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BEGIN HEBE TODAY Colonel Holies, soldier and adventurer, comes to lodge with Martha Quinn, hostess of the Paul's Head in Paul’s Yard. London. Mrs. Quinn, possessed of a discerning eye for a fine figure of a man. assigns to the Colonel's exclusive use a cozy parlor. The Colonel informs Martha that he has business in town at Court. With an eye to the future. Mrs. Quinn lavishly entertains Holies and sees in him an ideal husb.nd. Os humble birth, Martha longs to marry a gentleman bom. The Colonel is in reduced circumstances and Martha, seeing this, resolves to impress upon his mind that she is a wealthy woman willing to fall victim to his charms. The Colonel is mildly puzzled when Mrs. Quinn suggests to him that he take unto himself a wife. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY it f ■_ OW there I vow you do yourNself injustice.” > ___ “Faith, it's a trick I’ve learnt from others.” “You are, when all is said, a very proper man ” .• “Aye! But proper for what?” She pursued her theme without pausing to answer his frivolous question. “And there’s many a woman of substance who needs a man to care for her and guard her —such a man as yourself. Colonel; one who knows his world and commands a worthy place in it.” “I command that, do I? On my soul you give me news of myself.” “If ye don’t command it, it is that ye lack the means, perhaps. But the place is yours by right.” “By what right, good hostess?” “By the right of your birth and breeding and military rank, which is plain upon you. Sir, why will you

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A DOORKEEPER BARRED HIS PROGRESS. be undervaluing yourself? The means that would enable you to take your j proper place would be provided by the j wife who would be glad to share it with you.” He shook his head, and laughed again. “Do you know of such a lady?” Because her courage failed her at th; moment. Destiny pursued the forging jf that curious chain of circumstances which it is my .task to reveal to you link by link. "I think,” she said slowly at last, “that I should not be sorely put to it to find her. I ... I should not have far to seek.”

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“It is a flattering conviction. Alas, ma'am, I do not share it.” He was sardonic. He made it clear that he refused to take the matter seriously, that with him it never could be more than a peg for jests. He rose, smiling a little crookedly. “Therefore I'll still pin my hopes to his grace of Albemarle. They may be desperate; but, faith, they're none so desperate as hopes of wedlock.” He took up his sword as he spoke, passing the baldric over his head and setting it on his shoulder. Then he reached for his hat, Mrs. Quinn regarding him the while in mingling wistfulness and hesitation. At last she roused herself, and sighed. “We shall see; we shall see. Maybe we’ll talk of it again.” “Not if you love me, delectable matchmaker,” he protested, turning to depart. Solicitude for his immediate comfort conquered all other considerations in her. "You’ll not go forth without another draught to ... to fortify you.” She possessed herself again of the empty tankard. He paused and smiled. “I may ifeed fortifying,” he confessed, thinking of all the disappointment that had waited upon his every previous attempt to see the Duke. “You think of everything,” he praised her. “You are not Mrs. Quinn of the Paul’s Head, you are benign Fortune pouring gifts from an inexhaustible cornucopia." % “La, sir!” she laughed, as she bustled out. It would be wrong to say that she did not understand him; for she perfectly understood that he paid her some high and flowery compliment, which was what she most desired of him as an earnest of better things to follow.

