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Show Then he leaped into tae saddle,, and the horse caught his impatience and shared his inertial passion, and with a loud neigh went flying over the land. Silently the two women watched the A Story of Cromwells Time dark figure grow more and more indistinct in the soft, mysterious moonBY AMELIA E. BARR. shine, until at length it was a mere shadow that blended with the indisAuthor of The Bow of Orange Ribbon. I. Thou and the Other On.' tinctness of the horizon. Mr. Thinkalot has wife took the children and went on The Mold of Malden Lane, Etc. said Jane dear Thank in considermother, you, been visit to her mothers. He was insufAll (Copyright, 1901, by Dodd, Mead & Company. rights reserved.) able mental agony ferable. softly, and the mother answered, When Neville has done his duty, he all fall, says the Election day dawned with Mr. ThinkCHAPTER IV. (Continued.) hand on his saddle, ready to leap into will come for you. He can no more New York Times. He has been a life- alot still whirling helplessly in the . Neville had asked to be called early, it, Jane trembling and pale at his side, bear to live without you than with- long Democrat, but this year he felt maelstrom of indecision. His day and before daybreak he came into the he saw unshed tears in her eyes and out his eyes. I see that. that in the local election he could passed in an illogical nightmare re-of parlor ready for his journey. Some felt the unspoken love on her lips, and not conscientiously vote the Tammany irresolution. Late as possible he CHAPTER V. broiled beef, a manchet of white bread as he clasped her hand his heart ticket; neither could he see his way luctantly took his way to the polling Sheathed Swords. and a black jar of spiced ale, stirred sprang to his tongue, and he said with one open to vote the Fusion ticket. Nor place. He was want and weary, hagof been had winter This long with a rosemary branch, was waiting a passionate tenderness: gard and unkempt. great suffering to Gen. Cromwell. could he conscientiously remain isaway Tor him; and Mrs. Swaffham and Jane one Farewell, Jane! Darling Jane! for it He gave his name, and stood woefrom the entirely, polls master of the himself making sat at his side while he eat and then, afraid of his own temerity, he After faith of his articles of the fully drooping, assailed by a brand primary whole country south of Forth and was away ere he could see the wonder drank. bound is in new batch of doubts and fears, while a citizen that duty severe and good a he had illness, Soon Nevilles horse came clotter-Tn- and joy called into her face by the Clyde, and of time to vote at the official turned to the Ts. That expense any lay often at the point of death. He to the door. He clasped Janes smeet familiar words. trouble. gentleman looked up suspiciously after the field in the took June, throwing hand as it hung by her side, and they ,When he came again, it was harvest main a minutes search, and said gruffly: could have friends Mr. Thinkalots in of his army into Fife, walked thus to the threshold. Snow time; the reapers were in the wheat-field- order part endured his pitiable condition of doubt No such name here. Youre not regvictual. off cut the to enemys was falling; the steps were white and as he neared Swaffham he This move forced the hand of Charles and uncertainty with admirable equan- istered. with it, and the east wind blew it saw Jane standing among the bound Stuart. His Eh? exclaimed Mr. Thinkalot comarmy was in mutiny for imity if it had not been for his rabid gently in their faces. Mrs. Swaffham sheaves, serving the men and women want of provisions, the North country desire for light. He insisted upon dis- batively. Youre not registered. You cant laughed and drew her shawl over her with meat and drink. He tied his was already drained, he durst not risk cussing his vote at all times and in all head, and Neville laughed also, and horse at the gate and went to her side, a battle but the road into England places, with the usual sequence of vote, replied the official. with a cheerful word, leaped to his and oh, how fair and sweet he found was clear. Mr. Thinkalot first scowled aggrescalm consideration, vehement arguHe sively and then after a moments hesisaddle, his dark figure growing more her! Never had she looked, never north' ment, and furious recrimination. had himself Cromwell gone and more phantom-lik- e through the had any woman looked in his eyes so ward to Perth, and on the second of became a menace to the perpetuity tation a burst of heavenly beatitude dim dawn and the white veil of the enthralling. The charm of the quiet he took possession of that of his club, he did dissolve his firm, overspread his face. snow. At the gate he wheeled his moon was over all; there was no August You wont let me vote? he asked, city, but