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22 THE SUNDAY 'OEEGONIAX, POKTLAND, FEBRUARY 11, 1900. L I r7Siinh tEiaaaaaa-15 ' "r " ' "" J7m I repp th i hi mLrsEsaBsimTiTMWn i iiinni Hl HuusBsaassssHaaB (? 1$"LE oftfo? "WINDS Ev S.-Jt ..CP-OCKETT Sraepnln of Previous Chapters. Sir Jomp Btanangja. of New Milne, In com fumr "wfc gntttfeon. young: Philip, meets in hb Innaousc Ms eon Philip nd hte son's para kMr, Janet Mark. They quarrel. Bir James Bow haws a. taking alone te grandson. That night he is murdered bj his dteeolute eon and Janot Mark. Titer take Ms bod' outside and Mr It upon an Ice floe. In the effort to -fasten the crime upon other shoulders. Bat the boy PfeUte has Ttitnessed the crime. He tells his Erandtather'e chief tenant, Humphrey Spur way. ana Spurway succeeds In having; the real urwrr brought to Justice. He la. sentenced to be hanged, his woman accomplice to be transported. Mysteriousl) Philip Stansfleld es apee the gallows, seeks out his wife, finds her ft the oompan of Spurwar. and tries to mur der her, but does not quite succeed. She Is taken away to Abercalrn ror cure, leaving her bob, young- Philip, Is charge of Spurway ana in the eompaar f little Anna Mark, from whom he learns that In some wajs girls are worth qlte as much as boys For example. In the ttue 4C the cattle droving, -when Master Spur ia bought hte winter beast in the mart, Ann beat Philip In helping to cut them out. Still thar are excellent friend. een though sn beats Mm at her studies In the cchool to which tber-go together. John Stansfield, Phlllp'B law yer uncle, brings In & new teacher. Dominie Xmgrase, a smalt man, with wonderful ejes Shortly after his coming the countryside la ahookea and thrilled wich a number of bloody and myiJletlom. minder eldentl for the eako of robbery. Business calls Humphrey Spurway from heme In Ms absence a big parking case, purporting to be full of nne Spanish wool, Is delivered to "Will Bowman. Humphre 's clerk. Be put It m the w easing shed. That night Philip, playing about, sees shining through the gause of the packing cane a pair of eyes. He calls Will Bo man, who counts three, then Mate the packing case with a small sword. Blood flows. They open the case, and find Doomte Rtngrsee Inside, apparentl) dead. Soon 1 after 4he bouse is attacked by robbers, 'whom JMttgraee had. meant to let in They are beaten off, but afterwards Philip's mother refuses to IK him. spend' the holidays at New Milns. Re turning from & uaj'e visit to New Milns, Philip falls In with Saul Mark, Anna's .gypsy father, who, under pretense of showing him Sir Harry Morgan's treasure, makee him. a prisoner. Anna Anns out Ms plight, and leads Humphrey Spur way on Me track. Spurn aj, with Bowman and Anna, and him, but are captured y by Philip Btansfieia and the pirate crew of the Corra atantea. CHAPTER XXIV. He ttanwt the miniature back Into the jioeket where he had found it. Umphray stood silent, eyeing his enemy as calmly as though he had been striking a bargain 'with him. in the market-place. "Brinr the boy Ihte way," sa'd Saul Mark. One of the sailors seized me by the collar and gave me into the grasp of the ffttpercargo. "Now, Hated," he said, "If, as you pass through ttie streets, j ou speak above a wtfMfter my orders are to throttle you!" And, as a warning, he tightened his fin ger on jay throat till I gasped for breath. The Inst I saw of the terrible limekiln be hind Provost Gregory Partan's house w as my father setting down the lantern on the edge of the J awning grave, In which he daalgn od to place the body of my benefactor, Umphray Spurway. PMUp Jstanaweld stood facing Umphray Spurway in tre provost's lime-kiln, and this chapter tells the story of what befell between them. The hands of the English. man were tied still behind his back, and as the tact retreating footstep was heard stecendfog the darksome passage which leads out Into Gregory Partan's close. Captain Philip Stansfleld lifted the lan tern from the floor on which it had been set and held it close to the face of his lictim. There was no sign of fear or yielding there, only the Torkshlreman's usual calm mastery over time and cir cumstance "Tea," said Captain Stansfleld, "you are a brave man, Umphray Spurway. "And only with such do I trouble to deal. I will have a Jlttle agreeable conversation with you before we proceed to business. Pray sit down. You will find the edge of the grave yeryi comfortable. You can lean your back against the wall. So! I will content me here by the door." And so saying Philip Stansfiejd seated himself "Wit his shoulders square, to the little door which led into the passage 'ffe hlad. and with great care disposed a cou ple