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[ESCAPADE^
1 MARITAL ROMANCE
1 Cyrus Townsend Brady
t ILLUSTRATIONS 11Y
RAY WALTERS
(Copyright, lWit, l»y IV. c» CUapmau.)
SYNOPSIS.
The Escapade opons. not in the ro
mance preceding the marriage of Ellen
Slocum, a Puritan mls.s, and Lord Car
rington of England, but in tlieir life after
settling in England. Tlie scene is placed,
Just following the revolution, In Carring
ton castle in England. The Carringtons,
after a house party, engaged in a la-mily
tilt, caused by jealousy. Eord Carring
ton and his wife each made charges of
faithlessness against the other in con
tinuation of the quarrel. First objecting
against playing cards with the guests,
I.ady Carrington agreed to cut cards with
Lord Strathgate, whose attentions to
Ellen had become a sore point with Car
rington. The loss of JIOO.OUO failed to per
turb her, and her husband then cut for
his wife's I. O. IT.and his honor, Car
rington winning. The incident closed ex
cept that a liking for each other appar
ently arose between I.ady Carrington and
Lord Strathgate. Additional attentions
of Lord Carrington to Lady Cecily and
Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington com
pelled the latter to vow that she would
leave the castle. Preparing to flee. Lady
Carrington and her chum Deborah, an
American girl, met Lord Strathgate at
two a. m., he agreeing to see them safe
ly away.
CHAPTER VI.
Lady Ellen Takes Flight.
"Now, will you tell me your plans?"
began Strathgate as the three descend
ed to the mall.
"We must have horses and a ve
hicle of some kind," she said.
"Would not a post chaise do?"
"There are three of us, my lord,"
answered Ellen.
"I see," returned the earl, who was
very much annoyed and put out by
the infliction of this third party in
what he had fondly hoped would be a
tete-a-tete flight.
There was no help for it, however.
He trusted to fortune to assist him
to dispose of Mistress Deborah later.
"Where shall we get this carriage?"
"In the stables, of course."
She was thoroughly familiar with
the lay of the land and the location
of the stables. The coachman, who
was unmarried, slept in a house by
himself. Entrance was easy since
the door was not locked.
"Let me do the talking," said
Strathgate. ''He won't recognize you
if you stay back here in the dark
ness."
"Very well," assented Ellen as the
earl stepped over to the bed and
roughly shook the coachman, who
opened his eyes to find himself star
ing Into the muzzle of a pistol.
"Lie still. I want to borrow a pair
and a carriage from your master. I'm
driving far to-night and I want a good
pair. No, you are not to bother about
hitching them up. I simply wished to
tell you the facts so you won't make
any trouble."
He opened his mouth to cry out.
Strathgate shoved his pistol barrel
closer to him, truculently remarking:
"If you make a sound, I'll blow out
your brains. Now, <lo you under
stand? I don't intend to steal the
horses. You'll find them well at some
wayside inn 20 miles front here. Mean
while, we will have to tie you up and
gag you."
"Very well, my lud," returned Hlg
ginbotham, to whom the shining
weapon was a powerful persuader.
"Which are the best pair for travel
ing, I wonder?" queried the earl as
he, Ellen and Deborah surveyed the
long row of stalls.
"I have heard my lord say that the
bays were the most reliable horses
he lmd."
"The bays it'll bo, then," said Strath
gate.
He quickly selected the harness, led
out the bays and in a few moments
Ithe two were attached to a light trav
eling carriage.
"Where now?" said Strathgate when
all the preparations had been com
pleted.
"We are going to Portsmouth, as I
-think I told you, my lord."
Strathgate was an expert whip and
he found no difficulty in keeping the
spirited horses going quietly over the
grassy turf which bordered the drive
way and as he had predicted, they got
past the house without making a
sound. But one obstacle remained be
tween them and freedom —the lodge
keeper and the lodge gate. Ellen had
forgotten it until they had gone some
thing like a quarter of a tnile through
the park, when she suddenly thrust
her head out of the window of bite
carriage and called it to Strathgate's
attention.
"Let me attend to that," returned
the earl, confidently. "I have a plan.
Do you keep close and let the curtains
be drawn."
He drove close to the wall of the
lodgekeeper's cottage, hammered on
the window with the butt of his whip,
and when that functionary appeared,
Strathgate boldly avowed his name
and title and said that he was riding
forth on a wager with my lord; that
would ba back in the iaurnlng.
