The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-31

head instead of a decent blue kilmar-
mock bonnet. And that last feared peo-
pie more than anything as being of a
spice piratical and murderous.
he had appeared quite suddenly in
the countryside one fair day about
nine years ago. He set up a dicing and
gamoiing table on the green at More
nam, to which all the young sparks
ana bold swearing blades within
twenty miles resorted- From this time
1ortn the silent man with the rings
twinkling palely in his ears had play-
ed many day on Moreham green with
varying luck One evening there came
an elderly laborer elbowing among the
ialrd'S sons, who put down a sroat or
TWO, which he saw swept off in few
moments in the quick give and take
OF a larger game The amount of his
loss was not much. but it was the
elderly countryman's all. There SEEM
ed to him dishonesty in the sudden
disappearance of his long-cherisheCi
pocket keeping pieces.
| With a spasm of sudden anger he
set his hand to his hip to draw a
dagger, and, grasping the keeper of
the gambling table by the collar. he
found himself hooking into the grim
ming face of death with a readiness
which seemed uncanny and unnatural
10 the onlookers. The brown man
with the earrings had OWNED the in
tention OF his assaflant before he
knew them himself. and. while going
on with his game, had kept his hand
upon the butt Of a pistol which Law
ready cooked in a drawer at his right
hand.
The countryman gasped and gurgled
inaruculately. A gluey foam gathered
| about his lips He uttered no intelli-
sinie word his mouth was too dry. He
might have died there and then bv
the hand of the gamester had not a
girl walled suddenly from behind:
father,"
The pistol was still steady at the
mans head. The gamblers hand did
not CULVER as his dark. beady eyes
wandered once to the beauteous. i'm
pioring face at his elbow Then, with
sudden jerk, he threw the man back
from him 50 that he measured his
length on the ground. The assailant
was Andrew Johnston, cottier of the
farm or Boyle Thorn. and the girl was
ms youngest daughter. the same whom
we know as Janet Mark.
They were married in a week. and in
month Janet Mark was back with
ner father, and her husband on his
way to the seaport town of Aberleith.
with cards and dice and painted tables.
Then not for three years was there
heard in the land the bliehesome lit
Va His sea SOlltscr-Of the relr9ln or his
summons when he called customers to
his table
The cards. the cards, the bonny.
bonny pictures, Ombre, tric-trac and
lanteloo-gieek and dice, Money TO
get, money to spend, money TO burn,
Come one. come all, to the painted
paper, the rattle of the pock-marked
yer coin.''
This was the man whom my uncle
John had chosen TO assist him in his
purpose. And not from any feeling of
revenge upon my father on account of
his wife did he join with my uncle.
For Saul Mark. upon his return. had
accepted the circumstances as he
found them. sagely resolving to make
the most out of them.
SO 1T came about that my fathef>be-
ing IN prison ready to meet his end.
my uncle appeared at New Minis with
a paper signed and sealed bearing thar
Philip Stansfield the younger, being
neir to all the properties and estates
or his grandfather. his father, Philip
Stansf1eld the elder, being under SEN
tence OF death, had appointed his
brother and Saul Mark Joint curators
or all the aforesaid infants goods till
he should be Of age. This te take eff
rect only in case of the death of the
said Philip Stansfield the elder. pres
n
My mother was much troubled at
this, and grieved sore at it. as at first
did my grandmother also, down by the
Great House But John soon recon-
ciled her to it by accompanying her
regularly to the kirk, and especially
by speaking ever praisefully of Mr..
John Bell and his sermons
But all these projects and purposes.
overt and secret, were in a moment
blown upon by certain startling oc-
which in a moment put a
new face upon all our lives. And these
| Will tell in order even as they hap
pened, that the reader may follow their
effect upon us, even as my mother and
felt them in the Yeti house of New
Minis
The last night in February came
upon US, night ever memorable to all
II US who had been affected by the sad
ieath OF Sir James Stansfield 1t was;
he very day set for the execution of
ny father in Edinburgh, and we hoped
'or news in the morning.
| had been over all day at the mills
II Umphray Spurway, where, finding
lie could not prevent my coming about
him the Englishman had set William
to give me lessons. together
With the little tangle-haired maiden.
Anna Mark 1t was work that William
Bowman liked well enough For not
'nly was ne good scholar, but he was
,lad to be quit of the thankless task
II experimenting the workers in the
Mill for the best part of the afternoon.
Then when it began to grow dark.
Jmphray Spurway took me by the
land and we went giadsomely together
'ver to the little house among the
lines where my mother dwelt At first
he Englishman talked easily and an
wered all my questions of which. as
5 the wont of boys. asked very many
nd OF very foolish sort But as we
feared the cottage Of the Yeti, Umph-
ay he waxed silent. and when he re-
lied at all his words were mostly
poken a. random
1t had hardly all the promise of a
fild night Overhead the scud was
idtng eastward, fiecked and sullen vet
DING fast as spume on raging tide
ace. Lower a thin. almost invisible
hist steamed along the land and
ombed itself through the trees like
ing blown naiden's hair. The reek
the lum rose from the hearthstone
trough the rafters up to the outer air,
eeped once over the chimneys, and
hen. with q sidelong dive, sped east
ard also down the wind. Spite of all
his it was not yet dark and some
mes in the bright blinis the sun him
elf locked slantwiSe through the for
1t aisleS and ruled the shadows of the
Ill trunks black on last years leaves.
lue on the few half melted wreaths of
he winter SHOWS. / did not notice ali
lese things at the time. but they come
ack to me now as all the natural
of my boyho0d are wont
, do, with vivid and even startling
earnesS
For about this time 1 used to be
aunted with a fear lest should for