| Show fORTU ES f RAA BY I NI I y II RN W a aC C MAU 11 iSaS sy fA C ih 4 I 1 l I TOD TO TODY Y Y Colonel Holies and ad- ad returns to the theand th land and ot of his hia birth when then war lIr ar In tA de- de de with Ith Holland He lIe comes to lodge with Martha Quinn hostess of the lie Paul laul s a Head In Paule Paul a Yard London The Colonel ask asks his old friend His rile Grace of Albemarle to secure for him a place ploce In the omm 01 m and w hIm thit th the name of ot Randal Rondal Holies father lather ol of the tho colonel I Is on the warrant arrant for Cor forthe the ha execution of the late king kins I Thel e it Is Jq dangerous gerou fo tot foi the th colonel to secure a 0 Holies bIle 1 to Mrs Quinn and Islon Islon of oC a youthful love af- af affair fair return to him Nan the object of his affections had when after fl n e years Holies Holles lemma to her At her hr aunts aunt's home loine he recel receives es sc nt cOurte courtesy y yOV M lOW V W GO O 0 WITH THC D By groat great by foi tune by a II heat hea enI Pro l ence in her her eyes niece I I was as ausent so in III inthe Ithe the caUse of or she lied to t 3 although him although ot of this thiB the poor rel- rel rellow fellow low hall hail no suspicion In In that case oung sir OU 01 i sock something I cannot give i iou au You mean you do not know that that she has left Idt son iou ou Silo She braced herself herselt to the right right- eons falsehood That is 18 v what ahat hat I mean hen When did she eho ho e lease iou ouT Tell 1 mo me that at least east Two Two years ago After she had been with mo me a sear ear And whither hither ltd did she l e goT go You Yoi must know thaU I 1 do not All that I r know Id 18 that she went she i la Is In Lon Len London Lendon don clon That at le I 1 kno know kno I im i'm where re she would wish Ish to be br Ling Ing alt worldliness and ungodliness He lie stared at her n- n n sick eick- sickness ness oppressing him His little Nan Nar i In Lon Ion lon alone and friendless without means What hat might not ho o ha e happened to her in t two tao 0 oais I o Inquiries In the tillage might hate ha altered the whole hole coure cour e of o hI his life But as If it the unutterable gods toda god of ot Mrs TentH a s devotions re- re removed removed moved re-moved moved all chances of the tho ion of her ber ends Randal rode out lof of Chai mouth without hating ha s to another soul for loor six months after that he h sought Bought Nancy In all places likely and and And all that while In Charmouth Nancy Naney patiently and trustfully awaited a his comInG which should er her from the dreadful thi of Aunt s godliness For lor she he 11 did 1 not share belief that ho lo as dead doad And meanwhile mean despair was set set- t ti time ling upon oung Randal To halt hae e i ll cd and with but hut one ono In- In Inspiration inspiration In Inspiration and one aim and to find In I n the hour ot of o triumph that the aim atm has haa been boen rendered able unattainable Fortunes is to know ones one's self for I l For For- or- or tune tunes s fool tool To a II 10 loial al soul sout such as his the blow w was crushing It made life purposeless robbed him him Of ambition and warped arpod bi hIs bis whole nature His Ills was vas transmuted Into and restlessness lie He required Uon from hi his brooding tho the career of o arms arma arm at home bome in time of o peace could offer otter him him none nono of ot this He quitted parliament the of ot the parlia- parlia ment and went to abroad abroad to Hoi Hol- Holland land that happy haplY hunting ground of oC all homeless adventurers H lie He entered Dutch nn and 1 for a season prospered In It Hut there was a t difference deplorable and rim grim He was no longer concerned to build himself a tI position In the th state tato buch fauch a thIng thine was as impossible In a n foreign land where here he was wasa wa a II mercenary a soldier of o fortune n II man who made of oC arms arma a trade soulless and nd uninspired With the thew th pul w LIlUe or of the