The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-01-08

The duchess and bore the cold patiently.
Gil will lie in giving trouble. To avoid
this we should show our strength. There
fore want the duchess to come over with
all speed. VIII you fetch herr" he added
sharply, turning to me.
"Will II" cried in surprise.
YES you. cannot well go myself at
this crisis. VIII you go instead2'
"Of course WILL" answered.
And the prospect oheered me wonder
fully. 1t gave me something to do and
opened my eyes to the great change of
which Penruddocke had been the herald,
a change which was even then beginning.
As we rode down Highgate hill that day
messengers were speeding north and south
and east and west to Norwich and Bristol
and Canterbury and Coventry and York
with the tidings that the somber rule I'M
der which England had groaned for five
years and more was coming to an end. II
In dozen towns Of England they ropea
their bells afresh; II in every county, as
Penruddocke had prophesied. they got
their tar barrels ready; II all, save q few
old fashioned folk and a few gloomy big
OTIS and hysterical women, awoke as from
an evil dream; II even sensible men saw in
the coming Of the young queen q panaoea
for all their ills-a quenching Of Smith
field fires, Calais recovered, q cure for
the worthless coinage which hampered
trade, and radiance of worthless foreign
ers who plundered 1t, with better roads,
purer justice, fuller exchequer, more IA
vorable seasons-if England read all this
In that news Of Penruddooke's, was IL not
something to us alsof
1t was indeed. We were saved at the
last moment from the dangerous enter
prise on which we had rashly embarked.
We had now such prospects before us only
the success of that scheme could have or
dinarily opened. Ease and honor instead
of the gallows and to lie warm instead of
breaking In the windl Thinking of this,
fell into better frame Of mind as Jog
ged along toward London. For what,
after all, was my father to me, that his
existence should mako mo unhappy or rob
mine of all pleasure2 had made place
for myself In the world. had earned
friends for myself. He might take away
my pride In the one but he could never
rob me of tho love Of the others-of those
who had eaten and drunk and fought and
suffered beside me and for whom l, too,
had fought and suffered
"A strange time for the swallows to
come back" said my lady, turning to
smile at me as rode on her off side.
1t would have been strange indeed If
there had been swallows in the air, for 1t
was the end of December. The roads
were frost bound and the trees leafless
The east wind, gathering force In its rush
across the Essex marshes, whirled before
1t tho last trophies Of Hainault forest and
seemed as 1t whistled by our ears and
shaved our faces to grudge us the shelter
to which We were fastening. The long
train behind us-for the good times Of
which we had talked so often had come
were full of the huge fire we expected to
find at the inn at Barking, our last stage
on the road to London. And II the duch-
ess and bore the cold more patiently it
was probably because we had more food
for thought and perhaps thicker raiment.
do not shake your head" she con-
Anued, glancing at me with mischief In
her eyes, land flatter yourself you will
not go back, but will go ON making your
self and some one else unhappy. You win
do nothing of tho kind, Francis. Before
the spring comes you and will ride over
the drawbridge at Cotton End, or I am
Dutchwomanl"
II cannot sec that things are changed,
said.
"N6t ohaDgedi" she replied. when
you left, you were nobody. Now you are
somebody, II 1t BIO only In having sister
with dozen serving men In her train.
Leave 1t to me. And now, thank heaven,
We are herei am so stiff and GOLD you
must lift me down. We have not to ride
far after dinner, hope"
ITO be Continued.