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<6 The Redemption »! fjàvid Çorsot? By CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS c«rjrri<ht. 1*1» by Th« Bo*«« Me»r>U C«Mapa ay ____ _ ___ — ~K> CHAPTER X.—(Continued * All Rtghta R« mmm «rd — ”T have discovered your treachery I and fled PEPEETA” He drew his hand across hla •>■«• [ took a Piet's of his cheek between his I thumb and first finger and pinched It ' to see if he were awake, then read th« words again. this time aloud; T h«\ * discovered your treachery and fled. Pepeeta.” ‘Treachery T* he •aid "What t-t-treachery? Whose id- treacherv ? Pled? Fled with whom, fied where* I wonder If 1 am still d-d-drunk?” At last, and almost with the rapid ity of a stroke of lightning the whole mystery solved Itself. It flashed upon his mind that Pepeeta had abandoned him. and In company with the man he had so Implicitly trusted. The ser pent he had nourished In his bosom had at last stung him' Tearing the per into shreds, and stamping upon the floor, he cursed and raved A purpose shaped itself Instantly In his mind, and he began its execution without delay. He made no confidant, took no advice, but having smoothed his ruffled clothing and combed his disheveled hair so as to excite no comment and prov oke no question, ha passed through the hotel corridor and office, greeting his acquaintances with his accustomed ease, and made his way to the livery stable. He went at once to the stalls where his famous team was accustomed to stand, and to his astonishment and delight found hts horses both there Tom.” he said to the hostler, “did you hire a horse and b-b-buggy to a young couple last night?*’ ”1 did not.” answered th« surly groom. ”1 am in no mood for trifling, Out with It. you scoundrel!” he cried. •ell« ing him by the throat. With a sign of terror the groom In dicated his readiness to come to terms, and the doctor relaxed his grip, Still trembling, he told the truth. the, “Do you know which road look?” He waved his hand toward Ken tucky. Naw that the confidence of Pepeeta had been secured. Davids part In thia drama became comparatively easy. He listened to the brief conversation In w hich by a well-constructed chain of fictitious reasonings the judge riveted upon the too eager mind of the child wife the conclusion that she was fra« When thia arch villain had concluded hla arguments every suspicion had vanished from her soul, and as he rose to depart she took him bv the hand and bade him a kindly and almost af fectionate farewell. "Do not afflict yourself with this painful memory.“ •he oatd gently "I shall not need to afflict myself.” tie replied; ”my memory will afflict me. for I am as guilty as if the result had been what I had expected; and if tn the coming year you And a moment now and then In which you can lift up a prayer for a tnan who has forfeited his claim to mercy. 1 beg you to de vote it to him who from the depths of his heart wished you Joy. Good-bye. " With many assurances of her par don. Pepeeta followed him to the door •nd bade him farewell. When she re turned to David her face was lumin ous with happiness, and although he had begun already to experience a re action and to suffer remorse for his •uceesaful Infamy, it was only like a drop of poison In the ocean of his joy Did 1 not tell you that all would be well?” she cried, approaching him •nd extending both her hands. "But how sudden and how strange it is It is too good to be true. I cannot real ize that I am free. I am like a little bird that hops about its cage, peeps through the door which its mistress hard has opened, and knows not what to think. It wishes to go: but It Is frightened What shall It do. David? Tell If Shall It fly**' ”1 also am too bev iidered to act and i almost too bewildered to think,” he i •ahi. with unaffected excitement and anxiety, for now that tbe time and op portunity for him to take so momen- ■ tous a step had come, his heart failed I him It was only with the most vio "Put a saddle on Hamlet—no. on Ro lent effort and under a most pressing meo.” he ordered, tersely . necessity that he pulled himself to- The groom entered a box stall and let out the black beauty. The doctor getner and continued its glanced him over and •The little bird must fly. and smiled. And mate must fly with It. There are too well he might, for every muscle, every few hours