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CHAPTER XXV.
Changes and Chances.
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to God I Had
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that :
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shaking 1
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t that an
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Of I-arry's fu?
muet go?and go at <?;
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?, and
I wish you would share tho house with
us.**
"The sheriff and thove fellows won't
squeal very hard ? : Perform?
ild Stoddard. "And they
won't tr> : .? reaaae the prisoner, even
for a reward, from s house where the
dea -?ck to Hi
but >ou can't bold a British
prisoner in an American private house
Too many peoplo know he
has been In this part of tho country;
?nd you may be ?ure that the fight
hare ?nd the return of Mr. Glenarm
will not fui! of large advertisement.
AJI I ?an ask of yon, Mr. Glenann, is
that you dotata tho felto-v a few hours
after I leave, to give me a start."
After a late luncheon.?for whteh
tho amazing Bates produced cham?
pagne?the others left us?Stoddard to
????? get his thtajs togethor?
and my grandfather and I talked for
an hoar.
**Yea wfll stsy on here,?you will
bet;) me te finish the hoarse?" the old
gentleman asked with unrn'staliab'o
eagerness of look and tone.
It seamed harsh and ungenerous to
tell him that I wished to go; that tho
great world lay beyond tho confine;?
of Glenann for me to conquer; that I
han last as veil a? gained by thorj
fear mooths at Gieaarm Houeo, and
wished to go away. It was uot the
mystery, now fathomed,?nor tho
struggi?, now ended/?that was upper
most In my mind and heart, bat mem?
ories of a git* who had mochad ma
with delicious glrUsh laughter/?who
had lurea me away from the Indiana i
woodlands that I might ses her traru?
formad tato another, mero charmlax
being, only to shatter my faith at the
end. It was a comfort to know that
Pickering, trapped and Bafchattaa, WtVt
not to benefit by the bold trick she had
helped him play upon me. His loss
was hers as well and I was glad In my
bitterness that I had found her In the
passage seeking for plunder at the be?
hest of the same master whom Mor?
gan, Ferguson and the rest of them
served. I did not mention her to my
grandfather; I resolved never to think
or speak of her again.
The fight was over and there was
nothing more for me to do in the house
by the lake. After a week or so I
should go forth snd try to win a place
for myself. I had my profession; I
was sn engineer, and I did not ques?
tion that I should be able to find em?
ployment As for my grandfather.
aro for him. a
aa. I was resolve:
m anx
adventurot:s
\g ways. Re knew well
? was lo?* : and
?
?racks
mind
I hai
?
I find ? .vhere si
?
? kind:
swa>
I ing '
'?. If
I wa?
- be frkKi
at his h*
I deeervfd. ?I
chan.
ear I was
I
??? an lad
? ke is re;.
my hosad 1
?
of a mar? ton can
' a red tain-o'-eha:
Ing a
breaV
?
?n who :
-ha was G
I
an who:..
? to know h?
and .^ho
1 acting as hi
' e lost notes, that ?
grace In his eye? by -
over ?
hatei!
too smu?. ani
were I
?? me as a model;
and tho C: laa De v?r?
eux she was with him?M
Sherry's tho night ! here.
I euppoeo oho re* -tha'a
only a few ho .
"Tee, Sister Theresa was ner
dlan. Her father was a di
and I knew her from L
hood. Yoo ore mistaken, J
knowing Pickering tp??atvi -
they both lived in NOW York and
moved in tho samo cire.
"Bat it Coosn't explain her efforts
to hein ?ilrn, dees it?" I
wished tc
told me that.?an :
?nlsorably to h '*lan tere
?I ran away to iellew :?
"Ah, to bo suro! You woro away
, when those va
broko la. Batej merely rr.er.tlo:.
in tbe la3t report I got from him In
New York. That was all rl^ht. I as?
sumed, ol cour-3, that yon had gone
off somewhere to ; iirist
caas cteer; 1 don't caro anything
about it."
*ataft I had followed her?I went to
Cincinnati to see her?don't you u??
ad? Sho dared mo to camo?it
was a trie!:, a part of tho conspiracy
to steal your property."
Tho eli sentlenaaa 6mlled. It was
an old brisk of his to crow calmi as
ether pooplo waxed angry.
"She dared you to cerno, did she!
That 13 Quito lilt's Marian; but ycu
dJda't Laro to go, ?aid yoa, Ja.
"Of course not; of courco I didn't
have to go, but?"
X stammered, faltered and ceased.
Memory thr<aw open her certain with
ft oUUeajfc ? u?? Hinzu o? the
stairway at the Armstrongs'; I heard
her low. soft laughter; I felt the mock?
ery of her voice and eyes; I knew
again the exquisite delight of being
near her. My heart told me well
enough why I had followed her!
