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('11 \ i' f 1. 1 \'. I N. ' That's the name of it. It is known 0 to
11'r rar2alr. S .:rl•I I: r.. all the lila Motile, We've got- a little I'ris-
The O01/1114e'^oat 11''1.1 ':ua.. i0'•.i my wife oner,' :lid tineioty of ter own, and this ltttt
through her ti tut l' oak111 eat, aw03' 111 the old 'um keep up for the use of any poo'
the nusutrou of hot nu dein I, n one. 'Il'enIbl• pal who eau gel away from Dartmoor.
ing convulsively she slum( to the tate for There's pretty newly everything he's likely
support. I did not teed this proof of :hilt t, 11 'tit
to a,.,.ira0110 my malignity. 111111 ready to rs0 on, -I an 111110 strong
" Conte on, said 1, giving her wrist a again,
wroneh. She wt. Loral at sharp ,'ry of titan, " Wait a hit, It's a long while since I
"Ah, yon understand t hat, do yon?' I hall a tuek out like this."
(entinned, draggtng her along. "'lave you She rose end looked all round,
over had 000 aril twisted? I daresay not. " You don't see any olio, I suppose," said
'Well, I promiso you I'll twist it out of its I, between two mouthfuls.ousa, How eau
socket if you call oat again," " No 1 I can't oro the h g
"W1, lot Inc go 1" she nuunr,vl, piteous- luta he been there?"
ly. ''i cannot an -I .iIu411 foul" " He mope:: bo there at all, How should
uld
"Oh, no, you won':, if yon keep bearing I know? It's a year Sinn I sale him,
iu mind that y0,1'i! get your arta Nmeowe'l was safe enough in his irons thou."
She souk down on the stone, her white
fa '0 turned to me.
"We were working together then in the
quarries. His head was full of plats to get
away, mit revenge. 'Tho day before I was
drafted cd to Portland we changed our
promises. I didn't ever expect I should
ever have to keep mine, lint, you see, I
got away through a Torquay &hernial), who
tools me off in Inc boat, and gave mo this
round if you do.
"I've given you everything you asked
for," elle remml.etrated, fa1tly.
"So you have, because you couldn't help
it. I'm not finding rank with you on that
account, "1'ilallowyou'vebelle velreason-
able and fent, and if I had my own way 1'(1
let you go back, and ehance your sending
all the household after roe. tiled to get rid
of you, toe. W' -1y, what do I want of you?
It's it nice thing to have a4 woman on my old snit of things to cover my prison togs.
hands! 'There's henna to be 14 search for. 'Then, seeing a policeman had his eye on
you, al'1 I','e got to hide you as well 00 me, I sneaked rip a kind of a lane, and
myself-" s gut into your house while the servants were
"011, for pity's . ak ., ,t little slower:" she in the gatdon. And, there its 1 lay under Hc' hoar was tumbled, the beautiful trese00
faltered, panting for breath, sho bed, 1 heard the maids talking, and falling over the edge of the pillo to ; butsh e
"Anything in 1•el1on," said I, relaxing your name mentioned bat . should ne:'e1• 10118 sleeping calmly now. There Was
h faint flus!] upon her cheek. She breathed
regularly. 1 stood over• her for some luau-•
otos with a savage joy in my heart, mid
thee 1 withdrew as noiselessly eel had ap.
proaohed.
The sun was high an the heavens. I reck-
oned it must be nearly midday. '.There was
no time 00 lose. After' giving the pony a
good feed, I weut down to the strewn
and bathed myself in a pool. Then 1 put
on niy suit of ;lack, stowed away my cos
0111tlee and 1100 wifo'A jewellery limier a big
stone behindthestable, and going into the
lower roost shaved off all the stubble frerl
my face. That made another change in my
looks -a little for the better. Making sure
that the bolt was fast in the trapdoor, and
drawing away the ladder as a further pre-
caution, I put some victuals in my pocket,
paused a Moment to listen if my wife wore
moving, and assured that sho was still sleep-
ing and likely to sleep for some tamp longer,
I went out, locked the door woefully, sad-
dled the poly, and started off for Newton.
There I put up the pony 'at an inn and got
an the next train for Exeter.
At Fleeter I wrote and sent the following
telegram to :Major Cleveden at the Hernia
tage-
When you receive this I sbnll bo beyond
recovery. you
me, and forget 111',-lt."
This done I returned to the lint as I had
come, taking with me n few things bought
at Newton.
Hobe was pacing up and down in her
room, I heard her steps as I entered the
house.
' Who is there ?" she coiled as I took down
the shatters to let in light.
l put the ladder in position, and opening
the trap showed myself.
It was growing dark and 1 stood in the
shadow. She started forward, and after
looking eagerly in my face said, with an
accent of disgust, "You?"
I told her I had been to Newton to
beautify myself -passing my hand over
my lantern jaws with a grin -and buy food
for our wants. I was proceeding to tell
her how I had luso beet) spending some of
her money on a pony when she iuterrupted
me.
"Have you seen ham ?" she asked.
"No such luck, or I shouldn't have cone
back here -you bet. Ionly hope we shan't
have to wait years before he breaks away."
"He has been horn," she said, pointing to
the sketches on the wall eagerly.
