6 *FSERIALT? L/ 3 SX6 " Y R »THE> T ESCAPADE] A POST MARITAL ROMANCE Cyrus Townsend Brady ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY HALTERS (Copyright, 1«K. by W. O. Cbapmau.) SYNOPSIS. The Escapade opens, not in the ro- j manee preceding tin- marriage of Ellen Rlocum, H Puritan miss, and Lord Car rington of England, but In their lift' after j nettling In England. The scene Iw placed. Just following the revolution, in earring- : ton castle in England. The Carringtons, ! after a house party, engaged in a family tilt, caused by jealousy. Lord earring- , ton and his wife each made charges of j faithlessness against the other in con- I tinuation of the quarrel. First objecting against playing cards with the guests, i Lady Carrington agreed '.o cut cards with | Lord Strathgate. whose attentions to | Ellen had become a sore point with Car- \ rington. The loss of SIOO,OOO failed to per turb her, and her husband then cut f'>r [ his wife's I. O. 1 7 , and his honor, Car- | rington winning. The Incident closed ex cept that a liking for each other appar ently arose between Lady Carrington and i Lord Strathgate. CHAPTER IV.—Continued. They had come to the edge of the | terrace. Through a rift in the foli- j age they had a fair view of the cen ter of the arbor. Through the same rift the moonlight fell and displayed j two figures. One with his back toward ! her was her husband. The other fac- ing the couple was Lady Cecily. They I were close together talking earnestly. Ellen clenched her hands and incau tiously stepped into the moonlight. Lady Cecily caught a glimpse of her 1 before Strathgate drew her back. Here ! was her opportunity. The distance ; was too great to enable the watchers to hear what was being said, but they could see. "My dear Bernard," she said, "I may call you that for old times' sake?" "Yes, yes," said Carrington, "would that those old times might come again!" "it would please me," said Lady Ce cily. "I cannot bear to see you yoked with such a rude, uncultured hoyden." "Nay," he began protestingly. "And she played that game with Strathgate. It was all a matter of pre arrangement. No money was to pass. She hath no need to give Strathgate money. His purse and all he has are at her disposal." My lord gritted his teeth and clenched his hands. "I would like to kill him," he said, "and by heaven I shall before long, or he me, and then she can take him with my blood on his hands." "I would not have you die, Ber nard," said Lady Cecily tenderly, at that moment catching sight of the other two. "Don't think that your life is wasted because a foolish, wick ed woman has well nigh wrecked it. You are very clear to —me." "You are the only true heart I have ever known," protested Carrington. And then Lady Cecily palpably fell against him. What else could a gen tleman do under the circumstances but enfold her in his arms? The arms of Lady Cecily stole upward. She lift ed her face to his. "Kiss me," s4ie murmured, faintly. And although Carrington had not in tetnded anything of that kind, yet be ing tempted, he hesitated and was lost. He kissed her full and fair in the moonlight. "Have you seen enough, Lady Car rington?" whispered Strathgate from the other side. "Enough!" said Ellen, choking with jealous rage. "My lord, 1 leave this castle to-night. May I depend upon you to help me?" "I shall help you,' said Strathgate, turning and leading hor away, "with ail that I have. My life, my fortune, my sacred honor are yours." "You mistake me, my lord. I go back to Philadelphia. There is a ship belonging to me, a merchant ship in the harbor of Portsmouth nearly ready to sail for America. If you will take me there and see me on board, 1 shall be everlastingly grateful to you." My lord thought deeply. Lady El len evidently considered his proffered service purely a disinterested one. It would hardly oe wise to undeceive her now. Once he got her away and in his power, it would go hard with him if he could not jiersuade her, or con strain her, f o his own wishes. His role at present was to agree with whatever she proposed. "I will do my best to carry out your wishes," he said, heartily. And as Ellen stumbled and fell at the foot of the steps he took advan tage of the occasion to support her with his arm. "You are weak, ill, faint," he said, almost carrying her up the steps In the bright moonlight before she had a chance to protest. It so happened that Lady Cecily and Carrington coming across the mall "aught, a full view of the incident. What would you have iue do?" said Strathgate