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Show u which the woman spoke. Them Crystal' wretch, and tha twa no road her along the other worn stumped the planks together. Fop came to a stand at the little sky light tain; a narrow Mae half hidden by to survey the scene of his ship, and long grass and tangled buahea atrag gled In and out capriciously, aa though Crystal, on wide legs, rocked beside to now tks him. its puxxl vp followers, JZ.A.J K.A.TE, LXVLXM, By mountain aide, again straying out Into She lifts with splendid buoyancy," Amtkm mM m Gn1, Mrra gu. the valley meadows nearer the river's said the commander, 1 never could have believed that she possessed these moaning. Above, among the pines, the By W. CLARK RUSSELL. A coot tii ni to A at ml Ciimi is tha Yaar M by StraM k Sailk, bewas blue base all heels. Look bow she throws the seas tangled, hiding la lb Otn ol ttoa Ubnnu at CeoerMa. at Waahiactaa. D C. yond; Vie dread mystery of the moun C yyriiht, IIW7. by Dodd. Und S Co. away to leeward! That fine Dutch CevtiilH XSVT. by F F. Cottier. tain clung like a garment about 1L frigate which saved our live would The men rode on in alienee; there not leap in loftier grace. 1 do not know. CHAPTER VII. was a solemnity around them that CHAPTER IV. Continued. "By heavens! Steve's right, cried Certainly the lltlte craft Just thea He hushed all But we must find him." "Northen. Pope, flushing up with sudden excite- was a heroic picture for a commander light words. Tbe enormity frowned sternly; his face and voice of their undertaking dawned more Th Strayed Cow. ment and wresting the glass out of who was also her owner, to contemSloop In sight?" Dolores aat In the doorway wait-1- were authoritative. "He is summoned and more upon them; to search for a hand. "What does the idiot plate. Her four black dogs of war at "Right ahead, sir, almost within Crystal In the Green man in that wilderness with the moun to appear in court for her fattier return from th hall. mean by holding on?" . a side crouched In the scuppers; and la Captain Crystal showing himXkvtfk. He bad been to tbe house case; the law cannot wait. Can you tains haert for his hiding place and He applied the glass to his eye. The her tarpaulined forecastle gun looked while the wae over the mountain, and give ue no idee where we can And its robe of haze for his shield waa ab- self? Dutch frigate, under a full press was like a dead giant stitched up awaiting I see him in the bows of the sloop had hie aupper. She bereelf had eaten him? r surd. There were chasms and danaft was sweeping through it grandly. Could burial. The woSi Inc. for she had no appetite In "No." it be imagined that the pursuing boat brass; a sullen glint broke In it when gerous places, sharp turnings and waiting for us. He returned to his companions and winding patha, ledgea hidden by haze qpite of her walk over the mountain. Pope lifted his head, and a minute would attempt to pass under those the sun shone. It made a formidable She was quite Idle, her hands In reported that Johnson was not there; that would awallow a man - as com' later the little fabric was alongside, thunderous bows! The nsval officer show on that little quarter-decclear teetr old listless attitude tn her lap, his daughter did not know where he pletely as a sepulcher, and leave no the hull of the sloop putting her out steering the boat might have been In- of the wheel, then grasped by two seaher dark head restlnc against tbe wae. They held a consultation. If It trace, m' sive rocks overhead that a of sight of land. The bundlee were sane with resolution not to deviate men, one a colored man, the other as no painted door post, her grave face were possible Johnson must be found tremor of the mountain would hurl handed up; the men sprang aboard from the path of pursuit. The rowers black as a gypsy with hair like snakae and thoughtful eyes raised to the and brought to court that day; law upon them. No wonder the men grew after them. had their backs upon the danger; the crawling out of his hat down his back. heavens. The moonlight falling across and right must not be delayed. Riding silent and allowed the horses to .have "Lively my hearts! shouted Pope, others were not there to deliver com- They looker a pair of beauties, bnt her face defined it clear and perfect down the mountain they halted at the their way; man could not follow tbe "and make sail. mands; so that all In a second It was were Indeed in perfect keeping with wife came dangerous, bidden a marble; upon the clean bare floor tavern. The tavern-keeper- s He sprang to tbe tiller, and Crystal too late. The six oars spark i?nl as the rest of the crew now visible. bruts only path; behind her lay her shadow long and out to meet them. Instinct could find the safe placea. put his weight with the others, upon they rose In tragic arrest under the It was they who gave the little flydark. They asked for water; cshe said They came at last to the path up throat, peak and other halyards. The bows of the sweeping ship On- - board