6 7 SERIAL v \yi story ftj •THE* ESCAPADE | MARITAL ROMANCE Cyrus Townscnd Brady ILLUSTRATIONS ftY 9 RAY WALTERS 1 (Copyright, IW«<, by W. O. Chapman.) SYNOPSIS. The Escapade opens, not in the ro mance preceding the marriage of Ellen Slocum, a Puritan miss, and Lord Car rington of England, but in their life after settling In England. The scene is placed, just following the revolution, in Carring ton castle in England. The Carringtons, after a house party, engaged in a family tilt, caused by jealousy. Lady Carrlng ton agreed to cut cards with Lord Strath gate, whose attentions to Ellen had be come a sore point with Carrington. The loss of $100,(X)0 failed to perturb her, and her husband then cut for his wife's I. O. 11. and his honor, Carrington winning. Additional attentions of Lord Carrington to Lady Cecily and Lord Strathgate to Lady Carrington compelled the latter to vow that she would leave the castle. Preparing to tlee, Lady Carrington and her chum Deborah, an American girl, met Lord Strathgate at two a. m., he agreeing to see them safely away. He attempted to take her to his castle, but she left him stunned in the road when the carriage met with an accident. She and Debbie then struck out for Ports mouth, where she intended to sail for America. Hearing news of Ellen's flight, Lords Carrington and, Seton set out in pursuit. Seton rented a fast vessel and started In pursuit. Strathgate, bleeding from fall, dashed onto Portsmouth, for which Carrington, Ellen and Seton were also headed by different routes. Strath gate arrived in Portsmoutli in advance of the others, finding that Ellen's ship had sailed before her. Strathgate and Carrington each hired a small yacht to pursue the wrong vessel, upon which each supposed Ellen had sailed. Seton overtook the fugitives near Portsmouth, but his craft ran aground, just as capture was imminent. CHAPTER Xlll.—Continued. For perhaps an hour the three ves sels—the ship and the two small boats —held on, every moment bring ing the little chasers nearer their great quarry. The Flying Star was making no especial effort at speed. Her royals were not yet set. She was proceeding on her voyage rather leisurely, in fact, and the others were in high hope, Carrington, especially. He thought that he at last had Strath gate where he could not escape, and if Ellen and Deborah were on that ship, they could not get away, either. Into this peaceful nautical passage at arms, suddenly a new factor was introduced. That, of course, was El an's boat. Sheltered by the island neither Strathgate nor Carrington had noticed it until it suddenly shot into view. Now Ellen had a better wind than any of the other three. On a broad reach she caine down on the big ship, as a sailor would phrase it, hand over fist. Her little boat was .heeled over until the lee gunwale was awash and danced over the waves at a terrific pace. Carrington saw the boat first. The reckless way in which she was being sailed caught his eye. It was too far for him to distinguish who sailed it, but he could tell that one of them was a woman. Something made him be lieve that it might be his wife. He gave the tiller to Ilaight, went up forward and stared hard. lie would have given anything for a glass but there was nothing of that kind in the fisherman's boat and he had to trust to his unaided eyesight. The longer he look,ed the more sure he became that it was Ellen. His first impulse was to alter his course and head di rectly for her cutter, but he realized the moment he conceived the design that he could never intercept her, that his only chance was to overhaul the ship for which she was evidently mak ing. He would thus lose no distance. If she did not intend to try to board the ship he could chase her after ward. The sailors on Strathgate's boat evidently pointed out the situa tion to him just as it had presented itself to Carrington, so all three held on. Ellen had the shortest distance to sail, and a free wind, while the ship and the other two boats had a hard beat before them. There was nothing Carrington could do in fact but hold his course, yet with what a fever of impatience he continued his steady beat to and fro across the harbor. The only satisfaction he got was that with every tack he gained percep tibly on Strathgate. Indeed the boats passed each other close enough for conversation, but Strathgate had noth ing to say to Carrington and Carring ton controlled himself waiting for a convenient opportunity to express him self fully and unequivocally. Both of them, moreover, were en grossed in the other boat. As the boats converged upon the ship, there was no doubt in Carrington's mind, or in Strathgate's, as to the identity of its passengers. The wind was get ting stronger as they drew farther out into the open channel and the rate at which they were drawing nearer to the ship grew correspondingly slower. Carrington gritted his teeth in his vexation. Still he held on. It was such a race as he had never sailed before. He held on although he knew that if the wind increased, bis case was a liope- less one; held on, although ho saw I Ellen's boat in a few moments would intercept the ship; held on, when he saw that boat disappear on the lee side of the ship; held on when he saw the ship thrown into the wind . to make a half board so that her way was practically checked; held on when two figures appeared upon the deck k of the ship, and one, a boyish look ing youth, walked over to the weather gangway and stood in full view of the approaching cutters, waved a hand, lifted a cap disdainfully and then dis appeared; held on when he saw the boat which the two had abandoned, trailing astern at the end of a long line. It was my lord's nature to hold on doggedly so long as there was the