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Show THE strode on rapidly through the ha\\ and | out into the dark street. There was yet an occasional loafer lounging about the walks and the same monotonous gangs of bar regulars were _ filing in and out of the numerous lattice doorways along his route. Passing now under the window of the Western Union office the racket of the receivers within reminds him once more of his belated parcel from Hanks,and scarcely knowing why,he sends the following message: “Detective Hanks, Boston: Come to me at Gushington, Boom Co., Col. I shall be a confirmed a in a week if you don’t. Frank D——” Leaving the telegraph office he bends his steps directly to Brown’s office. It was in darkness. With a shrug of disappointment he turned now toward Brown’s boarding house. The express office was open and he dodged in,though he had called on the same errand five times that same day, to ask if a package had come from Boston, care of Brown. Looking over the waybills, however, he observed the name of Mrs. Phelix McLane. He called for the package. A small parcel, probably not larger than a match box, was handedhim. He signed Dilworth,slipped the parcel into his outside coat pocket and walked on up the street, forgetting two minutes after that _he had ever seen such ‘a thing. Reaching Brown’s lodging place he seized the bell and turned it a dozen or more times at a single jerk. A girl with a pale face and eyes starting from their sockets flung open the door. “What's the matter? who are you? what do you want?” she cried witha splutter and a gasp between each query. at 4 “T want Brown!” was the abrupt. response. “Oh, you do!” and she closed the door in his face with a bang. In a few minutes Brown opened the door rather cautiously to be sure first that his interview was not with a mad Seeing Frank, he laughed just a | man. little and asked what was oo matter? “The matter?” retorted E » mently; “Hothing is th saw saclha Beck &F foo Brown laughed again jy Molly says you yanked t off the door, and snarled a dog with the hydréphobia.” “Molly simply lies. I was as civil to her as I am to you.” Brown laughed once more just a little, and taking his friend’s arm they started off together up WESTERN WEEKLY. clutches once upon him he goes underground, without question or provisos. Bytheway, I telegraphed to Hanks for the papers for his arrest. Your officer skeered I’m all of a tremble.” Jack, by way of experiment put his cold hand over on the back of Cub’s neck. Cub received it with a shudder . that here is simply a creature of the prosecu- made Jack himself start. tion. The papers have not come, and “Say, Cub, there’s a board’ loose over ought to have been here daysago. I on that side and a place where we can have now telegraphed for Hanks himself git down easy and sneak out through This business is killing me off. If you the willers to that there path along side | can by any of your pettifogging strategy the ditch. Les do it, Cub; what do you keep the case lingering for five or six say?” days you may look sucha shaking up Cub drew his jacket close up about of things in this gang of scamps and his ears and looked cautiously round in adventurers as you would dream of.” the direction indicated. “I guess we’d “T shall make a desperate effort to that better, Jack. You go first, will you, beend, but the way matters have gone in cause you can find the place?” the past led me to the belief that we Suiting the action to the word, Jack have no court, nor jury, nor in fact any- drew himself up and began crawling off thing but a prosecutor. In the mean- over the hay. Cub hesitated a moment time where were we going?” and then followed, quaking at each step “Nowhere in particular; I had these as if at any moment he might find himthings on my mind and they would have self treading on the head of a goblin. exploded had I ruminated over them Clambering cautiously down onto the ten hours longer. We can go back ground the urchins scooted off through now.” the willows toward the town like a pair of frightened jack rabbits. CHAPTER XXXI. TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. “T tell you what, Cub, I don’t like much the thing of stayin out yher another week. I can’t see what you want to do it fur.” “Don’t you? well I do, and that’s enough for me.” The boys, Cub and Jack, ever since the night of Cub’s talk with Peggy, had been lodging out in a hay loft two miles from town, that had been filled and left for winter consumption. The house near at hand