while entered it was told and he threatened to disrupt his horse, and, saluting them, vanished noise, indeed rather a pastoral melan- that Charles Stuart, with fourteen church. his voice trembling with anxiety. into the gray obscurity, which made choly with a gentle ripple of talk thousand men, had suddenly left Nop, replied the official, positiveHere comes Thinkalot and his all things as if they were not. threading it about plowing and sowing asone in towards observe was let ly. vote, any and any marching Stirling He did not say much of the Crom- and rural affairs. Hurrah! Rah, rah, Whoopee! Charles had taken the west- semblage, and forthwith a panicky In a short time the men and women England. wells. Ill warrant they will forget Mr. Thinkalot, wildly was stampede ensued. Even bill collectors rah! yelled and it ern road Carlisle, by scattered to their work, and Cluny, as you in their rising state. he would make for London. could be chased away by such a throwing up hi3 hat and kicking it deto I have Far away from it. Mary and Fran- turning his bright face to Janes, took thought dont down. came it He went at a flying speed past York, threat. wantces sent me many good words, and both her hands in his and said with until he reached As election day drew nearer Mr. cide. I cant vote. Couldnt if I Coventry, Nottingham, Wow! to. Everybody ed Hurray! they are very persuasive with me to eager delight: Shrewsof Shropshire. At Thinkalots anxiety became more Dear Jane! Darling Jane! Oh, the borders come to London and share their found the gates shut against acute. The ever present, insistent, un- come and dine with me! he bury I how love you! state. Then he danced off gaily down the How shall I him and his men were so disheartened answerable .question, The words came without intent. You cannot go just yet, Jane. Your dewhile the election officers specto westward more more and vote? turned street, the urgently that father is opposed to it, until Gen. But the heart is a ready scholar when Worcester, king as to what ailed him, until one on was be ulated to a city reported loyal, manded a decision, until he Cromwell returns there. Then, if it love teaches, and as they slowly where he was received with every the Who says the saloons are said with nervous of softly, prostration, verge so please God we shall all go at least passed through the fields of yellow show of honor and affection. on election closed day? his and to brain fever, a tendency fullness, finding their happy way for a season. was following Cromwell Meanwhile Then the mother and daughter asp- among the standing sheaves, Jane Charles with a steady swiftness that erated, and Jane went to her friends heard and understood that heavenly fateful in it. This was had room. She was languidly brushing tale which Cluny knew so well how to to besomething of the civil war, battle last the out her long black hair, and Jane tell her. There was in it. knew Cromwell and Not until they reached Swaffham did tried to kiss a smile into her melanthe assurance even at Perth, his soul, not were two The experiments that were carried feces were included in the digestion choly face. And as she lifted her they remember that they In of of victory, and as he passed through on last winter words world. But round whole the at she had a by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley experiment. The results showed momentary glance head, and villages of England, towns the a had diet the and case wonder that eager whether inquiry though every for the purpose of discovering a beautiful miniature lying upon the care and subthe of war, soon men would not be restrained. They or not the rumor and low and value, used energy of about was war, protein face that table. The preservatives dressing trance of feeling threw down the sickle and the spade on food products in this country are jects were apparently in excellent a youth with flowing locks and a fall- broke the heavenly found an hour of in the field, the hammer in the forge, harmful are not the only experiments health and had been so during the ing collar of lace. In that same mo- in which they had the plane at the bench, and catching five to eight years they had been liv- - , on along ment, Matilda moved her ribbons and Paradise. of the riders, ran that have been carried of the hold stirrups was and truce over, So the blissful lines in this country in the last ing in this manner. kerchief in a hurried way, contriving So, with them to the halting place. of the were and part Jane Continuing the investigations on Cluny two or three years. Prof. M. E. Jaffa, cover to the picture. Jn so doing augthousand ten troops his with world nutritive value of fruits and nuts, the at of again. assistant professor agriculture Oh, Jane, Jane! In truth, I am a weary, warring, working mented to thirty thousand, he reached the on it was