Show 1 el inn 1 I autv or THE DUME D UME TRAITOR sty ry PHILLIPS E OPPENHEIM TIM MA mummer r 4 ath ro ie td before the window she was witching watching tile lie blos boin nn it of tile the apple trees bendig will in the fresh morning breeze watching the restless shadows which came and went upon the gross grass beneath that Is jut just ju t your point of 0 view ale allue she murmured murmin rd but hap happiness A ell 0 oil o would not understand tiny they i i v i ir awn i thee the 0 e two louise ti fi wid lur way without dim culty across it coli bled yard through it 11 postern gitte wt cl in a red brick wall into tile the A 1 I at tile fl Arther end site elie cattle to ftp ditc itc lignIn st which sho elie rested for n leaning tier her arnis upon the topmost bar before her wivi the little belt of plowed earth the fresh pungent odor of which was a liew thing to tier her a little way to the right light tile the rolling moorland land starred with clumps of gorse urse la in front across tile hold field on the other side of the gray by stane wall the rock strewn hills the sky unusually blue it seemed to tier her and dotted nil all over with little masses of fleecy white clouds seemed bonte somehow lower end nearer or was she perhaps higher up she lingered fingered there absolutely bewildered by tile rapid growth lit in her brain and senses of what in 4 rely must ba b sonie some newly kindled facility of ampre elation there was a beauty in tho the world which she had not felt before she turned her ter licad hpaul almost lazily nt at the sound bound of at a muns mans voice A team of horses straining nt at a plow were corn com tan jog round the bend of the lie field and by their elde bide talking to the laborer who guided them wits john Strang strangeway ewey she watched him us its lie he conic came into sight eight up the steep rise lie walked it in step with tit tile the plo willan by ills his side blue iut but without any of at tile laborers ine chmil cat plod with it a spring in his foot I 1 steps indeed pointing with his hid stick along the furrow so absorbed in alm instructions lie he was giving that he wi waa almost opposite the gate before he wa aware of lier ter presence lie he promptly abandoned ills his task and approached tier her good morning 1 you have lave slept slap well ho he culled called out better I 1 think than ever before in my iny life she answered differently lit any rate fate and such an awakening 1 ile he looked at tier her a little puzzled tho glow upon her face anil the sunlight upon her brown hair kept him adleat ile ho was content to look ut tit tier her and iu der tell rell me she demanded impetuously Is this a little corner of fairyland that you have lave found does doea thoi sun always shine like this does tho the earth always smelt smell us its sweetly and aro are your trees always in blossom does your wind always taste as it if god had breathed the elixir of life into it ile ho turned around to follow the sweep of tier her eyes something of the same glow glov seemed to rest for a moment upon his bis face it Is good he said to find what you jou love so much appreciated by someone else they stood together in a silence tit ill most curiously protracted then tita plowman passed again with his team of horses and john culled called out some instructions to him she followed him down to earth tell me ine mr air Strang strangeway ewey she in quiren where are your farm buildings come and I 1 will ivill show you lie he answered opening the gate to let tier her through neep keep close to the hedge un 4 0 1 they stood together in a silence al most curiously Cur louly protracted acted I 1 til III we come to the end of the plow and then but no I 1 wont anticipate this way ill they reached tho the end of the plowed held field and passing through a gate turned abruptly to thu the left and begun to climb a barraw path which bordered the boundary wull and which became steeper every moment ali they as aa bended the orchard and tile the long low lov house on the other side seemed to llo lie almost nt ht their feet the road and the open moorland beyond stretching to tho the encircling hills came more clearly falt tl aaice L infused it nt t last ess ills ii it the home of the fairies you tire re taking tile nie to site she asked if you ion linc have discovered that no forider r you oil mid atiq it ordinary women outside your our lives I 1 lie ile Inu glied there tire where we tire going lie he assured tier her they were on a roughly ninde made rond now which turned abruptly to the right a few yard kiili i ahead skirting skit tins the ali side of it a deep gorge they took it few steps further and 1 oulie coulso stopped short with a ci cry of wonder around tile abrupt corner on air entirely new was reven revenged led a little hanika built on ft sli shoulder of tin the mountain i and on the right below a r btty feel dament lest elit it wide vide and sunny valley it wits like a tiny world of its IN own hidden ilithe in the bomont of the hills thou thero was wan a long line of farm buildings built of gray stone and roofed with atti rud red tiles i there wire were fifteen or twenty stacks n quaint whitewashed house of consid arable size almost covered comred on tit southward side with creepers a ro row of at cottages and a gray walled