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Show t nnAIvE a woman charmer out cf his mturrJ A environment and he is a Catby creature whose comfort is of great importance and whose safety is a matter of first consideration. All this "Jadds, learned when her London sweetheart paid court to her on her native heath. ; .: ; " ' ' marry Jaqueline Drew, do yeoT" Roger - asked. rei," snepped Gethin moving UtO " iwir, ' thU fellow looked half mad somehow, "And jt remember that fee." ; "Huh I I'm ot likely to forget It," aid Roger, "hot you'd bait remember that we FtU folk don't 'mind ber-loung- , iitg fops trying to bust our foxes; bat , we don't take kindly to them carrying off ' $r'Z7. ' ' '" ' -..' ' " , marry Jaqueline Dr 'S I ".. ' ' ' - " asksd. . - .- "Yes snapped G J . - away." this fellow K U 'J somehow, "And Just I - VVi -' ".. said Roger; "but J ' WlfV) NNVT.-.- . that w. F.IJ folk ' , . ing fops trying to 1 . V With an oath Roger .prang forward; but too lata,' fa V XWm Cethin'l wild puah had aant Jaquelin reeling back. VK& . For second ake hung wavering on ha lip of th . precipice and then, with cry, fall aidewayal ' vT oar women! , "Yaar womaB!" axcIalRMd Gethia.' "What e. art ha Miu Draw to do with a laangar lika yoat" The mil ed from Boger'a Upa, , "That'i my boat-" boat-" yaa whia- pwtr ha grawlad, "and I wa" T ' kaap a guard an your tonga bofor ,- IforgtmyUand fling yoa'down tha ""Fall WaT Codt I nay do tt yatj" And with anort rf diaguat, Bogr Badmayna, lirltl . bimaaU a) kaaa km hands off Gathia if bs atayad .iongar naar him. atroda away. Tha cbaaa of tha - (ox la usually ea. - aodatod with pfek With an oath Roger sprang forward; hut too lata.' Cethin'l wild puah had aant Jaquelina reeling back. For a aecond arte hung wavering on tha lip of th " . precipice and then, with cry, fell aidewaysl him; be waa jst a macbanismi bis breath earning ia short, hard gMP, his Bails split a4 broken his enger-tiaa shredded and pulped to the bones al . . wrists and bands out and blosd-amaarad, " But with erery ateia of will and nerve- ' strength he drew himself up the f ace of , the rock, ' . Years of ball aatmed to pass before, , suddenly, the scent of erushad he they and Fell-herb came to kia aaatrUa. and ' the dark green af the summit to hi blurred and reeling rision. Ha Hf I. bit agony that Gethia had gone, and wJUl , the last rag of hi strength 0aag aae knee orer the edge and drafted himself and bis burden to safety. Jsquallne was still alive. He bad he heart against ki aack whan atartlng his terrible elimbl and now, theegb bi ' ' knees gave at every stride, be poshed ) -down the hillsida, wondering , why aid- ' Pr. Martin was net already la sight, fay . baps ha d been eat la aoe af the t as lying pertiona of his practice, and alarm , once mere gripped Soger. Weald medU cal aid come toe lata! Would "Jackie die, after all? - And then rounding a lntoll, kail lisp ' in heather, he saw them, Dr. kfsrtla gad "- two mea. The next mlnate they were at his aide. The old medico dew. e. bis : ( knaea ever Jaqoellae, aad Jamie Luna ' holding Roger up. , ' "Bhell lire," narmared the doctor ; ' presently, busy with bandages. Thank God for thatl" whispered '. Roger, and before tha men were ceneetoaa ef what was happening, be reeled away , toward bi farav ', TBREB days later Roger Redmarna, t striding along the Bwia street ef Sree- -dale, met old Dr. Martla, Jaeueline had ostained eoncuaaion, a bad scalp wound and a broken arm; but, thanks to bar vitality, vi-tality, was already oa the mend. "Well. Doctor," said Roger, "bow's the 7 patient T" . " . . 