The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-01
cHApTER x.-continued.

hsS bound ME we'll y str0nEl,
with many wrappings OF stout cord be
fore they led me down. MOI must yo,
think me broken-spirited because ! lie
them. In any other cause but this
nope should have fought to die un
manacled. but now | suffered gladl,
this little, seeing I had made my deal
lady suffer so greatly.
When we were come into the room
below they let me stand beside her
as | had prayed Coo they might; anc
when I stole a glance at her / was fair
10 think my coming gave her courage
and support, For you must know thu
place was fair alive with men. anc
fiaring light with torches; and they had
never Offered her a chair.
The colonel stood apart. the center OF
a group OF officers. and Falconnet was
with him. lowering on the edges of the
group, as IL afraid to show themselves
700 boldly in such q coil. We're Gilbert
Stair n that smooth parchment-Vis-
aged knave, his factor. The while they
thrust me forth to take my place ar
M~argery's side, the good old priest
came and would have Joined us; but
they would not suffer him.
SO we two stood alone together as we
had stood before: but now my lady's
eyes were downcast, and her lips
and cheeks We're pale. Yet she
was more beautiful thar I had
ever seen her = so beautiful
that / would swear the sum or all the
precious gifts IN Gods great universe
might be expressed for me in this: that
| might die to save her from this shame
and agony.
When my guards had thrust me for
ward, the colonel made short work of
our fresh offense.
Twas a dastard's trick, my captain
this tangling Of a lady in your trea-
son." he began. How did you get
your speech with her?"
That is non of YOU affair, Colonel
Tarleton," l retorted boldly. thinking
that with such 4 man the shortest
word were ever the best. Yet I may
say that the lady knew not what she
did, nor why. AS for my getting
speech with her, she was not any way
TO blame, 1 tempered with your SEN
try
BY God, you lie!" was his comment
on this. She might have tempered
with the guard and SO got leave TO keep
q midnight tryst with you. but not
YOU And then to my poor frighted
love: Have YOU no shame, Mistress
Margery Starr"
Now I have said that she was change
full as n child or April sky, but never
had | seen her pass from 400 TO mood
as she did then. One m she
stood a woman tremulous and fearful
as any woman caught in desperate
deed: he next she became a goddess
villified, and If her look had been q
dagger, l think her flashing eyes had
killed him where he stood.
You've found a way to make me
speak, sir, and / wish you joy of it.
Twas l who hribed your sentry, and
I did so to Captain 1reton's room"
The colonel laughed and shot a gibe
sharp at my enemy.
How is this, Sir Francis. Did l not
tell you you had thrust an inch or SO
to high. BY God, sir. l think you will
come oTer-late, if ever o do come a
all. This captain-emeritus hath fore
beautifully"
As more than once before in this
eventful night. rhea want sa-i-c ~ad
before my eyes and helpless wrath came
upperrnGSL. 4 SAN no Nay to GEAR ..e.
and had there been the plainest way.
dumb rage would still have held me
t~onsue-tied. So I could only mop and
NOV ui.u stai-rIrisr, anu, when the /
words were found, make shift to blum
der L that such an accusation did the
attended and at my beseeching, to take
message from a dying man to one
who was his friend.
For my pains I had a brutal laugh in
payment: a laugh that. starting with
the colonel. went the rounds in jeering
srtns Of incredulity. And on the heels
u IL the colonel swore afresh, cursing
for a clumsy liar.
"A likely story, that" he scoffed. |
Next you viii say she knew not what
his message was"
Il said it once. She knew not what
he message was. nor why I sent it,"
I felt her yes upon me as 1 spoke,
turned to find them full of fearful
pleading. ooh, tell the TRUTH" she
whispered. Don't you see? He has
he letter."
1 looked, and sure enough he hello It
n his hand; and then Understood the
lash Of irony in the sloe-black eyes of
i'm.
You lie clumsily, Captain Ireton,
hough 1t Is a gentlemanly lie and does
'ou honor. But we have trapped you
alrly and you may as well make a
lean breast of it. Your mistress knew
cry well what YOU would have her do,
md since she is your mistress, went
o do it,
While he was speaking I had a
bought of white-hot rom some forge
Ire Of Inspiration thought to tip an
arrow OF conviction and set it CULVER
in the mark. ! would not stop to-
1T; to look aside at her or any
,ther lest n pr1eI glance apart mould
iend the arrow Wavering from its
So I looked the colonel boldly
n the eye and drew the bow and sped
he shaft.
You think no other than a mistress
you'd have done this, Colonel Tarletonl
that 1t was done for love? Well. so
t was: but with the love there went a
IA duty. say you? How is that?"
II &E.-E .--lN r&-.f TX.
bound: then fixed his eye again.
you had forgot that honor is not
Wholly dead. sir. This lady is my
Wife"
CHAPTER xI.
A LIE WAS MADE THE VERY
TRUTH.
For some small instant ISdared not
my eye-grip o n the colonel, to-
glance aside at Fa1connet, or Gilbert
Stair, or at the woman close beside me.
II I had ninched or wavcred, or let an
ayelfd droop but by the thickness of q
lalr, this keen-eyed colonel would have
9 e upon me to cut the ground be-
meath my feet and leave me dangling
blythe lie. 55Ss3s
But as 1t was, 4 faced hfmsdown; and
winning him. won all. There was a
rnuttered oath from Falconnet, q trem-
ltlous cry of rage from where her
stood; and then / sought my
eyes to read my sentence In