The road from tlie lodge gate ran
for about half a mile through the park
until it joined the main road. Ports
mouth lay to the eastward, to the
westward was Plymouth. Having
passed (he lodge successfully, Ellen
raised the blinds of the carriage and
looked out upon the familiar scenes
flying swiftly by them, for Strathgate
had put the bays into a fast trot and
tho light carriage was going forward
at a rapid gait. In a short time they
came to the main road. Now Ellen
knew the way perfectly. She was
greatly astonished, therefore, to see
Strathgate turning to the right. She
lowered the window and thrust her
head out once more.
"My lord!" she called.
Strathgate scarcely checking the
pace of the horses leaned back to
listen.
"We wish togo to Portsmouth."
"So you said," returned my lord.
"Well, Portsmouth lies to the left
and you are taking us to the right."
"You will bo safer at my castle in
Somerset than at Portsmouth, I think,
my lady."
"But I don't wish togo to your cas
tle," cried Lady Ellen angrily.
"And do you imagine, my dear Lady
Carrington," chuckled Strathgate, who
was greatly amused over the situation,
"that I have run away with you from
your husband's house to defend you if
need be by sword and pistol from your
husband, for the sake of handing you
over to some American sailor at
Portsmouth?"
"My lord!" exclaimed Ellen, thun
derstruck by this open intimation of
the earl's feelings.
"You must have seen that I love
you," continued Strathgate coolly
enough, "and in short I am taking you
to my own house.l shall know how
to hold you safe there."
"Yon villain!" cried Ellen, while
Deborah, overwhelmed with the horror
of this revelation, for tho conversation
was quite audible to her, nearly faint
ed within the carriage.
Ellen had been fumbling at her belt
while this was spoken and in a fit of
passion she suddenly reached up her
arm and discharged her pistol full at
the earl. He had just time, catching
a glimpse of the shining steel of the
barrel in the waning moonlight, to
throw himself aside when the bullet
whistled by his ear. The startled
horses bounded into a run at once,
and for a few moments Strathgate had
all he could do to control them.
He succeeded in quieting the horses
somewhat, but did not dare to bring
them to a slow pace lest Ellen should
escape front the carriage. To attempt
to jump from it, which, indeed, she
had thought upon, was too great a risk
to life and limb, and, beside, it in
volved leaving Deborah behind. There
was one thing she could do, however.
After some tugging, she got the little
She Looked Out of the Carriage.
window in the front of the carriage
open and thus got access to Strath
gate's person. She thrust the barrel
of her pistol up toward his back and
swore she would discharge it unless
he instantly turned the carriage about
in the road.
Ellen did at random shoot through
the seat, but the bullet was deflected
and Strathgate was unharmed. He
was greatly relieved when she dis
charged her second weapon without
effect, for he reasoned that it would
be difficult, if not impossible, for her
to recharge them in the darkness of
tho carriage at. the pace they were
going, and lie therefore felt safe for
! the rest, of the journey, although he
| did not resume his seat on the box,
| nor did he check the speed of the
j horses
This was a fine end, or a fine begin
j ning of her adventure, thought Lady
Carrington, bitterly. She had never
dreamed of this and she blamed her
self for a fool not to have thought of
it. 'Of course Lord Strathgate's inter
est in her was a selfish one.
Her escape would be discovered in
a short time; his absence would be
noted; the testimony of the coachman,
of the stable boys, of the lodgekeeper
would be had. It would be known
that they had gone away together.
She would be ruined forever.
They had borne themselves gallant
; ly. He judged that they had gone at
least 20 miles from Carrington. A few
miles farther on was a tavern where
the ladies could bo bestowed. The tav
ern keeper was a friend of his who
•would ask no questions.
But fortune was on Lady Carring
ton's side that night in more ways
than one. For with a sudden jolt the
fo»e-right-wheel of the carriage sank
into a deep rut. There was a crash
as the wheel gave wi*y at the hub.
Strathgate was hurled violently from
his seat and lay stunned in the road.
The horses, utterly tired out, were glad
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908.
to stop. Ellen and Deborah were
thrown against the front of the car
riage, but beyond a severe shaking and
some bruises, sustained no injuries.
Surmising what had happened, El
len tore open the door of the carriage,
seized Deborah by the hand, dragged
her out and ran desperately down the
road. She did not see Strathgate;
she did not know where he was; sho
did not care.
With all the strength of her stout
young body she ran down the road.
