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'^Ko, Lily; thc love itself is much, ;
though it should bring no fruit, still i
something to have won it forever ac
day."
"You are very young to talk ti
Thomas. I am also young, I know,
we women ripen quicker. Perhaps
this is but a boy's fancy, to pass with t
hood."
*'It will never pass, Lily. They say t
OUT first loves are the longest, and t
which is sown in youth will Sourish
outrage. Listen, Lily. I have my place
make in the world, and it may take a tl
tn the making, and I ask one promise
you, though perhaps it is a selfish thin g
seek. I ask of you that you will be fal
fol to me, and, come fair weather or foi
will wed no other man till you knowi
dead."
4'It is something to promise, Thom;
for with time come changes. Still I i
sb sure of 'myself that I promise-nay
swear it. Of you I cannot be sure, fc
things are so with us women that we mi
risk all upon a throw, and if We lose goc
by to happiness. "
Then we talked on, and I cannot i
member what we said, though these woz
I have written down remain in niy min
partly because of their own weight a?
in part because of all that came about
the after years.
And at last I knew that I must g
though we were sad enough at parting.
So I took her in my arms and kissed h
so closely that some blood from my worn
ran down her white attire. But as i
embraced I chanced to look up and saw
sight that frightened me enough, f
there, .not five paces; from us, stood JSqui
Bozard, Idly'V iatJicrTwatching ~aH,~?r
his face wore no smile.
He had been riding by a bridle path 1
the watering ford, and seeing a coup
trespassing beneath the oaks dismounts
from his horse to hunt them away. N<
till he was quite hear did he know Whoi
he came to hunt, and then he stood sti
in astonishment. He was a short, stoi
man, with a red face and stern, gray ey<
that seemed to be starting from his hen
with anger. For awhile he could nc
speak, but when he began 'at length th
words came fast enough. All that he sal
I forget, but thc upshot of it was that h
desired to know what my business wa
with his daughter. I waited till he wa
out of breath,, then answered him th;
Lily and I loved each other well and wei
plighting our troth.
''Is this so, daughter?" he asked.
4'It is so, my father," she answere
?boldly. ,
Then he broke out swearing. "Yoi
light minx," ho said, -'you shall be whip
ped and kept cool on broad and water ii
your chamber. And fox you, my half bret
Spanish cockerel, know once and for .al
that this maid is for your betters.' Ho\
dare yon como wooing my daughter, yoi
empty pillbox, who have not two silver pen
ni?s to rattle in your pouch ! Go win foi
time and a name before yon dare to loo)
up to such as she!"
"That is my desire, and I will do it
sir," I answered.
"So, yon apothecary's drudge, you wil
win name and place, will you? Well
long before that deed is done the raak
shall be safely wedded to one who ha
them and who is not unknown to you
Daughter, say now that you have finishec
with him."
"I cannot say that, father," she replied
plucking at her robe. "If it is not you]
will that I should marry Thomas here
my duty is plain, and I may not wed. him
But I am my own, and no duty can make
me marry where I will not. While Thomas
lives I am sworn to him and to no othes
man."
**At thc least you have courage, hussy,"
said her father. 4*But listen now. Eithei
you will marry where and when I wish
. or tramp it for your bread. Ungrateful
girl, did I breed you to flaunt me to my
face? Now for you, pillbox! I will teach
you to come kissing honest men's daugh?
ters without their leave, " and with a curse
he rushed at me, stick aloft, to thrash mc.
Then for the second time that day my
quick blood boiled in me, and snatching
up the Spaniard's sword that lay upon the
grass beside me I held it at the point, for
the game was changed, and I who had
fought with cudgel against sword must
now fight with sword against cudgel. And
had it not been that Lily, with a quick
cry of fear, struck my arm from beneath,
causing the point of the ?word to pass over
his shoulder, I believe truly that I should
then and there have pierced her father
through and ended my days carly with a
noose about my neck.
''Are you mad?" she cried, "'and do you
think to win mc by slaying my father?
Throw down that sword, Thomas."
