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Entered according to Act of Congress tn the year ited, by NURMAN L. MUNRO. in the ofice af the Librarian of Congress, at Washingron. D. ©. (Entered at the Post Oftet, New ¥ cond, Cla
. 0. (Bn ew York. ax Se Matter.)
Vol. VIL NORMAN L. MUNRO, VW 5
x x Hind 8 Vandewater NE YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1899 [POP pee monet. No. 1868
— 7 . __ 91.50 Fow six MONTH, oO. -
: Forgiveness! on
bY MRS, MARY A. KIDDER. = NS SN \ ‘yy , J was throwa’ violently open, and
= \\ , was thrown violently open, and
old granny dashed into it. In
the darkness she seized a pll-
low, and, pressing it down
upon his face, held it there
I know! I know!
She has fallen low;
A 4
| wi il a2
TT || Ni - = % g A —
Hi th ==
Growing up like
A snow-white lily!
She was not worldly wise;
5
CHAPTER V.
Had he glint of gold, v :
E’en Ww!
nse Me duty!
A GUILTY CONSCIENCE,
WARREN ERrtscourt fell ~
to the floor and lay there, with
the blood slowly trickling from
he wound — whi ard
had
In her rural home
She could roam and roam
cl
Yorke inficted, Yorke,
Her parents’ pride
And treasure!
Que tatetul day - me Ma
A youths tn the I ( i : ‘ SQ } wey \ \
. _ Guise ‘of honor: He SS) Reon ‘ SS: ‘y/
She loved him well— see MRA t Q \ eS Lot AY
ji
( aN rat on ‘the floor, still aud Lfe=
uN Dead! The thought aroused
‘ Yorke from the trance of hor-
. : vas creeping slowly
On’ the. weiding da ‘ NK te : RAS ee =
Of to the grand, . : . 8 :
city j
As he Paid her court
And w
Gay
Her ite
My friend, the pity!
False was his heart,
nd soon they wif |
~ She sad and y! us fst
Though ‘stil 20, ‘faln, yy a
She did not care a can
. For lite, when they
“amy
Foro a)
7 its ie Rago
ni 7 ul AN We Na : Bt, yo : uoshine, i
ANY \ Heaven help me!” he whi
Tm
ie ae i i
HP i “fat
A HI tt A
‘Her so ily;
She has fallen low
Since then, I know,
This
Snowy ily!
+2 There was a heavy blow and Rue fell to the floor, otunned and bleeding, and was borne by granny from the room sho i pier ay atest pea
, in at haste. mad act. She will raise thi
e old feline rely isa moon shiner “We agree to keep said girl hidden away from alarm apd betray me; she i hunt me -
eh the world”—Is the first sentence he makes out— down with pleasure. I know her! The face of -
«th
d Sydney under breath.
feed’ the fact his eyes rere once more applied to| {ier the. term of years specited—untll she | An angel, but the heart vor a fiend, And she
the tiny aperture, and rested upon the, written reaches her elghteenth year; then she must|loves her father ber wicked, schemiog old fa- =
Times of the paper, spread out u re table, | | sign over enous! b— ther—and will never give up the search until sho
nder!” Sydney mused Ywoushttully: n, | flere the old man reached across the table and | has tracked me down to punishment. How awful -
I could get a chance to read that my: thed the lamp wick lower. It quite put an|he looked lying there, still and dead! Ught it
te etouz documents T would like to satisfy mysel {Ue fo syuney'a research, but he waited patiently | makes me sbiver to ‘unk of it! A murderer!
