Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1894 — Page 11

THE -INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 31, 1894 TWELVE PAGES.

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The last time Field Ossood mw Miss Barbara OMiiie was on a certain summer afrrnorn at the lonely P0!. telegraph, and fit"ms station known as Rahwsv on thr Queensland roast. It vds at lUhway also that ho tirst and last, Mr. Louis Bavh!-. He had had excellent opjort unities for knowing Barbara OoHinK, since throusli many years she had b"en governess (and f-mthins innr t- his sisters Janet, A?ria:-. and L-.rna. Slio had been engaged in Fydiie-y as governess pimply, but WmidoTiotiK attlo Mat ion was far up rnuntr, and she Gradually came to perform the fun-t ions nf milliner ami dret-smakr. ei-.oourHRe,! thereto by tho family for her unerring Liste and skill. Hr salary, howovi-r. was prorxirtionatly increased, and it lid not decline uhon r officr a- governess became, practically a sine uro ?s hr pnpiK pa?sed beyond the sphere of the seh!room. Ferhaps "Je-rge Osgood, the owner of Wainlon.oiie, did not make an allowant to Barbara Golding tor her services a.s rcunsellcr and confidant of his family, but initiier did he subtract anythir.g f r m hr earnings in thos Infrequent years wbn she journeyed alone to Sydney on thos mysterious visits which so m'ehtily puzzlH the K-nrt p enp 1 of Wandi'or.c:. Tho boldest, however, and most offhand of them could never discover wlrat linrbara. G-ildinfif did no cliooso to t f 11. Slio was slight, almost frail i?i form, ami v-ry Kntle of msnnT; but sho i .. .sfSM-il tbai i;crpoci of I'finrifiv v.lii' h. ii"cr de-djn-in at in : 1 1 i t i:i fa si i' iimism'-ss tior lapsing ini-t fapuli n il v, c-i all iirious int rii; i was i -e er ? insinuntii'S; find f i - - Piiliin.r ii!"l drossln; k'r vas not l-s so;i-p.j---o-l u"l coinpHlir.tc of F?;vt t h II; tli" porn. s and e-'Ult-ri a p 1 . J.-.jr.- '.-rii""Mh!V:i the r--r- of Tj"Ui F-.irh.r ;is simi'.-u ; b-r b"ides 1 in the P"St. t l- crr. V'h. and rnstoni? oO.-fr, ai'l jutie "f th" j.::-c- .it. Rnhv.-ay. be Vo avail lMo ri,d valuable In tlio p" PHMllHiil n. ;) !,: !...-..!. iis. TliO t:n nis rr, t t -n ,-"'irin i tbi- af t-r a. fw j t.n ''s t" i n r " ! ; n:id ortrniPt labor "H Lii'ti.: l'-o -b. i-ir's part ; it whj li"t his prrdvtfns ..;..'.-'!"iin.? flood-; .-r droiicbts tbat r.Mi--ci ihis t'.ui ;i i ! '"ia t iu t fu'dUm" of thoy. i'ioit, tior..-. At lor.srth a jtHily h' rt' rr,r. was 1 1 1 t hi.n. ard t aar-ii:. h f'.r a dicnilid ', roc-rasTir a ti .i. tliiv w a forwarilod tu hl.n a. siztrti"n that. io .should o'tno t. Ir-l-.tiio and 1k a n."Vo i'ri-ttant. j.x .pi i i. It was wh-Ti tlii. pitronac. ta f.'Mclin"fJ tf.at prfiiii' r itrrrvi'K ;' r a rior.if-r.t into that l'iisi. man's iqrcron l'i.'h in trit'i am. naturally tr ! ii,i h,aj.l IrrifabU that 1ouis Ba. holor was a " n'iii i'ossil vli. r! id n't know v.l:.-Ti h' sroi t'is .1 ..-r in tho douerh." i Tiio.Ii. b-:.nr i i! tpi-prot .- fl i'ito tTio ülantr of tho oh w ! !d. moans his knife in th of'jcjni I. af. Ki.t tli'- fossil wnt on an bror". known by rano :.- tho mrost liapilful f ifo; l.' in !! i.i'ny, Ihouc'i fhy all pn;it'jd, 1 1 i : '! or indi'"oct ly. bv bis si'ifiintii" s-n'iii: ;,ni as i;n!o"ivn to t'.in iT'Afll.'is ;it WamlonoiiR thy won to hii'i. and h- air-fin to tho citizens (,f t!o k .Ii. It ffii tho i;.-kom f..r Jan.'t and .?tli"s Os?:io.'l to say that I'arbnm ib l bncr had h hi-'K-ry: and thoy s:'id it with littl mannofisnui po nli.tr t' voting ladi' S f modom nrr.i'Miso. .Janot ib-clarod to Tior sister Aprnos that tho maid of honor (so ttV'V callod li.'-r) mlrht. if ?!I wer. known about hr-r, bo translated into a novel; and Aprn.-s. in a pj.ropria t o .-a-son. had, wit!i Füsht variations, said tho ai"" to Janot. t),i cvt-vy occasion tho s-ntimont ivh uttorod with that fresh , -onvi'-tion in tono wb'.-h mado it appear o b- bom afrain. Tho occasion when it somd to 1'hvc had tho most pregnant ."isrin was or.o cwnin aftor .Tain t had b en consult!);-.; -Miss Barbara on th.o mj 'stories of tho rarn-.fnt in which sho Ta- to lo i!!.:!t j,.d ir. Druco tlallant. part "ii"p of t'.ooidal station. "Ajrio." rcnia k"d this i-oinins; br'idrt, "h. r fai-o fins!'. d i;r over so pink when I said to h.r '.Jiat sb-- s-nifil to know o;ictly low a trousseau ouuht to h-. 1 " i -i afvail, do;r. I said it with a faint siisKostiok in my voice tinpariloriablo with liT, sr. o always is so considerate but it had its effe.-t. I wonder! She is wr-'.l-l.-v-rt oiiuL:h to h:ivi be.n anybody: and you know it was tT.o bishoi who reconiniendrd .her." It was not Ior.cr üftev tli iss that Druce Gallant avried at ''a ndt iiunfr and occupied the attention of Janet until suppc-r-timo. wh'iti lie eltctri.'-! th company by tho na,r'Tition of J. is adventures on the provir.is eenin with lioadmaster, tha mystorl nis busln ai.trer. w hose name wa. now in every man's mouth, and who piarently t.-oik d with no confederates, a somewhat perilous proeecdinsr. though it reduced f.he chances of betrayal. Dniee Gallant was about to tamp on the plains for the night, in preference to riding on to a mü-'erahle Lush-tavern a few miles away. wjnn he was snldenly accosted in the 8k rub by a gentleinanly-looking-felpjw r.n horseback, who, from behind his masi. asked him to give up what money he had about him, together with his watch and ling. The request was emphasized by the presence of a revolver held at an ea.y but suggestive angle- from the pommel of the saddle. Th" disadvantage to Drwe Gallant was obvious: he merely requested that he should be permitted to keeo the ring, since it hud many a.ssoc iations. remarking at the sum tin;? that he would bo pleased to give an equivalent for it if the bushranger would accompany him to Warden-ng. At the mention of Vv'andenong the hichwayman tisked Ms nar:v. On hing told he banded back the money, th" wat h, and th ling, jrd politely request d a el-ir. saying that the Osg'Kjds cles'Tved consideration at his hands, and that th ir friends were t-afe from niob-stati- Then he addni, with soin? yi'ini humor, that, if Drur-e allaj-Lt had no obj.'ctioii t spending an hour with Itoadmast.