The Cook County herald., 1901-06-22
a Brave OWar d.
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 4
AAy 90 AN
CHAPTER "

ed very beautiful in my ears, but not.
Go beautiful as that other name Of
Clara Cassilis, which she wore during
Ghe longer and, I, thank God, the hap-
Dler portion of her life Her father.
afernard Huddlestone. had been a pri-5
vafe k,nker in a very large way OF
business. Many years before, his af-
aairs becoming disordered, he had been.
led to try dangerous, and at last, Grim
anal, expedients to retrieve himself
from ruin. All was in vain; he be-
came more and more, cruelty involved,
and found his honor lost at the same
@noment with his fortune
About this period Northmour had
Saeen courting his daughter with great
.&ssiduity, though with small encour-
tagement, and to him, knowing him
sGhus disposed in his favor, Bernard
Rduddlestone turned for help in his sx-
eremity. It was not merely ruin and
'&ishonor, nor merely a legal condem-
nation, that the unhappy man had
brought on his head 1t seems he could
nave gone to prison with light heart.
What he feared-What kept him awake
at night or recalled him from slumber
Unto frenzy-was some secret, sudden
and unlawful attempt upon his life.
hence,, he desired to bury his exist
-ence and escape to one of the islands
an the South Pacific, and it was in
.&orthmour's yacht, the Red Earl, that
me designed to go. .S' 4> s.
5 The yacht picked them up clandes-
Sfnely upon the coast of Wales, and
mad once more deposited them at Gra-
den. till she could be reftted and pro-
visioned for the longer voyage. Nor
could Clara doubt that her hand had
5een stipulated as the price of pas
sage For, although Northmour was
neither unkind nor discourteous, he
mad shown himself in several instances
somewhat oVerbold in speech and man :.
1er. 49, .s~<.,
listened, need not say, with fixed
attention, and put many questions as
TO the more mysterious part. 1t was in
vain. She had no clear idea of what
the blow was, nor of how it was ex-
-uected to fail. Her fathers alarm was
unfeigned and physically prostrating,
and he had thought more than once
OF making an unconditional surrender
to the police. But the scheme was
0nally abandoned, for he was convinc-
sd that not even the strength Of our
English prisons could shelter him from
his pursuers. "a l..zs d s,,.E Il Il p..,
"a hoH ha1 GeoS rrstJ
and with Italians resident in London
In the later years of his business and
ehese last, as Clara fancied, were
somehow connected with the doom that
threatened him. He had shown great
&eEror at the presence Of an Italian
seaman on board the Red Earl, and
a1ad bitterly and repeatedly accused
Northmour in consequence. The lat
ter had protested that Beppo (that was
che seaman's name) was a capital fell
Cow, and could be trusted to the death:
5ut Mr.. Huddlestone had continued
ever since to declare that all was lost,
that it was only question of days,
and that Beppo would be the ruin of
Aim yet. ..'., <:.-r "a =.
[ regarded the whole story as the
hailucination of mind shaken by
calamity. He had suffered heavy loss
by his Italian transactions; and hence
the sight of an Italian was hateful to
hiEa, and the principal part in his
mfghtmare would naturally enough be
Dlayed by one of that nation.
I'm short, and from one thing to an
other, it was agreed between us that
should set out at once for the fisher
village, Graden Wester, as it was cali
sd, look UP all the newspapers could
Efnd, and see for myself if there SEEM
ed any basis OF fact for these continued
alarms. 8&
The village is one of the bleakest on
Chat coast, which is saying much;
there is a church in a hollow, a mis-
erable haven in the rocks, where many
boats have been lost as they returned
from fishing; two or three score of
stone houses arranged along the beach
and in two streets, one leading from
the harbor, and another striking out
from it at right angles; and at the
corner Of these two, very dark and
cileerless tavern, by way of principal
motel a, s i. s. l Mex
Ehad dressed myself somewhat n ore olre
suitably to my station in life, and at
once called upon the minister in Els
little manse beside, the grave yard. He
Anew me, although it was more than
mine years since we had met; and
\ when told him that had been long
upon a walking tour, and was behind
with the news, readily lent me an arm.
9ul OF newspapers, dating from month
back TO the day before. With these /
sought the. tavern, and, ordering some
breakfast, sat down to study the sIIud-
dzlestone Failure" Is s5ssss
1t had been. it appeared, a very fla
grant case. Thousands of persons were
reduced to poverty, and one in partic-
aIfar had blown out his brains as soon
as payment was suspended 1t
WAS strange to myself that, while II
read these details, I continued rather
j 90 sympatfize with Mr.. Hud dlestone
Il eatan with his victims, so complete al
ready was the empire Of my love for