It fe evldentiy of, great atue | nti the intervening body of the old man should | Well, Leonard Yorke. you have been a little of
as fo its nature,
told "Liax sauk-down into | everything in your time, but you have come to
ple, e lis | be ret
Ry toned © oo ust contess to Tecllag tome, “curl the chair, ‘hat fe ad vacated and busied himself | murder ef
osity. To ixed up in this wonderful—almost | with lighting a i All this was tearing along the street
xe a'maaman, ‘ooking neither to the Tight nor
the left; passing old friends without recognl- °
tions pale and excited; every look, every move~
me rturbed state of mind.
pipe.
tniraculous—way with Warren Erlscourt,and| Trembling with eagerness and excitement,
THE HONOR OF THE YORKES.|: mp gwa tater! Why, 1 sounds ke airy |aydacy turned {te Bem tna pr
Pecweted
Rad then, all at once, it occurred to him that] to fold it up and, placing it inside ® thick en-
mal
he carried a all but remarkably powerful field xelepe, bid it aw in an inner pocket of his | C } “ar Kea him as he hurried along;
glass in the pocket of he curfous glances followed him; several remarks
BY MRS. E. BURKE COLLINS, seve to decipher sone ia tt me Ig Me taee eer ld bles | probably recelved bad ew ol” ones martet de=
« ne “ ° nuda wal pressed Into nothingness; cotton gone down & -
Author of “Banida’e Lover” “Marguerite Te te eke then etc en KePE Seely a en be - eb?” grunted the old man; per or two lower, if possible; timber market
tldered lt he resolved to attempt It cot dome pod thinks ater where Te cormered;” ship and all {ts cargo Jost at sea, -
be might ge in gaint ete, .
probabl. ‘would—but, well, at least it was seme day away san ere a igourand of t of aan’ | Sut he neither saw nor heard, On he went
. [This story will not be published in book form.1 - worth tryh aA ove officers and all the search | Ue @ madman, reaching ble Ronse at last, ‘old
ot ne couki only gain possession of the glass. |{he cabin, find that paper, and then, where Srould | Nelson let him in, starting in amaze at the
: He remembered exactly where be had placed it] we be? “i wouldn't give that then, where moutt| sight of the white face and strangely excited
after using it t ‘at some distant mountain aye -
CHAPTER IV. Erlscourt; and it thelr assertions could be de-| peaks. “He had slipped ft into the outer pocket of emapping Is fg re ed. aubloul . Yorke, you are {I1!” the old servant
; . pended upon, that friend was a very poor trlend | Sue loose coat that he wore. “Walls T dou't know, "Lia exclaimed sympathetically; ‘let _me do some-
AN UNPLEASANT PREDICAMENT. indeed. The’ youn, Bie teat p ctone tor | Be ose Ba eat the cabin” utterly uncon- vente IT don't eno lou please, Shall I telephone for
: gether over @ muttered word and his dark eyes| gclous he had only been partially disrobed ioote Pn heh! he eetupaed ra wich tly.
YDNEY (XORKB heard tie low br cbreathed |flaghed with an ominous light. Granny had no doubt attended to that. a ‘s the omy way ‘ard Yorke gave him @ look bis eves
: ie: “This man rust dle his Yes,” the old man was saying, and Sydney lis-| wore his entire suit, except his coat, which, with oe on (th “Suigcantiy: “put, ot | fil of auger. “No!” he thundered. ‘no
pated resolute look crept | toned ‘with every nerve strained to its fullest | his shoes, bad been removed. no, E90 a 8 : , Vanoutd doctor, po nursing. I am wat quite welt. a Hele
Into bis dark eyes Mand a half staile touched tension, “Eriscourt bas played. a pretty deep|iay upon a chair very near the bed. course, Ht you mua faintness, but it will pass.
myth ry chiseled Ups. ve game—and he bas won. He always wins, Of] “ut Sydney was very weak | and his woun na | "Not at all re gol Mica.” whined the old vil-|, He shut the ‘door of bis own room in Nelson's .
