Evening star., 1886-10-16

81 am thinking." he answers, his dark eyes
| shining, "about what am goiny TO say TO Hos
But it weren't 90 easy to find Roscoe. We did
| not know exactly where his lodgings were, and
30 we had 70 inquire in first one place aud then
knew nothing definite when we went TO them;
| ana when we got the name of the street 1t We're
great deal 81 trouble. aud a great deal OF delay,
which was worse. The delay was what upset
| US, for both of Us felt pretty certain that Cap
tain Basil Roscoe would lose very little time In
getting Miss Rose away, out Of the reach OF her
friends, II he once found her willing TO 60 with
him.
BY the time we reached the end Of the street
where he lived, Master Lionel were that worked
up aud excited, that he was growing paler and
palrr, and his eyes were like lanterns In hts
lace, and he caught hold oi my hand and held
| L. hard and last.
| latee" - W. w.
Il can't think such bad luck could happen 10
| US, SIR answers him back.
And then IL were-just ut tha: fnstant-as his
sharp young eyes spied some thing out ahead O,s
US, Tor he drew his hand away and started rum
ming, just throwing back word or 10 me.
There's a carriage before the door," he said,
"and they're getting into 1t"
He were up that street Like q deer, and In
nall Il minute were with him; but wuen /
,omes up, All out OF breath, he were on the car
ri.tge step, holding the door open; aud, what's
more, holding al buy the black rascal who
stouU near, sneerins and raging ut him by
turns.
,'R..bbett," he cries out, '.help me to hold the
Rose, get OUT"
/ went 70 the horses heads, as would have
done, i the Captain himself had give the order,
| instead I'll "Ine Captains Youngest" II made
my heart ache, too, u hear the ring in little
cnap's voice, 50 like his iatiier's aud Then To
remember what the Capital II might have been
aud what he were Even the driver were struck
ali of a. neap by the youngsters pluck, ana were
50 busy looxins at him, tnat he let me take my
stand, Without u w.,ru against it.
look here, mate" he says to me. Here's
run. gO!
ob,Ige me wi.h them reins9" 1't
Il. you don't come down from that step" says
roscoe saying every word slow, as IL he wastr
lug 10 ho'd nimaeli back iroin striking the Toy
oiuwaswouid klil hini, "yOu iinpudent young
asxii, Will .ake the whip from Tue box there
AND cut YOU 70 piecesr'
linen Miss Rose bends forward It Is my i'm.
prs ion as the cruel, nlurderous sound in tie
| fellows voice Was something she nau never
| hc;.ru before, anu IL irlg uleneu her.
Don speak 10 hiiu III Lnat way, Basil" she
says. "Oi, Lionel, uear, you snOuIuu't nave
| G"inc. You must go uack. You must, indeed.
l snail never COME home again, Lionei." And
| size burst OuL crying.
Il snail go back, Rose," says the boy; "but
| you must come WIN me. RtbpeJt anu came
| " ietcn you, aud We snail no, ieave you.-' And
then lie io'ks at RO>cUe square. Il am not
AFRAID VI your cutting me ~ pieces with your
WHIP Sf, ne says. "KaDDett wall see TO that.
Bu,, and the IRE bluZeu up iii his voice and
| ili' luce ana his eyes as grand as ii he h.,d
Geeh tne aptaia himself, I'll had come alone
4"oalu hOI nave ieit tuiS Carriage door unless
| hose nau coine with me. You luls ut nave used
your ,w,nip, out YOU couldn't nave n,.de me do
IAN "says Roscoe, painting with the pas
sion lie dare HOT let oui-'ani to throw y.Ju
into the street, under the horses nuos. YOU i'm.
puueuL Young uevIi?'
Dut MASTER iIiOueiS back was turned to him.
he Was pleading with nIs sister.
3, 'ose, ueaf, ne Says, 'c,'iile home with me.
You viii COME home with me, KNOW" Aud
he cauSn iioid III her hand.
Uoa kuo"s now IL All nappeued-I don't. II
hau only been quick enough 10 see III time
been i've
thls od5-a brave young ,eiow, sucu ss the
Iaptain haa Del III tnosc nrsL ua, in ludia-
brave, niuosoiiie youAS sOuler, wOuiu nave
Deen a hohor ~ ILLS country, and u sLauucn
friend yet .OIne.
