Show th e ays of ru richard BACHELLER copyright by irvin 0 CHAPTER XI continued 12 saw law the plan now nn admirable they were to meet near the f 0 balling ailing and be married and go d the slip and aw away ny it wits was the if f 31 margaret argaret Mn rgaret and much bettor better than 0 could anve made for lie knew of london and its ports I 1 not take my baggage with ere la is not time for or that the lady answered we must make I 1 havo have SOMO some clothes for you ag pointed to a leathern case unie e front seat bent m th that at time forward they rode clience broken only by tho the creak f the conch coach and tile the sound of the i hoofs darkness had fallen they reached tile the little city of send the ship and anchor stood waters edge i u will please wait here raid tern era lady in a milder voice than lad ad used before as tho the coach up at the lan inn door 1 I shall see has come strange companion entered the nd returned presently saying baying has not yet arrived delayed e fog we will have our dinner p please 1 ease m this point the scene tit at th the e s i described in the diary of the ican can e drew oft off her hat and vell veil and a woman about twenty eight years e and of astonishing beauty stood 0 i me here now I 1 am out of business marked remarked in a 8 pleasant voice as at it down at the table which bad spread before the fireplace 1 I 0 my best to be a companion to tb dal M margaret gar t arrives ves 1 e looked into my eyes and d L her sheath of ice had fallen ber e walter waiter came with a arny con S g soup glasses and a bottle of we sat down at the table and alter filled two glasses with the Y biank ank you but self denial to Is on an duty of mine she remarked 11 I 1 offered her a glass of the wine r s in a tipsy world and drink r I 1 live in a merry world and a stern stem face it Is a vile world yet et I 1 nm am sin unpolluted polluted drank my glass of wine and had B to eat my soup when a strange ig g came over me my plate ed d to be chinking through tile the table wall tall and fireplace were receding dim distance I 1 know knew then that d tasted the cup of circe my 8 tell fell through nay my lap and sud f the day ended it was like ng 9 off a board the end had fallen e la Is nothing more to be said of clauso my brain lind had ceased to rei and record impressions I 1 was itally out of business as a man s grave when I 1 came to I 1 was berth on the ship king william I 1 for now new york As soon as I 1 anything I 1 knew that I 1 had been ed cd my clothes had been removed were lying on a chair near me litch atch and money were undisturbed 3 a severe pain in my head I 1 d and vve went int up on deck the oil was there on must have had a night of it ft in ebend ho he said you were like a I 1 man when they brought you ad where am I 1 going I 1 asked to new york he answered with agh gh you tou must have had a low ow nine much h Is the fare ly young ing man that need not concern laid bald tte tie captain your fare ha has 1 paid in full I 1 saw them put a in your pocket have you read uk A f found aund the letter and read car sl sir when you see this you be well nell out of danger and it Is edo f none done the worse for your dla dis en this from one who admires ill and courage conrage and who adl yon to keep out of england for e mt lot a year A WELL WISHER 6 looker back over the stern stem of the ebore had hn fallen out of L the e sky clear the sun run ase the w wind gilld was blowing from east esst 4 stood for a long time bool looking agg the e land he had left n k e wings of the wind I 1 take love B to b her er and give her news newa of 10 bid her to be steadfast jo in faith in laud and hope he whispered CHAPTER APTER XII aft the old he le laft ft behind bohland him gr Jack had been whirled out of inn doa a Pran kil called at his hodg lod it to r learned t that but ho he had not been I 1 t it day y the philosopher III birt 0 doubt that the young ya tau ell ship id d ce agreeably with 4 oven A report had ing 1114 4 ft through the aluia of lionel clarke bad buc uc limbed in I 1 n fact he had lind had a bail turn but had rallied milled juck must have suddenly heard the ho filase report und taken ship tie the doctor franklin went that day to meeting of the privy council whither tie lie find been sternly summoned for examination in the mutter matter of tile lie letters of et ct nl al for an hour ho had stood unmoved utin loved while alexander wedderburn burn tho wittiest barrister in the lie kingdom poured upon ailin a torrent of abuse even tho judges 11 against all traditions ons of decorum deco rin in tho high courts of britain laughed nt at tile cleverness of tile the assault that was the speech of which charles janies james fox declared tired that it was tile the most expensive bit of oratory which had been heard in ang en 9 land since it had cost tho the kingdom its colonies it WAS waa alleged that tn in some manner franklin bad stolen etolen tile the letters and violated their shered privacy it Is ill known now that flint an english nobleman had ill put them in his hands to rend read and that he wits was in no way responsible for their publication the truth it if it could have been told would have bave bent the proud heads of wedderburn and the judges to whom hu be appealed in confusion but franklin held field his pence peace us na a man of honor was bound to do he stood erect and dignified with a face like one on 0 carved in wood the counsel for the colonies c gonles made a weak defense the triumph was waa complete the venerably vene rablA man was convicted of conduct inconsistent with the character of n gentleman gentl ealan and deprived of lils his as postmaster general of the colonies bur he be had two friends in court they were the lady hare and her daughter they followed him out of the chamber in the great hallway margaret her eyes wet with tears embraced e M and kissed the philosopher 1 I want you to know that I 1 ara am your friend and that I 1 love america she bhe said my daughter it has been a bard hour but I 1 am sixty eight years old and have learned many things he answered time Is tile the only avenger I 1 need it will lay the dust the girl embraced and kissed him again and said hi a voice shaking kith ith emotion 1 41 I wish my father and nil all english men to know that I 1 am your friend rind and that I 1 have a love that cannot be turned aside or destroyed and that I 1 will vill have my right as a human being 11 come let us go and talk together we three he proposed they took a cab and drove away you will think all this a slin singular gular proceeding lady hare remarked 1 I must tell you that rebellion has haa started in our home its peace is quite destroyed margaret has declared her right to the use itse of her own mind well if she Is to use any mind it will have to be that one rr franklin anklin answered anaw ered 1 I do not see why