr- Spurway. It is, indeed, most useless ' of Clleveden as she had done more than
half across the mill, and I cannot tell
which is talking the faster, or which
'cares least what the other Is saying."
"You have that child ln the house with
you?" said my mother. And I knew by
her voice that she was less pleased than
usual. The name seemed somehow to
grate upon her.
As Indeed was small wonder.
"Yes," said Umphray Spurway, bending
forward a little eagerly and replying
more to my mother's tone than her words;
"yes; she is a pretty bairn, and when
she grows as biddable 'as she Is clever,
I mistake much but she will prove a
credit to me."
My mother seemed to be deep in thought
puHlng absent-mindedly at the thread
and biting it off repeatedly without an
swering. "It may be," she said at last, musing
upon his words, "it may be! God. grant
you are not deceived ln her! The evil in
the blood is hard to exorcise!"
"She Is a rare good runner," I said, in
terrupting them. "She can catch William
Bowman with a hundred yards start."
It was curious that when my mother and
Umphray Spurway were together they
gave much more earnest consideration to
my foolish boyish speeches than either ot
them did when apart. So now Umphray
Spurway smiled with a grave attention he
never vouchsafed me at tne mill where.
Indeed, as like as not he would have cuffed
me well for the interruption.
"Can she outrun you?" he asked. And
my mother also seemed to hang on my
words.
"Only uphill," I said. "I can match
her on the level fields, and beat her hol
low at running down hill."
I did not add that this last was owintr
to my legs being each half a foot longer.
For why should a boy confess that a girl
can beat him at anything?
So we sat apd talked, and, as I think,
forgot the time and place and all else.
Meanwhile the wind grew wilder ana
wilder without, as it were, rushing up the
open alley of the pines, collecting Itself in
the little open courtyard and then fllne-
ing Itself ln fury upon the small panes or
the window, with the sudden impetuous
ness of a tiger's leap.
Suddenly the night dropped like a cur
tain. But therfire only blazed brighter
on the hearth. r
"Win you be pleased to draw In vom
chair, sir," said my mother, as a fiercer !
Bust man oerore shook the window, rat
tled the door, hooted in the chimney and
then fled, laughing fiendishly down the
darkening aisles of the wood.
I saw mv mother shiver and glance out
of the window. The creakintr nnrf stnfr,-
I will not listen no; I can never listen
Before all I have my duty to the boy, and
this of all days is not the time to speak
of such thines. Think of him that was
my husband, and is so no more."
. I could not hear what was said in reply
by Umphray Spurway, though I am sure
my mother was weeping. For at that
moment I felt a hand close on the lobe
of my right ear, and old Caleb Cllnka
berry bore me triumphantly to the door
of the parlor, with a great piece of West
India sugar In my mouth, which I could
neither swallow nor yet rid myself of, so
high did he hold my head. He opened the
door, crying: "See, madam, what I caught
this fine young gentlemen at."
But that which we saw turned U3 to
stone in the very doorway. My mother
had dropped her broidery work- and stood
i erect. Umphray Spurway was just let
ting go ner hand, which he had been hold
ing. But that was not the surprise and
terror for me.
My eyes were drawn irresistibly to tho
window. It vas one of the narrow and
high French sort, opening in the middle,
for the house' had been built in King
Charles' time, that it might be a summer
pavilion for a former lady of New Milns.
Now the lattice stood open, and the wlna
rushed howling triumphantly through the
house, shutting every door with dreadful
clanging of Iron and the clatter and clink
of falling glass and breaking crockery.
jjramea in tne DianK blackness of the
opening appeared a head, wild, dlsheveledt
hardly human, the throat bare and the
ragged collar of a coat far too wide ap
pearing: beneath. It was my father, the
man we had thought already hanged by
the neck in the Grassmarket of Edinburgh
Philip Stansfleld, the parricide. His eye
glanced along the level tube of a pistol
barrel.
"Traitor and traitress, I have you both!
And now I will send you to heH together!"
he cried, , and so, without another word,
with shattering distinctness, fired.
With a Qlttlo shrill cry mv mother tot
tered, swtyed, checked herself, and then
20 years agone.
