mmm %&£*? 5« 3^ 'IF^:^ *"!££$ f. & j* INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX and above all I did as 1 had premised the" part, n.,*he way that 'I knew" "so "Well, now. be reasonable, Jock.' stared alTeaeh ^other. The coming of gIHHH»ttt«»tmt»«HiT "You are French, are you not?" I tliht day on the hillside. I as a well, before she was done I could said he, sticking his hands into his the man had been so strange, and his asked, as we all walked up the hill together, brother to her. and no more, though see that his head was buzzing with her pockets and rocking to and fro as he questions, and now this sudden turn. THE he with his black bag in his there were times when I had to put I beauty and her kindly words. I stood. "Let me show you how It We took him by a shoulder each and hand, and his long blue cloak slung a curb upon myself. thrilled with pride to think he should slands. Look me in the eye and you'll turned him upon his back. His lips over his shoulder. For the most part she and Jim were think so well of my kin. GREAT see that I don't lie. It's this way. I were bloodless, and his breath would "Well, I am of Alsace," said he. happy enough. It was all over the "Isn't she fine. Jim?" I could not had met Edie—Miss Calder, that Is-before scarce shake a feather. "And you know they are more German countryside that they were to be married help saying when we stood alone outside I came that morning, and there "He's dying, Jim," I cried. when he had passed his degree, than French. For myself, I have SHADOW the door, he lighting his pipe before were things which made me look upon "Aye, for want of food and water. been in so many lands that I feel at and he would come up to West Inch he set off home. her as free, and, thinking that, I let There's not a drop or a crumb in the four nights a week to si? with us. My home in all. I have been a great traveler. "Fine!" he»cried. "I never saw her my mind dwell on her. Then yon said boat. Maybe there's something in the folk were pleased enough about it, And where do you think that I match." she wasn't free but was promised to bag." He sprang in and brought out and I tried to be pleased too. might find a lodging?" "We're going to he married," said I. you, and that was the worst knock a black leather bag, which, with a We used to take long rambles together, By I can scarcely tell now, on looking I've had for a time. It clean put me The pipe fell out of his mouth, and large blue coat, was only thing in the Jim and I, and it is about one back with tfie great gap of five-andthirty A. CONAN DOYLE off. and I made a fool of myself for the boat. It was locked, but Jim had he stood staring at me. Then he of those thpt I now want to tell you. years between what impression some days, and it's a mercy I'm not picked it up and walked off without a it open in an instant. It was half We had passed over Bramston heath this singular man had made upon me. in Berwick jail. Then by chance 1 full of gold word. I thought that he would likely pieces. and round the clump of firs which .Tim Horscroft was a fine man, an.l met her again—on my soul, Jock, it Come back, but he never did. and I Neither of us had ever seen so much Antbor of screens the house of Major Elliott Maj. Elliott was a brave one, but the^ was chance for me—and when I spoke ffee Adventures ol saw him far off walking up. the brae before—no. nor a tenth part of it. from the sea wind. It was spring, Slierlock Holmes both lacked something that this wanderer of you she laughed at the thought. It with his chin on his chest. There must have been hundreds of and ihe yea'- was a forward one, srt had. It was the quick, alert was cousin and cousin, she said, but them, all bright new British sovereigns. But I was not to forget him, for that the trees were well leaved by the look, the flash of the eye, the nameless as for her not being free, or you being Indeed, so taken up were we Cousin Edie had a hundred questions end of April. It was as warm as a distinction which is so hard to more to her than a friend, it was fool's Copyright by A. Conan Doyle. that we had forgotten all about their to ask me about his boyhood, about summer day, and we were the more And then, we bad saved him talk. So you see, Jock, I was not so owner, until a groan took our thoughts fix. his strength, about the women tha surprised when we saw a huge fire when he lay gasping on the shingle, much to blame after all, the more so back of him. His lips were bluer than lie was likely to know: there was- no roaring upon the grass plat before the and one's heart always softens toward SYNOPSIS. as she promised that she would let you satisfying her. Aud then again, later ever, and his jaw had dropped. I can major's door. There was a fir tree In what one has 'once helped. see by her conduct that you were mistaken see his open mouth now, with its row in the day, I heard of him, but in a CHAPTER I.