deemed advisable to extend the( . carried of California, University Warwick, and making his headquar- a series of experiments among fruitar- work to include, in addition to the ters at the pretty village of Keynton previously studpersons who live solely on fruit women and children near by, he gave his men time to ians, nuts whose lives and habits nut ied, subjects or fruit products. and and those of draw breath and called a council of These experiments were successful, differed considerably from war. was the earlier investigation. Accordingvalue of information great and Cromwell sat at the upper end of a two being obtained through them. The Depart- ly four men were selected, long table. A rough map of the coun- ment of Agriculture has just jublished past the middle age and two young try around Worcester lay before him, a pamphlet containing some of the men university students. The elderly and Harrison, Lambert, Israel Swaffor less strict vegdata collected by Prof. Jaffa and edit- men had been more for years. One ham and Lord Evesham were his com- ed fruitarians and etarians He him. says: by canbeen experihad men of the panions. There were two tallow nutritive yohng An investigation of the diet for fruitarian dles on the table, and their light with the office the menting instituted of by value fruits, was other the shone on the face of Cromwell. At of while several underyears, was experiment stations, mixed to the that moment it was full of melan- taken ordinary at the University of California accustomed choly, but he saw in an instant the diet. of five fruitar, dietaries and in alentrance of Neville, and with an As shown by their composition and two women and three children most imperceptible - movement com- ians both fruit and nuts can with same time digestibility, At the were studied. manded his approach. be favorably compared with other and one of the children a girl a digesNeville laid the letters of which he tion more common foods. As sources of which in was made experiment fruits at ordinary was the bearer before Cromwell, and entire carbohydrates, fruit and nuts constituted the his large hand immediately covered diet. A are not expensive, and as and income outgo prices of the study sources of protein and fat nuts at them. "Is all well? he asked and of nitrogen and the estimation of the usual the in answer youths the in the reading prices are reasonable. metabolic nitrogen face, added, I thank God! What then of the city? Its panic is beyond describing, anParliament is beside swered Neville. itself. But London is manifestly with the Commonwealth, and every man in it is looking to you and to the army1 as healthy with streaming countenances while Are the women of lovers waded for protection. Some, Incjed, I met as were the grandmothers of their Cromwell Sat at the Table. to who had lost heart, and who thought human carry them gore through This seems to have of creations Charles Stuart should miserable that kerchiefs it better could which knew at allay I have nothing discussion Cluny wretched girl, this morning. should been the main topic for our that than come England back True, imaginations! truckling London. come from had just been dreaming of calamities and my fear. He the recent convention of the New York grandmothers did not dawdle around become a graveyard fighting him. And what of the Generals family? said speech is too small for my heart. State Assembly of Mothers held in on the golf links, but they managed to suckled slaves, 'Such men are are they not Mrs. Swaffham; with"Very soon this lucky Cromwell fam- asked them would I Lambert. hang Syracuse and the opinions set forth in do the spinning wheel and loom act. afraid? it. ily will coax you to London to see all warrant for thereon were like Their Indian clubs were not of wood, or They are concerned and anxious, out word said Cromwell, for Freedom a war argument their glory, and I shall be left in de coat for variety of color. but of the real flesh and blood variety, unto "Yea, Josephs Wick with no better company than a but not fearful. Indeed, the old Lady is dead in them. From here there are On the novels reflect cur- awkward to handle. What weaklings that words. me theory astonished Cromwell me beyond to clock; for my father speaks from lack of exercise? Is It, then, bettwo courses open to us, a right one rent conditions of life pretty accurateabout once an hour, and the Chaplain She smiled at the panic in theof city, you, one. What say that they ter exercise to do fancy work or make tri- and a wrong ly, one speaker contended and said It is the beginning not at all, unless to reprove me. She bead chains, than to raise families of healthier. and Lambert? even were stronger I have heard. But you shall come to London umph. I have seen, noses our to turn well were of the I it instead splendid sixteen to twenty children? Are the