The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-05
IHE HlqhWAYMEN IN bATH

face smiling sneeringly. My Lord MauIever had come into his life.
 He suffered again tlse hot torment of discovering his friends treachery. his wife's guilt. Once more greater than his pain. came the half-crazed ex- ultation over his cell revenge. He cast off the woman, telling her falsely that he had ebtrayed her into mock mar riaRe. and he sold her to Mauleverer in return for political preferment.
 If there<was shame in the man 1t could not rise against his passionate triumph and against his ambitions that hamed out the more iercely for their brief suppression. Even as he sat there, great. rich and honored. he felt no shame. but lived over again the keen delight in his revenge. While he sat there the witness was announced. He entered = a timid. small, thin man, evidently of the low est orders. with sly yet not evil face. Carefully and minutely he the lawyer questioned him. He answered humbly, telling how he had been pres spt at the death of a woman who had come to her end in a poor lodging In London. leaving an infant son. Af- ter her death he had stolen her be- longipgs and sold them to the pawn broker. but he had kept some letters. and these he now turned over to the v
 And the boy?' asked the lawyer eagerly.
 He had disappeared some yenre ago, replied the man. and 1t had been im- possible to trace him. When the fel- . low left the house 1t was with money tn his pocket and with promise of a great reward should he find a trace of the young man.
 Left alone. the lawyer read the let- ters again and burned them. one by one. The child's face swan before his eyes and filled his heart with a strange. unwonted feeling. After his wife's disappearance he had lavished all his affection and built all his hoper on his son. He had watched over him by day and by night. His ambitions had reYolved around him. And then the woman. having been deserted by Mauleverer when he tired of her, stole the child and disappeared again with. out leaving a trace.
 The story of her wretched death left him unmoved. Indeed. even after all these years he felt joy in the misery that. had come to her. Dismissing her from his mind, he bent all his sharp wits to finding the boy.
 It proved a baffiing task His agents failed again and again. It was as # the lad had been swallowed up. While he was engaged in his search the first of his now honors fell in Simultaneously with the elevation ot his friend Mauleverer to the office oi Chamberlain he was made a Judge At the same time Lord MaulevereI was robbed again. and by the same Captain Lovett and his two compan. Ions who had robbed him before. H. carried his Jewelry with him this time and, being well armed, had thought hi and his retinue could defy all tn, gentlemen of tho road. But at tn, point where the Henley and Readins roads united two men suddenly rod | at the carriage and knocked the tw, post boys from their horses with a eel erity that scarcely gave him an oppor | tunity to cry out
 The next moment the horses wer whirled into A ditch. where the car riage upset. Mauleverer's armed serv ant fired at a third robber who wa galloping up. ell missed, and hastil tore open the carriage door to help hi master out,
 Mauleverer. by no means a coward faced the highwaymen deteruinedly The two who had begun the attacl cut the traces of the horses and le them gallop away. Mauleverer fired missing one of them by less than al inch. He was about to discharge hi second pistol, when the third robbel | NN'0%ANNd NaAhAAyt PACSOhAS0 pAoNO at the peer, and warmed him to de sist.
 His reply was a bullet. which graze, the high yman's hair. Cursing hi poor aim. Mauleverer drew his sword Instantly the high wayman, with as founding skill and strength, struck tn weapon a dexterous blow with his rid ing whip and disarmed him.
 Meantime the others had disarme, the servants and tied tn hem. Then the, rifed the coach. while the peers lat antagonist stood fin dignified inactivity conversing courteously with the en ragged nobleman.
 Just as the robbers reported to thei captain that they had secured all O the rich booty. Lord Mauleverer say his opportunity. He sprang to hi sword, snatched it from the groun, | and threw himself furiously on tn captain. The latter stepped backwar slowly. warding off the lunges con temptuously with his whip. gained hi saddle and galloped of.
 F. The magnitude of the robbery arous l cd the county. A great reward wa