Omaha daily bee., 1902-04-13
CHAPTER XIX.
Into a New World.

I had need of all my boosted GOODNESS in
the face of difficult circumstance that
night and the next day.
All 1 could make out was Just that we
were making our way rapidly into the less
frequented westerly parts of the country.
But all the while we passed no lighted
house, trees waxed fewer and fewer and
soon ceased altogether.
Had / not known that we were in this
safeguarded land of Scotland with judges
and tribunals, Christian kinks and gospel
ministers, 1 might have thought that we
were being driven to our doom by the ennis
saries of some secret conspiracy.
AS for Kate, she slept like a top. The
thought hat at last she was going to meet
her husband-to be with him always (as
she supposedly acted on her like wine. She
lay most of the night sleeping peacefully
with her head on my shoulder. Once she
kissed me lightly on the neck and MUIR
INJURED a few contepted little love-words in
my ear-to me now Infinitely pathetic to be
remembered.
1 have come since to understand many
things which then we're dark to me.
The whole journey had been carefully ar
ranged beforehand. The relays were for
warded to one place, past which we drove
two or three times during the course of the
night, making a circuit and returning for
the purpose Of making us believe ourselves
far away and cut off by immense distances
from our friends.
Toward the end I also grew weary, and,
I think. must have slept a considerable
time. For when awakened the carriage
had stopped and l was stiI with the cold.
l touched Kate on the arm. lightly at first,
but as she still slumbered on / had perforce
to shake her before could waken her.
Her first words were, Where is Rupert ?"
Without replying / opened the carriage
door and stepped out awkwardly, being
numb with long travelling. Day was break.
ing and showed a strange scene Of desola-
ton, more At, as 1t seemed to me, to be a
landscape in Iceland, Lapland or Siberia,
or some of those northern countries l have
read about, than a part Of that Scotland In
which l knew we must still be.
There was one hut and no more upon the
dismal beaoh-a mere rough shelter las Il
seemed) for fishermen or smugglers. The
bare keel and ribs of a boat rose blackly
out Of the sludge, and near It. at the bot
tom OF the widest OF these trenches lin
which there was still a little runnel of
water, l could see the figure of a man
busy with a boat at a kind OF rude pier.
Ihe horses mao been removed from the car
riage and we could see them in silhouette
in a kind of shelter behind the hut, tossing
their heads and moving u~neasily in the
cold wind.
Il do not see Rupert" said Kate. after
she had looked all round the disconsolats
scene, shiyering slightly all the while.
surely this cannot be the place to which
they are taking u.s."
Follow me and we will soon find out"
/ said, briskly. For the eternal cuckoo cry
Of Rupert set me on edge sometimes, es-
so early in the morning. and, as Il
we're. breakfastless,
But as we began to walk briskly along
the irregular path the man III had been
with the boat espied us, and, leay-
ing his work, came up to meet US. AS we
came nearer we recognized him.
II was Mr.. Glendonwyn himself.
Ito be Continued.)