of pistols, one on either side of him. so as to he ready to his hand In case of any attempt at escape. With equal philosophy the prisoner obeyed. The stone trough, (or, as Captain Stansfleld called It. grave) was hollowed perhaps four feet in the rock. Umpbraj disposed his great bulk as best he could. He sat down with his feet hanging into the trough, his back leaning against the dust' wail of the kiln, and looked at his enemy wijth as much nonchalance as if he had been a customer come to buy wo en cloth fa the Engl'sh market. Captain Stansfleld opened the catch of the lantern and measured the candle with hie eye. Then he putted a handsome gold watch from his fob and consulted the dial. v "We have here candle for a good couple of hours, and about the same time ere day steals upon us. I think we can settle all quarrels and sink alt differences long ere that Mr. Spurway. Yet there are a goodly array of both. Yoh have long had the top hold, .sir, and now, when it is my turn, I wish you to be certified that with that measure ye mete. H shall be measured to you aamm. Aba! MaBter Englishman, I also am gnu at holy writ. I was bred on the oatacMums. shorter and longer. For I was a cMtd of grace, and In my father's house had many advantages such as were hidden from jour popish and pre latlc eyes Why, can you even certify me that you know the very beginning of knowledge? Be you know 'What is the chief end of men'' " Well enough d d Umphray Spurway know the first question and answer of that marvelous collect of .doctrine, the Westminster Shorter CateohWu. But he judged It useless to make any reply in kind to the man who had already de dared Ms Intention of being his mur derer 6c be contented htmeelf with replying: "Sir I have no regrets far those thing which X have done. Nor can anything you may say to me alter my good con sHeuce toward God ami man!" Captnn Stacsfteld heM up his bands in pretMrnded horror "Dear, near'" be cried: "well I knew that Utile was to be expected of a ore lottet and malhmant. yet ttv ng in & lard of gospel privilege and atatort 'within crv of Masters Pedes. Reawfeti. Shl?Me and th-r fe'low. I bad "hoped for a numb er sr'rR Know you not that 'Who vaunt htxs f condemn htme!f T But I will try ou aga'n. 'What, te effectual oal. ' In"' Umprrjr 'nwwnv was -L Th Jcap ram lend forward and took- w on or the pl'-tnl tn Ms hand. peRt-g U "Greet ly at the RnsttehafMns bend. 1 i' -ell vo-j- be saM. 'Ub4-"s rf- fr - f c Ar "T rfd b ter j as h exa-nM ' you tnat all scores are cleared bo th irtrimlnr i twen..,us. I will do mv wife no hurt. "Mar are railed but few choser O Vaster Swrwaj, the hoRfJ&s of a careful Pictures by G.A.SHtPLEY upbringing! My father used to set me pages of the Bible tov learn, and beat me, if I missed so much as one word. Gad! how I remember the stiff-backed chairtS and the glazed presses In the study where he kept his ratano. The verses also I re member, though somewhat less distinctly. "Say what- j ou have to say to me and have done," Umphray Spurway epoke out as though cutting short a loquacious huck oter on market day. "Blasphemy Is no or nament to any man's conversation!" .Philip Stansfleld clapped h!s hands. "Spoken this time like Peden himself, dear Umphray; I do not yet despair of you, when In such short space a little faithful dealing can effectuate so much. Cheered by this, we will now go back upon 'Man's Chief End.' There he poftned to the grave on the edge of which Umphray was seated Whatever learned divines may say, that Is "Man's Chief End.' The rest Is accidental this alone essential, In- evltable, uncontrovertible man's chief and only end, as Indeed Thope to prove to you long before the dawn." All this Captain Stansfleld uttered, speak-" Ing as quietly and reverently as a minis ter Uiying out the heads of his discourse to a listening and obedient people. So far as manner went, Mr. John Bell himself could not have spoken with a better grace or a sounder discretion. "But now, sir, we must to business," he went on in a more natural tone of' "voice. "I perceive you are weary of my conversation though I would have jou know, sir, that it has been very generally approven by better judges than yourself. But now let us make count nnd reckoning, draw our bills, and give mutual discharge like two reasonably honest men," "Most willingly!" said Umphray Spur way, nodding in his turn. - "Most willingly!" said Umphray Spur way, nodding In his turn, "Against me, sir," said the captain of the Corramantee, preparing to check the. Items upon his fingers, "you have the following; oblige by correcting me If I am wrongi Philip Stansfleld, Dr., to Umphray Spurway, Cr. 8 d Imprimis, To loa of time huntlngthe raid P. S -Pith intent to kill him.,.. 