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Show light was swung before my eyea. A heard a whisper, " 'Tis he." thousand colors flashed before me. I clutched at something anything to save myself from falling. Then I knew no more. NEWS SUMMARY A Mistress Rosemary Allyn By MILLICENT M, upyriKbt, by CHAPTER XIX. E. MANN LUCAS-LINCOL- CHAPTER XVII. Continued. The Captain, upon the landlord's uBlling him that there was no other outlet from the cellar, called his men and proceeded to drink to their sue- cess. When they bad satisfied their thirst, bound up the'r scratches, and Hushed a little over little incidents in the affray, tbey began to parley wi'h the prisoner. Quentin Waters by name. 'ihe man being promised safe conduct hack to jail, came forth, a grin on his dare-devface. Doubt began to flit from one to another that they had spent their strength in tailing the wrong man. Tbey questioned him. He knew nothing of the prisoner or his friends, denied being Quentin Waters of Long Haut; hoot He was Anthony ed at the idea. Bryne. a tinker, on the way to London in search of work. He had happened in at the inn for a bite of supper, and had only seen the men as they rushed out of the house to meet the Guards. When the men had pounced upon him he had in desperation defended himself with his cudgel. He told his story well, and mine host of the Tabard corroborated what Consternation came upon he said. One of the men said that them. Quentin Waters was a gentleman about town, and that the boor could not possibly be he. To clap the climax, another one asserted with that the fellow was not the prisoner wanted, for he had seen Quentin WTaters often about London, and that he was at least two inches taller, and also of a darker complexion. At this the captain wanted to inow why in h 11 he hadn't said so before. The soldier replied that he hadn't been near enough to get a good look So with crimination and at him. recrimination, they were like to have a small fight among themselves when remembered the captain his dignity, and put the still smiling fellow under arrest. It being now too late to go in search of the man, and a heavy fog about, they returned to London a sorry lot. I would not do for with my honor?" "Then in earnest of what you say I have a request to make of you." she whispered. "Dear Rosemary. I beg of you not to hesitate," I pleaded I would borrow the locKet )ou wear upon your breast." she said trere 'ihiug you. consistent I raised my hand and felt of the locket she desired. Yes. it was safe and hung by its rosette of ribbons. to grant, Truly a little enough request vet I knew not what to say ; for what "she coveted was a locket with a Jeweled front and mirrored back, such as gentlemen of fashion used to see if their wigs were on straight. This ore of mine had a space neiweeu iu and in jeweled front and the mirror, teuer tne hidden I had that space Intricately father. me my by given concealed in the rim was a spring, when pressed opened the which locket. at first of telling her I thought about the paper; how Lady Dwight and had been my father's first wife, was my that Raoul Dwight But something held me; reshould be spect for Lady Dwight, who rethe first one seen, and her wishes not still She sou. might garding her wish him to know that Lord Waters I was pondering was his father. these things when she spake: "I have a desire to wear it at the night on my breast. ball It will look well It is verv pretty. of my new gown." ruffles the among another scaip at youi To show red men in girdle, as they say the I sug- victims," their number America gested. com"Tush, sir!" she cried. "Your parison is odious." "But what matter it?" I continued; I "I would all the world might know am your lover." Certainly she should wear the lock et I hesitated not a moment upon that point. It was a small thing to I would take do for Rosemary-a- nd the paper out. Upon second thought where it I decided to let it remain bit other the was. She had guarded of paper so successfully, she should CHAPTER XVIII. have the guarding of this one also. conTh spring was so cunningly Locket. a Loan of The it that know never would she cealed I left the Lady Felton and tell I should later to meant was open, south wall, the it. well, and the sound of clanking steel her about il Pretty Alice Lynson. sounded throughout What fretted me most the room. was that the noise kept time to the beatings in my temples. "Master Arnold," I muttered, " 'tis a fine way to treat your guests drink 'em under the table first time in life your wine's too newly drawn too new I say. Oh. my head's as heavy as a laggard's feet No, no, my lord, the game is mine, mine. I say." I was So murmuring