faintest possibility of success and be yond. And he kept up the chase of the big ship even though she suddenly covered with light canvas and, catch ing the full force of the breeze, great ly accelerated her motion. He held on even though a slant of the wind brought t lie breeze over the quarter of the big ship as she bore away on her course to the eastward. Carring ' ton marked that with sudden sur prise. The ship was not going to America apparently. liut it was evident, even to the most sanguine mind, that the game was - up. Strathgate's boat was suddenly • put about. The earl had abandoned i- the chase and was going back to har • bor. Carrington was not so easily . daunted, or perhaps he was more blind to the possibilities, for he strove - to persuade the boatmen to continue j the chase. He would have sailed to 1 France, or to America, or to the end of the world, in whatsoever boat he i was on so as it would float. But J the boatmen were not so minded. They were not provisioned for such a 1 cruise nor prepared for it. Not even > the incentive of unlimited financial 112 rewards with which Carrington strove i to dazzle them could make them agree ; to continue the pursuit. They were r clamorous for putting back to Ports ; mouth, seeing plainly that they had i failed. It was only the personal au • thority of Carrington's rank and sta > tion which kept them from summarily ; dispossessing him from the helm. "I'll Kill You." They were not quite ready for that when Strathgate's boat came rushing down toward them. It was Carrington's opportunity. Balked in his chase of his wife, he determined to wreak his vengeance upon the earl. As the boat drew close to his bows, by a sudden sweep of the helm he sent his own heavier cutter crashing fair into it. The force with which he struck the other boat caused Strathgate's smaller vessel to hang on the bows of Carrington's boat. There was no loss of life, for Strathgate, scarcely worse for the disaster, fol lowed by Cooper and the lad, scram bled aboard Haight's cutter. White with passion Strathgate rushed aft, shaking his fist at Carring ton, who sat laughing bitterly in the stern sheets. At Strathgate's back were Cooper, furious over the deliber ate wrecking of his boat, and the boy eager to join in the fray. "By heaven!" cried Strathgate, fiercely, "what did you mean by that?" "I should think that my meaning was obvious even to you," says my lord, indifferently, although he was seething with anger to see his adver sary within his reach. "I don't know you, sir," cried Coop er, shaking his fist, "but you sunk my boat. You done it deliberately. It'll cost you a matter of £50." " 'Tis cheap at the price," answered Carrington. "Don't worry, my man. Just pipe down," he continued, as Cooper opened his mouth to expostu late. "I'm Lord Carrington. You shall be paid for your boat and something for your trouble." "Payment is not enough to com pensate me, Carrington," cried Strath gate, furiously. "No," returned Carrington, "there's nothing that I might offer you that would pay you for what you've done, you dastard!" "What do you mean?" "You know very well what I mean, although I confess I have done some wrong to your powers of fascination," returned Carrington. "And what, pray, may be the ex planation of that statement?" queried Strathgate. "I thought that you had run away with my wife; I thought so yesterday morning, that is; but now I see that she fled from you as well as from me." "It's a lie!" cried Strathgate. Both men were now so worked up and so blinded with passion that they did not care for the open-mouthed, CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER i, 1908. open-eared audience which crowded around them. "She did go with me," continued the runaway. "it looks like it this morning. If she went with you, how did she come to he on yonder ship while you were here?" Strathgate laughed evilly. "If you must know it, my lord, your wife fled in my company." "Damn you!" cried Carrington. But Strathgate went on without heeding. "All accident, a broken coach wheel stopped our journey. I rode on ahead to make arrangements for our passage to some happier land 011 yonder ship. Lady Ellen elected togo by water." ''l don't believe a word of it," re turned Carrington. "If it were true," asked my lord again, "I ask you why you wore not on the ship?" "I overslept myself this morning, with tliu consequences which you see." "You haven't seen the end of those consequences, my Lord Strathgate," continued Carrington. "No?" "Not by any means. We'll settle the question as to which of tis is to live—" "And have Lady Ellen?" interrupt ed Strathgate. Carrington whipped out his pistol. "Another word like that and I'll kill you without giving you a chance for defense." "You threatened to murder me on the wharf an hour or so ago," and Strathgate, equably. "What prevents you from doing it now?" "A thing of which you know noth ing," answered Carrington. "And what is that, pray?" "A sense of honor." "Indeed," answered the earl, "I had understood that your honor was in Lady Ellen's keeping." The sweat stood out on Carrington's face. He locked his jaws until the muscles rose like whipcords. He was under the strongest possible con straint a man may put upon himself. "My honor is in her ladyship's keep ing," he said slowly at last, "and I am confident that she will never put it at the hazard of a blackguard like your self." This time it was Strathgate who gave way. "You have another pistol at your belt. Give it to me. Take you one end of this boat and I the other. We'll see then who has the right to live and love." "I dishonor myself," said Carring ton, rising and abandoning the tiller, which was instantly grasped by one of the crew, "by meeting you in this