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GAOLER AND CAPTIVE.

"Would you like to see the letter?" •eked, holding it out to Calder aa

stepped on deck.

After all, perhaps, there is no reason wby I should not confide some of the truth to you. You areevidently asensi-v*-:'l)lo girl, can see that, and although you will probably not understand our

J,': motives, you will at least be able to see the justice of them from our standpoint. Lest then, you should judge us too harshly, and think us worse than we zpally are, I will tell you rather more than I meant to do, when you came."

I could not help noticing, both now, and subsequently, that the speaker's voice was, wheri addressing me, gradually losing that half sarcastic, half in dulgent ring which it bad contained at first, and the obange was flattering to my vanity, as indicating that I was not euoh a fool as he expeoted to find

"You must know then," he began, "that I, with many others, am a member of a certain secret society. We are Irish—patriots, and—this will startle you, I know—our object is to free our country from the yoke of the oppressor. Yes, I can see you are shocked by the plain, unvarniBhed truth. It is the old story," bitterly. "Ireland striving to free herself from the wrongs and oppressions which have lasted now for nearly eight hundred years. For myself, if I must needs excuse my conduct to you, I would say that, Irish of Irish, born and reared on the soil, descendant of along line of our anoient kings, from jK'i-f- my childhood upwards I have been deeply imbued with a Bense of our country's wrongs, and even as a callow youth and with all a youth's enthusiasm, I determined that it should be my life's work to redress them—if possible. ,«H Briefly then, those were my motives in fhjoining this society. Of our plans of |'i/roperation81 should not wish to enlighten If! you, even if I might. You, an Englishij: woman, the daughter of one of our ^ivhereditary oppressors, would be the I^Jsflrst to condemn us." "But why I could not help exclaim--5lng. "Why, if we are the oppressors f*V you think, do you not hurl open defiance iii at us, and boldly take the consequences, instead of working in secret. Would ?|i,tiot that be the more manly course to t:." pursue?" -f "Ah, there you touch a difficult point.

But—yes, you are right. Believe me, this underhand work is most repugnant to me. What! Do you think I would

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in this hole and corner fashion, -were any other course open to us?" And threw his head back with a haughty ^|gesture, standing erect with all the free bearing one would Imagine to belong to jthe descendant of a long line of kings.

"No, I tell you, a thousand times, no! lli^When I was young and enthusiastic I *^bpoke and thought as you do now I ^would have all open and above board. f/,-®ut that way has been tried and failed. Jj|§All that oould be done openly, in Parliament, on the platform, in our pulpits, bas been tried, weighed in the balance, and found wanting. And I have sworn to free Ireland, by fair means or foul.

The fair means have failed—well then—" "Then you area conspirator?" "I suppose that is what you would call me. Regenerator—apostle of freedomIs the truer term." "Call yourself what you like, the fact xemalns that you are, and remain a conspirator, and as such are amenable to the laws," I oried, sententiously. "And do you think I have not counted the cost of that? That I am not ready to sacrifioe myself, if only Ireland be righted? But I must accomplish my life-work first, and then let the end oome lor me when It will I shall die bappy. But no, I will not die! I will jive—live to be a leader of my people— the free and united Irish people shall bave me for their liberator and ruler in the good time to come."

And indeed, as he uttered these words, be looked quite oapable, with his commanding height, powerful features and bold, bright eyes, of ruling a mighty nation and becoming a leader of men. But, as I looked up at him, the thought forc«d itself unbidden into my mind— the pity of it—oh, the pity of it! To lend such powers and suoh talents to underhand intrigue, which I dimly felt \«ouid only end tn disaster. My un*4oken thought must have shown itself

my face, for, letting his eyes reet in on me for a minute or two, he deeply. "Ch Ud," he said, with oh, such an intensity

TheSix=Pointed Star.

ByM. F. Baly,

Author ol "A Little Mistake," "An Artful Little Game," "The Vanishing Gods," &c.

CHAPTER IX.

yearning in his voice. "Re

member* .we have eight hundred years of wrongiKbobhui us.»

Ay, that Wiw it. Bight hundred years of wrongs! VfVuly, Ireland's ruler* in JyKt0® days much to answer for.

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have left it open

on purpose." He gazed at me for a moment without answering, but I bore the look steadily, meeting his eyes with a gaze as fixed as Jite own. "No," he answered then, as if satisfied with what he saw. "I said I trusted you, and I do close up your letter. Have you a stamp? If not, there are plenty in the drawer of the writing table." "I have some in my purse, but—" "Ah, I see what you are thinking—that 1 am unlikely to post the letter here, as the postmark would betray me. Well, you are right a messenger will take or {2send your letter to London, and it will be posted there." \{:i' "Very good. Now then, I am ready iH^to hear your promised explanation." "I warn you," said Calder, "that it |:3" would be far better for your own piece of mind while you are here to ask no questions. But since you insist—"

do insist," was my answer. "The meanest prisoner in her Majesty's .prison is informed of the nature of his crime, and reason of his detention, so •"'why should I be debarred of at lqaat,that '^privilege?" '^0

