| Show U 07 Author o of Treasure Island This Master Mailer of ot Strange Case Cane of or Dr Jekyll and nod Mr Hyde lIde etc te This put a n second reflection In my mind that If I wore to to from rom Alan All and Ills his toll tait clothes I should be safe against arrest and might go 10 open openly about my business Nor was nit this all an for or suppose I wo was arre arrested when whon I was waa alone there was little against mo me hut but suppose OSO I was taken In ill company with tho the r reputed m my case caso would begin to ho bo grave For generosity's sake nuke 1 I dare not m my lay mind upon tills this head bead but I 1 thought of ot It none the los I thou thought ht of ot It all nU tho more too when the tile bouman houman brought out a green purse with four guineas in gold and the best bent part of oC another In small change True rue It was moro more than I lm bad l But then lIon Alan with less than five guineas gum guin cas had to go hO as for far as France 1 with my less than two not beyond so BO that taking things 8 in their proportion Alan's society was not only a to m my lifo but a n burden on m my purse there thore was no thought of or tho the sort In the honest head of or hi my oty companion Ho lie believed ho was serving helping and protecting me And what could I do 10 but hold m my rn peace ce and chafe chaCe and take nice m my chanco chance o of It 7 Its little enough ellOUgh h said bald Alan putting putting put put- ting the purse in III his pocket but hut It'll do my 01 business And now John Breck If you oU will vIli hand me over m my button this gentleman and me will ho bo for tor taking tak tale In bIg ing the road rond But tho tile bouman after aCtor feeling about In iti a n hairy purse that hung In front of ot him in tho Highland 1 manner though he wore oro otherwise tile the Lou Lowland Lo land habit with trousers trouser began to roll his eyes eyeR and at la last t said ald lI Her r will loss 1059 It meaning he ho thou thought ht ho he had lost It What Viat cried Alan you ou will trill In lose loso o my button that w was my Ca fathers father's h before I me mo OW on 1 I win Will tell ten you OU WUll is us in iii my mind John Breck It Is In m my mind this Is tho worst days day's work that ever or yo o odid 0 did since ye yc worn were born And as aa Alan spoke ho sot set his han hands handson s on his knees and looked at tho bouman with a smiling mouth antI and that dancing lI light ht In his eyes eeS that meant mischief to his enemies Perhaps tho the bouman was honest enough perhaps ho he had meant to cheat and then finding himself alone with t two o of 01 us In a desert place cast back to honesty honest as being safer at nt least and nh nil all at nt once he seemed to find tile the button and handed banded It to Alan Well and It Is Js a good thing for Cor the honor of the tile said Alan and then to me mo Here Hero Is my button back again and I thank you OU for tor partInG part part- ing log with it H It which Is a piece picco with all an your friendships to me Thon Then he ho took the warmest parting of ot the bouman For says sas he yo ye havo done lone er very well by mo rue and set your nock at a venture and I will iii always give gl you tho the name namo of 01 a n good man Lastly tho the bouman bournan took himself off by one wa way and Alan and I getting bettIng our chattels together struck into another au- au other to resume our flight I The In the tho Heather the lie Muir More titan than eleven cleven hours of Incessant hard traveling brought us carl early in tho the morning to the end of ot a a. l ran range o of or mountains In front of us there lay a l piece pIcco of ot low ion broken desert land which we must now cross The sun was as not Ilot long up and shone straight t in our eyes ces a 0 little thin mist went up from Crom the face taco of the moorland like u a smoke so that as ns Alan said there might have been twenty squadrons of or dra dragoons there and we wo nono none tho the wiser Wo We sat flat at down therefore in a 1 howo howe of ot Ute time hillside till the tho mist should have ha risen and made ourselves a dish lish of ot and held a council of ot wa war David said Alan this tills la is the kittle kittie bit Shall wo we lie Ho hero here till It comes comas night or shall wu risk It on ahead 4 f J JJ 4 A sM V k kWell Well said st I I lam nm an tired Indeed but butI I c could uld walk as as far tar again th It-th- If i was WIlS all alt altAy A Ay but It said Alan nor yet yot the half This Tills Is how boa howe we wo stand Appin's Ap fair death to us To ro the south It Its s all aU Campbells and no to be