Show frk SS CONDENSED CLASSICS THE SHUTTLE J X by FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT A r V A f f condensation by A y alm s elizabeth M lee th the very large laree e vey number niini lier of novels novel 1 I credited to the nanie of men nurit nett I 1 include ne I 1 udes important ll 11 rant of life lu in both coun conn trie she hau bull k lown T that Is a t loss 01 0 1 0 arl 1877 and n d jin si mortha 1870 a are r remark remarkable tible dorler olt of the K JUngli n r 1 lull mh nitting and of lancashire life brough Throw Bh one ad m I 1 n Is I 1 r n ion r 1883 an in its name Isu implied plies takes takei tier her to lo aix li ington perhaps the mont of nf lier her other stories are A lady at al quality 1800 and ills grace of it Or Mondell though H burglar nu relar aud and sarn sara crewe 1888 time achieved a wide reputation the book nua ana the play piny of 0 little lilt tle lord ford raun faunleroy leroy probably spread mrs nur dur n ittle unnie nuie the bron broadest dest it had n prodigious run runt the he pretty pathos of the tory story appealed to grownups Krow though it seemed deemed silly billy twaddle to the innumerable kids who were dragged by fond parents to nee it iti and wax was raid to be a arent isI sance to that one of the an jin thorl own children from whom it was ara dra drawn nn the play piny of Ea meralda done with W it II gillette from one of her short stories tor lr ran aist thice e yearb in Aini america erica A ledr of quality dram blaed with stephen Town townsend mend as fl were other plays had a run in E was wag BETTINA JU ten years old when tier sister rosalie married sir nigel an tet lit ruthers an english baronet betty hated nigel with a childs instinctive hatred for a bully but in spite of his there was wag a certain fascination about him ivsich alch blinded IROs alto to ills his real character they were vere married in the whirl of gayety gaiety which befitted the daughter of n multi mil llon lion alre and left now new york for england long before the honeymoon ended rosy discovered that nigel cared only for lier her money and nothing whatever for tier lier pretty rather shallow self and by the time Stor nham court was reached rosy was as desperately Pho and frightened iler her life in tile the little english village even while she was the lady of the manor was made a nightmare nare by nigel and ills his mother and when and terrified rosy sought spiritual consolation sol lation and comfort from mr feol llott ilott the vicar nigel nagel accused her of having a lover ile he intercepted her letters lied to her about her parents and tit at last furious at her refusal to ask her father for money he struck her so that she fell in a heap against a chair ond and cried out with a crazy awful little laugh nigel nagel be care careful full 1 you dont know ow how valuable I 1 am ami I 1 I 1 might I 1 might have bave a son Is 1 fifteen years passed and the shuttle of life weaving back and forth between the two countries weaving a ceaseless web over the ocean twisted ft a thread in the life of betty that sofr ed her with the spirit of adventure that had been bom in her dutch forefathers fore fathera and always a voice cried out to her to go to rosy to see why the letters from england had bad been so BO few and so unsatisfying betty was a lovely woman of very from the gawky gawk 7 long legged litti 3 schoolgirl school girl who had bad angrily defied nigel struthers An but she eho kept her determination rind her will vill power and booked her passage on tho mauritania with a party of mends friends at sea a storm came up tip that threatened to send the ship to the bottom of tho the ocean and rallying the frightened people who were with her detty had the unexpected assistance of ono one of the second class passengers a silent gentlemanly englishman who helped her to keep order among the passengers and then ns as suddenly as ho ha came disappeared into the second cabin the storm abated at last and england was reached in safety but betty did not see the roan mail again when betty reached Stor Storn nham harn court her worst fears were confirmed bosy was changed from a dainty pretty lovable girl into a faded wreck timid and dowdy before her time iler her son ughtred was waa a hunchback and with the cringing nature of his kind tried to hide himself from the world nigel was on a trip to the riviera and his mother had died which left rosalie alone in the court which was tumbling down for lack of repair with plenty of money at her call and with plenty plenay of courage betty set about her work of transforming rosalie and up the house which soon boon changed from a ding gloomy pile to the stately english country house I 1 it t hould have been she superintend en ed the repairing of several of the file houses in the vI lInge and one lay day during her regular drive about storn ham she went farther and visited tho the grounds of the mount dunstan estate mount dunstan was almost as badly jn need of help as Stor nham