Show this is a story of pioneer days in TIPP ESCANOE indiana when courageous frontiers men bovi fought the redskins red skins and the by D SAMUEL i mccoy m r wilderness and won vast territory commit 1916 to ca I 1 I 1 david larrence arrives in the frontier f settlement of Coyd corydon in the indiana indana territory makes the acquaint acquaintance en of kindly pat oban non a and hi h pretty I 1 y daughter tonett toinette and gets get work walk in the village store david had followed an enemy from england to kilt kill him ban at al most immediately tie he b becomes me involved ut in strange plots in amer america one of them d develops ipe in this installment nt 11 continued 2 david 10 1 up P Q quickly nt at ii hii 1 s catler she was lounger than he e antl ad pretta and freckled and ad uh alien she amri wrinkled led up h her r ri nose le as site she asked the question david could not forbear am smiling ing in spite of the like mo am smile the vitter utter copeli asness that returned to his hia cavernous eves a ewt filsht ad law hei she felt as t I 1 6 h she had unwittingly hawked at th tle do door ofa of n ho houe A that hid a tragedy gedy and she was use on the verv verc of adso di amed X retreat but under der the alie funny little nose imse there wits was a kind little attle ananth so and a square little chin A BO she ahe dic hew w la in her breath and ran up all her lo 10 colors lota au two 1 pound aund ton ten a yard it a d dollars its not lis pounds mads here vou know ehnow she chided you sou re engrid h aint t you ills his smile frails was frankly bitter now 1 I in at done with england he flashed back A yankee dion I 1 even more in c credulously tes Is not thank god he burst forth sit she A to remove the I 1 impat pit cation cahm ot of scorn scora in her words well I 1 suppose well wait be too fa ther r and ad I 1 we jut just mra arrived it at condon candon this nai coining aing but 1 im in not thank ing god for the prospect project IT his a silence seemed to disconcert 4 her or she way may have been conscious of something in her that imagined a rebuke he be did not intend she bit her bar lip and threw a back backward glance thres three cheers tor for the president the candor la in her es cies lent leat a atty sincer ige to her words rd she turned and be beckoned ek 0 tied to her father who was chatting at the door he seemed to be used to her humors fort to he be mine came for said aid indulgently with well dough daugh ter he had bad the broad brand r red face 0 f a faa dodds P prosperous a british fact fanner r a ruddi dirk in a which alch vou might discern no bun an sla of f ga guile 1 He 1 artines rain radl abed led ito from at him film ca from roon I 1 the a motor maturing q ng sm bun his slit shrewd al t little t us A ci cs I 1 looked on david with mith so no b dionest meat a kindliness that david gave him instant trust A strange thing for david knew it was wai far the farmers a of england gland whose chose flour mide ad the loaces a whose price had made the W weavers avers go hun ban gry rath rather I 1 want you to she tu turned ad w winsomely io mely elv to the young storekeeper want is your rout name tu T ie huog man surrendered D david id larrence burron thia rh 4 Is do my y father mr me job cranmer crany my iffy name a is L adia and I 1 im his ata only daughter and ad A he do does what tot I 1 tell if him to don it you father and she gas gave him a tug nt at his elbow the jiame lyda lydia instantly b became e tor far david a on of those on the calender calendar your tour daughter gatal 1 Is vety very und mr me C the girl hastened to import impart the one as id piece ece of information she h had ad gleaned a bout about her countryman he HA soya mys he Is going to live here A fine try this Y young g man an approved M mr cron cranmer heartily 1 I me moan to settle here they The lei roe land and is as chea cheap P here on the wit wil d ds berness s hard border AS aa coals at 1 in Nam newcastle estle I 1 at a farming g man loure no far farmer morT hazarded the girl to dood david N no I 1 was a weaver 0 oh I 1 said aid C cranmer meater comprehend R ang 9 the then it has t has been all 11 skittles with you hey young man maa A wave wae of dark red swept over dovid david dovi davi vi id 8 face a and nd he seemed unable to answer notten ham way maybe pursued his question questioner r tes he assented and choked over the word 1 I lour a lie people have been hard trod kendly d kindly den haven it they i cassaw cranmer oh do not at mind bid me of it I 1 broke from to D david I 1 vid i i 5 lips he bowed boned his head bond t to 0 it hide I 1 de t the he team he be could not at control real lydia lydi t turned ted ed to her father for er id III likely this young mart man suffered with the luddites Ludd ites be is remarked tell us af whispered whIsper aid lydia we are sorry ay d Q n england blustered C Crania r a umer er without an apology for the oath A t L do dald id looked at the we iraa intently there be a ns A thing bout about him that it beti question nottingham market place la Is a 8 talc fair sight bight 11 observed the ft farmer or no 1 I louve ave beert been there A ay one watt monday feast clifton groves were ere green then ihm C cried ad lydia eagerly there was blood or on the parade at two years ago david burst buret forth fire