-r over a fire and t'lly of tea. h" w-uld be riad of his company; for bu--'nrargi!.x. according- to his system, was but d ill work. Sti u k with the unusraU character of the mm, trie young squatter consent---!, and together thej- at for two hjuis. the highway;;iaii. however, never remo ing the mask from his eyes. They talked of many Tiirgs, and at lat Callant ventured to s-lk hi companion about the dealt; of f.oxl Fin-ailey, the -ovner of Taiawan hhr-ep run. At thi Koa-lrnavter b-oame mcody, and rose to have; but. as if on second thoughts, he said that Finchley's companion, whom be allowed to go lin-rotv-d an-1 unr.oiKhed. was both Sl coward and a liar; that the slain man had f.re-T thrice in-eulessiy. and wounded him in tfce neeK, (the scar of which he showed liefere he drew trh'trev. rjallant then t'dd hini that besides the posse of poli. e, a n'li'iU r of sipni ttei-s and buslinien had bandol to hunt him down, and advised him t make for th- coast if he could, give uj his present bnslnesi-s. and leave the noun try. At this ftofidmaser LaughL and i-afd that his fancy was not seaward7 yet, though that might come; and then, with a courteous wave of his hand, he jumped on his horse and rode away. Th Osgoods speculated long and curiously on J toad mas tor's identity, as did Indeed the w hol colony, and at length the father concluded that it might be a wdl-bred scoundr-l named Calthorpe whom h had faved from prison at Flrtsbane a couple of years before. Ffe could nt think of any other likely per-fce-n. And here: It may b 5aid that popie of any observation (though of necessity th?y ere'ew, ?lnc Tlahway attracted only busy sugar planters and their workmen) wre used to upeak nf Louis Bachelor as on who must certainly hav a h!5tory If hp could but bo persuaded to tell It. The person rnopt likeJy to have the power of ln-juisitiun

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into his affairs was his faithful aboriginal servant (Jongl. But records and history were only understood by Oongi when they were restricted to the number of heads taken in tribal battle. At th same time he was a devoted slave to the man who, at the risk of his own life, had rescued him from th? murderous spears of his aboriginal foes. That was a kind of archive within t;onci's comprehension, from the contemplation of wlj.-h he turned to sneak of Louis HaoJieor hs "That fellow budcerv marin I b'longin" to nie." which in civilized language, means "my good master." tlongi frequently dilated on this rescue, and he would, for purposes of Illustration, take flown from his master's wall an artillery offieer's saber and show bow h-s afsa.Ua nt s - were dispersed. Front the presence of this sword it was not unreasonably assumed that Ixuis. Fiaohelor had at some time been in the arnty. lie was not. however, communicative on this point, though he yhrewdly commented ori lmropean wars and rumors of wars when they occurred. He also held strenuous opinions on the conduct of government and the suppression of pqhlif evilü, based obviously upon a military conception of things. For bushrangers he would have a modern Tyburn, but this and other tragic puppest tons !;jokfd eonvletton when confronted with his verdicts givri as justioeof the peace. IJe pronounced anathemas in a grand and. airy fashion, but as if b" were speaking by the -ard. a. Don Quixote whoce mercy would be vaster than his wrath. This was the impression ho p;ive to Field Osgood on th day when th-- young squatter introduced himself to Kali way, where lie had come on a mission to its one oHicial. The young loan's fntlior had a. tusto for many ti'ings; astronomy wa bis latest, and ho had bought from the government a Mev,'..;. whi-"h, excellent in its day, had been s'qH-rsoded by oth-rs of later oihei.il purchase. He h;;d brought it to Va ndeiiong. had built h home for it, and had Kot it into trouble. II" had then s'-ut to Brisbane for assistance, and the astronomer for the government had referred him to the postmaster at Kahwav. "pr-'gnost ica to; "' of the meteorological column in the iVuirie;-. who would lo instructed to give Mr. Osgood every hlp. especially h-s the oecultation of Venus was ne;ir. Alcn d- n-t send letW s by post in iirw country when personal communication is possible, an-1 Field Osgood was aske.) by his father tv- l' Rahway. When Fiel 1 wished for the n in-,-1 of this rare orticit! the astronomev's letter ws handed i er with a sar-:isl'--rermest that t v nan'"1 might be decipVrd: but th" sf'ii was not more of an antiouary than h.ls had to leave without it oast, and there took a o KahwaW father, and ho He rode to tho passing steamer "From the sea Hahway looked a tropical paradise. Th bright prcr palisades of mar grove on the right crowded down to the water's edge; on the left was the luxuriance of a tropical jungle; In the enter was an arc of opal shore fringed wi:h cocoa-palms, and beyond these a handful of white dwellings. Behind was a sweeping monotony of verdure stretching back info the gre;it valley of the Fopri. and over all the heavy languor of the south. But the beauty was a delusion. When Field Osg.o.l's small boat swept up the sands on the white crest of a leaguelong roller, how different was the scene! He saw a group of dilapidated huts, a tavern called The Angel's Rest, a black fellow's hut. and the bareness of three government offices, built on piles, that the white ants should not humble them suddenly to the dust: a fever-making mangrove- swamp, black at the base as the filthiest nioiit, and tenanted by i'eptil'; I'e.