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Show I "Nell tried to make the King still see it in the light of a joke," she "She brought her most continued. daring mimicry into play; but cajole she ever so rrfuch It was of no avail The gross insult to bis Majesty must He gave the order for be avenged. your rearrest. Nell, finding she could not turn the King from his set purpose, sent me word by Mister Arnold, who wished to come with me, but I insisted upon his going back, for after your escape some one might remember that he had left the ball room and that he was your friend." She had finished. "It is a rare delight to me to and I thank you." I said, "bv.t you should have let him come with you; it was a dangerous thing to do." "Twenty minutes, as you said, is a long time,' she merely observed. 'and it must be nearly up." "Twentv minutes is all too sho'-- t "I would hr.ve for me," I returned. it twenty times twenty, and times that again and so as to stretch those minutes somewhat I shall take you home." "Torraine can escort the lady back and meet us at the marsh west of the town," put in Gil as if he had settled the question. "The horses are at the south wall, by the old well. It lacks a few minutes of the time." "You have planned very well. Gil." said I, "save in one particular, I, not Torraine, will take the lady back to town." "No, no," Rosemary cried: "Gil is right. You might be captured on the way." I smiled at her, nor was I to be from my purpose. Gil persuaded opened his mouth to argue the point. but I cried: "Quick, they are here to your men. They are evidently sure of their man, they come with so robust a tread." He rushed from the room. I blew out the light. Taking both the lady's cloak and my own. I grasped her hand. Thus we followed mine host of the Tabard through a pantry door, down the kitchen garden path to the south wall, where he im mediately left us. hastening back. Rosemary and I, standing hand in hand, heard the clash of steel upon steel as Torraine and his jolly boys met the King's Blues. The voice of Torraine rose above it all, growling like a bear over a carcass. With Gil He never uttered it was different. an unnecessary word a name called sharply, a jesture or wave of his sword was enough to the men, who knew him. Gil was keepI understood affairs. ing the men from entering the inn as long as possible. Presently we heard the crash of the heavy oaken door, accompanied by a shout. The Guards rushed for the tap room. I felt Rosemary's hand tremble In mine. I pressed her fingers warmly to reassure her, and now considered it time to mount our horses, which we could barely discern in the gathering fog. The mizzle had ceased. What happened after the King's Blues forced the tap room door. I learned later from Gil. He chose from among our men one about my height, and had him in the tap room almost as soon as I had left it. He told him to stand where the firelight would throw his shadow out upon the wall, so that those outside might see it. The Guards advancing saw and immediately fell into the trap. They shouted with loud cries of exultation, as they rushed for the doors and windows. When the Blues entered, the man, as if taken by surprise, made a dash for the kitchen. The crowd clattered after him. He led them a lively dance about the kitchen, knocking clown pots and pans. Being a fellow of resources, and minding Gil's instructions that he should keep the crowd at bay as long as possible, he slid into the cellar, and banging down the door after him clamped it. (To be continued.) I Mistress Rosemary Allyn By M1LLICENT E. MANN Copyright, 1904, by LCCAS-LINCOL- iifinf CHAPTER XVII. The Affray at the Tabard. The words, "The Kings Blues will be here," had hardly fallen from her lips before Gil had turned and given a command to Torraine. He found the fellow (and he was not the only one) starin? in open eyed and admiration at Laly Felton; at her lovely shouldi rs : nd anna gleaming like ivory through the yellow lace of her gown. Her 'oai had slipped from off them. Sm: !1 blame to him; does not a strong man always admire a beautiful woman? It required a sharp kick, which Gil meant to be secretly given, but was only too evident, to make him pull himself together and drop his eyes abashed before Gil's stern ones. His consternation and loud "ouch!" caused the men to laugh; even the lady smiled. Upon w hich he heartened himself to another peek, but Gil would have none of that. He marshaled the men quickly and hastened their exit from the room. Gil was following, but when he heard the next words of Lady Felton's he stopped. "One of your men betrayed you," ehe said. " 'Tis Jim Scrugs, the traitor!" Gil cried, and he put himself through the opening after Torraine and his men. I felt pity stir within me for the fellow, traitor though he was. I knew what the reckoning would be when be should meet Gil. "You are wet, Lady Felton, come nearer the fire," I said, and took her hand in mine. "Did you not understand me?" she queried with dilated eyes. "I said the