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night were lost among themselves in
binding darkness. 1t was one OF those
black nights fit for witch travelling.
and no doubt every witch in England
was out brewing mischief. The horses
hoofs sucked and splashed in the mud
with a sound that Mary thought might
be heard at Lands End. and the boot
of an owl. now and then disturbed by a
witch, would strike upon her ear with
a volume of sound Infinitely dispropor-
tionate to the size of any owl she had
ever seen or dreamed Of before.
Brandon wore our cushion. the great
cloak. and had provided a like one Of
suitable proportions for the princess.
This came In good play, as her fine gen
tleman's attire would be but poor stun
to turn the water. The wind, which
had arisen with just enough force to
set up a dismal wall. gave the rain a
horizontal slant and drove 1t in at every
opening. The flaps OF the comfortable
great cloak blew back from Mary's
knees. and she felt many chilling
drop through her fine new silk trunks
that made her wish for buckram in
their place. Soon the water began to
trickle down her legs and find lods-
ment in the jack boots, and ns the rain
and wind came In tremulous little
whirs she felt wretched enough-she
who had always been SO well sheltered
freq. every blast. Now and then mud
and water would fly up into her face
striking usually in the eyes or mouth
and then again her horse would STUN
BILE and almost throw her over his head
as he sank. knee deep. into some unex-
pected hole.
All OF this. with the thousand and
one noises that broke the still worse
silence of the inky night. soon began to
work upon her nerves and make her
fearful. The road was full of dangers
aside from stumbling horses and bro
ken necks. for many We're the stories
of murder and robbery committed
along the route they were travelling. II
II true they had two stout men. and all
were armed. yet they might easily
come upon party too strong for them.
and no one could tell what might hap
pen, thought the princess. There was
that pitchy darkness through which
she could hardly see her horses head
a thing OF Itself that seemed to have In
finite powers for mischief and which
no amount OF argument ever induced
any normally constituted woman TO be-
lieve was the mere negative absence Of
light and not terrible entity potent
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A Story of Love and Chivalry, by
Edwin CaSkOden.

dimpled cxquisitely in relating how
she had deliberately made opportuni-
ties for him to fiatter her until at last
he smiled in her face and told her she
was the most beautiful creature liv-
ing, but that. after all. beauty was az
beauty did"
THAT made me angry" said she. 81
pouted for awhile and two or three
times was on the point OF dismissing
aim. but thought better of it and asked
him plainly wherein l did so much
nmiss. Then what do you think the
impudent fellow saidT
II cannot guess"
He said. oh, there is 10 much 1t
would take lifetime to tell it,
This made me furious, but l could
not answer, and moment later he
said, Nevertheless l should be only
too glad to undertake the task
'The thought never occurred to Ell
ther of % then that he would be taken
at his word. Bold? should think he
was! l never saw anything like it! l
have not toli you tenth part of what
he said to me that day. He said any
thing he wished. and it seemed that /
Half the time l was angry and half
the time amused, but by the time we
reached Windsor there never was n
girl more hopelessly and desperately in
love than Mary Tudor And she
laughed as if it were huge joke on
Mary
She continued: THAT day settled
matters wit. me for all time. I don't
know how he did it. Yes. l do" And
she launched forth into an account of
Brandon's perfections, which 1 fouLd
somewhat dull and so would you.
We remained day or two at Wind
sor and then, over the objections of our
chaperons, moved on to Berkeley cas-
tie, where Margaret of Scotland was
spending the summer.
We had another beautiful ride up
the dear old Thames TO Berkeley, but
Mary had grown serious and saw none
of it.
On the afternoon of the appointed
day the princess suggested a hawking
party, and we set out in the direction
of the rendezvous. Our party consist
ed of myself. three other gentlemen
and three ladies besides Mary. Jane
She wept and with difficulty forced
herself to say something about head
ache. but the rest of the inmates of
the castle of course had no thought
that possibly they We're taking their
last look upon Mary Tudor.
Think who this girl was we were
running away with! What reckless
fools we were not to have seen the ut
ter hopelessness. certain failure and
deadly peril of our act; treason black
as Plutonian midnight. But Providence
seems to have an especial care for fools.
while wise men are left to care for
themselves, and it does look as if safe
ty lies In folly.