ing ship her wild and savage aspect. Tha night was silent; the distant water wae scarce on the mountain. the mountain, and the horsea refused great sloping sail fluttered languidly the Oak they saw a number of men The most formidable of them for uglisound of rude singing from the tavto take It until urged by whip and then rounded silent as the big Jib running on the frigates forecastle. ness and bulk was Matuiew Grlndall ern died away; tbe lights went out spur It was a path that shielded all bore the little vessels head off. They Through the glass Pope spied her peo- the boatswain, who had likewise oae after another In the long, low beyond it, as though the mountain were under way and the ripple from ple struggling for life In the frigate's agreed to serve as second mate. houses. Dolores began to wonder had made a fastness that none could the stem glanced like a needle Into wake. Though an Englishman, he had been break The horses tolled up slowly, the wake. vaguely why her father did not come. That he cried., pointing with the a pirate aboard a Frenchman, had The Downs now lay plain, but very telescope to the white water astern also served as able seaman in a Midnight had passed; the hours ticked slipping now and again on the treacherous ground; the tangled bushes and distant. But one large blue shadow of the frigate, was her reason for scoundrel Spanish plcearoon, and away one by one on the big clock la the corner, the moon hung round low boughs bringing up In Margate Roads last scarce a memory of this man's fov swept them as they loomed formidably the Ramillles and golden above the mountain peaks above the pine boughs parted and as Pope looked a puff of white night." passed, year after year hut was red and dreadha the west; in the east a streak of if ful. Ay, said Crystal, "hang me aheen, broke enough for a mans head to pass ua smoke, tiny In the far-of- f and whiter light appeared, broadened touched beneath Now and again the from her starboard hroadblde; which there Isn't even a Providence for He was mersecing some work a and he and Pope laughed (luster of seamen were upon In th deepened. The girls shadow disapbushes and ferns; great rocka loomed set Crystal swearing horribly. pirates," It is her signal, he shouted. The with al their might. peared from the floor; It lay tn front path seemed lost in the wilderness of waist, and Captain Pope watched him. ef her on the door stone. ahead and the path that seemed cut news has reached her; we are susThe Dutchman measured a score of Assuredly tie Camperdown had been The cow was cropping the grass on off turned sharply and wound up the pected and shall be chased." her own lengths before she hacked shelled to some purpose. Those of fle roadside, her breathing deep and "The breeze means to freshen. ex- her topsail and lowered boats Five the crew who were at odd Jobs about mountain, again arid again the horse-hoof- s pontonted. Lodle, the next neighbor, paused on the edge of a chasm claimed Pope coolly; "gee the dark men only were picked up. and they the deck, or who were gathered into same up the road with a bucket. His half hidden by haze, and the men line of It yonder; let me get behind were too exhausted to explain the er groups about l he galley and kingbolt, well was low In this dry weather; with white faces held them up by the Sands and 1 shall be happy. I rand they had been upon. In fact, it were as completely piratic in face and Johnson's well wae public property at main force from the ghastly depths never designed to go Margate way. was doubtful if the Dutchman would garb, in the sound of their desperate mch times beneath their very feet. Their voice, Well hug the South Sand Head clear have understood them. The frigate laughs, in their ceaseles oaths, In their A sheer day, he said apologeticalwhile one of the postures, and motions charged with as they shouted in hopes of a reply of the Ramlllies, and go straight for remained hove-to- , ly, looking at the brindle. had Johnson lost his way, sounded the French coast, and then for a shift boats put the English seamen ashore the brutalest spirit of defiance and Dolores rouged herself, at Broadstalrs; by which time the recklessness, as the heart of man or of helm for Hamburg." gruesome in the loneliness. The Captain's right," said Bobbin. Oak, unnoticed by the seventy-four- , feought coming to her mind Half way-- , up the mountain they hoy could yearn to read about, and been waiting for ray father, The whole line of coast was now had fetched the southern limb of the thirst to attend to the gallows. paused and faced about, it wr.s usetavern?" But we must find him. "I he etlll at the less, they. said, and foolish to follow visible from Sandwich to the South Goodwin Sands, when, easing off her "Crossman lias done our purpose Lodle held the bucket suspended but she could give them cider if that the path up higher, no man would Foreland. The ripples flashed, white sheets, she went away for this French said Pope with a smile, with justice. half way down the well, a dull sur- would do. wander up there of his own free will; water fled in feathers from the weath- coast. I expect his eyes fixed on Grindal on prise was tbe leading expression They replied that cider would do facing the law were preferable; on er bow and Pope looked astern at th tnat most of these men have seen Ms face. CHAPTER V. very well iu fact, much better than knew what to expect from 1L Hers land well pleased. their turn as pirates" "Dont ye know where he went, water for their purpose, for they had death laid his traps in secret and The Crew of the Gypey. 