News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1909-01-13

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and with his approval put his plan II
motion. In two days more Hugh founl
his going fully settled
The idea admirably fitted his neces
sity. The spot the bishop had selected
was quiet and retired and, more, was
near the port at which he could mos
readily take ship for South America
Only one reflection made him SILVER
the route lay through the town OF
Smoky Mountain. Yet who would
dream of looking for fugitive from
the law In the secluded car that carried
a sick man? The risk would be small
enough, and 1t was the one way open.
| On the last afternoon before the de.
parture Hugh asked for the clothes he
had worn when he was brought to the
hospital, found the gold pieces he had
snatched in the burning chapel and
tied them in a handkerchief about his
neck. They would suffice to buy his
sea passage. The one red counter he
had kept-it was from henceforth to be
a reminder of the good resolutions he
had made so long ago-he slipped into
a pocket Of the clothes he was to wear
away. suit of loose, comfortable
tweed,
Waiting restlessly for the hour of
his going, Hugh asked for the news
papers. Since the first he had had
them read to him each day, listening
ft,1l hn
today the surgeon put his request
aside
after you are there" he said 'if
Bishop Ludlow will let you Not now
You are almost out of my clutches. and
| must tyranniZe while | can"
A quick look passed from him TO his
assistant as he spoke. for the newspa-
pers that afternoon had worn startling
headlines. The sordid affairs OF o.
mining town across the ranges had 1T
tie interest for Aniston, but the names
Of Stires and Moreau on the clicking
wire had walked it thus late to the SEN
satiOn. The professional caution Of the
tinker of human bodies wished, how
added to the unavoidable fatigue of his
Xatients departure.
This fatigue was near to spelling de-
feat, after all, for the eXertion brought
again the dreadful stabbing pain, and
this time it carried Hugh into a re-
gion where feeling ceased, conscious
ness passed and from which he strug-
gled back finally to find the surgeon
bending anXiously over him.
Il don't like that sinking SPELL" the
latter confded to his assistant an hour
later as they stood looking through the
window after the recedng carriage.
1T was too pronounced. Yet he has
complained of no pain. He will be in
good hands at any rate" He tapped
the glass musingly with his foreinger.
ITS curious" he said after a pause.
81 always liked Sanderson-in the pull
pit. Somehow he doesn't appeal to me
at close range"
The special car which the bishop had
ready had been made a pleasant inte-
rior. Fern boxes were in the corners,
Gagged canary swung from a bracket,
and a softly cushioned couch had been
prepared for the sick man. A moment
before the start, as it was being cou-
pied to the rear of the resting train,
while the bishop chatted with the con-
ductor, fiustered messenger boy hand
ed him a telegram. 1t read:
l arrive Admission tomorrow 5. Conf
fVsrrn
JESSICA.
The bishop read it in some perplex-
ity. 1t was the first word he had re-
ceived from her since her marriage;
but, aware of Hugh's forgery and dis
grace, he had not wondered at this
The newspapers today pictured a still
worse shame for her in the position of
the man who in the name still was her
husband, who had trod so swiftly the
downward path from thievery to the
worst of crimes. Could Jessica's com
ing have to do with that? He must
see her, vet his departure could not
now be delayed He consulted with
the conductor, and the latter pored
over his tablets.
As a result his answering message
flashed along the wires to JesSica's
PARKWAY train:
Sanderson injured Taking him to
coast train IS due Twin Peaks tomor-
row afternoon
And thus the fateful moment APP
preached when the great appeal should
be made.