as h« and Lady Ellen reached the top of the terrace. "1 would not have you lay hands on me again, my lord. I am In full vigor and able to serve myself in that." •Forgive me!' said Strathgate. "I thought you were faint." "No more of it," returned Ellen. "I would have you meet me at two of the clock here to-night on the terrace equipped for traveling." "Do you ride away, madam?" "I shall lake my lord's traveling carriage. Can you drive, Lord Strath gate?" "I am the best whip in England," he said boastfully. At this juncture Carrington and Lady Cecily joined, the others on the terrace. "Have you been taking the air, Lady Carrington, after your exertions in the dance?" queried Lady Cecily with mocking sweetness. "We came to seek Carrington and yourself," interposed Strathgate swift ly. CHAPTER V. A Midnight Conversation. Once more the little boudoir. Onco more Ellen and Bernard alone to gether. "Well, madam," began Carrington, coldly, under violent constraint, al though passion was seething and bub bling in his veins, "do you think that you have disgraced me sufficiently to night?" "But 1 was only obeying your In structions." "My instructions!" exclaimed my lord; "and pray what were they?" "To be like other women; to dance, to play, to —" "You exceeded them, I think," In terrupted Carrington, sneeringly. "That many things are permitted to a man, to a husband, which are for bid to a woman, his wife." "I recognize no distinction between us, sir." "This," said my lord, loftily, "is be side the question. What possessed you to play with Strathgate to-night?" "The money," returned his wife, "was mine. I had a right to risk it. 1 might ask what possessed you to play ?" "Nonsense!" said Carrington, fierce ly. "1 know well enough that your game with Strathgate was only play. It was simply a plan concocted be tween you to mock me and amuse yourselves." "My lord, you insult me," cried El len, her face flaming. "It is fact that carries the insult, madam. I make the charge on good authority. You were overheard ar |"f | "I Cannot Be Discourteous to My Guests." ranging the details," persisted my lord, carried beyond the facts by his indignation. "Upon whose authority?" inquired Ellen. "Lady Cecily's." "And you can take her word against mine?" responded his wife, bitterly. "Very well, my lord, I shall not con descend to justify myself further." " 'Twould be useless to attempt it." "Indeed, and what made you risk your castle in a matter in which noth i ing was involved?" "Pardon me," returned Carrington, [ loftily. "There was something in | volved, something of which you reck | little." j "And that was?" "My honor and the honor of my i wife. At that time I supposed the j debt an honest one, the play fair. ! Think you I could allow that to stand ! against you while I had a penny?" | "It was not love then that made you j interpose?" "Love!" sneered Carrington. "How could 1 love a woman whose chief joy is to mock me, to humiliate me, to heap ridicule upon ine, to disgrace | me?" "You have said enough, my lord." "Madam, this passes beyond all j bonds. The scene to-night was dis j graceful. You insulted all my guests, I you publicly braved me, you flaunted your money in my face, you exposed ' your person disgracefully in that, aban i doncd hornpipe, which you danced with that Puritan bit of sanctimoni ousness at the harpsichord—" "I have said before," cried Ellen, "that you can stop right there. The English gentleman's code, I take it from my experience of it at home here, allows you to say anything you please to me or about me, but you will please leave my friends out of the discussion." "There 'is one friend that I shall bring in the discussion." "And who is that?" "Strathgate." "And what has he done?" "What has he done? My God!" CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1908. gasped my lord, choking with rage "He has always treated me like a gentleman," returned Ellen, "but per haps that's because he's not married to me." "You insult my friends," cried Car rington, trying to give the conversa tion a different turn. "I only follow your lead, my lord." "Yes, I saw his consideration In carrying you up the terrace steps a few moments after you eavesdropped. What heard you in the arbor?" "Not one word," answered Ellen. "Hut I saw you in the moonlight, and that was enough, my lord. I swear to you that unless yoti promise me on your word that you will dismiss Lady Cecily to-morrow I shall never be wife to you again." "I cannot be discourteous to my guests," returned Carrington with sud den