The Washington times., 1913-06-05
CHAPTER XIV.
Tn End and the Beginning.


-sHoMsINE MUsGRovE was we'd
ded for the second time TN six
and thirty hours. at Friars' Sui
grave, as the sun was setting.
A steel and leather sort Of ceremony
she held II, and would not have had II
other. with her fighting blade for nus
band.
She was kivsu in marriage by Colonel
Pierrepoint, whom she had little dream
ed TO see in such an office on that night
az destiny when she had first encoun-
tered him. She made her responses 10
the regimental chaplain.
When she came out from Pierrepoints
quarters, new-made bride, In the dew
drenched twilight that was closing. Won
Kerstenbroock wrapped his soldier
cloak around her. She was glad that'
WITH his arm around her. he whispered.
..Kleiner Tomw before he said my
wffe!"
In that same sunset hour OF Thom-
sine's wedding a solitary woman hs
Kine.s Stayersham and looked on the
smoIdering wreck of what had been the
To her there came a man, and silently
they watched together until the sunset
glow was fading; ,x. wb.n
.t Length they turned from the spot,
:sruffer me lead thee, for stumbling.
.'Nay. my good Ned" Eleanor Vyvyan
made answer. well enow can ! nno
the way unhelped from my fathers
~ "And when airs said" sighed Bo-
iase. Il have not yet seen our admirable
Thomsine married"
Married she is, by this" said Flea
nor a shade tartly. and methinEs Hae,hi boId shs
+ s.1 married ,nssstsse. to to %aD 3. enyyied. my
She looked at Borlase musingly.
.sNed. nv friend, merely to sit and view
hfe Is, after all. q game at which 1 can
play as well as thou-or better"
He smiled and made nis DOW: Elan.
s.Shall I ride hence, then, Lazy Eiea'
"Good speed to you upon your jour
new Ned. she bade him, and then chat:
ted indifferently. now that they had
said all that was 1,.n to say ya Sisordered dh ne
ViIIIIse that yet reeked with death.
There. al the threshold Of the par
.on's cottage, where most of the women
lay, Eleanor was met by Charlotte;
"A pretty to-do is here whined
Neil, belize they will hearken unto
thee. Here's some Of the folk have
matched the ordering Of matters into
fheir hands. that purpose to lay MIN
nigh our father. midst the Gascoignes-
Colonel Erisey. mean.
Then Eleanor, even as the night De-
fore. rose up. magnificent
aThev saw" she drawled. that our
great-great-grandam was a kitchen
Tench, and truth. sometimes believe
the tale. good Charlotte, when / lopk on
thee Where should Bob Erisey lie, II
not at his fathers side? Let them 20
bury him" n.
was % done.
Side by side they were laid In the
burial place Of the Gascoignes Lord
staversham. with the smile YET craven
on his lips at this last jest. and tall Rob
Erisey. on whose dead lace there was
no mark Of mirth.
Betrayer each, in purpose, Of the
other. they slept together and the truce
Of God between them.
At s o'clock of that same sunshiny
morning Mistress Thomsine Won ker-
IN a blue gown that mad
been young Mistress Pennyman's, sat
at breakfast in the broad chamber OF
MANY windows that was her husoands
quarters at Friars' Sulgraye.
Through the open easements came the
scent of clove-pinks and gtllihowers in
the house garden, and came also the
clink Of a smiths hammer in a forGe.
and by times s-e slow clatter Of hoofs-
a part of the martial music. she real
ICED. TO which her life hereafter should
be tuned
Upon the table were white bread and
eGGS. Themsins felt that she never