The Irish standard., 1903-10-10

cause for citation and that YOU still |
meritcd the appel!atiun OF spy, BAN
dit and midnight assassin in which |
l understand you and your henchmen
take such well-carned pride"
Young Wortlington's expression,
at first astonished and then tiecked !
with amusement, had famed into an
ger as she proceeded.
''Madum, | congratulate YOU upon
being so apt Il pupil of col Brsse-
mer. The terms which You have Just
used are a few of the mi,!rr epithets
which. understand, he applies to
myself and that band of brave pat
riots with whom | have the honor to
fight for my country. Had known
that Col BeSScmer was an Eonored
and welcome guest instead Of being,
as presumed he was. an intruder
upon your hospitality, | would have
been more loath than ] was 10 make
the attack which felt my duty to
make. While ! feared that some de-
structinn of your fathers property
might cn~ur. battered myself that
by relicvin" YOU of the presence of
BcssrmrrS tirrhl'an,!s and looters-
nppclatiuns which. I assure you,
they have earned QUite n. indus
triously as we have our pseudo
nymcs might be doing you Il serv-
ice that would in Il measure recon-
pcnsc for the loss: but it seems L
was mistaken. and that Col. Besse-
mcr is Justified i'm the boasts he has
made of he handsome cntert@inmrnt
f, he received at the home of his
betrothcd. the beautiful Jane FL
| lrry,' to whom his troth was pIighted,
so he says, in Philadelphia town these
three years past"
james trracherous color fled at
these last astounding words, and
then came back with a brave rush.
Ills easy" she remarked disdain-
fully, "to place false speech upon the
! tongue OF the absent I c"ngratu-
late YOU upon the facility with which
you have placed it upon Col. BESSIE
mer's," and with that she drew down
| the curtain to the window on the side
next Capt, Worthington, thus shut
ting ont that wrathy warrior.
The soldier reared his horse back
upon his Launches while his breath
came hard and the healthy ruddiness
of his skin gave place to an angry
pallor. An insult. such an insult,
and from Jane. Had it been from a
man. he would have dragged him
from the carriage and wiped up the
earth with him, but To first doubt
his word aud then drop the curtain,
as though she had slammed Il door
in his faca Really. it was too much!
He dug his spurs into his horse
that pHmperctl animal that seldom
knew Il touch which was not gentle
and dashed recklessly through the
woods. 1t was we'll that his mount
was as good forester as he, else
they must have come to grief.
AS for Jane. she drove on with her
brain in a whirl. What had Godfrey
meant by attributing such speech to
Col. l'essemer? Pah, it was but some
idle gossip which those bandits with
whom he associated had picked up
at some waysle inn.
She was too experienced in such
matters not to have read the SINGER
ity of Col. Bessemer's admiration for
herself underneath his ornate
speeches and too ardent glances.
That he thought her beautiful she
could not doubt. Most men did. Even
when she was but raw schoolgirl
of 1G in Philadelphia he had singled
her out for marked attention during
his stay in the city.
True, he had brought letters of in.
PRODUCTION to her stepmother's
brother, of whose household she was
!. an inmate, and being made welcome
with that cordially which the tories
of Philadelphia showered upon the
British officers, he spent much of his
, time at her uncle's house, which &C
, counted, doubtless. for the courtesies
he paid her. She had been new tc
such things then, and she could not
deny that his red coat and gold lace
his London manners, and the high
, esteem in which he was so evidently
held by his superior officers ha6
touched her girlish fancy and made
her heart futter not Il little.
t When the fortunes OF war tool
him away from the city. he had left
her with many expressions of undy
| ing devotion, and she had believed
8 him. But with the lapse of time il
I had grown to be matter neither
, for surprise nor resentment with he1
, that he had apparently forgotten al
/, about her the moment he was out o1
| her sight. and that she had heard MOI
/, one word from him. although she
l had heard much of him, until he hat
: appeared at her home the other day
r 1t had amused her Il little then tc
note that BeSscmcr had been willing
. to make all out of their former ac
: quaintance that he could, and to i'm
y press his officers that there had beer
) more between them in Phiadelphi;
$ than there was. She could easily I'm
n lcrstnnd that from this might have
: arisen some idle gossip which hat
n been exaggerated by The time i
: reached Gnlfrry's ears into tlnt
:, words he had repeated to her. Tha
= the young American had tleliberatel,
r lied or that he had even amplitiet
c the tale in its telling she knew hin
too well to believe: but she had beer
n angry enough with him to be willing
r to give him any slap in the face
n which came handy, and she was too
T much Il woman to worry herself ove1
= injustice.
1t was Il pity Godfrey could no