before daylight and we motion betokened »peed. Intelligence. must not lose a single one. But are endurance. you sure that you are quite ready? Is Th« pursuer made a single stop on your mind made up? Will you go with Ills way to the river and that was at xne trustfully? Will you accept what a gun store, from which he emerged carrying a pair of saddle bags on his ever the future ha» in store?” She todk hi« In her strong arm», arm In the holsters were two loaded printed her first kiss upon his lip«, pistols. and said. ”1 will go with you to the He smiled as he mounted, having al ends of the earth: I will ro with you ready consummated vengeance In his The heart. Once across the river and safe through water and through fire: future cannot bring me anything from upon the Louisville pike, be loosened which I shall shrink. If it let« us meet the reins. The horse, whose sympa it hand In hand'” thetic heart had already been imbued Silently and swiftly they gathered with the spirit of his rider, shook his together the few necessities of a sud long black mane, plunged forward and den journey, stole out of th« quiet pounded along the hard turnpike. His building and hurried away to a livery hoofbeats—sharp. sonorous, rhythmical stable. In a few moments they were —seemed to be crying for vengeance; rattling down the rough cobble-«ton»- for hoof-beats have a language, and pavement to the river. The ferryman, always utter the thoughts of a rider. who had been retained for this very The forests, hills and houses flowed purpose pretended to be asleep. They past him like a river. Occasionally he aroused him. drove onto the platform halted an instant to Inquire of some ©f his primitive craft and floated out lonely traveler if he had seen a horse upon the stream. As the boat swung and buggy passing that way, but he clear of the shore they heard music was cunning enough to conceal his issuing from the cabin windows of a anxiety and to hide his joy as every steamer under whose stern they were answer made him more certain that passing. It was the Mary Ann.” They he was on the trail of the fugitives. listened. The music ceased for a mo- The road was perfectly familiar, He Went and a deep voice called out had traversed It a hundred time«, and *B-b-bravo! Another song!” not having to Inquire the way he had They recognized it instantly. and only to remember and to reflect, An Pepeeta pressed close to the «ide of undercurrent of speculation had been ber lover. flowing through hla mind as to where "Tou hear It for th« last time." he he should overtake the fugitives. whispered. For a mile or two the road was per The swift current seized the boat, fectly straight and the rider, shading twisting It hither and thither HU It his eyes, glanced along It. In the dis seemed to the now trembling fugitive tance a moving object attracted his at a symbol of the stream of tendencies tention. and as he gazed at It. long and smile upon which he had launched the frail strainingly. the terrible once bark containing their united live«. more wreathed his white lips, There **I wonder if I am strong enough to were only two things present to hla carriage ©tern it?” he asked himself, as the boat consciousness—the upon grated on the beach. which he was swiftly gaining, and the "Can we find a minister who will fierce smiting of the horse'« hoof« «Barry us at this time of night?” Da wbic h seemed to be echoing the the vid said to the ferryman although he cries of his heart for vengeance, On had been careful to ask this question he swept, nearer, nearer, nearer. He before was now within hailing distance, and "Two blocks south and three east, his brain reeled; he forgot his discre second door on the right hand side.” tion and his plan. he answered laconically*, as he recetv- •’Halt,” he screamed. In a voice that «d the fare. cut the silent air like a knife. fiuch adventurers passed often A face appeared above the top of through his hands and their ways were th« buggy, and looked back. It was nothing new. Th« fugitives drove hur his foe. With a howl of rage, he riedly to the designated house, knocked snatched a pistol from the holster and at the door, were admitted and in a fired. The bullet went wdde of the few minute« th« final act which sealed mark and the next instant he saw the *belr fate had been performed. whlp-lash cut the air and descend on