?TTT^- =^ff*T^y Wind Ana Sea. me. It 6eemed to me impossible to give way But at the end of the month he had "He will not harm her, I guarantee that," a while the boys had a good laugh as the I was not going to cave into a fellow like that. disappeared the house was locked up and no sa'd the cure. BT BAYARD TATLQB. '*I don't want to quarrel with you," I said, dog ran round and round in a vain attempt vestage of occupation about it. We gave him "Ah! you always had a better opinion of The sea is a jovial comrade slowly, and feeling white ^all over "but I plenty of ro e, but at the end of another two to keep the object appended to his him than he deserved," remarked the maire He laughs wherever he goes mean to cut the grass. Stand away," and I months,legal steps were taken for his eviction. drily. "But compose youaseU" monsieur the narative at a respectable distance. It was Hia menment shines in the dimpling lines raised the i-cythefor a sweep. The Judge, the Mayor, the Greffierall the police will find her quickly. To a poor man comical to be sure, and the ooys slapped That wrinkle his hale repose Covin leaped forward and planted himself officials were in attendance. The cottaee like Covin a child is not a valuable treasure. He lajs himself down at the feet of the sun, in himself in the way of the scythe. I turned their knees and fairly hugged themselves was summoned to surrender. It made no re. But to set fire to your house, ah, that was And shakes all over with glee asid,e, and began my storke at another ply. Thereupon, after three several demands with delight, but "when Tommy's malice. And the broad backed-billows fall faint onlfat place. With a wild bound he leaped in front for admittance, the door was broken open. mother and the owner of the dog appeared Here Hetty drew me aside. Shore, .tt-^" of me^ the scythe gave a sickening jai There was nothing inside but a worm-eaten "It was not Covin," she whispered in a on tne scene, coming in opposite directions In the mirth of the mighty sea. J^*n% p- oaken "buffet" and a pile of fishing-nets. The faltering tone, "who set fire to the house it if and unexpectedly seized him, CHAPTER II. place was cleared out and the nets deposited was I, accidently." But the 'wind is sad and restless,? Quite faint and queer, I leaned upon my the one by the left ear, and the other by at the mairie and now I thought I should he "Not Covin, but you*" I repeated, quite bewildered. And cursed with an inward pain scythe,looking at Covin, who with eyes blazing able to let tbe cottage, and thus diminish the the right, and attempted to lead hira off Tou may kark as you will, by valiey or hm,??** forth from a face of deadly palor, swayed cost of the cour. Already I had had several by different ways, the fun was over at "Yes I wanted plentlv of light, as you had But vou hear him still complain. to and fro, as if about to fall. I sprang forward applications for it, houses being in great demand let me all alone, and before I went to bed I He wails on the bairen mountains least for Tom, and the subsequent proceedings to hel- him, but he thrust me away Avith but I had not yet settled upon a tenant, lighted the big 'petrolo' lamp. And I upset And shrieks on the watery sea of the dog interested him no an indignant sture. I had wounded him, being anxious to get"a neighbor to my ta6te. it the flames were between me and the door. He sobs in the cedar, and moans in the pine, but I could not tell where. I uiight have But when I offered the place to the man I had I ran to the window and screamed." moxe' 0 And shudders all over the aspen-tree. severed an artery his death might'be upon chosen, to my surprise he declined at once to "Well and what then my head. Covin sank upon one knee and take it. And it was the same with all the rest "Why, a man came with a ladder, and we We]come are both their voices 4fle tliat Loveth is Bora or God." threw off bis shoe the scythe had cut through of my proposed tenents. They were very sorry, escaped I and Fracie." And I know not which is best the leather, it waB full of blood. There was but the house would not suit. Presently I I "And the man was & The laughter that slips from ocean's lips, an ugly wound on his foot, which he began to found out the reason. Covin had made it I hold that Cristian grace abounds "Covin." Or the comfortless wind's unrest. staunch with wisps of grass that he snatched known in the village that he had sworn a Where charity is seen that when There's a pang in all rejoicing, This cast anew and startling light upon the from about him. The sight of his own blood great oath that the first intruder who slept in We climb to heaven 'tis on the rounds A joy in the heart 01 pain affair. Covin the rescuer, and not the criminal! seemed to increase his fury, and supply him his bou6e