smoldering in hla his eye our people go gathered th cred first at market goose fair air in 0 october crabs r maybe it was the like plenty we saw there them then that made aude us wild my A IY rather father and my brother and I 1 had eaten n hut but one meal ft 4 day tr fi weeks before there were mere other colliers worse ors off abs tbs than we A I 1 saw n starving child knocked ties down and ad bent beat on en that slid stole an apple ft aiom I a ill they us out of the he market all a we C cursed ased england it till november thet that we could bear the rent of the fail frames no DO longer on go r the roen men were ere fair wolves by th then on every night they gathered in front of the exchange then the cold began and we had no coil coals nor a ei en posts peats tima fi om shewood shera the nun a bibi blasphemed 1 I alicy shouted that it 0 was as the machi rv that was taking the bread from us my father they called my father lacher la cher tar lar ronco rence because he begged them that to wait unit th though A he wa on one of them M mv ti is bac arza t aher I 1 read it to him at home the night they stormed the in mills 1 11 out ot of st SL john his ees A were A gone they broke the looms that lint 1 night I ahl he stopped ills his eyes were mere burning like coats coals ON newcastle castle sent seat his it men a f aiom their quarters quarter I 1 in n help the con can stables stable T they hov I 1 took 0 ok four of them 1 in 11 collaton street an and then they came to our if mirage cottage ha IT stopped again got deathly puts pole they took my father with them hem he biased m david s voice we was a low law the there a was one ile who sold said that mn mi f father ther had incited the riot ile he was trembling so that his two hearers watched him in pity idly but he be drew himself together of the twelve judges of england we a did not know which bich one would try we tue rioters we addressed pleas to all 11 1 I do not at suppose any of our let tera tem got beyond a clerk we were very ry funny in the assizes of michael mas term tem the cases were thought so unimportant that none of the judges was nas delegated to them john silver sit ter eq me recorder bearder arder and mr bosanquet sitting rent four five prisoners were hanged the case against gaint fl them was too open they had been taken in the very verv act of violating his bla majesty majest vs s decree crown law since the twenty second year of his relga reign sly father thanked god for hla his release A cry of joy come from lydia a lips ll thail batal god indeed echoed cran ra mer or david smiled tied at them as a man smiles files at his hia surgeon rg in december we us were a crowd of skeletons in rags we stood in the wet snow saw and watched a man lit in a black hood fix the nooses about the necks of tour four men then the men feeks tell R th the is length of the rope and aad were or still I 1 th they cy had little life to lose the man a who stood next nest me was aas my broth brother th the e fourth foth felon they hung was my fth father or yore tour father I 1 A man sobbing a will dry eyes Is libbl g dreadful to look a upon but the man who was set free reel dit balda a face was terrible they set him free who bereaved betraver my father he fled from us u he was a of one traitor the worse orse nad aad had sworn god help him 1 rather and daughter were mere silent david could say no more but leaned a gains against t the counter his shoulders V JN i 0 fit you most marry mo trembling lydia felt that to stay longer would be intruding including on his bis grief she plucked at her fathers arm and they Is left the store Ther els a lad will make good conow can meat in the yank yankees W service said old sir mr creamer cranmer when they were out at of hearing what a dreadful story exclaimed claims the girl and how wise he seemed I 1 1 learned from his father ill be bound wagered the former farmer those nottingham are a set to an make tim england I 1 tremble they n walked aked back to the to tavern talking g in low tones fears uen een so ledin appealed to ed to fear that at someone adame might dirand rand hear car want at w were re dailue NI ow and then at some light rustle she glanced aal anxiously ly about bo it antl ad bound belind the them R but the sti beet w as empty only the tall bending elms awe near and they might be espe expend tid to keep her bc fahm s rt CHAPTER III vows V driving forward with wit th her scattered ved Nod ettes the vestiges tiac 0 of winter spring began to the main boda of net ner arav the lilacs become became delicious aolua da spread rs re of fragrance the jn ponica unfolded its ita exquisite sing single Is flower violets ball hallowed owed the dead glasses of then the dogwood trees hung out their snowwhite snow white blossoms lilie like huge bage white butterflies against till drifting cloud and up into the warm naran air flamed the daring color of the red maple ot of the swamps the se seventeenth of the month T toinette a oanna 0 bannon met math ft paz aling 1 ing experience that afternoon side she lias as aou karu 1 the Rard iti behind her cabin so that it might not at caeg so lor ft Us wealth of b bloom a am that IRA spring the cyc pr teara team gathrie in tier her eyes as she ii bent beat over the task she was thinking of the garden in new i ew orleans grimm otiose