way, but I'll do it. Here!" He extended one of the pistols. "I would prefer a choice," said Strathgate, not extending his arm to take it. "As you will," returned Carrington, extending both of them to him. "You honor me in doubting my good faith," he remarked as Strathgate took one of the pistols. "Ilaight," said Carring ton, "take your station amidship, out of range, and count three. There shall be no firing done by either of us until after the word 'three.' Are you agreed. Lord Strathgate?" "Entirely," returned the other, step ping forward. But Master Haight did not propose to have his vessel turned into a field of honor, which would be a field of blood. He interposed a vigorous ob jection. "Gentlemen," he began, "I'll have no murder done here." "There shall be none," said Carring ton. " 'Tis a fair duel with each man a chance for his life." "I don't know about that, my mas ters," returned the sailor, "but I say this: This boat's mine, I'm the cap tain of it, and I'll have no fightln* aboard. Savin' yer honors' graces, it can't be done. You agree with me. Cooper? You, Jack? You, Ned?" "Ay, ay," returned the others, clos ing about Haight and interposing be tween the would-be combatants. (TO BE CONTINUED.) : BRIDE BALKED AT THE ALTAR. Massachusetts Girl Refused to Wed Count and Denounced Him. At St. Stanislaus' church, Fall River, Mass., Angela Pawlow, daughter of a merchant, absolutely refused togo on with the marriage ceremony that was to unite her to Basyl Mulinski, who says he is a Polish count and the owner of an estate in Russia. The marriage had been set for eight o'clock. The church was crowded with friends and relatives. The bride groom had answered an exultant "Yes" to the usual question, and the bride, in a white silk wedding dress with long veil and wedding bouquet, seemed to smile as Father Basin turned to her and asked: "Will thou take unto thee this man to be thy lawfully wedded husband?" The bride dropped her hand from the arm of the bridegroom. She turned and faced the crowded church and answered loudly: "No; he has been unfaithful to me before marriage. I will not marry him." Then the girl ran down the aisle to I her mother. The audience was dum- j founded. Before it really appreciated 1 what had happened the church officials had cleared the church. Woman's Wiles. "Yes," confided Mrs. A., "I find it very profitable to give my husband a dressing down occasionally. I gave him one to-day." "But how is it profitable?" queried Mrs. Z. "Why, he generally gives me a dressing up." "Dressing up?" "Yes; to get me in good humor again he promises me a new coat, • new aet of furs and a uaw hat" ONE KIDNEY GONE But Cured After Doctors Said There Wag No Hope. Sylvanus O. Verrill, Milford, Me., ; says: "Five years ago a bad injury paralyzed me and affected my kid- W' r J neys. My back hurt me terribly, and the urine was bad iy discolored. Doc tors sal 'l ray right |W kidney was practi- V jTyyjy cally dead. They said I could never walk again. I read of Doan's Kidney Pills and began us ing them. One box made me stronger and freer from pain. I kept on using them and in three months was able to get out on crutches, and the kidneys were acting better. I improved rap idly, discarded the crutches and to the wonder of my friends was soon completely cured." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD. Pinxit—l have just finished the late Mrs. Peck's portrait. It's a speaking likeness. The Widower Peck—Would It be too much trouble to —er —change It a bit in respect? DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA Could Lay Slate-Pencil in One—Hand* in Dreadful State—Permanent Cure in Cuticura. "I had eczema on my hands for | about seven years and during that , time I had used several so-called rem ! edies, together with physicians' and druggists' prescriptions. The disease was so bad on my hands that I could lay a slate-pencil in one of the cracks and a rule placed across the hand would not touch the pencil. I kept using remedy after remedy, and while some gave partial relief, none relieved as much as did the first box of Cuti cura Ointment. I made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and my hands were perfectly cured after two boxes of Cuticura Ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap were used. W. H. Dean, Newark, Del., Mar. 28, 1907." Women Fishermen. On the coast of Holland, Belgium and Northern France the fisherwomen are a familiar sight, with their great hand nets and quaint costumes. Many of the towns have distinctive costumes by which their women can be recog nized anywhere. Those of Mana-Kirke, near Ostend, wear trousers and loose blouses, while their heads and shoul ders are covered by shawls. They carry their nets into the sea and scoop up vast quantities of shrimps and prawns, with an occasional crab or lobster and many small fish. They often wade out till the water is up to their necks, and they remain for hours at a time in water above their knees, rarely returning until their baskets are full. A Doctor's Disadvantage. "In one way," said a collector, "it la easier to get money from a doctor than anybody else who is slow pay. It is more difficult for him to swear that he hasn't been able to make any collections himself since the first of the year. A doctor's reception room is open to all possible patients. A col lector with a grain of ingenuity can find a way to worm out of the men on the waiting list information as to the terms of payment. After an inter view with three or four persons who have paid spot cash for treatment and who have told the collector they paid, It takes a mighty nerve on the part of the doctor to insist that he hasn't a dollar to his name." 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