dignity. "And does courtesy to your guests involve taking them in your arms and kissing them? Have you tried it with Mrs. Monbrant, or with the duch ess of Dili ward? Now, she, indeed, would be a fit object for your kind attentions." "There Is one guest that I shall dismiss in the morning, ay, two," re turned my lord, white with anger. "And who are those, pray?" "Strathgate and Seton." "My friend and your friend. That's well thought on, and you will have me defenseless, then, at your mercy, compelled to look upon your love making with that abandoned woman. But I'll not stand it. I'll go back to America!" "You would never dare." "Would I not?" cried Ellen, man fully. "Watch me in the morning." It was one by the great clock in the hall when she withdrew from her bou doir and entered her own bedroom. Opening a closet she drew therefrom underneath a pile of feminine apparel a certain sailor's dress which she had sometimes used in cruising and boat ing expeditions with her husband since her marriage, and which she had often used before in long cruises on her father's ships. There were stout, heavy buckskin shoes, soft, woolen stockings, trousers wide and flaring at the knee and belted at the waist, a soft shirt of blue, a rough pea-jacket Slipping off her own clothes, she trans formed herself with rapid fingers into a sailor lad. She undid her hair and tied it behind in a man's queue. From the same closet she took a slender sword and a pair of heavy pistols. She went back softly into the bou doir and sat down at her desk. From a secret drawer she drew a purse filled with gold pieces, sovereigns of Eng land. On the table lay a cheque book. Her balance at the bank she found was a trifle over £20,000, the amount she owed my lord. Fortunately, there was another exit from her suite of apartments besides that which led through my lord's dress ing room. She unlocked the door and stepped into the corridor Deborah was a light sleeper. She woke instantly, terrified beyond meas ure to see a tall, dark figure bending ov«r her. She opened her mouth to scream, but Elen had the quickness to clap her hand over the mouth and stifle the noise. Her familiar voice reassured Mistress Deborah. The girl sat up in bed and stared In amaze ment. "What do you want?" "I am leaving the castle," returned Ellen, "and you must come with me." "Oh!" said Deborah. "And where are you going?" "Rack to America." "But Sir Charles?" "If Sir Charles cares anything for you," said Ellen authoritatively, "he will follow you to the end of the world." "With whom do you go?" "Lord Strathgate." "Oh, Ellen!" exclaimed Deborah in horror-stricken accents. "Peace, girl!" said Lady Ellen, "he acts, or he shall act, as my coach man alone, but I must have you with me. We can talk 110 longer. Dress yourself. Would that I had boy's clothes for you!" "I should never wear them! never!" "Well, dress yourself in the clothes in which you came from America, then. Do you know where they are?" "I have them always at hand." "And I will assist you," said Ellen. Fortune favored them. They stole down the stairs through the great hall and found the door unbarred, much to Ellen's satisfaction, for it indicated that Strathgate had been before them. "Is that you, my lord?" she asked In a low voice. "Yes," answered Strathgate. "Did you think I would fail you?" Ami from the clock in the tower above them boomed out two strokes of the bell. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Where Politeness Doesn't Pay. "French and German hats," said a hatter, "only last half as long as ours. It isn't the poor quality of the hats but the fine quality of the manners that causes this. "Lifting the hat in salutation is the hardest work that falls on tho head piece, and the French and Germans lift it to men and women equally, thus giving it twice as much labor as we do. Naturally, then, it wears out twice as quickly. It goes in the brim in no time over the water." Outside of His Practice. "All that is the matter with you, sir," said the eminent physician, after a thorough examination, "is lack of nutrition. You don't eat enough." "I eat all I can hold, doctor," said the attenuated caller. "Then you need to have your ca pacity enlarged, and that's a case for a Surgeon. Five dollars, please. Good morning." . mwmtptM HOME-MADE HAND CULTIVATOR. How One Farmer Made the Garden Work an Easy Task. I made a hand cultivator which does good work in the garden, writes a correspondent of the Farm and Home. Old plow handles, a, may be used, but they will need splicing, as