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Show , . i li ; THAT GIRL Of JOHNSONS the nan a "Dolores, why did wish to see my father today? It must be something special or yon would not have coma. Could not 1 do as , The Two Captains Ilr . , a special." It waa corning. Dolores waited with hated breath. A heavy sense of guilt fell upon her; she could not meet the gase of the eyes bent upon her, and she went on hulling the berries waiting la silence for what she knew must come. "An them as knows says thyars a great feelin user In ther town yan-de- r 'bout ther marc. the woman's voice struck In on the girl's thoughts, an 'says et pears she were worth a deal money, an now nebodyd gev a copper fer her, an theyg work In ateddy to fin out who done ther de-dan gettln every one thejs ken ler prove thar spicions crect o a certain person." Dolores was waiting. It was coming now, she felt certain. She crushed some of the berries In her hand Is a sudden frenzy. "Tbeys boldin court amost every day, an workln as though iwere some great thing thet a critters gone lame. But tbeys wont do nothin' with ther aplcloncd feller tell thar's mo ground, as theys calls et, though young Green do feel pretty But aartia who Is ther guilty one. they got consldrable proof, an theres ter be a great time an they wants yer feytber ter go ter prov thar spicions crect," It was out at lost Dolores seemed turned to etone; she neither moved nor spoke; she dared cot lift her eyes from the rod berries with which her fingers were dyed. Her head was whirling; there was a din In her ears as though a legion of spirits repeated and ahouted In wild horror: "Theys wants yer feyther ter go ter prove tbeys wants yer feyther ter go they wants yer feyther yer fe, yther" Her eyee were like thosa of a hunted animal, half hidden beneath their ilorg lashes; her mind was filled with 'a great longing to go to get away rom the tiny room out on the mountain under the quiet heavens where the winds were free from the watching eyes The woman at the other side of the table arose with an Injured air. Bhe bad received scarcely a word of thanks for her berries, scarcely even a allow of interest in her story. "Thyars them as takes an lntrest ia thyar feller critters, anthyara them aa dont," ahe said, tartly; "an thars them as has thyar apiclon o things." . Dolores watched the womans tall, gaunt figure go down the worn path, her purple print dress brushing the cant grass with an Indignant sweep, the cape of her aunbonnet limp and Happing over her shoulders. When from' view behind ahe disappeared Dolores the ahruboery of the road-sidput away the dish of berries and put a her gray aunbonnet to go out It waa early afternoon. The rocky vwad,. tke a yellow thread, wound In - e Pepe cupboard. waa locked, of course; they pried the door ope.: In nlct-ate-, and there on three she .toes wuk crra'ied .x i.uan-tlt- y handsome, me siur&te, im, mo: tly et old pattern. The;- V nd tablet iolhes and quilts and very kept. they made up tho plate into th e Presently the sloop was within an weighty toads, none, however, easy pull of Margate town. Heie Cap- heavv for a Ftout fellow to carry wi'h tain Pope brought her to a stand, and east', and lope took care not to leav the boat was launched. Pope and Crys- a mustard-spoobehind him. tal had talked long and earnestly. All was settled and nothing remained but CHAPTER IV. to go ashore, get the plate, and sail The March to the Sea. away for Hamburg. When they left the cottage they There were three men and Captain shut the house door, securng it by As aie passed over the mountain Pope; these were to go In the boat, a wedge. Not a living shape moved and down on the other side tae towp Come now, says leaving Crystal to see to the sloop, In any direction. lay out hefote her, a tlirivlrg town; whose canvas they had snugged for Pope, "and lets step out lads. smoke arose hlnik frt m the towering him. The three were to plunder poor They got into the road, every man clilmreys, the whir of mat hinory, the Miss Hornby, and Captain Pope, her with a heavy bundle of plate over his ratIe of wagons and din on every day nephew, was oneof them. shoulder, and started at a walk that life were borne up to her as sounds When the boat reached the shore came near to a trot. they of a strange land. Jhe knowledge behe stepped out, and the hired men, rame to a narrow turning which they gan to grow In her mind that the life one of them named Steve merely, the took, and skirting the little town of in the slow little settlement beyond other called Maddlson, followed. Broadstalrs, they entered some unduthe mountain was too narrow, too Dolores watched the woman. It was drawing on to midnight when lating fields, sinking and rising over shut Into Itself, too lacking In energy he said. "We have had our suspic- Pope and his men came to a gate In a which went a tape-lik- e path. But this was a rew and growth. ions from the first, and now we think tall hedge. Pope pushed open the Look," says Steve, coming to a world to her and she shrank