—Writing' long after the it, and ihe flames were spouting up in thinking that you had any "If you will come with me," said I, less pleasant fashion. of white, wolfish teeth. events described. Jack Calder, Scottish as high as the bedroom windows. Jim claim upon her. You must have noticed "I have little doubt that I can find farmer, tells how, in his childhood, the It was my father who came home "My God! he's off," cried Jim. and I stood staring: but wo stared the fear of invasion by Napoleon, at tha| that she has hardly had a word you a bed for a night or two, and by in the evening with his mouth full of "Here, run to the burn, Jock, for a more when out came the major, with lime complete master of Europe, haa for you for these last two weeks." that time you will be better able to poor Jim. He had been deadly drunk hatful of water. Quick, man. or he's gripped the British nation. Following a a great quart pot in his hand, and at I laughed bitterly. "It was only last make your own arrangements." since midday, had been down to Westhouse false alarm that the French had landed, gone! I'll loosen his things the his heels his old sister, who kept night," said I. "that she told me that He pulled off his hat, and bowedwith Jim Horscroft, the doctor's son, youth of Links to fight the gypsy champion, while." house for him, and two of 'lie maids, fifteen, quarrels with his father over all the grace imaginable. But I was the only man in all this earth and it was*not certain that the Away I tore, and was back In a joining the army, and from that incident and all four began capering about the that she could ever bring herself to .Tim Horscroft pulled me by the sleeve man would live through (he night. My minute with nr.n-h water as would a lifelong friendship begins between the tire. He was a douce, quiet man, as love." and led me aside. boys. father had met Jim on the highroad, stay in my Glengarry. Jim had pulled all the country knew and here he Jim Horscroft. put out a shaking You're mad, Jock," he whispered. dour as a thunder cloud, and with an open the mail's cat and shirt, and we was. like Old Nick at the carl ins* CHAPTER II.—When Jack is eighteen hand and laid it on tny shoulder, while "The fellow's a common adventurer. insult in his eye for every man that doused th itor over him, and forced his father's brother dies and his daughter, dance, hobbling round and waving his he pushed. his face forward to look passed him. "Guid sakes!" said the What do you want to get mixed up some bet"ocm his lips. It had a good Edie, seventeen years old, comes to drink above his head. We both set •nto my eyes. oid man. "He'll make a fine practice with him for?" live with her uncle. Attractive personally, effect. 'u, ii iei a gasp or two he sat off running, and he waved the more "Jock Calder," said he, "I never Intensely romantic, and seemingly feeling for himsel' if breaking bones will do But I was always as obstinate a up, ar 1 his eyes slowly, like a when he saw us coming. little sorrow for her father's death, the knew you tell a lie. You are not trying it." Cousin Edie laughed at all this, man as ever laced his boots, and if man who is waking from a deep sleep. to the girl Is something of a puzzle "Peace!" he roared. "Huzza, boys!! to score trick against trick, are and I laughed because she did, but I you jerked me back it was the finest simple folk of the Calder home. But i: Nm Tr:n nor I were looking at Peace!" I you? Honest, now, between man and was not so sure that it was funny. way of sending me to the front. his fpep row, for our eyes were fixed And at that we both fell tQ dancing CHAPTER III.—Edie makes a plaything man." On the third day afterward I was "He's a stranger, and It's our part on his uncovered chest. and shouting too, for it had been such of Jack's affections, and though always "It's God's truth," said I. going up Corriemuir by the sheep to look after him," said I. There were two deep red puckers in somewhat in awe of her, a feeling a weary war, as far back as we could He stood looking at me. and his face track, when who should I see striding of deep love for his cousin develops in "You'll be sorry for it," said he. It. one just below the collar bone, and remember, and the shadow had lain so had set like that of a man who is having the boy's heart Edie reproaches him for down but Jim himself. But he was "Maybe so." the other about halfway down on the long over us that it was wondrous to staying at home in Idleness while his a hard fight with himself. It was another man from the big, kindly fellow "If you don't think of yourself you right side. The skin of his body was feel that it was lifted Indeed it was country is at war. Stung by her words, a long two minutes before he spoke. who had supped his porridge with might think of your cousin." extremely white up to the brown line he declares his intention of Joining the too much to believe, but the major "See here. Jock," said he. "this army at once, but she persuades him to us the other morning. He had no collar "Edie can take very good care of of his neck, and the angry crinkled laughed our doubts to scorn. woman is fooling us both. D'you hear, stay. He tells her he loves her and she nor tie, his vest was open, his hair herself." spots looked the more vivid against "Aye, aye, it is true," he cried, stopping, apparently returns his affection. man?