We rode on and on. and although l
took two occasions in the presence OF
others to urge Mary to return. owing
to the approach Of night and threat
ened rain. she took her own head. as
everybody knew she always would.
and continued the hunt
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When Knighthood Was In Flower

Just before dark. as we neared the
rendezvous. Mary and I managed to
ride ahead of the party quite dis
tance. AT last we saw heron rise.
and the princess uncapped her hawk.
This is my chance" she said. 81
will run away from you now and lose
myself. Keep them on my track for FIVE
minutes. and I shall be safe. Goodby.
Edwin. You and Jane are the only
persons regret to leave. I love you
as my brother and sister. When we
are settled in New Spain, we will have
you both come to US. Now. Edwin, l
shall tell YOU something: Don't let Jane
put you Off any longer. She loves you.
She told me SO. There! Goodby, my
friend. Kiss her a thousand times for
me-" And she few her bird and gal
loped after it at headlong speed.
Soon the princess was out Of sight.
and waited for the others to overtake
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for all sorts of mischief. Then that
wailing howl that rose and fell De
times. No wind ever made such noise
she felt sure. There were those shin
ing white CLEANS which came from the
little pools of water on the road, look
ing like dead mems faces upturned ana
pale. Perhaps they were water ana
perhaps they were not. Mary had AN
confidence in Brandon. but that very
fact operated against her. Having that
confidence and trust In him, she felt
no need to waste her own energy In be
ing brave. So she relaxed completely
and had the feminine satisfaction Of
allowing herself to be thoroughly
frightened.
Is it any wonder Mary's gallant but
womaniy spirit sank low in the face
OF all those horrorsi She held out
bravely. rowcver. and an occasional
clasp from Bpandon's hand under cover
NJ the darkness comforted her. When
all those ierrors would not suggest even
81 tiousht of turning back, you may
ig:ee OF :!c character OF this girl and
her motive.
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1 tnlHk, 4 hnt" lOTu Olssy
1 would quickly enough guess
)SxzQl) the truth when he heard that
the princess was missing. and would
have n party In pursuit The run
aways, however, would have at least
twenty -four hours the start, and n ship
leaves no tracks. When Mary left me-
she was perhaps two-thirds OF league
from the rendezvous, and night was
rapidly falling. As her road lay through
a dense forest all the way she would
have dark. lonely ride Of few
minutes, and | was somewhat uneasy
for that part OF the journey. 1t had
been agreed that II everything was NIL
right at the rendezvous Mary should
turn loose her horse. which had nj
ways been stabbed at Berkeley castle
and would quickly trot home. To
further emphasize her safcty a thread
would be tied in his forelock. The
horse took his time in returning and
did not arrive until the second morning
after the flight, but when he came
found the thread and, unobserved, re-
moved 1t. l quickly took 1t to Jane.
who has It vet and cherisbcs 1t for the
mute message OF comfort 1t brought
her. In case the horse should not re-
turn / was to find u token in hollow
tree near the place Of meeting. but the
thread in the forelock told US our
friends had found each other.
When we left the castle. Mary wore
under her riding habit a suit of mans
attire, and as we rode along she would
shrug her shoulders and laugh MS if II
were a huge Joke and by the most COM
ical little pantomime call my attention
to her unusual bulk. So when she
found Brandon the only change Deces-
sary to make man OF her was to
throw on the riding habit and pull on
the jack boots and slouch hat, both OF
which Brandon had with Lin.
They wasted no time, you may be
sure, and were soon under way. In a
few minutes they picked up the two
Bristol men who were to accompany
them, and when night had fairly fallen
left the bypaths and took to the main
road leading from London to Bath and
Bristol The road was n fair one-thnt
is. It was wei defined and there was
no danger of losing It: In fact. there
was more danger OF losing ones self in
its fathomless mudholes and qung-
mires. Brandon had recently passed
over It twice and had made mental
note of the worst places. SO he hoped to
avoid them.
