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Show "S.-'v- X Over and over, mingled with tha memory of the black mare and fc rider, the words were driven In dolly, as though by the rtrokes of a hammer even, distinct, deafening, moat terrible to the girl in the darkness. "Ef ever tbet young feller kerns byar agen et'll be a sorry day fei THAT GIRL of JOHNSONS y JEA.fi KATE LXVLVM. Aatiar af'Ma Orlt Mm. itt. To-nig- CHAPTER IV. The Mare. 7 have rome ataio, Green, laughing. He stood in the doorway of shop, holding the black mare by L; A I he bridle. Johnson had been sitting on a bench outside of the shop, smoking a clay pipe. As the young man spoke he arose and advanced toward the mare. so soon?" he "Another shoe queried, shortly. "Yes," said the young man. llschrly. Her right shoe this time. Come, Bess; come, my girl! There wss s sudden, sullen glow on Johnsons face as he took the bellows and blew tbs Ore Into a fierce blaze. He laid the iron on the fire and rais- the hammer. He Young Green began to talk. spoke of the dry weather and tbe hard roads; he told the news of the town end of tbe trial that wss to come off at a notorious horse thief who had been caught attempting to steal Bees. Tbe blacksmith listened In sullen atlenoe between the blows of the ham- ed Corrrilkt. 1W. CHAPTER VI. By and by young Green left him and went up to the house for a drink. Johnson was not the only silent one that day. His daughter listened mutely to the young man's conversation. If anything sha was even more list less than usual, though a strange color tinged her cheeks as he talked. He loft the promised book with her; be had not forgotten It, he said, but bad been unable to take It before. For a moment her face glowed with pleasure and the silken lashes lifted swiftly, but fell ere their eyes could meet. She thanked him In a few simple words In her low, sweet voice; then her gaze wandered sway to the hazy He mountain top in the distance. left In n few minutes, deeply disappointed In her, and yet strangely interested and puzzled. Usd ha mistaken her? Wss she Incapable of the thought he believed she possessed? Had sha not, after all, the ambition to be more than an untaught village girl? Did her thought end with the blue line of the mountains and the hamlets scattered along their sides? he Dolores disappointed him; thought her so much better than shs had proved herself, and yet under It all there was a sting lu the thought which he did not understand, student of character as he was. "Slio was positively stupid," be said regrel folly. "Yet her face shows such possibilities." I Is was walking slowly down the narrow path to the shop, his hands clasped behind him, his fair head bent slightly forward. Dolores was did not know It. watrhlng him, but-hIls never guested of the wistful brown eyes following him down the stubbly path. Bess whinnied shrilly when ha cams In sight. Sha wss restless and snappish, but when he mounted and rode out of the shop she grew gentle again. As he rode sway Johnson called after him that she must have gone some distance without her shoe, for her foot was tender. Dolores watched him with her far seeing eyes as he rode up the mountain, then her gaze went down to the shop. Her father was standing In the doorway also watching the rider. He had forgotten hla pipe; hla face In the hazy sunlight was full of sullen of hatred, and he looked capable commuting almost any act. Hla muttered threat at the previous evening returned to her clearly and distinctly. Her eyes widened with nameless fear. She looked up the mountain again to where the black mare waa bearing proudly along the yellow road; she was no longer ber fsce was white, her lips with excitement A Neighborly Gift "Ft hev been ao dry I 'lowed mebby -- Whose Was the Deed? Dolores wss waiting for something to happen. A vague terror possessed her; she could not have defined It bad she tried; she did not try. Young Green's face seemed to haunt her. She watched her father continually while ha wss In the house, for a sort of fascination waa upon her, and ahe could not keep her eyea trom hia face. She could not explain the terror that possessed her, but her whole listless nature was aroused. She was different, and her life waa somehow different, she knew not how. The slow days passed, it seemed to her, with even more slowness than was their wont. Every morning the red sun arose put of a veil of haze from tbe mountain beyond the valley; every evening he sank behind the gray peaks In the west Nothing happened after all; life was stagnant; the sun arose and set; the haze hung more dense and thick over the mountain peak. No rain foil; nothing happened. Nothing happened until One day tho rumor floated across the mountain that young Green's mare, one of the choicest breed in the country, valued at what seemed to the simple villagers a fabulous aura, had gone lame. And this waa discovered the mornlrg after she was shod by Johnson. To most of the villagers this fart meant nothing. That the one hs-anything to do with the other never entered their, heads. They had no cause for suspicion. Rut to Dolores the rumor ramc like a blow. It seemlash-i.'