Show A candle in the wildern wildene Wil deme ess anyone who has hag read the light in the clearing A man tor for the ages 0 or r in the days day of 0 P poor 0 0 r richard needs not to lie be told of 0 t the h a romantic interest 4 which I 1 r v vine I 1 n g c 0 m benes with a strict fidelity to facts in his historical novels novels n 0 v e 1 s ot of A rn e r I 1 b c ft a tie no 1 I amount of la labor bor iri in the way ol of cc combine m bing over old records and rending authoritative wor works k is seems to be too g great reat tor for him irviing bach ater it Is known that he spends several years in preparing rep aring t the he materials of a historical romance ills patient research and his fits fine power ot of reproducing du c ng the th thrill rill or 0 events the atmosphere theof mo sphere of eras and the color of lives never have been more evident than they are in this story here Is an epic of colonial new rang land both a love story and a pageant t with stern stem puritans justice under churchly direction wild adventurers earnest statesmen stout colonists pa tient mothers and demure maids with now and then one ot of spar sparkling loing do de meanor to shock the austerity of the times wild youth to oppose the laws sovereignty and ever in the background the red man lurking and bewildered wil dered knowing not whether to murder or befriend here Is an exhibition of the hue and cry the origin of that term trailing victims into the pathless forest to the lodges ot of dobec to the like lake of the lr Iro quola and to the long house through the country of the and to stirring episodes in quaint new amsterdam and boston into the fabric of the story step with the glow of reality such engaging figures as sir harry vane and cloger williams such men of might as john winthrop john endacott Endl cott thomas dudley and john cotton and playing tin an important part Is that keen and humorous amos man of many battles and experiences who was a companion of 0 capt john smith TI there ere are glimpses ot of that famous ann the waman with a tongue and a logic that confounded the strongest minds in the c colonies ol onles the love interest Is carried by two dashing young chaps cavallera cavaliers cava cavall liers erB by training but puritans puritan by conver conversion bion and a cc couple u dl c ol 01 f maids maids of slin similar flar antecedents wh whose os parents have come to the colonies to escape the oppressions oppress ions of the old world PROLOGUE 11 which relates to the back ground of this narrative they called it the mighty deep it was tile the lords waste even the pro men who when ashore were of a light and boastful carriage venturing out upon it even in the great ships of two hundred tons or more had bad solemn faces and would be always kneeling with their betters at prayer time those who went out to sea bound boun d for the new world fn an the third decade of the seventeenth century left ile he hind them an england no longer the merry land it had been it was rent fettered and impoverished by two great tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies the crown rind and the church high prices had reduced the buying power of money the gentry whose lands were leased eased for long terms and all men of unchanging incomes were sorely pressed europe knew but one great industry it was war the profit in which came from seizure loot and oppression charles I 1 had failed to make it pay ile he was ab burning up the resources of ills people and nd forcing loans to keep his armies in the feld f ald those who could not pay had bad squads of soldiers eold lers billeted upon them only the yeomen who had the friedt fruit of mother earth to sell were prosperous A land lust was abroad and many were thinking of that world in th the ewes west t N where v here land was plentiful and easy R to be had A new spirit was on english soll soil a desire for peace and for a greater liberty of mind and con science a hatred of oppression a faith in honest industry governed only by the laws of god and seeking only the fruit of its efforts the common folk had begun to read and dream of a better world of a stern aud and unemotional nature they were now moved by a strange depth of passion to begin the building of it where no king icing or bishop could stand in their way many of the rich and learned even certain of the great earls carts shared this passion under its urge some of their sons and daughters were braving the perils of the deep and an unknown wilderness to most of these adventures death was a familiar enemy for some a sublime faith had killed their fear of it they were in a temper for the doing of great things lings ti CHAPTER I 1 the escape and the voyage the sky is overcast A day in early july is near its end two young men are riding at breakneck speed on a country road between hedgerows hedge rows in the east of england they are pursued by a kings of officer fleer the spirit of the future Is on the flying chestnut mares ahead the spirit of tile the past la Is in the saddle behind them lie ile is lashing his lathered horse robert heathers and william heydon sons of gentlemen in lin coln shire both twenty years of age ride neck and neck into the falling night leading by less than a pistol shot eliot they have been on a visit to their young friend sir harry vane at raby castle durham the ancient seat scat of the nevilles this brilliant youth was a shining example of the new spirit tit in the young gentry Cast castles lest 1 silks 81 1 waving plumes t gold braid and spurs I 1 lie he bad exclaimed what have they done for foi A tale of the beginning of new england by IRVING BACHELLER service copyright by irving bacheller cheller Cu Da L england ng land after a thousand years of wars and tolls our great city Is london with less than one hundred und and seventy thousand people in it we need mills where there fire re castles saws instead of silks crowbars instead of plumes plume work instead of idleness doing instead of undoing religion in tile the place of pomp holding enough reality to give us peace deac P harry could ile he ills father had been the of prince charles and was now it a member of the privy cobi council lell at court harry was laughed at a as a lad ind with a twist in ills his brain william and clobert now nov fleeing on oil tile the highway had been even more rebellious than lie at a public meeting they lad had openly denounced the