Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-15

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a.s5szzl .fsg-e===szzfss upward ct the Grras,
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i.,9S S3 a6 covered wall, and cross
Estt& tH ed himself with ever.
Ri III $e, VIA appearance of terro
E,i. IL / and contrition.
lE@5AE Y "NsEi If he is In th'
a 5fA*1B chspelroom," the prizes
~ tSAj nurmured, "were it G
ty1 - = my souls cost, l mus
Z F. - Z5es--E save him."
Three minutes later
Dick, who had ben summoned BY
another messenger, found Sir Olive
staoding By the hail table, resolute anc
pale.
"Ric1.ri Shelton" he sail, rye have
required az oath from me. l might com.
plain, might refuse; but my heart i.
moved toward you 70: the past, and
will even content you as ye choose. b
the true Gross of Hollywood, did no
slay your father"
"Sir Oliver" returned Dick, "wher
first we read J)hn Amend p2per
was Convinced Of $50 much. But suffel
me 70 put two questions Ye did NO
STAY him; granted. But had ye no hanc
IL i'?'
"Nnne," said Sir Oliver. And at the
Same time he began to comfort his face
aad signSl with his mouth and eyebrows
like one who desired to convey Gwarning
yet dared not utter sound.
Dick regarded him in wonder; then he
turned and looked all about him at the
empty hsll.
"What make yer" he inquired.
"Why, naught," returned the priest,
hastily smoothing his countenSnce. "I
make nsught; do but suffer; 1 an
sick; I-I-prlthee, Dick, must bsgone
Ga the true cross of Hollywood, l am
Clean innocent alike Of violence or treach
cry. Content ye, good lad. FIrewell."
And he made his escape from the apart,
ment with unusual alscrity.
Dick remained rooted to the spot, his
eyes wandering about the room, his face
q changing picture of various emotions,
wonder, doubt, suspicion and amusement
Gradually, as his mind grew clearer, sus.
picion took the upper haad, and was sue
ceeded by certainty Of the worst. he
raised his head, and as he did so violently
started. High upon the wall there was q
figure of 8 savage hunter woven in the
tapestry. With one hand he held horn
to his mouth; in the other he brandished
q stout spear. His face WAS dark, for he
WAS meant to represent an African.
Now, here WAS what had startled r Oh
ard Shelton. The sun had moved away
from the hall windows, and st the same
time the hre had blszed up high on the
wide hearth, and shed cha9geful glow
upon the roof and hangiDgs. In this
light the fgu:e Of the black hunter had
winked at him with white eyelid.
He continued staring at the eye. The
light shone upon 1t like a gem; 1t was
liquid, 1t WAS alive. Again the white eye
LID closed upon it for a fraction of j
second, and the next moment it vas gone.
There could be no mistake. The live
eye that HAD been watching him through
q hole in the tapestry was gone TIE
freight no longer shone on rejecting
surface.
Aud instantly Dick swoke to the ter
rors of his position. HStch's warning,
the mute signals of the priest, this eye
that hsd observed him from the wall, ran
together in his mind. He saw he had
been put upon his trial, that he had once
more betrayed his suspicious and that,
short of some miracle, he WAS lost.
"It cannot get me forth out of this
house." he thought, "I am dead man !!
And this poor Matcham, TOTO what q
cockatrlce's nest have not led him!"
he was still so thinking, when there
came one in haste to bid him help in
changing his arms, his clothing, and his
two or three books to another chamber.
"a new chamber" he repeated.
Wherefore so? What chamber"
"TIs one above the chapel" answered
the messenger. at hath stood long
empty" said Dick, musing. "What
manner of room is III"
"Nay. brave room," returned the
man. "But yet, Lowering his voice-
"they call it haunted"
"Haunted2" repeated Dick, with s
chill. "I have not heard of it. Nsy,
then, and by whom2"
The messenger looked about him, and
then in q low whisper, "By the sacrist of
ST. Johns" he said, "theY had him there
to sleep one night, and in the morning
whew!-he was gone. The devil had
taken MIN, they said; the more By token,
he had drunk late the night before"
Dck followed the man with black fore
bodings.
CHAPTER III.
THE ROOM OVER THE CHAPEL.
From the bastlements nothing further
WAS observed. The sun journeyed west
ward and at last went down; but TO the
the eyes of all these eager sentinels no
living thing appeared in the neighbor-
hood of Tunstall house.
When the night WAS at length fairly
come, Throgmorton was led to room
whose window overlooked an angle Of the
moat. Thence he was lowered with every
precaudon; the ripple Of his swimming
was audible for a brief period; then
black figure wss observed to land by the
branches of willow and crawl away
among the grass. For some half hour
Sir Daniel and Hatch stood eagerly giving
ear; bus all remained quiet; there was no
cry Of alarm, no arrow whistled in the
night. The messenger had got away in
safety.
Sir Daniels brow grew clearer. He
turned to Hatch.
"Bennett," he said, "this John Amend
All is no more than q man, We see. He
sleepeth. We will make good end OF
him, 60 to! But look ye, Bennett, see
the watch set, and come to me in the hall.
We must work tonight"
All the afternoon and evening, Dick
had been ordered hither sad thither, one
command following another, till he was
beHildered with the number and the hurry |
Of commissions. ALI this. time he had |
seen no more OF Sir Oliver, and nothing |
Of Mstcham; and yet both the priest and |
the young lad rsu continually In his mind. |
1t was now his chief purpose to escape
from TunStall Most house as speedily as