*s fore. "It was a leave-taking, Vni7l""i.hey "What about Jim?" I asked. ThaFls weir That "Is"well i7' "Why, I ate the horse. It was what Five Minute Chat* were feone. "Oh! Jim will forgive me." "Hold up!" I shouted. "Father! niHfiTHHH 111IIIII1XXX1 you call board and lodging to me. But "You will break his heart and ruin My heart was bitter against Cousin of course I have sense to eat the legs father! Bring the brandy!" on Our Presidents THE his life." Edie as I stood looking into her room. and live In the body. There were His knees had given way for an instant, "No, no he will forgive me." To think that for the sake of a newcomer many dead about who had their water but he was himself again before "He will murder De Lapp. Oh, she could leave us all without bottles, so I had all I could wish. And the old man came running with the GREAT Edie! how could you bring such disgrace one kindly word or as much as a on the eleventh day there came a patrol bottle. By JAMES MORGAN and misery upon us?" handshake. And he, too! I was angry of light cavalry, and all was well." "Take It away!" said Jim, his face and hurt and sore, and I went out It was by such chance chats as "Ah, now you are scolding!" she still convulsed with rage. SHADOW (Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.) Into the open without a word to my these—hardly worth repeating In themselves—that cried, and down came the window. "Have a soop, Mister Horscroft," father, and climbed up on to the there came light upon JAMES MONROE 1 waited some little time and tapped, cried my father, pressing the liquor moors to cool my flushed face. himself and his past. But (he day was for 1 had much si'ill to ask her upon him. "It will give you fresh coming when we .should know all, and When 1 got up to Corrleraulr I but she would return no answer, and heart I" 1758—(April 28) James Monroe By how It came I shall try now to tell caught my last glimpse of Cousin I thought that I could hear her sobbing. Jim caught hold of the bottle, and born in Westmoreland A.CONAN DOYLE you. Edie. The little cutter still lay where At last I gave It up, and was sent it flying over the garden hedge. county, Va. The winter had a dreary she had anchored, but a row-boat was been about to go into the house, for it was "It's very good for those who wish 1776—Graduated William and hut with March came tlie first one, pulling out to her from the shore. In nearly dark now, when I heard the to forget," said lie "I am going to remember." Mary. Entered the army. signs of spring, and for a week on the stern I saw a flutter of red, and click of the garden gafe. It was De 1782—In the legislature. end we had sunshine and winds I knew that It came from her shawl. Lapp himself. "May God forgive you for sinfu' 1783-86—In the Continental At Adveattuwa of from the south. On the seventh Jim I watched the boat reach the yacht, But as he came up the path he seemed waste," cried my father aloud. congress. Horscroft was to come back/ from and the folk clitnb on to her deck. to be either mad or drunk. He "And for well-nigh braining an officer 1787—In the legislature. Edinburgh, for though the session ended Then the anchor came up, the white danced as he walked, cracked his of His Majesty's infantry," said 1788—In the state constitutional with the first, his examination wings spread once more, and away fingers In the air, and his eyes blazed Copyright by A. COMB Doylo. old Major Elliott, putting his head convention. would take him a week. Edie and 1 she dipped right out to sea. I still like the will-o'-the-wisps. "Voltigeurs!" over the hedge. "I could have done 1790-4—In the senate. were out. walking on the sen bench on saw that little red spot, on the deck, he shouted—"voltigeurs de la gardo!" with a nip after a morning's walk, 1794-6—Minister to France. the sixth, and I could talk of nothing and De Lapp stunding beside her. SYNOPSIS. —just as he had done when he was but it is something new to have a 1799-1802—Governor of Virginia. but my old friend, for, indeed, he was They could see me also, for I was outlined off his head, and then suddenly "En whole bottle whiz past my ear. But 1803-8—In the diplomatic aervice. the only friend of m.v own age that I CHAPTER I.—Writing long after the against' the sky, and they both avant! en avant!" and up he came, what is amiss, that you all stand events described, Jack Calder, Scottish had at that time. Edie was very silent. waved their hands for a long time, waving his walking-cane over his head. farmer, tells how, in his childhood, the round like mutes at a burying?" 