Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-24
CHAPTER Nj.
The Tanning of the Tiger

Standing thus stricken I flashed a look at
those who stood about me, Anna and Will.
l scanned their faces. and il was with the
utmost relief that I perceived ! was the
only one of the company who knew the
wOman's secret. What. indeed more i'm
possible than that the child 1 had seen
waving her little hand as her mother went
down the road among the glitteri1@ bay
ones in the gray Of the morning. should
recognize " the same this richly attired
lady upon Il Spanish Isle in the Carib sea
And for NIL he was H. WISER fOr
though he was old enough at the rii.--e he
had not seen much of Janet Mark. And
besides. as | have had occasion TO point
out more than once. VIII Bowman never
had my trick Of picture memory which all
my life ] was wont to cultivate by means
Of paling stCbs and other trifles.
Meanwhile Eborra continued To speak
rapidly to the Donna Juanita. I saw the
color fash up into her face a warm. rosy
hue upon the whiteness of her skin. For
that was her great beauty in a land of
Gusky women. When | had last seen her
In her own country and much younger, she
had been wellnigh pcOny red. a rustic
Blowsilnd. But here. suhdued by years
and climate. the red and the white showed
together on her face like York and Lam
caster grated on a single rose stem Her
tendency to plEnpneSS mad increased great
ly with eaSe and the custom of the country
but that among the Spaniards. and cspe-
Cially the military caste of them. is
thought the greater beauty Stlll. in any
country Janet or Juanita tas she called her
self would have been a weIl-looking wo-
man. and but for the demon that upon oc-
caSion looked out of her eyes good
Eatured one TO boot
What We are English folk that have
been among the pirates" she said in good
English. bringing her mule about that she
might have Il ter look at US
My friend is English sd hastily
lest Will should claim Moreham; from a
town called Skipton he comes. and | am d
poor Scottish lad. trepanned from his own
country ana folk Have pity on US, great
lady, We suffer for our religion"
Il ken nothing about that she answered.
with a sudden chill: but from what part
Of Scotland do We Gomez?
Il noticed as she spoke that though she
managed the English not i'll, she said I'VE"
and Slen and part just as they did in
New Milns- And it was a mighty curious
thing to hear the familiar accents of my
native parish on thu lips of this woman.
the wife OF a Spanish cOmmandante, in this
far isle of the sea-
Il come from a seafaring town called
Abercairn, / said, giving Will a look that
he was not to come any nearer to the truth.
But Will, though wholly without diplomacy,
had admirable gift of silence, and sim
ply looked at the white mule as if mentally
summing UP his points.
"Ah. from Abercorn." she answered
VIZ: Gniek look at me: Did ever We hear
of man by the name of Philip Stanstield?' -
Yes. said /. startled at the sound of my
own name. but instantly taking her mean
ing. tina have l. Hear of Philip STAINS
field-who that has lived in Scotland has
not heard Of him? Did he not slay the
father that begat him? Was he not a MUIR
dercr. rohbcr, an outlaw"
That Is may be-, she said. There
were others deeper in and blacker of hue
than poor Philip. But what of him? When
was he executed2
He never was executed" ] said. 'sHe
escaped on the very day. though many in
Scotland say that h died on the WILDLY by
the hangman's cord
How ken We that he escaped" she said
little breathlessly.
| did not reveal what excellent reasons
had 20 ken that thing. l merely told he,
thu fact of the long and fruitless pursuit
OF the attacks on many mansion houses
and how it had been more recently ascer.
tained beyond doubt that Philip StansfielC
had departed furth of the realm of Scot
land.
As / spoke the rudy color gradually lef
the face of thu woman. The reins droppee
from her fingers upon the neck of the whit,
mule and she clasped her hands as If pray
ing in church
Save me-save me-" she muttered 'sI
Philip find me here. am a dead woman
Then after a little she commanded hersel
and asked another question.
There was one Saul Mark in these parts