She did not turn back toward Ports
mouth, for she divined that if Strath
gate recovered consciousness he would
immediately imagine that she had
gone that way. She was unfamiliar
with the part of the country in which
she found herself, but she had a gen
eral idea that the roads in either di
rection led to the sea, and her hope
was to reach the shore. There was
nothing that floated that she could not
sail. If she could get a boat, she
could make Portsmouth harbor with
out danger of pursuit.
The dawn was gray in the east.
Ellen judged it was about half after
four o'clock. They had been gone two
hours from the castle and a half hour
from the carriage when the road
swerved to the southward and led from
tile forest to a little fishing hamlet on
the shore of Lyme bay. Nobody was as
yet stirring in the town, although
lights twinkled here and there in the
windows, indicating that some of the
(lsherfolk were making ready for their
day's labor.
Ellen was too desperately anxious
to get away to stop to bargain with
anyone for a boat. She ran down to
the little wharf jutting out Into the
small inclosed harbor and rapidly se
lecting the best of the little vessels
tied there, she hauled in the painter,
drew it alongside the wharf, made
Deborah get aboard, laid five guineas
down on the wharf where the boat had
been secured, in the hope that the
owner of the boat would receive the
money which was full value for the
vessel, hoisted the sail, shoved away
from the wharf, and under the influ
ence of a gentle breeze ran rapidly out
of the harbor.
"I would Sir Charles Seton were
here!" cried poor Debbie, who had
not the advantage of Ellen's exten
sive and intimate acquaintance with
the male sex. and who, therefore, did
not share her detestation of it.
"And what is he to thee, child?"
asked Ellen gleefully.
"He said he cared very much for
me," returned Deborah, "yesternight
in the library over the good book of
Master Baxter."
" 'Tis a gallant gentleman, Debbie,"
returned Ellen. "But they are all
that before marriage. My lord of
Carrington I once thought was well
nigh perfect."
"But what did he," asked Debbie,
"that you leave him thus?"
And this heroine who had schemed
and fought like a man for her lib
erty bowed her head upon the Puri
tan's shoulder and wept like any other
woman.
Deborah consoled her as best she
might, and in turn Ellen assured her
that if Sir Charles really loved her
he would follow her wherever she
might go. Who shall say in that as
surance Ellen was not persuading her
self that if Bernard Carrington really
loved his own wife he would not be
far from Charles Seton 011 the chase
across the sea?
CHAPTER VII.
My Lord Hears 111 Tidings.
The morning sun was streaming
brightly through the windows when
Carrington glanced at his watch as ho
opened his eyes, and was startled to
discover that it was already seven
o'clock. And he had meant to get
up early that day to prepare himself
the better for that interview with hia
wife. Hastily arising, he stole soft
ly to the door opening into her bou
doir, tried the knob gently and found
that the door was locked. He lis
tened, but could hear nothing. Imag
ining that she was still asleep, he sum
moned his valet, bathed and dressed
himself with unusual care for the op
erations of the day, and then returned
to the door of the boudoir. Again he
knocked, and more loudly. Receiving
no answer, he fairly thundered upon it
with his feet, to bo met with the
same silence as before.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
DOUBTFUL OF THE GUARANTEE.
Specific Clause Caused Increase In
Price of Cloth.
The Arabs, and, indeed, all Mos
lems, have the practice of re-enforcing
promises by adding to their word of
honor the Arabic phrase, Inshallah —
"please God." How much meaning it
conveys in some lands of the east is
told in the pages of"In Moorish Cap
tivity."
The pious proviso is a very useful
formula to the Moors, and is frequent
ly used in making promises that they
have no intention whatever of keep
ing, as they can then take refuge be
hind the Almighty when they are
taxed with their breach of faith.
There is a story told of a man who
kept a shop in Gibraltar, and who
knew the ways of the Moor. To him
one day came one of the faithful, who
was desirous of buying some cloth.
On being informed that the price was
two dollars a yard, payment in 60
days, he replied:
"All right. I will take so much and
will pay you in 00 days, Inshallah."
"No," said the vender, "the price la
two dollars, payment in 60 days. For
60 days, Inshallah, the price is two
dollars and a half." —Youth's Com
panion.
Maxim.
Never put a gift cigar in the mouth.
—Princeton Tiger.
DEVICE FOR BERRY GROWERS.
Cutting Off the Runners Made Easy
for the Worker.