2. “Tt takes tw. ake a bargain!” he muttered fourse, I've had to keep track of him all these| pained him. Co ld be, ever Tae ee eee Key. d gereas Sydney's brain, Ir | face a8 he d sank exhaustedly into a
grimly. “It Syiney Norke has got to die, it| years, ever since we had the girl, and so I know. Ing the Marment? He felt a great inclination. SS deren dea flashed across Sydney's brit aig seat. He we
Will be after a severe struggle. I ‘wonder what |My sples are on his track—the very men wpe ntion could be sown, betweeed trom one of | ‘brough the streets ail the way from the shabby
That paper fs that seems to occupy the attention | dispose of my stuf! for me—off in the city; th ey oan only dle nthe, attempt, be muttered rem e entecl qual ee -
of the worthy. palr on, the ‘Other side of the wall?| keep me posted. I don’t dare go to the city my grimly, “an ‘tro a re Rot so hard to bring about a rupture between gruated to this, one of the most aristocratic ave- <,
1 wish I e¢ k seit for iT did—well—the world is @ very sot what that te eaded old iPairiarc says in| the man and wife!” commented the young cynic with | MY 1
< TBM Tegled a littie closer to the crack, in the Diace, after all—and Erlscourt and I might | other room Ked to die, anyhow." | 'biier smile. “Twill wale until the proper time the Yorkes had stood. # Bl
wall and applied his eyes once more to the tiny |mee; we would certainly meet, and te would Softly, sony. he raised himself wp in the’ bed, i perhaps, it T'turn the old woman ag cinst | for a quarter vt a century, as long as the vame of
opening—so small that it had Nindountedly es-|demand to settle with me about the girl. ot quite abrouded in darkness, ona oa wen ° rke had been known among "he “merchant
i
ioe Fnotice of the old couple, He found |long ago concluded that “alseretion 16. th beer
that i if oo te I stay here at| "He never finished. The old couple had at
mi
that he could see the paper and the writing ‘upon | part of water and the consequence is I stay here eathing hard like one {a
it which was in a bold, round hand, in very |and keep quiet and send my mnerchandise Yate simultaneously to their feet, the man extinnutoh- physical iain ‘The dust
black ink. Just then some words escaped the|town to be. disposed of and the money is de- e lamp, leaving the room in total dark-} jon, potless, costly + Al
old man. nosited in bank to my credit, “I tell you, Me- hess, For they had beard the tramp of heavy | thar?” ie caught bie breath with a
“Curse old Erlscot xclaimed viciously, | sey, it the day ever comes when Warren Erls- ce there, he reached | feet, and directly a thundering rap descended | Hiooar Blood upon his “snowy
“1 peokon we've gol even te exten in this deal” | cour t face to face there'll be mur- | oui "phank God, his right pon the cabin di blood! blood! blood?
= Old Mother "Perey rena her head unfit the | der done a in: 4 ‘The officers!” exclaimed the wom! ind | trembling vioten
lace oa her cap border—neither very fresh nor ely looked grave. to rail strengt pt sydney caught the w whispered words, a)” he ssoreulated, in a hosted voice,
becoming to ber atyle of of beauty shook visibly. wouldn't, "Lias,” she was beginning, but be jd then he to the | Made itself up quickly. If this were tri enit the owht i i we e hi And I have left
. “That's so! with a “horrible checked her peremptorily. floor 80 ienc Ton the ‘other | United States revenue officers had pounced upon | my revolver yore! ——
ebuckle. * “) tertataly ‘overrenched, ‘bimself| “You wouldn't! Ob, no, of course you wouldn't he wall, And then he tainly | this out-of-the-way cabin, for the purpose of} “Even in this dark Moor the “quick, inventive
Sbout the girl; and so we ‘done’ him up! He'll {do anything but le low and Keep quiet and in mainly | reetching. it. to discover ‘contraband whisky—| prain which had more than once held reverses
have to w tate for her now, I reckon. “But, non- | the meantime the years are passing and I am get- he eared throw bimself upon their mercy. They | of fortune at bay and had seen and acted quickly
sense!, ‘Lins, he has had time to forget ail this |ting nearer the Erave, ana mo are you"—the old | Slowly he reached out his hand; nearer, nearer | Would surely help him to get away, and after] enough to avoid a financial crisis, and w
pusiness i Minis time, after he found her gone: | woman shuddere: tibly— vant we haven't | —now at ins t the chair ts reached and he pulls that he would give the Black Mountain ‘ould find a way out of dangers Clustering thick~
« It is a pretty ons time to remember—a pretty much time left to Dictate ot our-térm: the coi ward him. What if the glass should | in thls especial locality a wide berth. ly around him, find a loophole where other mi .
