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Show THE LION'S WHELB A Story of Cromwell's Time BY AMELIA E. BARR. Author of "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." "The. Mold of Maiden Thou and tSo Othor Ltn," (Copyrii ht, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company, Eto. Alt riihu reserved.) On, ered this little plan to be a very wise one, and so it proved. Her fear left her a soon as the door closed, and she was alone with her old friend. "Jane," he said kindly, "Jane, what la the trouble?" "It is Lord Neville, sir. Nothing has been heard of him' "When did you hear last from him?" Jane ofTered Cromwell Cluny'g last letter, and asked him to read It. He read it aloud, letting his voice become sweet aud tender as he did so. ' "My dearest and most honored mistress, I am just on the moment of leaving Paris; my horse Is at the door, but by a messenger that will come more directly than myself I send you a last word from this place. My thoughts outreach all written words. I am with you, my own dear one, in all my best moments, and my unchangeable love salutes you. Graciously remember me in your love and prayers. "Cluny Neville." "A good letter, Jane. I do think the man that wrote it is beyond guile, beyond dishonor of any kind. I will not hear a doubt of him. He touched a bell, and when it was answered said. "Mr. Tasburg to my presence without delay." Mr. Tasburg came without delay, and Cromwell turned to him in some passion. "Mark Tasburg." he said scortfully, "I have not once heard from you in the matter of Lord Neville's delay. The commission for your search is more than a month old; It Is, sir, and I like not such delays." "My Lord Protector, I reported to Mr. Thurloe and Mr. Milion that ray search had been of no avail." "What date does Ijord Neville's last letter bear?" "It was written at Paris on the 11th day of November." "The same date as your last letter, Mistress Swaffham. Four months ago. This Is serious." The turning to Tasquittance?" "I have not thought of that, Jane. burg he said, "Find Col. Ayrton and I will send again to The Hague." send him here, to me, without "Yes, sir, and let your messenger ask to see Lord Neville's quittance." During the Interval between Tas- - CHAPTER XI. (Continued.)' "And talking of going across seas," she continued, "reminds me of Cluny; neither of you seem to care about him, yet our Jane Is fretting herself sick, and you might both of you see it." "Tell Jane to be patient," said Dr. Verity. "If Cluny Is not back by the New Year, I will go myself and bring him back. But remember all is to arrange and rearrange, order and reorder, men to put out of office, and men to put Into office. The work before the Protector Is stupendous." This opinion proved to be correct. Day afte day passed, and no word concerning Cluny was possible. One crisp, sunny morning in January Jane suddenly resolved to make some Inquiries herself. "Have you heard anything about Lord Neville, Sir Thomas?" she asked. "I am very, very unhappy at his long delay." "So am I," answered Sir Thomas. "I sent a trusty man to The Hague, and it seem 8 Lord Neville collected the money due there, six weeks ago. He refused a note on the Leather Merchants' Guild of this city, and insisted on being paid in gold, and was so paid. Now, Jane, a thousand sovereigns are not easily carried and " and "Well, sir? Please go on." "A ship left that night for the Americasfor the Virginia Colony." "But Lord Neville did not go to America. Oh, no, sir! That Is an impossible thought." "Why did he Insist on the gold? This is the thing that troubles me." "Who says he insisted on gold?" "The widow of the man who paid It." "She may have been mistaken. She may herself be dishonest. The money may never have been paid at all. I do not believe it has beec paid. Did your trusty man see Lord Nettr.e'a , de"-lay- ward she kept repeating to herself Cromwell's parting advice, "Dont doubt, Jane. God nor man nor nature can do anything for doubters. They cannot." She understood what was included in this advice, and she tried to realize it. The moment Mrs, Swaffham saw her daughter, she took notice of the change in her countenance and speech and manner, and she said to herself, "Jane has been with Oliver Cromwell. No one else could have so influenced her." And very soon Jane told her all that had been done and said, and both women tried to assui themselves that a few more weeks cf patience would end the suspense. At length April came, and the bare brown garden was glorious with the gold and purple of the crocus flowers and the moonlight beauty of the lilies. Birds were building in the hedges, and the sun shone