But of Umphray Spurway no word or
sign or remembrance. I doubt If either
of the others ever thought of him all that
night, though he had gone out Into the
dark to face the terrible man who was our
bane. But I could see him lying in a fqr
est glade and my father bending over him
with the knife I had see wiped clean on
tho leaf of Baxter, his Saint's Best, ana
that terrible smile on his face. I shud
dered as I thought of it
Yet in spite of all, tho house of the
lodge with a thousand creaking noises,
the moan and whimper of the wind in
the chimneys and the brushing sound It
made out among the tossing trees. I dozed.
waking by starts to And the lamplight
falling on Caleb, his unsleeping eyes
watching my mother In shadow, turning
rapidly to and fro on her bed and mut
tering to herself of old days and people ot
whom Ihad never heard.
Scraps would come to mo as from anoth-.
er world.
'"Good Gaffer Noddycap, let me go m
here out of the rain. Goody will give
me a seat by the hearth till it overpass.
And here, I declare, is young Will Lucy!
What can bring him hither at this time of
day? How do you do, sir. I am surprised
to see you, sir!" -
Then would old Caleb throw out his hand
and uplift his eyes to the celling.
"God help us," he muttered, "she Is
again agog on Squire Lucy's Master Will!
Dead dead, these 16 year. He died fight
ing the Dutch the year his father sent him
to sea, because he was growing overfond
of our little Mary!"
Again I would doze off and when I
waked it would go something like this:
"I will not marry him. r hate him. Bo
not cruel! If I must, I must. Mother,
do not send me away alone with that
man!"
And then for the first time In life there
came across me with a jarred and im
potent grating pain the gust of a woman's
unrestrained weeping. "I will go yes,
mother, I will go but, Oh, I cannot for-
have asked him concerning his night ad
ventures, but he, having, as It were, his
whole reasonable soul in the further
room, bade me hush and presently gave
me a cuff, whereat I sulked. Also ho
kept tight hold on my collar, as if I were
intent to run back again, of which I had
no intention.
Then, after a groat while, the surgeon
came out with a changed and smiling
countenance and said: "It Is out, and all
is well," holding up at the same time a
little round bullet, at sight of which the
! great, red Englishman turned very white
and faint, and cried: "Take it away,
man, God's sake, take it away!"
This I thought strange, in a man so
brave and strong, whom I had seen ad
venture upon such a desperate chance
that very night.
It was the best part of an hour, before
they would let me go ln to see my mother.
The nurse, one Marglt Furgus, a wise
woman, stood at the bed's head with some
liquid in a dish, with which she contin
ually moistened my poor mother's lips.
The surgeon was gone, of which I was
glad. Then I took Umphray Spurway's
hand and would have made him come
with me, but he would not, shaking me
off harshly and striding- out of the house
with his brows bent and such a look of
sadness as I had never till then seen on
any man's countenance.
My dear mother smiled up at mo with
so sweet and peaceful a countenance that
I fell to weeping, not knowing that that
Is the face which In women denotes the
overcoming of suffering.
Marglt Fergus would not permit mo to
bide long, nor to ask any question, but
I kissed niy mother's brow, which was
chill and damp. So I was glad to go
out, and at the door there was waiting for
me Umphray Spurway, with little Anna
Mark in hl3 hand.
"How looked she?" he asked gruffly,
without so much as lifting his brows or
glancing at me.
"She did very well," I replied, "and
smiled when I kissed her. She is asleep
And then it was that I first knew how
much nicer it is to be friends with a. girl
than with a boy. Never before had I
known any save of my own sex. I loved
my mother ln the way ln which all boys
love their mothers that is, I made her
a very .poor and perfunctory return for
all tho wealth of love she had weared on
me during my years of Infancy. Neverthe
less, I loved her.
Besides her I had never seen any good
ln womankind. I was fond of Umphray
Spurway, and on this point I shared his
prejudices. For save my mother (who,
of course, did not count, being my moth
er), the Yorkshire man would never con
sent to have one of the breed within the
Miln house. He had perforce to employ
them in the fine work of the mill, but
ever under protest. They were his bane,
the 111 drop in his cup the fly in his
ointment with other things that I mind
not now. He had a full stock of odious
comparatives for them.