-ed to her In a strange, that this was what she hail lieen I'voccting. This wn why h klrdly Mi-.e.yes were always looking into hers, and the pleasant face waa forever In her thoughts. Her eyes wero on her father when the news was told by one of the A nail was driven into neighbors. the mare's heef ard ahe was dead lame. The hoatler had found It when he examined her hoof, which was not until the morning following the day Green waa at tho settlement. It was a hard blow to the young man. tha speaker said, for he had thought as much of her as though she were a woman. Conjecture was rife as to who had done the deed. Suspicion rested particularly In one direction, and the suspicion was pretty well founded, but tbe young man would wait until there could be no doubL And here tbe story ended. Dolores had listened silently, as was her habit, no one noticing her. The memory of her father's words the other day returned to her with a force she could not account for. J F. Collier. CHAPTER II, CopjHfht d. Almost Evsry Person Has One Part He Turna to First "Very old persons, said an observer, "nearly always, on unfolding thelt newspaper, turn to the column ol Deaths. This Is because. In the flrst place, they are most likely to find news of their friends there than in the column of 'Marriages,' or any other part of the paper, and because. In the second place, they are Interested In death they have It much in their minds. "Yonng girls turn first to the society news and weddings, and after that to the fashions. Young men of the healthy, open-ai- r sort, turn first to the sporting news, while boys universally turn to this page first. The actor, of course, reads the dramatic columns, and the writer the book reviews, but neither of these departments, I fancy dues any part of the disinterested public consult flrst of all. The elderly gentleman of a pompous appcararce reads the editorials first, while his corpulent, cheerful wife reads the recipes on the household page. Some clergymen read tho wills of the dead, to see what charities have been remembered with bequests. There are many people who rend the crimes, the scandals and the shocking arcldci ts flrst. Poets, as a rule, will not read the Lewspapers at all Philadelphia Record. Advantages of Early Christiana. Potter Is tolling a story of a dear old lady who recently asked itim how It was that Solciuon was allowed to have so many wives not to mention the other ladies. lie explained that ti:e manners and customs of Solomon's days were different to these of tha present era, whereupon she replied earnestly, Oh, don't )ou think those early Christians New York enjoyed great privileges? Times. Bisnop Admitted Do you not Hia Guilt at times have soulful yearnings which you long to express In words but rarnot? asked the fair maid who had a leaning toward the sentimental. Yea, 1 was up against something like tint once," admitted the youth I wanted to telwith the noisy tie. egraph home for money and didn't have the price of a Marconi." Strategy. "It's lucky I'm a dentist," chuckled the tall student "Why so?" asked the friend. Well, last night every time I kissed Clara she screamed. When the old man came down I told him trying to pull a tooth." I waa nsrw-l-y to Dodd, Und a Co. I dont mean to starve for her. I'm with ye, Pope." They sat drinking and talking until about the hour of eleven. Popo found the Ideas, and Crystal the objections; and in thia fashion they trimmed the sail of their ordinary project, till, with a strange hearty cry. Pope struck a powerful band Into hia frlond'a, say- worn-ou- t monkey-jacke- t ing, You see now how It may be exclaimed Crossman, "Bobbin," done? we'll dine together In here a minute. Tbere'a twe "step at the Mitre, and thence to Rniher-hlthe.- " gents who want a word with you. Here's one man for your purpose; n Mr. William Crossman waa a Pope, he said; bnt he reCaptain res-lut- e character at Kotherhlthe In mained In the doorway. tbe early years at this century. What's your name?" aald Captain His public bouse waa after the reguPope to tbe man the prizefighter had lar pattern of low taverns. It had a summoned. bdb behind which stood sometimes "Robert Bobbin, answered the felMrs. and sometimes Miss Crossman; low, In a rough, rav voice, with bla and It had a parlor which waa very head stooped, twirling hla hat hla ront you give me your scheme?" comfortably fitted. The place smelled greeny black hair tumbling about hie Captain Pope considered a little. foully of acid ale, and was commonly on which the devil had written If I satisfy you that It may be done, full of seafaring men, some of them face, word the rogue In eye, nose, and rill you Join me aa second In of a rather peculiar type. mouth. Now, after dining at the Mitre, aa Pope began to talk to him "Yes," answered Crystal like an had been prearranged. Captain Pope in Captain low voice, and Captain Crysa very cho. and Captain Crystal arrived at the In hand, and lis"See here, said Pope. In a low, Camperdown public house, and en- tal drew cloze, pipe In tbe doorway, tened. Crossman, old, emphatic voice. 