44 As for winning you, it seems that there
is small chance of it," I answered hotly,
ubut I tell you this-not for the sake of all
the maids upon the earth will I stand to
be beaten wita a stick like a scullion. "
*. And there I do not blame you, lad, "
said her father, more kindly. *'I sec that
you also have courage, which may serve
you in good stead, and it was unworthy
of me to call you 'pillbox' in my anger.
Still, as I have said, the girl is not for you,
so begone and forget her as best you may,
and if you value your life never let me
find you two kissing again. And know
that tomorrow I will have a word with
your father on this matter "
..I will go, since I must go," I answer?
ed, "but, sir, I still hop? to live to call
your daughter wife. Lily, farewell till
these storms are overpast. ' '
'.Farewell, Thomas," she said, weeping.
"Forget me not, and I will never forget
my oath to you."
Then, taking Lily by the ann, her father
led her away.
I also went away-sad, but not alto?
gether ill pleased, for now I knew that if
I had won the father's anger I had also
won the daughter's unalterable love, and
love lasts longer than wrath, and here or
hereafter will win its way at length.
When I had gone a little distance, I re?
membered the Spaniard, who had been
clean forgotten by me in all this love and
war, and I turned to seek him and drag
him to the stocks, which I should have
done with joy and been glad to find some
one on whom to wreak my wrongs. But
when I came to the spot where I had left
him I found that fate had befriended him
by the hand of a fool, for there was no
Spaniard, but only the village idiot, Billy
Minns by name, who stood staring first at
the tree to which the foreigner had been
made fast and then at a piece of silver in
his hand.
44Where is the man who was tied here,
Billy?" I asked.
"I Know noe, Master Thomas, " he an?
swered in his Norfolk talk, which I will not
set down. ''Half way to wheresoever he
was going, I should say, measured by the
pace at which he left when once I had sat
him upon his horse. Lawks, but he was
glad to be gone! How he did gallop!"
"Now, you are a bigger fool even than 1
thought you, Billy Minns," I said in an?
ger. '"That man would have murdered
me. I overcame him and made him fast,
and you have let him go. "
.'He would have murdered you, master,
and you made him fast! Well, he's gone,
and this alone is left of him." And he
spun tho piece into the air.
."Kow. secinc- that there__was. reason in
I Billy's .talk, for the"fault' was" mine"," ?
turned away without more words, not
! straight homeward, for I wished to think
j alone awhile on all that had como about
j between me and Lily and her father, but
i down the way which runs across the lane
i to the crest of the Vineyard hills. These
i hills are clothed with underwood, in which
large oaks grow to within some 200 yards
of this house where I write, and this un?
derwood is pierced by paths that my moth?
er laid out, for she loved to walk here.
One of these paths runs along the bottom
of the hill by the edge of the pleasant
river Waveney and the other a hundred
feet or more above and near the crest of
the slope, or, to speak more plainly, there
is but one path, shaped like the letter O,
placed longitudinally, the curved ends of
the letter marking how the path turns
upon thc hillside.
Kow, I struck the path at thc end that
is farthest from this house and followed
that half of it which runs down by thee
river bank, having rhe water on one side
I of it and thc brushwood upon thc other,
j Along this lower path I wandered, my
j eyes fixed upon the ground, thinking deep?
ly as I went, now of the joy of Lily's love
j and now of the sorrow of our parting and
i of her father's wrath, and my eyes fell
upon 'footprints in the wet sand of the
path. Ono of them was my mother's. I
could have sworn to it among a thousand,
i for no other woman dn these parts had so
I delicate a foot, dose to it, as though fol
lowing after, was another that at first I
I thought must also have boen made by a
j woman-it was so narrow. But presently
I saw that this could scarcely be, because
of its length, and, moreover, that the boot
which left it was like none that I knew,
being cut very high at the instep and very
pointed at the toe.
Then of a sudden it came upon me that
the Spanish stranger wore such boots, for
I had noted them while I talked with him,
and that his feet were following those of
my mother, for they had trodden on her
track, and in some places his alone had
stamped their impress on the sand, blot?
ting out her footprints.