-i.lo palms, and a sickly breath creeping from the jungle to mingle with the heavy scent of tho last conslKMnnit of sugar from the Fopri vall'y. It brought him to a melancholy standstill, disturbed at last by (long! touching hint on th0 arm and pointing toward the Mstlh'ce. His language to (Jongi was strong; he called the place by names that were not polite: and even on the threshold of th" official domain said that th- devil would have his last big muster there. But from that instant his gübiiess declined. The squatters are th aristocracy of Australia, and rural postmasters are not always considered fligibie for a dinner party at government bouse; but when Louis Bachelor came forward to meet his visitor, the young fellow's lingers quickly caught his hat from his head, an-1 an off-hand greeting became a respectful salute. At tirst the young man was awed bv the present-e ot the grizzled gentleman, and he struggled with his language to bring it up t- tic classic level of this old Huguenot's speech. "Huguenot" is used figuratively, though th young squatter tame to know subsequently that Louis Bachelor was descended from a family lart Irish, part French. But there was somethi1'; more than Celt and Gaul in the man. a steadying quality of race or discipline that made him. even in this humble position, a little grand and more than a little grave. Before they had spoken a do.en words Field Osgood said to himself. "What a quaint teajn he and tlw maid of honor would make! It's the same kind of thing in both, with the difference of sex and circumstances." The nature of his visitor's business pleased, the old man. and Infused h!s courtesy with warmth. Yes. he would go to Wa.nder.ong with pleasure; the government had communicated with him about it: a substitute had been offered; he was quite -willing to take his first leave In four years; astronomy was a great subject: he had a very good, and obedient telescope of his own, though not nearly so large as that at "Wandenong; he would telegraph at once to Brisbane for the sulistitute to be sent on the following day, and would be ready to start In twenty-four hours; after visiting "Wandenong he would go to Brisbane for some scientific necessaries and so on through smooth parentheses of conversation. Fnder all the bluntness of the bush, yomlg Osgood had a refinement which now found expression in an attempt to make itself agreeable, not a difli- ult task, since, thanks to his father's tastes and a year or two at college, he hail a smattering of physical science. He scon won his way to the old man's heart and laloratory, which in this desolate sjvt had been developed through years of patience and ingenious toil. ' Left alone that evening in Touis Bachelor's sitting-room. Field Osgood's e eS were caught by a portrait on the wall, the likenes of a beautiful girl. Something about the face puzzled him. "Where had in seen it? More than a little of an artist, he began to reproduce the head on paper. He put 1t in different poses; he add'd to It; he took away from it; he gase it a child's' face, preserving the one striking expression; he made it that of a woman of an elderly, grave woman. Why. what was this? Barbara GoMJng! A ex. the same expression arid contour of features, only many yeai-s .Iier. He then carefully and quickly made from memory an excellent head of Barbara Golding, being careful to retain that expression. Then he tore up the other pieces of paper and waited, seeing In his hand the possibility of a romance. He would not spoil the development of the drama, of which he now held the fluttering prologue, by any blunt treatment; he would touch this and that nerve gently to see what past connection there was between These dim-blown birds leneath an alien sk y. He moved along in this fashion, a fashion in which his bushman friends would not have recognized him. until ls host entered. Then, In that auspicious moment when his own pipe and his companion's igarett were being lighted, he said. "I've been amuclng myself with drawing, sine" you left. fir. and I've produeed th's," handing over tho pa per. Ioui Bachelor took the sketch, and walking to the window for better light, pai?, "Believe me, I have a. profound repect for the artistic talent, t myself one had ah!" He had tharply

paused as he saw the pencilled head, and he rioW stood looking; fixedly at it. He turner! slowly, came to the portrait, on the wall, and om pafvt it with that in his hand. Then with a troubled face he said: "You have much talent, but It is it is too old much too old and very sorrowful " "I intended the face, to how age. and sorrow. Mr. Bachelor. Would not the original of that have both?" "She had sorrow she had . sorrow, but," and he looked sadly at the sketch again, "it is too old for her. Her face

was very young, always very young. "But has she not sorrow now, sir the other persisted gently. The gray bead was shaken sadly, and the unsteady voice meditatively murmured, "Such beauty, such presence: I was but five-and-thirty then." There was a slight pause, and then with his hand touching the young man's shoulder, Inis Bachelor continued: "You aro young: you have a good heart; 1 know men. You have the sympathy of the arth-t why should I not speak to you? 1 have been silent about it so long. You have brought the past back. T know not how. so vididiy! I dream here, I work here; men come with merchandise and go again; they only bind my tongue; I am pot of them; but you are different, as it seems to nia, and young. God gavi me a happy youth. My eye were as bright a.s yours; my heart as fond. Yon inve--is it not so? Ah, you smil and blush like a.n honest man. Well, so much the more can speak now! God gave me thnn strength and honor and joveblessed ba His name! and then Tie visited pie with sorrow, and if 1 still mourn I ha.ve peace too and a busy life." Here he linked at. the sketch again. "Then was a soldier. She was my world. Ah. true love is a great thing, a great thing! She had a. brother. They two with their mother were alone in th" world, and we were to be married. One day at Gibraltar I received a letter from her saying that our marriage could not bo. that she was going away from Fngland. that those tin.