'TJ1 tell you the whole story In n They're here as privateersmen." DToree? Warnt ye hyar when he a rough time before them. At Hamburg the three hired men exclaimed Crystal lured his victim on. he waited at minute. Crystal," said he. and he was were discharged with their handkerkem up fer his gun an' started ter As they drank they asked for the every corner and lurked near every proceeding when Crystal interrupted "They shall he undeceived. said hunt ther cow ower yander on ther host. He was away, she said, gone rock; he was above, below, and betor him. chiefs liberally tasseled; and they left turning suddenly and beginning Pope, Ther cow is hyar; over tbe mountain to the town; mounting? them, he reigned In the mountain to walk the short deck, Crystal beside where's feyther? If Johnson were there bs trial was being held there, had they heart. And what's the difference? him. sudden sharp fear woke in her not beard of it? Nearly every one had might stay there; their lives were of "The hangman knows, answered mind; she arose and faced Lodie, the heard of it; it was making a stir. more value than his; they would Crystal. aunilght on her head. to the town and report the utter Folks were excited about it; there & never "Was privateersman "If he went over on the opposite waa to be ' trial there, and Johnson hopelessness of the search. It would cried Pope. hanged? mountain to hunt Brindle end has not be wiser to search for him nearer had they ever heard of Johnson? "A letter of marque is ns good ns returned he must have lost his road. waa all they were waiting for to. Jay borne:, to Jitde from the law showed & pennon, said Crystal. . Thau seeing the guilt were it belonged; he knew that he waa cowardly, and a coward irritation In the commander's face, Mm. more about it than moqt folks; some would never come there. They would he said, "Has Mr. Staunton any susAn' "Yea, said. Lodle, slowly. atop at the tavern and speak to the thought picion. d'ye think, of the nature of they want him et ther court ter-daDid Johnson go? No, not that she woman again; her words might be this voyage?" ef he aint thyar they'll kem fer him; knew of, and she would know. He wiser than they thought And they "None. Four hundred pounds in for hev sweared him, theyd they went over to the opposite mountain would speak again to that girl of and the remainder in bills; that cash, Bottled be he tell ther, thing kyant last night to hunt his cow. Jobusous, she might be more willing appeased the curiosity of sufficiently goes." In what direction did Johnson go? to talk, and she was no fool. a man who had a ship which was rot- -, He swung the bucket up on the She was not (To be continued.) sure; she believed he ting her bottom out in the Thames. edge of the well and passed down the went right down the road across the acted well; he held as mute Crossman road in alienee, his slouching figure valley. There was a bridge across SHIRTS GROW ON TREES THERE. as a skull! like a blot on the exquisite landscape. the river if one followed the road "Crossman is a man you may d- -, Breakfast was ready, and Dolores along the foot of the mountain a bit That, at Least, la the Statement of an exclaimed Crystal. When on, pend went in and set the potatoes and baOld Sailor. Jenkins had seen her there, and Jie do you reckon upon taking the crew of the the one aide con at hearth; Shirts grow on trees where I came told Johnson so at the tavern; Johninto your confidence? coffee wae ready to make; she never son went right over to hunt her; he from, said the old sailor. said "This afternoon, Jonathan. made that till it was ready to be took his gun In case he came across "How so. shipmut?" a pale clerk Pope sternly was drank. When all ready within game, but that was useless unless he asked. Crystal looked away to sea. he went out to the bank under the were luckier than usual, for Johnson The sailor emptied his glass and There was now too much wind for waa and sun warm, Tbe high pines. was too shiftless to have luck. wiped his mouth with the back of hi the royals; they were clewed up to hut under the pines the shadows were he said, "of Yes, the cow came back; the had hand. "Im the shrill measures of the bosun'a eobl and dark; and there she waited lost her bell; he would expect to find the South seas. You know them islpipe; the flying Jib was hauled down, Look!1 aaid he, In hie hoarse notes, lar her father. her by that; doubtless he would keep ands over there? the taut weather shrouds