Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-03-27

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would | have staid to endanger her.
But she sent me out a new man, with
a crust, moreover, in my pocket. A
hundred times between Tottenham and
AlderSgate said. God bless her!" and
/ say so now.
SO twice in one day. and that the
gloomiest day OF my life, / was sue
cored by a woman. have never for
gotten 1t. l have tried to keep it al
ways in mind, remembering, too. a say
Ing OF my uncle's, that there is moth
ing on earth so merciful as a good
woman or so pitiless as a bad one"
CHAPTER V.
Ding. ding, ding! Aid we he poor,
Pray for the dead! Five o'clock and q
murky morning"
The noise of the bell and the cry
which accompanied 1t reused me from
my hrst sleep In London, and that with
a vengeance, the bell being runs and
the words uttered within three feet Of
my mead. Where did | sleep then? Well,
mad found a cozy resting place be-
hind some boards propped against the
wall OF a bakers oven In a street near
Moorgate., The wall was warm and
smelt of new bread. and another be-
sides myself had discovered it's ad-
vantages. This was the atchma
who had slumbered away most OF his
vigil cheek by jowl with me: but, morn
ing approaching. had reused himself.
n before he was we'll out of his bed,
certainly before he had left his bed
room, had begun. the ungrateful
wretch. TO prove his watchfulness by
disturbing everyone else.
| sat up and rubbed my eyes, grind
ing my shoulders well against the wall
for warmth. l had no need to turn out
yet, but | began to think, and the more
| thought the harder | stared at the
planks six inches before my nose. My
thoughts turned upon q very knotty
point, one that / had never seriously
considered before: What was | going
TO do next? How was | going to live
or to rear the new house of which |
have made mention? Hitherto | had
aimed simply at reaching London. Lon
don q paraded itself before my mind
though my mind should have known
better. not as a town OF cold streets and
dreary alleys and shops open from :
TO A. with perhaps here and there a va
can't place for an apprentice. but as
a gilded city of adventure and romance
In which a young mar of enterprise,
whether he wanted TO go abroad or TO
rise at home, might be sure of finding
his SWORD weighed. priced and bought
UP on the instant and himself valued
at his W standard.
But London reached, the boarding in
Moorgate reached, and 5 4 o'clock i'm the
morning reached. somehow these Wis
IONS faded rapidly. In the cold reality
left TO me / felt myself astray. If 7
would stay at home. who was going
TO employ me- To whom should I APP
ply? What patron had I? Or If
would go abroad, how was | to set
about 1t? How find a vessel. seeing
that ! might expect to be arrested the
moment ShnV-aA rn1 F,oa
light?
Here all my experience failed me.
did not know What to do, though the
time had come for action. and / must
do or starye. 1t had been all very
well when / vas at Cotton to propose
that | would go up TO London and get
across the ~water-such had been my
dim notion-to the C~ourtenays and
Killigrews, who, with other refugees.
Protestants for the most part, were
lying on the French coast waiting for
better times. But now that I was In
London. n as good as an outlaw my
self. / saw no means of going to them.
| seemed farther from my goal than /
had been In Warwickshire.
Thinking very blankly over all this.
| began to munc the piece OF bread
which | owed to the Did dame at Tot
tenham and had solemnly got through
half II when the sound Of rapid foot
steps-the footsteps of women, I judged
from the lightness of the tread-caused
me to hold my hand and listen. Who
ever they were-and / wondered for il
was still early. and | a heard no one
pass since the Waterman had left me-
they came to stand in front of my shell
ter, and one OF them spoke. Her words
made me start. Enthusiastically the
voice was a gentlewoman's, such as
had not heard for almost a week. And
at this place and hour. on the raw bor-
derland of day and night, a gentlewom-
an was the last person / expected to
light upon. Yet IL the speaker were not
someone OF station Petronilla's lessons
had been thrown away upon me.
The words were uttered In a low
voice, but the planks In front of me
were thin. and h speaker was ac-
tually leaning against them. / caught
every accent OF what seemed t be the
answer to a question. Yes: yes. 1t is
all right" she said, a cover ring OF i'm
patience in her voice. Take breath
a moment. / do not see him now"
Thank heaven." muttered another.
voice. As 1 had fancied, there were two
persons. The latter speakers tone
smacked equally of breeding with the
formers, but was rounder and fuller
and more masterful, and she appeared
TO be out OF breath. Then perhaps we
have thrown him Off the trail" she con-
tinued after a short pause, in which she
seemed to have somewhat recovered
herself. II distrusted him from the
first. Anne; from the first. Yet. do you
know. l never feared him as I did Mas
ter Clarence. as II was too much
to hope that we should be rid of both
AZ once-they took good care of that
why. the attempt had to be made while
he was at home. But | always felt he
was q shy"
s'Who-Aastcr Clarence 90 asked she
who had spoken first.
Aye. he certainly. But I did not
mean hint meant Philip
Well, IL said at first, you refnem-