Evening star., 1924-11-14

aboard the Royal Mary. and in view
of her uncle's rank and position
promptly accorded.
Lord Julian hailed her advent with
satisfaction. 1t gave voyage that
had been full of interest for him
just the spice that it required to
achieve perfection as an experience.
His lordship was one OF your gallants
to whom existence that Is not graced
by womankind is moro or less of
stagnation.
Miss Arabella Bishop-this straight
up and down slip of a girl with her
rather boyish voice and her almost
boytsh ease of movenent-was not
perhaps a lady who In England would
have commanded much notice in my
lords $ discerning eyes. His very So
phisticated, carefully educated tastes
In such matters inclined him toward
the plump. the lanGuishing and the
quite helplessiy feminine. Miss Bish
ops charms were undeniable. But
they were such that II would take a
delicate minded man to appreciate
them and my Lord Julian. whilst of
q mind that was very far from gross,
did not possess the necessary degree
Of delicacy. I must not by this be
understood to imply anything against
him.
II remained, however. that Miss
Bishop was a young woman and
lady: and in the latitude into which
Lord Julian had strayed this was a
phenomenon sufficiently rare to COM
mand attention. on his side, with
his title and position, his personal
grace and the charm Of practiS"d
courtier, he bore about him the at
mosphere OF the great world in which
Il I, lci N
that was little more than name 70
her. who had spent most OF her life in
the Antilles It is not therefore Won
derful that they should have been at
tracted to each other before tho
Royal Mary was warped out or ~.
Nicholas. Each could tell the other
much upon which the other desired
information He could. .regale her I'M
aEinstion with stories of St. James
in many Of which he assigned himseii
q heroic, or at least distinguished
part-end she could enrich ms fn,nu
with information concerning thls
nav world to which he had come.
Before they were out of sight OF
St Nicholas they we're good friends,
and his lordship was beginning 10
correct his first impressions OF her
and to discover the charm OF that
frank, straightforward attitude OF
comradeship which made her treat
avery man as a brother. considering
how his mind was obsessed with the
business of his mission. II Is not Won
derful that he should nave come 70
talk to her of Capt. Blood. Indeed,
there was a circumstance that d.
rectly led to 1t.
81 wonder now" he said, as they
were sauntering on the poop, III you
ever saw this fellow Blood. who was
at one time on your uncle's planta-
tions as a slave
Miss Bishop halted. She leaned
upon the taffrail, looking out toward
the receding land, and it was mo-
ment before che answered in steady,
level voice:
II saw him often. l knew him
very we'll"
aye don't say!" His lordship was
slightly moved out OF an imperturba-
bility that he had studiously cultl-
waited. He was r young man of per-
haps and 20. we'll above the middle
height in stature and appearing tall
er by virtue of his exceeding lean
ness He had a thin. pale, rather
pleasing hatchet face, framed in the
curls of n golden periwig, a sensi
tive mouth and pale blue eyes that
lent his countenance a dreamy ex-
preston, a rather melancholy pen
siveness. But they were alert, OBJ
servant eyes notwithstanding, al
though they failed on this occasion.
to observe the slight change of color
which his question had brought to
Miss Bishops cheeks or the suspi-
ciously excessive composure of her
answer.
"Ye don't say" he repeated, and
came to lean beside her. "And what
manner of man did you find him?"
I'm those days 1 esteemed him for
an unfortunate gentleman"
you were acquainted with his
story?"
He told It me. That is why 1
esteemed him-for the calm forti-
tude with which he bore adversely.
Since then, considering what he has
done, I have almost come to doubt
IL what he told me of himself was
true"
IF you mean OF the wrongs he
suffered at the hands of the royal
commission that tried the Monmouth
rebels, there's little doubt that it
would be true enough. He was never
out with Monmouth: that is certain
He was convicted on a point of law
of which he may well have been
ignorant when he committed what
was construed into treason. But,
faith, he's had his revenge: after a
fashion,
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