The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-01
Copyright, 1893. under the name OF Little
Anna Ma, K by S. r. Crockett
Copyright, 1885, by s. r. Crockett.)

synopsis.-Sir James stansfield of New
young Philip meets in an inn-house MS
Mark. They quarrel. Sir James goes
That night 6e is murdered by MS
dissolute son and Janet Mark;
They take his body. outside ana
fasten. the crime upon other shoulders.
But the boy Phillip has witnessed the
crime. He tells his grandfather's ehier
tenant. Umphrey SpJlrway. and Spur
way succeeds in having the real murderer
brought to justice. He Is sentenced 10 pc
hanged. his woman. accomplee 20 10 DC
transported. Mysteriously Philip STAINS
neid escapes the gallows. seeks OUT ms
wife. finds her in the company OF SpurWay
and tries to 1Blrder her, but does not quite
succeed. She is taken away to Aoercairn
in charge Of Spurway and in the company
or little Anna Mark, from whom ne learns
that in. some ways. girls are worth quIIe
as much as boys. For example, In the time
of the cattle droving, when Master Spur
way bought his winter beast IN lhe
Mart" Anna beats Philip In helping 20
cut them out. Still Trey are excellent
friends, even though sre beats him at
her studies, in the school to which they
20 together. John Stansheld, Pnlup
lawyer uncle brings in a new teacher,
Dominic RingTOse. a small man, with
wonderful eyes Shortly after ms COM
ing the countryside r. shocked and thrilled
with a number of bloody and mysterious
murders, evidently for the sake OF rOo-
bery. Business calls Umphrey Spurway
from home. In his absence big packing
case. purporting to be full of hne span
Umphrey's clerk. He puts It in the
weaving shed That night Philip, playing
about II. sees shining through the Sauze
OF the packing case, g pair OF eyes. lie
then stabs the packing case with a small
sword Blood flow. they open, the case
and find Dominic RingrOSe inside. appar-
entity dead. Shortly after the mouse IS
attacked by robbers who Ringrose had
meant to let in. They are beaten on, but
afterward Philips mother refuses 10 let
him spend the holidays a. New Minis. Re
turning from a days visit to New Minis,
Philip falls in with Saul Mark, Anna 5
gypsy father, who, under pretenSe Oh
showing him Sir Harry Morgan'S treas
ure, makes him a prisoner. Anna hnds
out his plight and leads UTphrey Spur
way on his track BY the help OF MS sill
ent partner, Provost Gregory Bartan,
Saul Mark, SupercargO of the ship Cora
mantee, impTisOns both, Anna and Spur
way, robbing Spurway of much money
and a portrait of Philips mother. Philip,
the elder, who is in league with Saul
Mark, takes the portrait and sends young
Philip away. Leaving Spurway impris-
Oned. Philip Stansfield the elder goes out
in Spurways cloak to his wife's house.
and by threats induces her to go aboard
the COrTamantee. Anna and Philip make
friends with EOorra. He shows them
where Sir Harry MOrg2nS treasure Is,
guarded by Fer-de-lance and his hosts.
Eborra has scented a boat in which he
plans to escape with Anna. Philip, Mrs.
StanSfield. and his mother; also Will Bov
an. who is in the pirates clutches. The
pirates sail away with two or three ships,
but a new difficulty aTiSes-it is Mrs.
Stansfield's fear to trust herself in the
boat. At last she is persuaded. The boat
starts, encounters other pirates, but is
towed safe away by a monster devil fish.
The boat reaches Porto Rico In safety
and its inmates approach a convent ask
ing help. The convent takes in the wo-
men. The men go into chain gang. It
is making a road for the pleasure of the
governors WIFE She chances to pass
along and VIII Bowman and Philip dis
cover her TO be Janet Mark, little Annals
mother. Janet Mark, now the Lady Jua-
nita, stands friend to her countrymen, but
they soon find 1t is perilOus favor. Not
withStandipg Janet grows violently jeal-
GUS when little Anna somewhat takes the
governors eye. She is about to kill the
girl when Philip tells her the truth-that
Anna is her own daughter.