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The Seaforth News, 1933-03-30, Page 6PAGE SIX, THE SEAFORTH NEWS. ;THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1933. TVE' HAVEN Johnson. what might there (Continued from last week.) ,not .nun. (Ile had his foot upon .then'! before they had done spinning, The next moment they had kissed the two pieces' already hi his .possession, and he had transferred all four to his pocket, I held out my 'hand for the paper, and he gave it to me grudging- ly, with a spiteful slowness o+f move- ment. •He would have stayed beside measI read it, but I sternly bade him keep his distance; •then kheelfng be- fore the fire to get the light, I opened' the paper. It was written upon in a delicate, woman's hand, .and it ran 'thus:— An you hold me dear, come to me at once. Come without tarrying to the deserted holt on the neck of land, near- est to the forest. As you love me, as you are my knight, keep this tryst. I'n 'distress and peril, Thy 'W'ife. !Folded with it was a line in the commander's hand and with his sig- nature: 'The bearer May ,pass without the palisade at his pleasure." 1 read the ,first paper again refolded it and rose to my feet. 'Who brought this, sirrah?" I demanded. His answer Was glib enough: "One of the governor's servants. He said as 'how there was no 'harm iu the letter,. and the gold was good a:•,. "When was this?" • "Just now. No, I didn't know the man." +I saw no way to discover whether or not he lied. Drawing out another gold piece, I laid it upon the table. He eyed it greedily, edging nearer and nearer. "For leaving this door unlocked," I said, His eyes narrowed and he m'oisten- ed his lips, shifting from one foot to the other, tI put down a second piece, For opening the outer door," I said, iHe wet ,his lips again, made an in- articulate sound in his throat, and finally 'broke out with, "The com- mander will .maid my ears to the pil- lory." "You can lock the doors after me, and knew as little ,as you choose -in the morning, No gain without same risk." "That's sc,," he agreed, and made a clutch at tbs. gold. I swept it out of his reach, "First earn it," I said dryly. "Look at the foot ' thepillory an hour from now as a risk I could I had no'weapons to assume, no preparations to make. Gathering up the gaoler's gold I started toward the door, opened' it, and going .out would have closed' it softly 'behind' me bait that a booted leg'thrust across the jamb prevented me, "'I am going with you." said D5ccon in a guarded voice. ''If you try to prevent m'e,' I' will rouse the house." His head was thrown back in the old way; the •old daredevil look was upon his face. "I don't know why you are .going," .he declared, "but there'll be danger, any- how." To the. best of my belief I am walking into a trap," I said. ""Then it ,will 'shun on two instead of one," he answered do+ggedly. fay this he was through the door, and there was no shadow Of turning on his dark, determined face. I knew my man and wasted no words. Long ago it 'had grown. to seem the thing most in nature that thee hour of 'dan- ger should find as side by side.' When the door off the drelit room was shut, the 'gaol was in darkness that might hes felt, It was very still: the few other inmates were fast asleep --;the gaoler was soanewhere out of sight, dreaming with open eyes. We groped our way through the passage to the stairs, noiselessly, unbarred, and slightly ajar. When I had laid the gold ;beneath the pillory, we struck swiftly ecreoss the square, being hi fear lest the watch s'h'ould came'up'on us, and took the first lane that iced .toward the pal- isade. Beneath the burning stars the lay stark in. sleep. 'Se bright in. the wintty air wete those :far -away tights that the darkness below them was not great. We, could sec the low houses, the shadowy pines, the naked oaks, the sandy lane giim'merimgaway to the river, star -;strewn to match the heavens. The air was cold, 'but ex- ceedingly clear and still. Now and then a dog barked, or wolves howled in the forest across the river. We kept in the shadow of the houses and the trees, and went with the swiftness, si- lence and caution of Andians, The last house we must pass .before reaching the palisade was one that Rolfe owned, and in which he lodged when business brought him to James- town. It and some low outbuildings beyond. it were as d'ar'k as the cedars 'in which they were set, and as silent as the grave. Rolfe and his Indian oo 0! ,irr?r brother were sleeping there now, and you'll find it, ]'•1l not pay you this side of the doors.' I while I stlod without. Or 'did they steep? Were ,hey there at all? Might He bit his lips and studied the floor, it not have been Rolfe who had brib- "1"ou're agentleman." he growled at la -t, "I suppose I can trust ye." "I suppuse you can." Taking up his lantern he turned to- ward the door, "It's growing late," he said, with a most uncouth attempt to feign a guileless drowsiness. go to bed, captain, when I've locked up. Good -night to yel" !He