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18 ' CHICAGO‘LEDGER
in circles, bringing him back again to opened from without, and a woman
the far distance among the treetops. he
. saw the thin spire of Osterway church.
He quickened his steps involuntarily
' till he entered the village, then he walked
leisurely again. the color deepening a
liitle in his thin face. .
There on the right was the once tum-
ble-down cottage where Miriam and her
mother had lived-smartly repaired now.
and with a green-painted iron fence
around its diminutive garden.
Further on still was the postoiflce,
unalterei save for a freshly painted
letter-bo outside, and hlarlt thought of
the morning,
when Zilrs. Jove had caught him Just
'5 on, this very spot talking to Miriam in
' her red cloa .
' He had been thirteen then, now he was
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impoverished grass
found himself at the vicarage
now for the first time his
‘ the old elephant-head lrnocker on the
front door. .
The study window was open. and
Mark caught a glimpse of s. man's,gray
head inside bent over a. paper-strewn
table.
at iirst glance it might have been the
Rev. Algernon Jope himself, and Mark
was conscious of a little contraction of
the throat as h urne away,
of the kind. good old man
1 thoughts full
ho ad died that sunny afternoon
r twenty yea .
He walked on. past the high wall
where 5 had so often sat and talked
at the end
Miriam had stood that evening in the
sunset and taunted him.
He looked up at the closed window of
he had s t then with
happy hours, and where Miriam had
ni-st spoken to him.
‘Give me a penny." Those had been
almost her first words to him. and he
laughed cynically as he remembered that
her last request to him before he left
London had also been for money.
wood was bare and deserted. Last
year‘: leaves and twigs lay about.and
crackled underfoot. tho the trees were
n bud. and curly fronds were rising
from the dead bracken roots, shielding
the sweet Wood violets.
Mark stopped abruptly and turned
hack. lie had seen enough to know
that there was nothing to hope for from
this excursion into the pas-
So far he had not seen a face he knew,
or met one friendly glance. -
Twenty years is a long time, and yet,
when he started out from home,there
still linger in the little sleepy village to
greet h m.
He stopped again at the vlcarage
gate,
and wondered what would be said
to
e might com
But what was the use? The people
there now would not know him, or want
him.
He looked at his watch-only4o'clock,
and no train back to town till ha.ll"Dast
E. crossed the patch of common
again towards the one inn Osterway
boasted. In the old days it had been
kept b a man named Garry letter-a
red-nosed, cheery old countryman, with
whom Mark had had many a conversa-
a woman with peroxide hair
again Mark felt an unreasonable pang
of disappointment. --
Was there nobody left of all the peo-
ple he had known? I,
for tea. and she took him
Mark winced and
looking down
flames from th
Q him in friendly fashion as if they un-
. derstood his thoughts and sympathized.
en tea was brought on a painted
tray by a stout country glrl.Marlt asked
if she knew what had become of Garry
Iierter. She stared at him and giggled.
"VV'h . d s e ,said. "Died
when I was a little 'un in pinnles." She
Jierked her head towards the door: "Mrs.
smith here bought the house from Garry
Ila-fter's widow."
Mark drank a. cup of tea and sat
a down by the dre. The daylight was
fading fast, and the room was as full
of shadows as his own heart.
lie looked into the lire and dreamed
of Mary silver-torturous dreams that
. seamed always to work round and round
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his despair. .
had never loved him! He had
been the fool to believe that she had-
care. Vnd
e was still the tool to
suffer. soon he would have to go
back 2 London-to what?-loneliness,
emptiness of life-unless-the dark face
of Mi
she cared for hirn-and
the wrong sort-seemed preferable to
his loneliness than none at all.
"A in you come back--"
He recalled the smile in her eyes as
she had spoken those wor :3
Well, why not?-to whom
he gonback, if not to her?