-s were her farewell, and that she commended me to the love of heaven. Sue h a letter it was- so saintly, so unhappy, so niysterVus! When could get lave I went to Kucland. She--1 hey had gone and none knew whith-r; -., if any of her friends knew. none would speak. I search'-d for her everywhere. At last I came to Australia, and am here now, no longer scan hing, but waiting: for th're Is that above us!" His lips moved as If in prayer. "And this is all 1 have loft of her." fondling the portrait, "except memory." Th-- young man r" joined warmly yet with d is- reel sympathy: "Sir. I respect, and I hope 1 underst-ind. your confidence." Then a little nervously, "Might 1 ask Vier name?" The reply was spoken to the portrait: "Barbara- -Barbara Gold in p." With louis Bachelor the young squatter approached Wandenong homestead in s-cne excitement. He had said no word t- his companion about that Barbara Golding wh played such a. gracious part iu the home of the Osgoods. He had arranged the movement of the storv to his fancy, but would it occur In all as he hoped? With an amiahilitv thal was almost malicious in its adroit suggest ivciifss though, to be sure, it was honest, he had induced the soldier to talk of his past. His words naturally and always radiated to the sun whose image was now hidden, but for whoso memory no superscription on monument or cenotaph was needed. Now It was a scrap of song, then a tale, and again a verse, by which the old soldier was delicately worked upon; until, at last, as they entered the paddocks of "Wandenong. stars and telescopes and even governments had been completely forgotten in the personal literature of sentiment! Yt Field Osgood was not quite at his case. Xow that it was at hand he rather shrank from the renewal of those ancient lovts. There was Barbara Gelding's story not yet fathomed; yes. his plot had some flying threads which he had not yet gathered. Apart from everything else he knv that no woman's nerves are to be trusted. He hoped fortune would so favor him that he could arrange for the meeting of these two alone, or, at least, in his presence only, lie had so far fostered this possibility by arriving at the station at nightfall. YVhat next? He turned and looked at the soldier, a figure out of Hogarth which even dust and travel left unspoiled. It was certain that the two should meet where Field Osgood, squatter and romancer, .should be prompt r, orchestra and audience, and he alone. Vain lad! When they drew rein the young man took his com panion at once to quarters, known as his own detached the barracks, and the house. Aftr family he sought then proceeded to Mveetings with his Barbara Golding. who was in the school room piously employed, Agnes said, in putting the fi nal touches to Janet's trousseau. He went across the square to the school room, and, looking through the window, saw that she was quite alone. A few moments later li stood at the srhool-room door with Louis Bachelor. With his hand on the latch he hesitated. Was it not fairer to give some warning to either? Too late! He opened the door and they entered. She was sewing, and a book lay open bc-side her, a faded, but stately little figure whose very garments had an air. She rose, seeing at first only Field Osgood, who greeted her and then said, "Miss Barbara, I wish to introduce to you an old friend." Then he stepped back and the two were face, to face. Barbara Holding's cheeks became pale, but she did not stir; the soldier with an exclamation of surprise, half joyful, half pathetic, took a step forward, and then Wame motionless also. This was not quite what the young man had exiected. At length the soldier bowed lu.v and the woman responded gravely. At this point Field withdrew to stand guard at the door, that the action in his strange, littlo play should not be interrupted. Barbara Goldmg's eyes were dim with tears. The soldier gently said. "I received " and then paused. She raised her eyes to his. "I received a letter from you tive-and-twenty years ago." "Yes. flve-and-twenty years ago." "I hope you cannot guess what i-ain it gave me." "Sir." she ar.swered faintly, conceive it, from the pain it me." "I can gave to There was a paus-, and stepped forward and holding then out he his He she hand said. "Will ym ermit me?" kissed her fingers courteously, and blushed. " have waited." he added, "for God to bring this to iass." She shook her head sadly, and her eyes sought his beseechingly, as though he should spare her; but perhaps he could pot see that. "You spoke of a great ob-sta-le then; has It been removed?" "It is still between us." "Is it likely ever to vanish?" "I I do not know." "You cannot tell me what it Is?" "Oh. you will not ask me," she pleaded. He I towed again. ".Might I dare to hope, Barbara, that you still regard me with " he hesitated. The lires of a modest valor fluttered In her cheeks, and she pieced out his sentence; "With all my lifv esteem." Still she was a woman and she added. "But I am not young' now, and I am very poor." "Barbara." he said, "I am not rich and I am old; but you, you have not changed; you are beautiful, as you always were." The moment was crucial. Fie stepped toward her. but her eyes held him back, lie hoped that she would speak, but she only smiled sadly. He waited, but in the waiting hope faded and he only said at last. In a voice of new resolve grown out of dead expectancy: "Your brother is he well?" "f hope so," she somewhat painfully replied. "Is he in Australia: "Yes. I have not seen him for years. but he is here." As a thought had suddenly cam to him he stepped nearer and made as If h would speak, but the words halted on his llpn and he turned away again. Pheplided to his side and touched his arm. "1 am lad that you trust me," P,e faltered. "There no more that need be said," he answered. And now. womanlike denying, phe pitied, too. "If I cvci can, fchall shall I