shook and By and by the men of the settleon hunting; he hadnt sense enough Sure, said the clerk. "Look! said he. In his hoarse note. consenting to meet Captain Pope in as some seamen ran aloft. ment started over the mountain In to know ' Well, that's where I mean that she would most likely come Sail ho"' shouted one Of them out London on such and such a date at the roups of twos and threes. Dolores home by herself. But if he did not shirts grow on trees. Theres a kind pointing. Dutch of the fore-toof the last of "The night Camperdown sign frigate watqhed them go. scarce taking her wish to return for reasons best known of a willow tree on them Islands with exclaimed Where away?" roared Pope. When Pope had settled his affairs in Pope, after taming his eyes from them till their slouching to himself Johnson was shiftless, but a soft, flexible bark. A native select he manned the Oak with (To be continued. Hamburg, head. blended faded and the with tguree a tree with a trunk thats Just a little he was no fool about some things. on four Dutch seamen and sailed to the Channel down was She coming, yellow road and the rugged paths. As His girl now had about as little bigger round than he Is. He makes a a taut . HERBERT SPENCER IN YOUTH. and made a fine figure Thames. I am not able to give furthey passed they asked for her father. sense as was possible. She did not ring with his knife around the trunk as she drew clear of the Foreland. ther particulars of the Hamburg exeven know when she was well off; she through the hark, and he makes anWhat's that?" suddenly exclaimed pedition than these, because I never Stern of Character, Yet Human was like her mother for all the world, other ring four foot below. Then, with EnOL-gto Enjoy a Joke. andMaddlson. who had come could get to hear who had taken the Crystal, a slit of the knife, he draws the bark on The eighty-thironly worse. plate off Popes hands; how It had birthday of Mr. deck, cried out. "They're As for Dolores, she seemed to like off, the same as a boy does In mskln' of ua!" been cot ashore without detection, l.eiliert Spencer has brought out, him to talk to her; she was not In the a willow whistle, and he's got a fine, Both he and Crystal looked toward the sun of money it had fetched, and among oilier things, extracts from habit of talking much; she never durable smrt. All he needs to do U Broadstalrs, and thither Pope directed the like. But this part, though it was the anonymous diary of a friend of talked with her neighbors, she felt to dry it out, make two holes for th his eyes, where, without aid of a glass doubtless full of pxi itemei.t is not his early days, when he was on the above them; he was the Judgef son, arms, and put a lacin' In the back to lie might see what should prove a material to the interest of the story, igincering siaff of the Ixxndon St snd, no doubt, she felt flattered that draw It together. sweeping from the which may be said to begin with this Birmingham railway. Spencer, apgalley "in the Bprlng of the year the shirt he took notice of her.. Their men Her oars sparkled September the 3Uh, some time be parently. was neither companionable little pier-ennever said much to her, for they did are gathered. Men and women both fore 1820. It was blowing a fresh nor particularly popular. swiftly. not like her. Maybe she went over go out at that time to look for tree breeze of wind in the English chanHis stern and somewhat harsh The glass!" he roared. the mountain. Well, maybe she went that fit them. These bark shirt are baiacter stood forth in all its naked-ne-.s- . Maddison grouped the tiller while nel; dark clouds, spitting rain as they because she wished to go. How could treated so as to be soft and flexible the Captain looked. There were others sped, gave a look of flying wildness to as at his then early age he had They don't look bad Gosh hanged If in that boat than those who pulled the few .dim spaces of dusty blue, ..either tact nor knowledge of men she anawer for her? Perhaps If they they look bad at all. for shirts that her. She seemed full of men. Pope they produced the effect of flying Could they find Johnson iilfiufTt wherewith to ( lothe his tried? She did not know. The oppo- grow on trees. Philadelphia Record sight of the glint of bayonets. scud, and all on high seemed to re temperament, lie lived In an caught site mountain was a dangerous place; t mi js She was coming along aa ateadlly volve as the weeping shadows poured plie e of antagonism a Radical Knew the Major. there were sharp ledges and turns and swift as the rapid determined pulse away into the horizon on tie breath amor g Tories, a democrat among I hear the major is coming up to of the long and bending lines of flash- of the shouting wind. deep chasms; folks seldom ventured aiistc crat-- . an advanced free tblnk--r over there except for hunting; they spend a week w 1th you In the midst of this scene a little ash could drive her. The brine sinort sturdy supjsirters of the ing "Yes. and am fitting up a room stood like frost at had no