014 Martin glanced at Roger euixaU' . eelly. ' "The patientr" be exclaimed.' A4 whom may yo. maaat - j "Jaqoelina Drew," Rogers Redmeyae flashed, and hia voice was sharp. - . Oh r chuckled the doctor. "Jackie , Drew. . Bhe's a wonderful girl, Roger! A -wonderfol giril Amasia' thing hew that ! i snipe she got engaged to cleared eff after V hia experience. Never area stopped to ' , see bow Jaquelina waa; bat Just cleared' . off tha very next morning 1" A grim look came into Roger ReeV ' . mayne'a eyes, but be bold bis peace, and looking at his the eld doctor's area twinkled. ' . " .. . "Mind you," he went en, "I dont kaew that it waant Just as welL I fancy Miaa 'Jackie badat moeh use for him after , that r.eUunf The eld maa stopped abraptly. "Another Job for Person Carter!" he chortled aa be watcbed Roger Redmeyae atriding along ia the direction of the) manor and Jaquelina Drew. ' . ' ' 1 ' '-".. line Drew.' With laugh she puDel away. - r- : ' "Boehl" she cried. ' "Getting soaked and scratched ia all part of the fun In Fell bunting I Come along or watt mis the linet" And without watting for hi assent, she ruihed away; leaped up the hill aide, through heather, bopped over stunted gone slithered and scrambled between holders and across loos stones. - Viewing st the top, she aew bounds and quarry flashing down; guessed the Una, and scrambled after. ' Gasping and panting Charles Gethia. etruffWd up after her. Dema It all. be thought, this waa ne sort, ef life fot bimt ' . Faintly tM "tongue" ef the flying pack waa wafted op to them; and for a second or two Jaquelina watched Bill Dald, the huntsmen and the whippere-ln bounding along lika spring-beet Jacks; watched tha master, long lean Colonel Frith, hampered ham-pered by a German bullet wound I. his thigh, springing after them with the aid ef his kmc ram-bom bandied atick. "Ne good going down," aha decided. "Better stay up here andjrlew from the iop ef the crag " "Thia way, Charlie!" aba called. "They ra making for tha Crag, and if we cut aereoa here well get right oa topi We ' cant get the other way because it's a beer drop I" "Ob, hang it, Jaquelioel" exclaimed Gethia, "This ia perfectly Insane Tea my seal, you're behaving like aai excited child I V But Jaquelina bad bounded away, and so there waa nething for Gethia but to follow.. Slithering and scrambling, aha led the way across the roach beck of Crulin, down the dip and then up and across the great halt moea biU which waa tha westward approach to Lady's .Crag Peak. ''. . . Roger Redmayne bad followed and watched every more ef JaqoeUne and Gethia. Now be saw for where the girl "was making; and being a Fell-man wise 'as to wind and weather, be saw other thlnrs. Away in tha west a huge black rain-cloud waa rolling rapidly toward them before a stiff breess In the higher atmosphere. Ia something; under tea minutes Crulia Fell and lady's Crag ' would be blotted out from the eyes of men; and with the treacherous precipice ea the east, one falsa atop in the mist by any one ea the Crag would mean aa abrupt and mangled death. , TL'ST for a aecond oa earing Jaqoa. " line's words be bad been tempted to call a warning; but tha next Instant be closed hia llpe tight "Jackie" waa toe ' familiar with the Falls to be caught napping, nap-ping, it was only the townsman who would be la danger; only hia rival who would be in danger! And then suddenly a cold murderous light came into Roger Redmayne'a erea. For two minutes Roger Redmayne waited and watched girl and maa scramble scram-ble toward tha deathtrap; and thea, like a messenger of death, be slid forward ia ' company with the advance guard wisps ef dense grey mist which came floating 'ever the rurired summit. . Reaching the Crag, Jaquelina, with Cethln grumbling and gasping at her side, found their view already blurred, and before they had takensa dozen steps they were surrounded by a dense gray wall ef vapor. Away below they could still bear, aa through a eurtaia ef cotton-wool, the "toagoe" of the pack. . "Well, I hope you're satisfied I" Cethln Ceth-ln 's voice was sour and peevish. "I wish I'd insisted on yea coming borne." "Insisted!" Sharp .anger was la Jaqueline's tones. . "Yes," returned Gethia. "The only thing to do now is to get down into the valley and see what the beastly hounds are doing." He took aa tmpetoooe step forward, but with a