the flank of the startled mare. The CHAPTER XI. buggy lurched forward, and for as in When he awoke the next morning stant drew rapidly away. Overwhelm from a revel, the doctor crawled beck ed by th« fear that he might be baf to the hotel a« be«t he could, hi® head fled in his vengeance, he drew th« throbbing with pain, his wit« dull and other pistol and fired again more wide hl« temper wild Stumbling up the of the mark than before. ye flung the smoking weapons Into long flight of stairs which seemed to him to reach the sky. he burst open the road, and again drove the spurs In his door and entered the room It was to the steam .ng sides of his horse empty. Pepeeta was nowhere to be There could be no doubt as to the re •sen It took him some moments to sult of the chase after that. The half comprehend that he did not com pre. maddened animal was overhauling th« fugitives perceptibly at every enor bond Then he called. "Pepeeta’ Pe- mous stride, and in a few moments Reeta!" The «lienee at first bewildered, then more shot by the buggy and up to th« aroused him. and crossing the sorridor head of ^h« terrifled mare. A« he did tie entered David's room. It, tod> was so. hl« rider reached out his left hand empty He was now thoroughly as. and caught th« mare by h«r bridle, threw tonlshed and awake Recrossing the reined up his own hors« and hall he once more entered his room both of th« animals back upon their haunches. and began In earnest to se*k an ex In another Instant the two men planation of this mystery. It did not take him long, for on the table were stood confronting each other on the road, the quack black and terrible, th« lying the jewels In which he had in Not a ward vested his profits end which he had Quaker whit« and calm. was spoken, and Ilk« two wild beasts aonflded to Pepeeta—and beside them a piece of paper on which he slowly •merging from a jungle they sprang at each other's throats. They were odd •Balled out these startling words; ly. but not unequally, matched, for while the doctor was «hurt, thlik-eet and muscular, but clumsy and awk ward like a bear, David was tall and •Ilin, but lithe and sinewy as a pan ther. l ocked in each other'« arms, they seemed like a elngle hideous mon ster tn some sort of cotn ulskm. As It was Impoaalble for them In this dead ly embrace to strike, they wrestled rather than fought, and tit with teeth • nd tore alth hands with equal fenw- ity At the Instant when the two Infuri ated men seised each other In this deadly grip, Pepeeta fainted, while ths terrified mare backed the buggy Into the bushes by th« road«id«. Romeo, snorting and pawing the «round, snuffed at them a moment as Is pro foundly cvnxvrnrtl at their strange maneuvers, then .turning away, began to crop the rich blue gruss tn entire lihlitfrrrnc# (Q the results of tills mnd quarrel between two foolish men. The comlMitants surged and swayed back and forth along the dusty road, tripping and stumbling tn \ain effort« to throw each other to the ground. Their danger lent them strength, and their hatred skill At labt. after pro traded effort^ they fell and roiled over and over, now one on top. now the other Suddenly and as if by a single Impulse changing their tactic«, their right h«nds unclagped and began to feel for the other's throat. A sudden •lip of David's hold permitted the doc tor to turn him ©ver. and sprawling across his breast he pinioned him to the earth His great hand stole to ward the throat of hts prostrate foe and fastened upon It with the grip of sn Iron vise. » CHRIST Î0 COME AGAIN I aith of Certain People and Setts In His Return Long Iles Existed. ADVENT WAS EXPECTED IN 1844 I tallón in varying Ideas about tha mortality of the soul It Is generally understood '.hat In I most brauche« of th« t'hrlstlan church I there are men and women who In a 1 vague and more or less s|>eculallve way believe In the early second com Ing of Christ and In the resultant end of the world ns It now esista Such bsllefs are usually held quietly and not as occasion for difference It Is not strange, considering the origin ! and the history of Christianity, that the Idea originated and haa persisted. ENGLISH SCHOOLS Gut of the Miller Movement Came <«•«>«•• That See Msle- etili Hellalee, 4'are. Tue head master of .Manchester About 00.000 Qrammtir Hchool, In a speech at Itoch dale, retenwd to * custom at Itugby IT<0 