Show r Just Like a Woman By H F GETHEN COlyrlllIl by JUb cpn U Howies The rail from Bayonne was not then laid but tho drive by diligence was Biilticlently enjoyable My aunt c1 Lady Jane and I reached St Jean Pled dl Port late one evening and ILal Iittk town seemed wrapped In Climber Cn the following morning I in going to taku you over the Py uniis into Sjaln asserted my aunt Udall and truly 1 remember ex i lafmlfi YS I know all about Iti weve nny to itt to Rourgotte and then Its nine easy slip said confidently A can lla jo was secured the morn r i was lovely and the French iron ii was soon passed for w to had en little luggage and nothing on winch to pay duty A few miles fur I liei at a lonely kind of an Inn the inchiian Insisted on our descending horn the carriage and paying his fee its hug no choice we consented and then entered Into the lonely little Inn In search of breakfast After eating with good appetites some wellcooked food we discovered that tho carriage had been replaced by a couple of rough ponies with even rougher attendants at-tendants of the boy tribe The road jinond was considered too steep for vehicles so we mounted In silence Please our bags pleaded I fooling fool-ing disturbed by our landlords smiling smil-ing detention of our light luggage lIe says they must he sent on by the mule train exclaimed Lady Jane The straps of her ponys saddle broke before we had gone a mile and had to bo mended with a fragment of string and a good deal of language which we fortunately could not com prebend was leveled at the four legged members of the party Then our little cavalcade proceeded onward and upward passing by many wayside crosses and encountering wild looking harmless peasants with trains of mules and then again we noticed more of the rough crosses What In the world makes the people peo-ple put up so many wooden crosses asked Lady Jane at last looking rather rath-er nervous You must know that although al-though she was our own aunt we generally gen-erally called her Lady Jane She was very kind but rather odd The boy managed to make us understand under-stand that the crosses were ereuted to mark spots where murders had been committed but of course we didnt know If this was true Higher and higher we wound zigzagging zig-zagging through the glorious forest and steeper and steeper grew the road Tho boys walked on silent and sullen and tho sun began to quite scorch our skins Suddenly the ponies stopped at tho summit of the mountain moun-tain and the boys pointed to some far distant buildings Without a word they lifted us from our saddles demanded de-manded the piomlsed fees which Lady Jane at once gave and set forth on their return Journey before we had gathered courage to protest The houses were there certainly acioss a wide plain and it was a weary walk At last we arrived at the village which appeared to possess hut one street We were courteously welcomed wel-comed by the Innkeeper A Spanish dinner was shortly served and we wore glad to retire to rest soon afterwards I after-wards I wish we were safe at home ejaculated Lady Jane There is no bolt to the door she cried when we found ourselves In a bedroom containing con-taining two beds Eo she insisted on pilingtho somewhat scanty furniture against the door In case anyone should try to lob us she said fearfully fearful-ly The heavy bedsteads were Immovable Immov-able but the other things made a formidable barricade Wearied and feverish from tho unusual heat we soon got Into our beds Ive put the water Jug ready to throw at any Intruder said Lady Jane who appeared bravo now she was under the bedclothes and Ive hidden my purse In the too of my shoe At last we both slept and the last sound we heard was tho wind walling round the thick stone walls A knock at tho door disturbed but failed to arouse us Then to the accompaniment ac-companiment of a muttered exclamation exclama-tion tho latch was lifted softly and the door pushed gently With ana an-a clatter the barricade gave way and out of the darkness ejaculations loud and deep reached our ears Ive got the Jug said my aunt and feeling no doubt that her courage equaled that of Nelson at least she sprang up and in the dark cast her pitcher In the direction of the voice Oh what a crash there was Then hurried footsteps came along the passage pas-sage and a lantern showed the innkeeper Inn-keeper fully dressed and his wife In a wondious deshabille Tho worthy couple scolding and questioning In turn soon rescued from amidst scattered scat-tered chair legs and fragments of pottery pot-tery a poor halfdrowned wholly frightened young manU man-U was tho honest Boots of the establishment es-tablishment the general factotum who according to orders had come to warn us that the omnibus which was known as tho Mall would arrive In half an hour and tho driver would wait for nobody Oh guess how foolish wo felt Lady Jane gave tho Boots a handsome present and ho said ho hadnt OUCH hurt only his clothes wore drenched through 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