thought though t of ot To tho north neither for tor you ou that wants to get to nor yet for mo that wants to get to Franco Well Yell then well we'll can strike cast I East be bo It It says I I. I quite cheerily but I was thinking In to myself myself- 0 O man If you would only take one ona point j of ot tie the compass and let me mo take tate any other It would be bo tho the best Lest for Cor both of ot us us' Well then cast east ye C see we have hare tho Muirs said Alan Once there David Its mere pitch and Out yon bald naked Hat flat place can a 1 body j turn to Let Lot the tue red-coats red como come over a hill tho they can 5 s p you miles awa ai alay an cHho sorrows sorrow's In their horses' horses heels heels' the they would soon ride you down Its It's no good place David and Im I'm tree free to say Its It's worse b by daylight than b bj by dark Alan said I hear my way of ot it Appin's death for us USi wo we havo ha none too much mone money nor yet meal the longer tho they thaI seek tho the nearer the they may guess whore o wo are Its It's all a a. l risk and I 1 gIve m my rn word to go ahead until we drop Alan was delighted There are s said ho lie whon when ye e aro are Uto gether too canny and to be company for a gentleman like eo mo me but thero there come otter other whiles when yo ye 0 show a mettle spark and Its It's then David that I love ye yo like a brother Tho The mist rose and died away and showed us that country lying as waste as the sea only the moorfowl and the tue l 1 peewees crying upon It and far Car over o to tho tile east cast a herd of 01 deer moving like dots Much of or It was red heather much of or the tho rest broken up with bogs bog and hags and peat peaty pools some had been burnt black In a and In another place there thero was quite a 1 nf or lent dead firs fire liko 10 Jc I I tons A wearier looking desert man never saw but at least It was clear of ot troops which was our point I Wo We went vent down clown accordingly Into the tho I 1 waste and began to make our toll- toll some Borne and devious loul travel toward the tile eastern verge There wore tho the tops of ot mountains all aU around you ore are to re remember remember member from whence we ml might ht bo be spied at an any moment no so It behooved us to keep In the hollow p parts of the moot moor and when those these turned aside from our direction to move upon Its naked face with Infinite care Somo times for hour half to together ether we must crawl from one h heather bush to another as hunters do when they tiler aro are iiara ilard upon tho the deer It was a clear day again with a 1 blazing sun the water In the brandy bottle was soon prone gone and altogether ether If It I 1 had Iu guessed what hat It would be to ern crawl wI half tho the time upon b by belly an and 1 to walk much of thu tiie rest stooping nearly to tho lie knees 1 should certainly have held back from such a 1 killing enterprise Tolling Toiling and re resting and tolling toiling we wore away tho the morning and about noon lay down In a n thick bush of ot hea hea- ther thor to sleep Alan took tho tile first arst watch and It seemed to mo me I had scarce my eyes before I was shaken up un to to take talce the second We had no clock to togo togo go 10 by and Alan stuck a sprig of or heath In the tile ground to serve Instead so 80 that as soon au nH tho the shadow of tho the bu buan n should fall so 80 far to tho tile east cast I ml might t know to rouse him But I was by this time t so o weary that I could have havo slept twelve hours at a stretch I had the taste of ot sleep In my throat my ray Joints slept sopt oven when m m my mind was waking wl tho the hot smell of then esther and the drone of the tho wild be bees sero like pos poa SetH to mo mc and every evory now and a again I would give a Jump and find Ond I 1 had been boen dozing Tho The last time I woke I seemed seamed t tit ti come como back from farther away and ancl thou thought ht tho the sun had bad taken a great start atari In tho the heavens I looked at tho sprit sprig of or heath and at that I could havo have cried aloud for tor I saw caw I had betrayed my trust My ty h head t d was turned with tear fear and ond shame and at what I saw when whan I J looked out around mo me on Oil tile the muir my heart was like dying In my bOd body For suro euro enough h a a. body of soldiers horse had como corno down during my and they thoy were drawing near noar to us from tho the southeast spread out In tile the of ot ofa otI a fan tan and riding their horses to and fro In tho the deep parts of ot tho the heater heator Continued Tomorrow Morning |