brightly overhead. The spirit of spring was everywhere; men and boys went whistling along the streets, the watermen were singing in their barges, and a feeling of busy content and security pervaded London. Suddenly this atmosphere of cheerful labor and abounding hope was filled with terror and with a cry of murder, of possible war. A gigantic plot for the assassination of the Protector was discovered that is, it was discovered to the people; Cromwell himself had been aware of its first inception, and had watched it grow to its shameful maturity. But to the city of London the arrest of forty conspirators in their midst was a shock that suspended for a time all their business. Israel Swaffham was the first person called into the Protector's presence. He found him in great sorrow, sorrow mingled with a just IndignaWith his clenched hand he tion. pointed out to Israel the personalities of the conspirators. At one name he paused, and with his finger upon it, looked into Israel's face. "It is a burning shame," Israel said. "You have pardoned and angrily. warned and protected him for years." "I must even now do what I can; I must, Israel, for his father's sake. A warrant will be 'issued tonight, and I cannot stay that, and personally I can not warn him of it. What am I to do?" "My dear lord, do nothing. I can do all you wish. There needs no. more words between us. In two hours Abel Dewey you know Abel will be on the road. Give him a good horse and he will so manage himself and the beast as to reach his journey's end in hours." twenty-fou- r Israel then went quickly home. He called Jane and explained to her in a few words what she was to do. and by the time her letter to Matilda was ready, Abel Dewey was at the door waiting for it Its beginning and ending was In the ordinary strain of girls' letters, but in the center there were some ominous words, rendered remarkable by the large script used, and by the line beneath them "I must tell you there has been a great plot against the Protector discovered. Charles Stuart and Prince Rupert are the head and front of the same, but there is a report that Stephen de Wick la not behindhand and my father did hear that a warrant was out for Stephen, and hoped he would reach French soil, ere it reached him." She hasted to sign her name and close the letter. Abel Dewey was ready for it, and as she watched him ride away her thoughts turned to de Wick, and she wondered in what mood Matilda might be, and bow she would receive the information sent her. Would it be a HIGHBINDERS WAR TROUBLE BETWEEN- - RIVAL FACTIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO. Pistol Duel in the Streets as Result of Encounter In Which Chink and Policeman Are Wounded. The first guns in another Tons war were fired Friday night in San Francisco Chinatown. Three highbinders of the Yan Wow Tong blazed away at a lone member of the Hop Sing Tong. He returned the fire. When the smoke of battle had cleared away and the losses were numbered. It was found that one highbinder, How You. had been shot in the leg, and that Thomas Spellman, a white watchman, had received a similar wound. The shooting was the direct result of long smoldering trouble between the Yop Sings and the Yang Wows, two of the most powerful of the highbinder organizations in Chinatown. FAVOR THE SCHEME. Government Officials Approve Plana For Irrigation of Utah's Lands. Messrs. Doremus and Richards of the Utah arid land commission held an informal conference with Chief Engineer Newell of the reclamation service Friday and discussed the plan of the enterprise for proposed Irrigation been had which agreed upon by Utah, the commission and the Utah congres sional delegation: Mr. Newell expressed his approval of the plans in a general way, and will look Into the matter more closely at an early date. Senate Calls For Papers in Panama Question. The senate on Friday adopted the resolution introduced by Mr. Culberson for the Democratic caucus which calls on the president to Btate whether the senate has been supplied all the facts bearing on the controversy of Panama. The vote on the resolution was unant mous, but there was a roll call on the amendment suggested by Mr. Cullom, for the Republican side of the cham ber, calling for the Information only In case the president should consider it not Incompatible with the public Inter est to supply it. This amendment was adopted by 39 to 20, all the Republican senators present voting for the amend ment and all the Democrats except Mr. McEnery (who voted with the Repub licans) casting their votes against It There were during the debate frequent assurances that notwithstanding the modification all the papers