guards would be here in twenty minutes or less." "Twenty minutes is a long time," I answered as I drew her before the fire and seated her. "Was your prison then so enjoyable you would court It again?" she asked. "God forbid!" I muttered. "I am afraid you will take cold you are wet," I touched her dres lightly with my hand. "Poof, no, only my cloak," she said; open-mouthe- d c I l- - which poured her a glass of wine the landlord immediately brought. As to I held her cloak before the flame with face sweet her I dry it devoured eager eyes. I would have taken her hand again, but I saw that my proud lady would Inhave no love making in a tavern. into so coldly looked deed her eyes I had mine I wondered if perchance visions seen and dreams dreamed four nights agone in that old mansion of Lord Felton's? "I take it as a great honor, Lady ridden Felton, that you should have I saiu warn me," U distance all this finally. "Put not the credit upon my shoulders," she returned, and she shrugged those adorable ones set aboutme.withI "It was forced upon lace. could scarce help but come when sent bo sweet an one as Nell Gwyn see that to me asked me word, and I would Indeed, had warning. you may not have come even for her she I have take care of her own lovers; oft told her that sitting upon so many stools she'll e'en find herself upon the floor some day but the night beto blow ing flao and I wanted a ride away the megrims." I was amused at my sweetheart. She was piqued about something. At I glanced at my look of incredulity the window where the rain beat against the pane with a clicking sound she instantly added: "Oh. It has only been rainlnc a short time. Moreover Dream House was so dreary: Aunt 1'laine hart gone to bed. that I was like to die of ennui, so I welcomed Null's message." "Yon M6d make no more excuses. Lady Felton ." I retorted. "Could you not hare lent some onc I f nt "There was no one," she replied. "Nell would never have forgiven me if word had not been gotten to you." "Nell's a charming creature," said I by my lady's way of putting it. Charming indeed." she admitted loyally. Then: "I see, sir. that you, too. follow the fashion set by the KInr. Wouldst rival him? Have a care." Rival the King?" I exclaimed. "Not I." "You would not be the only one. Really she has enough lovers," she said, with a shamed lilt in her voice. "Amen to that," I said fervently. "She and Lady Felton have between them, 'tis said, scoured all Ixm.don till there is not a creature upon two leg3 but swears fidelity to either one or the other. London is agog with their In Nell's case it may be amours. true, but as for Rosemary Allyn, Lady of Felton, I think she is too proud to give her lips to be kissed by any one but the man she loves." I looked down deep into her heart through clear mirrors, and what I saw made me tingle through all my being responsive. "I believe you are right, sir," she said. Then "But I have not told you how Nell found out that the inn was to be surrounded and you recaptured, and I must hurry, the time will soon be up. You must know first that there are high doings at Whitehall a dance, and then the King dines with Mistress Nell. Poor me is kept at home. 'In sooth.' sayeth ma tante, 'it is not seeming in an Allyn to take disup with all the wild doings of a solute court.' " She mimicked Lady Dwight to a nicety. "So I am kept at home as close as a babe in swaddling clothes. Moreover she has heard rumors that the King has cast his eye upon a new face which suits his fancy. It was at the last ball that the King commanded that I dance with him, so she draws her inference from this, that mine must be the face he admires. Her eyes are ever upon me and I am kept from court functions, lest I fall a victim to his MajesShe regards Misty's fascinations. tress Nell with slight favor, and as for Lady Castlemaine she is quite be- - drew her before the fire and seated her. "I'm as dry as an empty glass." She glanced at the array of empty bottles and glasses still upon the table. "How stupid of me," I cried, and I ordered wine rapping on the table the for lady. and supper "No, no, only a glass of wine," she said, "I am thirsty with the ride." "I should think you well might be," Bald CO yond the pale. Well to continue, in the early hours of the ball the room was agog with a scandal. Lord Jef freys had been halted in Epping forest by a gang of men highway men, and made to sign a paper it was supposed for a large sum of money They left him tied and gagged in the Forest Lodge, not a very dignified manner for his lordship. A message revealing this state of affairs somehow came to the King's ear, and he sent to the lodge to find out if it were true. They found my Lord Jeffreys tied fast and madder than a baiteu bear. I assure you the tale lost none in the telling and retelling as !t ran from mouth to mouth in the ball room, provocative of much laughter and merriment. It seems that it was not for a sum of money but the re lease of a prisoner that he had signed freed at the paper. His once sent a constable