Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1924 — Page 8
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BEGIN HLKK TOD AV Colonel Holies, soldier, and adventurer, returns to England, the land of his birth, when war is declared with Holland. He conies to lodge with Martha Quinn, hostess of the Paul s Head, in Paul's Yard. I.ondon. The Colonel asks his old friend. His Grace of Albemarle, to secure for him a place in the array and Albemarle warns him that the name of Randal Holies, father of the colonel, is an the warrant for the execution of the late king. Therefore it is dangerous for the colonel to secure a commission. Holies returns to Mrs. Quinn sand visions of a youthful love affair return to him. Nan. the object of his affections, had disappeared when, after five years’ absence. Holies returns to - her. At her aunt's home he receives scant courtesy. NOW GO ON Win?*THF STORY B r “““ Y great fortune —by a heavenly Providence, in her eyes—her i..— ■ J niece was absent at the time. And so in the cause of holiness she lied to him —although of this the poor fellcw ha,d no suspicion. “In that case, young sir, you seek something I cannot give you." “You mean, you do not know . . . that . . . that she has left you?” She braced herself to the righteous falsehood. "That is what I mean." "When did she leave you 9 Tell me that, at least." “Two years ago. After she had been with me a year.'' “And whither did she go? You must know that:" "I do not. All that I know is that she went. Belike she is in London. That, at least, I know is where she would wish to be, being all worldliness and ungodliness.” He stared at her, a physical sick- '' ■ HOLLES BEHELD A BLACK j CROW OF A MAN' WITH SUNKEN EYES. ness oppressing him His little Nan in London, alone and friendless, without means. What might not have happened to her in two years? Inquiries in the village might have the whole corns ■ of bis life. But, as if the unutterable gods of Mrs. Tenth's devotions removed all chances of the frustration of her ends, Randal rode out of Charmouth without having spoken to another soul. For six months -after that he sought Nancy in all places likely and unlikely. And all that while in Charmouth Nancy patiently and ■ lustfully awaited his coming, which
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1 should driven, her from the dreadful thraldom of Aunt Tenth’s godliness. For she did not Potheridge's be lief that he was dead. And meanwhile, despair was settling upon young Randal. To have lived and striven with but one inspiration and one aim. and to find in the hour o£ triumph that the a.m has been ren dered unattainable, is to know one's self for Fortune’s fool. To a loyal soul such as his the blow \yas c*;ush ing. It made life purposeless, robbed him of ambition and warped his whole nature. His steadfastness was trans muted into recklessness and restless ness. He required distraction from his brooding; the career of arms at home, in time of peace, could offer him none of this. He quitted the senice of the Parliament, and went abroa —to Holland, that happy hunting ground of all homeless adventurers He entered Dutch service, and- for a season prospered in it. But there was a difference, deplorable and grim. Ht w;as no longer concerned to build him self a position in the State. Such a was imposs:ble in a foreign land where lie was a mercenary, a soldie: of fortune, a man who made of arm a trade soulless and uninspired. With the mantle of the mercenary he pu 'in a mercenary's habits. He easily earned gold he spent riotously, pre digally. as was ever the mercenary' way. He gamed and drank and squandered it on worthless women. He grew notorious; a man of reck less courage, holding hisr life cheap an able leader of men, but a disso lute, hard-drinking, quarrelsome Eng lander whom it w,as not safe to trus* too far. The reaction set in afTast: but not until five years of this life had corroded his soul. It came to him one day when he realized that he was over 30. that he had dissipated his youth, and that the path he trod must lead him ultimately to a contemptible old age. Some of the good that slumbered In the depths of his soul wejled up to cry a halt. He would go back. Physically and morally he would retrace his steps. He would seize this life that was slipping from him. and remold it to the originaj intention. For that he would return to England. He wrote to Monk, who then was the powerfuliest man in the realm, j But—Fortune’s fool again—he wrote just too late. Jr was a few weeks old, more. For oi/e who had been a promi-! nent Parliament man in the old days. ' and the son of a Parliament man still I more prominent, there was no place by them in English service. Had he but made the applicarion some months sooner, whilst the restoration was still in the balance, and had he then taken sides with Monk In bringing it about, ! he might by that very' act have re ! deemed the past in Stuart eyes, set : ting up a credit to cancel the old debt. ' Then came the war, and England's unspoken summons to every son of hers who trailed a sword abroad. Dutch service could no longer hold him. This'was his opportunity. At last he would shake off the filth of a mercenary’s life, and go boldly horn* to find worthy employment for his sword.