Henry Ellla, th« retiring «over- School which forbids a l>ov of less nor of Georgia, to«»k his departure The disappointment of a small body than three years’ standing tn turn up for Bngland. of believers In the coming to an end hla trousers and Insists on hla doing 1*73 First (own merlin« held In llue- of the world which has Just made a eo after that period ton Ttle custom Is only a minor Instance IT*4 IH*» I m rat ion of Rights West Puxbury church a momentary by the object of attention Is made the object of the quaint practice« that exist at American ('ongreaa. of ridicule tv some and of wonder by all the great public schools In Eng IT$I Laat seealon of the old ('omínen others, the New Bedford I Mass 1 land and are maintained with rellg let Congress opened la \r* I .k Standard says. We have In the faith loua care, though In many <aa«a (hoir ITtl 7'homaa Johnson of Mart land sp- (Hiintetl an sastxlate justi« e of tha Ihe ot these few people and In their die origin Is obscure or unknown t’nilrd Htates tiupreme Court appolutment a recurrence of a phe Ritrova Tuesday tossing ot the pan nomenon which the Christian church cake at Weetmlneter School, with Its 110J 1‘resldsnt JefTrreon notified Con areas of th« war with Morocco has witnessed more than once, on a ensuing scramble for the largest frag Illi An encounter with the Indians took place near Terr« Haute. Ind. DAUGHTER OF THE LATE RAILROAD KINO I1I& Ionian islands placed under th« BEGINS MANAGEMENT OF 33,000 ACRE ESTATE protection of Great Britain O««lel the Adventists. Who Number The beautiful face turned pale, then «rear purple. This would have been the laet moment In the life of the Qua ker had not hie right hand, convulsive ly clawing the road, touched a piece of broken rock. It was as If a life-line had swung up against the hand of al drowning man. The exhausted youth! untwisted the grip of the iron hand. I flung off the heavy bcnly*, mounted up-I <»n it. crowded the great head with Its j matted hair and staring eyes down in-1 to the dust, seised the stone with his right hand, raised It. and «truck. The effect of the blow was tw©-fn|«1 —paralysing the brain of the smitten and the «rm of the amiter. Across the j low forehead of the quack It left al great gaping wound like a bloody mouth. A death-llke pallor spread It- I self over hts countenance, the lids! tiropped back and left the eyes st- ring hideously up Into the fare above them David's arm. spasmodically* uplifted for a second blow, was suspended in air. He did not move for a long time; and when at length his scattered senses began to return he threw down I the stone, rose to his feet and exclaim ed In accents of terror, “I have killed him.” He could not overcome the fascina tion of the lifeless face and wlde-atar- mg e\rs. They dr»-w him towards them; he stooiied down and felt for the pulse, which was Imperceptible; lab! his hand upon the heart, but t'ould not feel it beat; he raised an arm. and It fell back limp and lifeless Suddenly one elemental pussion gave place to another. Horror had displaced I anger, and now In its turn gave way to the Instinct of self-preservation. He I looked toward the carriage and sjiw that Pepeeta had fallen Into a swoon. I “Perhaps she has not seen what has happened.” he said to himself, «nd a cunning smile lit up his pale face. Stooping down, he seised the loath some object lying there In the dust of the road and dragged It off Into the thick shrubery. Stumbling along, he came to a hollow made by the roots of an upturned tree. Into this he flung the thing, hastily covered It with moss and leaves, and stood staring stupidly at the rude sepulchre. He ex- perienced a momentary feeling of ra lief that the hideous object was out of sight; but the cnnadouaneHs of his guilt and his danger soon surged back upon him like a flood, Tn such mo- ments the mind works wildly, like a 'J^rrc MAK.V XAJCR.1MJLN------ clock with a broken spring, but some times with an astonishing accuracy Miss Mary Harriman will I m ? the greatest wonmn farmer ili and wisdom. States, as by a family ar’angement she has taken charge of (To be continued.) Turner, N. Y. The Arden farms Include 14,000 acres, while altogether she will have supervision of 33,000 acres Three thousand acre» are now under The Family Pair. cultivation, with much of It In truck farms. The Arden Farms Dairy, with