his seat,

and with it his ordinary manner, as he went on with the interrupted story. "In a large and mixed society like ours there are usually some members whose obaraoters, and morals, are not always of the highest order. Suoh dnn are some times necessary—unfortunately, shall I say? They serve as tools, agents, what you will their chief value in the eyes of their employers being that they are per fectly unscrupulous, ready and willing to aooompllsh any kind of work, however daring or dangerous. Suoh a man was the one who killed poor Dalton's wife." "And your society would accept the services of suoh wretches?" I interrupted, indignantly, "Truly, you are not over particular." "We cannot afford to be over particular," he answered, ignoring my sarcasm. "Necessity has no law. There is oertain work to be done, and done it must be, by the hands of those willing and able to do it, and who are well paid for their services. I do not attempt to justify that poor girl's murder it was a most brutal piece of work, and its author richly deserves to suffer the full penalty of his crime. Believe me or not, when I tell you that suoh orimes are utterly abhorrent to me, as they are to all but a few of our members, whom necessity has compelled us to retain amongst us— men like that Mike, in short. Moreover, assassination is striotly forbidden by the rules of our society, whioh is formed to terrorize, not to destroy—human life, at all events. But Mike knew too much to be summarily turned out of the society, whioh, through his crime, he riohly deserved. And besides this, he has rendered himself to some considerable extent neoessary to us by his speolal aptitude for a certain kind of work, and this it is—the faot of his being bound to finish a job on whioh he is, with others, now engaged, whioh prevented his immediate flight on bearing that Detective Coylen was put on to the Wayborough OftiS. We knew it would only need your description of him to put Coylen on the traok at once, so it was resolved to keep you out of the way for a time, until he can get safely away. You see, I am be ing perfeotly candid with you it is foolish of me, perhaps." "I wonder you do not expect a judg ment to fall and blast any attempt to help your country, whioh is commenoed under suoh auspices." "We must risk that we think the end justifies the means. However, we will not dispute over a subject about which we should never agree."

We were both of us far from suspeoting at that moment how very soon that remark of mine was to be answered, and in what manner. "And my Detective Coylen—he who decoyed me from home—was of course an impostor?" "Yes, he borrowed the worthy detective's name and profession for the occasion, and he and another of our members drove you down here yesterday afternoon." "We are not far from London, then?" "Not beyond a drive it would be awkward for me to be far away from headquarters, and I was lucky to find this secluded spot—one so entirely suited to my purpose."i" "And are you not afraid?" I remarked^ ironically. "You have been very open in your confidences with me, and though you have not said in so many words that your work is one of rebellion againstour Government, of oourse I cannot help knowing that such is the case. Are you not afraid that I shall betray you when you allow me to leave here?"

He broke out into an amused peal of low, rippling laughter that somehow sounded little like one's preconceived notions of what the laugh of a conspirator ought to be. "And do you really think me such a tyro, my dear Miss Trevor, as to court that possibility? Your opinion of me and of my life's work may be a low one. but I should hardly have given you credit fur thinking me quite such a fool a* that." "How, pray, will you prevent me speaking?" I asked, nettled by his tone of ridicule. "You have acknowledged that you area oonspirator, and you say you do not mean to keep me here indefinitely. Well, then?" "In the first place, you do not know where this place is," was the answer. "It would not be easy to discover, near as it is to London. I have been searching for a suitable hiding-place for some time—for we have been watching Coylen's movements—and,only waited for the first intimation of his coming to question you to act. This secluded spot was found three days ago, and I came here at once to be in readiness. There is another and far more important reason why you would find it dlffleult to set the bloodhounds of the law on my traok, whioh perhaps I may tell you later on. As for any information given to the Government, I fancy yours would be of the vaguest kind."

It was true. He had dot really told me anything—only left me to imply that something—some plot—of what nature 1 was ignorant, was on foot to free Ireland from her "English tyranny" some day. Besides "Do not be afraid," I said, Impulsively, carried away by my feelings, as usual. "No doubt, as you maintain, your mo* tives are honest from your own point of view, and, however mistaken I may think them, it is not for me to be your judge."

He thanked me with a grateful look. "That Is right," he said, simply. "I thought you would do me that justice, at least."

After a moment or two of silence, he z$se from his seat, flicking as he did so an importunate wasp from the skirt of my dress. "I will go and see what Norah is meaning to give us for dinner," he said. "We dine early in these wilds, our larder being somewhat limited, and hardly equal

to the strain of a more pretentious style of living, Old Norah has to bring everything herself from the shops to the boat, as we naturally do not oare for all the butoher and baker boys in the vicinity to know of our retreat." "Norah seems quite devoted to you. We bed a obat while she was olearing away the breakfast things tbla morning, and nil her talk was of you."

smile of affection lit up the bright eyes with a soft radlanee, pleasant to be* hold. "Dear old soul! Yes, she will go on by the hour together about her 'Master Philip's' perfections. She nursed me from the time I was a motherless baby, and in her eyes I am still the ohild she alternately scolded and oaressed. I shall never 'grow up' for her. You will like to read a little, no doubt," he oontinued, moving away. "I will see what books there are In the saloon, I dare say I oan find a novel or two,"

I sat and gazed at the oalm water in a kind of lazy enjoyment. I have ever been most susceptible to the influence of the oountry in summer time it is for me the height of bliss to sit and dream away the hours, watobing the trees move in the breeze, the olouds float past in the deep blue sky, the hum of the bees in my ears. The music of those same bees on a hot summer's day is the most soothing and sleep-producing sound I know and on this July morning, when I ought to have been meditating on the revelations I had just received, or the anxiety of the dear ones at home, I found myself with closed eyes, abandoning myself to the influence of my drowsy sunoundings.