Soon the rain began to fall In soak
ing drixxle; then the lamps OF twilight
wsnt out. and even ths shadOWs q the
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let us not think OF anything but my
mistress. Think Of the trouble she is
fn."
mo, no, Jane. Lady Mary is out of
her trouble by now and is ,is happy az
lark. you may be sure. Has size no,
won everything her heart longed for:
Then let us make our own paradise
since we have helped them make theirs
You have it, Jane. just within your
lips. Speak the word. and 1t will
change everything. il you love me. and
l know you do
James head was bowed. and she re-
manned silent
Then told her of Lady Mary's mes.
sage and begged. If she would moi
speak in words what l SO longed to
hear. she would at least tell II by al
lowing me TO deliver only one ii;tle
thousandth part of the message Mary
had sent. but she drew away and said
she would return to the castle IL |
continued to behave in that manner.
begged hard and tried to argue the
point, but logic seems to lose its force
in such a 'ituation. and all ! said
availed nothing. Jane was obdurate
and was for going back at once. Her
persistence was beginning to look like
obstinacy, and l soon grew SO angry
that l asked no permission. but deliv
cred Mary's message. or II good part of
1t at least, whether she would or no.
and then sat back and asked her what
she was going to do about 1t.
Poor little Jane thought she was un.
n o. 70 .I,..s t,1f
ing. hall weeping, and said she could
do nothing about 1t: that she was alone
now and If l, her only friend. would
treat her that way she did not know
where to look.
'Where to lookT r. demanded. Look
here. Jane; here. You might as well
understand first as last that will not
be trifled with longer. and that | intend
to continue treating you that way MS
long as we both live. l have deter
mined not to permit you to behave as
you have for so long. for l know you
love me. You have half told me SO n
dozen times. and even your half words
are whole truths. Therc is not frac-
ton of lie in you. Besides. Mary told
me that you told her So
.She did not tell you thatg''
"Yes. upon my knightly honor" or
course there was but one answer to
this-tears then brought the battle
to close quarters at once, and. with my
arm uninterrupted at my lady's waist.
asked.
Ibid you not tell her sof know you
will speak nothing but the truth. Did
you not tell her? Answer me. Jane"
The fair head nodded as she whispered
between the hands that covered her
face:
"Yes. I-I-d-did." and I-well. l de-
livered the rest Of Mary's message
and that. too. without a protest from
Jane.
Truthfulness is a pretty good thing.
after ALL
So Jane was conquered at last. and
heavcd sigh as the battle ended. for
1t had been n long. hard struggle.
asked Jane when we should be mar
ried. but she said she could not think
of that now-not until she knew that
Mary was safe. but she would promise
to be my wife some time.
We went back to the castle, and ms
we parted Jane said timidly: 81 am
glad told you. Edwin. Glad It Is
over
She had evidently dreaded 1t. butt
was glad too. Very glad. Then ]
went to bed.
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small party to go over to
Windsor for a few weeks during the
warm weather.
There were ten or twelve of us, in
Guiding two chaperons, the old Earl of
Hertford and the dowager Duchess of
Kent. Henry might as well have sent
along pair of spaniels to act as chap
erons-it- would have taken an army
to guard Mary alone-and to tell you
the truth our old chaperons needed
watching more than any of us. 1t was
Scandalous. Each of them had a touch
Of gout, und when they made wry
faces 1t was a standing inquiry among
Us whether they were leering at each
other or felt a twinge-whether it was
their feet or their hearts that troubled
them.
Mary led them a pretty life at all
times. even at home In the palace, and
I know they would rather have gone
on with a pack Of imps than with us.
The inducement was that it gave them
better opportunities to be together, an
arrangement connived at by the queen,
think, and they were satisfied. The
earl had a wife, but he fancied the old
dowager and she fancied him, and
probably the wife fancied somebody
else. 30 they were all happy. 1t great
y amused the young people, you may
be sure, and Mary said, probably with
out telling the exact truth, that every
night she prayed God to pity and for
give their ugliness. One day the prin-
cess said she was becoming alarmed.
Their ugliness was SO intense she fear
ed it might be contagious and spread.
Then, with n most comical seriousness,
she added:
"Mon Dieu, Sir Edwin, what If 1
should catch it? Master Charles would
not take me-"
mo danger of that, my lady. He is
too devoted to see anything but beauty
in you, no matter how much you might
change"
"Do you really think SO? He says
% little about it that sometimes l al
most doubt"
Therein she spoke the secret Of Bran
don's success with her, at least in the
beginning, for there is wonderful po-
tency in the stimulus of healthy lit
de doubt.
