Show LER ep E fol B I 1 A fa n L nsf Y STORY to R Y sj of offic the b L AD 77 ABELLA by MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL rj copyright iwa 11 CO SYNOPSIS iata i at 14 years of age admiral sir peter Ill It chard ichard olyn glyn fell steeply in love at fit tit sight with laity lady Un Na liolla bolla stormont alio lie spurned hla his attentions tent ions TI alio lad I 1 an orphan wito given it fc bertli as in midshipman f ash t aman on the ajax by hla his une uncle e giles bernon ot of sir Verti vernon oll became the alle boyla boy pal they a anaed ninn ded a a theater where dinwit thaws nephew saw lady Ar arabella vornon 11 mit 1 t 1 philip 11 t overton next tit in line for sir T theima 1 10 n i V v r estate they they starts ed a duel dud which was aa interrupted Interrupt eLl vernon everlon Ov erlon and nephew found attracted by pretty lad lady ara bella tho the ajamin in battle defeated 1 reach french warships bargh ill in the th mediterranean richarl olyn got get 2 prize money ile ho wan called i home ne b by lady Hawks liaw as lie ha VS about it b ou t to blow til in lils earnings with heinon at a party glyn dio covered that lady vias A 6 poor but persistent rambler bler lie tallied talked much with liar cousin gaT daphne lady arthol Arn bolla a again showed lovi love for gaming gamin later slit she held olyn glyn and ana overton prisoners thus illus delaying t tha e cupl 1 in ver non lite duel neither was hurt lady arabella humiliated richard by her pratt prattles lis richard and giles shipped on a frigate giles was captioned cap tined by the 10 li rench sir peter arranged for its his exchange daphne showed a for glyn who was then 21 years of oc aro age giles was released niles giles and 1111 chara planned elopements elope ments sir peter objected to tho plan to wed Dap daphne lifie by clever ruses auses glies giles and richrd rd eloped with lady Ar arabella abolia and Da daphne pline 1 respectively tho the latter pair wie were married daphne was pleased arabella raved in anger when the party returned arabella asked sir peter to ald aid in prosecuting giles in court on the charge arfie of committing a capital crime all attended the trial upon ar marabellas Ara a bellas testimony giles was convicted and sentenced to bo be lian hanged ged sir peter visited tho the prince of wales in effort to secure a pardon for giles CHAPTER X continued presently the prince and sir peter appeared and his royal highness said with that charm of manner which seduced some men and many women Ilar harkee keo sir peter I 1 do not promise that the affair will bo be complete he be foro sunday night I 1 go to windsor early in the morn morning ipg and two days Is a brief time in which to arrange so important a matter but if you will be at windsor on sunday morning I 1 I 1 pledge you my lily word as a gentleman tho thu paper shall be ready signed sealed and delivered at that sir peter fairly broke down and could only say god bless you sir god bless youl you and the prince turning the old mans off gently smiled and said for the preservation of the gallantry ot of our sex sir peter that this young officer must not hang lie he warmly invited us to remain and finish up the wine and then one of the gentlemen at the table whether of design or not mentioned tile the extraordinary reports which had just reached london concerning the trial at york and 1 I encouraged thereto by a subtle look and a question of his royal highness told the whole story assisted by sir peter it was listened to with the deepest interest lady arabella stormont was known to every person there and the prince remarked that lie he had lanced danced with her at the last ball iler her infatuation fatu atlon for overton was well known and freely commented on and the strange measures that women will sometimes venture upon in the interest as they think of the man mail they love iove was exemplified in her testifying against giles vernon sir thomas thoma vernons Ver hatred of ills his heir was nas also well known irown and as the web was unfolded ta to the prince ho be listened with an air of tile the thought and his comment was significant tile the king can pardon lie ho had pity on us its and did not press us to remain to cards so we left carlion 1 oil house about an hour after entering it and with hearts curably lighter our first thought was to hasten back to our lodgings to 0 o send off our good news to lady hawkshaw and daphne by the northern mall sir peter told me lite then that the prince had directed him to go to wind vor tor in the rooming morning and remain and that mat he himself would bring hint him bach tin bit tho the sunday morn morning ipg if the counter signatures to his maje could not bo be had before the prince was quite hullo familiar with the procedure and engaged to get gei the baidon from the king without difficulty