to apprehend the prisoner, and he himself hastened to the King to explain the outrage to him. His Majesty, being for the time at outs with Lord Jeffreys, never gave him the chance for cxplana tlons, but enjoyed the joke with the rest. Now my lord, you know, Is rightfully hated by many, so their contempt was too much for him, and with a face purple with rage he left the room In a huff. His Majesty however. laughed another kind of laugh when, later dining with Nell it was brought to his notice what Lord Jeffreys had signed the pardon of a young man. Quentin Waters by name, whom he himself had had con fined in Ludlow. The way of this was, a young man (It was no doubt Jim Scrugs) Impoi tuned to see the Now every one knows that King. nothing puts the King in an so quickly as to be disturbed In his amours, nut the man insisted so persistently upon an Interview that ,viiy at last took him to the King where he explained all. and that you were to be caught napping here." She stopped a moment. I did not. feel so much pity for the fellow as I had. He had been taught to know at Long Haut how summarily traitors were dealt with. sc-yo- IHE BANK'S PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ADVICE TO BOYS. Wise Precepts Laid Down By Seemingly Enlightened Ruler. In view of the astounding progress of Japan it is interesting to recall the following rescript whicn was issu d to the Japanese by the emperor schools some fifteen years ago: "Be filial to your parents and affectionate to your brothers; be loving friends; conduct yourselves with modesty and bT benevolent to all. Develop your intellectual faculties and perfect your moral powers by gaining knowledge and acquiring a profession. Promote public interests and advance public affairs. Ever respect the national constitution and obey the laws of the country, and, In case of necessity, courageously sacrifice yourselves to the public good." Recent events have proved that the last Injunction at least was taken to heart by the youtli of Japan The Graphic. The Main Thing. "A village client of mine had been trying through me for Keren years to collect a claim against the government," said the lawyer, "and at last the claim was allowed and I received a check for 18,000. "As the man was poor I knew that this would be a great windfall for him atid It was with considerable exultation that I put the check in my pocket and started for the house. The man himself was away somewhere, hut as his wife answered my knock I showed her the check and called out: "'At last. Mrs. Davis at last!' "'What Is It?' she asked. " 'The claim has been allowed and Is a chock for $8 000.' " 'Yes, I see,' she answerM, "bnt please dnr.'t talk quite so loud or you here will wait" the bnbv up'"' USED SPECULATION COTTON SPENDS HIS VACATION. Teller of Birmingham, Alabama, Bank is Short $100,000, But Depositors Will Lose Nothing. Bay, L. 1. President Roose-vel- t lias a new and larger pony named is settled down in his country Betsy. It is one of the principal signts of home on "the hill" lor the first actual rest he has enjoyed in five years. It the town to witness the charge of the Roosevelt youngsters, in miniature is to continue for three months. rough rider costumes, through the A high stone wall has been erected quiet streets of the town on their between the Long Island railroad sta steeds. Quentin rides like his father, tion and Sagamore Hill and secret giving his mount full rein and scatservice men, under direction of Sec- tering the sand dust as he flies. retary Loeb, hold the key to the only Secretary Loeb arrives at Sagamore All sorts of gentlemen, crauk Hill from the "executive office" down gate. or crankless, great or little, find it town at 11 o'clock with the president's hard to get past. Artis's and camera mail and the New York morning pumen for newspapers have to run for pers. their lives. If there are no visiters to luncheon The president's day begins early. the president rattles through his cor-Hmay be seen on the veranda of his respondenee in less than two hours, His farm home at 5:30 a. m. almost any day, and is free for recreation. breathing the soft, cool air from the runs to the bay, the swimming beac h sound. After a brisk turn about the being about 15 minutes' walk from the grounds a chapter from a library house. The hot July sun served to put a book will engage him until the children begin flocking from their beds, red tan upon the countenance of the eager for breakfast and a day of rol chief executive in less than a week. are Two hours of the afternoon 0ster Birmingham, Ala Within twelve , hours on Monday Alexander R Naof First the paying teller tional bank, was arrested, charged with the embezzlement of $97,000 of the bank's funds, given a preliminary hearing before I'nited States Commissioner Watson, put under bond of $50,-00and failing to make it, is In the custody of the United States officials. During the afternoon W. L Sims and C. M. Hays, manager and assistant manager of a stock and cotton brokerage house, were arrested, charged