We had a'delightful a canter over to
Windsor. riding with Mary most Of
the way. / was not averse to this ar
Fangement, as l not only relished Ma
Y's mirth and joyousness, which were
at their height, but hoped might give
my little Lady Jane a twinge or two
Of jealousy. perchance to fertilize her
sentiments toward me.
Mary talked and laughed and sang,
for her soul was a fountain of glad
ness Il z dubbed up the instant pres
sure was removed. She spoke of little
but our last trip over this same road,
and, as we passed objects on the way,
told me Of what Brandon had said at
this place and that She laughed and
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CHAPTER XVII.
THE ELoPEAEST.

the king might
think, I knew Lord Wolsey
i would quickly enough guess
J. the truth when he heard that
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CHAPTER XVI.
IN XXI CHAPTERS.

A HAWKING PARTY.
FEW days after Brandon's
departure, Mary, with the
kings consent. organized a
small party to go over to
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the increase Of moral heat that shall
come from the repetition OF thi,
great sentence, 1T can never be
lel allied without sin, " we will dr!v,
out the last Methodist from the old
parties
Where will they go2 That bring
out the necessity OF crystal zation
because, if there is to be disintegra
ton, the best elements in the parliei
that disintegrate must 60 some
where.
II you intensity the heat undeI
the Republican party 50 that th,
friends of Prohibition drop out
where will they g? They can't 20
to the Democratic party. There is
as much dross there az in the coun
try they came from. And when
you intensity the heat under the
Democratic party until the friends
Of Prohibition drop out, where viii
they go2 1t isn't worth while fol
them to go into thd Republican par
ty, for they would be no better OF
there. The only place on earth for
them il IN the Prohibition party
That means cFy -tsiiz4tion-cTvstal
ization q the friends ofProhibtion
IL this country. Ard when this
process goes far enough we vii!
reach the point OF united action, and
then comes th- victory.
oeventy-hvs pei cent Of the peo-
pie of this country are fIiens Of Pro
hibition today; and in the power Of
God we will intensity the heat until
the last man of them comes out
from the dross Of old whiskey poll
tics, and comes into this new party
for the overthrow Of the rum traffic
Of this country. That is what we
expect to achieve. We expect to
that victory, as we expect
tomorrow : sun 70 rise.
A. b. Leonard, d.. d.
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New Standard Dining Cars For worlds
Fair Traffic Via. Southern Railway.

On account of the popularity and great.
ly increased patronage OF the Southern'i
It. Louis Special, Grains . * 2i) which
leaves st. Louis daily az II 100 A. NJ. fol
Louisville, Lexington and all parts Of the
great south east, also for East Tenneses
and Western North Carolina, The South
ern has found il necessary TO retire The
present style OF dining cars and put into
service magnificent new standard din
ing cars, with full complement OF cooks
waters, etc, which will provide service
superior 70 any railroad in this section
of the country.
The arrival time Of this splendid train
into st. Louis is 4 SO II. VI. daily, and
brings connection from all the territory
described above.
This is very important news especial
ly 20 all OF the people OF Indiana. Hi
nois and Kentucky who live in the pOr-
tion Of these states penetrated 10y the
Southern Railway. All meals enroute
those states are served on these
trains The spacious and comfortable
dining ears viii attract still greater pa
tronage for this road.
These trains stop only at the principal
points between It. Louis and louisville
and Lexington, and have been conspi-
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ers to the Worlds Fair. The most sa-
Lisfactory way 10 appreciate the advan-
ages OF these trains is 70 compare with
the appointments Of cars on any other
railroad operating into ST. Louis.
The exposition is now complete in
every detail, presenting a picture too
beautiful to describe. The generality Of
people from far distances who have de-
ayed their visits for this completion.
have now begun 10 move; so that the
fnishing touch which the Southern Rail-
way has put upon it's already superb
rain service is very timely and will
doubtless be sincerely appreciated by the
public generally.
The Southern is many miles the short
.st road from Lexington and Louisville
and intermediate points TO ST. Louis.
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and the iaintest suspicion of colo
came into her round cheeks a. sh
spoke.
Nothing personal-present com
pany,' rather awkwardly.
"Of course--if you insist-bui
aren't there exceptions to all rules?'
with a ripping laugh.
Now, when western man dosen'
know what else 10 do to conceal hii
Embarrassment, he asks fellow Il
"have something, or take hand
at "draw."