teas gone and the door was left unlocked. I could walk out of that gaol as I could have walked out of my house at Weyanoke. I was free, but should I take my freedom? Going back to the light of the fare I un'fold- ed the paper and stared at it, turn- ing its contents this way and that in. my mind. The hand ---but once had I seen her writing, and then it had been wrought with a shell upon firm sand. I could not judge if this were the same, Had the paper indeed come from her? Had it not? I1 in truth it was, a message from my wife, what had befallen in a few hours since our parting?hf it was a forger's lie, what trap . was set, what to'ils were laid? I walked up and down, and tried to think it out. The strangeness of it all, the choice of a lonely and distant hot for trysting place, that pass corning from a s'wnras officer of the Com'pany, certain things I had heard thatday— A trap• . . and to walk into it with thy eyes open. , . An you hold me ng the gate aper and blinking at tis ed the gaoler and procured the pass from West?' Might I not find him at that strange trysting place? Might not all be well, after all? I was sorely tempted to rouse that si- lent house and demand if its master were within, I did it not. Servants were there, and noise would be made and time that might be more precious than life -blood was flying fast. 3 went on, and Diccon with the. There was a cabin built almost against the palisade, and' here one urian was supposed to ,keep watch, w1'tilst another slept. To -night we found bath asleep. I shook the youn- ger to his feet, and heartily cursed him for his negligence. He listened stupidly, 'by the light of the la'n'tern he as stupidly read the pass which I thrust under his nose. 'Staggering to his feet, and drunk with his unlawful slurtiber, he ,fumbled at the fastendngs of the gate for full three minutes be- fore the ponderous wood finally swung Apert and showed the road be- vand. "It's all :right," he muttered thickly. "The command'er's pass. Good -night the three of ye!" "Are you drunk or drugged?" I de- manded. "There are only two. It's not sleep 'that is the matter with you. W'hat k it?" He made no answer but stood hold - dear. knight, keep this Haar. :T's Yott are my c rah all 14 unseeing eyes. Something tryst: In distress- and peril. Colne ailed him besides sleep; he •may have been drugged for :aught I know. When 'w'e had' genre s'onse yards from. the gate, we heard him say 'again, in pre- cisely the same tones "Good.night the three of ye I" Theo the gate creaked. to; 'obit we heard the bars !drawn ac- ross it,` ;Without the pal'i'sade was a space of waste land, m,ansh ant(' bheicket, taper- ing to the marrow strip of sand and 'scru'b joining the peninsula 'to the forest, and here and there upon +thiis Waste ground rose a mean house, dwelt in ;by the poorer sort. All were dark. We left' them behind, wad found r ourselves upon the neck, with the des- olate murmur of the river on either hand, and before us the deep black- ness of •toe forest. Sluddenly Dliocnn stopipe;d in 'his tracks and turned his head, "I did hear something them" he muttered, "!Look,' sir!" The stars- faintly lilt the road that had been trodden lvard'+and - bear by the feet df as who ;came and wenut. Down this road ,something was com- ing toward urs, s'om'ething law and dark; that meowed: not last, and not slow, but ,with'a measured and relent- less pace, "'A pariRher!" said Die - con, iWe watched the creature with more of curiosity than alarm. Unless biioughd to bay, or hungry, or wanton- ly irritated, these great cats were cowardly'enouegh. It would 'hardly at- tack the two of -us. Nearer and nearer it came, showing no signs of anger and none of fear, and playing no at- tention to the withered branch with which Diocon tried to.. scarce it .off. When it was sa close that we couId •see the white Of its breast it stdpped,. looking at •us with large, unfal'teri'ng eyes, and slightly nio'ving its tail to grid fro, "As tante panther!" +eejeacula'ted 'Die- con. "It must be the one Nantattquaa tamed, 'sir, 'He would have kept it somewhere near 'Master R'ol1fe's house." "And it heard us, and followed us through the gate," I said. "It was the 'third' the warder talked of." We walked on, and the ,beast, ad- dressing itself to m'o'tion, followed at our heels, Naw and 'then we looked back at Pt, but we ;fe'ar'ed it .not. !Ass for me, I 'head began to think that a panther ',might be the least for - addable thing I should tweet that night. By this I had scarcely any Ihdpe—or fear=,thalt I should find her at our jbeurney's scsi, The lonesome path that led only. to the night-time forest, the deep and dark river with its mournful voice, the hard, bri.ght,. pitiless stars, the cold, the loneliness, the distances -how s'hoatld she be there? And if not She, who then? The hut to which I had .been direct- ed, stood in an angle made ,by the neck and the main bank of the river, On one side of it was the water, on the otter a deep wood. The Place had an evil tame, and