from It, not from any foolish feeling of Inferi- them well founded. We are depend- gate, and the three walked swiftly to stand, "aint those two men ahead ing a good deal on your father; we the house, using one side of an emer- yonder lookouts? ority; such a thought could hold no have considerable evidence, hut his ald sward that waa divided by a nar- Captain Pope, after a prolonged room In her mind, but as a wild aniwill be conclusive. mal instinctively shrinks back to Its She knew nothing of law or Its natural world. Then the feeling left her; the old thought drove every fear, terms; the words held a terrible for her. every other feeling away; she had meaning It was a dastardly deed, he went come for a purpose and as yet It was "The fellow on, his face darkening. not accomplished. shall suffer the full penalty of the law She passed steadily down the road for It. My beautiful mare that, was looking neither to right nor left. The almost human In Intelligence." court house was at the farther end of Her hands were clasped fiercely, the town; she had heard them say so. her eyes burning when she turned A long, low, white building with wide toward him to make reply,' and for steps and a bell In the tower. the moment be forgot all else but her At length she came to It; she knew face. was she right; a long, low, white And It la right!" she cried; tt Is building with wide steps and a bell In right! What If his people do suffer thetower. for ft? That the name will cling Tot She walked up tbe steps and turned them forever? It Is only right that j the handle of the door, but could not he should suffer. It Is just. It was open It. Thl-- ending of her Journey a dastardly deed. Only only dont had not entered her head. For a mo- come with me any farther. I had ment she stood in doubt what to do. rather go alone. People passlrg on the street looked He obeyed; but followed at a curiously at her. A boy who was The road was lonely; therw sitting astride of the fence called to were no houses till she reached the her that the door was locked; but If settlement below. The sun bad set; she wanted the lockup It was down In the east above the opposite mounaround the corner. tain, the full moon rode. A soft haze She did not know he was laughing arose from the valley far beneath, at her; she walked down the steps floated and wavered noiselessly up and spoke to him. She asked him toward the moonlight. where she could find tbe Judge. She Up on the heights the young man a was looking at him with her straight, stood motionless watching the girl reman lying dead, They left the level glance, and he was disconcerted. passing from him in the moonlight The judge, he said, lived la the house The light w ag full In his face. It was row path of gravel; so that their stare at the shapes which were growing In the gloom and therefore apon the hiu; If she came down the an earnest face and good; one to be footfalls were as a cats. Into was the A thrust bar keyhole, proaching, cried out with one of those never to main street she must have passed It. trusted; prove treacherous. all three stormed and sweated, and oaths he was so free with, "I believe Not a bit of her resolution was He watched until the girl, dimly down among the shadows, Immediately, amid a great noise of the I see their muskets. Are they armed? gone as she retraced her steps, but a moment on the threshold of, rending of bolts and the splintering If so they are blockaders and we she walked swiftly, for It was grow- paused flew open. There must cut them down or be taken." ing late. She found It without trou- the bare little house, and then entered. of wood, the door In the night to flow In no "Not by two," says Maddlson, and was him light as And to he turned she mounted knocktbe and ble; steps away, his ed at the big door. She did not know thoughts in a tumult, the mysterious through the doorway, and the passage he struck the pistol In his breast. The line of path rose and fell. she should ring the bell. .No one mist and tbe moonlight seemed to was In pitch darkness. Pope, though not a professional burglar, had pro There was not a bush behind which came. She knocked again and louder, have swallowed her up. Tided for this. He pulled out of his the three could conceal themselves. then again she waited. No one came. (To be continued.) pocket a little engine whose invention But since the approaching men were If the judge were gone where should to that age. It consisted of plain in view, the three also m'UBt GIRLS MAKE belonged THEIR CHOICE. she find him? a trigger and a tint, and when the have been seen by them. It was useA step sounded on the gravel at the side of the house; she turned and Countries Where the Gentle Sex Doea trigger leaped a clear flame sprang. less to turn aside. "Shove right on, says Pope, and At this flame the Captain lighted a Itt Share of Wooing. faced the leave me to do the talking. They may In England, leap year is supposed to piece of candle. "Dolores!" exclaimed young Green, confer upon the fair sex the privilege In astonishment. He