with aiding and abetting the embezzlement of National bank funds. They were also given a preliminary hearing Monday evening, and Sims' bond was fixed at $5(,iM0 and Hays' at $10,000. Both furnished bonds. The shortage at the First National spent in reading and writing at the bank was discovered while Chisholm broad library table or on the veranda In the rear of the house the presi- was on his annual vacation. W. P. G. Harding, president of the dent is helping his farm hands to har National bank, said that the bank vest a bumper crop of oats. The hay First would not lose the whole amount and has not been taken in. He expects that the defalcation would not affect to take in from three to three and a the institution. TJ. half tons of timothy from his hillside is said that practically all the meadow. money was lost in speculating in cotton futures, and his losses have exMrs. Roosevelt is busy in the afterf T"" j?4"n WW' tended over a period of several noon with her large flower garden, months. and she has called upon the president frequently to assist her in the heavy WELCOME TO VETERANS. work. The evening meal brings the family EXKCUTIVE OFFICE OVER CORNEH Entertains Members of together again. The president fre- Minneapolis GROCERY AT OYSTER BAY. the Grand Army of the Republic. quently reads or talks to the boys licking fun. As a rule the first meal in the evening. The mosquitoes are Minneapolis. Fully 100,000 people is served to the president's family tocoming in droves this year, and folks arrived here on Monday, the first day gether. of the keep indoors after the sun goes down, of the annual encampment A game of tennis usually follows well protected by netting. Minneof the Grand Republic. Army the morning meal. Nine o'clock at night finds Sagain to occasion the apolis has risen Usually in the forenoon the family more Hill slumbering. difficult is it and take to their horses. This seasou the The deathly silence which is the magnificent fashion, president is riding two new mounts, haWt of ,,,,, Mtlon., 8ummer capital to mention anything that could be done for the entertainment and comAudrey, a black mare, and Roswell, a ,8 ooca8ionaiy broken by wild fort of her visitors which has not been hunter. They were purchased in mors of nllsfortune having overtaken a that Virginia. bay jumper, Rusty, They are flashed In provided. nregldent. The city Itself Is decorated as has been out of service for two sea- over the telegraph wires, mainly from every man had made it his perthough sons, because of a complication of western cities, and by the very nature sonal business to see that Minneapofit is ailments, again. of their ghostly import all business lis looked her bravest and best. Flags , Mrs. Roosevelt is also riding a in the town subsides until the coland bunting are everywhere, from named Molly, and from Vir- ony of newspaper reporters have lo-- roofs to sied.walks, and banners are ginia. ai t d the president and found him swung in endless profusion across the Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt ride through streets. safe. the shaded roads of the country, someAfter the receipt of a burning mesTRIED TO DUCK PREACHER. times accompanied by Theodore, Jr., sage from Ann Arbor, Mich., reportwho is delighted with his new mount ing a rumor there that President to Being Told They Gray Dawn, a western cayuso of ex- - Roosevelt had met destruction at the Bothers Object Are Breaking Sunday. cellent action and spirit, and the most hands of an anarchist, the chief animal in the Roosevelt stable, ecutive was found plucking weeds South Norwalk. Conn. Rev. James Algonquin, the sturdy little calico from a late salad patch. The origin Clark, an evangelist, attempted to pony which was Archie's boon com- - of such weird reports is a mystery preach to several hundred bathers on panion for several seasons, has now that is being worked overtime in Campo beach Sunday afternoon on the to young Quentin. Archie agon hotel circles. desecration of Sunday and the indecencies of bathing, but he had not gone far when the bathers commenced him and to throw sand and BARON VON STEUBEN STATUE. !he pedestal are two chaste allegor-- i to deride Some of the bolder him. at water ical groups. One of these represents the minister be that ones suggested Albert Jaegers' Model Chosen for Me- Steuben's life work, "The Training of in the waters of the sound. baptized the American Army." It is worked At this he ran away, with the bathers morial at Washington. out in an ideal composition thoroughalter him, and just managed to board Steuben ly Greek In feeling, showing an ex- a trolley car In time. Von The Washington. statue commission, of which Secre- perienced warrior instructing a youth WILL REVIEW BIG FLEET. tary Taft is chairman, has awarded in the use of his sword. The group on the other side is a deto Mr. Albert Jaegers, of New York, the order to execute a bronze statue parture from the customary symbols President Will Gaze on Strongest Sea of Baron von Steuben, major general of paying tribute