shown at b, to five feet long. The hoe, or scraper, is shown at c. This Handy Garden Tool. should be made of a piece of tem pered steel and brought to a sharp edge. I used a plow wheel, but one can be made of two-inch boards fas tened together, then cut on a circle, and a piece of band iron put on for a tire. CHERRY TREE SLUG. How It Can Be Easily Killed by Poison Sprays. The Colorado station gives this ad vice for treating the cherry and pear tree slug: "The slugs feed so freely upon the surface of the leaves that they are very easily killed by any of the arsenical poisons, such as arsenate of lead, arsenite of lime, or paris green applied in moderate strength. One pound of the arsenate of lead to each 25 gallons of water, or one pound of the paris green to 100 gallons ol water, will make a preparation of suf ficient strength to promptly destroy this insect. Sometimes it Is necessary to make an application when cherrie9 or plums are nearly grown when it is not advisable to cover the fruit with an arsenical poison. In this case one can use white hellebore in water in the proportion of one ounce to three gallons. If the hellebore is used, it la a little better to apply towards eve ning. Try to distribute the spray as evenly and thoroughly as possible to all the leaves of the tree without using enough to cause it to run off to any great extent. Where only a few trees are to be treated, one may use air slacked lime or fine road dust, throw lng the dust very freely over the sur face of the leaves. This remedy is noj quite so effectual as the preceding but can often be used with entire sat isfaction." TRAINING TOMATOES. Method by Which the Fruit Can B» Kept from Rotting. The best method I ever tried Is to train them to a stake. This is a safe guard against rot, as it keeps the fruil off the ground. I cut stakes from sap lings 2 l / 2 inches in diameter and five to six feet long, choosing those with small branches all the way up. The branches are left about four inches long. Stake the plants as you have tim« after they are set out. When they ar« one foot tall tie them to the stakes with good, strong twine, and with some assistance later on they will find support and cling to the branches. Oc casionally, continues the writer in Farm and Home, some will not take hold, and you will have to tie them higher on the stake. This plan could not be followed in field cultivation, but in a small family garden it works like a charm. They should be given continuous cultivation all through the season if you want plenty of fruit. IMPROVING A GARDEN HOE. It Is Made by Cutting Out Part of the Center. The accompanying illustrates a western farmer's idea of what he re rgards as a very handy garden tool. As is quite true, he states that it is some times necessary in cult ivati n g small plants to loosen the ground on each side of the row. For this work, says the Jlofhe stead, the hoe above, in which is cut out a circular piece of blade, is a first class tool. GARDEN AND ORCHARD. The grape vine that, is permitted to develop too much vine and leaf will bear little fruit. Cabbage worms are easily con trolled if taken in hand promptly. Mix one ounce fresh Persian insect powder with four gallons water and spray or sprinkle the plants. I find it a good plan to sow cowpeas or a mixture of equal parts red and crimson clover in the garden at last cultivation of corn, potatoes, melons and such crops. They make a great growth and add much humus to the soil. Plant Trees. If you would make your home at tractive have an orchard or fruit gar den. The man who plants trees gets his pay day by day and at the same time builds a monument which will stand long after fc£ is dead. PLUM GOUQER. Why the Fruit Falls to the Ground When Half Grown. Every season in this western coun try large numbers of plums are lost by the fruit falling to the ground in the half-grown state. An examination of this fruit will show that it is in fested with white grubs, which eat into the kernel and cause it to drop. The work is ver similar to the plum curculio, which is such a serious pest in the eastern states. This insect, however, is a native western form and finds its way into our plum orchards from the patches of wild plums which grow along al most every creek. It is a very difficult insect to com bat, because the work is done inside the fruit, and poisons cannot be ap plied for the larval forms of the in sect. The adult insect can sometimes be killed by spraying the plum trees with arsenate of lead or other poisons of a similar