I went tip and pretended to examine the
drawings.
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:.Lay he 1 , TI ereti pretending to i
ievc that 1 Lun cliaulrcd'+ " 1 tithed my INDIAN L11111A[i OTifdPOI''Td: :emptied for a day and a Hight. At 1.110 cull
explore the lmaui. "'1 bora' a k.ddct : 1'11 '!' f• 11(11( .rho Inn ,. that 1 , n her iuL .: 1d• 111;11 I foe Ih4 lint li. ung bravo met by
xt
band t,1 taroth Il ^b lues no MOAT art tut•Rio„,Tom, 611v1"r1 of them inners wr.a r,bhedof hie blenitme L1
nr•nt � x 0", rl,luul., o. , d n•,lh Lwn lir tbre5 nano mate, Lha colon
5{8911 C 5 t + fate ;it l,'Lll ,", .l} J. kat 111111 (e Ines t1a I, , I I t 1511, 1 11181' rh4V tinged the w•ae/000111/ of (111x9 fasle0011 et both 01111e,
again t l6ajantb 1, 1111(• tar "u• Pr mithu I u, de,p ravine e 1 rode , unto I 1 p 1 l
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- t ', `Y ' 1':{ .'tl-..., \ itl wrapped Ill
1 left h rmen , t, , a I t
1 left her mending by the ona11 doer ; 0,1 formed mc,l \ 1 u play with and iu t m l tui k"attar Ilead.
hero when L eau a down her head her 1 I 1 1 "Im",1 11,,e ,1 e 1_.1.,, !10 f f a tvi
nature tt t 0 i 1 e• , L'0 1 trail event sly, 1 11011' the e0l•pse was carried. into
"Kit 1\' yndham 1" 1 called 11110' I. ,loured in my heart that I eantd int •'lnug tit:, dlixy pu•egn," 11110 I he ennyol the P01 dt 1,r li LCt1 141111 there Laid in a second
As Lha echo o£ my voea diol avay, ut11 With a ' 1,0I0w. 1 10(10 superbly 11 0111 , 1 1111 a lithe, ' httrdle.'1') Tamil a0,)''iends,lirclet' round.
OI11 a A011nd Ntllili ,lo\YIl alltl loll exp' es9, I 11t+Calltei [4\4',tt'e tltltt Ai1tf 1111:! ,!Inl'e (1.11 1e.t111110' ' who, 11101111111 11111 vitro :1.1111 '1'1111 medicine L1y411 t11e11 11" ,Ilnitlleoll 1011
tie, {vlth n t � 1
petting Ilia nom towards the groom', smell• I elaho•ale eulogy, recounting the valor, skill
ed out the dim triol in the evening of the -. patriotism, exp10(15 awl influence of the
forest like a keen pointer. A little behind i ,loeeased, 1.'11(1 corpse was then carried by
w
forward on the threshold with her arms
onttspread.
CHAPTER XXX.
1 TI00'100 01tltAk llt0 \\'lrlt'0 AMBIT.
I lifted the inanimate woman' on my
shoulder and 801019d hoe into the roost above
hcautifal than over elle had mental 1:.•ore
to my eyrie,
But had my oyes deceived me when 1 saw
her from bite pedal and thought her un-
changed? Ilan they deceived ole needu when
I stood over her in the early morning and
thought she had lost beauty told youth?
Did they deceive me now? Asmu'odly her
face had lost its youthful roundness, bob
TboroI laid her upon the bed. As soon Lee the features had gained in oiaraotet' and
P delicacy by that loee, Ther as that dif-
oon0cionsness began to return I drew the forenoe in it which a head gains by the
blind over the skylight, and went down, finishing touch of 11 master hand and no
drawing the trapdoor over my head and more.
shooting the bolt, Then I crawled tip the "She ie beattti11tl I" I said to myself
ladder into the loft over the stable, threw with a sensation to which I had long boo
myself dolvu on the luny, end, too exhaust• a stron1e0. There was little enough in the
0(1 even to think, fell asleep at e,oe, prison to expand one's ertistio faculty ; but
My first thought when I awoke woe for outside there were always the clouds, with
the safety of my prisoner, Mingled their ever•ch'mging aspoct of Dolor and form
with the exultation of having at last to feed and keep 01100 the sense of homily
got Lor into Loy possession was the and the sense, though dulled by the deltas. -
fear that, she had escaped. It was almost ing associations anti Ignoble aspirations yet
too 11111011 to believe that my good fortune retained latent its power of perception,
should colltinm. 10 was my wife's fats that stirred it now
I hurried into the house. The trap was into activity. It was n purely intellectual
closed ; the bolt fast. I stole op tho lad• feeling, but for that raison the beauty nest
der, and lifting the trap peered into the have 'leen the more striking to excite my
room. aiy wife was still there where I had admiration at the same time that spy mind
left her She had thrown oft' the ulster. was prejudiced by personal repugnance.
"There's ono thing 1 can do with my
',rate force," said IL "I can keep you
here, and I will, no (natter how long wo
have to wait for Kit's coning. 1'll keep my
word', because it suits me• Ten yoga's -
twenty years -it's all the same to me, I
like the place, I don't want to go back to
the old lifo. We've got enough to live'
independent 1111 our lifetime here. 1'nl not
afraid of being found -a man bolting from
Portland ain't likely to be looked for at
Dartmoor. here we aro, and here we stay :
under0tend that 1 If Kit is looking for you,
he'll come here when he finde you are gone
away from your hotn0 and the major and
your children. He'll know I've got you
and will keep you safe. You can bo cone,
Amiable, just as you choose to make it.