w hose first cool blooms had been kathend ga theliA to be laid beside the still AIR awta fees face that had it a d irmon gronn cold at her birth now she herself li a r s elf was mas a woman moman and had found eulth her father a new home in the northern northe a wilds S she lie gathered some sprays of oc barite purple hyacinths that a late frost had with mith red ered on their stalks these she twist a ed into a dejected posy and ad t tossed sod let into I 1 the lane mourning even f tor or the them then thea she stooped and beg began to a dig u idly about the roots room of some in love in the mist suddenly she liaa ron roused rond d fama her lythwin dayd icam fir by the S sound IT of footsteps passing on the aid side at street r I 1 lil th that t passed the girden garden and then she le heard an ejaculation like the moan moa A of a beast caught a u tn in a trap and a hec heavier voice videe speaking g too startled to a move she be lit listened Ced behind the screen ing bushes what all alls you yen na man the th mark the th mark what foolishness now what mark there I 1 the purple posy I 1 oby ob oh my Y god G it 0 the speaker seemed to choke 1 I 1 a the other laughed contemptuously 1 I as Y nonsense man those thos be hot but fl flowers someone has dropped they mean naught you yon cannot know said the ther other C convulsively livoy if 30 iou but knew the oath A fiddlestick for the ahe oath the gruff voice blurted throw the thing anav I 1 till you and forget it east it t with you thor ther as ia a pause and the then the commanding voice resumed throw it aw an sy ay man it u was As naught but a mummery the gill ahl heard their steps pass on down doma the street using quickly she stated stared at their retreating backs the one was a tall youth whom she recognized as aa young doctor ellliott El Ul llott the other a broad shouldered portly fig uie me a stranger str to her As she turned bach be ck her eve caught ran sight of a crumpled bit of paper ring liing on the path outside the garden and with milt gh gill I 1 ish ib excitement she hastily ran out and 1 picked it h ed it up da dirt it and in greasy easy it tas as if with mith long handling and on it written in a struggling straggling hand and un an couth spelling were the words I 1 edward 1 scull 11 a of my own free will 1 1 0 anil ad aaa aboard do a deca are and ad solemnly ware that I 1 will amer roceal to A easy ow i per oo or persona A aney tiling a as that may mar lead lead to the dl dS LOery of 1 the m aade filhol althar in or by word men am or seat action as may Y lead ead to abne das discovery under ds lape the penalty alty of f balle bent it out oat of this world rad by it the first arat bilier that may meet we roa after the A per pie CIA k forth more e I 1 a do A aware am eliat it t 1 I zdi wit will punish b by death anoy Y or ter hould thera then iney or rise arise up ap am amongst t us ua 1 I will 1 1 pursue wi with ah let ten getice a al h he 1 A 1 I to the it ersco e ol 01 1 statute I 1 mill kill be b gust afa t true bar and faithful fIffi ful in 1 ail 11 my deilis with SIT all my eath brothard Bro thara so heip god cd C d to keep this in oath I amen am ahat 11 hat had doctor elliot elleott i to do with ia L ard ral scull she pd ov pr the riddle and tried to baals it rh hh albaugh a laugh but as she rt rd to the smiting smiling garden it see seemed recil to her that a mad no an weser bigger the than a mans a hand but still a cloud came wax the place wh when elliott eiliott having ridden tilde 1 in from louis louisville v ills a on a his mare mar called on tol to nette later in the afternoon they strolled at ids his sugg suggestion estion along the river path she had bad not known kanom him long but on each of h his weekly a y visits fair dhel in to crado corydon he lind find sed in A deverr look and word ord a growing passion for her the eairl girl walking in a revert reverie that d drew raw a veil et of ten tenderness d or over the deep laVid of a her bar eye ayea a and nd the april day fading out on t in I 1 a dream it santa of n a amethystine blue and a dazzling glory glary of gold seemed part of 0 f each ane hother other by list her side walked the tall young do doctor e for and he too was part surely of the tha beautiful fellowship of the imbur world he speaks toinette here are anro violets st blue as your eyes tot tol nette its 1 sit she does not answer the words are only a pat pait t of the it dis they need no DO answer it vou marry me Is hot she heard now nou th but I 1 ilie be could not believe what she had liard biard you do not or know what you are siy say lug ing she laughed put he paid no heed to her tol to nette theia la IS one 1 in the ald world the there will never ever be a anyone G oh 1 I please don t go on I 1 I 1 shall A never a marry I 1 do not or believe I 1 was mas me meant ant tor for kinuria mairi uge 91 wren arent t some girls b bom 1 I lo 10 he be spinsters spin ter a no 0 o not no sot not Y houi a lis its I 1 shall b be e nn an old elf maid there 1 Is to no one in the world that I 1 shall ever many I 1 shall hall be happy with nay my f father till nil mv 1 life wid and have wily only good friend friends faithful fica she addled in a whisper so 10 low that it seemed a thought not speech lour father is 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