tyrannies tyrannizes tyr annies of the crown it turned out that taftt a spy heard and reported their words having slaving no friends tit at W the young men spurred their steeds while a pistol ball cut the air between them court they were not to be lightly dealt with the high commission had resolved to make them recant or suffer the pain of death now within a dozen down miles of their home its officer had come upon them with a warrant the young men spurred thear steeds while a pistol ball cut the air between them A rain had bad fallen and the road was sloppy they held their advantage other shots went wild above their leads heads in the dusk the lighter horse of the officer began to fall fail the space between pursuer and pursued slowly widened when the latter came down into their familiar fenlands fen lands they were shrouded in darkness and as they drew rein the officer was so far behind that the hoof beats of his horse were out of henring hearing they leaped a hedge and at a slow gallop crossed a broad pasture to a tenants cottage on the heydon lands these young men were friends from the same neighborhood above and in sight of the wash blond blue eyed comely youths nearly six feet tall alike in exper experience lence und and breeding in height weight and color their merry faces were of tile the same mold so that often oue one was taken for the other when they were apart they had biad a like also and it was their fancy growing out of their mutual regard to help the resemblance by dressing in the same fashion the second sons of gentlemen they were a rash and heady pair of rebels their opinions were as common as short hair in their neighborhood but generally spoken in a whisper among gentlefolk whose fortunes were indeed a part of the kingdom these young men did no whispering the soul of england and the courage of the young were in their voices on fresh horses they spent the night in travel disguised as the sons of yeomen in the use of whose dialect they h had ad some skill next day they went aboard their ship whereon their goods had been safely stored it was the Iland handmaid mald of one hundred eighty tons bound for boston in the new world under tile the puritan captain john ilu d aleston dl eston who was privy to their plans and who had bad a heart for more than wind and weather the ahe handmaid was in a calm some il fifty aty nilles miles off the isle of bt captain huddllston Hudd loston sat with a number of ills his passengers on oil tile poop deck one evening they could hear the cattle bellowing below in calm weather a strong stable odor seemed to wrap tile the ship robert heathers wrote in a tetter to sir irenr ills his father anther the captain a big portly red haired man with mighty forearms always alvas bare lias has sailed three times limes to tile the plymouth mouth colony on my first trip trill I 1 made the harbor with the lie fortune in it may 1022 lie said 11 1 I looks up fit at the shore and what do I 1 see e trees trees trees and a few little houses and one bigger than the others all made 0 tree bodies and roofed with marsh grass on a hill in a palisade and about fifty men women and children down to the shore and bavin their chief we lowered a boat and tool took water me and two sailors it were a 11 cold barren strip 0 land satan was in greenwood behind em so his big that it Is like unto the sea no min man hath seen its end the fiends 0 hell bell inhabit it tile the bitter stilt salt winds 0 the water waste hind on the rocky slopes and plunge into the wilderness knockle knocking knock ln in down the high trees in their h haste a s te ills enemies ile he that strong and many that the god 0 heaven en would a found it hard to keep a footle there even in the purest heart I 1 was 0 a mind to blubber tough old log dog that I 1 am when the women and the young ones ran upon us crain and kissin our lands hands every face withered to the bones and brown biown its as an old sall sail they was halt starved it broke the heart 0 me to look at tem em did ye ever see a man inan come out to be hung the way the men inen joe looked ked solemn and lind kind 0 wild their hinds hands trembled when they shook my old rope hauler aye ave it were a sight to wet the face 0 ye e you whose bellies have been filled with beef and mutton and rich capons camons and good beer or old wine what think ye e these people had been e atin to keep em cm alive root hoots by the god 0 israel I 1 di dug ig out 0 the bie wilderness and dried diled berries and snails and mussels I 1 gle give em all the bread I 1 could spare and flour four ounces for each person a dayto day to stead lem em until harvest bluest time and some powder and bullets halt 0 the whole phlp s load who lad had gone over two years vears before was underground r dotted rotted by scurvy burnt up by fever I 1 but these that met me were in no DO mind to give in I 1 swear by the heard beard 0 Ph pharaoh arnob I 1 never seen I 1 tile the like ol 01 0 it they had bad a covenant with god so they told me their feet were soul tied when an englishman things hes right its easier to kill him than to change tits his mind 1 1 I said to the captain that I 1 thought it a shameful thing to take women and children into such euch a land 11 ye yc cant make way without lem em said the captain ye might as well say there have been an eve in the alie garden 0 eden adam would have wore himself out se search archin ln for happiness men will never behave orderly without women and children now there was westons colony near the one at plymouth all able and lusty men they were not ngoan agoan to have women and children to put up with they bragged 0 what they would world do and bring to pass what happened they stole the indians fodder and got their sides stung with arrows and their heads smashed by tomahawks they aliey powered themselves out blew up stand it where theres men theres got to be women or afore long hell Is ahead and tile the wind behind ye ve there were the usual incidents fits of a long ions sea trip the passengers were roughly ro tumbled about sudden lurches of the ship threw them against one another and turned the dining table into a place of peril for the person and garments of those able to take food all moved with great caution clinging to fixed objects for fear or of having their bones boned broken A high wave in a fret of w wind ind burst a window at night and c created a panic TO BE CONTINUED ay mt |