While you behave yourself I shall give you
liberty within certain limits, \toucan have
the run of the house a4ud take exercise out-
side, always providing I'm about to keep
a1 eye on you. But if I catch you trying
to run away, I shall look you np in your
room, ani you won't stir out of it till I feel
I can trust you not to L'epeetthe experiment.
And these precautions I ant taking for your
own good as well as for hit's salvo and my
own safety, for you never could find your
w•ayacross that moor. Youwonld break your
neck among the rocks, drown yourself in a
bog, or die of starvation on the tors.
;low I've warned you I will give you per-
mission to try whet you can do at getting
away. There yonore"-I lowered my arm
and stood bash front the door-" the moor
lies before you; try and cross it. Go 00.
Don't be afraid, 1111 keep your in sight, and
when I see you can go no further, I'll lend
you a laud to crawl back."
Sho realised the utter hopelessness of the
attempt, and forsaw the luunuliating conse-
quence of failure, but her spirit was un-
broken. She kept her eyes fixed upon my
taco with an expression in which there wag
pity ps well as loathing.
" You miserable creature," her eyes seem•
ed to say, " What a loveless life you must
have lived to be brought down to such e
condition as this 1"
"You'd rather not, eh ?" said 1. "011,
you'll be reasonable enough when you get
the better of your temper. It's no good
making things worse that they aro, espooi•
ally when you can snake them better.'" I
passed hor with a savage laugb, and began
to unpack the things on the table I had
brought from Newton, " You'd better
took up that lace dress of yours ; its torn
already. I shall have to buy some stuff
for a working ch'oss and aprons next time I
go to Tavistock."
She made no response, but stood where I
had left her by the door, looking over the
MOOT.
"Come on," T called out ; " if you're not
hungry, I ata. Do yet know how to lake
a fire with peat, for that's all the fuel I eau
find? If you don't you'll have to find that
out. There's some dowu there by the otove,
and some sticks and shavings to light it
with, hero's a box of matches, veld:here's
a packet of tot. 01, 1ve must ha a water.
1'11 go and get 0 cal fall from the stream,
Are you going to light the fire?"
"No," said she, turning round to face
010.
' \\'011, you can fetch the water while I
light it ; but you'll have to do one or the
other if you want any lea."
I shall do neither," sho said, "it my
husband told you to take care of nue, he did
not permit you to 'make ole your servant,"
" Nor 1 didn't /11.0111 190 him to ho yours
either. As yon like," 1 growled, hanging a
loaf down on the 1,11,15 ; if you 1100 t went
tea you can go w1(1100ut it. Bread and
hater's good enough for me; I'm used to it.'
I took up the Call and went down t0 the
0110atn for water. When I mine back
1tobo was un longer at tho doer, But 1
heard her in her room. She had clos-
ed the floor, and was trying to secure it.
(00 tie L'1YT1s01tn.(
my' place, "And, mind, as long as you re aye greased you wee lilts IN 110 1f y
reasonable yen won't tied inn to bad sort. hadn't let out the secret 0;10 010111001 you
Only you'll understand that I won't stand 0011 ole. That was a lucky thing for me -
any nonsense. and will be obeyed. Kit and Kit, too, if he should turn up. Maybe
shan't say I've spoilt yon when I hand you he 00011% tot up this long while ; hut we've
ever 00 him ; so if you've got any, tine feel• got a bit of stuff to turn into cash, and can
Inge you bad better make up you mind to pet wait pretty comfortable for ever so long. I
them in you pocket, and when 1 toll you to ain't a nlau to go from lay promise-espech-
do a thing you .lo it sharp, or it will be the
worse for you. 1 don't say I shall hit you,
because I hold that no eau l,as got a right.
to knock a woman aIout micas she's his
wife. You'll get enough at t1,at when Kit
00.0108 out. He's not a mikl.tonjlered elan
like toe, and at the least word he'll up with
anything he can lay Ua,d on and strike out.
It ain't his fault, You can't expect a man
who's ten or it dozen years iu prison for
nothing to keep Uig ten,psr or anything else
that's pre0sant. And when he's had irons
on him day and night for six or seven years
working in 'mu, lugging 'cul ieto church
with him -what are you s (10011in1 about
now ? ain't 1 walking slow enough 3"
Sho sobbed, pressing one hand to her
side, the other to her eyes. In a grutheiug
tone 1 bade her sit down on the bank. She
sank flown, burying her face in her hands.
I daresay it will be hurl on yen
as first -this sort of life -after being
petted and humored, and leaving Query•
thing done for you by servants, But
it's no good crying, because that's all
over. Yon can't say you haven't had a
good time of it all these years while your
husband Ii.ls been eating his heart out with
sorrow, and then trying to make away with
himself, and then trying to forget every one
and I've a quiet hie, and then giving way to. able follow he was long ago :" Said I rock -
despair, an'i giving himself up to the devil
ing up the basket leisurely. " You think
Itke, and going all to the bail tilt there's not on are Ding to at round him as you
abit of heart left in lam-nkthiug but a mad le�
id then, hey? He must haus been a soft
thirst to do unto others like they've dole fool at that time ; ho isn't now, I tell you.
unto him, \.lu can't say you haven't Loco He's as hard as that rock, and you ought
just as well tory to soften that with your
blarney as him. That's not the way," I
added, as she made a step or two forward.