there was vaa 1 A I superstition which had rome come flown through the years yeara that the furls arn J af mount dunstan were veto cursed and aho ho last earl jana james hubert Sal salty tyre c shared the dislike which lind had been acon en ills his father going through th grounds betty found the roan man hail had been tile the second class Pas bassenge 11 on tho the and assuming fro fron ills is dress that lie he was tile the keeper all talked liked to hlin blin and learned some something of tho the family of mount Du durishan Dunst tin at A she was going she offered him money when to her surprise sho she learned that lift lie was tho the earl more annoyed that thai confused betty forgave him for th deceptions deception and gradually friends lill sprang up between the two houses then as if to cement their friend ship the shuttle S twisted in the wet wel of G selden the junior salesman foi the belkoff typewriter company ol 01 new N york who made mount dun st stalls ans acquaintance and learnt learning ng that the daughter of reuben S was in Storn liuni went to eve EKO her in tile faint hope of selling tier her a typewriter and contrived to break his leg in front of Storn linin hain court they carried him into tile house bouse und and cared for him and through ills his slangy care free manners manner lie he unconsciously broke iowa down the barrier of prejudice that surrounded mount dunstan and went I 1 back ack to Ain america erlea happy tn in the possession of a letter to mr air the establishment of a longed for iberri I territory antl and the order for six typewriters which were to be sent to england the long summer days found rog hos alto very nearly restored to her former self and perfectly contented to have hetty betty there when nigel tired of tho the riviera and having exhausted his resources returned to Stor nham there to find the place built up and repaired rosalie almost free of tier her fear of him and betty rich and beautiful in full charge no sooner did lie appear than rosy fell back into her old timid ways but with a view to propitiating bet ty nigel treated his wife with as much kindness as lie he could assume everything lie ho did was done with the hope hopa of making betty like him until ila ha found that mount dunstan Dun penniless 1 ns as ho he was loved betty and although she lid did not confess it betty loved him nigel was crafty however and bided bide ills his time until there came a dreadful scourge of fever that swept the vit lages ages mid and terrified the people mount dunstan gave up ills his homo home as a COB pital and heedless of his own well being he acted ar ae doctor nurse rind nod minister and won from everyone tho love and respect that was his due and then when the fever was wag ablating abating he was taken ill an awful day followed for betty for they had told her of his bis illness and slie site knew that if the worst hap they would toll the bell in the church tower sundown caroe came and with it the onit ominous tolling of the bell tile tho pitiless notes that froze her heart and blindly she rode from Stor nham tr trying 3 ing to shut out cut the sound of the tha lie lell iler her horse stumbled in a ll 11 hole and throw threw tier her injuring her ankle and then it was that she knew nigel had bad followed tier lie ile found her hiding la in a little hut and claimed her tor for hla his own and in answer to hla his demands she said bald there Is one who stands between us one who died today lie ile laughed at her and tried to take her in ills his arms but she managed to evade him and ran as best sho she could with her injured foot and hid from him alm in a tiny clump of bushes ahls ceaselessly I 1 conie come you who died today you who biedl died I 1 and then he came the man she thought had died the man she loved and who loved her and finding nigel with evil in hla his eyes he led her gent ly to the little hut but and then went bac back tl to nigel what followed would not ba good to repeat but betty heard sounds like ike the howling ofa of a dog and when mount dunstan finally came back to her it was with flashing eyes and clenched fists his broken horsewhip trailing railing on the ground then he told her how it had bapp happened ened how he hall bad simply had a headache and the tha bell lad had tolled tor for som one else and how when ho he founds found fihe be had gone he know knew that it had been for love of him for a jew few months nigel lingered stricken with paralysis and then tha kindly weaver of the shuttle slipped clipped out his black thread leaving rosalia contented with her father land and moth er cr while the golden threads of the love of betty for lier her man wove themselves in and out forming thi the perfect web of happiness copyright 1919 by tho tha post Publish co the boston post copyright in tilt ui united kingdom the tha its ita col onles onies and dependencies under andor the covy copy right act by tilie the rost poat I co boston 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