nature in the same way that apple trees are sprayed. The adult beetles eat the young leaves or cut off the stems of the young fruit, and poisons placed in these localities are likely to prove helpful remedies. The adult beetles may be caught by jarring the trees. The insect "plays possum" when a limb is jarred and drops to the ground. If the ground Is covered with sheets, the Insects may be gathered in them and destroyed. This is best done early in the day and should be continued from the time the plum trees are in blossom until the first of June. The insects are reddish brown snout beetles about a quarter of an Incli Jv length. They are quite easily recog nized, and if present, some will be found usually each morning. A few jarrings of the tree will indicate whether or not the insects are nu merous and whether this remedy should be continued. Probably this remedy is the most useful one in the home orchard or garden. It is a good plan to permit chickens to run around about the trees, since they often pick up the weevils or the larvae that have come to the ground. During the summer all plums which fall from the trees and even those which show the marks while th> •' are still on the trees should be taken aud destroyed. By destroying we mean burning or some other method which will make sure that the insect Inside the plum is killed. —S. Arthur Johnson, Associate Professor of Entomology, Colorado Agricultural College. WOVEN WIRE GRAPE ARBOR. Makes a Neater Job Than with Slats. To make a neat grape arbor set four posts and brace them as shown, then Grape Arbor of Woven Wire. stretch woven wire over the top. This top works better than wood, declares tha Prairie Farmer. PLANT THE RIGHT TREE. Write and Get Information from tha Agricultural Department. In every region of the United States there is at least one forest tree, and generally there are several forest trees which can be planted with a complete assurance of commercial suc cess if the plantation is properly es tablished and given proper care. The government has made a very careful study of most of the forest plantations in the United States. Its publications on tree planting may be had free of charge upon application to the forest service, United States department of agriculture, Washington. The studies on which they were based were made especially for the benefit of farmers and other land owners, and to prevent the waste of thousands of dollars an nually lost by planting the wrong trees or by improper care of plantations. From the manner in which our nat ural timber has been cut it is clear that each region will have to be made a3 nearly self-supporting in timber growth as possible. The lesson of the past is that the right forest trees grown in the right way will bring a big profit. Making the Garden Pay. Speaking of how he arranges a suc cession of garden crops, J. W. Griffin, the Kentucky gardener says: "Plant beans (bush), dwarf peas, early beets, lettuce and radishes in a block, as they may all be cleared fiom the land about the same time and another crop planted. This is where I plant my cel ery, after manuring the ground proper ly. When the beets are ready to be gin using I put a row of cabbage plants right by the beets, the* pull the beets next to the cabbage first." No Such Plum. Some people are constantly looking for some variety of plum that the curculio will not touch. When that variety is discovered it will be one that a human being will not touch either. Cultivate Frequently. Frequent cultivation is not qnly best for the young orchard, bur-. also for young evergreens set out for a wind break. Sod-bound trees of whatever kind bake and dry out In the July aad | August, s LEAP-YEAR LAUGH. "You look worried, old man!" "Yes. Had three proposals last night and I don't know which on® I ought to accept!" Near Dead. The ship doctor of an English lin er notified the deathwatch steward, an Irishman, that a man had died in stateroom 15. The usual instructions to bury the body were given. Some hours later the doctor peeked into the room and found that the body was still there. He called the Irishman's attention to the matter, and the latter replied: "I thought you said room 26. I wint to that room and noticed wan of thim in a bunk. 'Are ye dead?' says I. 'No,' nays he, "out I'm pretty near dead.' So I buried him."—The Wasp. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it In Use For Over JiO Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought. The Comparison. 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