CHAPTER V The Mercenary’ Colonel Holies took the air in Paul's j Yard, drawn forth partly by the voice I of a preacher on the steps of who was attracting a crowd about ; him, partly by his own restlessness. j He was moving along the skirts of j the crowd that had collected before the preacher. • with no intention of pausing, when suddenly a phrase arrested him. “Repent. 1 say, while it fc time! j For behold, the wrath of the Lord is upon you. The scourge of pestilence is raised to smite you down.’’ Holies looked over the heads of the assembled citizens, and beheld a black crow of a man. cadaverous'of face, with sunken eyes, that glowed uncan cannily from the depths of their sockets. “Repent!” the voice croaked. “Awaken! Behold your peril, and by prayer and reparation set yourselves to avert it whiles yet it rnay be time. Within the Parish of St. Giles this week he thirty dead of this dread pestilence, ten in St. Clement’s, and as many in St. Andrew’s, Holbom. These are but warnings. Slowly but stirely the plague is creeping upon the city. As Sodom of old was destroyed, so this modern Sodom perish, unless you rouse yourselves, and cast opt the evil that is amongst you." Holies moved on. He had heard odd allusions to this pestilence which was sa:d to be making victims in the outskirts and which it was alleged by some fools was a weapon of warfare wielded by the Dutch —at least, that it was the Dutch —at least, that it was the Dutch who had let it loose in England. As he moved on. a man of handsome presence and soldierly bearing, with the dress and air of a gentleman, considered him intently with eyes of startled wonder. As Halles came abreast of him, he suddenly stepped forward, detaching from the crowd, and caught the Colonel by the arm. Holies checked, and turned to find himself gravely regarded by this stranger. “Either you are Randal Holies, or else the devil In his shape.’* Then Holies knew him—a ghost out of his past, as he was, himself, a ghost out of the past of this other: an old friend, a brother-ln-arms of the days of Worcester and Dunbar.” “Tucker!” he cried, “Ned Tucker!” And impulsively, his face alight, he held out his hand. The other gripped it firmly. “I must have known you anywhere, Randal, despite the change that time has wrought.” “It has wrought changes in yourself as wefl. But you would seem to have prospered!” The Colonel’s face was rejuvenated by a look of almost boyish pleasure. ‘‘Oh, I am, well enough,” said Tucker. ‘‘And you?” “As you see.” The other’s grave dark eyes considered him. There fell a silence, an awkward pause between these two, each of whom desired to ask a hundred questions. At last: “I last heard of you in Holland,” said Tucker, “I am but newly home.” “Whatever can h*p brought you?” "The war. and the desire to find t
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employment in which I may serve my country." ‘‘And you’ve found it?” The smile on the dark face suggested a scornful doubt which almost made an answer unnecessary. “Not yet.” “It would have moved my wonder if you had. It was a rashness to have returned at all.” He lowered his voice, lest he slTbuld be overheard. ‘The climate of England isn’t healthy at all to old soldiers of the Parliament.” ‘‘Yet you are here, Ned.” "I?” Again that slow, half-scorn-
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fui smile lighted the grave, handsome face. He shrugged. He leaned toward Holies, and dropped his voice still further. "My father was not a regicide,” he said quietly. “Therefore, T am comparatively obscure.” Holies looked at him, the eager pleasure which the meeting had brought him withering in his face. Would men ever keep green the memory of this thing and of the silly tie with they had garnished it? Must it ever prove an Insuper able obstacle to him in Stuart Eng j land. “Nay, nay, never look so gjAtm
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man,” Tucker laughed, and he took the Colonel by the arm. "Let us go somewhere where we can talk. We should have a deal to tell each other.” Holies swung him round. “Come to the Paul’s Head,” he bade him. "I am lodged there?” But the other hung back, hesitating a moment. “My own lodging is near at hand in Cheapside," he said.
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and they turned about again. In silence they moved off together At the corner of Paul’s Yard. Tucker paused, and turned to look across at the doorway of Paul’s and the fanatlcalcal preacher who stood there shrilling. His voice floated across to them. “Oh. the great and dreadful-God!” (Continued in Our Nextflssue)
Legion is conducting a public county campaign opposing the Mellon tax reduction plan. Blackford County commissioners have appropriated $5,000 with which to fight cases growing out of the Mehtpeller bomb explosion. Fortyeight steel wrrkers are under arrest in the case. The thirteenth annual session of the Indiana Student Missionary Society ended a three days’ session at Manchester College, North Manchester Sunday. More than 225 delegates attended. will start a public building program this spring estimated to cost $370,000. Heading the list is a proposed $200,000 city building. Asa sign of mourning for Woodrow Wilson, members of the Officers Reserve of the United States will wear a crepe ribbon in their buttonhole thirty days, according to Prof. Paul V. McNutt of Indiana Uftlv*r-sity. He
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is president of the Officers' Association In Indiana. The annual Montgomery County Corn Show will open at Crawfordstille Tuesday to continue three days., The Marion and Bluffton Traction Company "has bought the Linn Grove Power Company property. The concern - supplied light and power to Linn Grove, Craigville, Vera Cruz. Berne and Geneva. Funeral services for the Rev.. Francis X. Edge; 75. was held at Kokomo tpday. He. was former pastor of Catholic churches in Benton, Noble and Wabash counties. John G Brown. Monon. again heads the National Livestock Producers’ As-, sociation. He was elected at their recent convention jn Chicago.
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