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"NO CROSS, NO CROWN!”
fs BY F, L. STANTON,
tonaines thnk when life seems drear,
When gloom and darkness gather here,
Hopes 's bright star. forsakes my
ise ow o'er my’ pathway Hes,
‘would be sweet—it would bel best,
lawits waters glancin;
dashing onward t
a Cross, No Crown!” As standing
ther,
Beatss
teibrthe exown2-f could not
Batt as ever meant for m
fey ‘tile I clasped the ‘rage 's hand;
Bail he looked with
ekto the wortd I turned again,
To court life’s joys, to bear its spain}
all the sweetuess that it gave,
tillowed, weeping, to the eral
‘fom ‘the cold and gui
pale han ode
angel coming down,
tants hands golden crown!
did laugh at earthly Joss,
ie lifted up the cross;
ends an ange! dewa,
oft—"No Cross, No
ard the river moan
heavy seemed to bears
not ul mend
pity down,
said—"No Cross, No
that once made life so sweet
It voice” cate “uttering
then become the crown!
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By CHARLES W, HATHAWAY,
dale of “4 Rash Vow,’ “Love's Guiding Hand,” ‘‘Marjorie’s Sweetheart,’”
‘Joseph Dane's Diplomacy,” etc., ete.
(A Lona Maxrynvom" was commenecd last week.)
CHAPTER VI,
“1 AM THE SCAPEGOAT.”
0 need to linger on the distressing
owed the arrest of Bustace Carew.
‘as arraigned in court it soon became
he
‘vas doomed.” Tho. circumstances
e the weight of testimony that
‘him to the gallows.
ig lor Carew, himself, he bore himself with
waderal fortitu
ited Tike a statue amid the throng in court
smh Maughty, self-possessed—as
aan be under such circumstances,
nly & gentle-
es.
repeated her evidence, not varying
she had stated at the foquest
@ depositions of Colla
imlelgh Dyson, bearing very aie-
figeer was of foreign workmanship, and the
Gerew dia not icy, that, he was at the
Swery at the time named; he did not
fuer love for Alma Dene, nor th e evidence of
iseay and Dyson. ta:
ie story was th
ved no letter from Mrs, ‘who-
nddreceed tor it was’ motto
ned her agdiess Incidentally
tbe chance of jfindin
means of enterini nd came
wes posters which Fielded to his’ touch. Hie
and found himself tn a ‘ema
with tree
s
3
case=
few Wi sed bet
very nervous and excited, and re
because, she eald, ber husband wi
Sa
He went away, and struck again into the path
that led to the poster
Suddenly hearing steps ahead of him, and thin!
ng It was the womans husbund who approsened,
we {crouched smong the bushes and discerned the
form of an passing quickly onward tows
e
He thet, _fot out of the grounds, and returned to
London; the ‘knife was not his; he had never
Beet that he reproached Mrs, Dene
for'hor mercenary martiage, bse ba had ne ieatng
of enmity against her husband sufficient
him desire Herbert Dene's deat
This was bis story, and . ‘weaker plea could
hardly have been olfered. There was mo evidence
to support his statement only the prisoner's. bare
Word: it was impossible for him to deny that he
wai rilia, and he could only account for hia
ale that “he ‘could hardly
was
ould not even produce oF indicate the lover
other than himself to whom Mrs. Dene's
had been written, nor could he make the statement
pear probable that a man would go. from Lon-
doa to, Chile's, HL ‘at past ten at night 0 “the
ance of catching a glimpse of a woman with
whom he was Snfat
lustace’ Carew. was. committed for trial: and
pelther his attorney nor his counsel concealed from
him the fact that there was no chance of av ac-
autre
“I am innocent of the very thought of crime!"
said Carew. “I am the scapegoat for some other
in; and, if the law bangs me, I shall die a mur-
dered man”
The was fixed for three weeks from the
date ot the committal aod meanwhile publie opin:
jon had naturally condemned the prisoner,
Mrs. Dene, looking lovely in her widow's weeds,
lived vin trie seclusion, though mot at the Roser
ery muc
letter
des pie tke levity of her condue
husband's will had left ber well provided
for; in facts she was a most desirable match, end
would, in time, no doubt, take a seco
Bustace. Carew seemed to have few.
friends in England, or his friends were unwlling
to own one whose hand was red with blood, and
who Would presently dle a shameful death
Pe came ‘e fee him, and
that was Vhat she no one
could ‘say; ale “called erself suuply a friend, and
gether, conversed entirely ‘in
‘The nun, who gave the name of Sister Thérdse,
could speak French, but no English; and, as Carew
d .
0 or tw
ofteials wou
cal
mitted.
in the stro
sud
wrestling tr
8 orring
not rougbly,
into executi
Poste" tor
‘aeked all
some mi
sea
here wer
ot peaceful
aught, and
eatest 6}
heard of E
rs.
track
a Roman Catholic, It was likely enough that
an
spiritual consolation, a8 well
As, howe’ she wa
Suggest, that the
but it was
oy
°
Bo business of theirs, apd Sister Therese
aritiea “itotte the clubs and among late travelers | where busi
a
get and the Strand by screeching out: ana thi
“Escape of the Child's Hill murderer |”
+ It seemed that in the afternoon the nun. calling | clea
was
An official then went ‘to the cell of the prisoner,
gripping his throa
While bo was thus at the prisoner's mercy, the | fr
nun stooped over bim, and forced Tbendkerchiet, Come
The prisoner's triumph, however, would be of
short duration.