cause to go. But young, thought-- ! ijer bows, and the brig was sailing. She was the Gypsy mother church him for to Did they want Johnson? was He entertain his friends s foam rushed aft as though she had The captain was Richard Pope, uei as e were, we soon ard careless not In the habit of goins; off; he never put in ten chairs and a sideboard." chief mate was Jonathan Crystal, her been driven by a propeller. adzed lhal a young fellow of keen, "Where is the major from?" went hunting except on their own with second mate and lxxa.swam was .Va. A revenue boat. i had come Pope, say ieiie;i;:tii g int among " "South no had In Carolina gx ahead mountain; he him; She arose and faced Lodie. one of his oaths, handing the glass to thew Grlndal. and in her forcca-t'will. ill we could not hold hrpire "Then so had and was was shiftless he his you better in tec, daughand sher us." about were decks put nr ( v n In uignrnent either in meta-h.jir- 's thirty Crystal, "and she's after every one receiving the same reply. sideboards and a chair ter only worse. or i:i engineering, when w Clouds, white and swift with the men, counting sewual idlers, such Later, as Dolores watched, a yellow of the sun and the life of the r sinned to illji'r gunner, the carpenter, (ook. ci!u,i They had accomplished their errand cloud of dust arose where the rot.ii light Out of Season. She and paid her liberally as they arose wind, were overspreading the western servant, and the like S'i'l h v. a.-- human enough to en-fivt the sky seemed to meet. "Why are yer so sad?" asked Dusty She was bound to th Bay of Cam onboard. and they mingled with many watched it mechanically. As the cloud to go, more determined than ever to Dennis aid mn to p'i pel rate, a prac-- i a! c upon a comrade, Hensmaa leaning shafts of canvass heading, out peachy to load with logwood ai d t, appeared and drew nearer out of It find Johnson were It a possible thing. "Why, growled Sandy Pikes, dat of the Downs. There waa a aplrlt In trade with the West Indies l appeared a body of horsemen riding j if said I'd de Ihdy wood she'd the freshening of the. wind, and the spilt To the Bay of Campeaehy! CHAPTER VIII. P !; at a sharp' pace down the rough road. lie 'rserud a piece of tracing pk give me an old pair of shoe shs Oak snored as she drove through it. was said So her papers showed e- They slackened their pace as they indy ii Fide tne leather lining of promised me last winter Th Search. All along the horizon to port were the She had sailed down the river ar..-,c,- i came up. The girl was plainly disr pit's hat In a few days th "An did she?" The deputies rode slowly down the were' brilliant with four caironades of a ride, a h.i Goodwin Sands They cernible in her print gown under the Wl'S a ticht fit. remarks wen 'f.t Yes. she give me a pair of s The road was hard for new with creaming lines of yeast, gun on her forecastle and a stei, made 'n the victim on the palpable pinee. They halted at the rickety mountain. horses and besides and their dismounted it and the yellow shoal showed a firm chaser, a twelve pemrr r f v one them of uncertain, and of his cranium, which "r gate, v.l ' surface upon which you could have therefore aliltle formidable wp') went up the walk. He removed bis was strange to them and strange e f by stating, that ' his hat Making Macaroni. -Bill the pirate u.er onr.-ifootball. ground waa unsafe. They talked litee tillery. bat as he drew near Dolores."' of played the truth of the ob-h-v Macaroni is made in forty different tle. On leaving the tavern one of "Miss Johnson?" "They're bound to. give up; that as fixed a condition of the oan ln' the gradual tightening of A sizes. and special kind of pace'll break their hearts. exclaimed as the gilded and galleried Wes She hesitated a moment.' tbe name them remarked that the woman knew shapeshard wheat is Great sympathy was ex-c-n in manuused very this e w was unfamiliar to her save as used wh.it she was talking about, and now Crystal, after a few minute of silence dlanian she plundered. T'ne-the alarming symptom, facture. daring whieh he had been watching other risks, moreen er. which mode v rt '.tin was caused by Hene--t by young Green. Then she bent her they would find Johnson If such a asterh. were more for had boat cannon a necessary feature of a shij the chasing thing possible, n they bead in reply. Lighthouse Service. reason 'than ever to find him. "If they don't mind, said Steve. deck. i "Tour father?" 'i -- of HrherU Spence. play- -' The United States lighthouse sen They'll be foul of that there Datch- had iliped in th" tahii. c'g They rode along the foot of the "He Is not1 here, she said, alowly, i They 'C joke? will probably b Tn'',,ntain In searen of . the path of vice costs J4.500.000 a year. tain Pope had ce me e.c JecK. It w. "Where can we HcC l.!m" a..., startling to most people, The Two Captains THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS ' -- Im4 . y twelve-pounde- k - 1 yr re-tur- . iow-line- alx-oare- 1 1 e-- I m i -g v. . snow-shoe- V c I i -- t |
