The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25

l VI ne ulu NOT 1nNOT YOU, q OtlTI WtNf 10
She looked me over a little disdsinfllly. and
blushed Il fear somewhat foolishlyl knowing oil
whom she spoke. II was not vanity, Tod w9t
favored as my father. But 30 long as Anna
thought otherwise | cared naught Tor The opinion
OF any other. -
$aid to me. Tell him 10 make haste, for am
~instan, TO zee thoss whs came from tho pirate
isle with you"
But this the lady would in no wise hermit. She
thought more OF Wills bodily presence than OF mlne
glad.and | resolved To- ypx Nill aiterward by casting
up 70 him the lady's preference
"Bide, Englishman. she said. let young Aber
At which Win had periorce 10 return against
his will and departed well content, Hut was
none 70 well pleased with the sight that met me
c%aniering ponies, | met a whole calvacade, First
came my mother on u steady pacing beast oi a
gray color She had on a kind OF nuns dress
with a white bar across the forehead, IN which
| hated to zee her, 4 brown rosary was about
her neck, and she looked AS II she had spent al
her life within convent walls, this owing not ~
much 10 piety as to the delicate purity OF her com
plexion, Of which she always took great care,
Next came the old witch woman, carried IN
9 SORT of rude litter by two stalwart negroes. while
F.bOrra ran beside her, ready 10 render any as
sistance which nigh, be necessary,
But the last pair caused me the greatest as
tonishment, Of all. For Anpa rode boy fashion
bu n nNTy niue Stesu WIN tne EbHIHihHuhu'T ,U
side her on his black. She was still! dressed in the
manner which some Of the Spaniards have learned
from the Indians, that is 10 say, IN u yon'h sun
Of dressed d-erskin. fringpd and headed A short
tanned skirt Of fins doeskin came q little below
her knee. Cross gartsred hoSen. little peake
Indian shoes and n ~feathered cap completed, an
attire pretty indeed IN look upon, but one which,
Appearing In Moreham Kirk on n Sabbath morn.
would have raj sed a revolution In all the parochin.
All the time the com mandante was deyouring
Anna with his eyes, while as for the mink hersel I
~ usual. she WAS pkluR oft her broken spanish
with her eyelashes
40 pueds, senior" she was saying, no ma,
aqua
hat II VAS that the senior could not do, or
why Anna wanted no more Sater, | canno, tell.
Most likely the whole was but an eScus' 10 make
play with her darkly roguish eyes. For i, WAS
about this time that Anna began 'o show n con.
seriousness ~ her beauty wholly new, and ! will
admit that though misliked II q, the Tune after
ward IL was pleasing Ia recall her little sue
| cessrs, and how she served this one and that other,
knowing all the time that her heart was alto
gether mine,
Presently they oil came within the Enclosure
Of the ca stle, hel ped my mother down from
the saddle A. from = castle wall who, when she
had diSentangird herself, fell into my arms and
whether tmphray Spurway had vet arrived md
when told her mo An, then" she m urmufed,
he is surely on hi, way
over my mothers shoulder could SEQ the red
faced commandanto, who had dismounted in pun
| ing haste, holding ont his arm 10 catch Anna
In tho free island manner.
bNl ~ 1UlS ANNA WtlllU nave HtlnlIiR' w wiz
a merry laugh the little witch leaped nimbly
down. resting only the tips IT her fingers lightly
On hon Nicholas'~ ouistrctched arm. v here
| upon the gallant soldier Of the most Catholic
King bent him on one knee in the dus, Of the eN.