I awakened. dreaming I was at the lodge, and with Felton was again playing that memorable game, in which I had won the hand of Lady Felton. I turned me over and tried to raise myself upon an elbow. My head fell back on the pillow. I was dropping off into sleep again when the noise which I have before mentioned aroused my ire. "Gil, for God's sake," I cried out petulantly, "stop your clatter. You make more noise than a lot of fish wives chaffering at a country fair." The noise did not abate, but a fig ure raised itself from a chair at the foot of the bed whereon I lay. "You idiot," I stormed, "will you keep still?" The figure came to my side. I yawned, and then rubbed my eyes. It was "pretty Alice Lynson," as you please. "You you," I said wonderment in my voice. "Pretty Alice Lynson, on my life 'tis pretty Alice Lynson," I repeated dryly, "what do you here?" "Oh, sir, sir," she blubbered, and writh the tail of her gown she wiped away the tear from her eyes. "God in heaven but I am glad I never thought to hear you speak rationally again." I looked at her inquiringly. "Kind sir," she said, "you have been most grievously hurt." "Hurt," I repeated. "Yes," she nodded. "Struck upon the head. For five days you have been unconscious; even at death's door." raised my hand and felt of my head it was sore to the touch, and about it there was a cloth. "But ho'w came you here?" I questioned. "Here?" she repeated. " 'Tis but a poor room that I rent from day to day." "I "I see," I said whimsically, should have said how came I here?" "It is a long tale," she began, "and I am afraid the chirurgeon will not want me to talk to you for fear of your fever coming back." "Never mind the chirurgeon," said I "I am more like to die of impatience if you keep me long waiting. But first ask Gil to stop his jabbering there in the corner tell him to cone here why doesn't he come here perhaps I can induce him to satisfy my curiosity, since you are so relucz : half-brothe- posi-tiveno- ivy-grow- n deep-throate- you?" I said. "Pretty behind us and rode toward the open country. The fog thickened. We rode close. horse's belly. My knees touched her I bethought me In such a fog there was no need to go in a roundabout way. "No one will be able to recognize "us in this fog," I said, "we will ride for the bridge; we shall have time to cross it before the guards will have reached it and can station men there trust Gil for that." were you," she returned, "i would cover my face when we do cross it, for who knows who may be flashing lights about." "I shall be cautious, never fear," I do said; "for your sake it would not for me to he recognized." On a sudden there rang out through the gloom a ripple of laughter. It was as startling and as lovely as if a nightingale had burst Into song at my head. It was Rosemary laughing in the very abandonment of life and 'ove and joy. "Pleasant thoughts come to you, sweet," I said; "may I partake of "Yet an them?" I ' she Is naught of consequence. and at times "I am fey replied. now there came before me the picture of Aunt Elaine's face an she should An want to see her niece "It empty horror-stricke- bed a scandal she will be Again poor dear!" she laughed "I sincerely hope the fates will keep her from your room tonight until yon are safe at home and snuggled in your bed." I said quite devoutly. "Oh! you must know that Aunt exElaine loves me dearly." she "1 can twist her about my plained. fingers as I can one of my rings." "As yon do aM who come near you." I affirmed. "you "Not so." sb quickly retorted; " yourself are not so amenable "t?" I questioned In astonishment Alice Lynson?" There We reached the bridge. were lighted flambeaus at its entrances, but we passed over unmolested, as ordinary wayfarers. I dismounted her at the stables of the Bow Street mansion, where I had difficulty in arousing the hostler. Then we walked to the side entrance of the house. The key of this door Rosemary had taken the precaution to slip into her pocket, so as to be able to let herself in without awakening any one. Before I bade her good bye, I pinned the rosette upon her bosom. "Take care of It, sweetheart," I said; "it was my mother's. For that reason I value it highly, but the setting is too old fashioned to suit me; I shall have it reset when I return with the other jewels to deck my bride." "You are going?" she questioned. 