liitle sure stretching with alli its white alte boin stones to the very mry brink blink of tile tho in lie ilia of which blitch wits na tin nn angleat church in ruins nt at the farther mil end partly rebuilt with the stones of the hillside louise looked around tier her silent with wonder it real Is it sho she asked clinging for a moment to john arm why not you asked where acro the inn annd yas vas if lint lit we MO tilled now look down hold bold my arm if you iou feet giddy site follow od the wave ae of his ash stick tito the valley below them anil and the lower hills on both sides were parceled ed out into fields within stone walls valli rein ludIng tier her front from the tit at which litah they stood of nothing so iauch as tho the quilt upon tier bed iler her eyes swept this strange tract of country backward and forward saw the men like specks lit in the neich field 9 the cows cova grazing in the pasture like toy ani nials then she turned and looked at tho the nent row of stacks and the square of farm annn buildings 1 I arn am trying hard to realize that 7 you 0 it art arf it farinaro and that tills this la Is your life she said lie he swung open the wooden rate gate of the churchyard liy fly which they were standing thero there wits mas it tow row of graves on either side of the ilia print prim path suppose lie ho suggested you i tell me die about yourself your helf now no about your own life my afy life and the world in which I 1 live spent siem far away aay just now she said quietly 1 I think that it Is doing nio me good to lieve a rest from thorn chent talk to me about your jo ursel seif please 11 ile he smiled led ile he was vaa just a little illi 11 4 appointed we shall very ey soon reach the ind end of alt all that I 1 have to tell you ion lie he re marked ked still if there Is anything an thing you sou would like to know who were these men inan and who lio have lived and died here site she interrupted with it little wave ao of her hund bund toward the grnes graves all our own people lie told tier her site she studied lie names upon the tha tombstones spell ln then them out slowly the married people lie went on tire ire burled buried on oil UK tit south side the single ones and children tire are nearer the ii null till tell me lie he asked after a moments hesitation tire you ion married or single site she gave a little start the abruptness of the qui cuistion stion tire the keen stolid stend fust size gaze ot of ills his compelling cies seemed for a moment to paralyze both hi hor r nerves and tier her voice ace it was as as if someone tind hid suddenly drawn away one of the th stories stones from froin ohp foundation of her life she found herself lr tolt repenting repeating the words on the tombstone facing her and of elizabeth for sixty one years the faithful wife annl helpa into of ezra cummings mothe of his children and ills his partner in the lite life everlasting I 1 iler her knees began to shake there vaa a momentary darkness ss before her eyes site she felt for the tombs tombstone tune and sat eat down dovin CHAPTER IV tho the churchyard gate was opened and closed noisily they both glanced vp up stephen ewey was comil tig slowly toward them siong along the flinty path louise suddenly herself her again rose briskly to her feet stephen half apparently lost none of his dourness of the previous ions ight As lie ho looked toward louise there was no mistaking the slow dislike in ills steely eyes your chauffeur madam his has just return returned eol he announced ile he sent word that he will be ready to start at one louise inspired to brittle battle hi by the almot almost provocative cathe hostility of her motor elder host smiled sweetly upon him you tant cant imagine how sorry sorry I 1 am to to ilear it she said 1 I dont ickow when in the whole course nt Vf my ifft I 1 have hae met with such a delightful adventure venture ventur ilor or spent such a perfect morning ill I 1 stephen looked nt at her with level approving eyes nt at tier her slender form in its perfectly fitting tailored gown i nt it lier her patent shoes so obviously insult lue afir and add ap A tho the of anft s it I 1 might say nay ha go without appearing inhospitable he remarked with billit su reasin pur casin tills this would seem to lo be the hit fitting moment for your departure A closer examination of our rough life up hero here might niter your views if I 1 11 to do not have tile the of seeing you again permit tile me to wig wish it you farewell ile he turned tural A rind walked away louise ze watched lurn din with very real interest do you know she sold said to john there Is something about your brother brot lur a little like ilice tile the prophets prop heta in ih the old testament in the way ho a sees only one issue and clings to it are you too loo of his way of thinking up to a certain point I 1 believe I 1 nm nin lie fit confessed do you never feel cramped in your inland I 1 nican moan feel that you want to puth your way through tile the clouds into so rome no other life 1 I fed fe ea nearer the clouds here lie ho answered simply they were leaving the churchyard now sho she paused abruptly pointing to a single grave in a 11 part of tile alio churchyard church vard which seemed detached froin the rest whose grave Is that lie ho inquired ile hesitated