nend for you to tell you all?" Ehe murmured. "You remember I told you that the world had but. one place for m". and that was by your side; that where you am. Barbara " "Hush. oh. hush!" she interrupted gently. "Yes. I remember everything." "There is no power can alter what Is come of heaven," he said, smiling faintly. She looked with limpid eyes upon him as he bowed over her hand, ami she spoke with a sweet calm, "God bo witii you. Louis!" Strange as It may seem. Field Osgood did not tell his sisters and his family tf this romance which he had brought to the vivid close of a first act. He felt the more so because Iouis Bachelor had said no word about It, but had only pressed his hand again and again that lie was somehow put upon his honor, and he thought it a fine thing to ptand on a platform of unspoken compact with this gentleman of a social school unfamiliar to htm: from which it may be seen that cattle bidding and bullockdriving need not make a man a boor. What his sisters guessed whn they found that Barbara Golding and the visitor were old friends is another matter; but thy could not. pierce their brother's reserve on thff point. No one at Wandenong saw the parting between the two whDn Louis Bachelor, his task with the telescope ended, left again for th coast; but indeed it might have been seen by all men, so outwardly formal was it. even as their brief conversations had been since they met again. But Is it. not known by those who look closely upon the world that there Is nothing so tragic as the formal? Field Osgood accompanied his friend to the sa. but the name of Barbara flolijing was not mentioned, nor was any reference made to her until the moment of iarting. Then the e!dr m.-n said: "Sir. your consideration and delicacy of foiling ha.ve moved me, ami touched her. We have not boon blind to your singular kindness of heart and crurt(xv. and od bltss von, my friend!" On his way back to Wandenor.g Os-g-v-id beard exciting news of Headmaster. The word ha.d been passed among the squatters, who had united to avenge Finchley's death, that the bushranger was to shot on sight, that Tie should not be left to the uncertainty of the 1 tw. The latest exploit of the daring freebooter had been to stop on the plains I wo members of a royal commission of Inquiry. He had relieved them of such money as was in their pockets, and then had caused th"in to write sumptuous checks on thir banks, payable to bearer. These ho had cashed in the very teqh of the law, and actually paused In the street to read a description of himself jMsted on a telegraph jole. "Ina ecu rate, quite inaccurate." he said to a bystander as he drew his riding whin slowly along it, and then mounting hts horse, rode leisurely away into the plains. Had he been followed It would have v-n seen that he directed his ooirso to that point In the horizon where War.-jenong lay, and held to it. It would not, perhaps, have been plensant to Agnes Osgood had she known that, as she hummed a song under a sheoak, a mile away from the homestead, a man was watching her from a clump of scrub near by; a man who, however pentlenaanly his bearing, had a face where the devil of despair had set his foot, and who carried in his pocket more than one weapon of inhospitable suggestion. But the man Intended no harm to hr, for while she sang something seemed to have smoothed away the evil of his countenance, and to have dispelled a threatening alertness that marked the whole personality. Three hours later this same man crouched by the drawing-room window of the Wandenong homestead and looked in, listening to the same voice and sighing once or twice as he listened, until Barbara Golding entered the room and took a seat near the piano with her face turned full toward him. Then he forgot the music and looked long at the f;'ce, and at last rose, and stole silently away to where his horse was tied in the scrub. He mounted, and turning toward the house, muttered: "A little more of this, and pood -by to my nerves! But it's pleasant to have the taste of it in my mouth for a minute! How would it look in Boadmaster's biography, that a girl just out of school brought the? rain to his eyes!" He laughed a little bitteily, an-1 then went on: "Poor Barbara! She mustn't know while I'm alive. Si.-e.tch out, my nag; we've a long road to travel tonight." Yes. this was Kdward Golding, the brother who Barbara thought was still in prison at Sydney under another name, serving a term of fifteen years for manslaughter. If she had read the papeis carefully she would have known that he had been released two years before his time was up. It was eight years since she bad sen him. Twice since then she had gone to visit him, but he would not see her. Bad as he had been, Iiis desire was still strong that the family name should not be publicly sullied". At his trial his real name had not been made known, and at his request his sister sent him no letters. She had spoken to him but thrice in fifteen years. He had always persisited in his innocence, and it appeared to be established that he had not struck the fatal blow at the gambling brawl, but he was considered an accessory, and condenmtied as such. Going Into Jail a reckless man, he cume out a constitutional criminal; that K with the natural Instinct for crime greater than the Instinct for morality. He turned bushranger, for one day, as he vowed to himself, to get money to take him out of the country; but having once entered the lists he left them no more, and, playing at deadly joust with the law, soon became known as Hoadmaster, the most noted bushranger since