'To Ixmg Haut on a sorrowful errand to bury rrty father," I said. "Your father is dead!" she exvoice. claimed in an "Yes." I replied, "I only learned from Gil. I the sad news never knew my father as a well man After i have God rest his soul! laid him to rest among his ancestors In the old church of lying Haut, I will return, yes In Ave days I shall he here to finish a task, over which I have not wasted God forgive me! Then after a slight my energy." pause: "It is late (Gil will he waiting, poor fellow; I have taxed his strength to the utmost) although I long to stay with you. I must he on my way Good bye. good bye, sweet!" I took her In my arms and this time !he did not deny me; I kissed her Hps I watched her Into the house and waited until I heard the door close and heard her say. "Oh. Moffet! how Then I turned you frightened me!" and remounting my horse rode slowI passed the ly out of the grounds. nigh pillars of store at Its entrance. awe-stricke- Weighted with Ball and Chain. She did not move from my side. "Gil, Gil," I cried. I marveled that my voice gave out so small a sound. "Oh, sir," she said, "I'm afraid yon will do yourself harm. Drink this, please, and then I will tell you what I know." She took a cup from among the bottles on a chair near the bed, and put it to my lips. I meekly drank. It contained a nasty concoction of drugs. "Your pardon." I begged, for while she had my head raised I had peered more closely into the dingy corner. "My head is not very clear, and I thought 'twas Gil humming as he oft does one of his outlandish verses to himself. Whore is the fellow any way?" I added petulantly. (To be continued.) TELL THE COMING WEATHER. Persons Need Never Be Caught Napping. "If the chickweed and scarlet pimpernel expand their tiny petals, rain need not be expected for a few hours," says a writer. "Bees work with redoubled energy just before a rain. If the flies are unusually persistent either in the house or around stock there Is rain in the air. The cricket sings at the approach of cold weather. Squirrels store a large supply of nuts, the husks of corn are unusually thick and the buds of deciduous trees have a firmer protecting coat if a severe winter is at hand. If the poplar or quaking asp leaves turn up the under side rain will soon follow. "If the camphor bottle becomes roily It Is going to storm. When It clears settled weather may be expected. This fdea has seemingly been utilized In the manufacture of some of our cheap barometers. The main trouble is, they seldom foretell the change until about the time It arrives. "Last, but not least, the rheumatics can always tell It 'In their bones' when a storm Is approaching, and ot this prognostication the octogenarian Is as firm an advocate as of were his forefathers." Observant to-da- y Financier. Rlsmarok had to confer with the Iron Cross on a hero in the ranks one day and. thinking to try his humor, which was of the clejabantine order, on the man, he said: "I am authorized to offer you, Instead of the cross, a hundred thalers What do you say?" "What Is the cross wrth?" quietly asked the man. "About three thalers." "Very well, then, your Highness, I'll take the cross and ninety-sevethaler " per-son- s Forty-sevent- Revolutionists armed with revolv ers killed Chief of Police Mironovltcn and seriously wounded Captain Het- roff, the chief of the Rural Guards, at Votslsvsk. Prince Mohammed Ibrahim of Egypt was most seriously injured in an auto mobile accident at a level crossing at His chauffeui Bernav. N'ormandie. was killed. Between thirty and fifty Mexican laborers and bystanders were killed at Chihuahua, Mexico, by the explo sion of a carload of dynamite on a Mexican Central train. James Pierre, an Englishman, was fined $25 in police court at Bayonne, N. J., for hissing the American flag during the performance at a theatre. Pierre's action almost caused a riot. In a dispatch from Warsaw the correspondent of the Tribune says that the house of one British and one American resident of Lodz were looted by cossacks aTter the bomb outrage of Wednesday. The United Teamsters of America, the newly launched rival of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. completed its organization at Chicago , by electing Newton W. Evans, Bloom-ington111., as president. The murder of Dr. Graham of Holder, I. T., who was shot and killed about a month ago by Ben Steward, was avenged last week, when unknown parties shot the latter from ambush, killing him instantly. Eight armed men attacked the treasurer of the Black Sea company at mid-daon the principal street of Nicolaei-veff- . They killed the treasurer as well as a policeman, who was accompany, ing him and made off with $14,000. John Waters of Doniphan, Neb., a delegate to the Populist state convention at Lincoln, while suffering from heat left his hotel and wandered to the Burlington railroad yards and was struck by a switch engine and killed. y F. O. Butt of Pery-ville- , convicted by a been has Ark., on a charge court In circuit