The wriggly stillness of the study a capitalization of $100,000. will tie her special care There are 330 regis period was broken by a slamming door tered cows, with butter sold every dsy In New York under contracts. and a thin boy In dirty, ragged clothes MI m Harriman has done much settlement work and Is not at all fond slouched aero.sa the room Half way to of society. She In a musician and a linguist and I m said to tu» able to con- the teacher’s desk he drawled, ”Ps verse even In .Japanese She Is 25 years obi. but looks much younger Hhe wants that you should let Jim go horns dally drives over the farm In a smart trap and is every day Inspecting the right now." As Miss Davis looked a roadmaking, the terracing of hills and landscape gardening which she little doubtful, he added, "He kin coms planned with her father back right away." The permission given, the two Imdly The beflat In ment, which gains for Its |>oose«iinr a soiled, half-starved sons of the most more extended scale Christ at an guinea from the dean. In perhaps the sblftleM family In the district shuffled the second coming of A curious down the stairs. Very shortly Jim rw early date has not l>een uncommon In l>ewt known among them turned, wearing a pleased and Impor the Christian church from the l>egln ■ oatorn at .Marltarrough requires every tant smile on his pathetic little face ntng. This Idea has persisted and tu»e bey to bring to school with him a ”! come as soon’s I could, Pai appeared again and again, and la prob casblon. technically termed a "kish”— •13? A convention at Columbia, H <*. l*aaae<| regolutlona to nullify th« tariff acta of ('ongreaa 114J Murrls«# of Abraham Mncoln and Mary Todd at Springfield, III. I’»63 Franklin Pierce elected President of th« United Htaxee 1364 Ituaslans attn< k#d the British at Inkerman. 1I&& First railroad a rr« k In Missouri o- < urred on th# Missouri Pacific al tha «laaconadc River liOO Abraham Lincoln elected Preal- dent of th« t’nltrd Htates KOI The Confederate a«lu»oner “Iler» mud«” ran the blockade at Savan nah Gen Mi <’|e|lan >u< r«M»<|ed Gen H* ott na commander of the United Htates army. Hi! Gen. Ilurnalde aurree<1ed G«n. Mvt'lellan In r«>tnmand of the army of the Potomac ll<3 Th# Federal« took possession ot llrs«4»a Hantlatfo, at the mouth of the Itlo Grande ll<4 Horace Heffrrod. s witness In the treason trials at Indianapolis, ex posed the workings of the Order ot American Knights lit? Flrat women's auffra«# formed |n England society ISO I—A bequest for a public library aaa left io (.'hlragu, by Walter la» Newl»erry.. Gen. U. H Grant elected President of the United Htates. »174 Mitaaat husetfa elected a cratlc «governor for tha first time In twenty years ’•77 l»rnnls Kearney, tha Han Fran cisco agitator, arrested and con fined In Jail. ’»SO Harsh Bernhardt made h«t American debut at Booth's Thea- ter. New York IltS ('anndlsn Pacific Railroad opened l»etween Montreal »ml Wlnnl|»r« 1IB6 -('yrus G. Luce elected Governor of Michigan Gen llrnjuniln Harrison of In diana elected President of the Uni ted Htates 11RS North and Hnuth Dakota admit ted to the Union Montana de clared a State <»f the Union by the Preaident’a proclamation. tStl 1195 Forty Ilves lost In the wreck of the Detroit Journal building, caused by the explosion of a boll- er... .Theodore Durant <Ofiv|< t«Ml In Han Francisco of tha murder of Blanche laimont. IS!»1 Church of the Redeemer In Jeru salem dedicated by the German Emperor .Theodore Roosevelt elected Governor of New York. !R!»9 Memorial to Miss Winnie ltavis unveiled at Richmond, Va. »901 West The Houth Carolina an<1 Indian Exposition opened at Charleston. 1901 New Irish land act went Into ef- feet. 1904 Liberals victorious ln the ('ana disn elections. IMS command of British fleet In Prince 1x>uls of Battenberg arrived at Annapolis, Md ItOI Gen. Antoine Him<>n assumed the provisional presidency of Hayti.... Charlea W .Morse of New York found guilty of fraudulent banking practices . President Eliot, ot Harvard University, resigned ... William II Taft of Ohio elected President of the United Htates brother’s dyln’ to Poplar." hs an ably destined to a long. If lingering. with the "I" long Thia article la hla nounced. cheerfully. "That’s why pa Ilf«. Inseparable companion In school time So far as this country la concerned, wanted me.” and. In addition to the ordinary func "But you weren't gone long—you the greatest exhibition of expectation tions of a cushion, Is employed to car didn't stay home I can’t see why of the early second coming of Christ ry trooks from one form room to an you went at all.” answered the bewlld was at about the middle of the laat other t'Mtsr.