1809-10—In the legislature. which was a rare thing with her, but gave it up at last when they found He stopped short when he saw me fear of invasion by Napoleon, at that 1811—Governor. In a few words I told him our but she listened, smiling, to all that time complete master of Europe, had that I would give them no^ answer. looking at him, and I dare say he felt trouble, while Jim, with a gray face 1811-17—Secretary of state. I had to say. gripped the British nation. Following a I stood with my arms folded, feeling a bit ashamed of himself. false alarm that the French had landed, and his brows drawn down, stood leaning "Poor old .Tln»!" said she, once or 0= as glum as ever I did In my life, until "Halloo, Jack he cried, "I didn't Jim Horscroft, the doctor's son, youth of against the door-post. The major twice, under her breath. "Poor old their cutter was only a square, flickering NOception fifteen, quarrels with his father over thought anybody was there. I am in was as glum as we by the time I had OTHER president, with the exof .Tim joining the army, and from that incident patch of white among the mists what you call the high spirits tonight." finished, for he was fond both of John Quincy Adams, a lifelong friendship begins between the "And If he has passed," said I, of the morning. It was breakfasttime. "So It seems!" said I, in my blunt boys. lim and Edie. has served the country as long as "why then, of course, he will put up and the porridge upon the table, fashion. "You may not' feel so merry "Tut, tut!" said he. "I feared James Monroe and, without exception, his plate, and have his own house, and CHAPTER II.—When Jack is eighteen before I got back, but 1 had uo heart when my friend, Jim Horscroft, comes something of the kind ever since thai none has had an official experience his father's brother dies and his daughter, we shall be losing our Edie." I tried for the food. hack tomorrow." Edie, seventeen years old, comes to business of the peel-tower. It's the so varied. to make a jest of it, and to speak "There's a letter here from him," live with her uncle. Attractive personally. "Ta, ta, ta!" cried De Lapp "1 see way with the French. They can't From 1776, when he was a vigorous, lightly, but the words still sluek In Intensely romantic, and seemingly feeling said my father, pointing to a note folded that you know of our marriage. Edie leave the women alone. But at least six-foot, broad shouldered, raw-boned my throat. little sorrow for her father's death, the up on the table. "It was in his has told you. Jim may do what he to the De Lissac has married her, and that's girl is something of a puzzle boy of eighteen, and left William and "Poor old Jiiu!" said she again, and room. Maybe you would read it to likes." simple folk of the Calder home. a comfort. But it's no time now to Mary's college to enter the Revolution, there were trars in her eyes as she us." "You have given us a nice return think of our little troubles, with all Monroe remained in the public said It. "And poor old Jock!" she CHAPTER III.—Edie makes a plaything It was addressed, In big letters, to for having taken you in." Europe in a roar again, and another service until 1825, when he retired of Jack's affections, and though always added, slipping her hand into mine as "The Good People of West Inch," and "My good fellow," said he, "I have, somewhat in awe of her, a feeling twenty years' war before us, as like as from the White House a wrinkled, we walked. "You cared for me a little this was the note which lies before of deep love for his cousin develops In as you say, given you a very nice return. not." care bent, impoverished old man. In hit once also, didn't you, Jock? the boy's heart. Edie reproaches him for me. all stained and faded, as I write: I have taken Edie from a life "What d'ye mean?" 1 asked. those 49 years, he had been a minor Oh! Is not that a sweet little ship staying at. home in idleness while his which is unworthy of her, and I have "Why man, Napoleon's back from military officer under Washington repeatedly country is at war. Stung by her words, •out yonder?" My Friends: I didn't thought to have he declares his Intention of joining the connected you by marriage with a Elba, his troops have flocked to him, left you so suddenly, but the matter was a member of the legislature, It was a dainty cutter of about 30 army at once, but she persuades him to noble family. However, I have some in other hands than mine. Duty and and Louis has run for his life. The a member of the Continental congress tons, very swift, by the rake of her atay. He tells her he loves her and she honor have called me back to my old letters which I must write tonight, news was In Berwick this morning." and of the national senate twice governor apparently returns his affection. masts and the lines of her bow. She comrades. This you will doubtless understand and the rest we can talk over tomorrow "Great Lord!" cried my father. of Virginia minister to France, before many days are passed, may have been rather less than a when your friend Jim is here to CHAPTER IV.