The problem of disposing of the sur
plus runners is always a perplexing
fx one to the straw
berry grower. Too
commonly the
runners are al
lowed to run and
form a dense mat
at their own
swoet will. Plac
ing runners is 110
easy job, as
everyone must
admit who has
tried that back
breaking labor.
Yet it is demon
strated every year
in every planta
tion that it is the
only method of
raising uniformly
large and bright
q ly colored berries.
V Wherever a spot
/t 1m is found where
from some cause
— the plants are
thin on the ground, it is there the best
berries are always found. Many plans
of placing or spacing runners have
been tried, and nearly every grower
has his own distinctive way, which he
varies from time to time when ho
thinks ho has discovered something
better. It really does not matter so
much what arrangement of the run
ners is made, provided they are given
plenty of room. Next to spacing them
is the labor of cutting off the surplus
ones that are not needed. An early
set, vigorous plant will send out a mul
titude of runners during the growing
season and keep it up till freezing
weather has stopped growth. Pinch
ing or cutting them off with a knife
or scissors is slow work and requires
constant stooping, which is relished
neither by old nor young. This work
may be lightened as follows:
Take a worn-out hoe, says Orange
Judd Farmer, and have the blacksmith
straighten the blade on a line with
the shank. You can have it any width
the hoe will admit. For cutting around
single plants a narrow blade is best;
for narrowing in the side of a row the
wider the blade the better. For nar
rowing the row an ordinary plow
counter may be used. It may be fas
tened to the cultivator or it may be
attached to handles, whetted sharp
and trundled along by hand.
After the raspberries and black
berries are through bearing is the
best time to cut out the old canes. An
other simple instrument is also made
out of an old hoe for this work, only
in this case the hoe blade Is turned
in a sickle shape, so as to catch firmly
around the cane. This allows the man
to do all the cutting while standing
erect. His left hand should be pro
vided with a strong glove to hold th?
canes and pull them out. The illustra
tion shows how the cutter looks when
completed.
FARM WATER SUPPLY.
Purity of the Source Is of Prime
Importance.
Too many wells are sunk in the low
est places around the farm home and
barns. I visited more than a dozen
different farm homes last week, writes
a correspondent of Indiana Farmer,
and with one exception, every well
was located where surface drainage
was sure to get into it. In some places
one well supplied both household
needs and the live stock. These wells
were located where they were most
convenient for the stock. That is a
mighty poor arrangement. If one well
must furnish the entire water supply,
sink it where there is 110 possible
chance for seepage or surface pollu
tion. Place it as near the house as
possible, and then pipe the stock sup
ply to a tank in the yard. It's a nui
sance to have a tank within 30 or 40
feet of the house. It is just as con
venient to have it a hundred yards
away. It is necessary to have plenty
of water during these hot months, but
be sure that it is pure.
FARM NOTES.
Cultivation should be mostly to
keep down weeds.
Stock barns should be light, dry and
well ventilated.
Molasses is proving to be a good
feed for farm animals, including dairy
cows.
Dairying is the one branch in which
no man should engage who has not a
real liking for cows.
Weeds are not an enemy. They take
possession of waste places and often
plow up the soil and make way for
the coming of grasses.
When the potato vines are half
grown they have filled the ground
with lateral roots. Cultivate over the
roots and not through them.
The dairy cow requires five times
as much of the carbon in her food as
of the protein because she must from
that produce both heat and energy.
The Sheep Industry.
The sheep industry has thriven it
spite of dull times. High prices of
fered for lambs have caused farmer!
to deplete their stocks. Same of th'
best lambs should be kept for breedin
purposes.
THE SIN OF LAND MURDER.
' Seriousness of the Situation Not Gen
erally Realized.
The deterioriation of fortuity under
cultivation that is lacking In care for
the future Is far more noticeable in
some portions of the south than In the
middle west. The Progressive Farm
er, recognizing the seriousness of the
situation, speaks as follows:
"The truth is, that it is time now to
see that a man who wears out a piece
o? land sins—just as a man situ who
wecs's out a human body with drunk
enness or dissipation. We are coming
to the time when a man will be as
much ashamed of owning a gullied
hillside as of owning a skin-and bones
horse. As James J. Hill, than whom
there is hardly a greater American
living, declared In Washington:
" 'North Carolina was, a century
ago, tine of the great agricultural
states of the country and one of the
wealthiest. To-day aa you ride through
the south you see everywhere land
gullied by torrential rains, red and
yellow clay banks exposed where once
were fertile fields, and agriculture re
duced because its main surport has
been washed away. Millions of acres,
in places to the extent of one-tenth of
the entire arable area, have been so
injured that no industry and no care
can restore them.'