"Jack, I'm glad I'm not burled up
there In that Vermont graveyard with
nobody to exercise the right of guar?
dianship over you. I've had my mis?
givings about you; I used to think you
were a born tramp; and you disap?
pointed me in turning your back oa
architecture.?the noblest of all pro?
fessions; but this oerf ormane? ?f
yours really beats them alf. Dont
you know that a girl like Marian De
vereux 1st, agent
of any rascal' .lleve
I minute that
follow her so you ml^ >our
rights to :
?'Hut why was she trying to find
thos" of his? 1 she
come back f- . with his
party? ir those
things, maybe I'd ad?' ?
la a pretty
plan .?a are con?
cern
.Tack, doa't speak
it girl as women! I
-
?ere was a
pena
would be
?4 are
ip now
?My a
?
own country. Tl
won' ia do.
.
?hat
should have s
,-hlm
see that
..nd rubb?>
want
was
him as now. wl
?
a ?
i
CHAPTER XXVI.
Vi?tae.
In
?
?
Idard.
irm.~
?
with so
' I want to
They Clatped Hands.
In Rates' voice, and he sprang forward
with his hand 1 *>ntreat
ingly. Hut Larry did not heed him.
"The moment I *et eyes on this man
I recognized him. It's not fair I
or to him that you should not know
him for what he is. Let me introduce
an old friend, Walter Crelgbtoa; be
was a student at Dublin when I was
there, a poor boy with nobody to help
him; but I remember him as eoe of
the best fellows in the world."
"For God's sake?no!" pleaded
Hates. He was deeply moved and
turned his face away from us.
"Bat, like me," Larry went on, las
mixed In politics. One night is a rtot
at Dublin a constable was killed. P?o
ono knew who was guilty, but a
youngster was suspected.?the son of
ono of the richest and best-known
men in Ireland, who happened to get
mixed In the row. To draw attention
from the boy, Crelghton let suspicion
attach to hie own name, ?and, to help
Lho boy's caso further, ran away. I
had aot heard Croa? or of hi? until
the night I came here and found him
the defender of this house. By Ood;
that was no servant's trick.?it was
the act of a royal gentleman."
They clasped hands, and with a
new light in his face, with a new man?
ner, as though he resumed, as a famil?
iar garment, an old disused BSi
allty, Bates stood transfigured In tbe
twilight, a man and a gentleman. I
think we were all draws to him; I
know that a sob clutched my throat
and tears filled my eyes as I grasped
his hand.
? what in the devil did you do it
forT" blurted my grandfather, e\
ly twirling his glasses.
Bates (I still call him Hate?.?he In?
sists on it) laughed. For the first time
he thrust his hands Into his |>
and stood at his ease, one of us.
"Larry, you may remen?.'.
showed a fondness for the stage .
university days. When I got te I
lea I had little mon? y .in 1 f u-> 1 it
necessary to find ? it wit'out
<ltlay. I saw Mr. Olenarm's a
leT. Just as" ? Tark 1 an
jsee what an American
|klne 1 like
with Mr. Glenann at
I my
! your
)u rswre too perfect In
.the
ed to le my
and
? ?
1| his
I Mr.
will and
see what would
?
|ftarr: saw op
I
' nding the
?
? I was ??
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? threw I
!
declare
gbt
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dard. IjR
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awa
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talm
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As ? near
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light
HAPTER XXVI!.
And ?> the Light Led Me.
and "
? bar
them.
I
?
s hether s
lag Ifl
snow. -1 In gray. wi.
had f <n that night j
and I followed
Bay shattered faith, my
utter ineas. could ?
again
xing mellowly on the
night.
to allow the two figures to
H as they
toward the chapel. I could
their ...
and d I felt an im pu:
turn I ? or plun. wood
: was carried SB uncontroll?
ably, light gnaBBaftred and her
?
through th? keen winter dark like a
spring; and so her voice
and ? ;?.(! me.
Tho:; : ;.<?ard an exclamation of dis?
may : ! by laughter, in which
G joined merrily.
"Oh, ,-r mind; we're not afraid!"
aed.
I ha?! ? unded the curve In the path
?' should have seen the I
but the rkness was ut. ?here
was m! ? . e for a moment, in which I
ar to them.
Then my grandfather's voice broke
out <
must go back with you! A
fine pei ? you are to guide an old
man! a foolish virgin, indeed, with
no oil in her lamp!"
do not! Of course I'm go?
ing to see you Quite to your own door!
I eoa : to put my hand to the
lant. . ?hen turn back!"
"This walk isn't what it shonld be."
said my grandfather, "we'll have to
make : ,,ne In the spring."
. : ;?.??y were silent and I heard
him fufibiy striking a match, when
the lantern fell, its wires
rattling as it struck the ground, and
-.claimed with renewed mer
hoir misfortune.