he put on a m mercenary's habits His ills easily earned gold he ho spent riotously lY pro pro- pro as s was as taa e ever oter er the mercenary's way stay Ho He gamed and drank and n squandered It tt on s women omon He lie grew notorious a man loan of reel reckless less courage holding hIs hia life Ilfe cheap an able ablo leader of ot men but a e dissolute hard drInking quarrel quarrel- some Boma En lander whom hom It was vas as not safe Rafe to II too far The lO set Rot ii t In at last but bunot not until use n fh e ears of ot title thin life Ufe had ha one corroded bl his soul It came to hint him binone one day da when holl ho realized that h he was WM o er 30 that he lie ha had l dissipated his hi south louth and that the path he hiT toa trod must roust laid leid him hint ultimately to oth a contemptible old age Some Iome of the good that slumbered lumbered In the depths of his soul oui welled up II ii to Cry cr a halt He Ic would go back buck cally an and anil h hn would 1 n isis hla step steps Ue lie would seize l o this Uila life liCe lid I- I Irk h held a II Lla l ln k clow ot oC oCa ota o a u St ith v cre eves that wis itis IS slipping from from him and am remold l It to the original intention For that he would return to Log Eng England land then Ho lie wrote fOto to Monk Monk who tho then waS the tho PO man In the tha realm But fool hie he li wrote rota just too ht Itte The restoration as accomplished It was a a fow fot ono old no rio more For ono ono- who one who had been a prominent parliament man In tho the old das da g s and th the son soror of n ii man still more there thero was as no BO phee co by bv b then In English ser Ice Had he h but made the application some somo months sooner whilst the restoration restora restora- restora- restora tion was WIlS still In the balance and had he then taken sides ldes with Ith Monk Monh in tn bringing It about ho Ito might byi by that ery ery act oct hate haie redeemed the past in iii Stuart 0 eyes c es up a 0 to cancel the tha oil oM debt England Then cime the tho war and Eng Eng- Eng Eng- land s a unspoken summons to ever son of heia hea hei a who trailed a sword s abroad Dutch service could no longer hold him this ibis 1 his was v as ble hi op op- op opportunity At last he lie would shake off the filth of a mercenary's life and go bOl boldly y home to find northy orthy employment for his hie a avord ord CH PTER O V The Tho Mercenary y Colonel Hollos Holles Holl a took the air all In Paul s a Yard drawn forth partly by the olce of ot a preacher on the tep ot Pauls Paul's who ho was as as attracting a 1 d about him partly b by his own restlessness lown He Ho was moving along along- the skirts ot of before the cro crowd that had collected be- be be fore tore the preacher with sith no Intention n of pouting panting when hen suddenly a phrase l him Repent I say while hUe It is time Intel I For LordIs behold the wrath of the Lord Is upon you Tho The scourge of Is raised to smite iou ou down don HolloR looked over tho heads of the held beheld assembled and bo- bo h held ld a black crow of ot a II man ca ca- ca cadaverous of cf face tace with Ith sunken eyes that th t glowed flowed uncannily from the depths depth of ot their sockets ook t the tile voice croaked Behold your peril and by prO pr i er and amid reparation j sAt et t your- your solveS ulve to avert It whiles yot yet It may bo be time me Within the Parish Parishof ot of St Guns GUes this week eek lie 11 RI thirty dead of this dread pestilence ton in Ht it Clements Clement's and us ito m ny In 1111 St t AndrewS Andrew'S Holborn These The B are lUe but warnings warning Slowly but surely the plague plague Is la creeping upon the city elty As Sodom of ot old was de- de de I Ithe troy d so 80 o shall hall this modern So Sodom o dom darn perish unless sou ou rouse your your- yourselves selves and cast out th the evil that thatIs thatIs Is amongst you moved on lit lie h had d heard odd allusions to this pestilence which wig said Std to be bo mahln In the time