7 want money tered. at directed his one fit out this expedition. Now there This la Captain Pope, a friend of seeing this, to whom be said:eye Captain Pope, rax a deal of valuable plate In my mine. Miss Angelica,'' says Crystal, "There must be no arrangements fcmlly and It all went, in ways there and Pope flourished his hat to the In this 'ere bouse, master. Im I no need to describe. Into tbe hands lady, who bowed and simpered as ahe made to oblige my friend Crystal willing an aunt of mine, a woman who sank In a curtsey. I allow myself to be I cant but IV es on a small Income in a little Pope was about to order two glasses Duse called Updown, hard by Mar-pt- of brandy, when Crystal stepped him Then looking at the fellows in the A large portion of that plate by saying they would drink with Crossbar, all of whom were eagerly staring !ii mine by right of my himas he and Crossman man, spoke being my of the parlor, thirstily fitter's eon. I choose to think It so, self stood In his parlor door taking a In the direction Bobbin had been called why wondering aid I mean to have It" He clenched view of the company with hla one in, be called out the names of two fcs flat and let It fall saw He eye. Crystal and nodded, and who Instantly came tumbling to"The value?" said Crystal coolly. the two captains Immediately mado men, him and lurched into tbe parlor. ward "All fifteen hundred pounds." for him. looked them up and down; Popo "That'll buy you the ship. Where's We've come to have a yarn with waa a haggard man, of a broke one fie cash to come from to victual yon," says Crystal, taking Crossmans and dangerous appearance; he waa hr?" "This la fist great my particular a savage squint, and "Staunton will take three hundred friend. Captain Pope. Shut the door, very dark, with on his legs as he stood, as though rolled Awn and a bill for the remainder. William, for we want to be private." the floor of the parlor had been e heaving deck. The other was a little man, very thickset, pale, with browa hair that aat upon bla head like a wig, and moist blue protruding eyes. He looked aa harmless as tbe other seemed terrifying. But they were three men, and very fit for the errand Pope and Crystal designed to carry them on. Beyond a few questions, however, and the taking down of a note or two. Cross-ma- n would not permit any conversation. "No, you must settle your business out of my house," said he; whereupon the three men agreed to present themselves' at Captain Popes lodging next morning. Pope gave each man a . gulm-lshut the door upon them and the silence was charming. "Can you put me In the way of hiring a little vessel, something fit to cross the Channel in?" said Captain Pope. Crossman pondered; there was nothing sinister In this request After a considerable pause he said: Theres Jem Marling; you'll find I bim In Rock street Greenwich. know he has a little vessel in which he goes c sating, and I believe she'd suit your purpose. Tell yer wbat I'll Pope Flourished His Hat do; I'll find out if shes In the river, "But first, sir," says Captain Pope and If yen'll send here Curse him! If he didn't give me that chance, hell find hla ship gone; For "will you ask your lovely daughter to afternoon I may be- able to give yoa some particulars." I've made up my mind. I'm a des- bring ua somethirg to drink. Nothing could be more satisfactory. Miss Crossman placed a bottle of perate man. The black flag flies aboard the Gypsy already, and I see brandy upon tbe table and went out. Pops thanked tbe prizefighter heartily, plunder enough in our hold to main- languishing at Pope, who had a very and he and Crystal departed. Here you'll find your crew for the tain ua aa gentlemen for life. good knowledge of the use of his own said Crystal to Pope, as they Gypsy. "How dye mean to fetch this eyes. Into the street stepped asked "Crossman, says Crystal, opening Captain Crystal. plate?" And Pope assented in loud laugh M There be two ways, responded fire at once, "I'll tell you what we've satisfaction. come to It take here talk to by about may you "you My Pope; Captain (To be continued.) road, or you may take it by water. friend Captain Pope Is the son of a My Idea, Crystal, la to hire a ten or gentleman who owned a quantity of ODDITIES IN PET NAMES. twelve-to- n cutter, and sail to Margate, plate. This fine silver plate found Its with march Into it way the possession of an old land, seise the plate, Terms of