Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-10-19
! THE MASTER OF APPLEBY
BY Lynde.
BY Franci. Lyndo. ---
CHAPTER XNNvI-Continued.

CHAPTER XXNVI--Continued
Before | knew what l would I was
beside her. and honor, or what may
stand therfor, betwiXt man and his
friend. was flung away. But when l
Would have crushed her sweetness in
my arms she went upon her knees to
me. An God. she knelt to me as
she had knelt to that other would be
ravisher and begged me for mine own
honors sake to bethink me of what
would do.
"Oh. Monsieur John. be mercifnl as
you are strong" she pleaded. Think
what it will mean To you, and how you
will oathe me and yourself as well
when this madness is overpast! OH,
go; go quickly, lest l. too, forget"
And so it WAS that ! found sudden
strength to turn and leave her kneel-
ing there; turned to grope blindly for
the door with all the pains of hell
atlame within me.
For now | had put honor under foot;
now l knew l had truly earned her
scorn and loathing. 1 could no longer
plead that | was the puppet of fate
flung against my will between this
maiden and my dear lad. ! was the
wilfu offender; false to my love, false
/ to my friend, n recreant to every oath
4 wherewth | had bound myself TO be
true and loyal to these two.
4 With such u flaming sword to drive
me FORTH stumbled from the room,
thinking only how should quickest
rid me of myself. Fastening to my
garnet sleeping place. bucliled ON my
sword, found my shako and went
straight to my lords bed chamber.
My rap at the doc went unanswered,
and a broad shouldered young fellow
/ In a lieutenant's uniform, loungng on
a settle in the clock landing OF the
I STAIR told me Lord CORVALLIS was
| gone out.
1 was face to face with this young
+ lieutenant before recognized him; be-
4 ing so bent upon haste | should have
passed him on the landing without Il
second glance had he not risen to grip
me by the shoulders.
"By the Lord Harry" he cried, is 1T
thus you pass an old Trend without Il
word Captain lrcton.
Twas my good death watch, that
lieutenant Tybee of the lisht-horse
who had sunk the British officer in the
man in that trying night at Appleby
Hundred ] returned his hearty greet
Ing as we'll as | might, and would have
explained my present state and stand
ing but that ! was loilth to lie to him.
4 But as to this. he saved me the shame
1 of 1T.
II could have sworn you We're no
rebel, Captain Ircton; indeed, m;Hle
bold to say as much to our colonel, at
ter it was all over | told him a soft
word or two would have won you
back to your old service. You see
knew better than the others what lay
beneath all your madnesses that
night"
\ "You knew somewhat but not all,
Eaid; and thercupon. lest he should in
volve me deeper and detain me Longer
4 when ] was athirst to be gone,
FASTENED to ask where l might hope
to find his lordship and Colonel Tarle-
ton.
"'Tis the hour for parade; You viii
find them at the camp" he replied. AnG
then, out of the honest English heart
of him: Have you made your peace
Captain? DO you need a friend to &c
with you?"
l said i had been granted a hearing
by Lord CORVALLIS but little while
before; that by my lords appointment
I was no sort of honorary aide de
camp.
"Good!" said the lieutenant, gripping
my hand in Il way to make me winc'
for the lie-in-effect hidden i'm the sim
pie statement of fact. Then he roare'
ut the soldier standing guard at TIL
house door below: "A mount for Cap
tain Iretcn-and be swift about it'
He held me in talk till the horse wa
fetched, happily doing most of the talk
ing himself and when was i'm the sad
die gave me hearty Godspeed. BE
ing SO sick with self dcspisings, fea
l made but poor return for all thi
good comradeshp: but at the time
could think of nothing but the hell tina
famed within me. and of how L coul'
soonest quench the fires of it,
The town. which had not seen sine
early summer. was but little change
by the British occupation, save in TIL
livening of it by a near-at-h hand cam
of AN armed host. Being but a half
point en- route in the northward march
1t was not fortified: indeed. for tn
matter of that. the camp proper was
little way without the town, as 1 hav
said
rode slowly across the common
skirting the commissary's quarters an
making mental notes of all | saw; thi
from soldier habit solely, for at TIL
time | had little thought of living o
to make a spy's use of them. Arrive
at the parade ground. | found my Tor
gallopins through the lines on inspec
ton and so | must draw rein in TIL
background and wait my opportunity
The pause gave space for some eye
sweep of the scene. and lll the soldie
blood i'm me was stirred by the sigh
the first / had had in many a day, of
Well ordered army, fit disciplined, ma
chine drilled to move like the parts {
Il wondrous mechanism.
At the back of Lord CORVALLIS an
his galloping suite, Tarleton's famor
lglt-horse legion WIS drawn up; an
fronting it was the infantry, rank o
rank. the glltterinE baNonets slantin
In the October sunlight us the reg
ments moved into place. or standing
rigid groves OF steel at the command
halt and port arms.
What WAS there in all OUR poor ra
land to stand against this wcll-tlaine
host, arncd--aS we were not-Wlth III
deadly bayonet, and moving as OF
man at the word of command? Not I'll
braVcst home guard or militia troop,
thought: and this seeing of what i
had had to front on the field of Can
. den made me think less scornfully {
q Horatio Gates.
Riding presently around the field
. be nearer to the general when my tin
= should come, i missed the mark con
: pletely Ii so CHANGED that as the p;
rade Was ended my lord and his sui
We're at the extreme right: and wht
4 the regiments broke ranks i was force
: to skirt the entire camp to come in
the road by this time those ] sougl
were gone into the town. so | mu
+, needs turn about and follow, with II
: thing / had to say still unspoken
| need not drag you back and for
with me on the search to find Lol
CORVALLIS again. lis enough TO 81
y that after missing him here and ther
i j ran him to earth at the court hous
where, it WAS told me- my lord was 81
ting in council With his staff officers.
i Thinking 1T worse than useless to L
it to force my way into the council char
:! ber ! waited in the raft of soldie
y without. cursing the delay which ga
I, my desparing resolution time to COZ
N When ! had closed the door of my de
e lady's chamber behind me / was I