no man had lived there since +the planter who had built it had flanged himself on its thresh- old. The hut was ruinous: in the sum- mer tall weed's grew up around it, and venomous. snakes harbored beneath its rotted and 'broken floor; id the winter the snow whitened ilt, and the wild fowl flew screaming in and out of the open door and the whitlows that needed no barring, To -night the door was shut and the windows in some way obscured. But the inter- stices between the logs showed red;, the hat was lighted within, and some one was keeping tryst., ;The stillness was deadly. I't was not silence, for the river murmured in the still reeds, and far off in the mid- night 'forest some beast of the night uttered its cry, but a hush, a .holding of the breath, an'expectant horror. The door, warped and sunken, was drawn to but was' not fastened, as I could tell by the unbroken line of red light down one side from top to bot - tont Making no sound, I '!'aid trip hard:. upon it, pushed it open a little. way, and looked within the hart, 11 had thought .to find it empty or to find it 'crowded, I:t was neither. A. torch lit it, and on the hearth burned a fire. Drawn in front of the blaze was an old ruche chair, and in It sae a slight figure draped from ,head to foot in a black,.coat The head'. was bowed and 'hidden, the whole'. altitude one of $1s't- lessniess and dejection. As I looked, there came a. long tremulous sigh, and the head drooped lower and lower, as if in a growing hopelessness, T'h:e revulsion of feeling was so great that for the moment I was daz- ed as by a sudden {slaw. There had (been time during the walk from the gaol for enough o•f wild and whierliarg thoughts as to what should ,greet ane las the hut; and now the slight figure ,by the fire, the exquisite melancholy of its posture, its; bent heal, the weep- ing. I could divine,—+l had but one thought; 'to comfort«her as quickly as I ;n'igh't, Diccait's )rand' teas tiepou my arm, but' I shook it off, and pushing the door opo❑ crossed eche uneven ain•d Sofsy' floor to the fire, and hent aver the lonely n.gure beside it. "Jocelyn," said, ff said, "I have kept tryst." As I spoke, I laid any hand upon the bowed and cohered head, Ilt was raised, the cloak' was drawn aside, ,and (there looked nae in the eyes the IIit'alian, - As if it had been the Gorgonn's ;gaze I was tanned to stone. The ,filmy eyties, the smile that would have 'been'' nvoak- ing had it ,not been So Very faint, the ,pallor, the malignance, -1 stared, and my heart grew cold and sick. IIit was but for ea minute; (then a warning .cry frdna',Dilcclon lionised lite.. I sprang backward until the -width; of the hearth was between me and the Iitalian, elven twdheeledd amd found my- self face to face with the.Klinlg's, late favorite, 'Behind him was an open dolor,and beyond it a smaller nodm•, dimly lighted, He Stood and looked at .me with aln inso'len'ce and e triumph moist `into!1'eralble. His drawn 'sword was in his 'hank the jeweled hill blaz- ing in the firelight, anid. on 4t+i's dark, suiperb face a taunting .smile. I ,met it with one las lbldld, alt least, but ll:'said no word, ,goad or +bad. an the c'all& of the George I had swoon to myself that bhenfefiorlwars my §ward should' speak for isle to this gentienvan. "You came," he said. "I !thought yon would," II glan'ce'd around the hut, seeking for a weapon, Seeing nothing more pehornisinlg than thee thick, half- con- sumed torch, I' sprang to it and wrested it 'from the socket. D'iccon taught up a piece of rusted iron from the irealibh, and •tolgelther we faced my lord's drawn Sword and a small, sharp, and strangely Shaped. dagger ,that the foreigner ,draw from a velvet sheath. My lord laughed, reading my thoughts. 'no are anisitaken," he declared cooly. "I am content that Captain Percy Ikneolws I do not fear to fight him. This time I play to selin." Turning toward the ouster door, he .raised his hand with a gesture of command. In an instant the room was fulled. The reedabrolwn figures, naked save !for the loinioith and the headdress, the imipassive Laces ,das'hed' with black, the ruthless eyes.,—II knew now why 'Master Edward Shlanple'ss had gone to the forest, and what service hail been .bought with that silve ,cup. Thee Paspaheg+hs and !I were sol• enemies; dou'bitelesls they would find their task a pleasant one. "My awn knaves, unfortunately, were out of the way; sent ho•nae on the !Sanaa Teresa," said my lord, still smiling. "1 am not yet so poor that II cannot hire others. 