should not leave it alive. In vain I Of love to men. And the wind that saddens, tile sea that gladdens. But why should he have taken Gracie? with an access of strength "he bounded to his rallieu the people upon their cowardice.' Probably, although some instinct of courage feet and dashed at me. With his face close This I moreover hold, and dare "Well," said the stoutest and most courageous Are singing the self-same strain. and humanity had brought him to the help to mine, pouring forth burning woids.he was among them: "If Monsieur 11 himself Affirm where'er my rhme may go: of my wife, yet finding his enemy's daughter feeiing for something at his side, his knife, sleep there for the first time, I agree to take Whatever things be sweet or lair, in his hands, the impulse to revenge himself no douot, which he habitually wore, sailor the cottage without another word." Love makes them so. had become to stronjr. fashion, hanging from his waist. A glance, FERE COVIN. I soon saw that this was the only way to i however, showed me that the knife was not "In the meantime," said the maire, "before quench the dread of Covin in the minds of the 'Tis not the wide phylactery, there. Covin, too, had arrived at the same doing auything we must dress a proces-verbal. CHAPTER I. villagers, and as long as that dread lasted Nor Stubborn fast, or stated prayers, conclusion. The knife had been there a few And, first, for the person who gave the earliest there was no chance of letting the cottage. I That makes us saints: we judge the tree I was at the top of my coura grassy slope, minutes beforeit must have fallen on the alarm of the fireof course, monsieur will felt too that tb^re was a kind of challenge to By what it bears. thickly set with apple-treeswe should call grass. We were both searching tbe ground recompense him handsomely. Let him come my courage in the man's insolent threat. WhUtier. it an orchard in England, where a ourt" with our eyes, and I felt sure that if Covin forward." Therefore I made knows in the village that on teems to suggest pavement, which it is far could get hold of it before me that I stood a But no one came forward to claim the reward such a night I would sleep at Covin's cottage. from doing in Normandy. Not but what there good chance of a deadly wound. We held each or the thanks of the commune. This I should be armed with a loaded revolver, and are plen-y of stones in my cour, and Gracie, other by a hand, ready to wrestle for possession The Greenlander. was a curious circumstance among people not let jokers beware for I should certainly fire up my precious, only daughter, sits in the sunshine ofthe weapon. giving to hiding their good deeds, especially on any one who disturbed me. making Druidic circles with them when a reward is in question. Our friend is up early in the morning, 'Bo'jour, pere Covin! Now you will make The wind howled in a melancholy fashion, Gracie, who is a vision of delight, the small "And who set the bell going?" asked the and, unheeding the smarting frosts on his me a little boat. See, pere Covin, here is your with a great swaying, rushing sound from the tyrant of our fields and home. Mirza, the big cure, "and roused us all from our sleep? The knife you have dropped it." sore face, he puts on his water-proof jacket forest, as I stumbled along the 6teep winding dog, i watching her with a grave and puzzled same brave fellow,toubtless." It was Gracie, who had picked the knife path that led to Covin's. I had to grope 'or mem, some occult resemblance in the once more to try a match with fortune, "Perhaps he is still the church," said the from the grass and placed it in Covin's disengaged the garden gate in the darkness, and as I flint stones to well-polished bones seeming to and alter so many days of ill-luck I will maire. hand Gracie who had come up behind touched the handle, the door of the loft went enchain his interest. There is another circlemaker "Ltt us go and see," suggested the cure. let him catch an enormous seal, of us unseen. to with a loud bang. I had not thought of close bythe cowtethered by a The church is only just across the road, and Covin snatched the knife from her I saw it great regsuk. When he is seen coming locking that, and now the wind had got it chain patsed round her horns to an iron pin, the cure admits us through the sacristy door. gleam in the air. Then he threw it far from open and was blowing about it, or perhaps it driven firmly into the soil. To give the cow back there is a shout from the shore of A rude ancient church, grotesque with age, him into the hedge. was Covin on the lookout for me. I climbed a new center of operations is my present ob "Ada KaligpekJ" Adam is towing! When thick 6quat columns, with quaint curved "This time I spare thee, for the child's sake, up the outside