—Jim Horscroft returns take your Edie with me as my wife, "Then the weary business is all to do England and Spain secretary of state quarter of a mile from the shore—so from Edinburgh, where he Is studying and it may be that In some more peaceful help us." He stepped toward the and war at the same time and finally over again." near that I could see a tall man with a medicine. Jack tells his chum of his engagement time you will see us again at West door. president for two terms. "Aye, we thought we were out from to Edie. believing the girl Is peaked cap, who stood at the quarter Inch. Meanwhile accept the assurance "And this was whom you were sincere. Some days later he witnesses an Without wealth or family influence, of my affection, and believe me that I the shadow, but it's still there. Wellington with a telescope to his eye, sweeping unmistakable display of affection between awaiting at the peel-tower!" I cried, shall never forget the quiet months with a slow, commonplace mind, with is ordered from Vienna to the it backwards and forwards along Edie and Jim and reproaches his friend. which I spent with you at the time when seeing light suddenly. no gifts as a speaker with a modest Low Countries, and it is thought that the coast. Jim tells him Edie has promised to marry my life would have been worth a week "Why, Jack, you are becoming quite awkward presence and plain, unpolished him, she laughing at the idea of her engagement the emperor will break out first on "What can they want here?" asked at the utmost had 1 been taken by the to Jack. The two seek the girl manners, this very ordinary man sharp," said he. In a mocking tone, Allies. But the reason of this you may that side. Well, it's a bad wind that Edie. and she declares only fondness for Jack also learn some day. and an Instant later I heard the door plodded up the ladder of ambition to blows nobody any good. I've just had "They are rich English from London," but love for Jim. Yours, its topmost rung. How? By sheer of his room close and the key turn news that I'm to join "the Seventy-first said I, for that was how we explained BON A VENTURE DE LISSAC. force of his rugged, courageous, in- in the lock. I thought that I should CHAPTER V.— Jack, though deeply Colonel des Voltigeurs de la Garde, et as senior major. I am to Join my regiment everything that was above our hurt, accepts the situation. News of the see him no more that night, but a few aide-de-camp de S. M. I'Empereur Napoleon. as soon as I can, and we shall comprehension In the Border counties. downfall of Napoleon and the end of the miut'es later he came into the kitchen be over yonder in a month, and in WB.r reach the country. Walking along We stood for the best part of where I was sitting with the old folk. the coast, Jim and Calder witness the Paris, maybe, before another one is I whistled when I came to these an hour watching the bonny craft, and landing of a stranger from a small boat "Madame," said he, bowing down words, written under his name for over." then, as the sun was lying low on a He is completely exhausted and in a dying with his hand to his heart in his own though I had long made up my mind "By the Lord, then, I'm with you, cloud bank and there was a nip In condition. revive him and They queer fashion, "I have met with much that our lodger could be none other major!" cried Jim Horscroft. "I'm against Jim's advlco Jack takes him to the evening air, we turned hack to kindness in your hands, and it shall the Calder home, where he remains as a than one of those wonderful soldiers not too proud to carry a musket, if you West Inch. guest. He gives his name as Bonaventure always be In my heart. You will accept of whom we had heard so much, who will put me in front of this French As you come to the farm house from de Lapp and is evidently a man of this small souvenir, and you, also, had forced their way into every capital man." distinction. the front you pass up a garden, witli sir, you will take this little gift of Europe, save only our own, "My lad. I'd be proud to have you little enough In it, which leads oyt which I have the honor to make to CHAPTER VI.