The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1901-02-02
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CHAPTER TX. (continued.)

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TX. (Continued.)
Ahank you!" he said, stretching out
us nano. You may be nearer the
uutn nan you imagine regarding you
%uesIlnatlon. 1t is men Of your mettla
that we require, Tremayne, and I feel
more hopeful of our cause than I have
ever done. And now I want to speak to
you on a very delicate matter, and l
sincerely hope that you won't think
.na' l am meddling in our private af-
.ais' II IS no secret to me that you
regard my cousin Nora with very warm
ieeings, and as we are to be fellow.
members of the same glorious organic
%aton, may tell you that, to supply the
'oenciency In her dowry I shall give up
my right to a considerable portion of
tne courtney estate, and some day I
nope to see you established, a landed
proprietor in the country we both love
so WELL"
1t required all the self-control of
which I was master to enable me to
answer him correctly, but I managed to
thank him and make him understand
that l required no incentive, great as
was the n he offered, to do what I
now considered my duty, and I asked
him to look upon it as settled that I
Should be ready to go to any place on
the shortest notice.
To be sure, I contemplated no farther
trip than a railway journey to Man
chester, and there I hoped that the
RoOpo6 rNh3r$oon xY,o,,l5 nv 10 n - and
and that I should be a ready helper in
such a desirable contamination.
AS soon as I had told Anguish the
news he was once more taken with q
sudden desire to visit his flock, and
so off he went to make all arrange
ments for surrounding the meeting
place at Manchester, Before he left US
he gave me minute instructions as to
what I should do at the moment of the
delivery Of the attack, and, seeing that
I should then be in a position Of con-
siderable danger, I carefully attended
to them.
I met Nora on the Thursday after
noon, and told her that I was going
away for a few days, and that when I
came back I should have good news for
her.
You're keeping something from me,
Jack" she said. "You can't deceive me.
what is it,"
I tried to satisfy her as best I could
with g~eneralities, but she would not be
convinced.
""Tis something to do with Maurice"
she said. "Ah! do tell mel" and I new
er felt it so hard to keep back know
ledge as I did then. when I heard her
pleading tones and saw the love-light
In her eyes.
"Only tell me the truth" she said,
''and I'll be good" g.
And so I told her what we hoped to
do, making light of the danger, and
dwelling strongly upon the fact that
our plans were so carefully laid that
failure was impossible. "Just Think"
I said, "your father and mine, and you
and I, will be free agents again, and
we'll go back to Ireland, and live hap
PLY ever afterwards"
.Ah! Jack, tits my Irish heart that
won't be quiet, and when you go from
me to-day there's that within me tells
me that it will be long before I look
upon YOU again. All! Jack, what will
I do when you are away from me?"
Little did I think that her words
were to come SO true, and that before l
saw her again I should have sailed
around the world, and all that I should
have to take with me, so far as she was
concerned, would be the memory OF her
aorrow-stricken face and the know
ledge that her heart would beat true to
me. ri.
I babe her goodbye at the gate or
Connemara Cottage, and carried away
with me an early rosebud that she
plucked for me, and When L a
watched her to the door, and waved TO
her as she fingered for a while on the
stem. I hurried home to make all pre-
variations for meeting D'Orville on the
morrow. Mindful of what he had said
with regard to being prepared for a
tourney and fearful of AI,using his
suspicions by failing to cCAlply with
what was nothing less than a polite
command. I packed my largest Glad
stone bag.
ON the next day, before I started. l
looked in upon Travers, and told him
that I was going to town for a few
DAYS. but one glance at his race
showed me that the spirit which actu-
ated Archimides still lived, and had, for
the time being, entered into my
friend and possessed him. He babe me
good hive with the air Of n who was
tmnatient of disturbance, and who
wou,d certainly be relieved when I had
taken myself OFF and left him to resume
HIS studies, and no doubt he had COM
nletelv forgotten my existence long be-
fore I reached the station.
n,orville met me at Liverpool street.
..vVeIl lunch here" he said, "and we
.t.rt nv the 1920 train. Is this your
luggage". ,
h,,+ there's enough to last me for q trip
oro,,nd the world in these fast days"
ssGlad to see you're SO philosophical
he said. "Come along. j ordered 5iuncn'
and It will be ready for. us. Wise men !,
eat when they can. Let us pc. wise,
And presently I found myself discuss
sng q, yery pleasant meal with the mai
= % shortly hoped to lay by the heels
..We,ve lust time for a smoke" said he,
.,hen we had finished, "and then we
80 take acabSto Waterloo" You have
Sat asked me vet where u meeting is
~ Ia held. and. you most likely supposed
s,on, what i told you, that 1t would be
- Mancheater tomorrow evening
well, ne have changed ursplace and
n1ans,s and " g Intend TO meet at soutn:
smnton, so that those Of Us who MAJ g
caIiedf,pop to 50 abroad VIII be apie
"a start atssonces.'