stair that led to the loft, sheltered jectbut where to put her? She has eaten volutes, looking in the dim light like 60 many he lands there will be hands enough to but I have not done with thee, miserable coward! by the overhanging eaves of the thatched up all my grass, and is now looking wistfully huge horned monsters. There is alight shining drag the seal ashore and up to the house. savage! assassin!" gable, closed the door and locked it, first at the green yeil tied round Grade's hat, as in the Snace behind the Altar, where there lighting my lantern in the shelter and looking And he limped off to his cottage, turning It would be better for the owner it there if she would like to eat that too. is a highly-tinseled shrine of the Virgin. A carefully around. Then I made mvwayto back every now and then to repeat the triplet were not so many, but reinernber, it is My speculations are cut short by a low taper is burning before tbe shrine, and by the the front door along the garden path all of epithets. growl from Mirza, the object of which, I see the season of famine. The greedy youngsters light we can make out a bundle of something choked up by luxuriant vegetable growth ''Hallo! What the dickens is the matter?" nest mwment, a man leaning over the eate lying in front. The cure stoops down and lifts of the place gathered round his The branches and tendrils of the unpruned It was the Professor, who, it seems, had accompanied the one that leads fore twarda sallow, the corner of a shawl there is a child fast vine caught at me and drew me back, like detaining: wife, who is already busy flensing, and Gracie up the cour, and who, not heavy-browed man, in the universal blue asleepit is Gracie. fingers, but I went on and opened the so nimble as the child, had been distanceed has distributed about the half of the skin blouse and closely fitting fur cap, this last The cure takes her up tenderly in his armsShe aoor boldly. in the ascent. quite out of keeping with the climate. He and blubber in tit-bi% "tamorasats,' to wakes and begins to crv, till, seeing her "He has some cause to abuse me I have touched his cap politely. Tne first thing I came in contact with was the children of the place. Then thero father's face among those about her, she gladly cut open his foot with my scythe." 'Monsieur has a nice cow but she looks an object hanging from the rafters, something nestles his arms. I hurry away, too full are some very urgent presents to be made "In a fracas thin. And the grass of the courit is worth in the shape of a man swinging slowly around. of joy and gratitude to say a word. Was this, ot the flesh, either raw or boiled. However, "Something of the kind nothing." It was Covin no doubt. Yes, there he was in then, Covin's revenge "By Jove" cried the Professor, "what an they will not forget themselves, and his habits as he lived, coat, trowsers and fisherman's "The grass is not bad," I remarked, "if For a long time after that I tried in vain to awkward thmg,and in this country,where personal bootsbut nothing inside them. Simply in the hut all is topsy-turvy with excitement there were only more of it." find Covin. I let it be known in the village violence is punished without respect of Covin's clothes hanging there. It was a "Ah! Monsieur should see the grass in my and joy. The lamps are relighted that he might come back to his cottage whenever persons. I'll show \outhe section in the Penal relief for the moment, and yet the fact itself cour, thick and luscious, and I have no cow he liked and not a word be said about the diamonds are gone! On the stove code was startling. The clothes were Covin's they to eat it. Will Monsieui bell the cow?" arrears. Enousrh money to furnish it well, or "I had no intention to hurt him." which is fitted for cooking purposes, the conveyed a distinct impression of their owner. No, I would not sell the cow. It had cost to buy a new boat. But although I fancy that That will be judged by the attending cir pot sputters and steams the precious They had not been there in the morning. me too much to acquire a 1 eal practical workmgcow, he heard of the offer, he never took advantage cumstances. If there has been a quariel, Covin must, therefore, have visited the place whose mils foams in the pail, milk blubber is used for fuel. The rest of the of it. One day, however, 1 heard that he had high words, you will find that justice will very recently perhaps even now he was hidden that will develop into cream and butter. I been seen in the village, and that his boat was skin, with the remainder of blubber is hardly take the most lenient view. But even somewhere within. Perhaps, too. there would not part witn the cow, but would my moored in the river close by. I managed to involuntary wounding is punished with imprisonment." precipitately