Ts
red bither and thither: i¢ would. seem m=
Of Sister Therese, the “Child's Hil murderer
Dut, Bustace Care
3
mor
aye wonder, the interest “bela key
mnstant “sca e
Interest; but i
When weeks and months
fell back among the Tealine of Biston
lene, who
disappointed at is
Kind, and wore very
was free; and in these rapid days, even when one’s
was 4 friend, and came to-adciinister | Burband ‘ig murdered, one cannot wear the willow
(or mi
t her
ald oucasionally gra
‘visito
yht as often as’ visitors were per-
t, just a week before the trial, a rumor | Gompto:
isoner had escaped; and
iB paper. published a’ mid- pol
course by the warder who had eof Mr. | was stout
Caren, A couple of hours tater, this ian being | father" slight “than, otherwise,
missed, search was ma but in vaio.
as he at first believed: the iasennibls | Eyes,
it; but further
the prisoi . would
1 of chloroform but the surgeon, woo | "SRG
‘Boon.
joner | reached. th
ick, threw hin down, at the
ina manner which prevented | mon, ‘voice to
, over bis ‘nose al
ion. ‘The room and its temi
odd contrast, a contrast which wor
He had (got some three o» four | grotesque were it not, almost tragically pathetic;
ora
, but what of t In_a surprisingly | for t
of ca Sere flashed all over
hed; descriptions
any man to escape the igitance, that
the highways an
did] The
citizens were arrested “‘on suspicion,
ew got clear of. fany
aires” about the prisoner having been| It wi
the ense Itself Nolng gue of exceptional | only. Yor”
utlast thelr ; and 80,
and nothing was | pressed.
ferstood’ to be keenly | eye eves
fauna e when
lusband’s. assassin, went. abr toad lashes.
for two jontbs.- The Rosery was sold
and ‘when, in the ‘ollowing winter,.the widow re- Wi
raed. to’ London, ‘she took "a hovse im the West | sivo her thet,
jore than six or seyen month:
THE ACTRESS AND HER FRIEN!
young woman of five or six-and-twenty was
Jowiy meanting {he staira of a house in Lirtle
Ei ‘a dingy part of Lon¢
whole |
d| moved slowly, becatse
conducted to the prison gate in the usual | heat—it was a warm day In.
arder who had» cha 3 rr infirm
sti
proved that, it was the jatier, partially sho moved Saiowly,
we
irl’s ole, rit
cain
ta, please”
might. have, besn ven, or twent
re any number of false plarms; dozeng | Sho looked “Ike a wore, ” ast the Finadiagy | truly
as more
© than a nine| and her face had ail the Beauty
apt, up. by, the | of her person seemed to dem
mol
whirlpool of London life the | purity of ts pale si Shin pelther dark nor fair, but
for the charact
s8ed. ‘Mouth an
tustace Carew, the Child’ re, HAIL murder | most too resolute ‘for a,woman, were itn
passion and softness of the lérge, brllitant, dark
that no man could meet unmovi
n they were half veiled under the long,
hat had so young a creature suffer:
look, infinitely” Dathetfeand the
mich mitigated mourning. Sho) more, someliow, tat there
evidently "meant to enjoy herself, ‘now that shel She ‘had been” used,” it
D,
vege "houses. are bowing private ret
ences out oh exiotenee abby
whereof startled Ficet | the whsoient, and, se
rd
ore ox
Tooms were let out to second
jark and very far from
The girt
goolslookings ‘with black hair and bright. blac
fhe was prettily dressed. and her step, though
was light and springy—one
say she was a dancer,
paused for breath when she got to the top of
nooo a restoring the, ‘socbad flight.
Foul she said, half aloud. ot it
she | bean fee third iene ‘and baring
mit, knocked gently at tl
it is”
r of
‘One would expect a rough, or at any rate, a com-
Feply; Dut instead, a, sweet, rich,
he unmistakable, ring, of” gentle
ple
Neposlad’ the Frenchwoman,
that | in tn font -bumored mimicry, as she opened the door
he remembered no more. ot her head in
Eustace Carew then bad effected his excane | Rosalio—it is A tall, slender young
a most daring manner; and, as the hour selected sins Sprang orward sad stretched cuz both hands
a partic propitious one, it seemed p ratty | eagerly.
clear that the attempt had been planned for 2 Jong | stooped Mead. to ks
time, and in, whether a real or @ “It's very ki > a ” returne
retigieuse, bad.’ in her comings and Igslngs; taken | tho dancer’-for ouch she was—and T hope wis
care to ascertain the. best time to put her plans time 1 come with good news.”
porary proprietor were
Rid have, been
window looked over count-
less roote ‘and squalid back ya
inl who had welcomed Ros:
ons, piece of theendbare carpet
oa
He 50 warmly
three,
tat the elegance
mance, not.