—she's fooling us both. She loves matted, and his face mottled like a it. From above I could see there was "Well, then, the devil take you, and with his hand to his side. "The 1 you at West Inch, and she loves me man who has drunk heavily overnight. a corresponding pucker in the back at you may do what you like," he cried, allies have got Paris, Boney has on the brae-side, and in her devil's He carried an oak stick, and he in one of his sudden flushes of anger. one place but not at the other. Inexperienced thrown up the sponge, and his people CHAPTER IV. heart she cares a whin blossom for slashed at the whin bushes on either Without a word of farewell to either as I was. I could tell what are all swearing allegiance to Louis neither of us. Let's join hands, man. side of the path. that meant. Two bullets had pierced of us he turned off upon the track that XVIII." The Choosing of Jim. and send the hell-fire hussy to the "Why, Jim!" said I. led up toward his father's house. his chest—one had passed through It, An1 then there came ten weeks "And the emperor?" I asked "will right-about." But he looked at me in the way that Bouaventure de Lapp smiled at me were like a dream, and are so they spare him?" and the other had remained Inside. But this was too much. I could not I had often seen at school when the as we walked on together. look hack upon. I would But suddenly he staggered up to his "There's some talk of sending him r»ow curse her in my own heart, and still devil was strong in him, and when he "I didn't thought be liked me very feet, and pulled his shirt to, with a ve ,ry you were I to tell you what to Elba, where he'll be out of mischiefs less could I stand by and hear another knew that he was in the wrong, and much." said he. "I can see very well «ed between us. but oh! how earssnii way. But his officers-thers quick, suspicious glance at us. man do it, not though it was ray oldest yet set his will to brazen it out. Not tkJ that lie has made a quarrel with you "What have I been doing?" he asked. ffiffn) alt-important are some of them who will not got off It friend. a word did he say, but he brushed past because you are taking me to your at ihe lime. Her waywardness, so lightly. Some deeds have been "I've been off my head. Take no notice "Don't you call names 1" I cried. me on the narrow path, and swaggered home. What does he think of me of anything I may have said. done these last twenty years that have "Ach! you sicken me with your toft hv ever-varying moods, now brig it, then? Does he think, perhaps, that I not a on, still brandishing his stick been forgotten* There ate tef] Have I been shouting?" now dark like a meadow under drifting have stole the gold in my bag, or what rti'k. I'll cail her wluii she should be "You shouted just before you fell." and cutting at the bushes. clouds, her causeless augers, her old scores to be settled. But it's peace, called." is it that he fears?" Ah well. I was not angry with hiin. sudden repentauces, each iu turn filling peace"' and away he went once more "Will yon. though?" said I. lugging ••What did I shout?" I was sorry, very sorry, and that was me with Jo.v or sorrow—these with his great tankard, hopping round I told him, though It bore little "Tut! I neither know nor care.7?r all. Of course I was not so blind but off my coat. "Look you here. Jim my life, and all the rest was but his1 bonfire. meaning to my mind. He looked sharply said I. "No stranger shall pass our Horscroft, if you say another word that I could see how the matter stood. emjvdness. But ever deep down behind Well, we stayed some time with the at us, and then he shrugged his door witiiout a crust and a bed." With He was in love with tidie, and he could against her I'll lick it down your ail my other feelings was a vague major, and then away we went down shoulders. my head cocked, and feeling as if I throat if you were as big as Berwick not bear to think that I should have disquiet—a fear that I was like the to the beach, Jim aud I, talking about "It's the words of a song," said lie. was doing something very fine, instead her. Poor devil! liow could he help it? castle. Try me, and see!" man who set forth to lay hands upon this great news and all that would "Well, the question is, what am I to of being the most egregious fool He peeled off his coat down to the Maybe I should have been the same. the rainbow, and that the real Edie come of it. How little did Jim know elbows and then he slowly pulled it on do now? I didn't thought I was so south of Edinburgh, I marched on There was a time when I should have •Calder, however near she might seem, at that