CoPYRIOMTY SYNOPSIS. wifa of a Confederate and another Is n from the presi » reluctantly gives nt te p "i wel, the youngest, to father The r } last assault nond Edith secures fre re Davis for Capt who just ing from wou chief the x at Richm tel :dith he has She declares he mt dent He is strangely clares he cannot accept. Thorne to escape while Edith leaves the get the commission, but son the army Are consents ission is AS agitated is prevented ‘aroline itford Arrelsford service, a rejed Jonas, Mrs from CHAPTER IX. The Shot That Killed. A glance sho ‘apta be through wed ( vond y OG, door back entered There the back windows guarded well The jations had gered, honor in which the a + } . ov ved that the I and Andre from even ity of them And the the remotest idea o intrepid and had not saved opprobrium and disgrace than re was even more honor inva! \ upon IVE “ board His y ¢ jecun to tt} Varney 1bing 1e at TT entered attempted the des At first he hq tractions of Edith eve his head when he perate, the fatal role regarded the Varn if as a che board and and h pawn in strength of character the because of him to assume unenviable his good, played, countrys which through for his country's d have carried and scorn i upon him } not stand and woul obloquy came fo yielded to and broke his selfim- he had fought a him in goo 3104 whe it thoughts of her his passion, posed vow of silence, good fight Now he realized that woman who should accept hi tions would compromise ever in the eyes of everything held dear. even if he succeeded lived, which was unlikely He had never, go he fancied, in the least and remotest way given her any evidence that he loved ber. In reality, ghe had read him like an open book, as women always do. He had come there that night get the message from Jonas, and then to bid her good. bye forever, without disclosing the state of his affections. If he succeed ed in manipulating the telegraph and carrying out his end of the project, he could see no chance of escape. Ultl- mate detection and dxecution appeared certain, and any avowal would there. fore be nseless. But he had counted without her. She had shown her feel. ings, and he had fallen. To the tempta- tion of her presence and her artless disclosure, he had not been able to make adequate resistance, the affec herself for she and to er ——————" Famous English Poet as She Saw Him. Frances Lady Shelley, most of the celebrated people tween the detes 1787 and 1817, gives a description of Lord Byron as she first saw him in 1813: “From Althorp we went to Colonel Leigh's, near Newmarket, for the shooting. We stayed there a few He was the last man on earth to blame her or to reproach her for that; of the man was overwhelming when {it once broke and he felt that he must tell her or die, Because of his iron for so long he was the i stand the pressure in had thrown everything and had told her how Out there in the arbor, the scent southern night of the girl, her out of the stood, the pallor and fall of her hand as unwitting knows, touched intoxicated and his fon all bounds, loose, able to end. the loved less the to he moonl of her ight in the the flowers, the shining rose the wind, eves proxim ity like stars they shadows of her face, rise the flutter ing tingly, bosom, th of her ly or wit ing who she had pass had he had spoken swered him, broken to her and st loved him to him now? Sometimes She hat vy n that mean woman's Swlh The Yard Was Full of Armed Men. him that there great battle they him por It came to nothing left but in that room unless from behind door tiere, giving him chance did confront him openly show them that if he had secret gervice and the life of a epy he could fight and die like a man and a goldler. He held some lives the chamber of his revolver, and they should pay did they give him but a chance room now, Was one shot indow or » Or no if be would chosen and tumultuous thoughts which ran than it has taken to record them, he heard a nolae at the window at the farther side of the room, as if some one fumbled at the catch. Instantly { Thorne shrank back behind the por dave. for the company it contained Lord Byron was there. Mrs. Leigh told me { that he spent most of the night writ | ing a poem which is to be called "The | Corsair.” As be did pot leave his room until after midday our inter course was restricted “He is decidedly handsome and can be very agreeable. He seems to | be easily put out by trifles and at | times looks terribly savage. He was dren, who are not In the least In awe not completely concealing himself but sufficiently hid as to be unobserved except by careful scrutiny in the dim light. Once more he clutched the butt of his revolver swinging at his walst, He bent his body slightly, and even the thought of Edith Varney passed from his mind. He stood