A clock somewhere in the house struck
5.‘and Mark rose to his feet, realizing
that he had only half an hour in which
to reach the station. He pushed his
chair aside and crossed the room to this
door. But before he reached it, it
else should
stood on the threshold. The room ‘was
too dark to see her face, but she saw
Mark's tall figure outlined by the red
glow of the fire. and she drew back
with a murmured apology.’ A burning
log broke and fell into the grate, split-
ting the darkness with a bright tongue
0 flame, and Mark looked once more
into the eyes of lllary Silver. i
Here is I startling conipllcntion, en-
‘Vim! will be the
the Llshurnen without “or...
ng? Loving Mark. In she has already
Nlnfersued. wlint further reasons Ill
lhe give (or not becoming his bride?
There lnrlnt fl (‘onfen on I'll net-met
nature that she cannot avoid. now that
Idle in again Jnce to face with sunk.
and the next Installment oi the story
ought to bring u out.- Don’t miss next
week's Ledger.
The Cedar.-knobbsers
(Continued From Page 6) r
know, Tom. that if that gang under-
takes to carry out all the sentences they
passed last night they'il'Just plunge this
county into c vii war and get A lot of
good men killed You noticed how they
went ahead and voted a sentence of
death upon Ralph Peters when we both
testified that he had nothing to do with
shooting up Mrs. Ware's place. and you
noticed, too, I reckon, that Gregory took
every bit of the power into his own
hands. Now a. you propose to stick
to a. gang like thatl" ,
"1 shore won't turn agin‘ ‘em after
I've took the oath."
"“'eil, I won't either," said Mart
thoughtfully, ‘not any of them unless
Cs-"
"Unless it‘s who?" asked Tom.
"I've talked too much, even to you, I
reckon, Tom. and I believe you are my
friend; in fact, I know you are."
'l‘hen,you know I won't never tell
anything you say to me or ever use hit
agin' you. Who did you think you
might turn agin'7"
"Captain Dempsey, and possibly that
m, you and me both
to Cedar Knob with that pair of crooks."
"Maybe we did.”
"V‘i'e did! And for tha.salte of those
honest men. I'm going ,
mouth shut pretty tight. But here's the
perhaps, to try
8
I
warn the Peterses
camping on their
am; is going
to stand for that sort or methods, then
they're a worse set of outlaws than the
Peterses, and some one ought to warn
aiph Peters, anyway, to be on the
lookout.''
Young Wharton laughed shortly,
"Them Petersen are always on the
lookout," he said, then added: "Look
here, Mart. you're in love with
Peters; that's why you are so interested,
now ain't it?"
“Partly that, perhaps: but I believe in
fair play. too,"
Tom Wharton, big, honest mountaineer
that e was. understood no subtleties.
He now looked at the fashionable young
ir. -
r "I don't like to tell
you about this, but you hain't treated
my sister quite right." ‘
For the first time, in-many dangers.
Mart Holloway felt a chill of fear creep
over him and turn his skin to goose
pimples. He realized now asgnever be-
fore what it means for a man to treat a
grown woman with grown woman's
full-blooded emotions. as s eh .
2 said contritely.
but, you know, I
1'9
never once thought."
a the way with you educated
tellers." said Tom bitterly. "You trust
such people as me and Mabel Jes’ like
we was children. But we're not chil-
dren. not educated like you--
we ain't traveled ner been to college-
's and we Bot pride.
"Tom," began Mart. and halted. He
was about to tell this honest moun-
talneer that if he said the word. and if
Mabel agreed. he would marry her that
afternoon: the vision of sweet Rose
Pet-rs gave him pause.
' be blnndered on, “I realize
I have done wrong. was about to
offer to marry Mabel if she wished that:
u see, Tom, marrying her
right. I don't think
I'm better than her, you understand.