« wf l-are S'on4 < onaresa century, when William Miller, a cler ered Miss Davis. At Shrewsbury School, at the be Dr. Kdward P. Hhnffter. of the Unl> gyman of the Baptist denomination, "Why. pa s goln,” explained Jim. ginning of each term, "hall elections” ted States Agricultural rtepartment. made up hla mind that the advent "Yes. but what has that to do with are held for the poem of hall crier, the American representative to the By would occur In IM43 or 1844 you?" asked the teacher. hall constable, hall postman and hall Pure Food Congress, which has closed "Pa had to have hla suspenders,” means of an extremely literal Inter scavengers The genial brutality of at Parla, said, upon hla return, that the pretatlon of the imagery of the •crip work in was Jim’s matterof fact reply. youth often selects for the position of < ’ongreaa had done great tural writers he came at laat to be arousing world Interest In the subject, hall crier either the moat nervous boy Salted HI m . • In aplte of most active lobbying on convinced that the end of the world In the school or one who la afflicted "TheM lumtuer glda would rathe, would come on Oct. 22, 1S44. Interests. Th« the part of private with a stammer walti than eat.” remarked tbe hotel work done was of a technical nature, In some sections of the country, It The new t>oy In the schoohouae at much time having been spent upon de clerk. was said that there was scarcely a "Think ao?” Inquired the proprietor. Christian church tn which there were Itugby la early called upon to take hla fining what pure food la. Dr. Hhaffter th« "They say eo themselyea.” part In ' house singing ” At thia fu ne aaye that thia country leada In not adherents of the Idea, and occa fight for pure food, and that foreign "Then I gueaa I’ll add a waits or slonally a church was disrupted by It. tlon, which Is held in one of the dor- experte were loath to believe that we two to the dance program and cut a The apostles of this evangel were dlf mltorlea, he has to render a song to apend 13.000.000 yearly on government couple of courses off the dinner bill.” flcult to contend with. the satisfaction of hla audience, the After the dis Inapectlon of foods. — Louisville Courier Journal. penalty being the awallowlng of a appointment that the predictions of Pole Not a Flsod Point. Miller were not fulfilled there was the mouthful of soapy water. Breaking It Gently. M Flarnarion the French scientist« Another ancient school custom 1« ths Inevitable reaction. Home returned to Hsr—Richard! Why on earth are i now coinca to the front with the an their old churches, while some went parade of the Christ's hospital Mus nouncement that the "poles" of tha you cutting your pls with a knffs? coat hoys before the Ix>rd Mayor at adrift from all religious faith. earth are not flxed points, but con- Him—Because, darling—now, under the Mansion House on St. Matthew ’ s Out of the movement came the ad atantly vary, oscillating from year ta stand, I'm not finding fault, for I know that these little oversights will vent denomination, which has now all day, when the '■Oreolans,” who corre year, from month to month, around an occur—because you forgot to give me branches with about *5,000 communi spond to "alkth formers" elsewhere, re average position at which In reality the cants, and In which there Is agreement ceive a guinea each and the rank and pole la never exactly to be found. Ha a can opener.—Cleveland leader. that the second coming of Christ la file of the school are presented with publishes sn els borate chart or dia gram to Illustrate the manner In whirl» Ths blessed work of helping ths to ba personal and premlllennlal, and new shillings.—London Mail. the earth Is said to wobble and show world forward happily does not wait la close at hand, though few venture ing that not only the poles are shifting^ to ba don« by perfect man George to fix dates The differences between Probably a king's worst enemy is but that latitude« are constantly vaqr* Eilat. the branches ars principally with re- an ace. Ing over th« whole earth.