Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-20

s.@Ss--~ II Oliver, left slon
T---[=z cast q Timorous glanC
/ !. !:
ElyyE9Zz7z77=#zf;r, upward at the Errss
ISstSgSsz&ST8 mi covered wall, and cross
EfRMk EyIs ed himself with ever
III Tux rs 5glN appearance OF terTo
INGP IL and contrition.
lEI!aE 3 "Nsy II he is in tii
IA bMFIB chapel ROOM" the prizes
IhM S&AI E murmured, "were it a
IgI. 20 60 z my souls cost, I nEs
wv -z.'se save him"
Three minutes later
Dick, whn had been summoned ,
another messenger, found Sir Olive
standing By The hall table, resolute az,
pale.
"Ricaarj S1s'ton." he said, "7e hav
required 40 oath from me. l might com
plain, uish5 refuse; but m7 besrs j
moved toward ,ou for the past, ard
Will evah 'a'8tt YOU as We choose. B
the true "r"ss 4 Hclyvood, l did ~
Stay yUu tatner."
"Sir o iver" returned Dick, "wle;
first We resi- jam Amend Alps pSp-r
/ was c. V.rCsd of Iso much. But suf 4
me to u. two questions Ye did no
slay hlu; 8 Zated. BGs had ye no hApc
In it?'
"NoEe," sid Sir Oliver. And 1t tbs
same time he began to comfort mis- face
and signAl with his mouth snd eyebrows
like ore gro desired 20 convey warning
yet dared not inter sound.
Dick r7oarted him in wonder; then he
turned saj looked 6ll about him st the
empty hsll
u "Wbst make y ?" ne Inquired.
"Why, peughr,n returned the priest,
hastily smoothing his cGuntenance. "I
make nsught; l DO but suffer; l an
sick; I-I-pylthee, Dick, must b5gone.
On the true cross Of Hollywood, l an
clean innocent alike of violence or tresch-
cry. Content ye, good lad. Farewell"
And he made mis- escspe from the apart
ment with unusual slacTitY.
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 miad grew clearer, suE-
plcion took the upper hand, and WAS sue
ceeded By certainty of the worst. He
raised his head, snd as he did so violently
started. High upon the wall there WAS a
figure OF q ssvsge hunter woven in the
tapestry. With one hand he held horn
to his mouth; in the other he braudished
stout spear. His face was dark, for be
was meant to represent an African.
Now, here wSs what had startled Rich
ard Shelton. The sun had moved awsy
from the hSll windows, and at the same
time the tlre had blszed up high on the
wide hearth, Snd shed chalgeful glow
upon the roof and hangings. In this
light the t1gule of the black hunter had
Winked st him with white eyelid.
He continued staring ST the eye. The
light shone upon it like a gem; it wss
liquid, It was alive. Again the white eye
lid closed upon il for a fraction Of
second, end the next moment it was gone.
There could be no mistake. The live
eye that had been watching him through
O hole in the tapestry was gone The
freight no longer shone on rejecting
surface
And instantly Dick swoke to the ter
rors of his position. Hstch's warning,
the mute signal of the priest, this eye
that had observed him from the wall, ran
together in his miHd. He saw he had
been put upon his trial, that he had once
more betrayed his suspicious and that,
short of some miracle, ne was lost.
"If cannot get me forth out Of this
And this p COR Matchsm, TOTO WHIST a
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
sWo or three books to another chamber.
;sA new chamber" he repeated.
so7 What chamber"
"Tis one above the chspel," answered
h~k
empty" said Dick, mus!ng. "What
manner Of room is itl"
"NGY. brave roomr" returned the
man. "But yet, Lowering his voice
ssthey call it hSunted.h
"Haunted2" repeated Dick, with 8
chill. "I have not heard Of it. Nsy,
then, and by whom2"
The messenger looked about him, and
then in low whisper, "By the sscrist Of
st. Johns" he said, "theV had him there
TO sleep one tight, srd in the morning
wheW!-he was gone. The devil had
taken him, they s;idi the more by token,
he had drunk late the night before"
Dick followed the msn with black fore
bodings.
CHAPTER III.
THE ROOM OVER Tx CHAPEL.
From the bXttlemeDts nothing further
was observed. The sun jouFneyed west
ward and ct last went down; but to the
the eyes of all these eager sentinels no
living thing appeared in the neighbor-
hood Of Tunstsll house.
When the night was at length fairly
come, Throgmorton was led to room
whose window overlooked an angle OF the
most. Thence he wss lowered with every
the ripple Of his swimming
was audible for brief period; then
black figure was observed to land by the
branches of s willow and crawl away
among the grsss. For some half hour
Sir Daniel aud Hatch stood eagerly giving
ear; but ell 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 man, We see. DE
sleepeth. We will make good end oil
him, go 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 and thither, one
following another, till he was
bewildered with the number and the hurry |
of commissions. All thai time he had
seen no more OF Sir Oliver, and nothing |
OF Mstcham; snd yet both the priest and
Che young lad ran continually in his mind. !
1t was now his chief purpose 70 escape |
from Tunstall Most house as speedily as