10 O 0 Item, To Damage to gates of Mlln House 0 0 6 Item, To thrpp ears' loss of eoclety of the Paid T -nlfe 0 0 3 The total i..kons 10 0 9 "We 'nlll say. In round figures, 10 guin eas. I am an easy man. And now for the per contra: Umphraj Spurwaj , Dr., to Philip Stansfleld, Cr. e d Imprimis. To pre. Ing the said P. S. guilty of his father's murder 1,000 Item. To three months' Imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Bdinburgh.....l,CO0 Item. To the ('eath of Dominie Kln groce and XIII of his servants 1,000 Item. To alienating the natural af fections of Wo wn ,.1,000 Item, Ditto of his wife ix.r. 0 o o 0 b 0 0 0 0 1 The total .reckons 4.000 0 1 Balance due the aforesaid Philip Stansfleld. 3SQ 0s lid. Captain Stansfleld maintained his grae and practical method of speech through all this enumeration of figures, and at the close he turned to Mr. Spurway, who was listening like a man at a play that does not amuse him. m "Sir," he said, "you owe me a great deal of money, but I will discharge your Indebtedness at one stroke. Which do you choose swords or pistols? The latter Is commonly esteemed the easier quittance, and, as I have a pair, it shall be by double entry. Both are equal to me!" ,. "Philip Stansfleld," said Umpbray Spur way, "would you slay an Innocent man In cold blood?" "Am I not loaded. In the eyes of ail with having dona the like to the father that begat me?" said Philip Stansfleld, rising to his feet, "and, besides, what right have you or any man to say that my blood Is cold? Devil take you. sir, have you not, entrapped my wife's af fections that wero so precious to -me? Have you not made my own son hate me? Have you not chased me with dogs yes, with bloodhounds upon the king's highway? Answer me these things. And now jou prate of murder In . cold blood when I do no more than offer you a choice of two honorable ways of dis charging a just debt? I thought that at least jou were an honest tradesman, Master Spurway,, and knew how to pay those to whom you were indebted." "I do not choose to bandy words with jou, Philip Stansfleld." the 'Englishman replied. "My life is In your hands. If jou choose to murder me here and now well, it is within your power." Captafn Stansfleld looked about the dun geon. The candle was flickering a little, the vents of the lanthorn having been guttered up. He took out a pocket knife and coolly opened them with the lesser blade. Then he shut the little door again and put the lantern back, again on the floor. His eye fell on Umphray's cloak which Saul Mark had flung down as he entered. His broad, soft-brimmed hat was lying beside It. A thought came Into his head, and he" clapped hlspalm upon his knee with a loud smack. ' "I have it," he said; "this will suit all parties ou, because It "Will enable you to discharge your obligations, me, because it gives me the opportunity to pay a visit I have too long deferred. He went over to where Umphray sat. and the brave Englishman made up his mind that his latest hour was come. But Captain Stansfleld only thrust his hand again into his breast pocket and drew out the miniature. "I will return, this." he said, "to the original. There Is a right lndefeaslbly vested In a husband to prevent other men carrying about his wife's picture In their bosoms like so many pieces of holy cross. The custom offends -alike against relig ion and morality. I will give .this into my wife's hans, and, lest I be denied entrance, I will equip me for the pur posfe." He drew Umphray's cloak about him and clapped hte tall-crowned hat upon his head. "Thusi equipped I need fear no -rebuff ," he said. "'Tls a sad confossion for the husband, of -one wife to make, but a man never knows to what chance he will come in this world.'" fUmphray Spurway cried out now with fear, though hitherto he had been im passive as marble. "For God's grace, kill me and be done with It," he said; "let your unhappy wjfe alone. Has she not suffered enough? Kill me and end this farce." Philip Stansfleld watched his enemy coolly as he agonized in his bonds. "Nay." be snid, almost gently, "that must not be For a man of the world, Umphray, your methods are crude. I have a better plan. I will be absent an hour 69 minutes and no more. I wl'l leave vo a jHtil bv the cheek of - the door baro. It Is llripd.arrt nrlmd. Tf an mv J rMurn 1 observe through the cret ny j hole thrt "-ijEi have sucpesefully used i j on vo-" "f l recommend the roof of 1 "" r- 'h myself. It Is the met certain. whcT an are a trifle unp eaeant). I prom- 1 But If "not, and your beauts' are still un- scattered, I shall knew that you Tnedi S K 2 Q tnte treachery. I