then sprang np a narrow stair- not be what I think. He set his teeth and they trudged of choosing life partners for better case. Pope could not err In deciding A red flush crept in her face. "I want to see the Judge," she or for worse, but the custom Is mor which of the two doors that stood be- on, grotesque In bulk with their bunsaid, gravely, and there was a wist- honored In tbe breach than In thn fore him belonged to his aunt's room; dles. The approaching men were The gypsies, especially he entered, and by his candlelight saw walking leisurely. Not until they were fulness In the large, dark eyes raised "observance. to his for an Instant thgt caused his in Hungary, enjoy and make a very the figure of the poor old lady within pistol shot, so unsatisfying heart to throb strangely while a flush extensive use of tho right at all stretched In a fit upon her back on was the light, could Pope make sure times. In accordance with an ancient the floor. Alas, poor old Miss Horn- that each carried a musket on his also arose In his own face. Is custom. Thus a marriageable young by! her seventy-onHe years could not shoulder, that they were sailors, a father? rot at home. "My When the court adjourned at three he gypsy girl In tbe land or tho Magyars, support the shock of a burglary, and couple of blockaders. In short, from r in the Downs. They I? you wish as soon as her heart is smitten, takes she lay as dead In a swoon In her the took the train to N stopped and one challenged Pope's to see him I am sorry. Will not I do good care that the sraiter shall hear nightgown and nightcap. down the window-blin- d party. Instead? Come In, Miss Johnson; my of the havoc he has wrought and Pope draggs-- l "Youre out late, bos. Where e be pleased to meet have a chance of consolirg her. With mother would and lighted a candle in a sticji, this praiseworthy object In view, she then, casting a glance at the lean bound to. Are them your kits on your you. She waa unused to being called has a love letter Indited, places a coin high perched nose that shot out be- backs?" "We're bound for Ramsgate. Pope "Miss Johnson, and scarcely heard In a piece of dough, bakes It, and twixt the closed eyes and' the disorthrows the cake and tbe billet doux dered frills of the nightcap, he seized answered. 'Tm master of a ship lying the urfamlliar rime. in the Downs, and these are two of He opened the door, waiting for her durlrg the night Into the bedchamber the candlestick and ran to the door. of her bridegroom-elect- . Let's pavs my men. Goodnight. Then she to pass In. Voices were to be heard upstairs. "I wont stay, she said. "The Judge possesses her soul In patience and "Now come you down quietly and you. And he made as If he would adThe Burmese we wont hurt you. Put on a putti-coIs not at home. I came to see the awaits developments. vance. maiden begins her marriage camand bear a hand. Judge. "Whats In them bundles? asked She turned down tbe steps, and he paign at a much earlier stage. In "Bring her down, roared Pope. of the one and candlestick to his a order follow held her. gruffly and the get closed together He high door, goodly gathlrg Come, we must find 1 ering of young men from whom "Tf you will not go Insldo, may to there descended a narrow, wooden un- determinedly. choose, she places a lamp In her win- carpeted staircase the shape of a fe- that out. . walk with you. Miss Johnson? "These bundles contain property of She bowed her head, and they pass- dow at night It Is known as "the male In a flannel petticoat, the rest of ed up the street together In silence. lamp of love and entices all those her apparel being that of the bed. my own, said Pope, speaking coolly. female, and "See here we are three to two, and That the people they passed, and youths who are candidates for the She was a middle-agewhom her companion greeted, turned order of benedict. In sunny Andalu- was Indeed the only servant Miss shall we ask you to give us or yourand looked curiously after them she sia, the peasant girl, whose heart has Hornby kept, or perhaps could afford selves a chance? Why, my hearts, did rot know; had she known It would been stolen by a stalwart young hus- to keep. She was of a dreadful white- though we serve under different flags, we are sailors all. Heres ten have affected her little. She came on bandman, prepares a tasty pumpkin ness and her eyee shone like Are. We dont want your life," rattled guineas to divide between you. an errand, and could not accomplish cake and sends It to his home. If he He dropped his bundle to get the it; that thought was uppermost lo eats It and the Andalusian girls take out Captain Pope, speaking behind hts mask. "Where does your mis- money, and the plate clanked as It her mind, blended aa It always was In good care to make It highly edible .rothed. tress keep her plate? Take us to it" smote the bard path. thinking of It, with the face and th pair are forthwith "Taka this," said he, pulling out a London Telegraph. The wretched woman fell upon her eyes of the young man beside