bearing on the question would be sent to the sen ate. WIFE fcHOULD HAVE ALLOWANCS V Lawyer's idea of the Ideal State of Marriage. A lawyer, with his rea soning powers, fully developed by his profession, gives his opinion as to whether a wife should have a fixed al lowance: "A man should not marry until he has an assured income. When he starts out in lite, let the goal for which be is working be a certain sum which he considers sufficient upon which to support a wife, and when he has attained it let him give his wife an allowance lu proportion to his income. If this were done, if men were more level headed before marriage. there would be less work for the divorce courts. Of course, this is not compatible with the romantic Ideas generally associated with courtship, but the final step, the taking of tba marriage vow, entails so many responsibilities and duties that a man owes it to the girl he marries to do everything In his power to kep her mar ried life free from cares and worriae of a financial nature." cold-bloode- d Silent Japanese Soldiers. Japanese soldiers fight noiselessly. 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Grass Mixture on soil 'so poor two men will be the keynote of the policy of could e not raise a fuss on It.' and la forty-ondays after sowing I had the Secretary Taft toward the far eastern grand en t stand of grass In the county. Grass Mixtures sprout quickarchipelago. In almost the last speech Salzer'a and produce enormously." 100,000 ly he made before leaving the Philippines barrels choice Seed Potatoes. for home he reiterated the kenynote salzer'a kew katioxal, oats. Here Is a winner, a prodigy, a marwhich he first sounded when he was strong, prolific, vel, enormously Inaugurated governor of the Philip healthy, vigorous, producing In thirty from 1M to 00 bu. per acre. Tou pines. This spocch has been published state had beet sow a lot of It, Mr. Farmer, by the Insular government in an of In 1904, and in the fi.ll sell It to your bu. for seed. ficial form, and has just reached the neighbors at fl a 100 ! ST MPS JCST BSD war department. In it Governor Taft to the John A. Balzer Seed Co. La declared that this doctrine does not Crosse, Wis., and receive In return their big catalog and lots of farm seed exclude the encouragement of Amerifree. (W. N. U.) surprise? samples "Not It," answered Mrs. Swaffham. can enterprise or the Investment of Fireproof Flooring. "Matilda knows all alnnit the plot; American capital In the Philippines Architect Stewart of Lucerae, baa that is most certain; but its discovery for the reason that nothing, not even education or a free form of govern patented a new system of concrete may be news to her, and If so, she ment, "can make for the elevation and flooring, consisting or Hollow tubes will not thank you for it. Jane. Why of the Filipino people morr tnd mortar and iron. It is fireproof. civilization will she burn herself with fire not on than the Inventmont tf American capher hearthstone?" Wlntlnw't Rnothlng nyrnft. ts Mr. ital in the material development of Tnt rht1r-a aaftvoa tha gum, "Prince Rupert Is her lover. She these islands." fiammatto. aliayititr, mraa wb4 coltu. Sec few). will do anything he dsires her to Coffee Imports. do." Wanted to Join Sweetheart. of coffee at New OrThe "If he truly loves her he would not imports Dressed in a suit of her brother's leans for ltd were In exceea of a permit her to be put in danger." clothes and with her long brown hair million Then Mrs. Swaffham went out of bags. In no previous year the room, and soon afterwards Dr. cut short and crammed Into a man's have the Import of that commodt Verity came in. asking cherlly as he wig. May Bonded. 22 years old, of been so large. entered, "How is it with you today, Terre Haute, Ind., has applied to the ami Slope thOfTCVragh V1J Jane?" Work tb recruiting sergeant at Fort Sheridan "I live as best I can. doctor. I watch to be mustered into company I, which Laxative Brotno yutrdne Tablet. Price 2Sa from the morning to the midnight for Is ordered to Join the Twentieth regiValue of the Banana. a footstep that docs not come." The banana possesses all the essenment in the Philippines as soon as It Is "There Is a desire that fulfils itself In full strength. The girl broke down tials to the sustenance of life. Of by its own energy, but this desire Is when informed that she must undergo wheat alone, or potatoes alone, this born of unfailing Hope, and of that a regular examination and cannot be said. When taken as a physical unfaltering Faith that can move moun- confessed her sex. Heartbroken at the steady diet the beraoa Is cooked tains. Have you got it. Jane?" thought of