—De Lapp's fine manners still I had little thought that our roof serve under me." said the major. by a wicket gate to Ihe road. On tfie and dtories of adventure greatly attract you." He put two paper packets covered Napoleon's own aide-de-camp "And as to De Lissac, where the emperor right of this gate, on the garden side, Mrs. Calder and Edie and he Is "at down upon the table at their elbows, and a colonel of his Guard. is he will be." home" at once, causing vague disquietude was a bit of a rockery, which was said and then, with three more bows fo to Jack and open disgust to Jim. Ilr "You know the man," said I "what "So," said I, "De Llssac is his name, to have* been made by ray father's sends a letter addressed to the king ot my mother, he walked from the room. and not De Lapp. Well, colonel or can yon tell us of him?" mother many years before. Well, as Sweden, and Jack naturally wonders His present was a brooch with a no, It is as well for him that he got "There is no better officer in the we came in through the gate, my eyes what manner of man he has introduced green stone set in the middle and a French army, and that is a big word away from here before Jim laid hands to his home. fell upon this stone heap, and there dozen little shining white ones all upon him. And time enough too," I to say. They say that he would have was a letter stuck In a cleft stick CHAPTER VII.—Major Elliott, neighbor round it. We had never seen such been a marshal, hut he preferred to added, peeping out at the kitchen window, upon the top of it. I took a step forward and close friend of the Calders and filings before and did not know how slav at the emperor's elbow. I met "for there Is the man himself to see what It was, but Edie Jim Horscroft. recognizes De Lapp as a to set a name to them but they told French officer he has met In Spain, and coming through the garden." him two days before Corunna, when 1 sprang in front of me, and, plucking the two seem to reach some sort of understanding. us afterward at Berwick that the big was sent with a flag to speak about it off. she thrust it Into her pocket. I ran to the door to meet him, feeling Horseroft goes back to Edinburgh one was an emerald and that the our wounded. He was with Soult then. "That's for me," said she, laughing. that I would have given a deal to to resume his studies. He is to others were diamonds and that they I knew him again when I saw him." But I stood looking at her, with a have him back in Edinburgh again. marry Edie as soon as he has his diplotna. were worth more than all the lambs "And I will know him again when I face which drove the laugh from her He came running, waving a paper over we had that spring. My dear old ee him," said Horscroft, with the old lips. his head, and I thought that maybe mother has been gone now this many dour look on his face. "Who is it from, Edie?" I asked. he had had a note from Edie, and that CHAPTER VIM. a year but that bonny brooch sparkles She pouted, but made no answer. It was all known to him. But, as he And then at that instant, as I stood at the neck of my eldest daughter "Who Is it from, woman?" I cried. there. It was suddenly driven home to came up, I saw that it was a big, stiff, The Coming of the Cutter. James Monroe. when she goes out into company, and it possible that you have been as me how poor and purposeless a life "Is yellow paper, which crackled as he I never f"ti cjni(« lite same to our I 1 never look at it that I do not see false to .Jim as you were to me?" waved it, and that his eyes were dancing I should lead while this crippled dustrious, honest, loyal character—a IiM/per afler tlistr little business at the the keen eyes, and the long, thin nose, "How rude you are, Jack she cried. friend of ours and the companion of triumph of the homely virtues. perMower. It was always in my with happiness. and the cat's whiskers of our lodger "I do wish that you would mind your my boyhood were away in the forefront Although he failed in some of his msMl 1 li:ii be was holding a secret "Hurrah! Jock," he shouted. "Where at West Inch. As to my father, he of the storm. Quick as a flash own business." most important tasks, Monroe's failures frcYii me indeed. thai he was all Is Edie? Where is Edie? had a fine gold watch with a double mv resolution was taken. were forgiven because they were se ret itijreiher. seinjr thai he always "There is only one person that it "What is it, man?" I asked. case, and a proud man was he as he "I'll come with you, too, major," I could he from," I cried. "It is from honest mistakes. The ridicule and the a \eil ever his past. "It's my diploma, Jock. 1 can practice sat with it in the palm of his hand, cried. disgrace brought upon him by the most A this man Do Lapp." uln'ii by chance that veil was when I like. It's all right. I his ear stooping to hearken to the "Jock Jock said my father, wringing spectacular episode of his undramatic "And suppose that you are right. fo-' whisked away we alws.ys want to show it to Edie." lick. I do not know which was best his hands. life would have buried forever a man -aught jus! a glimpse of some11. Jack?" "The best you can do is to forget pleased, and they would talk of nothing Jim said nothing, but he put his 'oiifly an--5 v".