Endearment In Did-- , beard, and sail away across to Ham- lady, Captain Pope's aunt but it don't Varying ferent Countries. who It to a to merchant I know where He her, belong belongs Pope. burg; If a man in thia country calli bla would take the atuff off my hands at was at sea when the lawyers got fina good price. We should then return gering the property, and, like all sail wife a rat the foundation Is laid for ora be was robbed. My friend wants a divorce suit. said the man who and there will have been no risk. But a French woman 'ravels. to recover his own. but aald be done. Crystal, It may same word as a term of enlakes the natural and exclaim"Very proper," whaf with the burglary, and what with dearment. It's odd how the choicest the bringing of the plate serosa coun- ed Crossman. "What might be the pluasea In the vocabulary of affection value of this 'ere plate, sir? try, and what with Ita shipment on a nt one people are used for quite aa to From twelve fifteen hundred coast where the blockaders get the .nposite purpose by another nation. answered "But it'll bloodpounds, of Pope. smell and the of lynxes sight of the most familiar and roost One I no more from than fetch, alx allow, hounds from the Jobs the smugglers -of ovcled phrases endearment to eight hundred." as It'll 'em dangerous prove to, put for Instance, la the French, among Crossman as nodded he ever make as could though an undertaking should eay, Fire away. I dont see my little pig, and my little poppy-e- g the stoutest heart pause. Is nlso well liked. cried Pope, wild- your meaning. Do you pause? If tbe Frenchman were then him Cut told to rope the that with and plate staring ly leaning forward was stowed away In a lonely house, Mmc. Xarcisse 'duck,' aa an other. at the eyes glowing desperate near Margate, ormpied by the old American husband might call his betCrystal tapped here and there with lady, and rnayb? others he eould not tor half, she would be very much hla square foot. Ore of the oddest pet I raise yet tell; that he had once had an Idea efferded. said he. I dont pause, of his property by road; but lames that I ever heard of was that objections to grease your keels with. wasfetching hindered by the troubles and used by a famous German general, It may be done, I sny. Where do you perils he foresaw when he and his vho always called bis wife 'my little look to find seamen?" companions left the house with the kernel of coffee. They were divorced I may profess a respectable voyat .last, however, and a cynic aald plate. honoran for and sign theyll age, In we he should that the general's pel name should he said, fart, I'll we are at sea. When run. able have been my dear little stack of call them aft, and those who object chased and raptured. And hanged." said the bayonets,' for the lady waa aald to Ill send adrift. aave had a very sharp tongue. I "Thats It." said Crystal grinning. 'For possessing myself of my own? know a devoted disciple of Walton, "Ill help ye to find some stiff uns. cried Pope, with his eyes full of cruel- who, when writing to bis wife while How many of a crew? and on a fishing expedition, calls her my A hundred and eighty tona. mused ty and temper, aa he bridled tnrew arm his on dear little speckled trout' to strong men sent be for ten dramatically "Allow Pope. adrift. What say to a company of to the table. Worse Than Some Others. Tbeyd hang ns. Pope," grunted forty? Dey say dat dess Husky Henry "Ob, plenty, echoed Captain Crys- Crystal "Any way," continued Pope, flashing Egyptian cigarettes will make you tal sw ftly, but plenty if you please, Pope, for sharp work. This xort of Into cheerfulness and cordiality, "the siek." Snm of dem will A Gritty George cruise Is not a thing a man extends." road being out of the question, Mr. No. by heaven," answered Pope. Crossman, nothing but the water re- dude give me one wid his name atamp "But I (ball want ten thousand pounds mains; and we propose to proceed for ed In violet on It" our property by sea. out of It. How can I help you?' said Cross-maShooting lo Popular. "A i inn Liu. t live," said Crystal. bln country as a priShooting Is the most popular metbof looking uneasily at Crystal. Tve f unit You may put me in the way of of suicide. vateer man, rrd as God is our saviour e. Dolores Watched Him. to discover if they might be tetch-eIn reality the girl did not even sea them. She was wondering vaguely what the woman would eay about the mare. That she had come for some purpose outside of bring.ng the fruit was clear to her. She waited with a linking heart and strained ears for what the woman would aay. She knew well that something must follow. That It waa in regard to the mare of young Green ahe .ad not a doubt Perhaps the suspicion in regard to the guilty Perhaps party had become a fact this woman had come to tell her perhaps (To be continued.) VHl. Continued. com-aand- HABIT IN READING