"You'll have to follow at my heels, some
as you'll have to creep behind Kit by -and
by."
'he drew hermit up and stood irresolute
a moment, then, as I shook the basket into
position on my shoulders and struck out to
the left, her pride gave way, and with bow-
ed head she followed in my steps. I. chuck.
led.
For some time I plodded on in silence.
Now end then 1 heard a stidded sob behind
ole ; that was music to my ear.
ally when it snits me.
She sat in silence for some (amu while I
continued to eat.
" Is bel like you ?" she asked, at length,
in a low tole.
" lake me ! Well that's a good'un ! You
must have a funny sort of a memory. Why,
he's too years younger than me. And what
with his nose being broke and a tooth lir
two gone and his fat chops, he looks mere
like a prieu•Sglhter than anything else.
Like Ise ! 1 hope not. Why, any one can
see I'111 a watchmaker by my long flngera
and my sunk eyes. Besides, I've been a
goocl-conduet own, and lie's been six
year's on the black book. Tient makes
ell the difference. I was only in for
seven years, over a forgery job, and so
1'd got something to hope for, and with
that, when a man thinks shout tho future
and does a bit of rending every night, he
can (seep his looks. But that poor devil -
be had nothing 00 hope for, and gluing him-
self up to his temper, knowing there was
nothing to be got by behaving decently, and
getting punished and punished every day,
and flogged worse than any brute beast-"
" Oh, let me see if he is there 1" she cried,
springing up again.
"A1, you think he's the same soft, gull -
enjoying yourself all the while, and its
nonsense crying because your innings is
over."
"Let us go to him," she said, struggling
to her feet.
We trudged on again, and I continued in
the sante tone -
"Hes told me all about it; how you and
the major put your spoke in his wheel 011(1
got hint committed for life, when he was
in a fair way of getting out if you'd
only kept quiet; and I don't wonder
he went sort of mad over it. It
ain't the sort of thin.; a man might
expect from a woman he did his
best to shield, is it? ' Only let me
get out of this hell for a week,' says he,
and 1'11 pet an end to her life and mine !'
That was years ago before he got on to the
" She is thinking of those she hae left
behind," thought 1 ; " of all she has lost
for ever." But I kept my thoughts to sty
black hook. I don't think he'd kill you 110010, 0olf, not to lose a sound of her woe, or turn
not: himself neither, till he'd tortured von her reflections into another channel. And
down to your last breath. Ife ain't got any so I trudged on steadily over the desolate
moor two or three miles further, when,
hearing no sound for some nhinntes, 1. turn-
ed round and found I was ahead of her by
about a dozen yards.
in there, rind the promise that I made lum I thought she meditated some plan of
1080 that if over'. mine across you I would giving me the slip, and called angrily to
take ea,'e of yon ti!. he got out, and I mean her t0 01111e on ; lint her tottering steps, as
to l:o.•p my promise through thi':kand thio, she 'grew near, showed that physical ex-
to
that's mealier 04 these things I her -•1."1 wt, the cause of her not keeping
hold to. IC.; ln:ohv 1, 10 310)1 you've felt into 1el' `te • ,i {vn on the. turf and sat ma
hands and nut. 1,1.), 1), you know whatSl,.' ink n
he'd a Anne in Le'd been in my Ill:100?" ti0111 1 listened fit vain for a mnnnd of
She 01) 11'''1 her white face to nue its silent pith, - .e L•nd vistaed to Ory. She might
arty
nue:. . have, tteea into 01eop trnnn cxha.ustion. I
..
ti. hetet"fled your toy:, children uua 1Tehe her I111
after the
ottu r. " \\'0 h:a\ u L got above e Fn tr miles more
ad ahu with a sitar 1 cry of to g')," eatit 1. '1 , WC may as well settle
She sti,p, r t I Y nolo what were going to say to Kit, ,f we
horror, . lied hint there..'
Ho 11110inno'm snt•n of it, 04 you stand „ What d, you mean ?" oho,1101101 vague.
there- �hnvnrt not ;a net of feeling ]aft in Y 8
ilial, but 1111 his soul turned to the bail. Iy raising liar Lowed head,
1Ie'A had his heart. cot oat with the whip.' " \W10, what story aro we going 00
" The whip lt she g11011 1, faintly. tell hint': I don't suppose nuythug ran
" Ah, 111crea nnthiu,_ for 'turning a mat maize Hint 1011011 worm than he is
Mtn a brute like that. I d.,0040y he'll t1er0'9 no knowing, .Laorta want: to 1na1,, it
chow you the sears on his back, and asst you herder for you than what its likely to ho,
41,10 you meat to heal what you have and, still more, 1 don't want him to do for
;,r"ught on hint." you before I'm 'pear oat ofit. Now, hed"n't
Qeicker : quicker !"she cried, rnm»ng limner anything about these children of
forward, as if to meet Iter tato and Dui inn' Fours, and had better not hoar about '0111
torture at once. Site ran 1010 a few yards, just at first. Ife'll 08p010 me to give hint
and then fell without a sound upon the some a1coent of how I found you, and Ivo
runt' 'nay as well stick to ono story, in cage ho
A0 I raised her shoulders her head fell ,lucstione us separately. Now, wihat are we
hawk heavily. In the dim light of tie stats to say about the major and those young.