women should not be entitled to use their minds as well as their hands and feet 1 I was kept at home yesterday by force said margaret every door locked and guard guarded edl I 1 it was brutal tyranny the poor child has my sympathy but what can I 1 do lady hare ln in quiren beling being an american you can expect but one answer from me said the philosopher to us tyranny in home or state Is intolerable they tried it on me when I 1 was a boy and I 1 ran 1 awny away that Is what I 1 shall do lf 11 necessary said margaret oh my child I 1 how would you alvel alvel her mother risked 1 11 I will answer that question for her if I 1 you will let me said franklin if she needs it she shall have art an allowance out of my purse 11 thank you but that would raise a scandal said the woman oil oh your Indy ladyship ship I 1 elm cm old enough to be her grandfather 1 I wish to go with jack it if yon know where he Is margaret declared looking up into the face of the e philosopher 1 I think he be Is pushing toward america F franklin answered being alarmed at the condition of his bis ad vers ver nry sury I 1 advised him film to slip blip away A ship went yesterday probably lie hes Is on it he had bad no chance to see me or pick no his baggage 11 1 shall follow him soon the girl d declared ec lared it if you will only contain yourself you will got get along with your father well said lady hare 1 I know him better than you he has prom iced to take you to america in decem her ber you must wait and be patient after all your father has a large claim upon you 1 I think you will do well to watt wait my child said the philosopher jack will keep find and you yott are both yount young fathers anre like other children they mako make mistakes they oven even do wrong now and then they have to ho he for or given and allowed a chance to repent your tour 1 lw and improve their conduct flier Is a good nian man try to win hint him to your sour cause and tile illo a mattlen caluen said the girl with it sigh impossible I 1 exclaimed 1 I shall marry jack or never warry I 1 would rather bo be ills wife than the queen of Eng england hind tills this la Is surely the lie ago of romance said tho the sini smiling ling philosopher as tho the ladles alighted tit nt their door 1 I wish I 1 were young again CHAPTER XIII tho the ferment on ills voyage to new york jack wrote long letters to margaret and to doctor franklin which were deposited in the post office on his arrival the tenth of march ile iio observed a great change in tile spirit of tho the people they were no longer content with words tho the forni ferment ent was showing itself in acts of open and violent di disorder tho the statue of georgo george III HI n near ell r ill tile 0 battery was treated to a volley of 0 decayed eggs in tile tho evening of hla his arrival this hot blood was duo to the effort to prevent free speech in tho the coltin colonies les and the proposal to send political prisoners to england for trial jack took the first boat to albany and found solomon working on the irons farm in hla his diary he tells of the delightful days of rest he enjoyed with his family solomon had told them of tile the great adventure but jack would have little to say of it having no pride in that achievement soon the scout left on a mission for the committee of safety to distant bettle settlements tle tILI ments in the great north bush ill be spen spend spendin din ln the hull bull moon in the wilderness lie ho said to jack coin to Vir virginne ginny when I 1 got back an alk IM HI look for fer yo ye on the way down jack set out for philadelphia the day after solomon left he stopped at Kinder kinderhook book on ills his way down the river and addressed its people on conditions in england A young tory interrupted Ws his remarks at tho the barbecue which followed this young man was seized and punished by a number of stalwart girls who removed his collar and jacket by force and covered his fils head and neck with molasses and the tha fuzz aaa of cat tails jack interceded intercedes Inter ceded for the tha tory and stopped the proceeding my friends we must control our anger he said let us not try to subdue tyranny by using it ours ourselves elvest everywhere ho he found the people in such a temper that tories had to hold their pence peace or suffer punishment at tho the office he learned that his most moat important letters had bad failed to pass the hidden censorship of mall mail in england ile ho began at once to write a series of articles which hastened the crisis the aho first of them was a talk with franklin which told how bov Ws hla mall had bad been tampered with that no letter had bad come to hla his hand through the post poat office which had bad not been opened with apparent indifference as to the evidence of its violation the doctors words regarding tree free speech ln in america and the proposal to try the bolder critics for treason were read and dds cussed in every household from tho the sea to the mountains and from maine to florida tile the young mans work had set act the bells ringing and they were tho the bells of revolt the arrival of general gago gage nt at boston in may to be civil governor and commander ln in calef for the continent and the blockade of the port twenty days later compelling its population who had bad been fed by the sea to starve or subsist on the bounty of others dro drove ve the most conserva conservative tive citizens into the open parties went out tory hunting every suspected man was compelled to declare himself and it if incorrigible was sent away anway town meetings were held even under tile the eyes of the kings soldiers and no tribunal was allowed to sit in any court house at salem a meeting was held behind locked doors with the governor and his secretary shouting a proclamation through its keyhole declaring it to bo be dissolved the meeting to its end and when the citizens filed out they had invited the thirteen colonies to a general cong congreso con gresi reiA in philadelphia it was Solon solomon lon cinkus who conveyed the invitation to pennsylvania and virginia ile he had gone on a second mission to springfield and boston and had bad been in the meeting at salem with general ward another man carried carded that historic hi call to the colonies farther south in five weeks delegates dele gatet were chosen and early in august they were traveling on many different roads toward the quaker city crowds gathered in even town and village they passed solomon who rode with thi the virginia delegation told jack that he be heard so much noise since the injun war they was po pounding pound ln the bells belli art an shooda shoot ln cannons everywhere he de dared men women and children crowded round uli u an split their lunga lung yellin theys a 0 sore bore throats nil all the way from Aler alexandry andry to here bere TO BB CONTINUED |