the days of Capt. Moonlight. It was forgery on the name of Ins father's oldest fri?nd that drove hint and Iiis from England. He had th? choice of leaving t.'s native lan 1 forever or going to prison, and he chose the form-r. The sorrow of the crime lvill?d his mother. From Adelaide, wh-ie they had made their new home lie wandered to the far Interior and afterward to Sydney; then came his Imprisonment, and now he was free but wh:t a freedom! With the name of It J;-dma;der often heard at Wandenong, Barnara Gelding's heart had no w arning instiru t of whom the bushranger was. Sh? thought only and continuously of the day when he hhould be released, to b'-Tin :he race of life again with her. She had yet to learn In what manner th y c ome to the finish who make a false start. Louis Bachelor, again in his place at Itahway, tried to drive av. iy his gaess.s at the truth by his b.-love j sh l-mv. When sleep would not come at night lie i.se and worked in his laboratory; and the sailors of many a passing vessel saw the light of his lamp in the Jim hours before the dawn and ppoke of fever in the port of Itahway. Nor did they speak without reason; fever was preparing a victim for the sacrifice at Itahway. and Louis Bachelor was fed with its poison till lie grew haggard an I weak. One night at this time h- was sei-d-ing hid weather prognostications to Brisbane when a stranger entered from the shore. The old man did not at Jirst look up, and the other leisurely studied him, as the sounder clicked its message! When the key was closed the new-comer said. "Fan you send a message to Brisbane for mo?" "It Is after hours; I cannot." was the reply. "But you were just sending one." "That was official, sir." and the elder man passed bis hand wearily along his forehead. He was very pale. The other drew the telegrr.ph forms toward him and wrote on one, saying as he did so, "My business is Important;" then handing oer wiiat he bad written, and smiling ironically, added. "Fcihaps you will consider that official." Louis Bachelor took the paper and read as follows: "To the colonial secretary. Brisbane. I Hpt here tonight: tomorrow find me. Roadmaster the Bushranger." He read It twice before he fully comprehended it. Then he said, as if. awakening from a dream. "You aro ." "I am Headmaster." was the com--, plement to the unfinished sent-ne. Rut now the soldier pnd official in tbi other were awske. He drew himself tip, and appeared to measure his visitor cut a

swordsman would his enemy. "What is your object In coming here?" he asked. "For you to s?nd th!at message if you chos; tbre is your Telegraphic. Instrument. That you may arrest me peaceably f yoU wish; or otherwise, there aro men at The Angel's Best and a Chiramati or two here who might care for active service against Koadmaster." And he laughed carelessly. "Am I to understand that you give yourself op to me?" "Yes, to you, Louis Bachelor, justice of the peace, to do what you will with me for this night." was the reply. Th" soldier's hands trembled, but It was from imminent illness, not from fear or excitement. He came slowly toward the' bushranger who, smiling, said as he advanced: "Yes, arrest ni"!" Louis Bachelor raised his hand as if to lay it on the sh.onlder of the other, but something in the eyes of the highwayman stayed his hand. "Proceed! Proceed. Fapt. Louis Bachelor!" said lioadmaster In a changed tone. The hand fell to the old man's side. "Who are you?" lie faintly exclaimed. "I know you, yet 1 cannot quite remember." More and more th" voice and manner of the outlaw altered as he replied with mocking bitterness. "I was Kdward Golding. gentleman; I became Kdward Golding, forger; I am Boadmaster, cxconvlct and bushranger." The old man's state was painful to see. More than fever was making hun haggard now. "You you that ! Kdward!" he uttered brokenly. "Yes, all that. Will you arrest m-r- now, sir?" "I cannot." And now th" bushranger threw aside all bravado and irony and said: "Capt. Bachelor. I knew you could not. Why did I conic? Listen! But lust, will you rhclter me here tonight?" Tho soldier' honorable soul rose up against this thing, but Ii said slowly at last. "If it is t sine you from peril, yes.'" Boadmaster laughed a. little and rejoined: "By , sir, you're a man! I only wanted to know if you would do it. But it. isn't likely that I'd accept it f you. is it, t 'apt. Bachelor? You've had it (ought enough without my putting a rock in your swag that would spoil you for the rest of the tramp! You see I've even forgotten how to talk like a gentleman. And n-ov, sir. I want to show you. for Barbara's sake, my dirty log-book." Here he told the tale of his early sin and all that came of it, and then went on. "She didn't want to disgrace you, you umb-rstand. You were at Wandenong: I know that, never min 1 how. She'd many you if I were out of the way. Well. I'm going to be out of the way. I'm going to leave this country, an-1 she's let think I'm dead, you see." At this point Louis Bachelor swayed a.nd would hav fallen, but that the bushranger's arms were thrown around him and helned him to a chair. "I'm afraid that I am ill," he said: "call Gongi. No. no, you cannot do that." Ah! lie had fainted. The bushranger carri"d him to bed and summoned Gongi and the other woman from the tavern, and in another hour was riding away through the valley of the Fopri. Before thirty-six hours had passed a note was delivered to a station hand at Wandenong addressed to Barbara Golding and signed by the woman from The A-iigel's Rest. And within another two days Barbara Gedding was at the bedside of Cant. Louis Bachelor, battling with an enemy that is so often stronger than love ami always kinder than shame. In his wanderings the sick man was always in his youth and early manhood, and again and again he uttered Barbara's name in caressing or entreaty, though it was the Barbara of