separation from her sweet- baked dry In the green state, pulped "I am so weak. Doctor John. Pray heart. Carl Pflaum, who Is a private In and boiled In water as a soup or cut for me." the company, she said that she tried to In slices and fried. "Pray for yourself. Why should any enlist as a man in order to accompany one pray for you? Pray for yourself. him and share his danger. Catarrh Cannot De Cured ArniCAIin- -l MllHfeMiMltwl though It be only to say, with the old of tba aiarrk ! tWM nt f-ttHt Death Lurked In Salad. Acadlans, 'Hold Thou my hands!' Go ttnnm and In W tafirtli ytnI mnt a ia Hair t siktIi f'ara to God, Jane; you are only a little Seven girls belonging to a cooking iBtamal rme4t. mn4 m nn"" nm tha st tmalif, M amr HslTt faiarrti Cs N babe In His sight; a little babe crying school at Darmstadt, Germany, are aarfacea. ahfaiMans ltM srant4 hf t ant b . In the vast void and darkness, and dead and six others are dying from is Is mca fwiMM f t tbs to of hold to catch something trying yiri4 mm lt Mat hlnrti fiirtSe fl rt which resulted from partaka. Tt t Ma which you may ding. Say to the poisoning anaemia atirf trirrx a dish of of la at canned beans and two tarnNitmta Father of your spirit, 'Hold my ing fia U ef 1ns tit Sf4 itme'aia. meat, and a medical Inquiry Into the r. .tHFvr.T . hands!" Pmcirtata. fr e4 And she rose and kissed him for occurrence Is being made. Up to the Ian Hall'ft anlif fills fot vatfBttae. his sweet counsel, and that night, and present time the Investigation bag Knecks Adam Story. many a night afterwards, she fell failed to define the exact nature of the Edward Fry. having made a Sir "Hold Thouj my poison which brought about such fatal asleep whispering, puts the time which has hands!" results, although It is now thought that computation, life first appeared oa aince elapsed or allantoxlcutn To bs continued.) sausage poison was J the earth at 450.ooo.000 years. the cause. . letter, Jane." A good "I will send a man to The Hague Why do you not see the Protector? He was fond of the young man. He believed In him." She only answered, "Yes, sir," and then adding, "Good morning, sir," ahe turned to go. Her whole appearance was so wretched Sir Thomas could not rid himself of her unhappy atmosphere. His walk was spoiled; he went Into his private room and smoked a pipe of Virginia, but all his thoughts net themselves to one text: "There are many sorrowful things In life, but the hardest of all Is loving to-da- y. CHAPTER XII. hold Thou My Hand. This day wit followed by a week of Jane could do wretched weather. She wait. but fully resolved nothing when she visited Cromwell to show him the heart of a fearless woman-br- ave, because she doubted neither God nor man. It was, however, the month of VI arch before this visit could be rnade. One exquisite morning In Marc she heard Oen. Swaffham say thtt the Cromwell ladles were going to flamp-toCourt. The Protector would be alone in Whitehall, and she tnlglU tea hm without having to share her confidences with the family. She pre, pared a note asking for an Interview. and then called on Mr. Milton ande Induced him to go with her to the and deliver it Into Cromwell's band. In her simplicity te coarla- n tn ) V pel-anc- burg's departure and Ayrton'a arrival, Cromwell was occupied In writing a letter, and when It was finished, Col. Ayrton entered. "Colonel." he said. "I think you know Lord Cluny Neville? He has disappeared, I do fear, in some unfortunate way. On the 11th of last November he left Paris, after dispatching the business he was sent on with Cardinal Mazarin. No one has beard of him since. I have written to his Eminence, the Cardinal; here is the letter, and if his reply be not to the point, go next to the lodging of Lord Neville, and from lhire follow his steps as closely as it may be In your power. The treasurer will honor this order for your expenses. Farewell, and God go with you." He waited until the door closed, and then be said: "I owe you this and more. Jane; and 1 like the youth a dear, religious youth, of a manly spirit and a true heart." "It Is four months, sir. Tls beyond my hope, and I fear Cluny is now beyond human help." "Well, then. Jsn. we will trust to the miraculous. We do not do that enough, and so when our poor help is not sufficient, we tremble. Where is the hope and trust you sent to me when I lay between life and death In Scotland? Oh, what poor creatures we are, when we trust In ourselves! Nothing then but tears and fears and the grave to end all." Comforted by his words, Jane forgot her grief, and as she went home p--ln, !. Uat-OC- , ) eMr-r- tJf . thstrf frrM4 a- r'-r-,r'm- dir-w- - ta f-An- TV-- co,rroiito,a |