will therefore first' shopt you through the roof, which has been arranged for such a contingency, and then I will go back and kill well, you know whom I will kllL", "You are a devil!" cried Umphray Spur--way, straining at his bonds till the veins stod out purple on his brow. UU LIFTED THE GLASS "I am a man of my word," said Captain Stansfleld, with his hand on the low Iron door of the kiln. There is the pistol, and beside it a little priming powder. Come hither if you .please, Mr. Umphray Spur way. Stand with your back to the door and I will sever the cord about your hands. Slowly go very slowly! Do not attempt to turn round, or two things will happen which ou would give your life to avert. There!" , With aj shairp-edged dagger he severed the rope, and the next moment the Iron door clanged and the bolts shot without with a rasping sound, Umphray Spur way flung himself against the place, over turning the lantern in his haste. But he might -as well have flung himself against the walls of a. cavern. The solid mason ry and yet more solid metal did not even quiver at the shock. The sudden dark ness startled him. How should he have any chance without -light? He saw a lit tle red gleam on the floor and a whiff of candle smoke came to his nostrils. He bent dowji quickly and low! the candle was between his fingers, (he wick stlil glowing red. It had rolled out of the lan tern when he overset it, the door 'being loose on its hinges. Umphray bjew cautiously yet regularly , upon the fading red, and after an anxious moment had the Satisfaction of seejns the flame start igain and the candle burn up as bright as ever. There before him, close by the edge of the wall, was the pistol his enemy had left him to blow his brains out with, and there on a tarn scrap of newspaper was a little pinch of black priming pow der. Philip Stansfleld had been as good as his word. CHAPTER XXV. . Husband and "Wife. Meanwhile along the sea front of the town of Abercalrn Philip Stansfleld, wrapped in Umphray Spurway's cloak, strode fearless and unafraid. A light or two dimpled among the shipping, but being in safe harborage most watches bad taken the ship's lantern Deiow to-piay cards with, or set beside them while they slumbered. Captain Stanifleld did not go directly to my mother's house. Instead be made far the exact point at which Provost Partan had first paused among the barrels of the quay. But this man did not walk softly and with delicate observance, like that worthy chief magistrate. He rather stamped along, cursing as be stubbed his toe against a hooped cask which had been left sitting on its end behind several larger "puncheons. And when at last he came to the edge and heard the sea lapping under him on the quay edge, he did not, whisper nor whistle "The Bailie pt Mlckleham's Coo." On the contrary, he called out loudly: "Is the-pirougue there?" "Aye, aye, sir!" came the answer from below. "Is all ready aboard?' Aye, sir; all ready to cast off and be over the bar In 20 minutes sosoon as you are aboard!" "Abjde, then, and be wary," he an swered, "I have yet one more touch to try ere I come. But I shair be with ou It. half an hour." ' "Aye. aye,1 captain, we will wait?' Havin" settled this matter of discipline, Pbllip-Stansflcld walked Briskly eastward Before him a pale bar of uncolored .Ilsht lay across the horizon, outlining fine nms bjEber up thc-Elrth and fading Into tae dark blue in which the thimy sown stars of morning twinkled, ffhij was the yet far-off promise of the, day. Captbln Stansfleld had need of hrfste. Yet upon the streets of Abercalrn ho walked vyitb "' more., careless assurance than Gregory Partan himself. He ctopned before that little house at the comer of the Vennel. (It is a change house now, and I had a glass of very de cent Hollands there the last tone I was In Abercalrn.) He seemed well enough acquainted with the locality, for, after 'standing a while In the shade contemplat ing the house from the other side of the way. Philip Stansfleld stepped across and tossed a handful of pebbles up at a win dow" 'behind which a dim night light burned. My poor mother had been, back and forth all night long to look for me, and perchance also to watch for the re turn of Umphray Spurway. And so, now, rising gladly from the bed upon which, all sleepless, she had cast herself down, shajapproached the wind6w. H The-lattice Was ajar that she might the better hear the clatter of our returning footsteps. She could hear a voipe calling her in a whisper. It made her heart beat not as young Will Lucy had. 