the jury of offering a bribe to another state senator. He was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $200. John Donahue, a wealthy farmer, was shot and killed at his home near Coyville, Kan., by his wife, whom ha had attacked with a butcher knife. Donahue was 70 years old and had lived near Coyville more than a quarter of a century. A boy threw a bomb into a procession at Moscow, returning from a pilVirgrimage to the shrine of the Holy the two of wounding gin at Rokitno, The explosion processionists. a patrol of infantry, who fired and wounded thirty persons. The Forest City, a small passenger Btoi mer plying between Muskogee, I. Grand T.,jand Fort Gibson, on the rivir, sank near the latter place. There wefe forty passengers on board, but all escaped safely, being removed frotn the craft in small boats. Wrapping a sheet around him so thai its folds made a perfect shroud, J. V. Brown, an East Des Moines, Ioifa, commission merchant, lay on the' floor of his bath room, and, Ina gas tube into his mouth, haled a sufficient quantity to cause death. Four boys, all under 9 years of age, were struck and killed by a train while walking across the railroad bridge over Broad street. In Elizabeth, N. J. The bodlee of two of them fell into the crowded street amidst a number of women shoppers, several of whom fainted. As a result of a row between twenty drunken Mexicans engaged at ProsMar-tha- i pect Heights. Canon City, Colo.. Marand clubbed was Berggantz shal Plllmon was seriously stabbed. During the fight three Mexicans were seriously Injured and one American slightly. With one bullet through his heart and another through his temple, enhead and tering at one side of theCharles Wilcoming out at the other, Mis-- ., or Hattlesburg, a negro liams, has survived for three days, and the prospects are that he eventually will recover. Three Canadian Indian chiefs. In wre received their picturesque by King Edward at Buckingham palace last WOSte. The Indians came to plead for the restoration of their hunting rights and certain native customs which have been curtailed by the Dominion government State Senator . of scaling a wall 16 feet in height, the boy has never been allowed to roam at liberty within the stockade. To hia waist has been fastened the middle of a chain, made of heavy cast iron, the ends of which are fastened to a ball weighing 55 or 60 pounds. The attention of the police was called to the treatment of the boy by those living in the neighborhood, who told Capt. Clancy that the cries of the child could be heard in the adjoining houses, although, on account of the high wall, it was impossible to see what was being done with him. Mamie Ryan, a nextdoor neighbor, told the officers that on one of the hottest days this summer her curiosity prompted her to look through a chink in the wall. She saw the little boy lying apparently overcome by the heat on the top of the outhouse. The ball and chain were attached to his waist, and for more than half an hour he lay without slutting Ills position. Then his father came from the house with a pall of water In his hand. He threw the contents over the prostrate boy and, without waiting to see whether he recovered or not. returned to the house. The police have learned that, la addition to using the stockade for the purpose of Inflicting punishment on his son, Boesrup each week conducted services within its walls. On Sunday mornings and at other times the family would be brought out, and Boesrup, mounting a soap box, would explain the tenets of his faith. During these dissertations his conHe Was Attached to a Ball and Chain gregation consisted of his son, his and Cruelly Beaten. daughter and his wife, all of whom were compelled to kneel on the ground for the last three or four years, on his while the service was in progress. return from school, he has been taken Mrs. Boesrup and the daughter, to a stockade in the rear of his home Helen, 17 years old, would not tell the and there locked op. Once in the police the nature of these services. stockade, the little fellow has been atThe boy is too young to understand tached by the waist to a heavy chain, the full import of the Incantations utat the end of which is a ball, tered by his father, but stated to Capt. and from early In the afternoon until Clancy that frequent reference was sundown he has been compelled to made to the sun, and that his father remain in captivity. on many occasions talked with the Once he ran away from his parents greatest reverence of the power of but was recaptured and given extra the sun. severe and several "We would all go out In the back Imprisonment thrashings as a result of his disobe- yard on Sunday