her. long leather purse, and let us be knees. "Dolores," he said at last, when One factory has marketeid 0.00 Ok, dont ask me!" she shrieked. gone as peaceably disposed men In the they were climbing the rough road name of the King," "Must I?" she yelped hysterically. beyond the town, unconsciously using electrical flatirons this season. mar.y fancies t f the life pulsing Just beyond the plnv peals Now her mind was filled with the one suhji-e- t so much discussed; she turned It over ami uewirg It on all sides, now rHser lug wilh herself as to this or Hut possibility. tbit or that decision, but eventually returning to tae first conclusion which was to her so cornlnclig that It sent her over the mountain to the town to discover If possible the truth, ami at the court was the place to learn what she wished to Urow If there were any plae to learn it eri the whole world should know. comes within sight of tbe Ramillles shell be sending a boat." "Youre right In keeping out of sight of that there Ramillles, gents," exclaimed Bobbin. r I dont know a where a brighter lookouts sloop ship-ofwa- t die-tanc- man-of-w- d rew-come- r. e man-of-wa- Waiting in Silence, and out among the scrubby bushes and UU pines that murmured In the breece. To the ears of the girl they kept up their monotonous sobbing about her father as though they were living things. She waa listless no longer; she walked aa one who had a purpose, as ne who had far to go. Her eyes looked atralght before her, her lips were pet In a atralght, stern line. Bhe met no one on her way; there was little travel on the mountain; the thriving town over on the other aide connection with the world in another direction. In all the twenty years of her life Dolores had never . been over the mountain; what lay beyond it abe did not know except from the rumors that drifted Into them from the men who there men who had strayed M i at n d . . -- 4 ' Borne way h(g kindly heart al Vy JEA.JV Jt-- IX LVDIVW, aching for her with the remembrance 4MAr t'At Oiri t Urn. tic. of that swift, wistful glance of the brown eyes Into his own, and he By W. CLARK RUSSELL. Aoeardix H AM oi Coatnm la tW mi 1IM Wr S tract A Smith. would If comfort her he . could. Is tk Otic at th Likrariaa of C aacraaa, at Wuhianoa D. C Bhe did not look at him; her gate CovrrtriM. I ft. bf r. f. Collier. Cowvrifht; wn. bf D44 Wi A Co. was fixed on the pines away on the mountain behind which the eua as In hunting, going around to the opposCHAPTER CHAPTER III. But he knew she heard and setting Up you get," aald Maddlson, hoistshe glanced down ite mountain and returning serosa the would answer Instinctively The Burglary. "You must, ing her on to her legs. presently. The doors were town. toward the shop. Twelve days had passed since the and if you dont and at once, I know "1 came to see about the mare," (he Sometimes when the atmosphere said, open, hat no one was there. The hens slowly, her eyes still fastened on foregoing. Approaching Margate roads where that knifes kept which pecking around the doors were the was heavy and the wind In the right the pines upon the On this, with a flinging carriage height Then sud- waa small sloop with a great mainanxlife to visible of facher direction, the smoke from the tall only signs denly, with a swiftness that startled sail swelling at her mast, which was and awfu air ef distress, the unhapious eyes. Unconsciously she began tory chimneys drifted around to the him, she added: stayed in the most unsightly manner py woman moved down tbe staircase with me- settlement and tangled hulling the strawberries pines You know who did It? Tou have aft In ghastly silence. Pope and the sealike gray specters waving their shadchanical but steady flngera. known from the first? Everybody men following closely. She opened and stood Crystal Pope together Tlines Is dull 'nough, pears to owy banners above the scattered knows who did It It will be the door of a room that might have near over the which tiller Bobbin proved long a. the woman proceeded. "First houses down toward the valley. Many tomorrow a doubt" been the parlor, and pointing to a was beyond scene at the hanging, gazing hem there want o' rain with tber gyar-dl- a time Dolores had watched vthee He looked at her, amazed at her around them. great cupboard that stood out from ard her mind hail vehemence. spite o the care we smoke wreaths, "I have been turning tbe matter the wall like that article or fornlture warnt as to then thet from the whence glv et; though gore they place We hope to prove it tomorrow," over. Crystal," said Pope, "and Im they call a wardrobe, she said in a nough, hyar hems ther accd'nt ter came, and she wove from them fancertain our best chance lies in bring- whisper, "Youll And It there, and Inther mare o tber jedge's son. an' any tastic shadows bom of dreams, and ing up of Margate and sending tbe stantly sank speechless upon the floor e' us likely to be ketched ef twsrnt she clothed them In garments of the round to Dumpton Gap to watt In a kind of lit boat thet splclon re ts In