I was aroused from a half-doze by a voice at my elbow—not that of Philip Calder. "Mr. Calder sends you this book," it said. "He hopes you will find it interesting."

I opened my eyes and saw an old gen tleman with white hair standing before me. "Thank you!" I said, holding out my hand for the book, which I held without glanoing at the contents, wondering the while who my unknown visitor might be. Then my

ourioBity

got the better of

my manners, and I added. "I did not know there was any one else on board this boat. Have you only just arrived?" 1

He smiled and bowed with just suoh si courtly grace as one would haveexpeoted from his appearance. He was of moder* ate height, inclining to tallness, or would have been so had it not been for a slight' stoop in the shoulders. A carefully trimmed moustache and beard adorned the lower part of his face, and his eyes were protected from the glare of the sun by tinted glasses. His clothes, though of an old-fashioned out, were those of a gentleman, spruce and neat, aDd his whole bearing had that undefined air of "scholar" prevading it which is so unmistakable, and whioh impressed, me favorably at first sights "One 'out of suits and fortune,'" he replied, "has ohosen this retreat, far from the sights and sounds of an ungrateful world." "What, are you, too, at daggers drawn with society? You, who—" "Who, at my age, you would say, ought to have better thoughts than plotting and scheming was not that your meaning, young lady?" "Pardon me, I was very rude I have no business to be so inquisitive what will you think of my manners?" "Nothing bad, you may be assured," he answered,'bowing again. "It would be impossible for Miss Trevor to be aught but a lady." "You know my name? You are doubtless, then, in Mr. Calder's confidences?" "Yes, I may say, without exaggera tion, that there is little hidden from me that is known to Philip Calder." "Then," I added, impulsively, and on the spur of the moment, for Philip Cal der and his fortunes had interested me almost in spite of myself "can you not persuade him to give up those quixotio schemes for Ireland's liberation, as he calls it? Can you, who are old enough to be his father, not make him see the fallacy—not to mention the wrong—sf all his plotting? and soheminga?" "My dear young lady, he answered gently, "do you think he is a raw boy, to be turned away from a life purpose by arguments of an old man or a young woman?" "You area scholar, you must be clever can you not bring any of your learned axioms to bear on him? Oh, the pity of it, that he should cherish suoh mistaken ideas he is suoh a noble-looking man." "And are we to have no noble looking or good men to free our country—none but scamps enlisted in her service? Is that your meaning? Truly, our poor land would be in worse oase tban ever. Miss Trevor," the old gentleman continued, in an altered voice, which made me jump with surprise, "Philip Calder thanks you from the bottom of his heart for your good opinion of him, and he trusts to deserve it, even in the path he has chosen for himself." "Why, it is yourself, Mr. Calder," I exclaimed indignantly "how oould you play me suoh a mean trick?" "Forgive me," he said, laughing, and taking off the disfiguring glasses '4t»ut I was anxious to give you my premised second reason why it would be difficult for the police to trace me. You were completely deceived until I HItemed tn.r voice, were you not? And this di»gui«e is but one of many others. I have *tudied the art very thoroughly, and I can fairly lay claim. I think, to have hecrae an adept at it." "Well, at any rate, you know uiv opinion of your dangerous work," wax my reply. "I might not perhaps havspoken so unreservedly to you iu yuur own character." "And I thank you for your word*, at though I shall never change my convictions. If anything could make me do so, the words of an honest hearted girl like yourself would have great weight with me." "Were you not afraid of the aort of prisoner you would get? I asked, pros ently. "I might have given you no end of trouble." "I must confess I bad some qnalms on the subject," he said, with a smile. "Particularly when I beard the noise yon made at the cabin door this morning"—then be had beard me—"I began to have visions of a strait-waistcoat or

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ohains being required to keep you from throwing yourself bodily into the water, and I repented not haying allowed 'Coylen' to detain you at the house In Lon don, as be proposed. Not but what your alarm was natural enough in the oircum stances I admit," he added hastily afraid, I suppose, of hurtin~ "It must bave been terri treme to awake strange place, came there." "I shall nevi covering I w: I thought I to get me should nevj "I don? have bee ments busy to "Wei be able ter," I will not end charge of me." "I am sure I shall not it will De great pleasureito'excbange ideas with an educated .lady, If you will allow me to do so. That is one of the drawbacks**)! my position—it has completely cut me off from congenial society." "It must be asocial death," I said. "Nay, it is a minor evil only," he an swered, lightly, and as though deter mined

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