moment, as he strode along by again. weak. Where did you get the water?" down the path, with ray new acquaintance wondered that a girl could have turned was in truth forever beyond my my side so full of health and of spirits, at my elbow. "Don't be such a fool, Jock," said a strong man's head like that, but I reach. that he had reached the extreme (To be continued) I pointed towards the burn, and he knew more about it now. he. "Two old friends mustn't fall out It was after Christmas, but the winter summit of life, and that from that staggered off to the bank. There he For a fortnight I saw nothing of over such a—well, there, I won't say had been mild, with just frost hour all would in truth be upon the lay down upon his face, and he drank it. Well, by the Lord! if she hasn't Jim Horscroft, and then came the enough to make it safe walking over downward slope. nerve for ten!" until I thought he would never have Thursday which was to change the Aluminum. the peat bogs. One fresh morning There was a little haze out to sea, improved done. At last he got up, with a long I looked around, and there she was, whole current of my life. Edie had been out early, and she came curious new form of aluminum for it had been very misty in the early A sigh, and wiped his mustache with bis not twenty yards from us, looking as I had woke early that day, and, with back to breakfast with a fleck of color morning, though the sun had thinned has been attracting attention In coo! and easy and placid as we were sleeve. a little thrill of joy, which is a rare on her cheeks. It. As we looked seaward we suddenly France. When the pure metal Is heated hot and fevered. "That's better," said he. "Have you thing to feel when a man first opens "Has your friend, the doctor's son saw the sail of a small boat in a vacuum, 97 per cent of it. I» any food?" "I was nearly home," said she, his eyes. Edie bad been kinder than come home, Jack?" says she. break out through the fog and come slowly volatilized in 73 hours St about "when I saw you two boys very busy I had crammed two bits of oatcake usual the night before, and I had fallen "1 heard that he was expected." bobbing along toward the land. A 1,100 degrees Centigrade and the into ray pocket when I left home, and talking, so I came all the way back asleep with the thought that maybe at "Ah. then it must have been him single man was seated In the sheets, whole is volatilized in 30 hours at these he crushed into his mouth and to know what it was about." last I had caught the rainbow, and that I met on the imiir." and she'yawed about as she ran, as 1,200 degrees centigrade. small por A swallowed. Then lie squared his shoulders, that, without any imaginings or makebelieves, Horscroft took a run forward and "What? You met Jim Horscroft?" though he were of two minds whether tion always proves less volatile puffed out his chest, and patted caught her by the wrist. She gave a she was learning to love plain 'i am sure it must be he. A splendid-looking to beach her or no. At last, determined, the rest. Quite often a kind of frac little squeal at the sight of his face, his ribs with the flat of his hands. Jack Calder of West Inch. It was this man. a hero, with curly it may be, by our presence, he tional distillation yields an aluminum but he pulled her toward where I was "1 am sure that I owe you exceedingly thought, still at my heart, which had Mack hair, a short, straight nose, ami made straight for us, and her keel residue that has increased affinity for standing. well," said he. "You have been given me that little morning chirrup of gray eyes. He was dressed in gray, grated upon the shingle at our very oxygen, and within a month this Is very kind to a stranger. But I see "Now, Jock, we've had tomfoolery joy. And then I remembered that If and he has a grand, deep, strong feet. He dropped his sail, climbed out, completely changed into a bulky grayish-white ertough," said he. "Here she is. Shall that you have had occasion to open I hastened I might be in time for her, voice." and pulled her bows up onto the beach. n.ixture of alumina and we take her word as to which she my bag?" for it was her custom to go out with "Ho. ho. you spoke to him?" said I. "Great Britain, I believe?" said he, aluminum. One suggestion is that impurities "We hoped that we might find wine likes? She can't trick us now that the sunrise. turning round and facing us. as of Iron or silicon impart this She colored a little, if site had or brandy there when you fainted." we're both together." But I was too late. When I came He was a man somewhat above peculiarity. But analysts shows only sa'd more ihan meant. "T was go­ she "I am willing," said I. "Oh, I have nothing there but just to her door it was half open and the middle height, but exceedingly thin, four per cent of iron and five per cent ing where the ground wns a little soft, tuy little—how do you say it?