mornings," said the "and father dience. bov to Cant. Clancey, The stockade in the rear of the would get up on a soap box. The rest It by a of us would kneel on the gravel. Boesrup home Is surrounded fence about 16 feet In height. It Is was very hot, but not so bad as in the barren of any movable object, and the afternoons, when I would be in there ground is covered with gravel. In one alone. corner is a small outhouse, roofed with "Father would talk a lot about the tar and gravel. It is so arranged that sun and how it gave us light and life the afternoon sun may blaze down and a lot of other things, but I couldn't understand it all. Ho always looked upon it. In addition to the natural difficulties at the sun when he was praying." Chicago Charged with confining i son at the end of a his nine foot ball and chain in a sun- beaten courtyard in order that the boy might eventually prove an acceptable sacrifice to the sun god he worships. James Boesrup, of West street, was arrested by Capt. Clancy, of the Stock Yards station. According to the story told Capt. Clancy by the boy, every afternoon Jams Realty was fvally injured in a collision between two street cars at Granite City, Ills. Thirteen other wen- - more or less seriously hurt. Jos vh Castleman, living in Weak ley county, Tennessee, shot and killed his divorced wife and then killed him He was 60 years old and she self. was 50. The Rhine & Moselle Insurance company of Germany has decided that it will not pay its $2,000,000 of liabilities arising from the San Francisco 1 n Inhuman Parents Keep Son a Prisoner in Yard. Every Afternoon for Three Years. A. B. Liitnason, a wealthy banker, cashier of the Bank of Ankeny, Iowa, was struck by lightning and killed. g A FURNACE BY SUN WORSHIPERS Titer has been an outbreak of bubonic plague at Campos, Rio de Ja neiro A serious potato blight aphas peared In the heart of Ireland and threatens the failure of the crop. tant." You SON CONFINED TO VERITABLE TOTTERING BRIDE OF 70 LED TO THE ALTAR BY PROUD BRIDEGROOM OF 19 Woman Wears Same Black Silk Dress in Which She Was Married Long Before the Civil War. White-Haire- d St Joseph, Mich. Frank Krelgh, aged 19, and Mrs. Sara Eliza Jane Lemon, aged 70, have been married here by justice Cyrus B. Groat. Of all the Btrange matrimonial alliances, causing more or less happiness and sorrow, which have been made here, this la the strangest. The bridegroom walked erect Into On his the office of the justice. flushed, happy face, was a smile, and on his arm was his bride. The bride was happy, too, though she was bowed by three score and ten, and her hair was snow white. She wore the black silk in which she was married years before the civil war. Kreigh is a farmer residing near Niles. He Is just out of school. He was engaged to a girl of his school days when he met Mrs. Lemon at a church social and became Infatuated with her. In a motherly way she invited him to call on her. He called again, and Boon neighborhood gossip had it that the lad was In love with the woman old enough to bo his grandmother. Kreigh admitted it, and all the persuasion of his friends could not Induce him to give up his suit. Ho jilted his maiden sweetheart and proposed to Sara Eliza Jane Lemon. He was accepted In the same motherly way, and the wedding ceremony was Immediately performed. am happy," declared young "I BABY CHARMED BY SNAKE. Mother Hears It Stop Crying, Then Finds It In Reptile's Coils. The Aged Smiled Happy. Bride and Was Kreigh after the marriage ceremony was performed. "I havo found my ideal In a wife and I propose that our life shall be one continual honey, moon." by a huge black snake that had wrapped Itself around both arms of the child and was waving its head to and fro before the lad's eyes, which were fixed starlngly on the snake's. With a stick the mother uncoiled the snake, and It crawled away. The spell broken, the boy's muscles relaxed and he began crying anew. Mrs. Wolfe carried him to the house and dropped In a faint. The baby's wrists are badly swollen where the snake bad wrapped Itself around them. boy charmed Vlncennes, Ind. Mrs. C. M. Wolfe was in her garden picking beans, when son, Earl, she beard her who was amusing himself about 20 feet away, begin to cry. Soon the baby stopped and the mother paid no attention to htm until she had finished her task. When she turned to find her boy she saw him standing like a statue In Bavnrla there Is a law which .. iKn uimo imet where he hnd heen when'crvinc She spoke to him, but prohibits kisses, passionate embraces to bis breast ami such he would not move. On closer Invert!- - pressing her actions on the stace. amorous like gallon she was horrified to see the d |