sharp cry J equal las caught his arm and dragged him back. "Dont be aa idiot!" she exclaimed, her ' voice raw with alarm, her aervee Jangled with the knowledge that Gethin was proving prov-ing a disappointment, a. Philistine1 ia Arcadia "Doatl The Crag falls away sharp here, and there's a sheer drop of a hundred feet. Look!" ' Still holding bis arm, she pointed with the other band to where, a few feet ia front, the mist lifted -and swirled at the spot -where the ground stopped short;, and realising with a shudder that another an-other three stridea would have aant him crashing down a hundred feeV Gethia gave a sudden gaap sad-commenced becking beck-ing way.bla face livid with fear. - "My Godl" be quavered. "What a death-trap!" . T7EAR turned to snrtr, tha peevish, querulous anger ef a coward ia dancer. "Of all poisonous districta this is the worst!" Roughly he gripped Jaqueline's area; "What the devil de yen meaa by brincing me up here, yea little fool!" Amased at thia outburst, Jaequelino stood still; but in hia fear Gethia dragged at her ana. ' Behind thesa tha ground eloped upward; and as Gethia started to beck away his town-made, aailless shoes clipped. Panic seised him, and releasing hia hold ea the girl's ana, all hia thooghta bent en hia own safety, be turned and looked into the narrowed gray eyes ef Kocer Redmsyne. There was malicious grin ea the Fell-maa'a face and murder ia the attitude of his outstretched bands." In bis terror-warpedrbraia Gethia aaw ; some sort of trap into which this girl bad ; led him for some reason ef her ewai and with the courses ef desperation be flung himself at Racer. -J For a space both men stood locked la each other's arms, and then slowly inch by inch the Fell-man bore the townsman back. Madly the Philistine struggled ia the Fell-man's iron grip. Two feet from the edge, when already Gethin could feel the drag ef gravity from ores tha Up ef the precipice, be gave a shriek; and Jaquelina, until now daaed and mystified as to what was happening, suddenly realized what eras In Roger mind, and with a cry sprang forward. "Rogert Roger!" aha cried, clinging to "his shoulders. "What are you doing! What " . She atopped, a moea of anguish a. bar lips; for Roger Redmsyne bad ahakaa bar off and now lifting the struggling, terror-maddened Gethia in bi mighty arms raised him above his bead. "You squealing skunk!" he snarled. "You marry a Fell -girl for her money! Old Samuel Drew may know you, but he doesnt know you're broke and ars sfter hia ward's bit! You think yourself a bird,and aew you're going to try your wings!" - ' But at that moment Jaqueliae, summoning sum-moning all her vital strength, flung herself her-self on Roger: . " , Hoy,' dear I "Boy !' " she cried. "Dont do HI Oh. dent de HV Ia that second sanity returned. He knew be Would be doing no service to either Jaqueliae Drew pr himself by sending Charles Gethin to hi death. Abruptly be lowered hia arms and est Gethin oa hia feet; but the townsman was still mad with fear, and ending himself him-self free he aprang forward from the edge ef the cliff, pushing Jaqueliae violently vio-lently aside la hia effort to save hi own bidet With aa oath Rocer sprang forward; but too lata! Cethin's wild puck bad tent Jaqueline reeling back. Per a see-, see-, end aba hovered, swaying oa the tip of the precipice I horror and terror ia her eyes; her arms outspread, waving ia aa effort to racala her balance, and then with a cry fell sideways! ' Dassd, petrified and speech lees, Roger stood for a aecond. Below be beard the clatter and thud of falling rock tha "Mort" of Daid'a horap a distant shout and then stillness! - ' ' . Then, with biasing eyes, be turned and looked round for Gethia. Tea yards back, where the ground waa level, be saw him, standing white and. shivering. .