CHINA AND JAPAN. FROAT. PORTLAND.
In connection with THE OREGON RAILROAD
& NAVIGATION CO. Schedule. 18DO (subject to
cnange:
Steamer Leave Portland.
OUEEN ADELAIDE ... Oct. 3
.tfONMOUTHSmRE . Nov. 13
ABERGELDID .. .. Dec. IX
For rates, accommodations, etc, apply to
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General Agents. Portland, Or,
To principal points In Japan and China.
lAui via
SOUTH
fff SLW3ET -n
I O CGEENfc SHASTA ! J
Wm routes Jcyi
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Arrive
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-TO .THE-
IS THE
softlv flunl? bnok-into TTmntiMTr'c,,,, . 1 Set him. God In heaven heln me!"
arms. Thfen quick as though the face And then woula Caleb bend over and
vanished from the window. The leaves ' tlich her ch?ek gently with his finger-
clashed to. The Englishman cave mv 1 :'i?' " UI" u"'5 nuerness m ner ear,
i . ii . . Mt . :
; wuuier into tne arms or Caleb Clinka'
berry, and without waitiner to flnrt hin hot
he pulled a pistol from his pocket, looked
at the priming and rushed through the
front door of .my mother's house into the
black night In pursuit of the double mur
derer. CHAPTER XI.
Caleb ClinLtaberry the Quaker.
Though to my.self the remainder of the
night on which Philip Stansfleld shot my
anti hH ? .v. -. kU. secu jiuui uiuuier reunons more or Jess a
Ssts'irr XS XJ1 . fnd -Jsty dream . -yet I have heard
presently turning away with gloomy coun
tenance to mutter great anathemas. "Ac
cursedthree times accursed shall be he
that hath spoiled our fair vine our dove
j that maketh her nest ln the aides of the
rocK. xnis aay is tne pride of Caleb
Cllnkaberry brought low. Ah, the mourn
ing of Rachael, the weeping of Jacer,
and the lamentation of Sibmah, clad
wun vines:
and heard ta the d7um of thfr f 6n ' Par m,heI reimilns m0Te or less a blottea
,.o- ., lI?. Pauses of the furious and misty dream, vet I have hpnrri m nr.
Spurway her hand. hevrFld&klkWT Mm taU, gaunt gaUows tnnhH 2,Ut " ! ten what haPPenfid -n told over by oth
t . .x.. at A ' ' samt Z110 trees outside the win- , ers, notably Umphray J3jnirwa.y and our
He had a paper in his hand and he read
It softly over to 'himself. "For a green
wound a plalster compounded of frankin
cense, Uterge, roots of lilies, rose leaves
with the bran of bans ground fine."
Then he turned to me.
"Boy," he said, "hath your mother an
herb cupboard or such like?"
"Nay," I answered readily, "but my
grandmother hath one at the Great house."
At this he began to wax uneasy, and
kept pulling out his great round silver
watch, and looking toward the Miln
house.
"If William Bowman comes not srvin. x
will tan his hide for him, great hulking
good-for-nothing that he is!"
But the words were hardly out of his
mouth when his prentice and familiar came
up with some 20 of the trained band of
weavers. These Umphray Spurway placed
about the Lodge house, bidding so many
rest In the little coach-house at the back
where the hens laid In nests of soft twisted
bent grass, and the others to stand sentry
at equal distances through the wood.
Then he set off by himself at a good
round pace for the Great house as I pre
sumed, to iret thfi hfrha fnr mv mnfmc
piaister. I ran alongside and asked him
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Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 3.3J
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Then aa the sobbing grew slower he If he had killed mv fnthm- hir. h,
nuuiu lum iu liiu ueu uuu, speuKing m ne nau.
Oj firentle voice. TVOuld Ravr "Swppt T.fnT-ir i "V '
a gentle voice, would say: "Sweet Mary, i
nusn tnee. Tne Lord Is good. All will yet
be well. He will not always chide neither
will he keep his anger for ever!"
And then again would he fall to the
No," he eald. "I tiursued after him fnr
two hours, and jjaw nothing. But once
I heard him laugh very near me ln tho
darkness."
"Were you not afraid?" said I, with a
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7:00 P. M.
For Maygers. Rainier.
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