'done in Great Marlow. but still it beat. . "Mary!" ' ' f Now, If you have been much about the world and in perilous places, of course It is no news to you that though voices differ as much as faces, whlssers dre all alike and cannot be distinguished in the dark, differing only as lower or louder, harsher and softer. So when, for the second time, my poor mother, who -knew no "harm and thought none, heard the whisper coming from kbelow "Mary" who can blame her for doing what she did, that is rising nastuy and throwinir her little flowered petticoat AS HIGH AS HIS HEAD. WITH A GESTUHE lOT WHOIAY IHONICAI. over her night gear. She ran to the win- Ldow, afkl there, In the dim Altering light oi stars, ana the lucent reflection irom the. sea, she saw the long cloak, and steeple-crowned, old-fashioned hat of Umphray Spurway at the door. Me, whom doubtless she also looked for, she could not see, but she ran gladly enough downstairs to open, the door; for she doubted not but that the Englishman had gotten some good news to cheer her heart withal. Thus at the door of the sheepfold stood the wolf, and the lamb within ran quick ly and joyfully to open to him. Captain' Stansfleld, by the whitewashed side of the house, bent his head a, little down, listening. He knew that foot. He had listened to it before till he was weary, but his ear caught a gladness, and youth In it now that had never 'been there when he knew it. "Umphray!" the answering whisper came now from just behind the panel "Umphray, Is that you?" s "Mary!" Still In a whisper. The chain rattle'd down, and there In the blade of! the doorway my mother stood, the night wind blowing her white gear about and the pretty girlish tangle of her hair. -The dark figure wrapped in Umphray Spurway's cloak went past her, and the door was shut' The chain was lifted Into place. "Wait only a little there In the sitting chamb'er, and I will bring down the light. You can tell me all your good news then! I am sure you have found him that he is on his way homel" . "" For, at the sight of Umphray in her house In the dark morning nours, my mother had groyvn conscious' of her bare feet and disarray. But she sped her toilet, and came down the stairs anon with a candle in her hand, dimpling and smiling like the girl she hath remained to the lastc When she came to the door, and saw It yawn black before her, she felt the heart beat within her again yet not as one afraid, but rather pleasurably. Then she entered crying after her fash Ion. "Tell me of the boy you have found him you bring me news of him ,r And then all sudden her speech was cut off. as the light of the candle fell on tho tall dark figure which stood resting an elbow upon ' the little mantelboard where the foreign shells were. The i steeple-crownd hat was thrown upon, the table, and the countenance which looked down upon her was not the kind English man's, but that of Philip Stansfleld, her husband that face which most of all, things In the world she feared. "What what what!" she gasped. And she clutched at a pretty neckerchief of a. cherry hue which, with pardonable co quetry, she had fastened about her neck with a little gold brooch wrought in pat' tern like a bracken leaf, and with a bezll of green stone which Umphray had given her, very precious. And If Captain Philip Stansfleld had" not reached his hand across and taken the candle out of her nerveless fingers, she would .have dropped. It to tho ground. But he set it quietly on the fable beside the pitiful small .work basket, with which, in deed, my mother was ever playing, but nev er completing any great works. "Sit down, Mary," be said, "and be plecssd to comppse yourself. If you do not exh bit all the gratitude and joy us- uH- erpectcd frbm a wife upon "her hus band's return after a lorg absence never theless, Ijfoglve rou. My own behavior gives meno rlgnt to be overrlg.d. is that-tho .key of -vthe schnapps cupboard. Mary? It used to hang at your girdle, I remember." My poor mother had dropped Into a stiff backed elbow chair, her lips trying to form prayers to God, but no sound com ing from them, and her eyes staring un comprehending at the man who had been ner husband and had lain at her side. He stoopedand detached the little square warded key from, tho chain, knowing of old the secret of the catch. Then he went to the cupboard In the-corner, from which there always came a pleasant smell of ginger spice and honeycomb as often as it was opened. "Ah!" he cried, "you are as of old, Mary You keep the bottles well supplied. I hope his taste- in Hollands is as good and sound as mine was.' w He took a tall glass, filled and presented It to my mother, who eat twisting her fin gers, so fascinated that she could not take her eyes away from hs for a moment. So, long afterwards, she told me. "Drink," he bade Jier. "I