The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-03-26

~ SN ~ IL Oilc idy. ana Una me
glooraiest day of my life. l was sue
cored by a woman / have never for
gotten 1t. | 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 q good
woman or so pitiless as a bad one
CHAPTER V.
Ding. ding. ding, Aid We the poor.
Pray for the dead! Five o'clock and a
murky morning
The noise of the bell and the cry
which accompanied it reused me from
my first sleep in London, and that with
a vengeance. the bell being rung and
n words uttered within three feet of
my head. Where did | sleep then? Well,
L MAD found a cozy resting place be-
hind some boards propped against the
wall OF a bakers oven in a street near
Moorgate. The well was warm and
smelt of new Dread. and another be-
sides myself had discovered it's adj
vantages. This was the Waterman,
who had ~sluinbered away most OF his
vigil cheek by jowl with me; but, morn
ing approaching, had rouse himself,
and 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.
l 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
turned upon a very knotty
point. n that l had never seriously
considered before: What was / going
to do next? How was l going to live
or TO rear the new house of which I
nave made mention? Hitherto 1 had
aimed simply at reaching London. Lon
don had paraded itself before my mind,
though my mind should have known
Dexter, not as a town of cold streets and
dreary alleys n shops open from I
TO 4, with perhaps here and there a va
cant place for an apprentice. but as
a giided city Of adventure and romanc
In which a young man 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 own
But London reached. the boarding I'm
Moorgate reached, and 5 o'clock in the
morning reached. somehow these Wis
ions d rapidly. In the cold reality
left to me I felt myself astray. II I
would stay at home, who was going
TO employ me? To whom should ] APP
! What patron had I? Or IL
would so abroad. how was I to set
about 1t? How find a vessel, seeing
that 1 might expect to be arrested the
l showed my face in day
light?
Here all my experience failed me. I
did no know what to do. though the
time had come for action, and must
DO or starve. 1t had been all very
we'll when I was at Cotton to prouose
that I would go up to London and get
across the Water-such had been my
dim otion- the C~ourtenays and
kfIigrews. who, with other
Protestants for the most part. were
lying on the French coast waiting for
better times. But now that I was in
London. and rs good as an outlaw my
sell, l saw no means of going to them.
l seemed farther from my goal than I
had been in Warwfckshire.
Thinking very blankly over all this.
l began to MUNICH the piece of bread
which l owed to the old dame at Tot
tenham and had solemnly got through
half it when the sound of rapid foot
steps-the footsteps of wornen,I Judged.
from n ightness of the tread-caased
me to hold my hand and listen. Who
aver they were-and / wondered. for It
was still early, and 1 had 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 q gentlewoman's, such as I
had not heard for almost a week. And
at this place and hour. on the raw bor-
derland of day n 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 Iii a low
voice, but the planks in front Of me
We're thin. and the speaker was ae-
tually leaning against them. I caught
every accent OF what seemed to be the
answer to a question. Yes: yes. 1t is
all right" h said, a covert ring OF i'm
patience In her voice. Take breath
a moment. / do o see him now"
Thank heaveni" muttered another
voice. AS I had fancied, there were two
persons. The latter speakers tone
sfnacked equally OF breeding with the
formers, bu was rounder and fuller
and more masterful, and she appeared
to be out Of breath. Then perhaps VIZ
have thrown him off the trail. she con,
ttnued after a short pause, in which she
seemed to have somewhat W.
herself. Il distrusted him from the
first, Anne; from the first. Yet, do you
know, 1 never feared him as I did Mas
ter Clarence, n as 1t was too much
to hope that we should be rid of botl
at once-they too good care of that
why, h attempt had to be made while
he was at home. But 1 always felt hs
was a spy
.Who-Master Clarence ~ asked sh,
who had spoken first.
Aye, he certainly. But I did no,
mean him. I meant Philip.
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