ready, pow- erful, concentrated, determined, con fronting an almost certain enemy with the fierce heart and envenomed i glance of the fighter at bay. | He had scarcely assumed this posi the was opened, man was thrust violently through into the room At the first glance Thorne, as yet unseen, recog- nized the newcomer as his elder broth er, Henry Dumont. Unlike the two famous brothers of the parable, two loved each other tion when window and a those Thorne's muscles relaxed, his hand stiil clutched the butt of his revolver, he was still alert, but here not | an enemy He began fath | om something at least of the the purpose of the trapped him. In a that his en were not vet in | session of | warrant was atl once Lo and had plan pe ople who he perceived pos would flash emies all the them | which ids the upor ' him final evidence upon into { He | gee them, had eyes wi to turn suspicion was V icking although Lt every certainty could feel, could not tha solely clogely w door window that he a i i0 : ne false The WAS which would betray which gtill po His move pli i much for he had was led The | yet fal breast {zon Pres r door WT hall and as Was within the came range of 1 opening the gaw in | shadow hail vesed bavonets {and men He the . . xr 1 0 €8Ca} $id wal went on past door toward the would re dropped the large windows at the front of and in at stood house another moment been the wi whe : have front ndow Thor The latter { the curtain and stepped out | room For { the ne into the two brothers stared and then, in a fiercely { Thorne, playing his { called out “Halt! thousandth part of a second | ench other. intense part, desperately voice, You are a prisoner Both brothers were quick | both knew that were | closest observation, both rea they were expected to betray relation. ship, which would ineriminate both, and probably result fatally for one and certainly ruin the plan. Thorne's cue was to regard his brother as the pris oner whom it was important to arrest and Dumont's cue was to regard his brother as an enemy with whom it witted, they under of the two were With a quick sought to pass a movement leaped upon “Halt, The was instantly. Dumont made up movement his brother, but equally rapid Thorne him, shouting again: 1 ray!” two men instantly grappled it they en- were of about if anything, stronger, but this ad- was offset by the fact that he en recently ill, and the two therefore on equal terms at It w fierce, desperate grap which they met As they strug common impulse, part of the room which was farthest ndows, and likely closely ther, struggie They weight; mimic th ither ht and the no gaged in il heig Thorne equ was first as a ple In both by a toward th the from reeled near away where the ut mantel doors would ard or wij be or to be they the least more fought toge is your what reeling to the and a rturned a vt ¢ ar Ol atrength don't, for and then Here's vou he matter wi that gun,” said of himself his volce rose There words, it was nothing suspicious at he might been a real more violent weapon from holster and away Thorne's aining band The latter sought desperately to reposse #8 himself of it , Harry! You'll hurt your implored, but the next mo- nt by a superhuman effort Dumont him back. As Thorne stag. Dumont turned the pistol on Recovering himself) with in swiftness, Thorne is brother, and the two figures went together with a crash in the wh battle by a the WAR said had the he hoe wt as spoke rt enched from “100k out [," he credible instead of in the side, in the struggle Dumont had un- lung. (TO BE CONTINUED) of him. He bo™ their distracting in: trusion into his room with imperturb- able goad humor Mre. Leigh has evidently great moral influence over of playful acquiescence. the permanence of their effect upon his wayward nature” Trousseaux, In anclest Greece the troussean were made by all the women of the bride's house. Later the Merovingian chiefs exacted that thelr brides should come to the marriage their possessions, ter of the seigneur of Covey married, her trousseaux, or “trousses.” includ bringing chaplain, and an astrologist.” The custorns of the seigneurs evolved popular “fashions,” and, high and low, the women multiplied their garments and the fashions of them, Under the empire the trousseau was composed of jewels, lace, fine un derwear, bonnets, and vells.—Harper's Weekly. \ ! | | i { COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade ani Market Reports. treel’'s says concurrent Brad “Optimism furnish trade have heid try from LF with good for this buyers t yroLes iting yuying the ke \ week report Vis AWAY In mos Iarket of have oper 8 leading Is parts yuthwest servativels ve Poultry. Chickens savy. 16¢ emall to do, 10G11; do large. 18 to medium 11: do, spring. large, 17@ 18 to medium, 17@18¢c. 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