had been deserted and was in a state of ruin. “What do you stay for, Cub, anyway?” said Jack complainingly. “T told you onct that Brown wus goin to make me git up in court yes of course I do. It was A little pleasure in a world of pain, A hundred losses for a single gain; New hopes and longings for each day begun, To die at evening with the setting sun— Hands crossed upon the breast, and life is done. A brave, strong spirit for each And willing shoulders bared One hope too strong to perish One faith that lives till life’s spun— Hands crossed upon the breast won. bitter loss, for every cross; with the sun, frail thread is , and heaven is BY >t ~ phy + [Written for the Western Weekly. ] A NAREO w ESCAPE. iN something.” “Well, what was it?” Weekly. | LIFE. to testify, and so I come here to hide.” “What was he goin to make you tell, do you know?” “Why <S- [Written for the Western s BY RUSTLER. Chihpah g hua. bat I'd sfayeyher always.” on’ =» I was traveling alone hi’ was = my way north into the United States. I wasriding a wiry mustang, small yet capable of great endur- > ; bout that,” said Jack to ance, and for speed he could not be exhimself. He had all day been thinking celled. I dismounted at the invitation exhow he could get Cub to go back to the city, and believed he had hit upon a tended me by the Mexican who was acting in the capacity of stage agent at plan that would fetch him. “See yher, Cub, I don’t like this place, the time, and he advised me to stay with : the walk. him for safety, as he had seen a number and [ll tell you why, I’m skeered otha “Brown, allow me, will you, to come old house.” *; if * -of Apaches within eight or ten miles of straight to the point,” said Frank before “Why what's the matter witht. it? &he station that morning. Although they had proceeded fifty steps. time was of importance to me as I was Cub’s eyes began to “perk up.” ° } “Better wait awhile, wouldn’t you,’ ted, I on secret-seryice business, I concluded “T’ll tell you, I believe its ha this is not a good neighborhood for do,” to lay over the balance of the day and “ privacies.” “You do? now don’t be tellin me any make the remainder of the journey to ‘Damn the neighbors. My measure yarns yher. It won’t do.” Cub, was El Paso, which was about sixty miles of patience is full. I want you to know serious. from there, during the night. right here and now, and you might as In the afternoon a party of twenty “Its: no yarn, its a fact, I say it with well arrange your matters in that direc- my own eyes.’ Cub drew up cr close contrabandistos, or smugglers, arrived tion,that girl has got to be acquitted,God to Jack and stared up wi look of at the station. They were going to the help her, and you, and me!” wild anxiety into his face.: Frock went Presidio, and after dinner they resumed ‘Well! I trust she will, of course; but on as serious as a minister to relate his their march, and as my route was in the what has been happening? let me hear,” adventure. same direction I went along with them. inquired Brown somewhat under as It was a bright, moonlight night; one “Why, last night, jist afore you come tonishment. in I heered a noise like some one walkin could see a long way ahead, and as we “Nothing but this, I have been up about.” entered Samalayuca Pass we discerncd with her awhile tonight and her grief Cub’s eyes looked as if you might a small lightin advance. A halt was makes me wild, I came out burning with knock them off his cheek with a stick. called and we began to reconnoiter. We I say to you, sir, that girl He already fancied he could see the soon discovered the partly burning and | vengeance. shall not be humiliated with a conviction spooks daneing a jig on the beams charred remains of a wagon near which of crime, without somebody pays dearly above. the bodies of two dead men lay. We forit. Do you know that person who | could see at once that they had been “Did you git to see anything?” procured the indictment and who pro“T was comin to that; you see I never ambushed by Indians and were probably poses to prosecute that unoffeading believed in ghosts afore, but this I know slain early in the afternoon, as they child?” Here in his earnestness he was a real spirit. Perty soon after I were perfectly cold. The Mexicans wheeled round and clapped his hands heered the noise as I said, I heerd some searched the bodies, but not finding anyupon the two shoulders of his com- one a walkin kind o’ slow like and as I thing on them they soon set to work to panion. peeked out through that there crack I dig trenches with their hunting knives, “T realey don’t know just what you seen the darndest bigest woman come in which the poor fellows were buried. mean.” down the road! She was almost as high Somebody’s boys they were, but whose? “T didn’t think of telling you so soon as this yher barn.”’ Strangers in a strange land, far away rm ¢: em TRIES <E <7 re as this but I willnow. Heis the mur- “Did she come close so you could see derer of young Wilson of Boston, for her face?” Cub was pretty thoroughly whose conviction the father of the boy interested and it was evident to Jack now offers a reward of $20,000.” that his story was being swallowed “Well, well! and are you certain of every word. | that?” “Yes, [should say she did! she come I heard him and stood right there, and I never did “Certain! absolutely. confess it.” : see sich afright. Her throat was cut ‘Why then in heaven’s name don’t you from ear to ear, and her hair stood out have him taken into custody.” like a porcupine. I tell you I was “Taken into custody! you talk to me skeered nearly to death.” as if I was a novice in the business. “And did you see where she went to?” Have I not been working night and day “Yes, she went over in that old house, here, to get the scrub in shape for hand- and I wouldn’t wonder if she came out ling? What would be the advantage to pretty soon, for I heerd a noise out there ¢ me or to anyone to bring him to trial on aminute ago jist like she made the a flabby, unsubstantial ease? You may other night; and that’s why I don’t want jset. it down that when the law gets its to stay round yher any longer. I’m so Thence equilibrium, and therefrom order. effect, Some as ping—ping—came the bullets sounding close to my ears, and I involuntarily dodged from side to side as they were sent after me one by one. Then the race began. At the first shot my horse pricked up his ears and away we went at a breakneck speed. Was this to be my last ride I wondered? Was I todie like a rat in a trap? This then was to be the end of my ambition and my dreams. I made up } Gold-clothed Electors, scarlet Cardinals, A holy Senate, causing earth to tremble, Are only players—God wants what He wants. Let an idea in need of time, develop— It grows, goes, runs and joins with everything, Turns into man, grasps hearts and digs a furrow; King may compe, or may stifle it; But some day it appears in Diet or Conclave And all the Kings behold the slave idea Upon their royal heads, rising aloft, The globe in hand, or on the ‘front tiaras. Emp’ror and Pope are all. Nothing on earth But through and for them. A grand mystery my mind that if my horse held out I should escape, and if he fell, I should Lives in them; Heaven, whose rights they possess, shoot until but one cartridge was remaining and with that I should end my Treats them tofestive meal - Kings and peoples, career. At times it seemed as if my case was hopeless and that the red fiends Beneath its cloud where does its thunder roar, were gaining on me, for their bullets ploughed up the ground all around me. Sole, at the board where God dished up the world, I spurred my horse with nervous energy, and the noble brute responded cheer- There they are, side by side, and cutting fully. Up hill and down dale, faster up and faster wesped along. All at once to The world as does a harvester his field, my relief and satisfaction, I beheld a It’s all between them. Kings are at the door, party of horsemen in front of me, border men and Indian fighters. In afew words Smelling the breath of dishes served for them, I told of my run for life and the band of | Indians in my sear, who by this time Peeping in through the windows, tired but anxious, had discovered the reinforcements that had come upon the scene, and had And rising on their toes to see more clearly. turned and fled. But their jaded horses were no match for the fresh ones of the The world beneath them sunders in degrees. frontiersmen. They were soon overtaken and the whole number extermi- They do and undo, loosening or cutting, nated. I accompanied my rescuers to One is the Truth, the other Force. They have El Paso, where after mutual professions of 'good will we parted company. I re- Their right of self and are because they are. sumed my journey bv rail and bade farewell to any more journeying over When, equals both, they quit the sanctwary, the perilous plains of Mexico. In purple one, the other in white robe, The blinded universe beholds with terror . [For the Western Weekly. ] These halves of God, the