"If yo? will allow me!" 1 called out,
fumbling in my pocket for my own
matchbox.
I have sometimes thought that
there Is really some sort of decent
Courtesy to roe. An old man caught in
a rough path that was none too eood
?l BesT? And ?>lrT7? ?
re not, I fancy,
the reflections that crossed my mind
at the moment.
"Ah, it's Ja<S. my grand
an was showi'
the way to the gate and our :
out."
eux." I murmured. I
I hope, an icy tm
d my displeasure,
aere with,
ibt, its fullest v.
grop?
ing in the dark for the lost lai
? Wanted You to Come, 8qulr
Glenarr
1
?
w
k It.
but ?.?
her finge:
I
d
ins a
'. not
i was
?
"H
gan.
lignant al
condi
leavii:
l
e"Thank you; I shall | |
?
back anain, so nobel
It was ;
.?ig to an
I
itha'a ? follow? d, un
Prooa the (olds of
her cloak stole the faint perfut '
Bight of i .oiind.
-and
aril
I was s: ?hing
? when she spoke over her shoul?
der:
;i are very kind, hut I am not
the least afrahl. Mr. Qlensnau"
"Hut there Is something I wish to
say to you. now that we have u I
should like?"
a slackened her step.
3."
"I am going away."
"Yes; of course; you are going
away."
tone implied that this was some?
thing that had been ordained from the
beginning or time, and did not mat?
ter.
"And I wish to say a word about
Mr. Pickering," I added.
paused and faced me abruptly.
Ws were at the edge of the wood.
and the school lay quite near. She
caught the cloak closer about her and
gave her head a little toss I remem?
bered well, as a trick compelled by
the vagaries of woman's headdress.
"I can't talk to you here. Mr. Glen
arm; I had no Intention of ever see?
ing you again; but I must say thia to
you?"
"Those notes of Pickering's?I shall
ask Mr. Olenarm to give them to you
?aa a mark of esteem from me."
She stepped backward as though I
had struck her.
"You risked much for them?snd
for him?" I went on.
"Mr. Olenarm. I have no intention
of dlscsssing that, or any other mat?
ter with you?"
"It is better so?"
"But your accusations, the things
you imply, are unjnst. Infamous!"
The quaver in her voice shook my
resolution to deal harshly with her.
"If I bad not mvself been a wit
neas?" I began.
?a; you have the con?oit of your
own wisdom, led a re r
"Bat that challenge to follow
?V my pi? away,
ouly to find that Plckeriag was
' he tunnel
In search of those m?tes?don?
know that '.Inge were a blow
that hurt? You had been the spirit
Through all
these months, from the hour I s
ed you paddle off into the -
your 0SJKM
the days brigh??
ed me. and awa -bitions that I
had f -abandon? ago.
k-gle her???it
seems so idle, so vor.? ?
now! But I'm glad I follov
I'm g" .
iw I want y
know that Pickering shall not -
for anything that 1 I
shall ? h him; for y<iur
he shall go f?
A s:r!i s -it It was like
hand
**vl I |a to him with your
. ?
II of me' And I shall BOi
but I will say
irm: 1 had no
ht of seeing him at the
? is a surprise t
and whee. |
that : 'id a purpose?a
paused and I bent for?
waiting for lier ?
Mere lay her great of
'
?
?night be disposer .? ?
I at was tho
t and way?a:
.olful thir
flut
d c light ? '
-
'iild I h
b
?
tell you a*
nk ill
thai
are so
?! I 1
U and U
...
?
I want :
ew away,
? ?
J you to ?
I had s>
that I
.
My r
ag, uo doubt,
??s in the grounds that are his
ht.
s concerned In
winter's tale let me say a word
The prisoner whom Larry left
behind WS ??-ed after >-<?
with all the honors of war. and
y add without br? ?onfl
> a comf1 Lar?
ry has made a reputation by his book
study into the
conditions of the Czar's empire, and,
g squeezed that lemon, he is now
in Tib?t. His father has secured from
' ?- .
tsassauuty fbv Larry, so long as that
?is away from
Iroland. My friend's latest leti??rs to
?main, I note, no referents to
.
Bates Is in California conducting a
fruit ranch, and when he visited ae
last Christmas he bore all the marks
of a gentleman whom tbe world uses
well. Stoddard's life has known many
remarkable changes in the three years
that have passed, but they must wait
for another day, and, perhaps, another
historian. Suffice it to say that it
was he who married us?Marian and
me?In tho little chapel by tho wall,
and that when he comes now and then
to visit us, we renew our impression
of him as a man large of body and of
soul. Sister Theresa continues at the
head of St. Agatha's, and ?he and the
other Sisters of her brown-clad com?
pany are delightful neighbors. Pick?
ering's failuro and subsequent disap?
pearance were described sufficiently
in the newspapers, and his name is
never mentioned at Glenarm.