far-off days that he invoked; the present one he did not know. Hut the night in which the crisis, the unfortunate crisis, of the fever occurred he talked of a great flood coming from the north, and in his halfdelirium bade them send to headquarters, and mournfully muttered of drowned plantations and human peril. W? s this instinct and knowledge working through the disordered fancies of fever? Or was it mere coincidence that the next day a great storm and flood did sweep through the valley of the Fopri. putting life in danger and submerging plantations? It was on this day that Boadmaster feund himself at bay in iha mangrove swamp not far from the port of Itahway, where he had expec ted to find a schooner to take him to the New Hebrides. It had been arranged for by a wt-ll-paM colleague in crime: but the storm had delayed the schooner and the avenging squatters and bushmea were closing in on him at last. There was flood behind hint in the valley, a foodless sw.irno en the left of him, oben . hnre and jungle on the light, the swollen sea ltt-fore bim; and the only avenue of escape closed by Blood Finchley's friends. He had been eluding his pursuers for days with little food and worse than no sleep. He know that he had played his last card and lost; but he had one thing yet to do; that which even the vilest do. If they can, before they jay tire final penally to creep back for a moment into their honest past, however dim and far away It may be. With incredible skill he had passed under the very rifles o" his hunters and now stood almost within the stream of light wiich came from the window of the sick man's room, where his sister wa-.. There was to be no more hiding, no more strategy. lie told Gonl and another that be was lioadmaster, and bade; them say to his pursuers, should they appear, that he would come to them uKin the shore when his visit to Louis Bachelor, whom he had known in other days, was over, indicating the place at some distance l'r-vu the house where they would find him. lie knew that these men would not mike a breach of this invited contract, that they would give even a bushranger that moment of shrift. lie entered the house. The noise of the opening door brought his sisu r to the room. One need not tell of that meeting, nor of what it might have been had Barbara Golding known all. At last she said. "Oh, 1-dwatd, you are free at last!" "Yes, I am free at last." lie quickly replied. "I have always prayed for you, Kdward. and for this." "I know that. Barbara; but prayer cannot do everything, can it? You ee, though I was born a gentleman, I hod a bad strain in me. I wonder if, somewhere, generations back, there was a pirate or a gypsy in our family." lie hud been going to say highwayman, but paused in time. "I always intended to be good and always ended by being bad. I wanted to be of, the angels and play with the devils also. I liked saints you are a saint, Barbara but I loved all sinner, too. I hope when when I die, that the little bit of good that's In me will go where you are; for the rest of me. ii must be as It may." "Don't speak like that, Edward, please, dear. Yes, you have ber-n very wicked, but you have been punished, oh! these long, long years!" "I've lost a great slice of life by both Hie stolen waters and the rod. but I'm going to reform now. Barbara." "You are going to rei'oiiu! Oh, I knew you would! God has answered my prnyer." How her eyes lighted! He did not immediately speak again, for his ears, keener than hers, were listening to a confused sound of voices coming from the shore. At length he spoke firmly: "Yes, I'm going to reform, but it's on one condition." Her eyes mutely asked a question, and he replied, "That you marry him," pointing to the inner room, "if he lives." "He will live, but I T cannot tell him, Edward." she said sadly. "He knows." "He knows! Fid you dare tell him?" It was tho lover, not the sister, who sjmke then. "Yes. And he knows also that I am going to reform that I'm going away." Her face was hid in her hands. "And I kept it from Mm five and twenty years! Where are you going, Edward ?" "To the Farewell island." h slowly repliM. 'And Ehe, thinking he meant pome group In the Pacific, tearfully inquired. "Are they far away?" "Yes, very far away, my girl." "But you will wvita to ia or com

to see me again you will come to see nie again, sometimes, Kdward?" lie paused. lie knew not at first what to reply, but at .length he paid, with a strangely determined flash of his dark eyes, "Yes, Barbara, I will come to see you again if I can." He stoope-l and kissed her. "Good-bye. Barbara." "But. Kdward. must you go tonight?" Yes, I must go now. They are waiting for me. Good-bye." She would have stayed him. but be put her gently back, and she said plaintively. "God kep you. Edward. Fmember you said that you would come again to me!" "I shall remember." he said quickly. and he was pone. Standing In the light from the window of the sick man's room, h wrote a line In Iatln on a slip of paper fa remem--bered scrap of bis boyhood's studies! begging of Louis Bachelor the mercy of silence and pave it to Gongi, who whispered that he was surrounded. This he knew; he had not studied sound in prison through the best years of his life for nothing. He asked Gongi to give th not to his master when he was l-tter, and when it could be done unseen of anyone. Then he turned and walked coolly toward the shore. Two hours after hÄ lay upon a heap of magnolia branches brathing his life away. And at the same moment of time that a rough but kindly hand closed the eyes of the bushranger, the woman from the Angel's Rest and Louis Bachelor saw the pale face of lioadmaster peer through the bed-room window- at Barbara Golding sitting in the chair asleep: and she started and said through her hal f-wakef ulness looking at the window, "Where are you going, Kdward?" Gilbert Parker in Macmillan's.