> tong. time, “ls r gains, And ghe girl is growi! ng an, fall ay ‘he "bere, Noor? The woine. ould inev. | He sat up in bed, straining every merve and} would have died in despair; even “in this awful
. “Not hates another,” returned first thing you know we can't keep ftably' be bis ruin: Or even if the coat itself} with ell his enews ‘on the alert. Bversthing in| woment. this worst crisis in his long, wick .
‘the old man alciouly bis “aeep- set eyes gleam- | any longer; and if she gets away—it she I should drop. ‘would not that be enough to betray | the outer room was as still as the, ‘e. What | lite, Leonard Yor! ready to plan and to.
-, ing like, fire his overhanging gray |—he stopped and fazed full Inte the wom: +} him? But he perserved, all the same, shutting It the officers sho tte im. -
/* brows, “Ten ve ans “nave done a lot for Erls-| pleasant face—“if we lose our grip on the his slove iraetper with a murnoure: selves on the wrol oss will think that he has kitted himself!”
court,” he went on, as though he rather enjoyed | we're gone, that's all. Discovery means the rest) “I ct 1d not endure to cons He| the quick, invei thre brain ta id the plan with
* the recollection; “it wasn't too long to strip him | of a ur lives in State prison—and you kno ‘Another cautious pollen 1@ cpat dropped to the | must not be. left bere to d 0. ig celerity; d no one will ever suspect
ot all ble glory ane turn him toto m seedy ad- | Meliss floor beside - the ana, juckily, made no | must make t back to the outside | me ye
venturer, pon other The oa woman gas noise, Trembling with delight, Sydney stooped rene vrai Ro matter what he risked im the began to pace stowly up and
i Mellsey, aud Eriseourt has been ‘Solu that ‘el: “Yes, I know it aw pet as she ret sorted; over tho edxé of the bed and felt in the pockets mpt. down ae ‘ichiy furnished Tod . .
+ Jow Yorke for the last five years! He has fas. “but I don’t see why the gil Shout get away.” | for the gla: “overcome “It best and safest Tor me to 60 away,
tened himse! on to Yorke like a barnacle t ‘You fool! And you've gone 4 brought a At last, at “last! It is a his hand. ‘The blood a ‘these flends w20 had while i ane First, let me dispose of t this.”
ship's side, or like a leech, and is sucking the|man here!” snarled the old mute angrily; “a are’ th the: cons, hastily. ruthless
=° very life-blood out of the old fellow. vee is rich— youn ‘and handsome man! After all these years = pl Hickiog “out the costly -bu a dt
<b, yes—but mind what I'm saying now--Leon-|that we've kept-her away from everybody, 90 cuffs into the fire biel Kt the silver
ate. Then, with ¢! nothing escaped,
er e
bin <i th he began to look ‘aretarly. "closely. aul over bis
ney at the top of bis voice, “A ona stranger | clothing for any otber teltale sign.
—is here, wounded, Help me! help m was .nothing y—nothing. is
“His voice died out into an. inarticulate mur-| gleamed with ‘Catistactlamt slowly his trepldas
* to Warren Erlsconrt.”, myself, and the one or two old fellow
By this. time: Sydney ‘Yorke was thoroughly fathers. most ‘of them—that drop in
aroused. = These peaplo were speaking of hia| times to sre me and who are uate "me ith
s fathers aod his father’s great friend, Warren | the work at the sti} down qT