brought to the shop of the was a secret meaning and significance in this new friend sell his grass intercept him with Gracie, and offer him my Danish monopoly, there to be exchanged hanging suit of clothes. Was a challenge "Oh!" cried Gracie, running up at this momens, hand. Covin put his behind his back. I drove into town and went to the office of conveyed in it? Why was not the Professor fur other articles not half its value, but "it is my little pere Covin. Bo'jour, "Come, let us be friends," I said. the piincipal huissier, an official who combined here to tell me what it signified in his wretched petit pere, and have you made the little boat which dainties now belong to the daily "Can I be friends with aman who has treated the functions of usher and bailiff of the code of primitive morals? you promised me?" my best clothes like this?" said Covin, undoing wants of ihe natives whenever they can affordt local court, collects debts and bills, and recovers I soon satisfied myself that Covin was not "Not jet," said covin, stooping down to kiss his bundle and holding up the suit that hem. So the urchins now eat away at them if necessary, by a legal process, concealed on the premises, and I discovered the proffered face. I have not found a piece I had thrown out of the window. I had is the auctioneer, valuer and factotum in all biscuits from Copenhagen and ties from too how he might have effected both exit and of wood suitable." thought nothing more about it, and certainly affairs of judgment or execution. It was better entrance. There was a window unfastened Symrna. The coffee, from Rio or Jamaica, 'But there is wood everywhere." the clothes had suffeied not a little from exposure. to take the bull by the horns, and get in the inner room quite big enough for the Covin, in spite of his heavy and forbidding is roasted in the out-of-doors kitchen the first word in the ear of justice. Besides, purpose, and the marks of muddy feet fresh look, is kind and obliging. He certainly has "I am very sorry, but you shall have a new represented by two large flat stones 01 the huissier and I weie already in fnendly upon it. But why should he have taken all got a nice piece of grass, with not so many suit." relations, as I had bought furniture of his the ground, and roasted with a wih. the trouble flint stones cropping np. We strike a baream "Pardon, monsier, the old ones suited me sales and had done other business with him. at once, without troubling the notary to put it Oh! there was a paper pinned to the suit of very well." The house-wife has resumed her sea The huissier listened with a grave face to into writinga lease of his cour for an indefinite clothes. It was the summons Covin had received Come! for the child's sake," I said, let me beside the pot, and stirs it with as mucl my story. He bad nothing to do with criminal peuod, at a rent of 5' francs per year, to appear in "conciliation." There thank you." cases himself, they rested with the poiice ease as if she never had been out of th. payable quarterly in advanee. was a signficance about this, as if it had eeu 'Monsieur," began Covin, with dignity, "I but clearly 1 was in amess I urged the put there in mockery. Anjhow, whatever habit. Delicious, most blessed kitche As we came out I saw the Professor coming deire no thanks, for had it in my heart to provocation I had received, hindred fiom might be meant, Covin should see how I estimated along, and paused to wait for him The P10- smells fill the room, and taere never havt do you agreat injury. I thought te come upon eutting the grass in the cour I had paid foi. his thrests. I cut down Covin's clofheb, fessor and his wife reside in the neighboring dou as you slept in my cottage, and I hung been such a happy lot of people as these. "As far as that went," remarked the huissier, and, squeezing them into a bundle, threw town, our only compatnots within a circle of yhese clothes up as warning to vou, and I said "the man was probably right. The If now, perchance, the husband continues them out of the window. Then I closed all many miles. to myself, if he respects my clothes I will not cour attached to a house was generally reserved bringing a seal now and thensay every the shutters and fastenings, and lay down on The character I heard of Covin from the haini mm. But you did not respect my for pastures only The man was only the mattress I had sent up for the pWpose, third, daythe family will soon be Professor, hardly tended to reassure me. He clothes, and then I detei mined to attack you defending the rights of his propi letalre." with my raugs carefully wrapped about me was a fisherman, it seemed, having a boat ou as you slept. Then I saw agleam of fii e, and metamorphosed with regard to its appearance, "A likely thins, when he has just come