But t,iat weren't 10 be. Just as he stood there.
his loot on tue casiri;igs-sLcp; i,eiuig his SIS
lers iIan0, the passion tue heart of Lie r,.,t,
Watching him Drone iortn. He c;iugnL MIN by
Lie >iiouiueI, there was u snort struggle Il the
boy tileu tO Tree iIIlnseil, and UeIore | couId
reach them lie lad wuirieu him away from lu..
ooor-witn grea. er force than lie Intended, I've
tried To beile'e. line Irigntenea horses Iasued
OuI tneE hoois and sprang forward, struggling
over tne eh.Ius very bouy AS lie lay stunned
under their 1eet.
,,ounurei he was, ! never could make il
LOOK SQUARE to myself the man meaut the
harm he uid. his lace was out aud GU. ueathiy,
as ne ieapL forward To save him as quick as [
ulu myself But We were botu too ,ute w.
cuulu only drag al the reins, aud stop the horses
--tuul were ALI.
We nad hin out In a minute and Miss Rose
was ou. VI The carriage, knee,ing On tue pave.
iheht Ny him, anu the driver Was down of his
OUx.
"Great God!" says Roscoe, 4IaneFef fB9esXanto to
90 him sucn harm. hes deauv' And he
shuauered all over, with lear, perhaps, Is much
as anythlns else.
But he weren't dead, and he hadn't even
tainted, though he were stunned at d. St mad
liteu niin lu my arms, ana he lay aY.ius, me-
painting t1i, and stone hile all but Ior stain
vi o'oou on one teinpie. 1t weren't mis- head as
was 50 oauy hurt, 1t were hi, side, where one Of
Tue horses nau ia,h.d OLL and struck nim. And
as sure as l III u Wing man, in u few minute,
he opens Ills eyes and lays hold vi his sisters
"ro,e." he says. "will you-so home-with
Sue k"elt over him. wringing her hands. and
souDing AS Ii her heart would break She would
not let her lover come near her. " uen ue tried
To speak, she slIank away. snuddering. It's my
Tue last ten Ininue, wsuid ave broke her fuith
IN INN, even Al lhe young master. had met no
hurt. Aud nov sne were that territled that sue
Were as AelpIe,S as Il cnllu.
"ls he niucn uurl?' she kept saying. "Rab-
beit! On. Raubett! let me take him home to
mamma. Put uiin into the c.,rri ,ge" Anu then
she turned upon RoscOe fierce anu wild Go
away she cried out. "You have Killed hiIuI
G0 away, aud never let me see you again.
There were u dreauiul house wn.n We took
him home. Mrs. Dst-getty Went out OF one faint
into another. AS she always did when she Were
forward doing nothing. the children crowded.
round Us CRYING. aud the Captain looked On ut
ali We did lke man In II dream. Iuon't want
10 say nOtiifng hard, out can help remember.
ing that not one vi them seemed To be uoucned
30 Keen. that they could forget their own Ieel-
Jugs i'll trying tO ne,p nlm in his pain. But per
haps IL were only their excitstbie way, aud not
so much u bit OF selfish thoughtlessuess, as it
seemed 10 me then.
lie were hurt aud bruised, and broken that
bad-pOor little ielOw-tnat when the doctor
Came, and We're beginning to 20 to work on
niin, he looks up al me with his bright
troubled eye, and says to me.
''Rdbbett, please take hold of my hand"
were that near breaking down and sobbing
out loud, tuat1 were ashamed vi myself. It
were u comfort " NE, in many u day afte~ 10
think hau tOOk hold Of his hand. and tuat he
had asked ne to do IL.
And.w the hard job was over, the q. .ctor
put mis- hands into his cOai- -pocket aud stands
Looking at him ior y minute Or so, and then he
turns To me and beckOns Inc out Oi the room
"Where is The Captaiu?' he asks me-
TN tie pariOr, SIR" I answers feeling a
queer SORT of wish as l could have said differ
tiVn performed"
"Aud Mrs. Dalgetty?"
Mrs. Dalset!y, sir, says l, quite going into
sUOu sue heard the news"
"Ah! says he, and then he looks Ut me sharp
for while.
'.Sir,"I ventured to say, "Master Lionel
will he" But could not finish somehow. /
meant To say, Nv Ill he get over it?"
NO., says ne. II am very sorry to say 1t,
but he will not.
VIII, you beiieve me the words struck me
like sunY-shot Not having no family Of my
own, and never having clung 10 nothing ON
earth as ! had clung 10 that there generous,
heg,scted little fellow, just at that minute ieli
against. 1 couldn't face 1t straight. When I
had been lonely III my way, he had been lonely
in his, aud we had been u help und u com fort
10 eaeh other III ways AS outsiders never under