dini culty early eaily next morning sir peter left me it was agreed that I 1 should pro tried on the sunday morning to the hear dear and churn a tavern and posting station near londen on the northern road to arrange in advance for the i best cattle in order that not a I 1 might inight bo be lost in returning to york so after two miserable days das alone in lonon while sir petr peter was at windsor I 1 was glad on sunday morning to bo be on lie he northern road load preparing for our abid return to york tork the dear bear anti and hurn hum was directly on the highway nd was waa well out of london being surrounded uy green fields and orchards it was a beautiful in morning lorning morel more ko ke april than february the greenl green toss less of the oarth tho blueness of thel the heavens tile quiet of tile alio country after the rattle and roar and dun dull skies of london were balm tonly tomy soul I 1 I 1 reached the inn by ton and having arranged for their host best horses and sent word wod two stations ahead I 1 sat eat down to pass tile day as best bast I 1 might I 1 wrote a long letter to Da daphno plino anti and then it being about 12 I 1 wont out for it a walk there was a pretty pathway through it a little grovo grove toward a i rolling oiling field next the highway I 1 took this path and presently camo came faco face to face at a turn in ili the path with overton ile iio was vas singularly dressed tor for a man of tits his quality and pl profession lie ho wore black clothes with plain silver buckles bouchles at the inions and black stilt silk stockings and shoos shoes ills hair was tied with a black alb bon but lie ho wore no crape or vestige of mourning i had over ever thought him the tha handsomest man mail tit in england i 1 but in n this garb so from tile tho brilliant uniform or other exquisite bruss dress in which I 1 had heretofore seon secil him lie he looked like lice an apollo ho greeted mo me gravely but not impolitely and wo we walked along together lie ho had heard ofay of my marriage man lago and felici batea me ine on it my heart was so full of giles vy VW non that I 1 burst out with tho the story it seemed quite now naw to him and he be listened to it with br breathless eathle s attention occasionally ejaculating his horror at the conduct of sir thomas vor mon jion an and d of lady Ar arabella stormont monte it gave me a savage pleasure asure to tell him film every dreadful particular concerning arabella and by the look of con coil which I 1 i camo into ills file q ex pros sivo face and by the way lu in which iab lib avoided my eye I 1 saw that lie he know lie ho was a factor in ili the paso against his will at last bulto transported transport dI by my rage against these two I 1 cried out and it la is for the purpose of securing the estate to you that Ar arabella stormont thus thua sabro awby away the wit 0 of f giles yemeni vernon but god will confound her and sir thomas vernon yet truly sald said tie ho in a thrill thrilling thriller Ir g voice god will confound all the wicked ile ho will bring this horrid scheme to naught in every way for know you if lady Ar arabella abolia stormont were t to throw herself on tier lier knees bogoro me lie ho stopped slopped and colored violently ho had bad not meant kioa nt to admit what the whole world know that arabella stormo Ht ormont nt had adored him for seven years past ile he hurriedly changed the subject paying saying perhaps you 00 0 o not know that I 1 am no longer in the army I 1 said I 1 did not although I 1 have recovered tho the use of my limbs and look to be in health I 1 am not it fit for service and I 1 was re tired on halt half pay only a few days ago my aly life Is knot biot likely to bo be long but released as t f um am by gods hand from tho alto profess profession loa of arms I 1 shall devoto devote the remnant of it my life to the service of the lord god almighty his gis mes sage came to me years ago but I 1 was deaf to it I 1 was in love with the world and posses possessor seit by the flesh and tho devil I 1 committed murders under the namo name of war I 1 dishonored my aa aw r 4 r 4 A rp will you speak to me maker by my dissipations I 1 spent in gambling and vice tile the money wrung from the poor that were bond slaves to labor and poverty I 1 blasphemed and yet I 1 was not counted evil ohp by the world I 1 listened and afia wondered to myself should this be true where stood we all Oy ertons face had blushed lu shed his eyes were full of rapture he seemed to dwell in the glory of the tho lord but now I 1 am free front from the body bod of that death and subject only to the yoke of the nazarene the jesus who labored with his hands to show that work was honorable tho the carpenter who called about him those as poor door as ae himself and preached to them the lovo love of god and brics neighbor who received the