to our heroes, and Fighters on the Atlantic. and inspector general in the conti- represents America teaching a maid-- j Washington. Order for the formaen to graft a branch to Steuben's nental army. of tion of the Atlantic fleet to be reCongress appropriated $50,000 for memory into her growing tree at viewed by President Roosevelt the statue, which is to be erected at fame. were Issued 8, monuof the September In Bay, entire the Oyster design the northwest corner of Lafayette ment the sculptor, with his associate at the navy department Monday. The, ' ldlb, 111 LI11S eit, dim LUllluiuio size and general tvpe to the statues architect, T. R. Johnson, consulted president will be aboard the MayNew of Lafayette and Rochambeau already Cass Gilbert, the flower, and the fleet which he will re York architect. They took Into spe- - view will be the strongest. If not the in place In that park. Seven German-Americasculptors cial consideration the location of the largest In numbers, ever assembled were Invited to enter a competition monument and the general scale of under the United States flag. It will vessels, carrying last summer by a committee compris- the other monuments in Lafayette consist of forty-fivpark and adapted the design to the 1178 guns, commanded by 812 officers, classic tendency of the time. This with 15,235 men. monument will form an important POISON BY ACCIDENT. addition to the artistic features of tho In harmony with the city and will be State Labor Commissioner ot grand scheme of the development of Former York the Victim. New the park Washington proposed by commission. New York. John McMakln, former state labor commissioner, poisoned himself by accident at his home in PLAN A GIGANTIC DRYDOCK. Livingston Manor, N. Y., on Monday, Largest Structure of Its Kind to Be and died two hours later In great Erected on Puget Sound. agony. Mr. McMakin went to a medicine chest, from which he took a botWashington. Plans for the largest tle supposed to contain medicine, but and best drydock In the world are which was filled with oxalic acid crysbeing prepared in the bureau of yards tals, bought theHeclay before to cleanse mixed a dose and a straw bat. and docks at the navy department. It. The last naval appropriation act con- swallowed tained provision for a dock to cost Missing For Thirty Years. at the $1,250,000 to be eonstrcted After an unexplained abChicago. Bremerton navy yard, Puget. Sound, This amount is larger sence of thirty-onVVashingtfui. years, Professor than ever heretofore appropriated for Charles H. Frye, former superintenda dock and tho new dock will when ent of the Chicago normal school, has THE BARON VON STEt:i!t:N STATUE completed be able to take in the One of his first acts home. returned lng Secretary Taft, Senator Wetmore largest battleship cither in course of on at his home was to hand a arrival In The or construction and Representative McCreary. contemplation. roll of crisp $Hn bills, totaling $5,000, result of that competition was that The location for the dock has already to his wife, with the remark, "Ask me the committee selected the models of been selected at the yard and borings no Frye was thirty-on- e questions." are now being made to learn the years old when he disappeared. Since Albert Jaegers. In the accepted model Gen. von depth of the foundation. It is to be that day no word had been received In the familiar a concrete dock of the latest pattern from him by his wile. Steuben appears and the materials will be purchased cocked hat and a long. full, Reward Offered For Stensland. cloak, as though facing or on the Pacific coast If practicable. The dock Is to be so constructed enduring the hardships of the rlgor-- j Chicago. The hanks of the Chicago ous winter campaign at Valley Forge. that It can be lengthened If vessels of House association have ofClenrlng He stands squarely facing the ob- - greater length should be built In the of $5,000 for the apa reward fered server In an attitude of power and future. It will be 37 feet In depth, of Paul O. Stensland, fuprehension bis the will for of with which provide docking dignity. Slightly leaning left hand upon the sword, he is rep- any vessel that can be built unless gitive president of the Milwaukee resented as Inspecting military ma- some unknown system of building Is Avenue Stnte bank. So anxious are neuvers. though developed. The greater depth of the the bankers to capture the accused ofHis personality, quiet and simple, Is essentially mili- new dock Is also designed to meet ficial that a conference was held on tary. The sash he wears Is remin- cases where a vessel has been Injured Monday afternoon to decide upon some iscent of his previous service as an and draws much more than the or- action to assist the police authorities In their search for Stensland, ami a officer of Frederick the Great. dinary depth on account of the of passage of a rsolution to pay this reat base the Clanking the statM ward was tbs fesuit. Chis-holm- - e ru-ba- new-mare- c y - well-know- n - MIKADO'S 111 FUNDS e e |