«,U ni more brilliant and less sincere. The coolness of the woman amazed am! dreadful all about Edie," said I. but what De Lapp had given them. arm half round tne and hugged me. This remarkable scene was enacted and enraged me. "You confess It!" li.. f»ther -ide. The very look of Never have I seen a man's face "He's given you something more," The major's eyes shone and he flourished on the highly theatrical stage of the 1 I with I cried. "Have you. then, no shame h:s .-fly was terrible bathed change as his did when I said these said I, at last. his cane in the air. national convention at Paris directly !•.j- uri-M' ihe 1 left in summer, and saw words. "What, then, Jock?" "My word! but I shall have two after the Reign of Terror and the fall thai "Why should I not receive letters t! h- was haggled with wounds "A husband for Cousin Edie," said "What! What d'ye mean, Jock good recruits at my heels," said he. of Robespierre, when France was the l'.esid.'s from this gentleman?" -'even or eight slashes Calder?" he stammered. He let go I. "Well, there's no time to be lost, so outcast among nations. At that moment, "Because it Is infamous." his ribs on one side were twisted out his hold of the precious diploma as They thought I was dafting when I you must both be ready for the evening Monroe appeared as the envoy his "And why?" of shape ami part of one of he spoke, and away it went over the said that, hut when they came to understand coach." of the only sister republic and, to let "Because he Is a stranger." njives had been torn away. He laughed hedge and across the moor, where that it was the real truth, all the world see that the Revolution "On the contrary," said Is in his merry way when he saw my face she, 'he they were as pleased as If I had told it stuck flapping on a whin-bush, but And this was what a single day had at least one friend left on earth, of my husband." wonder. he never so much as glanced at It. them that she had married the laird. brought about, and yet years, pass the president of the convention melodramatically "»'.Vysacks! Cossacks!" sajd he, runnkiy His eyes were bent upon me, and I De Lapp was for all we knew, steady away so often without a change. Just folded the rustic Virginian CHAPTER IX. his hand over his soars. "And the saw the devil's spark glimmer up In and quiet and well-to-do and as fo think of the alteration in that fourand-twenty in his arms. rihs were broke by an artillery tumbril. the secrecy of It, secret marriages were the depths of them. hours. De Llssac was After two years, he was recalled for The Doings at West Inch. It is very bad to the guns have very common in Scotland at that time, "She Is not worthy of you," said I. gone. Edie was gone. Napoleon had his zeal, and came home in a rage of pass over one. Now with cavalry it is I can remember that moment so He gripped me by the shoulder. escaped. War had broken out. Jim indignation. Passing by the gate of when only a few words were needed nothing. A horse will pick its steps, well. I have heard from others that Horscroft had lost everything, and he Mount Vernon without paying his respects a great sudden blow has dulled their to make a man and wife, so nobody "What have you done?" he whispered. however fast It may go. I have been to Washington, he paid the thought much of that. The old folk "This is some of your hanky-panky. senses. It was not so with me. On ridden over b.v fifteen hundred cuirassiers instead in 500 pages which he published were as pleased, then, as if their rent Where is she?" and I were setting out to fight against the contrary, I saw and heard and and by the Russian hussars of in defense of himself and In denunciation had been lowered but I was still sore "She's off with that Frenchman who the French. It was all like a dream, thought more clearly than I had ever Grodno, and I had no harm from that. of the administration. Nevertheless, at heart, for it seemed to me that my lodged here." I had been casting about until I tramped off to the coach that done before. And the look upon my But jruns are very bad." the discredited diplomat was friend had been cruelly dealt' with, in my mind how I could break It gently evening, and looked, back at the gray face must have been strange, for Cousin "And the calf?" I asked. sent to Paris again by President Jefferson and 1 knew well that he was not a to him but I was always backward farmsteadlng and at the two little Edie screamed, and leaving me "Pooh! It Is only a wolf bite," said In a few $ears, when he came man who would easily put up with