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Show live, anJ l.ih description of the out lit. . i, tabled exgiven In a few ient-iiewith the r.g. squire's actly Satisfied that the one in whom he had so great an interest inui be Jus' a short distance ahead. Colonel John spurred on. There was a long stretch of road between this last picket post and Lyndhurst, that waa practically uu guarded. This waa the region Colonel John had his fears about, concerning the safety of hla wife. itoving bands of guerrillas could easily pierce the outer line of the Federal), and doubtless came within reach of the buildings hla men were engaged to protect. many times. As yet they had heard no algna of ihe vehicle ahead, but the picket had assured them It was not far away. After all, this might be something pf a quixotic errand on hla part, but he saw his duty plainly before him slid would not ahrlnk no matter If hla presence was not needed. As he galloped on be endeavored to map out In hla mind some course which he had better puraue on the morrow, wheu he found himself in the presence of Mollie. All he desired waa to aet himself straight In her eyes. From theke reflections Colonel John-wasuddenly aroused he surely heard a cry In the darkness beyond, a cry that Bounded very like a about for help In a female voice. His blood seemed on Are at the thought of hla worst feara being confirmed, and Mollie, bin wife, being at the merry of the raacala who, serving under neither flag, pillaged the distracted country. "They have been attacked!" were the words he uttered, aa he spurred his horse forward. LmiHiEN EDWAPD- SAmro ar'EiJXSOffBS'J&la'S'Jtr azrumzz jtosjrjszeraxrsY n- - CHAPTER XVII Continued. John, you humiliate me more and "It would only be Justice, and when more. Then you forgive my share In the opportunity coincs you will be thla vile plot? ahe aaked, wlih tear able to dtpend on me. Even my aon in her eyes. deceived me. (or I suppose he knew of "Freely and hilly. he replied. enAa be started for the door be your marriage." John remembered the converaatlon countered the vindictive woman who he had had, near hla old home, with hud plotted so desperately for bl overthrow. Crockett "Yea. he knew. But alnre I cannot One glance Into his face revealed to be of service to you. Aunt Sarah her the fact that he knew all. In tage. aince my being called here waa all a She ground her te-tYou have escaped uie again, John mistake after all, I might aa well return. There la one thing I would like Ridgeway, but don'i Aster yourself to aak you." this la the end. I shall live to ace you "I ahull anawer any question, neph- Huffcr worse than I have endured, ew you are kind Indeed to make uo ahe said, hicerly. "You are a bullish woman. Belle. light of my Ingratitude." "Hare you ever told my roualn how Why not forget ihe pat and live only The.-Is enough work I waa able to nerve you in lula In I he lor patrloili' daughters of the Smith vlller "f have not, (bough I ahould have to do withoin bromlliig over ih' irown done ao, and I will, now that thla has private Iniaginaiy injuri'-- i. I w'lah you the next time uo HI. but happened." "Thank you, aunt. I believe wlun you endeavor to come between Mollie may not be so he known that be will not feel ao bi- (lr mgi-- arul myself tter toward me. We are kin, though forgiving." we fight on different aides, and when She was not at all cowed. 1 will never cease to be a thorn In the war la over I hope to live here , venomously. we your side." al.e IiUm-iIagain It would be much belter if "I hope we wl l never meet again, were frlenda." he said, as be passed from the "Spoken like a Ridgeway -- I fear the better element In our family de-- ; hiiiiuf. Nor did they. acended on your aide and the baser This desperate woman, who did not on aura, John. It ahall be aa you say. I ahall never be dm-lvelike this hesitate to risk Imr life for the lost r:iom was given a dangerous mission CHAPTER XVIII. again." "And my wife you aald Mollie waa a 'lays later. She was never heard of again. here that ahe aaw me enter this Just in Tima. No one knew what became of her. bouse, aaw that deaperale, veugefu! Sbanka dashed after his 8ergeant but the Inst seen of her was near a woman let me in superior officer, almost aa eager for "Yea, It waa true; but tell me, why greu' dismal swamp which in avoidthe fray as waa Colonel John himself, does my sona wife hate you mi ing the camp of the enemy, ahe may for Shanka had long ago gained the have attempted to pass through, only name of a "I would rather not say, aunt I and hence had a you It la entirely to my ciedft, to eel lost and miserably perish. to austaln. reputation were and With all her faults, they though." It waa no false alarm. "I can gueaa it you could nut re- many, she it least loved her country road at thla point waa sandy, The turn the love ahe mice cast at your iiiiire tlimi her own life, which ahe ao that even with auch a rapid adenfeet. freely gave as a sucrlflce in the vance. there was no sound marking deavor to assist the rapidly waning the onward "No, no, not exactly that." progress, no pounding of of the aluklug Confederacy. Still, she gave you (o understand star hoofs such as would have been the i Knowing her vindictive nature from result in another quarter where the She bad a passion for you, and you thoroughfare had a hard surface. This proved doubly fortunate. Not only did It prevent their arrival on the scene from being telegraphed ahead to those who were engaged, but It gave the advancing warriors a chance to hear what was going on. The shouts Increased. It waa a darky who gave vent to them, and his manner Indicated tremendous excitement Faithful old Ezeklal, unable to assist hla beloved young mistress In any other way, waa making all the noise he could, honing la ' to the rescue. unCertain It waa he gave the moatmorearthly yells that ever agonized tal tympanum, and the guerrillas might be excused If they eitherhlaturned fearand ran or aet about ending bullet. a with ful chorua Colonel John, bending forward In situthe saddle, sought to discern the "ZXWT IL477Z& him carried horse hla aa ation ahead 77j& on with great bounds. He could nee lights, aa though the had even had the assurance to rascals would naturally scorned her aa any true, past experience. Colonel John Are at the aide of the road and a atart honorable man would. 1 have sue- - from time to time fuel considerable unplay picket. ported as much, but It does not mat- easiness whenever hla mind reverted A dark object that waa the carter. She Is hla wife, and aa Crockett to the female spy. and around It the moving forms When he stepped out of the house riage, has sown he must reap. You were of the guerrillas. about to ask me something else, ho found the faithful sergeant by the Though hla steed fairly Aew, such door. nephew." waa the Impatience of the colonel "To the horses, sergeant." waa the Where la ahe now I mean Mol-He- r that he kept tislng the spur- s- no pare order. could keep up with his desire. These had been left not far away. "On the way home, 1 have reason he bore down upon the srene Thus attendant dusky Mollie and her to believe." of destruction, ready to besom a like This caused him to be anxious to guard would have had possibly ten sweep anything and everything out of start. follow, and yet remembering her line minutes' hla path. Still, they could probably overtake scorn aa she told him she hated hypoHe was inspired by a double motive before had It vehicle winced the Granger crites and detested him, John and love. chivalry road of the more than half at the thought of presenting himself traversedto (.To be continued.) I.yndhurst. leading before her after what had occurred. The aqulre had once been proud of Why had she braved thla trip to the Who Ware the Transgressors? horses. city, unless ahe waa learning to love his There was a ripple of laughter In the war. waa This her early within him unless something tlu- when the annual The needs of the Confederate cav- around of Capitol Richard heart refused to believe him the guilty Major Sylvester, report wretch Belle Stevens declared, until alry service had caused many a levy Washington's chief of police, was drag-ne- t a had made Indeed, be to with her ahe had seen hla duplicity Is by been used to scrape In every decent read. Major Sylvester owu eyes. to to law Congress report annually South. In the animal not was John Thla being the case, showing how efficient his force is. So the squire's flue carriage-horsehalf so indignant over the contemptioffered on been the Among other things he has o m:ike ble fraud that bad been used to drew had long aince up a set of statls1 ies giving the numand for the last of a'.tar patriotism him to the place as he might have ber of arrests, with the i.u-t- , rnnipicx-inii- . content to been ao he had plod been could he discover no benefit to year or neetipnMim ;iud o (Tens'- of o:;ch along behind a couple of antiquated hla own cause In the matter. urrested. indivtdiuil with breast filled bin that animals Belle Stevena had planned well In the report are many eo.T.tr.s de-- i scorn. aroused had Worden of the gold Major voted to t:ihiiliit-' petty crin.es. inColonel John knew all his. her latent energies. If aurh a thing the of arrest volving not therefore, was He 'nuts, apprehensive, were necessary, considering how she a!.mn vehicle to burglar, tramps, the reaching with regard rival. successful hated hla im-rbunko fakirs, ten and with all before keepers, only them, She believed the game was In her lyndhurst that sort of shady start. mlnutea' exnever could John and that handa. Two lines In th- - list how-v-rOnce niouuted. they galloped along plain away the circumstances whlrh n Peach Tree avenue heading for the the most These now clouded hla name in the estlma-atlothere had at arrest of stated a. out skirt waa learnfast he woman of the The border of the city waa reached. one Senator' and ".wu ilepresonta-llve- s ing to adore. III rnngreni" lay the road leading to I.ynd-hurstBeyond to learn waa Stevena Relle yet But Nidy in the Sen:-.Every des;:ij (he that sometimes engineer are to know- - who the Senawants House and around them, All are peaceful wia the power they very troyed by In and tor and Reprosi iintivcs ;rsupposed to bring Into existence In yet a mighty army lay sleeping to destined the army other words, "hoist by their own pc about Atlanta Moon Cure for BiU Heads. marchwhile and terror dismay carry lard." t The hi ion super-iiirrirulnral mind ing through Georgia Colonel John had made up hla eomiiiuiitli'-tli.it the could hills Far away ou the distant that since he con'd learn nothing the s of an- moon affect !.