her faee looked like a pie00 of finely -ort stare„ ycl ilia aa, whatever yea lease,"
aerie, 1 thou ,ht she was !lead, Y Y Y P
I got the bottle of spirits Dot of my bas. elle said, facing me and vomiting with great
ket, and ',relight her back to life. clearness and firmness, despite her con.
Kit ! Kit'" she murmured, opening dit,nn"Ishall give annocountofell Ihave
her oyes, and than, with returning eon• doth, of ovary fault -of my c•imo-to my
00irmsn105, sho looked around with vague huahaed, she paused, and added with
eagerness, asking where he was, 0ed what strange emphasis, "but not to you."
had happened. " Well, its yon like," said I, impatiently,;
"You fell down tr in to run. Aro yon
"I've done my best for you. But still, It
hurt? Is there anything broke?" won't, do to come to that tone with Kit.
"No, no," she answered, hurriedly, as You've 00 cell to stand on your dignity;
she rose to her foot?" let 110 go on." all he won't stand any nonsense of that
I heel not spoken continuously as I lave sots. He'll break that down pretty quick."
written. I said much more than I havo re. It was grey morning when we reached the
rutted, as wo were by this time well on the cottage, I myeoif fagged out ; my wife only
moor. supported by mental tension.
There was not a cloud in the Pity; the Now for it! I said, thumping the door.
path wa0 00 clear to lee in the twilight of In the silence that followed 1 looked at
this midettmmer's tight as though it had my wife. I was close to her, the giey light
boon broad day, Olm ,y 0110 we passed the frunl the oast foil upon her facer I was
stones 1bad fixed inmymind aslauhnarlts, astcnlehedatthe ohaugeI saw there; she
in the night, journeys made ammo the moor, 10110 old, too 1
M wtfu s endurance surprised 111e. it was Had the artificial light in which I lad
rattler for my own relief than hers that I preeionsly 00011 her disguised the offset of
made her sit dove. She would neither eat time, or had the torrors of the night mud -
nor drink, but sat scanting the horizon all doely aged her? The features were the
rennd, as though sho expected to see her sante, bot drawn and pinched endhollowed,
husband coming to meet tea Was it dro4d, end es void of color an the natty 010ud0
or what? I could not Inake.hor ant,
to Where are we goiltg-.-do yon 10110010 the
way "011, I kno know it well enough ; wore going
to the Ref age."
"The Refuge?"
hope in the world but of getting hold of you
and taking hisrovcnge, and thathopeluensv-
,rlots goof him. Him and ole were pals, and
we changed p 1011i00a lilts most of the pale
"Ali, he was good at this sort of thing ;
but I don't see any detail's heads, or hang-
ings, or murders -that's what he was so
good at."
"That was in prison -when he was suf-
fering. He stay -he must have changed,"
she said with m hopeful conviction,
" That he must to have come down to
suet spiritless atoll' as 1his,"
" Do you think it impossible that a naturo
hardened by one condition may not be
softened by another ?" she asked with
acorn.
...Never 1 " said I with all the emphasis
of my (1001) obdurate feelings. "No more
than the dead ran be brought hack to life."
Loukitg sidelong at liar I saw on her face
Lis she regarded the ekeI, h before her an ex-
,re4siou that pearled me ---a strange ming-
ling of contempt ,uirl ewee0uess. t1Tho
contempt is for my opinion.," tiloeghtI
"elle believes that her husband is still soft
enough to be wheedled, and oho is rehears-
ing In her mind the sweet cajolery with
which to foul him."
" That 11'01'0 satisfy my hunger," said I.
rougidy turning away, I'm going to see
idiom putting up my pony. You come
down and look after the tea,"
When I returned from the stable I found
hor standing by the door with the 1010000 on
her 0.rm.
' 1)o you call this getttug tea?" I asked.
" 1 do not propose to got tea -hero," she
replied, sleeting my scowl with her Galin,
dash eyes, and with no sign of fear on her
face, " I wish to know which way I 0m to
return to Torquay.
"An, you think of going away already 1"
50id I with a sneer, planting myself before
her, and folding my arms.
"I intend to go at one1," she taplioll.
"That's a good 'ton Wllat clo you think
Ihrengbt you here for 3"
":To find my husband, He is gotta, and
I must look for 111110 elsewhere."
"At Torquay ?" said I, derisively.
"Yes, at Torquay, My address 00 known
t0 his friends, and itis there he will seek
nm,"
Yon think he's fool enough to tenet you
again, and bo (landed over to complete has
term of impri0onmont I"
"You It DOW why lam going; t511mellow
to go."
, ,ppose I don't choose. to toll you."
"'('flan I will flashily way without."
As she spoke 110r oyes wealth: ed quickly
round the moor for some guiding sign, In
nothor minute elle would. have fled ; 1
barred the door with my arm.