Pope and Emperor. * * * * ** At The Tomb of His Great Predecessor Charle- The Emperor! The Emperor! Oh, 4 as >I —~—+o idado por los Indios,” were : , Spoken to me some years ago oft Ta tages lade.pretty wéll. through my glasses. Indians, by gum! and Apaches at that. Alone on the plains and twenty-five miles at least from shelter of any kind; there was nothing to do but to run for it. Fortunately my road led diagonally away from them so that there was no immediate danger of their cutting me off. It was but a little while till they saw me, for they gave an intimation to that | + “¢ CHARLES THE FIFTH magne, Germany’s First Emperor, in rage|! Not Aix-la-Chapelle. BY LEO H#FELI. [Prefatory.—Victor Hugo ever bears translation, repetition and interpretation. I translate from his “Hernani” that great monologue of Charles V., King of Spain, and subsequently Emperor of Germany. It is contained in the second scene of Act II of that great play, which over 60 years ago, opened the era of Romanticism in French literature and gave to the shades of Shakspeare their only formidable rival. Don Carlos, King of Spain, is at Aix-la-Chapelle, waiting for the result of the electoral body about to choose a successor to Maximilian. Informed of a plot of German Princes and Spanish Nobles to assassinate him, he has visited the caves of the cathedral where his great prototype Charlemagne, seven centuries be- fore, was laid torest. He to be he! With bosom full of courage! | How happy he who in this cavern sleeps, is awaiting the arrival of the conspirators whom he has entrapped in that solemn vault, where he is meditating in language sub- How grand he was! In his time it was noble. The Pope and Emperor were not two mere men, Peter and Cesar! Coupling the two Romes, In mystic hymen fecundate each other, Bestowing form and soul on human kind, Remelting, wholesale peoples, Kingdoms too, To form out of the whole a Europe new And both recasting in their own hands’ mou _d The bronze left from the aneient Roman world. ; * What * destiny! * And * yet * this is his tomb. Is this at last all that we may arrive at? This, after being Prince, King, Emperor? Having been sword, and having been the law? ’ convey some idea of the power of Victor A giant, Germany for pedestal. Hugo’s incomparable diction. | For title Cesar, Charlemagne by name! Greater than Hannibal, than Attila, Grace, Charlemagne! These solitary Great as the world—and now there it is all! vaults Oh, covet Empire, and then see the dust Should only listen to austere remarks. Cover all the Thou must indignant be atthis our buz- Made by an Emperor. earth zing With noise and tumult. Elevate and Of low ambitions o’er thy monument. build Charlemagne is here! How, sombre Your Empire; never say, “it is enough.” sepulchre, lime and awe-inspiring. My translation is naturally feeble, as compared with the majestic tread of ‘the sonorous French. Alexandrine rhymed lines, but it will Hold’st thou so great a shade without Cut out in large blocks an immense con- struction. What will remain of it one day? Oh, creative, victims of blood-thirsty savages which a folly! in all thy negligent government fails to keep in This stone! And of triumphant name check. and title? theught, Arriving at the “Springs” in the early he left it Some letters for the little children’s morning we made a halt and were soon spelling. eating our breakfast. After the meal high your pride may now the sum- However was disposed of, the Mexicans told me aspire— : mit, that they were going due east to the river, which was twenty miles out of my Two chosen chiefs to whom all Kings Here is the end. Oh, Empire, here’s the Empire. submit. way; so I concluded to go forward alone I grasp it and I hold and take my chances of-being inter- Near all the states, and duchies, and the What is it tome? it. feofs, cepted by the Indians. 7 Something does tell me, “Thou wilt I must have ridden some fifteen miles Kingdoms and counties, are fered have’t.” ITshall. further on when I observed a body of But here’s a Pope, and Cesar, for the | If I did have it.—Heaven what will be? se people; horsemen filing out of a canyon about a mile to my right. I stopped for a All marches, hazard does correct ‘the Alone, above, on top of that grand £, spiral ! hazard. moment and carefully examined them from friends and home, they were the -exploding? Is’t thou, the giant of a world Canst thou in this lie down grandeur ? Fine spectacle to paralyze all That Europe’s thus,and how after. An edifice, with two men on |
