New-York tribune., 1908-11-29

there was more talk, but I heard naugnt of
1t. for YOU may conceive l was agOg 10 listen
for what should come from behind Yet
nothing came
SIR" says Monmouth turning at last 70
me YOU have done me a useful service which
| viii not forget. Gentlemen, this messenger
Is loyal fellow whom l commend 70 You
His Naiestys eyes shall be opened by this
plot. Gentlemen, We must to London at once
| see now It's necessary, and, my Lord, ask
Your pardon for my resistance.
He waved his hand IN an attable farewell
TO me, and, without paying more heed TO me.
the party rode of, full of its own excitement
and its own affairs. And there was I left N
the wood with those env1rOnIng spies
T WANT no pierced Jacket i I can help it.
and so the first thing l did was To sLPoh
the horse and behind tree. l knew what 10
expect now; for 1 had betrayed the Plotters
TO their victim, and knife IN the dark a
sword thrust. pistol, or a rope was al that
need hope for. Yet Dick Ryder, II he must
die, would die game, and maybe, thought !,
as well IN the wood and under the heaven and
moon as on the triple beam That same moon
was scattering a spray OF hight through the
close branches, and by 1t l strove 70 make out
nv enemies; but l could see none.
| lOOSened my sword and looked TO my
printing. and waited. Still | heard nothing.
Then there was, | thought, a whispering Of
voices IN the bushes on nv right, and aS |
listened 1t seemed as if they passed towards
the back of me | moved nOiseleSslv about.
with a hand on the horses bride let the
horse. | knew, would disclose my hiding place
if We remained thus; and 50, tether1ng the
nag to the tree | stole furtivelv away. Now
there was the plan open To me, % push from
bOle to bole and bush to bush out of that wood,
and evade them Yet what should l do
without horse in the OPEN
| Law and waited. y little night wind sighed
through the forest and set the leaves ticking;
but underneath l could hear. II seemed TO me.
the voices OF nv purSuers- The moonlight
flashed upon a beech tree dozen wards away.
and l could swear | saw the eyes and the empty
mask OF a face that peered out on me And
so | hid for an hour OF more, subject TO these
terrors.
MAY | rot in chains" 1 saws to ruvseIt.
but | viii end this one way or another and
so, with the spur of that desperate impulse on
me, l ran from behind the tree, and out across
the moonlight.
'.Dammei fire, knaves and request I
called. FIRE. damn yei'
But there was silence, and | wondered
Twas a cool night of September As have
said; but, mp me If | WAS not in a stream Of
sweat. to have crouched there. waiting and
in that wretched suspense And, 'sdeath!
there was no sign OF man or horse.
WELL l arnbled on the London road. re-
volv1ng this puzzle IN nv head. | had
gone back on what | had promised for nv
liberty, and had been spied upon; SO that
tt'eNNA'
what perpleXed me was why they had held
their hand and what fate they had IN store
tor me Yet | was no longer followed. as
discovered by Sundry experiments; and what
the mischief did it all mean'
Pondering on this and the whole matter. I
came to conclusion that would aStouiSh YOU
am a man OF honor, and besides I should have
hated To let things lie IN that uncertainty
never knowing where | was. or what would
befan. So when I reached London l put up
Tor the night, and rested half a dav, and next
went Oft atoot to the house IN st. Mary Axe
| hung about It IN the dark for sometime
but never a sign OF HE did | see IN II. So that
presently / put bold face on and marched
up to the door and knocked. Aftcr awhile IL
was opened; but knew not the face that ap-