AN INDIANA OEDIPUS. An Old Gentle inn from Mnrlon Solves the eihin. H. Itingler was his name, and Marion. Ind.. was his station, says the Chicago Inter-Occ-a n, but nevertheless he caused a commotion at the art institute yesterday long to lie remembered by Director French and his associates. Of all the treasures possessed by the Institute, the one that the Egyptologists, archaeiogists and other savants most pride themselves over is a plaster cast taken from a rock carved in Asia Minor. This cast has been brought to Chicago at a great expense. Learned men from far and near have studied it and measured it, and written about it. For a long time no one knew what to make of it. howit came upon the hillside near Smyrna, or what was the nature of the ' hieroglyphic inscription upon its time eaten sides. Great men finally concluded th specimen to be a. ca-t of the figure of Sesostrls, known elsewhere as the Great Barneses. After much cogitation every scientist who studied the last agreed that it was a figure of the Pharaoh. Then speculation began upon the Inscription. Not a few thought that the hieroglyphics contained some reference to biblical history, the fall of Thebes, or the building of the pyramids. But, like the sphinx, until yesterday the riddle remained unsolved, and when the Qedipus finally appeared he took the form of an old soldier none other than Mr. Itingler of Marlon, Ind. He read the inscription off hand, so to ppeak, and now the art Institute authorities are willing to give their cast to any plasterer who is utilitarian enough to make it into good mortar. It happened this way: Mr. Bingler happened to be in Chicago on a visit. Having a little time on his hands he strolled into the art institute, and afterexamining the various modern paintings and figures curiosity impelled him toward the hall in which are stored the ancient statues, casts and curios. He wandered from one object to another deeply absorbed. Suddenly he became transfixed before a cast of the carving supposed to be a figure of Sesostris. He approached nearer and nearer the figure. With eyes transfixed upon the group of hieroglyphics upon the cast he suddenly uttered an exclamation that caused the guard to retreat a step or two and then advance to discover if the man had gone suddenly mad. The guard grappled with the excited soldier. Mr. Ringjer shook him off. and excitedly pointing to the heretofore unintelligible inscription he shouted: "It's my name. That's me. I put it there. Let me go. I tell you 1 carved that name In 1S57." The noise of the scuffle and the vehement utterances of Mr. Hingler attracted quite a crowd in short order. The learned gentlemen of the institute crowded around to find out the cause of the rumpus. They were at first astonished by Mr. Bingler's assertions, and then disposed to think him demented, but he with trembling lingers traced out each letter. Fader the guidance of bis arm It was quite plain to every one that the inscription on the arm of the cast was no archaic screed traced with the stylus, but simply a plain, ordinary Fr.iied States name cut there with the indubitable point of a jack knife. At tirst the Inscription was a little dim, but afier a slight scratching away the writing stxid out very plainly s "H. Kinglet." In carving his name the soldier had o;.- In the firat letters of it but slightly, but the end of the name stood out very boldly. Explanations followed, and it transpired that Mr. Kingler had, in been In Boghax Kevi. Asia Minor, which is about thirty miles from Smyrna. On a hunting trip he had nie across a rough rock statue on a hillside. With no thought of vandalism Mr. ltlngltr carved his name, upon It, and had never thought of it a second time, until he saw it traced upon the figure In the Institute. It was a 9evere blow to the directors of the institute when they heard the story, for it had confidently been tupposed that the inscription was nothing less than one by some scholarly Hlttlte, or perhaps a fac-sirnile of the signature of Sesostris, done iu one of his best moments. Superstitions About 5alf. In some parts of the north country U is regarded as unlucky tet put salt on another person's plate. Hence the couplet : He'p me to salt. Help nie to sorrow. A second helping, however, is suppos-d to avert the ill luck on tin homoeopathic principle that "like cures like." For salt to fall toward a person at table Iortends (in the west of England coming dire disaster. The spilling of salt has for generaiions been counted unlucky in many parts of England and Germany. A curious picture of mediaeval "art on the subject of "The La-st Supper" represents Judas Iscatiot overturning the suit a dark foreshadowing of an awful doom. in the Isle of Man there is a lingeringsuperstition tint to carry salt in the pocket is a help to good fortune, and tu exchange or accept salt is so good an omen that a beggar has been known to decline food unl?ss salt was added to the gift. Sir .loli ii Moore's Iturinl riser. What schoolboy does not know and what man does not remember from his solioolbov days the lines of Wolfe entitled "The Burial of Sir John Moore?" Recall the closing words: We carved not a line, we raised not a stone. But left him alone in his glory. But an exchange tells that Moore's body did not remain In the unmarked grave where his comrades left it. A few years after the close of the war In Spaln the grave was opened, and the remains of tho gallant soldier were transferred to the cemetery at Corunna, where a handsome monument was erected abovs them. i Judge- lave you hypnotized the pris oner? Professor "I have." Well, what are you waiting for?" "I am waJtin- for you to decide whether I shall make Idm confess that he did It, ,tr make him confess that he didnl." N. Y. V.eklv.

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