one direction living, and they brought her many for us after weve landed. It If this rushed to the weUr The seamen answered with a ntm airing movement of their mux Lata On of them then drove his bty-ihad dropped,-anInto the bundle Pope ' said: , s Ita metal, Tom." "Down with them bundles,1 d , aald the to Steve and Maddlaoa. and he stepped clou to them, holding his musket dangerously. "If it must be," shouted Pope, other Maddlson, this "Steve, ia for you r lives; have at them. He was a man of great strength and commanding figure. He drew his knife, springing with nervous murderous violence upon the who had pricked hts bundle. He caught the leveled bayonet In on hand, and went twisting with the musket on to the unfortunate sear man, who, shrieking, "Tom, he's dene for me!" fell at his whole length across the path. Steve and Maddlson and grappled s with the other man, and Steve had whipped out hla iron jemmy meaning to brain the man; but when the seaman fell to Captain Pcpe'a blow and cried out, hU mate, leaving hla musket In the hands of hla assailants, broce from them like smoke, and fled across the fields In the direction of the sea. lying They left the dead, stretched across the narrow pathway. Tbe figure of the running seaman had disappeared in the gloom upon the fields. They shouldered their heavy loads and went away at a rapid trot tor Dumpton Gap, which, in about ten minutes' time they turned Into and descended. As they neared the bottom, where they might see the faint yellow shad ow of the sands stretching irto the white line of surf. It was a quarter to four. shouted Pope, and "Daybreak! as I live, theres the boat" Captain Pore had no need to hall the boat; Bobbin Instantly saw them and stood up, simply liftirg his arm, then, with Incredible activity, he drew In his fishing line and, springing over the thwarts Into the bows, dragged the anchor Into the boat, and all In a minute, the little fabric came sculling toward that part of the sand where the three men were standing. Pope directed hla eyes to the right and to tbe left of the range of cliffs; not a human soul looked down. But must have the flying already gained Broadstalrs, and by this time tbe alarm would be raised. Ha9 the blockade a atatlon at said Pope, hoarse with Broadstalrs? fatigue and the passions which were plowing up his soul. The others, not knowing, made no answer. It was blowing a small air of wind out of the W L Three vessels, lying abreast about a mile and a half distant, were getting under way. There was no life of shipping visible to the men, save those thiee vessels. "Got it all right? said Bobbin, aa he sculled the stem of the boat through the racings of tb!n surf on to the sand. Ay, was the answer. In with you swiftly. A mans been killed!" The three heavy bundles were thrown Into the boat and the captain and his men tumbled In after them. "Wheres the sloop? asked Pope. "Round the corner," answered Bobbin, poling off. They'll be running from Bread-stair- s to trap us here," said Captain Pope. "Lie low In the bottom of the beat, that only the man whos been fishing may be seen." Bobbin kept a lookout and reported aa he sculled. The boat went slowly. "Have you opened Broadstalrs yet?" said Pope at the bottom of the boat Yes, sir." man-of-war- What do you see?" "Some fishing craft and a bunch of wherries Just off the pier. Nothing In motion? (To be continued.) A CHIMNEY" OF BABEL. Antwerp Village Possesses the Tallest Factory Shaft. Hoboken, a village on the Scheldt, a few miles above Antwerp, and connected with It by river, rail and. tram, of pos'esslrg the tal!at beasts factory shaft In the world. It was completed last year and can readily be distinguished from Antwerprlslrg above the distant trees. Its height Is 410 feet (6 feet higher than St Pauls cathedral), its Inside base dam-ele- r 36 fept, ard that at Its summit 8 13 feet. The walls begin with a th of feet, but at the top have dwindled to a- single Flemish br ck, and measure only 7Vi Inches. Eiuht great underground flues connect th monster with the smelting furnaces It is built to serve; they are high erourix for a man to walk In. One hurdrel feet above the grourd the shaft ia circled with an Immense reservoir, carried on stone corbels, which feed tho works with water at a conc-tai- t pressure. This chimney has ben huTt lor a company that carries on the unusual hi stress of meltlrg down pig lead to extract the small amount of silver It contains. Interest and consideration fer otters dictated tbe unusual proportions of the shaft; for not only were the furnace fumes found noxious to neighboring vetrefa. lion, but a!o It was discovered ttat to condente the heavy smoke and wash the soot for escaping silver was a profitable course to adopt. to-da- - ck-nes- - Brief, but Pithy.. A characteristic story of the late Sir Hector Macdonald Is Just told. Always a man of few words, wnea sending his only son to a public school for the first time he addressed the following brief note to the headmaster! "Herewith boy Hector, to b made man of." |