—my "And so am I. If she goes for you room empty. Well, thought I, at least well dressed In a suit of brown with of silicon, and the form of metal so an lie warned me of it." she said. savings. They are not much, but 1 I swear I'll never so much as turn an I may meet her and have the homeward brass buttons, and he wore high boots, readily oxidized proves, therefore, to "Ah. it must have been d«*ar old eye on her again. Will you do as must live quietly upon them until I walk with her. I zigzagged up which were all roughened and dulled be purer than the aluminum used for I. Jim." said "Why, heart alive! here much for me?" find something to do. Now, one could the steep pathway, breathing in the by the sea water. His face and hands N tl.,. very himself!" kitchen utensils and various other purposes man had seen "Yes. I will." live very quietly here, I should say. I thin, keen morning air, and humming a were so dark that he might have been with no tendency to become oxidized. frm through the kitchen window, and could not have come upon a more "Well, then, look here, you! We're lilt as I went, until I came out, a little a Spaniard, but as he raised his hat It is concluded that the easily now I rushed out with my half-eaten so both honest men- and friends, and we peaceful place, without, perhaps, short of breath, among the whins to us we saw that the upper part of oxidized metal is an allotrople form fsn nock in my hand to greet him. He tell each other no lies, and so we know much as a gendarme nearer than thai upon the top. Looking down the long his brow was quite white, and that It of aluminum. forward, too, with his great hand town." your double ways. I know what you slope of the farther side. I saw Cousin was from without that he had his eu! and his eye shining. "You haven't told us yet who you said last night. Jock knows what you Edie as I had expected, and I saw Jim swarthiness. He looked from one to "Ah. Jock he cried, "it's good to said today. D'you see? Now, then, fair are, where you come from, nor what This worl^owes much to miser? Horscroft walking by her side. the other of us, and his gray eyes had see you again. There are no friends you have been," said Jim bluntly. and square! Here we are before you, They accumulate wealth for others They were not far away, hut too something In them which I had never the old onns." Then suddenly ho like The stranger looked him up and once and have done. Which is it to enjoy. taken up with each other to see me. seen before. You could read the in his speech and stared, with down with a critical eye. "My word! stuck be, Jock or me?" She was walking slowly, with the question, but there seemed to be a his mouth open, over my shoulder. I but you would make a grenadier for a No, Indeed, Luke, no woman cr You would have thought that the litttle petulant cock of her dainty head menace at the back of it, as if the turned, and there was Edie, with such flank company," said he. "As to what woman would have been overwhelmed lace herself as tight as man can drb which I knew so well, casting her eyes answer were a right and not a favor. a merry, roguish .smile, standing in the you ask, I might take offense at It with shame, but instead of that her himself. away from him, and shooting out a "Great Britain?** he asked again, doer. How proud I felt of Iter, and from other lips, but you have a right eyes were shining with delight, and I word from time to time. He paced with a quick tap of his foot on the of myself too, as I looked at iter. to know, since you have received me dare wager that it was the proudest All things might come to the m. along beside her, looking down at her shingle. "This is my cousin, Miss Edie Calder. with so great courtesy. My name is moment of her life. As she looked who waits—if starvation didn't and bending his head in the eagerness "Yes," said I, while Jim burst out Jim," said I. Bona venture de Lapp. I am a soldier from one to the other of us, with the there first. of his talk.^ Then, as he said something, laughing. "Do you often take walks before and a wanderer by trade, and I have cold morning stm glittering on her she placed her hand with a caress, "England? Scotland?" breakfast, Mr. Horscroft?" she asked, come from Dunkirk, as you may see face, I had never seen her look so When a woman's husband isn't a upon his arm, and,he, carried off "Scotland. But it's England past still with that roguish smile. printed upon the boat." lovely. Jim felt it also, I am sure, for preciative she may take the lectu his feet, plucked her up and kissed yonder trees." "Yes," said he, staring at her with "I thought that you had been shipwrecked?" he dropped her wrist, and the harsh platform. her again and again. At the sight I "Bon! I know where I am now. I've all his eyes. said I. lines were softened upon his face. could neither cry out nor move, but been in a fog without a compass for Bat he looked at me with the "So do I, and generally over yonder." stood with a heart of lead and the "Come, Edie! Which Is It to be?" Necessity is