outskirts and It was wa alleged by some fools wa wan wana wasa a weapon ot of warfare wielded bY bythe bytho I Ia the tho Dutch Dutch-at Dutch at least that it nag as the Dutch who had let It loose lit As Ae A England he moved on a a man ot of handsome presence and soldierly bearing with Ith the tho drita and aim ah ahI of a gentle man limn considered him I intently with eyes of or stArtled won won- wonder wonder on- on onder der As Holies came abreast or of him he ho suddenly stepped forward detaching from the crowd and ht a caught the tho Colonel by the arm Holies checked and turned to find himself gravely regarded b 1 this thin stranger Either Dither ou are Randal or 00 else the devil In his shape Then Holies know o him o ghost rho tout out of o his past as s he ha was him him- himself himself him him-H self lt II a ghost out of ot the past ot of thIs otherl other othor an old friend a brother arm brother arms of ot the days ot of Worcester and Dun Dunbar I ho he cried Ned Tuck Tuck- Tucker Tuck Tuck-eri er or And Impulsively his foco faco alight he held out his hand band The Tho other gripped it firmly I mutt must hMO have known you any any- anywhere where hero Randal despite the tho ho change chong that time has hM wrought rought It It has wrought rought changes In yourself as well lint But iou ou would I seem scent to hate hale prospered The Colonel s a faco face was rejuvenated by bya bya bya a look hook of ot almost almot boyish pleasure Oh Oh I am well enough said As ou see sea I IThe The others other's gra gras grave e dark dorl e eves e es con con- considered considered con considered him There fell a silence an awkward awkard pause between bet these thes these t two 0 each of ot v whom shorn horn desired to ask ash aska aska a hundred Qu questions At last l st I I last heard ot of o lou iou OU In Hoi Itoh- Hoiland Hol Holland land said gaid Tucker I I am but newly nely homo honto Whatever can cah havo hato brought us ou The Tho war and the desire to floe employment In which I may servo sero my country And Anci youve you've found It if The smIle on the dark face faco suggested a scornful doubt which almost made nn an answer unnecessary Not Ct et It would have hao moved my won IOn wonder dee der If It you hid had It was wae wit a rash rash- rashness rashness ne ness s to havo hato Hl 0 returned d at all lie He H 10 11 ed his big voice lest Jest ho should shoulA be overheard The te of Isn t healthy at all to old ol of tho the Parliament Yet you are oro here Ned Nod I 11 Again that slow half half- scornful smile lighted the tho gras gra grae e handsome face Ho shrugged Ho He leaned toward Holles Holle and drop drop- dropped dropped dropped ped his voice olee still sUlI further lily My father was as not a regicide ho he said sahl Therefore The I am com corn comparatively obscure Holles Holies looked hooked at him the eager pleasure which the tho meeting had h blought ought him withering In 1 his face Would men over eer 1 er keep green the memory of this thing all and anil of the silly tie lie with which they haa bao g It Must Iut It ever eter proto prO an insuperable obstacle to him himIn himin himIn In Stuart England T Nav Xav na nay neve look so 80 glum man laughed and ho he h took the Colonel b the arm Let us go somewhere Rome here who e wo itO 0 can n talk We W should have hate a deal dealto to to tell each other Holles swung hint him am mound Come to the Pauls Paul s a Head ho him I I am lodged there But Dut the other hung hunt back bach heM hesi hesitating tating lodging a n moment Mv I own o ing Is Im near at hand band In Cheapside Ito ho said Mid and they the turned about again In silence they mo ted moved ed oft off to- to together to together gether At the corner of oC Pauls Paul's lard Tucker paused and turned to Zoo look 1001 acro across at th the doorway of Pauls Paul's and the fanatical preacher who ho stood there thera shrilling HIs olce floated across to them Oh the great groat and dreadful GOdl God I Continued In Our Ne-it Ne t c I r suc ue 0 |