out and the loadtd revolver ready to my hand. 1 the river, and often sleeping on board it. No heard the scream of a woman. I am a Frenchmanyou and the household will be furnished oi prison for wounding him." I had lit afire in the hearth witb faggots, one in the vulagelikedhim he was"sauvage,' know the rest. But do I love vou, Yo Lav "Ah! is that so?" said the huissier, brightening with the most necessary utensils, such as and that at first threw a bright glow, but by that9 morose ad uncommnnicative, living anuttcily Monsieur, any better for np. "In that case, accompany me, if pots, pans, teacups, spoons and so forth, degrees the light dwindled and went ont lonely life. The only person who had a turned me away from my hearth, it was but a you please, to the greffier, and we will arranse The wind roared and bellowed as if the forest good woid for him was the cure. "Covin," poor hearth, cold and neglected, but once I all of which will probably be failing at the affair." had been full of wild beasts. But I was he said, "is industiious and attentive to his had a little daughter like yours, a wife too, the same time next year. And why not It now appealed that Covin, luckily for me, tued and must have slept, although I was not religious duties. I have known him to spend industrious and careful, and then there was sell your pot and spoon when you have was on the official black books. Only lately conscious of it when I finally found myself hours in the church, praying, his face woikmg happiness around it, of which have now only out of prison and reputed a dangerous character, nothing to cook in your pot and" nothing awake. I was awake, but with some delusions with strong emotion, his eyes fixed upon the the memory. And from this hearth you it was hardly likely he would ventme of sleep. I had an idea that I was being tried sa red images thrust me forth to eat with your spoon? The future according to the gendarmerie, or be listened to if he for making away with Covin, and that the But the cure added gravely that although to Esquimau philosophy, must "Come back to it, Covin, come and be my wenttht.re. A man with an evil leputation verdict was "Guilty, to be beaten with a rod estimable in some points, he feared the man neighbor." not be considered when you can get a who might be expected some day to commit of fire." And there was the fiery rod, sure was paosionate and revengeful. His unbridled "Adieu, Mon&ieur," as if he] had not heard a desperate ciime. morsel of dried fish or blubber to appease enoughfloating in the air, as it seemed to me. temper had already broueht him into trouble, me "Bring a process against him, then," suggeated Aroused the full consciousness, I gazed at it your immediate cravings in exchange for about whieh xhe cure declined to say any "Let me be your friend for what you have the huissieur. in a panic of neivous horror. The fiery rod more. his valuable iron pot or copper stew pan, done for me and mine." "Yes, bring a process!" echoed the greffier, resoh eel itself into a glare of light, shining I found out what the trouble had been from "Adieu, monsieur," repeated Covin, stonily, even though it cannot be bought for twicr a stout, jovial-looking man. The preliminary through a lougitudiaal crack in the wooden another quarter. He had attempted to assassinate as if an injury were a precious possession of foe*1 or thrice the value of the morsel of process is termed a '-conciliation." I trusted shutter. That window looked over toward his "proprietoi" (his landlord), and had which none should deprive him. that Covin would consider it conciliatory, but my house. That wa6 the cause of the light? for which he has sold it. That the Greenlander only lately finished a term of imprisonment "Gracie, speak to him," I said to the child I feared otherwise. There was no moon. Could it be a fii I for the offense. I comforted mysell by the cares nothing for just now, and "go and ask him to stay." threw open the shutter. There was a bright However, nothing happened till the day thought, tnat even the most ungovernable of never will, I am afraid. Besides, there is "Do stay, pere Covin," she cried "Papa fire of light from just below and luminous audience, when 1 presented myself at court men would not assassinate a tenant who paid will no more be wicked with you, and you this consolation, that some day he mav smoke rising through the trees. At the moment supported by the goodly person of the profes his rent regularly, and I determined that Covin shall make me again a little boat." the terrible thought shot thiough my have the chance of getting another's top sor. should get his quarterly payment with most Covin shook his Ijead sternly, but he brain: "My house has been fired. Perhaps "Otez vos chapeaux," cried the huissier, and or pan, or boots, if