- ' Then turning, Roger dropped oa bauds and knees, lay flat oa bis stomach aad peered over the edge. ' ' . Forty feet below his straining eyes made out the crumpled form ef the girl he loved; aha lay oa a Jotting ledge, and the next Instant Roger was ea bis feet. "Here!" be yelled to Gethia. "Ton get down to the village and bring back the doctor, a couple ef me. and a rope.' I'm going down here!" . Plaintively Gethin began to speck i But but what's the good?" be atam-mared. atam-mared. "Of coarse she's dead! Moat be deed!" "Damn you!" shouted Roger. "Do what I tell you. If aba's dead you killed bar!" VTTTHOUT waiting for any answer he wrenched off hia coat, and walking to the crag edge btweied himself ever. Hia quick, experienced Fell-man's eye had traced a possible route to Jaqoeliaa'a - resting place; be knew the adds were on hia being dashed to death before reaching tha girl; but be knew that she micbt be alive, .that prompt aid might aave ber, and slowly he made bis way down that forty feet of Jagged rock face. Once be slipped, oa a bees reek, saved ' hiauelf by a miracle, and marked the. place aa one to avoid on bis ret ore. The damp of the cloud bad left tha rock slippery slip-pery and treacherous; but foot by Joot Rocer, with the empty atmosphere polling poll-ing and tempting him away from the rock face, drew near to the ledge oa which Jaqueline Drew my. Reaching it, be crept band over band "to the still form; saw the flare of red Mood oa straw-golden amir; aaw the twisted unnatural position of the left arm. and with a sob la hie throat, dung with one band and both feet, and stooping stoop-ing gathered her an, lifted bar high ever shoulder, aad thea pausing a second to steady ; beating heart and tottering nerves, commenced the return climb. His eyes were aa flinty and grim as the red be climbed; hia Jawa set with resolve. "He'd aave Jaqueline's life if K cost him bis own ! If muscle and naive gave out before the top waa reached, then hia resolve to achieve should set ber ia safety before be diedl" Time after time his foot slipped beck oa wet, slimy rock. . Before half the Journey Jour-ney was accomplished sensation bad Left PDR a maa ef thirty, Roirer Redmayne .waa dour and intense. Hia huge leaa . frame had something of the rugged , strength of . the Lakeland Fells; bis ruddy, lean-jawed face and vivid gray eyes were instinct with the wide sky and hard, uncompromising rocks. Hs lived alone with the old family servant, Mary Darrell, and bent bis energies in getting the best oat of his fsrm snd flocks. But softness had crept into his life in the person of Jsqueline Drew, the twenty-year-old niece end ward ef old Samuel Drew of Grlxe Manor. ... . Jaqueline was a bred and born Fell-girl; Fell-girl; vital, forthright and staunch. She loved Westmoreland, and all Westmoreland Westmore-land held; and as a toddler bad nestled chubby fingers into the strong hsnd ef thirteen-year-old Soger, and being unequal un-equal to hie aame, called him "Boy." E lowly, as time passed, the brother aad slater relationship began to fade, and la his own vital, silent wsy Roger begaa to love Jaqueline as a women; and soon after she left school Roger realized that some day he would ask "Jackie" to be bis wife. At nineteen Jaqueline knew exactly how Roger felt toward her; and although no actual words of proposal and acceptance were spoken, there was a sort of tacit understanding that very aooa Jaquelina Drew would become Mistress Redmsyne, of Tarnelda Farm. Then, maybe aeelng how things stood, and wishing to give hia ward a wider outlook on life before It was too late, eld1 Samuel Drew pecked her off to London Lon-don for twelve months' stay with a slater sla-ter of his. ROGER bided bis time patiently, sure of her love for him; supported by hia love for her. Then in mid-February he heard she had come back the day before, wondered that he bad not heard from her, and went off to the Manor to see ber, take ber into hia arms and snd the waiting. 