magdalen as a sister and the leper as a brother I 1 was war silent I 1 had barl heard many sermons fr from om deans and dignitaries all well fed mr mon il and every manja man jack cli of them after promotion from th UK whigs and these sermons lind left ny heart as untouched as that of ahr wild indian of north america bu bit this was different at after ter a while over I 1 on continued As this jesus called all manner of men to follow hirn him the greedy as well as peter the poor ish fish aman and jolin john the gentle and ous youth so lie ho called me and like 1 the lie whose stony heart was melted by ta the ib voice of jesus I 1 say 1 with tears my GOI cool I 1 follow wo we had now approached approach it the corner of tho the field and involuntarily s slopped I 1 said to him blunderingly shall you tako take orders no ho replied 1 I do not abird to open lily mouth as a I 1 nm ain not worth w 01 alo but a few of tile tho humblest about cicro I 1 have been in on in fit bills tah place fur for bolno thile tini ocomo conlo to MCI inn on oil sundays Sundi is in ili the ho foro forenoon noon it to ask me to speak to them ehdy tho aro are day d iv labor ors hustlers hostlers tho the mad kind or of people I 1 once fancied to bo be without souls soula I 1 aspea to t bliem ioni not as a preacher ineich ei an and teacher toa chol but as it i brother and a friend it ls 18 now time for foi them to assemble I 1 saw sure enough n number of doorly pokily dressed rustics coining c 0 ining toward tho the flold field thoy they cattle hy by twos and throes tile tho women mostly with all dion area in nims arms or hanging to their skirts when all had arrived there were about 30 men and v women onion they seated themselves on oil tile grass anil and I 1 along with them and in somo binya inya dorious way va I 1 felt for tile tho first almo 11 in my lily life that talo plo plowman winan was waa iny brother and tile kitchen wench lily iny sister when they were all floated boated overtop overton took from ills pocket it a small bible and rend lend tho sermon on oil tho mount nit tho the people listened ile ho rave gave them a elior dip discourse course suited to their and then road to them a simple hymn which they sang with fervor I 1 listened with a strange feeling halt half pain half pleasure half satis fac I 1 tion lion halt dissatisfaction I 1 wished edh M daphne H spirit to be near me ine it k canie came to my mi mind how liko like was ans tills mooting ting of the poor and unlearned to those told by b tile ho ar penter Q of f anza leth ol oi tile the shores of uio the sea of gall gait the iho blomn echoed sweetly over the ho green fields it was a pirt part of that great antt phoil with which Nat nature tire ra ro plies piles to tile the harmonies hArmon le of tile tho arost mo high tile diio quiet scene the woods wood gt h ic fields bolds tile the kino idne tn in the casturo near by b till nil BC seemed ollied ono one in tills this net of worship nut but presently my soul was as distracted dasti acted by I 1 gaw aw on the highway close by ua its A handsome hand some traveling charlot chariot fol lowed by b a plain post ch atso going London waid stopped out of tile the charlot chariot stepped laday arabella stor finont and through an opening in tile the hedge sho she entered the held field after ti considerable interval tenal In mrs whitall fol lowed her hei nod and after a r still till longer ono one sir thomas vernon lady arabella walked noiselessly over the grass grabs and when ben sho she reached tho the edge of the group stopped ilet hei eyes were full of laughing contempt con at first but when Over overton toll his hie glanco glance full upon her she suddenly as ai a look of seriousness and folded her hei hands as it in silent prayer do be hind her mrs airs Whit alls foolish face was all fear while sir thomas vor vcr non grinned unpleasantly over her shoulder overton Ov eiton without taking the slightest notice of them at ohp con elusion of tile tho hymn announced that ho he would make a prayer prater and asked hla hii hearers to join with him in a petition that the life might be spared of a tain fain young oung man giles vernon now nong under sentence of death in york jail we vb all stood up then the I ing their hats I 1 held mine before my face facelo to conceal conce all my tears while overton made a brief but earnest pray prayer er for giles and I 1 could not re frain from crying amen amen ammill I 1 when he ha concluded the people then trooped off and we the gentle folks were left to gether overton surveyed lady ildy arabella Ar arabella and sir thomas with much contempt lady arabella was the first to speak sh she held up her head timidly and said said will you not speak to me mea jo 40 replied overton at sternly ernly files giles vernons Ver life may be spared but upon you is blood ITO ro UC bpi CONTINUED |