he nappens to have' scrupulous punctuality. snatched up the child and kissed her warmly. heie is Covin's revenge!" the little Judge entered in state in his robes, two pairs or evenbut this must be said, Soon after this I exchanged my cow for a Then, as if he could not trust himself any with the Calvinisticlooking velvet cap and In my mad rush towaid home I remembered pony, an operation which called forth many longer, he sprang hastily into his boat and in a very low whispereven his kayak' the stout groffler behind him with the book. that a ladder was the most indispensable jeers from the Professor. Of course, having pushed off. He glided away down the slow for a tit-bit of some kind or other. Po "Barton et Covin," drawled the greffier, thing, and that there wasone under the eaves a ponv and no cow, I no longer wanted grass feullen stream, and was soon lost to 6ight in poping his head out of the door. tunately, there is still so much ambitio of the stable. I'd save precious moments if I but hav. And so next spring I put down both the mist and gloom of coming night. Nor The Judge heard both stories, and then, eyeing caught this up on my way. There was now left that this very seldom occurs. Bui cours for hay. has he ever been seen in our neighborhood Covin, severely, told him that he had a no doubt of the fire tie sky all of a glow, and since. His cottage is still empty, and no one there is no end to the light-heartednesei, One evening, 6oon after, I wanted some very bad opinion of him, tand that he would a vivid tongue of fiame darting heavenward. willyenture to occupy it. The people in the fresh grass for the pony, and took my scythe of these child people, and our friends ir not advise him to come before the court too The ladder had been removed the fiend who village believe that he stil watches over the and went np to Covin's cour to cut a swathe the miserable hut will in no way tak often. But in the meantime he had left his had planned this had carried out his wicked place, and that any one who ventured to occupy of the rich, sweet herbage. The clank of the cour to Monsieur Anglais and received the their recent bereavements as a warning work completely. I hurried on. The village it would have to reckon with Covin's revenge. scythe brought Covin ont of his cottage, and money. Had he paid his rent to his proprietor? was already alive, and I heard the great for tbe future. When Summer come' he watched me for a few moments with lowering church bell clanging out the alarm vigorously. brow. round they will enjoy themselves in thpi Covin admtttcd that he had not. No, not Myhomewasin a blaze what had become "Itisforbiddentocutthis grass," he Said usual easy going, careless fashion it for more than a year. Not since the dispute of wife and child? Eccentricitle s. just as I had finished. all come right"ayussassimangilak they had together when the proprietor ran Happily my wife was safe she stood by the "How!" I cried, "I may not cut my own against the point of his knife. garden-gate wrapped in a cloakhalf distracted, is what they would say if ever a though Danbnry News. gra-s? Do I owe you any rent, Monsieur "Ah!" said the Judere, shaking his head wringing her hands and crying. of the coming Wmler should cross thi There are men who can face a stuffed Covin?" 8ageiy,"whatdidlsay?" And then he announced Where was Gracie? No one answered my "I did not let it for such a purpose, I forbid minds, which, however, it will not. 1 lion witoout the quiver of an eyelid or his decision briskly. "Let the frantic demand, and the next momeut I was you to cut any more." all manner of danger they will resign thought of fear who have been known to Monsieur Anglais take Covin's cour and house trying to clamber up to the upper windows "I don't want any more at preasant, but in off his hands, paying the arrears of rent. fate the same as in the time of famir ,1 by the trelliswork, that, rotten with age, gave walk boldly up to the Cardiff giant and a fortnight's time I began to cut the hav." Covin to haye a mo-ath in which to rpmove way beneath me. But Hetty seized me. "She and one of the remarks we often hear 1 touch his forbidding limbs with the free "I forbid you!" he cried, in a voice "husky his furniture, and then to make himself scarce, is not there she is safe from the fire, but she "Namigiuarpara." I must submit to th dom of a child toying with, a flower. with passion. and betake himself to a neighborhood where is srone, snatched away from me." "All the same, I shall begin." 1 will of the Lord.TlieFidd. And yet these same men cannot hear a he may be better appreciated because not so "By whom?" "And I shall prevent you." well known." littie woman at home speak to them "By Coyin." "Good we shall see!" A verdict that dissatisfies both plaintiff and "Which way?" without their knees giving way and a He followed me to the gate, muttering and Heaven on Earth. defendant must necessarily be based on the 'Over the hedge there." cold chill ranning down their back. talking to himself. 