and the
cemed alc
ot for ‘the
‘heavy
re was go much latent pain in those ares,
appeal in. it?
suffer in
seek none for herself; proud and self-rellant she
was, but it was the pride of conscious strength,
Shabby attire could not make, her ‘soem otherwise
than “born ie purple,” cou dim the glory
The ‘red-gold halt that. clustered. tu thick gurls
at over her head, and shadowed the bro
news.” sho sald, in her sweet, rich valoe
3 the undertone of pain gveb in that—
atways good news when you
poke French, which
ips ‘as if it were ber native tongue, and purer
ld not bo uttered in the salons of the Pauboure
Saint Germ
Rocalte’s was the Freuch of a second-class Pa
ne,
“Vel
01
salary wouldn't
ek; but
worth it, for our, beauty alone.”
ood yo
ssense! You'd do as much for me,
Do you think Curtis will
know.’
"Indeed I “would,
en he sees you,
Rowalier laughing; “t told him what
eure is a
ie, uo's ader ome ‘obligations ®
fay: chor papa, Butt vice,
p in the background Semueh ae'you cag
like" such uncommonly
Tam not likely to put myself forward,” sald
Vera, amiling.
“No; I sippose you wouldn't, now one comes
to think of it,” Tetumned -Rosaile, who had bee
on the stage from the time she could walk, and
could not understand t the! ica of anyone not caring
be as much seen ‘8 possi
“Am T not very shabby to. go to a managert™
asked Vera, dublously.
tain afraid y
ou are, dear. , Let's look——"
"t so bad; and ma fot! you have
You never seein, to look ‘shat
such an air But
Til tell you what. You won't mind wearing a hat
Of mine, will you? and one of those lung lace
can't help
searts round. your “mroutdern, “Deen
ou
Mind" sald Vera, Kneeling ‘down again, and
Klssing Rosalie, “Why should T'mind? I'am only
thank you for your kin
x Bali! tf pro's are, Hot to help each other, outs
siders won't do it, you may be certaln.
and have toa with me, My father
any more than I am, but be
wi
be
Wve sucha pretty way of putting things.”
sald Rosales laughing again
She was’ a true Parisienne, always light=
out of it
a her bat, and the two went out tor
y bad not very far to go, for Rosalle’s dwell
ing was in Greek Street, where ber cher bape kept
‘& curio shop.
A strange shop Jt was, and a atrange, Ittle, old
apa Marcel, ‘as the French’ people of
had onco had a much larger business. tm
ut during a popular upri 0
rrecked, and as the Hittie curio dealer wi
Seance. there, w ci
mt at
assess at thelr just, aloe” ‘haa antiquities, whlch
necessarily bear a fancy
0 Marcel and. his ‘iayphter went to Eng
jand and settled In Soho, where they bad now
een about five years; ‘old man,
said, the mob did not bret Out every three oF four
months and steal from better men than them
selves.
wYou and father will get on splendidly together.”
fd Rosalie, as she ceeded,
tre
you
things father's 80. eut ‘of, and the anecdotes he has
ple his-
about the grand people tinder the empire, and
tories of some of his c
19 can, ev ver cheat him," added. the
daughter, proud nows a ren! antique from
2°Gibtw eimost without looking ai
‘They had reached the stop now.’ a queer, Tittle,
dark-browed place, that even on this bright June
evening was In semi-twillght.
Nera would willingly ave “spent a go0d, Jom
time in Te" urveying. the heterogoncour mass of
curios that filled up every Dock and. corner? ple=
tures, statuettes, strange ld cloc ks, Louls Quiaze
ne: ind Pierrots, violins,
qualat bite of carvings, needs from anclent puipits
qprcunferslogales chisa’ cups, bi
battered and defaced. and bro
‘onzes_Im perfect re-
foventeenth century, steel gauntlets
Heces of the Wars of the Ros
longed to the Pompadour,
Renaissance. «
osW/at, & motley collection it wast, What
wnltten ‘a that attaty' eld curio shop?
with its unwritten
‘a cabinet of the Italian
to—! ut
‘And perhaps it was from endlly as.
cotation with all theve Telles of the past tant baa
be hlmecit a living curio. and
Mer therofose quite in keeping. with bie surrouvd
Ings,
‘little, dried-up, yellow-skinned, but bright-
eyed and ‘fne-featured old man, who might have
been seventy odd, or ten years older. He wore no
de
a
coat W fave spoiled the pictitr
many “ache dealers, the old may
Rosalie’s watcbful care—wi
his per ateerns his linen wae alwi
together a singularly leturesgue figures
a Yondertul scbarecter Study for F& paln ainter. ~s
was alon d no assistant
<Seamintng a purchase woich he bad Just made, --
when bit daughter aud Vera Bertram enters
ised his head, and his bright eyes Blinced *
® Roce te her beautiful companion, ae
"AR, Ronse ma fille—”
said she, “you know who this ts} you’ ~
haye heard often enough of Mile. Bertram,
“1 am delighted to see, you. magemolsell,
the old man, bowing with the Intuitive race ot