The cattle king, iingling to BIZ
very toes with pleasure. did no
quite dare produce his pocket pis
tol. = There was only one thing tc
do, which seemed quite proper un
der the stress Of circumstances
" What do you say to a quiet lit,
tie game?"
DO you mean with cards?"
Cert p
II know 'old maid and euchre-
and-let me see-oh, yes-that
.at.er game a friend tried to teach
me once, when you deal five cards
and draw again If they are not all
picture cards the first time"
That's it-draw poker; shall We
Try hand just to kill time?n
FL know you'll think me aNfully
stupid-hut III DO the best can
if you'll promise not to laugh at
zoe Z"
lie promised, produced the pack
Of cards from his gripsack, and the
game, "to kill time, began.
Calamity he initiated her into the
fine points Of the game.
She seemed triAe dull al first,
but gradually "csught on.
Now" she said, with a most be-
witching pout, "what does one do
when one has two cards Of the same
suite?"
lhat depends.
Il hope you won't think it un-
lady-like-but just for fun-I'll bet
that's what they say isn't it?-$5
on the cards | hold"
"But you'll lose it; l don't want
you TO do that.
II insist--just to learn; next
time I'll know better, perhaps. !"
The betting instinct finally over
came his scruples. When the bets
on the hand had run up to about
$50 he called" her.
She had three kings and he a pair
OF jacks.
"What DO We do now, :" she asked
with smile that would have melt
an iceberg.
"You pat it in yonr pocket, /" he
said, bowing, as he handed over the
trihing sum.
The game went on.
When the train reached Cheyenne
the cattle king borrowed SO from a
friend.
You are splendid teacher"
she said, with enthusiastic commen-
dation, as she comfortably slowed
away the last 800 bill Of his "roll"
Of 81 800 in her reticule and re-
sumed the interrupted reading Of
Browning, from which the gentle.
manly cattle king had afforded a
couple OF hours innocent diversion.
New York News.
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1.-THE LADY AND THE TIdER"

1t was on the train between Oma-
ha and Cheyenne. She was a char
ming mystery which every male
passenger had tried in vain to inves-
tigate. A "cattle king" who got
on at Ogalalla, was the last to try
his hand
She was still shy, coy and all
those other lovely feminine things
but somehow the cattle king ap-
peared to make some headway il
her good which was more
than any OF his predecessors had
done.
Even a professional dude from
New York, en- route for San Fran
cisco, had been heard to admit.
while fellow passenger, devoid Of
entangling preiudices, was profier-
ing the hospitalities Of his silver
topped flask, that she was "a dooced
lovely sphynx, doncherknaw?n
The cattle king had Just shipped
a few thousand head OF enthusia tic
but misguided Texas steers to the
effete east, and had the financial re.
suits Of his perfidy in his hip pocket
IN the shape Of plethoric roll.
OF course this fact, supplement ed
by the additional one that certain
mellowness Of department not
wholly due to the effort OF the wor.
thy total abstinence apostles, caused
him to indulge in broadgauge wes-
tern style OF displaying the -, II"
in season and out of season, ad
nothing TO dowith the melting ot the
arctic frigiity with which the "logely
sphynx" had been pleased to treat
the advances Of all the peregriaat-
ing predecessors Of the cattle k z.
1t were base SANDER to suggest
such a motive--and the writer. for
wholly satisfactory to him
self (not to mention he grand ilry)
is not in the slander business this
year.
To come right down from the
high horse of rhetoric to
simple narrative, the Ogalalla fellow
with a big Doodle hadn't been iii the
Pullman car more than IL 3 min
utes before he was sitting in the same
seat with the hitherto unapproach-
able sphynx, swapping compliments
10 way that made the other male
passengers mouths water, 20 tol
-peak-although to be lust to these
gentlemen, not one Of them could
have identified water "straigbi
With the poetic license of Ten
nyson and the American paragraph
err which implies muliipli-
cation Of the most sacred righ'- Of
personal privacy and decent u.a Of
the English language-we will now
pin back our ears and listen to the
dialogue between the cattle king and
bis inamorita.
Blamed stupid on the train when
a fellow has far TO go, eh?"
This was the man speaking. bu
his tone was more appropriate 4
the situation than his words.
at would be rather dull travelling
Il one could not meet such charmingl
gentleman.
She dropped her long eyelashes'