1 went home with the unpleasant immutable principles of justice. They were I ran in the direction pointed out, where feeling that it was my destiny to What is the planation of this? there, no doubt, these principles, although we Some people have singular ideas was a weak place the hedge, through have a desperate feud with M. Covin. All the could not see them. It's all very well in these times ot which the high road might be reached. Something perfect happiness. An industrious Scotcl same I would not give way. The hay should "But my foot!" cried Covin. had caught in the bramblesa morsel financial pressure, weighed in the balance man, who resided near New Yorkf be cut, if I had to cut it myself, "Served you right for putting it in the way of Gracie's litile night-dress. There were with which the tightness of a new boot, This turned out to be the alternative No accumul-L twenty years, andwho had of a scythe." footsteps dowa to the road, and there they one would come to cut Covin's cour, not for or even the toothache, is nothing to tell a a very handsome propertv, recently st ceased to be traceable in the 6lur. I could "And the arreas of rentwhy should I pay is,any inducement I could offer. man to look jolly and to affect a fortune them?" I argued. not tell which way he had turned. I must go to the 'ould countrie" for'his rattnr, wit It was "in the prime of summer-time a A 6 back to the house and ask my neighbors to "Consider what might have happened from it ne have it not, but when his bed-room the view that he should share his prosp sweet, fresh morning, when I rose and shoul help me in the pursuit, to run in Various directions, your want of care and judgment." bis last refuse from unreasoning creditorsis dered my scythe to begin on Covin's cour I ity, and slip away from his lease of L' For my own part, I would make f.r We left the court at the same moment. kissed my sleeping wife with a kind of feeling. invaded by the maid of all-work, as smoothly as possible. One day a frie the river, for in that direction I judged he had "And this is conciliation," I murmured. that I was bound on a dangerous errand I howling tor the three months' ages of the family paid a visit to the elegt I gone. Covin gave me one sidelong glance full of -reached quickly the cour, and takin- "mv which he is in arrears, that she may get malice. Were we reconciled? It hardly mansion on the Hudson, where the un When I reached the house again the fire -u stand, under a tree, began to sharpen mv seemed so. T^A marriedthere is no comfort for such a was out. The neighbors had smothered it scythe. At the sound of the whetstone and man was living with his son, ~nd CHAPTER III with blankets and carpets. It had been a petroleum scythe Covin appeare on tnc scene, his face man, not even in the traditional flowing, occasion to compliment the proprieto My new "proprietor" seemed quite satisfied fire, "soon kindled and soon burned," jWhite and wrathful, and began an harangue bowl (to which desrjeration drives so many. the estate on its surpassing loveliness with the decision of the court, as well he The maire was on the scene at this time, and 1 At last, with a kind of a fierce war-hoop he Tommy won't tie any more tinware to might be Inlfact, like every one else, he had cosy comlort. The owner, full of the cure. I told them what had happened, ]bounded forward and placed himself in front been afraid of Covin. Even when the latter besought them to aid me at once the search any more dog's tails. Thinking to have for his beautiful house, said he looke ,of me was in prison he dared not to evict him. But for the man who had fired mv house and "No* another strokenot another blade of some fun with which to regale his companions upon it and its surroundings as a "kin BOW it was a different thing altogether. I stolen my child. They couldn't hardly believe grass!" the mother afternocu?j of heaven on earth." "Heaven on eartt was the animal selected to' bell the cat he borrowed such an outrage to be possible in this Had I been prudent I should have shouldered his mothers' nefr tea-kettle quite unbeknown growled *he venerable Scot"heaven Whatever steps were taken to evict Covin, law-abiding country, but'there was the patent my scythe and walked away. But primitive that individual would give me the credit of it fact. Gracie was gone, and Covin had taken to her. "A neighbor's 8cotch-terrier earth, and no' a thimblefu' o' whiskey instincts of comoat were roused within all her. furnished the motive power, and for the hail hoose! na, na, nae heaven here .tfjggKK. ^*S^SafL^i i -ear