'True, Nicole might have done the work just now, when you bent over him so lovingly anid spoke so softly; but the river might ,give up your body to tell strange tales. I have heard that the +Indians 'are more in'geni'ous, and leave no such. witness anywhere." ,Before the words were out of his mouth I had sprung upon hint, and had caught him by the sword wrist and the throat. He strove to free his hand to withdraw himself from my grasp. Lacked together, we struggled baokw•ard ,and forward :in wheat seem- ed a blaze of lights and a roaring of mighty waters. Red hands caught at Me, sharp knives panted to drink my blood; bat so fast we turned and wri't'hed, now he uppermost, :row I, that for very fear of striking the wrong man laancl knives could not be bald. I heard 'Diction fighting, and knew that there' would he howling to- morrow- among the squaws of the ilaspaheghes. With all his might my lord strove to bend the sword against Inc, and at last did cut the 'across the arm, causing the blood to flow free- ly. 1't trade a pool upon the' floor, and once my foot slipped in it, and I stu'm'bled and almost fell. Two of the Pas:pah'eghs were silent for evermore, Diccon had the knife of the first to fall, and it ran ,red,. The foreigner, quick .and sinuous as a serpent, kept beside my lord and me, striving • to bring his dagger to his mas'ter's aid. We two :panted hard; before our eyes blood, within our ear; the sea, The noise of the other combatants suddenly fell The hush could only mean that Diecon was dead or taken. 1 could not doolc be- hind to see. With an. access of fury I drove my antagonist toward a corner of the hut—the .corner, so it chanced, la which the panther had -taken up its: 'quarters. With lois heel he struck the beast Out of his way, then made a, last desperate .effort to throw me. f1e't him' think he was about to sac ,ceed, gathered nay, forces and brough't mime crashing to thee- ground. The sword was in thy hand and shortened, the point was 'at his t'hro'at, when ray arm was jerl.ed Iba'ckwands. A • mo- ment, and half a elloizen hands had dragged me Rom the near beneath ole, and :a supple savage had p'ass'ed a •thong of deerskin around my annus and pinioned them to my, sides. The, igame was up; there remained 1 only to pay, the forfeit without a grimace. Ocean was not dead; pinioned, like mylseillf, and breathing hard, he leelaued sull'enl'y, again's't the wall, they that he had slain alt his felt, My lord rose, 'and' sl1obd over a'gainlsit me. His nidh doublet was torn and siiiagged away at the ,nelrik, and my Mood stain- ed. his hand .and arm. A smile ,was 'abaft the lace 'that .had madle him 'master of a lculvgdidm''s • master. '("Tlve game Was lorng," he ,staid, ""butt,3 have won at last, A long ,gdod- naiight to you, Captain Piercy, and a dreamless' sheep+ 1'" There was, a swift 'backward nvove- iment of t"jl+e, Indllans, and a loud, +l"Tih'e panther,• sir! Have a care 1" Ifnonn Di'OSon. I turned. The panther, tna'idd'en'ed by 'thee noise and light the Shifting ,figures, bhe bllotico'd' doors the sight and- smell of blood, the blow that had . beets ..dealit.. it, :was croachin'g for a llprsng. The red - brawn hair' was .bristling, the eyes were terriib•le,'I: was `bdforee it, bur those glaring eyes had, mainkeeel "ire not. I't.passed me like a b'ar from a catapult, and the mien wthdse heel it he'd felt was lull in Its path. One of its forefeet s'a'nk in the velvet of the doublet;: the claws of the other en- tered the flesh below the temple, and tore d'own'wards and morass. With a ory as awful as the panlbhee'r''s stream the Italian threw himself upon the beast .and ;buried .his po'niard in its neck. The 'panther and .the mat, 11 had attacked went down together. ',When the Indian's had unlocked 'th'at dread embrace and had thrust 'aside the dead brute, there emerged !front 'the di'rtines's of the inner ream Master Edward 'Sha:np'less,. Shay with fear, trembling in every limb, to take the reins that had fallen frdni my lordis hands, The King's minion lay in his blood, a .ghastly spetfaale; un- conscious now, but, with life before hon,—life through which to pass a nightmare vision, The face out 'cd which had looked that ' sullen, proud, and wicked spirit had been one of great beauty; it had 'brou'gh't him ex- ceeding wealth ai.d power beyond measure; the Ki)ug had loved to look upon it; and it hart come to .this, He lived, and I was Ito die: :batter my death than his life. In every heart there are dark d'epth's, whence at times ugly things creep into the day- light; ;but at least I could drive back that unmanly triumph, and 'bid it never come again. I would have kill- ed him, but I would not have head Mtn thus. The foreigner was upon his knees beside lois piaster: even such a crea- ture could 'love. Fr(rnt his skeleton throat came a low, prolonged, croak- ing sound, and Isis bony hands shrove to wipe away the bl'o'od. 'The Paspa- heghs. drew around us closer and closer, and the werowance clutched me by the s'houlder. I shook hint off. "Give bhe word, Sharpless," I said, "or nod, if thou art too frightened to speak, 'Murder is too stern a stuff .for such a base kitchen knave as thou to. deal in." iWitute and ` shaking, he would not meet my eyes, but beckoned the we- rowance to him, and began to whis- per vehemently; pointing now to the man upon the floor, now to the town, now to. the firres.t: The Indian list= ened, nodded, and glided back to his fellows, (Continued Next Week). 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