Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-22

ECIDe &.I2I CJfQ lGt ana WlLU ILLS DiL
succeeded IL reviviog Consciousness
Thu; LIZ tCok J0Anra's friend uroc HI
sadie nov, ard orce more puscet
towvd the ,crest.
"Way do ye take me?n said the girl
"Ye bat delsy your speed"
Nay, MtstresS R9iLglan," Tepli,
Dick, "Sdcss hg Is iu,I cf tlocc ard cruz.
keHness emu ,iu:. Here " are safe; ccI
ten yen
81 will rat b. beloldea to suy Ct you
faction" she c.ied; "sa: me down"
"Msasm. ye kuuw not what ye say,
retuILed D.Cz. "Y' axe huri'--
"I I'm not" che ss!a. at WIS II!
horse YVES slain"
at mstters not one iot," replied RIGA
ard. aye ere here IN the nicst c. Ia,
open snow, snd comprised shout viii
enemies. Whether yc Will or net, l carr.
We with ne. Glad an | TO have the coca
sion, for thus shall 1 repsy some portion
OF our debs."
For little while she Was s!lent. Then
very suddenly, she esked:
"M7 unc,e?"
"My Lord Rsingham?" returned Dick
fT would had good news TO give you
madam, but have none. | SEW hin
once in the battle, snd once only. LIE
US hope the bess."
CHAPTER V.
MIGHT IN THE WOODS: ALICIA RIsINGHAM
Ii was almost certain thSt Sir DaniGd
had made for the Most House; out, con
Gidering the heavy snow, the lattness ii
the hour, and the necessity under which
he would lie to avoid the few roads ant
striking ecIoss the wood, it WIS equally
certain that he could not hope 20 reach II
ere tomorrow.
There were two courses open to Dick /;
either to continue to follow in The knights
trail, and, il he we're Eb!e, 10 fall upon
lin that very right in camp, or tc elrike
out path q his own. and seek IL
place himself between Sir Daniel ana his
destination.
Either scheme was open TO serious Oh
jecuon, and Dick, who feared TO expose
Joanna TO the hazards Of fl sht, had not
yet decided between them when he
reached the borders OF the wood
At this poinl Sir Daniel had turned Q
little TO his left, and then plunged straight
under grove Of very lofty timber. His
party had then formed to mario Ter
front, il or1er 10 pass between the trees,
and the trsck was trod prOportionately
deeper in the snow. The eye followed l.,
under the leaiiess tracery of the AXIS,
running direct and narrow; the trees
stood over IT, with knotty Joints and the
great, upliiied forest Ct their boughs;
there was 70 sound, whether Of man Or
beast-not so much as the stirring OF
robin; and over the field OF snow the
winter sun lay golden among Melted
shadows.
chow ssy ye," asked DIX Of one of
the men, "to follow strG-ah! on, CT strike
across for Tunstell?"
"Sir Richard" replied The mcu-st-
arms, AZ would follow the line until they
scatter"
aye are, doubtless, right" returned
Dick; "but we came rgaL hastily upon
the erran6, even as the lime commanded
Here are no houses, neither for tCod nuE
shelter, aId by the mCrrew's dawn we
shall know both cold filgtls snd al empty
belly. How ssy ye, lAdsH VIII ye stand
pinch for expl dision's sake, or shall We
turn by q Tweed &nd sup with Mother
church, The cSse beiug somewhat
doubtful, will drive no mau; yet if sc
would suffer me 20 lead you, ye would
choose the hrst."
The men answered, almost with one
voice, that they would follow Sir Richard
where he would.
anu OlCh, sEItlL puL " LIS uCLSCJ UG-
gan once more 10 go forward.
The snow in the trail had been trOdden
very hard, and the pu.suers had thus q
great advantage over tie pursued. They
pushed on, indeed, at round trot, 200
hoofs beating alternately on the Gull
pavement Of the snow, and the jingle If |
weapons and the snorting Of horses rails !
ing wsrlike noise along the arches OF |
the silent wood.
Presently, the wide slot Of the pursued |
came Gus upon the high road from Holy
wood; 1t was there, for moment, indis-
tiDguishs Bile; and, where 1t once more |
plunged into the unbesten snow upon the
farther side, Dick WAS surprised to see il
narrower ana lighter trod. Plainly,
profiling by the road, Sir Daniel had be-
gun already to scatter his com nand.
At ell hszsrds, one chance being equal
to another, Dick continued to pursue the
straight trail, and that, after TN hours
riding, In which Il lead into the very
depths OF the forest, suddenly split, Ike
bursting shell, into two dozen others,
leading TO hll points OF the compass.
Dick drew his bride In despair. The
short winters day was near an end, the
SUD dull red orange, ehoTn cf reys,
BWsm low among the leafless thickets;
fhe shadows were q mile long upon the
snow; the frost bit cruelty At the finger
nails and the breath end steam Of the
horses mounted in cloud.
swell, We are outWittsd," Dick con
fessed. "Strike We for Hollywood after I
oil. II ia still nearer us than TunstGll- {
or should be by the ststion of the sun" s
SO they wheeled 70 their left, turning
their backs on the red eheld Of euE, ard \
made scT0gs country IL ttg sl5Gy. Bat {
now times were changed Uith them; they [
could no longer bpsnk forth risky on q {
path Desten firm by the passage Of their
Toes, sBd for goal 10 which that path q
Itself conducted them. Now they must
olow at a Gull pace through the encuD- Q
)erpg snow, Continually psusing 10 de- d
.ide tBer course, continually fouDderiDg p
n drifts. the sun soon left them; the b
slow OF the west decsyed, and presently u
hey we're wandering in 8 shadow Of
,lsckness under frosty stars. =
PRESENTLY iDdaad. the rnnon Unuif II