ercising yard. and kissed the small brown hand
which Anna permitted him To retain
Why. what harm thought | was doing the
hest for all II Us said my lass aIterward, and
gave not a TX Tor any doct rirr or proof Of mine
But all the same il had been better n she had
chosen another spot for her i'll set lrl3ks ,han
tV na ,aIN- ka,aath tha Utnhnu nf Mistress
Juanita Silyeda,
viii Bowman told me Of IL aferward,
Il was standing by the window, sulky as a
dog that YOU. have kicked, said Master VIII,
and | wished had been one. TOO. For the woman
came and leaned upon me faugh and paved
my hair and breathed upon my neck, till | though,
| would have burst, or 1t may be, clouted her on
the ear Had | not remembered thn' she was
our only hope indeed, but for your mothers
sake and Anna, would 10, drive Al the besom
with my foot"
| said something h~re
%, tina, I've hanged for a taie (Wil did not
often swear 4 knew as soon as Clapped eyes
on her that the trullop was no more Of q lady than
Tip, our cat, thai rakes the roofs IN the midnight
And as say, il IL had no, been for your mother,
| would have knitted her and thrown her over the
window To the dogs, like the other hcsoIn. in the
Bible le,ebel, was that no, her name ! heard
Mess John read abou, her in the kirk once And
a rare tale il was, too
Then all suddenly had ease indeed, Will
wen, on, for it CHANGED that l"2ebcl locked on,
OF the window over MY Snulll0pT, anu tllfTe upon
the plaza she saw King Ahab kneaing, il YOU
please, on the hard mud to our ANNA, decked
a III AXE luxe Al, a sS'Thlp pnG ,T@F q p' nGG sc,ins boom ,nG
she. we'll looking dowd Al him like the little
vixen she is.
Well then | tell you, she was in q rare taking
Ny Lady Lady 'G Ry ,bs no Ss,S %0 or N % 0r r;,l e, d2 TsH
her paws when she ran lick cream Jczehel
stamped her foot and clenched her hands, look
ing as II she would have leaped down from N"
VfVA,ux ,N,t tina mir ~ thpn1 She GtraNp nm
and down like one Of Lays troopnrs in A cor
e%nantinc house. ard when at last the door opened
| expected her every moment to fly al NINA AS
she camp In.
first, and the brunt Of her anger fell on him lie
quailed and stanmered rs indeed you heard
him His own fine tasulian failed him in the
hour n need AZ II had been a foreign tongue.
Foul toad, spawn Of a mud bank, sh" cried.
you would hetray NE to my face, and that with
a silly ape faced girl, the slave 81 a slave BY
witch fools with her upward Slano.s; | will
pluck gu, her eyes ryke them a. Corhies do
A this. thinking that she would do even As
sh. said, ! csm. between In a moment, she
through my forearm. Then plucking /, out again
shr flew like a fury upon NINA, and II you, Philip,
had no' gotten l~tween them, I 'row she would
Thus FAR, Will, | may as well tell the rec, in
my own plain tale. I did s,en between the two.
for NINA kept her ground g~allan,ly as The wife
OF .lnf iOrnnhnudH'r ItNI'"I a ~ WIN uhsSfI
"FTold, Jane, Mar. ! cried loudly, catching
hold Of her DO NO, Lii yonr own child
She struggled WILDLY for a minute a. held her
by the wrist,
"She is your Nv u child. your little Anna Mark
I repeated In n Calmcr tone.
And the second time the spoken words did not
fail of their effect,
Little Anna MARX" she repeated After me.
uncertainty, pausing between each word
Aye Anna Mark indeed continued; "the
babe YOU hade farewell to on the steps Of NORMAN
kirk | kenncd you, Janet Mark, even as soon
as | clappnd eyes on you"
expected every moment that she would turn
on me and order IA all Ia the callows, being in
fear lest her husband should discover her for the
thing she was But ! nisjudred IN" woman
Sin Ike this Noman's deha ses the heart, but il
does not Hill natural Affection
She looked at NINA long and keenly The
s%ilat,o, or thin hlnded alhacete knife dropped
from her hand, She ran forward. caught her
daughter by the shoulders, and eagerly perused
her features.
Tt Gamma be ii Gamma It Gamma" she cried
my hNatny wee lass that I left sac far AVA"
Anna STOOD mute. looking questioninEly from
one W the other Of us.
this is indeed little Anna Mark " said my
mother. speaking for the frs, time, "br, Philip
doats. You arr not her mother. Her mother
ported for her cnmr. She. was sold for a slave
In the plantations ~ Carolina.
Now, thought /, We are done for, indeed.
Recognizing a hostile voice, Janet Mark turned
on my mother.
Who are YOU" she said with a suddenly whit
ened face
Il am Philip Stansfeld's wife +" answered my
mother, calmly, and this is my son
Janet Mark lifted her hands and hid her face
In them,