So far as that goes she's too good for
me. She risked her life for me yes-
terday. Do you want me to marry
her, Tom. "
y d-d sight!" blazed the
mountaineer. "Mart, I told you we've
got pride the same as
saved your life yesterday, and I maybe
savcd it last night; and I‘m yore friend’
-I want you to know that-but I want
you to know, too, that me an’ m sis-
ter are not Just the dirt under yore
feet. You as: me Jes' now to make a
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trip to the‘Peterses fer you. Why the
hell don't you go yourself?"
"B To I have never treated
m.
Mabel as if she was Just
“Yes, you did. Listen. Mart‘. she told
me what you did three wee s ago yes-
terday when she pleased you so well by
orferin‘ to go o the Peterses with you.
Mart. that was-wase-" The ride-
stricken. ignorant boy searched for a
word and gave it up.
Mart Holloway sat speechless before
this just accusation. .
"ram," he said at last. very solemnly,
"you have taught me‘a lesson. Never
again While I live Will the pride of
blood mean anything to me. You are
a better and bigger man every way. Torn,
than I am; and as for your sister. I feel
lier manner with which I treated
' we, never mind," om a
dismissing the subject, "I ain't a-goin' to
hold it agln' you."
"Are you going to meet with the clan
when Gregory lights his signal dre on
Cedar Knob?"
"Yes, I’m gain’; aren't you?"
“I refuse to meet with that cutthroat
y life." snapped
him. If he and
his gang want me, let ‘em come after
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"Are you gain’ to turn Gregory in?“
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"I'm glad o’ that. Take your time and
stand your hand with him. Maybe you
kin win out." ,
Mart bade the big-hearted boy good-by
and went back to the otel. where Mabel
and Mrs Ware were trying to put things
in shape. He pitched in and helped
them in order to have something to oo-
cupy his mind and keep it of! Rose Peters
and ‘her troubles.
MEANWHILE it was three nights be.
fore Captain Gregory lighted the
beacon hre that was the agreed-upon
signal for the gathering of his Legion-
aires, And when they met it was not on
Cedar Knob.
son to get the countersigu from each
man and direct him toacertain hidden
gulch hack of Devil's Bluff. Gregory
saw as be checked them in that his hand
the Legionaires heard the reports of the '
committees on Judge Sloan and 3.15"
was tha
tried to interfere with the Cgdaluknob,
bets. With regard to Mart. the com.
mittee. entirely dominated by Gregory,
reported that there was nothing to the
charge that Mart d betrayed nose
Peters. but that he had played fast and
loose with Mabel Wharton,
3: his punishment would he degu. 1,,
t is decision. as in cv tlil ' .
waishthe guiding handfry ng' Gregory!
e next thing the b;-ave thirty did
was to elect Captalntcregory their Def-
manent leader and Advocate. They were
called upon to elect A
he people and
Baihering as man I t th "
worthy N come ‘inn 0 a fold as were
The matter of the sheriffs death was
discussed in
J’
had done it in the ho r
on the Legionaires, “,0 pumng R on
Next, ihefetersea were discussed, and
it was decided that they should pay the ’
death penalty for the manner in which
they had shot up a widow's hotel. It
was decided that Dempsey, the vice Ad-
vocate. should take a picked band and
attack the house the following night,
while Gregory smaller band
should picket all the roads leading to
that portion of Nubbin Ridge. . ’
a the -policy ‘of the
seventeen men
present that night were to know of
attack on the Peters horn and
not chosen to make the attack were to
he told afterward who did make it. Even
the men in Dempsey’.-a band were not to
know who were with Gregory. and vice
versa. Thus the whole aftairjvas to be
seer
When the rest of the band dispersed
Captain Gregory asked Tom Wharton to
remain behind for a. two-man confer-
“'l'om," said Gregory. "1 want You to
help me pull off a little deal. There's
fifteen hundred dollars in it; and you'll
help me pull it of! ii give you five
hundred of the money. Can you play
shut-mouth?" ’
"I reckon."
“Then look here.“
captain held a smokyulantern tos,
showing pictures and
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