As for myself?Marian Is tapping
tbe floor restlessly with her boot and
I must hasten - I may say that. I am
no idler. It was I who carried on the
work of finishing Glenarm House,
and I manage tbe farms which my
grandfather has lately acquired in this
neighborhood. But better still, from
my own point of view, I maintain In
Chicago an office as consulting engi?
neer, and I have already had several
Important commissions.
Glenarm House is now what my
grandfather had wished to make it, a
beautiful and dignified mansion. He
insisted on filling up tho tunnel, so
that the Door of Bewilderment Is no
more. The passage in the wall and
the atroag box in the paneling of the
chimney-Breast rSmafri.ThougE the Tat?
ter we uso now as a hiding place for
certain prized bottles of rare whisky
which John Marshall Glenarm ordalna
shall be taken down only on Christ?
mas Eve?, to drink the health of
Olivia Glady?'Armstrong. That young
woman. 1 may add. is now a belle In
? her own city, and of the scores of
? youngsters all the way from Pittsburg
a- Orleans wl ??? her
hearL my word is, may the best man
win'
? patient of women
?Is walking toward th eager
for the ?
tas lakaward, and
at last I am :
The End
(Japanese Taste in Colors.
quietly,
more so than Ameicans. Tho
ned out in very g.i
: ors, contrasts of purp".
??te. The children wear mostly big
, pattern?? of "kasuri." This Is the
? name for the large patterns of
as, blocks, lines, etc.. which aro
y white patterns on blue ground.
?s a favorite color in Jaran, prob
?nore so than any other singlo
'color, varying from indigo to very
blue. Tho older thr
more soberly Uacy dress, an
colors. Black m ?
Faid to bo the national color In
and the clothing mostly used la
narrow striped gray and black. The
younger girls affect gay colors, and
on holidays that Is true of a large pcr
>' the people, but ordinarily the
r> Jima" is the national cos
name "daimlo jima." which
means "daimio stripes." is said to
have beea derlyed from the fact that
anciently it was the distinctive dress
??.:??- \' x' ?
small whl' round aro
In m ion use.
"There'? Many a Slip.**
phrase ? : with a
was prophesI??d of a
and t? esy was fulfilled. When
Ancaeus was king of Samo? In the
\n archipelago, he pleated ?
tensive vinoya-d. :md oppress^
so heavily io its cultH
:ie of the bo'.d
that ! r live to tast?
of thr wr
klng laughed and had the slave
beaten. Then at last when the win*?
I ?*nt for the ?>!.-?
ness him d tlret glass in ?
>w him ? was
Whos - ant app^
!:o glass of liquor,
said: "What
many a
and lip." was ti
Vucaeus was inf
thst ?
ping t
?
boar. ? is killed in tl
uves prophecy wa
?Different,
.la-. V-r- Irr?
te as having serves of iron.
? .? h?? per?
I
.
him li
, excite : have s?5en for a long
titu?
been a most ui.
and ?
"No. on.* ->f ?
<lr??n had a mild attack ot
Taking a Rest.
: a."
..iy."
" V?
"Wonld >o,i do Just as t.?
yos li.td
I think I ?
"Tl:. ! and
Split
on his
ays Ifs a ti..
Bat right there the admirer of
G ? ?-s.-.
A Present for a Huaband.
Furnltu: lam.
there is no n: eat for a
than a ha:,
at this one, for example.
Customer?It but
what are all I | lare thir.
"Drawers, madam That desk has
160 separate drawers."
"Huh? And every time he mislays
anything he'l! me to find it.
Show me a desk with one drawer."?
?. Y. Weekly.
Inconspicuous.
Rural Minister?None of the broth?
ers whose duty it is to pass the plate
Is her?? BO ?il Would you BBjBBt to
taking up the collection?
Modest Worshiper?I issed
the plate in church in my life, and I'm
? afraid I'd be rather awkward.
"Oh. never mind that. It wasn't be
noticed. Most of my congregatl?>n be?
come absorbed in their hymn
about the time tho plate goes round."
?N. Y. Waarrdj
Obliging.
? re," said the customer, "is a shoe
button that I found in the su
M," replied th" p:<>;>rletor of the
otieap restaurant, "why do you want
to tell me about It?"
"? a?t??)? wished to let you know
that I streme J to have proof that Out??
was something more than old rubber
in Ihe stuff."?Chicago Record-Herald.
Good Advice.
"Good advice may not often be
took." said Uncle Eben, "but a man
allus hab so much fun givin' It dat It
ain't nebber right to say it was actu?
ally wasted."?Washington Star.
Hit Wrong Ones.
"Do man in de automobile dat's sim?
ply tryln' to kill time," said Cuele
Eben, "Is another one o' dese folks
dat's liable to hit some Innocent by?
stander."?Washington Star.