CHAPTER II Albemarle’s Antechamber Through the noisy bustle of Paul’s 1 ard the Colonel took his way. He moved with a certain arrogant, swaggering assurance, despite his shabby finery. Below Ludgate, in that evil valley watered by the Fleet ditch, there were hackney-coaches in plenty,-'and, con- ] sidering the distance which he must ! go and the desirability of coming to j his destination cleanly shod. Colonel j Holies was momentarily tempted. He j bethought him —and sighed wearily j over the reflection—of the alarminglightness of his purse and alarming i heaviness of his score at the Paul a Head, where he had so culpably lacked the strength of mind to deny himself ! any of those luxuries with which in the past month he had been lavished, and for which, should Albemarle fail him in the end, he knew not how to Pay. There was that ruby in his ear, a jewel that being converted into gold should keep a man in ease for the best part of a twelvemonth. For fifteen years and through many a stress of fortune it had hung and glowed there amid his clustering gold-brown hair. He attached to that bright gem a sentimental value that had become a superstition. There had grown up in his mind the absolute conviction that this jewel, the gift of an unknown whose life he had arrested on the black threshold of eternity, was a talisman and something more—that, as it had played a part in the fortunes of another, so should it yet play a part in the fortunes of himself and of that other jointly. There abode with him the unconquerable feeling that this ruby was a bond between himeqlf and that unknown, a lodestone that should draw each to the other ultimately across a whole world of obstacles and that the meeting should be mutually fateful. There were times when, reviewing | the thing more soberly, he laughed -at his crazy belief. Yet, oddly enough, those were never the times in which dire necessity drove him to contemplate its sale. So surely as he came to consider that, so surely did the o’d superstition, begotten of and steadily nourished by his fancy, sei*'- upon him to bid him hold his hand and sufTer all but death before thus purchasing redemption. Therefore was it that, as he took his way now up Fleet Hill, he left that jewel out of his calculations in his assessment of his utterly inade quate means. Westward through the mire of the Strand he moved, with his swinging soldierly stride, and so, by Charing Cross, at last into Whitehall itself. Down this he passed toward the I chequered embattled Cockpit Gate that linked one side of the palace . with the other. | It was close upon noon, and that ! curial thoroughfare was more than I ordinarily thronged, the war with I Holland—now an accomplished fact ! -being responsible for the anxious, feverish bustle hereabouts. Opposite the Horse Guards the Colonelqcame to a momentary halt on I the skirts of a knot of idlears, stand J ing at gaze to observe the workmen j i on the palace roof who were engaged i ini erecting there a weather-vane. A ‘ gentleman whom he questioned in formed him that this was for the | convenience of the Lord High Admiral, the Duke of York, so that his grace might observe from his win- | dows how the wind served the j plaguey Dutch fleet which was ex ported now to leave the Exel at any j hour. Colonel Holies moved on. glancing across at the windows of the banquet- | ing house, whence, as a lad of twenty, ! a comet of horse, some sixteen years I ago, he had seen the fete King step | forth into the sunlight of a crisp January morning to suffer the loss of his head. And perhaps he remembered that his own father, long since dead—and so beyond the reach of any Stuart vengeance—Wad been one of the signatories of the warrant under which the deed was done. He passed on. from the sunlight into the shadow of Holbein's noble gateway, and then, emerging beyond, he turned to his right, past the Duke of Monmouth’s lodging ’into the courtyard of the Cockpit, where the Duke of Albemarle had his residence. Here his lingering doubt on the score of whether his grace were yet returned to Town was set at rest by the bustle in which he found himself. But there remained another doubt; which was whether his grace, being now returned, w©ul|t condescend to ipeceive him. Six

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Charged with hauling a load of hogs which required four mules to pull, Eugene .McKinney, Brownstown, paid a fine of $5 and costs. County repulsed from his threshold in this fashion, he had taken the precaution of writing before presenting himself now, begging his grace to give orders that he should be admitted, unless he no longer held a place in his grace's memory. The. present visit, therefore, was fatefuL A refusal now he must regard as final, in which case he would be left to curse the impulse that had brought him back to Kngiand, where it was very likely he would starve. A doorkeeper with a halbert barred his progress on the threshold. “Tour business, sir?” “Is with His Grace of Albemarle.” The Colonel’s tone was sharp and confident. Thanks to this the next question was less challengingly delivered. “You are commended, sir?” , "I have reason to believe I am awaited. His grace is apprised of my coming.” The doorkeeper looked him over again, and then made way. He was past the outer guard, and his hopes rose. But at the end of a long gallery a wooden-faced usher confronted him, and the questions recommenced. Whin Holies announced that he had written to beg an ence—(Continued In Our ■■■

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