(., n an, more to hla advantage under this roof, be seen twinkling camp-firei h.i-of t growth other host. t he had better he moving. tn gray, (.ueer belief i hat lie ih. heroes his and overtake was g. to Johnston main Hla thought fiuenees the grew th of h or 0 tj,e Mollie on the read If poaalhle, and es- watching and waiting for a chance to Is nn oil r pounce upon the Federals at some neal. Here cort her In safety to Lyndhurst. should baldbeaded be napcould uie two otiucei when caught too lime they be Indignant Perhaps she might of boar's grease, on- .j, to speak to Mm never mind, he could ping. of the Several limes the colonel turned In ashes of bnrnt e s. on.rarey out hla plan, protect her on the his ryes over the ashes of souMiern woo,j. way, and leave explanations to a more hts saddle and swept the Juice id a white lily root, nn speetarle. convenient season. an dram of oil or s,H-- t almond and tlx hailed were when hy her bade they he aunt Once, hla Ti nlng to In drama of pure musk, make an olnb drew colonel the outlying Ticket farewell. counment Of these, the and after remain If giving his horse, are yon will you again "I If vehicle a the full moon shn the place to ask over leaned and anything tersign, In the city. Aunt Sarah, anoint It every them. on ya jw ' may be al b' to doIt.'for you do not hadThegonesoldier la the aflrma- - bnne. repi'-- d .tale to speak of pp-wn- s 1 r j b-- . e fire-eate- THE GREATEST ITEM ce HIS KIND CRUELTY I By DITH SPENCER (Copyright.) trs had agreed that It waa The d overwork, and that Perclval Challoner had narrowly escaped brain fever. So they ordered him away and prescribed two months of rest of perfect Idleness. His choice lay between the aea and the mountain. and Challoner chose the sea. He had always hated fashionable crowds and counted himself lucky la finding a picturesque yet not spot upon the coast, and In that place a piquant and charming girl with whom he could spend long hours la pleasant chat, and take hla morning walk along the shore. The days were perfect summer days; work, study, reading of every kind had been forbidden him, and ao wlthjiothkig whatever to do and a pretty and bright young creature Juat at hand, what could be more probable or more natural than for Challoner to fall In love? Madge Winthrop waa openly pleased with his attentions, and it seemed quite natural to her that they ahould be much together since an elder generation of Challoners and Wlnthropa had been close friends. But Challoner could see that while hla feeling (or hla fair companion quickly love, her attitude toward him continued to be that of frank and free good compradeahlp. There waa but one of Madgea amusements In which ha could not share, and that waa the aea bathing. It as doubly a deprivation to him, aince he waa an expert awlmmer, and alio becanae Madge took water like a veritable nymph of the aea. But the physicians had aald that this exercise waa too violent for him now, and they had positively forbidden It. One morning after a storm, when the waters had a dark and angry look. over-popnl- deep-ene31nt- o to-th- ; J5mm high-steppin- s - d gaml-'n-is- . . hun-iiui-- , n'.t'-n-'ou- . ln-e- . - s s 1 ..! n i:ir-,;;,-- la buying Diamonds or Jtwalry is eoafl-Ssais Ihe poopio with whom you lied. Wo offor you th fooilitics of trading with a firm dom businsss ssatiauously on honor for ooarly forty years. reached, until he had given his lore's unconscious form into the arms of SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH her weeping aunt. And then, in the act of turning away, Challoner fell PL 4 NTH. SK KIIS. Hmoosanh. Ssruitm TREES i'iN hmbiu-Culu. luirra'I lifeleaa at their feet. A gnats Waalod. As luck would have It, that day Tom Everltt came down to aee how RIDING THE SOUTH SEA SURF. hla friend waa getting along, and he waa just alighting at the door when Author's Description Makaa One Lang Perclval Challoner waa carried In into Participate. sensible. , When Challoner came to hla aenaea "I ahall never forget tha first big and saw Everltt sitting beside him wave I caught out there In the deep he experienced no wonderment; it all water. I saw It coming, turned my seemed the most natural thing In the back on it and paddled for dear Ufa. world. Faster and faster my board went, until llow la she? were hla first words, it seemed my arms would drop off. tremulous with terrible anxiety. What waa happening behind me I "All right again, waa the reassur- could not tell. One cannot look being reply. hind and paddle the