say said that Rest on my assurance, and until trialso. know to she women of stronger because rogues the extinct let and woman to becoming London, Is a Him to who healthy Do you think so ill of me as to be- umph comes, retire smoke and drink can of old them in the That evolved. are we many coming. had been of lieve I would leave my father in the sure hiding place. And the light is Harrison? novels the heroines, to be interesting, and love (?) many men and view imis What thought, your wonderful. was It face loneliness of de Wick? And she stood her aged Worcester is well defended, he an- had to be pale and weak, that they morality without a blush? Well, well. of the thing we hope up and kissed her friend,, and in to-a the substance It has Wales be- had to faint at the slightest provoca- What a mistaken notion poor simple for, the evidence of what we shall all swered musingly.cannot little while they went downstairs We hind fight Charles tions and could hardly bear to carry man has been laboring under all these it. exhe cried in a tone of gether, and Matilda had some boiled yet see, And now the we city, and to around the weight of their gowns; years, to be sure. Now that he has compass give me a strong, Stuart till milk and bread and a slice of venison. altation. sides of and that they dare not venture into been set aright, it is to be hoped that on both must be we do that I correct his erroneThen she asked Mrs. Swaffham to let fresh horse; will ride all night! strong sunlight unless protected by he will hasten to Then he turned to Jane. Darling the river. ous views, though it will doubtless her have a coach to go home in. an- Jane! Lord Evesham, said sunshades. and veils him, Fight he My Jane! and kissing her, Mrs. Swaffham kissed her for Thaddeus of Warsaw, just think of prove rather rough for some to think I ask better now than later. to Mrs. is swer, and they sent her away with said boldly madame. Swaffham, my I tell you, him! The idea of comparing our sturdy of grandma in the light of a weakling it! That, Fight this Jane has and com- your favor, such confidence of even if a womans club has said so. the Cromwell said strking mind also, grandmothers with the behour promised to be my wife. almost the that girl Some Utica Globe. went about happiness hand. ing "dollies who Jane has then been very forward, table with his clinched I think while lieved days might be hers in the fubut otherwise, may judge Swaffham with annoyture as full of joy as days in the past answeredI Mrs. London And Janes we hold Charles Stuart safe, am grieved. ance. It is interesting to know that the Soda Sobs. been. this had chosen has God also. safe is he and not been to, elements in the Caucasian has chemical spoken father a winter white of perwas cold from the eye A tear After this visit it as He chose Dunbar. themselves into particles tear no is first of all. I can say neither yea battlefield for us, came arrange of soda, Neville salt, water, is son and composed Cluny weather, But there must be no slackness. The matter. fish bones under a micin the look like nor was From mucus. that and nay of soda more until the pale windy spring not to phosphate But you will surely speak for us. work is to be thorough, andwishes it the eye of an African the elements roscope, those from a negros tear ever the land. And this visit was so the same a kind word, madame, ere I do over again. The nation composing the tear are found to be form a rude cross, while leaves short that Mrs. Swaffham, who had Give me it. The plain truth is I know so, not the could the resist she of And with a of all. process evaporation white, go. the same as in that gone to Ely, did not see him at nor we will march straight on Worcester; the sweet in tear the an Eskimos in and chemicals nature, of the fresh a beauty while phosphate rested youths exception single from For he merely her heart that it we will cut off Charles Stuart him of soda, and with the addition of a shape of a bow. horse was prepared for him, eating a yet the thoughtbe in will we fight his last request. She all hope of London; trace of ammonia. The Eskilittle bread and meat almost from might perhaps from both sides of the river, and slight man cares to to kissed and No hers face his seldom shed tears, down In drew Janes hand as he waited. Yet that and blessed him, saying, as Saul said bring this matter of the Stuarts to an mos and the Finns love to a girl who makes love to make chemists do say they love when but and stress they hurry, half hours a pet dog. Go, and the Lord be with end. are exceedingly salty. leaped a space that had not been taken to David, (To be continued.) one thee. with stood he as for without It; THE LION'S WHELP -- g s, Nuts and Fruits Nourishing. -- die-taria- n 1900-01- Grandmothers of Long Ago. to-da- y swash-bucklin- g to-da- good-wi- ll namby-pamb- weak-knee- d y y |