PAPERS. CHAPTER V. fcP Here the conversation was intergy anting byar dednt 'mount tei rupted by the arrival of supper, and so I so high, much, bein' as ye air up the two men talked of trivial things b ringed ye some strawb'rles outer sntil the conclusion of the meal, when our gyarding, Dolores." Pope produced a bottle of brandy, "Thank you; our garden didn't filled a glass, and passing tbe bottle Dolores said amount to much," tha leveled arm of hia guest, began gravely. She looked at her selghboi sober earnest: without a sign of Interest In her face; The idea of trying for my fortune manlistless In usual her he spoke a pirate came into my head on ner; but under tbe listnessness and tearing of Jackman's adventure. You apparent carelessness was tha lave the spirit of the buccaneer and like n sharp sword, that tnow something of the life of the gift was the forerunner of som pirate. Why should not a shrewd, the follow else her than to pleasure. thing and fearless man easily fill his She emptied tbe berries out at tbs I old? basket Into a dish and stood regardGiven a ship, given a crew, there ing them. Mrs. Smith said afterward to be done, no doubt, aald plenty he looked as though she were trying Crystal "But It's perilous work; It's (bort shift if youre nabbed. But why ther e u till! who. for a handsome consideration, will be willing to ship aa our crew." "Oh, that's your want, said Cross-mathoughtfully. He put bin linger to bla nostrils, and striding to the door opened It, and stood looking forth upon the bar with its crowd of drinkers. whisOn s sudden the tled and beckoned, and after draining a pewter pot, there approached him, with some marks of astonishment on man his wicked face, s middle-aiaewearing an old bearer hat sad S n . More Listless Than Usuual. bank heavy with the shadows of this pines that swayed in the faint breeze, and again silence fell around her. By IV. CLARK RUSSELL. beml" tmmi Aeenrdlng ta Aet of Concrra la (ha Ymi jaw by Stmt Salih, la Uw OS.cs of lha Libraries at Coairaaab al Waakiactoa. D. C CHAPTER III Continued. That night bis comrades at the tar-er- a had told him of this; they taunted him with it; they laughed at the glrL They did not Ilka her cot one af them. Narrow natures dislike and distrust that which they cannot understand. Young Green also bad aroused his fears. Green had an education; he had asked where the girl obtained her education, therefore she must he was hare an education. assured of this. He kicked the book contemptuously, and muttered, under his breath, an oath against young Green. If ever he came there again It would be a sorry day for him. Dolores said nothing. ' A sudden frenzy seised him. He stooped and snatched the book from the ground. It was an old astronomy. She bad been reading the book, for she preferred It to any of her mother's books, and whej young Green saw It the day he was there he was much surprised, and promised to taka a volume on the subject the next time ho went that way. She thanked him, and It wss the flrst time she had thanked any one alnoe Betsy Olenn died. That was two weeks before, and he had not come again as he said he would, but she watched for him, feeling sure that ho would keep his promise to her, feeling strangely glad when she thought ml him. 8he had perfect faith In him. Her father's face was lurid as he snatched the book from the ground. His small eyes, close set, were foil of brute cruelty; the veins of his forehead were swollen. In his hands, seed to wielding the heavy hammer, Ihs book was a toy; his Ungers ed over It, and in an instant It Is shreds at her feet. a moment she did not corapre-wha- t had been done; she looked the book to him and back again. Then ska arose; her face was white, asi bar eyas dashed. She looked at bias, and ka cowered before her. She was tall and stately; he had never before appreciated her dignity. Now he appreciated It to the full. The book was the dearest thing In the world to her; he could have wounded her In o other way. Mechanically he gathers-- ! up the scattered fragments and as she held mat her hand for them he gave them to her without a word, without even glancing at her. For the time she was more than his daughter; her eyes were on bis face, and her split ruled his. Then they strayed away to the mountain top veiled In haze. The Ere died out of her eyes; her hands, mecoanlcally holding the torn loaves of her book, fell listlessly at her side; her shadow lay long and dark behind her. There was a sense of mystery about her which her father could not understand; he shrank from It and from her, and passed away up the dark The Two CaDtains hiring a sloop of ten to twenty tens. Pope aald; but that's the least part "William," exclaimed Crystal, "the long end short of Its this we want you to give ua the names and the homes of three men who may not be wholly unused to Jobs of this sort, and ir 1 d well-know- |