it Is 19 the grave of a young girl lie ho told tier her quietly she wits was the dauger tor ter of one of our shepherds she wont went into service tit lit carlisle and returned liere with n child they tire are both hurled burled here nic Ilven use of that her grave Is apart front from the others yes lie answered it asvery la very seldom I 1 nm ain glad to say that anything of the lie sort port happens happen 1 among us 11 for the second time that morning louise was con conscious selow of tin unexpected of emotion eino tinn she felt that tile the sunshine had gone that tile the whole sweetness of the place lind had suddenly passed away avny tho the charm of its simple austerity had berl perished shed and I 1 thought I 1 had found foun d para bisol slip she cried she moved quickly from john strangle cys side before ho he could realize her intention slie she had stopped stepped over the low dividing wall and was on her knees by the side of the plain neglected grave she tore out the spray of f apple blossom which slit she had bad thrust into the bosom of her gown and placed place i it reverently at tho the head hand of tho the little mound for a moment her eyes dro drooped and tier her lips moved she herself 1 scarcely knew whether it was in prayer then she turned find came slowly tack to her companion something Roni etl fiig had gone too from ills charm she saw to in him n now ow nothing I 1 hut I 1 ut the coming dourness dourn of ills his brother her heart was still heavy sue she shivered a little it was lie ho at lost last vo kilo spoke will you toll tell mo me please what Is the matter with you and why you ion placed that hat sprig of apple blossom where you did ills ilia tone woke tier lier from tier her lethargy she was a little surprised at lid its poignant almost challenging note certainly she replied 1 I placed it there us its it a womans comans protest against the hie injustice of that isolation 1 I deny that it is unjust klie turned around and waved her hand toward the little gray bull building ding tito savior to whom your church Is dedicated thought otherwise site she reminded him do you play tit at being vill po 4 I 1 L i e t ol 01 0 a h 11 1 1 placed it there a as S a wom comans womans a ns protest against tho injustice of that isolation lords paramount hero here over the souls and bodice battles of your serfs you judge without knowl knowledge edgo of tho the facts lie ho assured tier her calmly cn linly louises footsteps slackened you men she sighed nrc are nil all fit alike ike I 1 you judge only by what happens yen never look inside that tha t Is 13 why your justice n R so different from froin a womans comans wo mans I 1 do it not wish to argue with you but what I 1 so BO passionately object to im IH tile the sweeping judgment you make the sheep on one side and tile the goats on oil the other that Is how holy ninn judges god looks further ewery every casol Is different tho the law by which one should he be judged may be poor justice for another glanced at almost appeal angly but there was no sign of abold ing in ills his face laws lie he reminded tier her nrc are made for ilia lie benefit of the whole human race sometimes tin nn individual may suffer for tile the benefit of others that la Is inevitable and so lot let the subject pass ole concluded but it saddens me to think that one of the grent great borrowa of tho the i world should bo be there like a to spoil 10 lo file wonder of tills this trint morning nIng I 1 now I 1 TI n going to osk ask you a ga question estion are yoi the john Strang strangeway ewey aho alick vho has hab I 1 i catte haa bad a fortuno fortune left to to him liliant h you sou read about it in the newspapers p ers I 1 suppose lie said ila inart t of tile story true 11 I 1 was stat stated L d that I 1 had never burn L na my y Au australian australi an undo uncle but is as n i matter of fact ho he has been over hero here three or four times throes it was lie who cald for my edu education cution at harrow and oxford what lid our brother say to that lie ife opposed it jolin john confessed and not lie hated my iny uncle lie ile detests late ats alio llio lie thought of any one of us going out of sight of our own mis hills my uncle lind had the wander fever ani and you site she risked asked suddenly 1 I lit lino ve nono none of it lie assorted asserted A very ury folint smile played about tier her lips ills I 1 poi imps not before site she murmured hut but now do you ou nivan beci tuse I 1 have inherited tin tho money why should I 1 go out like a don quixote and search for vague adventures adventure you anre a man annl ill she alic answered swiftly you have ft i brain and a soul too big for your life here you cat and drink and physically you flourish but part of you sleeps because it Is shut hut iway away from tho world of benl ill things dont you ou sometimes feel it lit in your sour very heart that life ns as we meant to live iho ito lt can only be lived among your our follow fellow men ile he looked over ills hla shoulder tit at tho the little cluster of farin buildings and cottages and tho the arny stone church it seems to me lie he declared simply that tho the mail who tries to live more lhnn one life fall falls in both there Is a little cycle ccle of life here among our thirty or forty souls which |