"And the seriousness of this land
murder is not appreciated by one man
in a thousand. You see an acre of
land ruined and you say: Well, there
is $lO, S2O, or SSO loss, according to
the price of land in your community.
But the truth is, that the merely tem
porary estimate put opon land values,
as indicated by present prices, does
not indicate at all the far-reaching
extent of the damage. Three hun
dred years ago you could have bought
that land from the Indians at ten
cents an acre, but if an acre of it had
been ruined then, would the damage
us we see it now, have amounted to
only ten cents? A hundred years ago
the same land may have been worth
only a dollar an acre; but we know
now that to have ruined an acre
would have meant more than a dol
lar's loss. And so the price of land
to-day is no criterion by which to
judge the damage and the sin against
posterity wrought by the man who
murders an acre of God's heritage tc
the human race—a heritage he meant
to last as long as time itself. The na
tion does well to give the matter serl'
ous thought."
STRAINING JELLY.
Handy Device Made Out of a Turned
Up Chair.
A pupil from the high school class
of cookery, South Kensington, Lon
don. Eng., told me about this substi
tute for a jelly bag, and I have found
A Substitute for Jelly Bag.
that It works to perfection, being
much less troublesome than the old
fashioned jelly bag, says a writer in
Farm and Home.
Clean a plain wooden kitchen chair
thoroughly, and then turn it, legs up
ward. on a kitchen table. Tie a clean,
single or double piece of white
cheesecloth securely by the corners to
the chair legs, being careful not to
allow too much fullness to prevent too
much sagging. Place a bowl under
neath the bag on the under side of
the chair seat, and then pour some
boiling water from the kettle into the
bag. When it has run away, and the
cloth is still hot, quickly remove full
bowl and put another in its place, and
pour the hot fruit to be strained into
the jelly bag. Again change bowls
and pour the first juice back into the
jelly bag. Then throw a clean, white
mosquito netting over the chair, and
leave the jelly juice to strain all night.
Of course, chair, table, floor and every
utensil used, as well as the cheese
cloth and mosquito netting, must be
scrupulously clean.
BRACING A CORNER POST.
Here Is Another Good Way of Stiff
ening a Fence.
To brace a corner post in the way
shown in the accompanying illustra
tion bend a hook in the end of a piece
m jy c
1 I
How the Bracing Is Done.
of %-ineh iron and cut a thread on
the other end, says the Prairie Farm
er. A is a wooden brace and 1$ is a
wire hooked on the iron C which li
turned till the wire is taut,
FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
Discharged Because Doctors Could
Not Cure.
Levi P. Brock way, S. Second Ave.,
Anoka, Minn., says:"After lying for
five months in a
hospital I was dis
\ charged as incur-
a,jle . an 'l given only
v&i six months to live.
J My heart was affect-
J ed, I had smother
•J ing spells and some
times fell uncon-
Wfe- scions. I got so I
•\ couldn't use my
.A arms, my eyesight
was Impaired and
the kidney secretions were badly dis
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan's Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the Cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have been
feeling well ever since."
Sold by all dealers. GO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
BEGINNING EARLY.
"I have already promised ten cousins
to marry them. I can see I shall never
get through all my divorces."
He'd Pull Hard.
"Senator Folker, who journeyei to
Albany at the risk of his life to cast
the vote that doomed racing in New
York, had collected a number of in
stances of race-track trickery," said
an Albany legislator.
"Discussing, one day, the way jock
eys so often sold races, he said that
there was a Gloucester jockey once,
the rider of a favorite, who was over
heard to say in a saloon, the night
before the favorite ran:
"'I shan't win unless the rein»
break.' "
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CA6TORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
In Use For Over 30 Years.
The Kind You.Have Always Bought
A Timely Objection.
"I am afraid we must part, Fred,
dear. My father gave me strict in
junctions not to let you call on me."
"But, Ethel, I am unalterably op
posed to submitting to government by
injunction."
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This sign is permanently attached
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the Lytlia E. Pinkham Medicine
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What Does This Sign Mean ?
It means that public inspection of
the Laboratory and methods of doing
business is honestly desired. Itmeans
that there is nothing about the bus
iness which is not "open and above
board."
It means that a permanent invita
tion is extended to anyone to come
and verify any and all statements
made in the advertisements of Lydia
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Is it a purely vegetable compound
made from roots and herbs with
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