11a met her as ba entered the pine wood which surrounded her uncle's house, went forward with a laughing about, and even as she held swsy from him, babbled bab-bled his desire to marry ber by Lady-day. Lady-day. ' "Oh 'Boy! I'm sorry!" Jaqueline stepped beck startled, ber vivid face flushed, her eyea dark with confusion, "I had as idea you still fart , like that " . "You know now then, 'Jackie,'" aald Roger gripping her wrist with hard-held passion. "There's nothing to be sorry about I love you more than ever!" -I I can't marry you! I I I!" he stopped short and Roger Redmayna's fsce darkened. He stood there big snd fierce, almost forbidding in his massive strength. For a second he gazed at her In silence; then vie smiled, tolerantly. "What d' you mean, 'Jackie'?" he asked gently, "You've always known I . loved youl IH make you a good hus-" hus-" band! You sbsll have everything you want You are a Fell-girl and I'm a Fell-man." He stretched out his band again to recapture re-capture her wrist, but a he aprang back. "Oh, you don't understand!" aha cried. "There ia some one else now some one I've met in London." Some one else?" be murmured la a Toice hariy above a whisper, as though Ms bruin refused to grasp the horrible r-.mir-g the words held for him, -. me one eise?" "ies," There was defiance tn Jaque-; Jaque-; e Ltrew's voie, "Charlee Gethin, He , . m wi.h ne vesterdar. He's coins to bunt with the bounds, and is staying 'at the Fell-Men Iaa Undo knows him and hia family!" Aa expression o( disdain cam to Roger's face, "That chap!" be exclaimed. "That ; fop marry youl saw him lounging at the pub as I came along and" He paused and a wry smile came to bis close-cst lips. " 'Jackie,' do you think I'm going to stand aside and sea you wed a whlppity-nippity pavement-beater tike that, who has ne right to a Fell-bred girl like pool Hie soft, oily tongue and city waya have turned your head. - De yoa e o e r ., . Anger snapped In Jaqueline's eyes. "How dare yoa talk like that of him!" aha flashed, "I've known you all my Ufa; you've been to me whet the hills themselves are, reach f Heads; I've never ' thought ef you seriously as a lover." "That 'a a lie, 'Jackie'!" Roger's voice shook as be spoke, aad with bar eyes suddenly dimmed .with tear Jaqueline made to dart away from him; but the , Fell-man waa too quick,' and gripping ber arm be dragged bar to htm. "in have one kiss at any rata," be whispered, bis voice hearse and rough with passion. Pressing ber face apwerd with one hand be crushed ber lips with ( his eager, hungry mouth and thea re-' leased her. For a second Jaqueline stood dased; she bad never see. Roger Redmayne Red-mayne like thie before, and thea with a startled cry she rushed from him. Grimly Roger watched ber go, and at that moment hie whole face was trana-' trana-' formed. All the elemental maa In his Celtic nature flared into being. All tVe eges of clvillzatloa vanished, and Roger Redmayne waa a cave-man, roused to retain re-tain tha ownership of his woman. Suddenly the sound of footsteps on. deed leaves caused htm to swing round; a derisive amils oa bis lips; bis great wrestlers' shoulders thrown back; ' bis lean flanked mountain man's body strung , taut. Hia brain waa en Are, murder waa in hia heart; and with a sudden gllxn-' mer ia his gray eyes bs saw the newcomer new-comer was Charles Gethin, the Interloper. "So this wss the cockchafer 'Jackie' bad been welting for when he had come ajpngl" thought Roger as ba watched him approach. ... Mr. Charles Gethin wss a perfectly correct young townsman; there were no file en Mr. Gethin, except aa artificial ene he didnt know the name ef in hie aew tweed bat, his -ports-Jacket- and "plus-fours" were the acme of sartorial art; his stockings were gray and ahaggy, and the sheen ea bis shoes was mirror-like. mirror-like. Frankly he bated the Fells; it made him feel most damnably fatigued to even look at the infernal hills; the men folk seemed utterly ignorant of racing or revues. Even Jaqueline Drew waa fearfully fear-fully hoydeniah. and if it waant for the fact that aha had a pretty face and a very nice tittle "dot," well, be