have much to say to you which you must hear and answer. And the time is short." ' He gave the glass Into her fingers, but they shook so that the. Hollands , wa3 spilled on the- floor. Then he filled the glass again with a kind of patience not wholly Ill-humored. Indeed, she owned J that his whole demeanor was wonderfully calm for so bad and furious a man. "Set It on the table," he said; "do not hurry till you can overmaster your feel ings. I own this must have been some thing of a surprise!" So .sayjng he turned away and lifted the curtain which covered the little window frdm the prying eyes- of neighbors." He noted how the flush of. dawn had begun to spread upwards, and then calmly dropped the blind again. "Drink it now, Mary!" he said. And with her habitual obedience my mother took the glass and drank. "And I also after you to your service, madam, and that we may prove better friends!" He lifted the glass as high as his head with a gesture not wholly Ironical, and drank the Taw spirits down like so much Spring water. Then at last my mother's lips formed the word that had been on them ever since she had seen Philip Stansfleld look ing down at her from the angle of the mantel shelf. "Tou are a murderer!" she whispered hoarsely, as If to herself. And again she repeated with yet greater .horror on her face, ''A murderer." Captain Stansfleld shrugged his shoul ders with the air of one who pardons the lnconsistepcies of women. "I thought, Mary, we had agreed to let bygones be bygones. But since you re mind me, I have been called by that name and by others. My ow'n son bore testi mony against me as did also Jacob the Supplanter I mean your friend, Umphray' Spurway, the Englishman. Now, I may have been guilty or I may have been Innocent That I bave not time to arguev At all events, I was a rude man In those days, dazed with strong drink and the lust of the flesh- What I have suffered I blame no man for except myself. And 1 forgive all who bore testimony against me save only Umphray Spurway, with whom I have risked my neck to reckon". And I have reckoned!" Then, again, my mother's 41p3 formed words, spoken hoarsely and with effort. butistlll Intelligible words. "You have not killed him?" she asked. "You plead for him," he went on, smil ing bitterly. "I cannot call to mind that you ever pleaded for me when I was in greater straits. But there, that also Is a bygone. Let us be friends, Mary, so far as we can. I have, not killed him, and if you will see eye to eye wltkme, I promise you my hand shall never kill him!" My poor mother could say no more, but only watched him as the mouse may eye they ravening monster between .whose curved claws It lies helpless. "I have no long time to waste, Maryr" he went on, poising himself easily against the little table, which creaked under hs weight; "I must hasten and get aboard. 'And J hope not alone. You must crfme with me, Mary!" My mother was not more terrified than before, simply because from hs first entry she had touched the Ultimate of human fear and horror. He went on: "That Is, I hope to convince you that there are Inducements.' of weight why you shOuld, let bygones be- bygones and return with me. I will not speak words of 'love 1-to you. For that, I take it. Is over be tween us, if. indeed. It ever had a begin ning. But you are old enough to be gov erned In your actions by considerations more practical. I desire your company for several reasons. First, because I am not the man I was, and I desire to be ye, more and better than I am at present. You can help me to that. "Afcain. my brother John Sleckir Jock. rbath now the estate, which Is 'our son's For fear of bis neck he wMl send me a full halt of all his receipts. Hitherto there hatlj been deduced the portion due to you aacordlng to my Lord Advocate Stair's reading of the law. Wltbthat In hand as well as brother John's moiety, I shall be able to quit my present made of life, which I grant you Is little better than that of a common pirate. But what would you? I was the har to a large fertuae. never cheeked, never corrected, given the I utmost liberty by my father, who wat about his business without remarking me, secretly supplied with money by ray moth er. What marvel If I beeame as the beasts that perish. If L wallowed In every foul pit and knew it net? The death of my father was laid to my charge. I say not with what justice. I became a con demned parricide a felon. Jiy wife was never truly my wife. Alone and desperate I saw her happy In the company of aa other. I shot at the man and I wounded you. What wonder, that you bate me! I da not blame you." Yet if yotf will ac company me over sias, you shall ta e no cause to