" Don't, bo a fool 1" said I ; " liston to
me. Tho moor stretches away, pet:Mose, as
yea 000 it, for ton miles 011 every side. How
far do you think yon could go before you
dropped from exhaustion? Look at your
hand ; it shakos like a loaf from last night's
fatigue, or want of food, or fear,"
" 11 I at weak it, is nob with fear of yon,"
sherota:toilher lip cervilgwith ,,,.,1 til
" Bo assured of that. Not, all your brutal
me rode the 1x11001 young vele, I•Iunt,
fully twined and fearlee9 alike by day or
1119110, in tin wide dotoue we wore making
through the Lillian conutry, Suddenly my
horse stopped, pv1010011 forward hie 11110 ears
and snitad suspiciously.
"He scents sonwthing," said the guide. I
was about to give kiln his head and bid him
go on, when, raising my eyrie a little on see-
mng the sagacious animal lift his nutzzlo and
sniff the Me again, I slaw it dart, gum..
looking objcot stretched frau lain; to 11utb
about half way up a pine tree that stood
just before toe,
"Whet is that?" I asked the guide,
pointing to 1b at the sane time with my
whip.
The guide, following the direet•ioll of my
hand, looked up at the tree and exclahnod :
"That is an Indian grave, See, it is the
grave of a child. They bury a stillborn
child in a pine true,"
"Born dead," I replied; "a nhother's
strangest sorrow.'
Determined to satisfy myself thoroughly
about a thing which is coneidored the
Most cur1411s mortuary custom of any
Indian tribe 1 dismounted from my
horse, who had secured for me by hie
keen sense the opportunity of seeing what
I hod hoard about but never found, and
leaving the well-1r,Lined creature stand.
ing unfastened on the trail, approached the
tree. Aa 1 trill SO 1 SOW that the object was
plainly a little pparfloohe, blanketed and
sided with haslet boards, one of whieh had
01111011 to the ground. I also saw Chat the
branches of the tree leading up to the burial
010010010 barked near the trunk, one above
another, as if they had been climbed by the
feet of persons 1008)01(0 to see such n rare
and poeuliae objection of curiosity. 10
ascending the tree, limb by limb, 1 reached,
at last, the little grave. A jealens 0r0w
called out overhead to me as I bent over it
searchingly. Sure enough, there lay the
little whitened skeleton. Som0 of the bones
were missing, but atilt enough remained to
tell the story. Tho 00001104 through which
it peeped out at lite 01)10 partially dragged
apart, probably by some persistent bird of
prey, but the oaso•boarda, with their' holes,
through which the cords were passed that
l.eld thong together, still pressed the tiny
stranger, whose irate forte had met the
strange mystery of death at the very portals
of life.
Descending from the tree I picked up the
fallen ease board with the cord irolos in i t,
and, climbing my horse, renewed try jour-
ney.
Born dead 1" "Born dead 1" These
words kept ringing in my ears as the horse
moved slowly lotward.
Scarcely had I left the spot when a loud
mndulattug sound, hardly less humaa then
the broken sobs of the mother herself, called
loudly over the little stretcher out of the
top of the pine true :
" Cm-o-o-o•o•h 1"
It was certainly a startling coincidental
sound. Had an Indian heard it, with that
stretched grove before hint, he would have
hurried front the spot, filled as he is with
superstitions abort the dead, and calling it
"bad medicine," refilled his medicine Lag
with a new charm secret. Bu0 an 'Indian
never rovisile the grave of a stillborn child.
I recognized the sound instantly as the
fapoiliar voice to me of the sereeoh owl, who,
lingering round the remains of the dead,
broods like an evil spirit iu such hunted
places, repeating ie this in00an0e, however,
the death !melting dirge that would havo
been uttered by the Navajo mother had her
soul panned into the ominous bird at the
death of her little ono.
The pitch of the torebenthene tree, as I
have sines learned, is prime death medicine.
Itis in the medicine bag. Alt the mortuary
customs of Indian tribes may be summed
up in the talo of the ping tree.
four pallbearers, selected from the young
brevet), from tete hurdle to sho grave, whiolt
was 0;0110 (i foot loop and 8 foot long. At
each end of the grave shod, deep drive((
dawn, a pine pitchfork, The bottom of the
grave wa8 then covered with bark.
Tho corpse was then lowered very slowly
by 11y0 belts with which the Indians carried
their burdens, A ridgepole was laid norms
rho
grave in the forks land thou roofed over
with pitch pine logo. Thane were whored
over and 0ve1' with bark, m1 whieh th0eartl
fram the grave was thrown and batten clown.
Thee the body lies in u Vault, llothiug touch-
ing lt, practie-,illy mummified by the 0m•
balming pitch process of the pine. After a
ttote the body waa exhumed, the bones
cleaned old laid in 1111 050011ry. '.Cho dead
Was epol.en to by medioino into, who spell
111111011 his way. 1110 Sacs and (foxes observe
this manner of burial in their mortuary cos.
tongs, Tho Oleo and U.issouritribee follow'
sd somewhat this ,node of bu1ial, with slight
varit4tols. The Indian women cut their
hair off. Then tho relatives will dance
tomahawk to drive away the death spirit.