wouldnt . be ia Westmoreland now. 4 At tha moment, however, he waa full of indignation, for as be turned lute the path through the pines, be had seen this great yokelish-looking fellow deliberately deliber-ately snatch a kiss from Jaqueline Drew. "Look here!", he exclaimed coming op to Rocer, "I dont know who the devil ' you are; and 1 dont much care; but I'd have you know the lady who haa )uat left yoa ia engaged to me, and whether K chances to be one ef your beastly customs cus-toms or not, I'm not going to allow any carrying-on. So yoa caa make yourself acareel" "And ae you think you're going to coats, breed na seres ef grass land, and any and I ery - lort of nag. Fell f.x in the lake district is a very different matter I Here the big mountain foxes lie snug In their "berrans" high up ea the Fell aide, inaccessible to any but the hare-footed hare-footed Fell hound; and as soon as tha plucky pack unkenneled a "game an" be flashes away ever bill and dale, where ae horse aver foaled could find or keep a footing. The "field" is thea left far behind and the nimble of limb bop and scramble from vantage point to vantage point, guided by the "tongue" ' and music of tha pack. , Three days after Charles Gethin aad Roger Redmayne bad encountered one another, bounds met on Crulin FaQ. It, was a gloomy February assrnlng, . with -rain-clouds banging low; bat ene oa ' which the "drag" of the "varmint" wouki "be pusgentand magnetic. . Hounds were mad-keen, but aa, standing stand-ing on a few square feet ef level gray-faced gray-faced rock,' Gethin watched them at . work, he was bored to extinction. His glossy brogues were scratched by the coarse heather and sharp flints; bis gray stockings splashed with bog -mad, and hia face was both peevish and irritable. ' "Of all the darned stupid rot I've ever seen," be growled presently, "thia ia . absolutely the limit!" i . , Jaqueline Drew, dad for the Job ia .rough tweeds and heavy, nailed shoes . glanced at kins quickly. Thia waa a very different Charlie from the one whose charming manner end whole-hearted admiration ad-miration bad captivated her ia London. Abraptly she was conscious of a sense of depression at ber fiance's utter lack af sympathy in ber native county, and tn ' this sport. Which to ber held the thrill of ecstasy. "Why, what's the matter. Charlie f" aha aaid forcinr a laugh. "It's surely hate ha-te res ting to yoa; besides," she added with a twinkle in her eyea, "I'm here!" Gethin shrurged his shoulders. -Annoyed, Jaquelina turned away. A horrible question hovering iir bar brain i ' ( Had aha made a mistake? AKD on the fringe ef the field Roger Reomayna watched the girl he loved and the man he bated. The last three days bad been hell to him; and now his eyes were narrowed and venomous, bis , heart contracted with thwarted pass tea, his reason warped with Jealousy. - "That town pup going 'to marry 'Jackie' T Not ea your life," be thought "That fop going to take her away and have the sole, right to hsr kisses t" Perish the thought I , Somehow he would save bar from ber . own folly; and ia doing so would wia ber to himself! . From above came a about; a tost of Bin Daid'a bora; and with a sudden scrambling rush bounds were away after a big doc-fox. Which snaked through the heather like a flash of gray-brown light. ' Tany-ho!" called Jaquelina, "Come along, Charlie! He's half a -greyhound,' ' - and win give us a run to remember!" With a bound sh made to follow, but Gethin caught at her elbow. '""You're not going to follow that rabble, are yoaf" be exclaimed. ''Why, there lent a maa dressed like a gentleman among theml -This isat bunting, it's snore like Tatting! Besides, my feet are soaking. Give it a miss aad let's go home I It's going to reia like biases la a minute, and 1 hate getting wet!" He stopped abruptly, astonished at the expression of definite disgust which flashed suddenly Into the eyes ef Jaque- ; Ossium. less, ae rvsue Lisse CSssesse .... '' - ' ' e |