Here they were mixed one with another,
as though the two had stood close togcth
2r, moving now this way and now that in
struggle. I looked up the path, but there
were none. Then I cast round about like
a beagle, first along the river side, then
up the bank. Here they were again, and
made by feet that flew and feet that fol?
lowed. Up the bank they went 50 yards
and more, now lost where the turf was
sound, now seen in sand or loam, till they
led to the bole of a big oak and were once
more mixed together, for herc the pursuer
had come np with the pursued.
Despairingly as one who dreams, for
now I guessed all and grew mad with fear,
I looked this way and that till at length
I found more footsteps-those of the Span?
iard. These were deep marked, as of a
man who carried some heavy burden. I
followed them. First they went down the
bill toward the river, then turned aside to
a spot where the brushwood was thick.
In the deepest of the clump the boughs,
now bursting into leaf, were bent down?
ward as though to hide something beneath.
I wrenched them aside, and there, gleam?
ing whitely in the gathering twilight, was
the dead face of my mother J
CHAPTER IV.
THOMAS SWEARS AX OATH.
For awhile I stood amazed with horror,
staring down at the dead face of my be?
loved mother. Then I stooped to lift her
and saw that she had been stabbed, and
through tho breast-stabbed with the
sword which I carried in my hand.
Now I understood. This was the work
of that Spanish stranger whom I had met
as he hurried from the place of murder,
who, because of the wickedness of his heart
For awhile I stood amazed icitK horror.
or for some secret reason, had striven to
slay mo also when he learned that I was
my mother's son. And I had held this
devil in my power, and that I might meet
my May I had suffered him to escape my
vengeance, whereas had I known the truth
I would have dealt with him as thc priests
of Anahuac deal with the victims of their
gods. I understood and shed tears of pity,
rage and shame. Then I turned and fled
homeward like one mad.
At the doorway I met my father and my
brother Geoffrey riding up from Bungay
market, and there was that written on my
face which caused them to ask as with one
voice:
"What evil thing has happened?"
Thrice I looked at my father before I
could speak, for I feared lest tho blow
should kill him. But speak I must at last,
though I chose that it should be to Geof?
frey, my brother. "'Our mother lies mur?
dered yonder on the Vineyard hill. A
Spanish man has done the deed. Juan de
Garcia by name. " When my father heard
these words, his face became livid as
though with pain of the heart, his jaw fell,
and a low moan issued from his open
mouth. Presently he rested his hand upon
the pommel of the saddle, and lifting his
ghastly face ho said:
"Where is this Spaniard? Have you
killed him?"
"No, father. Ho chanced upon me in
Grubswell, and when he learned my name
he would have murdered me. But I ploded
quarter staff with him and beat him to a
pulp, taking his sword. "
"Aye, and then?"
"And then I let him go, knowing noth?
ing of thc deed he had already wrought
upon our mother. Afterward I will tell
you all. "
"You let him go, son? You let Jean do
Garcia go! Then, Thomas, may tho curse
of God rest upon you till you find him and
finish ?hat which you bogan today. "
"Spare to curse mc, father, who am ac?
cursed by my own conscience. Turn your
horses rather and ride for Yarmouth, for
thero his ship lies, and thither he has gone
with two hours' start. Perhaps you may
still trap him beforo he sets sail."
without another word my father and
brother wheeled their horses round and dc
partexj at full gallop into the gloom of tho
gathering night.
They rode so fiercely that, their horses
being good, they came to the gates of Yar?
mouth in little rnpro than 1 % hours, and
fjhai, is fast riding. But tho bird was
nown. They track?d him to the quay and
found^h^l_he_haa shipped awhile beforo
j f? a boat which was i?~ walting" Tor him
j and passed to his vessel, which lay in the
I roads at anchor, bnt with the most of her
! canvas set. Instantly she sailed and now
i was lost in the night. Then my father
I caused notice to bc given that he would
! pay a reward of 200 pieces in gold to any
j ship that would capture the Spaniard, and
I two started on the quest, but they did not
find her that before morning was far on
her way across the sea.
At length the morning came, aud with
it my father and brother, who returned
from Yarmouth on hired horses, for their
own were spent. In the afternoon also
news followed them that the ships which
I had put to sea on the track cf the Span
j iard had been driven back by bail weather,
j having seen nothing of him.