windmill stroke. Thank God!" Challoner murmured, I heard the crest of tha wave hissing and Everltt marveled to see tears and churning, and then my board was stealing from under his friend's cloud lifted and flung forward. I scarcely eyelids. knew what happened the first half But in a moment Challoner dashed minute. Though I kept my. eyes open, them away, opened bis eyes wide, I could not see anything, for I was miled and attempted to alt up. buried In the rushing white of the Everltt kept him down with a crest But I did not mind. I was strong hand. chiefly conscious of ecstatic bliss at "No, you don't!" said he. The do- having caught the wave. At the end ctors coming back preuntly and be of the half minute, however, I began left strict orders that you were not to aee things and to breathe. I saw to be allowed even to all up until to- that three feet of the nose of my board morrow." waa clear out of water and riding on "But old fellow, I must! You the air. I shifted my weight forward " don't know and made the nose come down. Then I can gueaa," said Everltt dryly, I lay, quite at rest In tha midst of the "But theres no need to get up on wild movement, and watched the that account Mlu Winthrop la none shore and the bathers on the beach the worse for her late experience, but grow distinct I didnt cover quits a I hear ahe will not leave her room quarter of a mile on that wave, beagain cause, to prevent the board from divChalloner waa silent for a moment ing, I shifted my weight back, but then he uld: shifted It too far, and fell down the "Tom, I want you' to do me a fa- rear slope of the wave. Jack London vor. In the Woman's Home Companion. "Anything In reason, old man. Then go and order hy telephone Proof That Oysters Hava Brains. three dozen American Beauties do it William R. Travers, tha famous now and theyll be down on the six stammering New York wit, once met o'clock train. And give me a sheet at dinner a pompous Englishman who of paper. and a pencil. I wont alt waa "doing" the States. Ho had letup, but I must write her a line be- ters attesting hla Importance fore the doctor comes and forbids me letters from Gladstone, Dllke, Salisdoing It bury and Churchill He had talked But no answer came to Challoner's everybody tired before the dinnt benote of solicitous Inquiry, and he pass- gan, and Travers aaw visions . a ed a restless afternoon. At night the had mpal when he discovered the Engrosea came, and Everltt himself had to lishman to be hla neighbor at table. see that they were promptly delivered. There was never a atop to the fellows were Half an hour later, as he aat in Chal- tongue. When the oysters loner's room reading by dim lamplight, brought on he began: "Now, It la a there wu a knock, and Everltt went question whether or not the oyster has bralna; scientists dispute the to the floor. y hava "What la It asked Challoner lan- - Idea. certainly some, retorted Travers. "Your proof,4 'confounded air, challenged, the Briton, eager for and a noteVF ?,e air, the argument "A it to -- " to shut up. known Challoner. Qulca, Tom, bring the lamp." And doctor's orders alike unheeded d Preachers. The seventeenth-centurand unremembered he sat up in bed puritan and eagerly tore open the envelope. preachers talked for two hours or Thla la what he read: more, not "by the dock," bat by the "Mr. Challoner: They tell ms you hour-glssAt least one of them saved my life. I cannot think so. I turned the to humorous account know I was In danger. I thought you Ho found glass himself no further than the had come to help me and for one moment middle of the sermon when the sands I regarded you as my savior. Then with had run out Drunkenness" waa hla a hardness of which a brute would be incapable, you struck me In the face. You subject and, reversing the horologe. Your pretended nollcltude is coward! Let a have another glass," said he. uaeleas now. I shall never forget. I hope Sir Roger LEatrange tells of a never to see your face again. clerk who aat patiently untilparish "MARGARET WINTHROP. the s Everltt read It and whistled softly preacher was through hla second glass, and the to himself. majority of Well,, what are you going to do? hla hearers had quietly left the church. Rising nt a convenient pause, ha he asked' presently. aaked the minister to clow the church I'm going to see her, uld Chaldoor when he had done, and loner, already half out of bed. push aald the key under It as he and the few "No, you're not not Everltt, pushing him back again. "You that remained were about to retire." can't force your way Into her room Dose Thla Hit You? when ahe refuses to see you. Walt unOne titrable with a good many men she can't avoid you til then. she'll la that they treat their faults aa if Besides, by they were their best friends. see things in a more reasonable light. me a "Then give paper, card, anything, and Challoner wrote: Eyelashes and Eyebrows. "You do not understand. Let me see There la much beauty In long, eiiky not aa la and It think. you explain. you Nothing could bo more unjust, more cruel curved eyelashes. Men