The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-04-29
THE FARMER: APRIL 29. 1909
LADY ATHLYNE
Copyright, 1908, by BRAM STOKER Entered at Stationers Hall-AH rights reserved
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 might get into any one of many forms
 or trouble if only from her anxiety | to reach home before the arrival of
 her parents. She was, after all. moi a
 practlced driver and was in control of | the very lateeSt type of machine of
 whose special mechanism she could
 know nothing. If she should break down far from any town she would i be in the most difficult position DOS
 sible; girl alone in a country she
 o aid not know And all this apart from | me possibility of accident, of miSchance | or driving. of the act of other travel 1 iers. of cattle on the road: of any of
 the countless mishaps which can be | With so swift and heavy a machine as
 a motor. And then should she not | arrive in time. what pain or unpleas- antness might there not be with her | 1ather He would be upset and anxious | at first. naturally. He might be angry | with her for going out on such a long excursion with a man alone: he would most certainly be angry with him for taking her. for allowing her to eo And at such time tool Just when everything was working-had worked towards the end he aimed at. He knew that Colonel Ogilvie was and had been 1ncensed with him for a neglect which l under the circumstances was absolute discourtesy. And here he bitterly took himself to task for his selfshness-he
 realized now that it was such-in wanting to make sure of Joys love be- fore consulting her father. or even ex- blaming to him the cause of his pass ing under a false name. Might it not be too late to set that right now. :. And there he was. away in Scotland, Kicking his heels in a petty little po- lice station. while the poor girl would have to bear all the brunt of the pain and unpleasantnesS. And that after a long, wearying. wearing drive of a hundred miles. with her dear heart eter nally thumping away lest she might lose in her race against Time
 md hot all follow a day which he did not at tempt to doubt had been, up to the time of the arrest. one of unqualified happiness.
 nessun maggoir defore
 Che ricordasi del tempo. felice
 Nella miseria.''
 CA sorrows crown of sorrow is re-
 membering happier things.'D
 knew what the thought of it was to him: what would it be to her! Her sweet gentle. loving heart would be hurt. crushed to the very dust.
 He sprang to his feet and walked about the room. till noticing the ser geant was watching him in surprise and suspicion. he controlled himself. He talked with the sergeant flor while genially. It was positively neces- sary that there should not be any doubt in the mind of the latter when the Sheriff should arrive. This episode took the strain from his mind-for a time. He expressed to the officer how anxious he was to get on and interest ed the worthy man so much that he sent over to the hotel to borrow a timetable. There Athlyne learned that it would be practically impossible for him to get on to Ambleside that night. Not even if he could get special train at Carlisle-thele was no possibility of getting one from a nearer place. When he asked the sergeant his opinion. that worthy individual condescended to smile:
 "Losh! man they don't run specials on these bit lines. 'Tis as much as they can do to run few trains a day. Am thinkin' that if ye asked the sta tlonmaster anywheer along the Dunn fries and kircudbright line for a. special he'd hae ye in the daft-hoose, or he'd be there himself!'' Athlyne went back to his seat: once again the pendulum of his thoughts swung to and fro.
 He was now face to face with one certainty amongst many possibilities: Whatever befell he could not give any immediate help to Joy. She, poor dear, must fend for herself and if need be, fight her battle alone. He could only try to make it up to her afterwards. l And yet what could he do for her. what more give to her who had all again he lost himself in memories of the immediate past: which presently | merged into dreams of the future | which has no end. |
 put eLSdiil SWuHS lL0 P0Iuulu1Q WlCn the thought of what he was next day to do which might help Joy. He be- gan to realize out of the intensity of | his thought, which was now all un- ception the girl stood already and | how such might be multiplied by any accident of her arrival. In the eyes of | her friends her very character might 1 mind definitely as to how he would | protect her in that way. He could | prove his time of leaving Ambleside by his chauffeur. the time of that the time of his arrest was already proved. Likewise of Joys departure for home. HencefOrth till he should l meet her father he would take care or suspicion whatever. In any 1 case-even if she did not arrive at home until late-Joy would be actually in another country from that which held him. and the rapidity of her journey would in itself protect. He would stay in- some hotel in a place where he could get suitable train in the morning.; and would arrange that his arrival and departure were noted.
 Naturally the place he would rest for the night. if he should succeed in get ting away. would be Castle Douglass; for here lines from Kirkcudbright. from Stranraer. and from Glasgow made Junction so that he had a double chance of departure If he were de- tanned at Larry the ponce tnemSelVeS would be proof of his presence there.
 He felt easier in his mind after his decision, and was able to await with greater patience the coming of the Sheriff.
 CHAPTER XVI.
 A Painful Journey. l: Joy started on her long journey in a very agitated frame of mind: though the habit of her life and her concern for her lover enabled her to so bear herself that she appeared calm. To