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! Now, that the strike excitement is happily
? over public attention is centered upon the
j daily meetings of the damocratic conference
j on the tariff bill. There is some disappoint
: ment among democrats that after an entire
! week's work no agreement has been reached,
j However, considerable progress bas been
made, and it is boped that a partial, if not a
complete report can be made to the House
and Senate this week. Democrats are more
worrifd over the failure to reach an agree
j ment than over the bluff made by Senator
j Hale in introducing a resolution calling for
j information as to why the republican con
; ferees bad not been invited to attend the
j meetings. In their anxiety to get to work
I the democratic conferees neglected to follow
the usual course and invite the republican
conferees to the first formal meeting, but it
was merely a f?rm that was overlooked. It
is a democratic disagreement and it must and
will be settled among democrats without re
publi-jan interference. It is not to aid io
settling the disagreements that the republi?
cans wish to attend the conference, but to try
to prevent tbeir being settled.
Just as soon as an agreement can be
reached that will be ratified by the House and
Senate Congress can adjourn, as the Senate,
hy an unusual spirit, bas passed nine of the
appropriation bills and has the other five in
good shape to be passed this week. That
i will leave tbe decks clear for action on the
conference report on tbe tariff bill, and
everything now points to adjournment by
the first of August. The only thing that
can upset these calculations is tbe failure of
the conference to reach an agreement that
will be accepted by both Senate and House,
and that ?3 not expected.
A strong effort is being made to get the
Nicaragua canal bill passed at this session of
Congress, but it may be crowded out. The
House Commerce committee is trying to get
the committe oa Rules to set aside two or
three days for the discussion of the caoa?
bill, which Chairman Wise, of the first
named committe considers one of the mest
important bills that have been before Con?
gress for years. There are a number of
democrats in the House, who are on principle
opposed to the government's engaging in
any such business as proposed by this bill,
and while they are not probably numerous
enough to defeat the bill on a vote they are
numerous enough to prevent a vote being
taken unless a special rule is reported limit?
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bo m si ny requests come to Sergeant-at
Arms Snow, of the House, from editors and
politicians, askiog whether certain members
have drawn mileage for both tbe extra and
regular sessions of Congress and whether this
or that member bas drawn full pay since tbe
law to'dock.members for absence was reviv?
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politely declining to furnish the information
asked for unless instructed to do so by the
House. A considerable number of members
of the House have reason to feel grateful to
Col. Snow for not opening the books of bis
office to the men who are tryiog to find
reasons for leaving them at borne.
It seems to come natural to some people to
misunderstand things A case in point was
the unanimity of certain labor leaders in
announcing after a recent interview with the
President that Mr. Cleveland bad agreed to
appoint a commission to arbitrate the dis?
pute which brought about the late disastrous
and costly-to all concerned, and to many
not directly concerned-railroad strike. It is
not flattering to the intellect of the before
? mentiooed labor leaders if this misunder
I standing was not intentional. The law
under wbicb President Cleveland agreed to
appoiut two commissioners to act with the
?. S. Commissioner of Labor in making an
investigation, does not give him authority to
appoint arbitrators, except under conditions
not existing in this case, and the commission
to be appointed will only hive authority to
investigate the strike which occurred upon
interstate railways. It cannot investigate
the strike at the Pullman car works any more
than it could investigate a strike of the farm
bands of John Smith. President Cleveland
will appoint this commission because be
wishes to secure authentic information to be
used as a basis for recommendations be
intends to make on the subject in his next
annual message to Congress. He recognizes
it as a subject that needs national legislation,
not in the interest of the corporations, nor
of the labor organizations, but of the whole
country, wbicb is incommoded and in the
end has to pay tbe bills for the periodical
strikes.
Although there are reports to the countrary
there is no reason to doubt that President
Cleveland will sign the bill fortbe admission,
of Utah to statehood, which is now io his
bands.
Senator Allen ot Nebraska told the Senate
on Saturday that it was untrue as stated ia
the newspapers that bad been downed in a
wrestling match with John Barleycorn.
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