are proud of than your letter. Don't Judge me harsh"beetling brows" fringed with fierce ly until you hear my explanation, and bristles. They fondly believe that then I pray you will forgive me. Five mlnutea later this same note such features indicate force of charwaa returned to Perclval Challoner, acter backed np by immense brain and below was added just these words: energy. In Circassia, Persia and parts of India one of a mothers earliest "Forgive you? Never!" It was nearly daylight before Chal- cares is to promote tha growth of her loner fell Into an uneasy sleep. He children's eyelashes by tipping and repoints awoke altout noon to learn that Mar moving the fine, gossamer-lik- e with a pair of scissors when tha and her aunt Winthrop had garet youngsters are asleep. By repeating called to Inquire aa to his condition. or alx weeks the Notwithstanding the doctor's orders this every month become lashes long, close, finely into hurried hla Challoner cothes, and. curved and glossy. This practice la although hla bead ached badly, aald to be very useful In treating Inhis way to Miaa Wlnthrop's home. had been there before him, flammation of the eyes, or granulated Everltt and after lengthy intercession and ex- lids. Shaving will make the eyebrows thick and heavy. planation of his friend's seeming cruelty In striking her, and showing Short Honeymoon. her that to that one blow she could Honeymoons are going out of fashlay her present existence, the fact ion, and will probably eventually r dawned upon her that she waa at entirely they are often present, wrong and that she owed her life to shortened to four or fire days, or the heroism of Perclval Challoner. oven a paltry week-end- ; hnd, after all, Margaret flushed am half arose these wedding trips, though protracted from her chair as he entered. "Mar-gare- t, generally the event of a womans life, dear," he said, "surely you are were often boring to n man. not angry? You were in danger of death and what I did was only to save Soldlarly Quail' a. the girl I loved." Mrs. John Corporal "Oh, yes; I feel She had turned away from him and aura that Willie la going to be n solhe could not see her Tare. She made dier. There are certain signs which no reply. H rau-.-tiher hand and never fall." Mrs. Jack Sergeant raised It to hi p., . "What particular sign hare you no . I did not in an to offend tlced?" "Why, tha dear little darling you," he said sadly. "You wli; not send me eats any kind of dirt be can geL" - ." "TA-t-the- oo-oyst- rrfT Lonu-winda- the Girl Upon Her White Face. Mrs. Donald, Madge's aunt and chaperone, begged her not to go In that day.. But Madge laughed at her Struck fears, There were fewer bathers from the hotel than usual that morning, and of those who ventured in, moat, for some reason, kept quite near the hoie. But Madge, either from a spirit of bravado or from utter lack of any sense of danger, ewam out and out, until she waa far beyond the break- ' three-quarter- er! and away from everyone. Challoner aat on the bluff and watched her aa usual, but with an unusual sense of irritation which at Jut changed to anxiety and then alarm. Suddenly he sprang up, something was wrong ahe waa being carried out by the force of the undertow and now she had become conscious of her danger; he saw her fling up her arms. D wn from the bluff he raced, flinging off hla coat and vest aa he ran. Kicking off hla shoes, he shouted to those on the shore, who had begun to have some dim conuclouiiaess of her "Quick, bring out the line!" peril: and boldly breasted the breakers and warn out to save hla love. It waa a mighty effort, but he succeeded In reaching her at last, though not until Madge's presence of mind had quite deserted her. Once she had gone down, and now as he caught her die clutched at him frantically, madly, ami her arms twined themselves He like serpents about hla throat. could not breathe, he could not shake tier off. and ao the two went down together. Hla strength waa going from him. Were they both to perish miserably becanae of his dear love's momentary madness, her wild and frantic clutch? There was but one way to save her tn be cruel waa now moat kind! And as they rose above the surface of the waters, he raised his hand and track the girl he loved and would have given his life to save, uion her white, shuddering, upturned fare. Slowly, laboriously, with hla dear, unconscious burden, Challoner made his way in toward the shore. The but help was way seemed endless now, the heard he encouraging coming: ahouls or those who held the rope way?" meet them. "Never 1" she breathed und were swimming out to !M,r ,fl ' Nearer and nearer they came; hla nd but faat. sheer was by falling Ml lowed strength against hla g It until the he will she kept shoulder, M.fed up at him. a tremton of had come, uutil the shore waa ulous, sweet smiie i "VT!", 1 res-cuer- Dangerous Youngater. Youd better be kind o careful how you talk to me." aald Tommy, doubling hla email flats and glaring at the other I've got the artistic temper-meboy. and I've got It bad!" at |