A fetter; 10 also furnished for the occasion.
The corpse, bound upon a horse or put into
a wagon, was taken tol.hegrave, The grave
covered with logo nod the body untouched
by earth.
This 0101.1 .111101101.
We Only Returned It.
A Canadian Christna0 Gift " is what
The Now York Tribune was pleased to call
tie re00lnt cold snap. Is our fanciful con.
temporary aware that thio favored country
has boon enjoying a mild and open 000.0011,
while the blivzard and tle0now•00ornt havo
been in undisputed p085050lon of a good
many western all northern Neaten fon'
weeks past, 'There appears to boa ten•
dem in Now York to believe that Canada
is cold country in winter, The deluded
citizens of that town will lover, we fear, be
told by The Tribune that, so•oalled winter
resort0like Deaver, Colorado, an 10titntl00
much south of ns, have beau shivering ill
their sloes, and that the marls of the re•
sorters thereto have boon fillod with resent.,
meet and dismay, while Canadians could
easily have tont some mild weather to thoir
southern noiglhbohlrs and still had some to
spare.
Remarkable flolnoidence.
Dr, Squills (eminent, specialist)-" Now
there was the case of a man earned Stapling.,
or, who had half his brains shot away in 1a
street brawl some years ago and is still
alive."
Baiter of Literary Magazine-" Stapling.
or ? Not 3. Xenophon Stophlnior ?"
" Yoe, thee was his name,'
" Why, he's the anter of the now society
novel that's having aurid e, run 1"
The young man who torus wild oats use
the calaboose for his granary 9
Tho Pinta, of Arizona, bury their dead
by 111401. Sometimes after the graves are
dug the sick recover. 111 that case the grave
is 0lways loft open till the person dies. The
place of burial 19 always, if possible, 111 a
,rove of Mesquite trees, The body is tight-
ly roped and drawn up double. This onatom
of destroying all the personal effects of the
haslet 1113 when he dies impoverishes 011
bride. -As a consequence 110111011 d0 not
care to have many children, end infenticide
prevails to a gloat extent. Tho Yukis, of
t,alifor)ia, adopt the same custom.
'1 he Comatluhee of the Indian Territory
adopt precisely the other extreme. Before
a person dies his knees are doubled up and
the head bent down upon the knees, The
dying person is groped firmly in this posi-
tion. A blanket is wrapped round the body
and roped. The body is thou placed in a
sitting posture in a saddle on a pony, for a
Comanche is all (horsemanship to the last, a
squaw riding bellied to hold the body tip.
As soon as the grave is revolted the
corpse is literally tumbled in. The grave is
found generally at the heads of canyons or
deep washes. Broken bows and arrows
are thrown in after the body. A pony is
killed and away rides the spirit of the de-
parted to the happy hunting grounds.
The Pueblos of New Mexico bury their
(10141 horizontally in the grave and level it
with the ground, so that you can not find it.
They paha the body and put ornaments in
the grave, and also food to feed the depart-
ed on his journey. A wake, with lighted
candles, folowed by a supper, precedes the
10x1:41. The Pueblos howl over the body,
mourn for one year, have high miss said for
the repose of the soul and are happy. The
Wichita Indians of the tattooed eyelids cry
the town at a death, ride the corpse to the
grave on a pony, build a palisade of poles
round the grave and shave oil the grass
within. The relatives do not as a rule go
to the grave. Tho Caddoes, or Timber In-
dians, leave their dead, it killed in battle,
to be devoured by birds oe beasts of prey.
Outside of this instance they follow the
foregoing ensi0m.
Tho Parsed towers of silence on Malabar
Hill, fillet' with dead and crowned with a
circle of living vultures waiting to glut
their greed upon the bodies below, are it
type of this. They have, in a rude way,
their followers among the Indians, though
the exceptions are few. The Trinity and
Klamath Indians of the northwest coast
bury in a grave with a circular steno coping,
on which the birds sit.
The Dakota Sioux paha a corpse reit
across the mouth, the hand black, with the
thumb on one side of the mouth. A Sioux
never e•ies with pato, and never exhibits
alarm at death or shows fear of any kind.
The medicine bag is placed on the heart.
'There is little or no preparation for death,
The corpse is blanketed, boxed and buried
with the head to the s011th, whence they be-
lieve they originally cane, A person who
has been muttered by one of Its own tribe
is always buried fade down, with a fat piece
of perk er batten In th0 111011011 to prevent
the spirit of the muri?ered person from
searing the game front that. section. A
kettle 00 food is sometimes placed at chid.
drel's graves. Girls cat the food ottt of it
at girls' graven and boys at boys'. The
acetpinck is est off, hung up in the lodge
and considered. " keeping the ghost." For-
merly those imllens buried in It tree or on a
platform 1111(1 burial in the ground wag a
eli0 ;r14110 They even sometimes carried sho
,load body of a person with them o1 their
journeys. The most cruel mourning is prac-
ticed. The squaws hank themselves to
Ideate with some dints until they aro oov-
etedRvith blood• Those bravos run sharp-
ened sticks through their Ilos'., until the
scene is fairly sickening, A single scalp.
avenges the death and stops the mourning.