regret it. You wfH travel la the company of your son." , "What?" cried my mother, starting to her feet; "you bave not stolen him away?" "He Is on board my ship out there In the bay," said my father, quietly. "What more fitting than that we should all seek a new land and a new life together?" "Oh, cruel cruel,", moaned my mother, "to take from me my. boy my Httl lad Philip!" "I presume you will admit that he Is mine also my boy, my little lad, and the rest of it," said Captain Stansfleld, with some heat. "Now, I put It to you plainly. If you accompany us your son shall gO' as an honored passenger. He will sleep In your cabin. He will dine at my. table, and when we arrive in the" country -to which my thoughts are tending, both you and. heshall be handsomely provided for. If, not " He paused long enough to give my moth er time to gasp: "What will you do 'with my boy? You would not kill him?" "That were equally useless and unprofit able," said my father. "I would sell htm for a slave in the plantations. There are many that would give 80 golden guineas for so handsome a lad!" "You would not you could not such things are not possible!" cried my moth er. "Nevertheless." said Captain StansfieW. "'they -are done. There are a score of younglings out in'the ship yonder who wili bring their price when we toueh the shores of Carolina, all honestly come by, too, and 'to be sold for honest geld. It is a lawful trade, winked at by the gov ernment and protected by the magis trates." "I cannot go Oh, I cannot! Why tor ture me?- moaned my mother, rocking herself -to and fro In her chair. "I bave here something that may prove a more powerful argument than the slav ery of your son," he went on with more grlmness. "What think you of this pretty .thing?" And he tossed Into her lap the miniature of herself which he had taken from out of Umphray Spurway's pocket. At sight of it m mother gave a shrill little cry, knowing by instinct whence It had come. For It was a copy of one In her posses sion which had been lost for a time and then again recovered. Caleb Cluckaberry had averred that he had found It on clearing out the Yett house. "Whose is this?" she murmured. "I know nothing of this'" "So he said," my father went on, calm ly. "It was taken byJbe hands of your husband out of the breast of Umphray Spurway. Your heart can" tell you if you know any reason wh he should wear against his heart the picture of a mar ried woman. But that skills not. Suffice It that I have left the man shut up In a safe and. secret place not far from here, and unless you put a. covering upon your head and accompany me on board my ship straightway, I will go back and slay this man forthe shame he has done mine honor in the- person of my wife. I promise it before God!" "I will come I will come!" cried my mother. "I will not let my son be sold into captivity. I will go with him!" "How touching Is the love of a mother for her only child!" said mv father. thrusting the miniature into his pocket ana again luting the Diind. - "It Is growing Jight," be said. "Here, Mary, take this cloak. Put the hood over your head and wrap yourself well fn It. The air Is shrewd and bites. Have you anything you wish to bring with you? If so, make it Into a bundle. I will come and help you. Take few clothes or adorn ments. There are plenty of both where you are going." And so, talking all the, while and as It were encouraging her, Captain Stansfleld made my mother put her necessities to gether and take her little money out of the drawer in the secretaire where it always lay, as he well knew. Lastly, be went to another cupboard, and there, along old flounces, women's gowns and ancient gear, he found a riding1 coat of his own (for women can never suffer to destroy clothing). He put it on, and the two stole out Into the broadening twi light of the new day, my father carrying my mother's bundle under his arm. It was characteristic of Philip Stans1 field that In the streets of the town where his person had once been so well known, and which was now garrisoned by a troop of soldiers, he walked as on his own quarterdeck, his head erect and his hat set With an air. The sourish blapk look of the hunted man was quite gone, and though the old cruelty leaped up on occasion,, yet, from this time forth he walked and carried himself with no com mon nobility. As they went down the quay my mother said, tremblingly, her mind! doubtless on the strong place behind her where Um phray Spurway was concealed: "You have nor- killed him, Philip?" And the Christian name, spoken In such a maniier and In such circumstances, might have softened" a heart of stone. 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