It. in speech, and I could think of nothing dark figures—my mother, with her she ran off to the house. I followed he. "You would not think how I came away covered with success, and with better than this. face sunk in her Shetland shawl, and her, and tapped at the window of by it! You will understand that ray the treaty for the purchase of Louisiana CHAPTER X. my father, waving his drover's stick "Oh!" said he and stood nodding her room, for I could see that she horse and I had been struck, the horse under his arm by a fitting prelude to hearten me upon my way. his head and looking at me, though I was there. killed, and I with my ribs broken b.v The Return of the Shadow. to the Monroe doctrine, 20 years later. knew-very well that he could neither "Go away, Jack, go away!" she cried. the tumbril. Well, It was cold—oh. I woke with a heavy heart the next (To be continued) There is a most Interesting souvenir see me, nor the steading, nor anything "You are going to scold me. I won't bitter, bitter 1—the ground like Iron, of Monroe in Paris. Like Madison, morning, for 1 knew that Jim would else. Then he gave a gulp in his be scolded! I won't open the window! and no one to help the wounded, so be home before long, and that It would he had fallen In love while a throat, and spoke in a queer, dry, that they froze Into such shapes as Go away 1" be a day of trouble. But how much member of congress and. had married rasping voice. would make you smile. I, too, felt that But I continued to tap. "1 must have Ufa. trouble that day was to bring,-^or how TaKlng Joy Out of Elizabeth Kortrlght of New York. Two "When was this?" said he. I was freezing, so what did I do? I a word with you," I cried. Mr. and Mrs. Roltare Eggleston recently children having been born to them, far it would alter the lives of all "This morning." took my sword and I opened my dead "What Is It, then?" she asked, raising of us, was more than I had ever moved Into a new home In one of the girls was placed in the famous "Were they married?" horse, so well as I could, and I made the sash about three inches. "The Fall Creek boulevard in Indianapolia. French school of Mme. Campan, thought In my darkest' moments. "Yes." space In him for me to lie, with one moment you begin to scold I shall Friends bestowed useful gifts on the where she formed a friendship with I had to get up early that morning, for He put his hand against' the doorpost little bole for my mouth. Saprlstl 1 It close it." new home and the Eggleston faced a Hortense Beauharnals that outlasted it was Just the first flush of the lambing, to steady himself. was warm enough there. But there "Are you really married, Edie?" vacation at Atlantic City with happy the many vicissitudes of Joseph! and ray father and I were out "Any message for me?" was not room for the entire of me, so "Yes, I am married." daughter. hearts. on the moors as soon as It was fairly "She said that you would forgive my feet and part of my legs stuck out. "Who married you?" "Our friends have been Quite Recently the notably figures in the light. As I came out into the passage her." ITien in the night, when I slept, there "Father Brennan, at the Roman thoughtful in their gifts, Roltare," court of the .first consul of Malmalson a wind struck upon my face, and there "May God blast my soul on the day earn* the wolves to eat the horse, and Catholic chapel at Berwick/' Mrs. Eggleston said to her husband were modeled and grouped about was the house-door wide open and I do. Where have they gone to?" they had a little pinch of me also, as "And you a Presbyteriatfl" just before they left "We do not Napoleon for a celebrated wax works the gray light drawing another door "To France, I should judge." you can see but after that I was on "He wished It to be In a Catholic have a flock of goldfish or a canary to show In Paris. In that brilliant galaxy upon the Inner wall. And when I "His name was De Lapp, I think?" guard with my pistols, and they had church." farm out to the nelghbcTa during our of monarchs and dukes yet to be looked again, there was Edle'a room "His real name la De Llssac, and he no more of me. Ttiere I lived, very "When was It?" absence." Eliza Monroe, in girlish prettiness» Is open also, and De Lapp's too, and I la no leas than a colonel in Boney's warm and nice, for ten days." "On Wednesday week." Just then the doorbell rang. Some* seen again by the side of the future saw In a flash what that giving of Guards." "Ten days!" I cried. "What did you I remembered, then, that on that body had sent them a fern. queen of Holland and the destined presents meant up$Q tfce evening be­ "Ah. lis would Je in Paris likely I •air. d&z Bht had drlren oxer to Berwick. mother of Napoleon m.