the mother of Invt nearly three days, and I didn't thought said she "but you are not very straight gaze of an honest man. he asked. tlon and discontent is the father face of a dead man staring down at I was ever to see land again." He Hospitable to your friend, Jack. If you "That is right," said he. "But the Ambition. them. I saw her hand passed over his "Naughty boys to fall out like this,** spoke English glibly enough, but with do not do the honors I shall have to ship went from Dunkirk, and this is she cried. "Cousin Jack, you know shoulder, and that his kisses were as some strange turn of speech from take your place for the credit of West one of her boats. The crew'got away welcome to her as ever mine had been. how fond I am of you." time to time. Nerve and ability both work In Inch." In the long boat, and she went down "Oh, then, go to him!" said Horscroft. "Where did you come from, then?!' same direction, but nerve usually Then he set her down again, and I in minute we were In so quickly that I had na time to put Well, another there first. found that this had been their parting, asked Jim. with old folk, and Jim had his anything into her. That was on Monday.-" the "But I love nobody but Jim. There "I was in a ship that was wrecked," for indeed in another hundred plate of porridge ladled out for him. is nobody that"! love like Jim." She said he shortly. "What Is the town paces they would have come in view Geniuses are admired by myris..", but hardly a word would he speak, but "And today's Thursday. You have snuggled up to him, and laid her cheek down yonder?" of the upper windows of the house. who don't care for a personal sat, with his spoon in his hand, staring been three days without bite or sup." against his breast. "It Is Berwick." She walked slowly away, with a wave quaintance. at Cousin Edie. She shot little "It Is too long,", said he. "Twice "You see. Jock!" said he, looking "Ah, well, I must get stronger before back once or twice, and lie stood looking twinkling glances across at him all the before I have been for two days, but over her shoulder. I can go further." He turned toward after her. I waited until she was You can always have your own time, and it seemed to me that she was never quite so long as this. Well, I I did see, and away I went for West the boat, and as he did so he some way off, and then down I came, If you are making money for the amused at his backwardness, and that shall leave my boat here, and see Inch, another man from the time that gave a lurch, and would have fallen but so taken up was he that I was of the crowd. whether I can get lodgings in any of she tried by what she said to give, him I left it. within a hand's touch of him before had he not caught the prow. On this these little gray houses up on the heart. he whisked round upon me. He tried he seated himself, and looked round Nothiug in nature happens exec "Jack was telling ijie that you were hillsides. Why is that great tire burning CHAPTER V. him with a face that was flushed and to smile as his eyes met mine. according to natural laws. Nature over yonder?" studying to be a doctor," said she. two eyes that blazed^ like a wild "I saw you," I gasped, and my bo room for miracles. "But oh! how hard it must be, and The Man From the Sea. "It is one of our neighbors who has beast's. throat had turned so dry that I spoke how long it must take before one can Well, I was never one to sit groaning served a'gainst the French. He is rejoicing "Voltigeurs de la Garde!" he roared like a man with a quinsy. gather so much learning as that." because peaee has been declared." Nothing happens to the city ma^'with over a cracked pot if It cannot in a voice like a trumpet call, and "Did you so?" said he, and he gave the same rigid persistence that "It takes me long enough," Jim answered, be mended, then it is the part of a then again, "Voltigeurs de la Garde!" a little whistle. "Well, on my life, nothing happens to the village man. "Oh! you have a neighbor who has ruefully, "but I'll beat it yet." man to say no more of it. For weeks Jock, I'm not sorry. I was thinking He waved his hat above his head, and served, then? I am glad, for I, too, "How candid and truthful.you are!" I had an aching heart indeed, it is suddenly pitching forward upon his of coming up to West Inch this very a little,sore now, after all these years have seen a little soldiering here and she cried, and so they went on, she face on the sand, he lay all huddled To be always sensible is a great day and having it out with you. Maybe there." He did not look glad, but he and a happy marriage, when I think strain One isn't sure that nature in^ decking him with every virtue.and Into a little brown heap. Its better as It Is." drew, his brows down over his keen twisting his words to make him play of It. But I kept brave face on tended that. Nature herself isn't. Jim Horscroft and I stood and "Joulve been a fine friend." said I. .. SaSwfrisS sMmsm DEFECTIVE PAGE