While they moue they never laugh, wash
or comb their heir. They also have what is
known as the '• gheste' 40101110." The 1Min-
native° Indians, of Dakota, cut of their
lingers for the dead till the whole ground
is strewn with them. They aro invariably
buried in a green blattitet, though they
never wear green admit living.
ao
TIM V,ty,t,t0 CUSTOM.
Tho burial of the dead among the Navajos
is peculiar to themselves, 1, resemblance
only to their mortuary matinee is to be
found among the 11omul Valley Indians of
California, the Kagonlas and 13illoxis of
i oeisiaita 1W11 the bullpen of. Virginia. The
Navajo, however, is the More unique, Tie
house is the grave. The body is ,buried just
where it dies. As soon las death takes plane,
a shallow grave 10 scooped in the center of
the hngan. In this grave the body is pl0eerl
by tho nearest rellotives, who previously
smear their bodies with tar from the pinion
tree in order to protect t110Ln901000 04ainst
the ovil 101110nm of the devil's work. This
is no sooner clone then the Logan is leveled'
to the ground and the sport abandoned. If
the deoemed hag no rolativey or is not a
person of importance iu sho tribe, no grave
is dug, but the hngan simply pulled down
OW the body. A Navajo would sooner freeze
1.1(111 kindle a lire with the legs of a fallen
hogan. 1 have seen tense mo'tmry 1oga110
its the ulountein0, '.Tia survivors smear' t h en)'
selves on the forehead and wu10T the eY1s
with tar as a sign, of mourning, When it
weer0 ole' it is not pat on again, and the
name of the dead is neve' mentioned. In
case for any reason the body be removed
from the hovel it is busied in alerts of rocks,
told stenos piled over it, and the hogan and
all in 10 aro burned up. Old people, when all
hope is gone, are often abandoned in the
brush and haft to die of starvation alone.
The only 111901tuce of burial in a tree is a
stillborn ohld, Tho onetom anbng the Nav-
ajos accounts for the absence of any
erchitoctnral development in the omstruc-
tlon of their houses. They are built to be
brought down or burned.
Tho Bestern Indians, a0 a general. rule,
buried their dead in the ground, often 011
the tops of hills, with stone eneiroled
monads raised slightly over shallow graves,
in which the trappings of the caned were
buried with (Beni, aid sonl0tillos in the
ease of a chief his favorite horse. Sometimes
the grave of a great war chief was oovered
with largo 011011(10 stones thrown on by
each brave fora certain period of time ea 110
passed the spot. The body was generally
buried in a Sitting posture ; four day fires
wore lighted to lamp the departed on his
way, according to the soared Humoral four,
amon4 all buli0100. The Montauks of Long
Inlaid and Otter kindred tribes buried
their dead in this way. The Mohawks of
New York dug a largo, round hole, in which
the body wee placed in a sitting Or upright
posture. Wampum and trappings and punt
were nil put on the dead. This grave was
ooveract over with timber to mtpp0rt the
earth laid upon it, which they rented into a
gentle m0nlud,
1'hu0 the body was not pressed by the
clay, '('I10 Delawares in Now Jersey buried
their dead in pita and tin1101' recite, Tho
Carolina Iudinn,t head stn expensive 111111 pre -
Soma
abfeeling of regret I had, assuredly. `' A preacher asked a college president
c n her Inst beauty ; but rather strength could have fel cod me to coma here what ho thought 0f his fronton, 'l heard
Mt 11(19 not for y g
tint (bore was so little 15ftto crush, against mywill) uoru.li nen' brutal threats in it what 1 hope Hover to hoar again."
I kn0ckod again and pushed the floor have kep1110 from foll1Wing my husband," "What was that?" "The clock etriks
open. The room was ase loft it, " Must I reveal my self to make hor be. • twice.
The drowning man is not the only unfor
Innate who will catch at a straw,
J'ag00n says the mal who can't tante a joke
always mama to be sho editor of the paper
he sends his too-[Llmira Gazette,
A pinoh of annff, taken by a man, in
South fiend, Ind., to relieve 0 slight attack
of oabat'r') caused him to 000000 so violent
y that he dislocated lois shoulder.
Co11111(1,00 Dr Vot,Atnr 8.-Tantoa erniukoo
141,0.0 will weigh lit least, throe or fourpounds, out and cook till tender, take the
shin oft' and with it fork pick the meat from
the bones, 1,171011 a 0hart knife, out the
meet, in man square pieces. Take a cup of
01e liquor mtv111011 the chicken. was boihel,
add aspoonful of (hopped parsley, tea•0pc on
of chopped ennui, put 10 in a spider over the
fire ; rub together ono teaspoonful of flour
and two of (Abner, then add a spoon of the
(lot broth, stir all into the broth over eke
firo and add half a pint of sheet cream, sea•
son with a dust of cayenne popper and salt.
Take from tine fire nod set away to cool,
then add half a onpful of sweet cream and
a largo spoonful of bettor; stir it in well.
Slice a box of mushrooms over the chicken,
longed ceremonial. The eoepse wa0 Bret then pour the 4revy over to whol0 an dip
plaited in a 100)1 hurdle neap thou put into it into cholla, bake in a hot oven fiftoon 00
air
outhouse, whore it was kept carefully twenty minutes. and servo while hot.
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