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 C' : so absorbed OiaFsKe did not- hearTlusnenter "My God, S glen what do you mean? tWeen 16 a 1d 17.- 'Why,now cane1t\

 ,l TAKENBYSIEGE. the room, and he had the pleasureof i i Do you love another man?" here? Is-s-3 your mother Lady Jane...

 gazing upon her In all her lovely un- I i "No, I love no other man; but it cannot with yourFreddy's
 j be would repent in sackcloth eyes were apparently
 unconsciousness. A long sigh escaped tl ; you
 x from her lips, and,as she raised her eyes, '[ and ashes before you were SO. Don'tj cated that in order to give full expresS[
- :4 4 :=:=:: z: *_l. she saw Rush advancing towards her. .A a j you know I am five years older than to one he was forced to shut the cjj?
 : ? I would be an old woman while and regarding Lord Glencore th S
 her and i
 look of terror face you
 over
 : passed
 The Story of a Young Journalist's Experiences she gave a low cry of alarm. you were a young man." his single optic he said, "You** bet if?afaGleIcore's :
 : was, 1 shouldn't be here.
 "I hope I have not frightened you," "And would you let such a thing as

 a in New York. said Rush, taking her hand; "but I was that wreck a man's life? I couldn't love heart seemed restored to&
 1! than myself. A woman native position. 'Tin very glad
 so lost in admiration that I did not dare a woman younger toy
 : to speak and break the charm." ; is not interesting to me until she is you, he said, closing his hand aver
 .. .- ::=:1Xt::::: -- little fin Freddy had.
 : When she saw that it was Rush, and 30, though I began to love you when you extended to 1.-o:"":
 1 1not an apparition she blushed to the tips i were 25. Is this question of years the "it's quite a surprise to me."
 Copyright by J. B. Lippincott Company, FhiLacelplua, ia.-: and Published bySpecial of her shell like ears, and said: :'! only obstacle in my way, Helen?"" "Here, I say," said the astute Freddr
 Arrangement through the American Prss A.-.zoeiatioa.d significantly, "what's ? How
 "I was thinking of you at that "very i ""it is:: insurmountable, said Helen, in up is it ja

 .)14. .,." moment and when I looked up and saw a whisper, turning her head away. gin t down therewith them"

 ; 1 : you standing there before me my heart 'R i "My darling r And Rush's strong "Well, I coulon't have-that'fc,
 Helen, but more frequently of Bessie : stood still, and I actually thought it wasa j t arms were around her in a second and there is some business for me."
 CHAPTER XXHLRRIVED Archer. spirit and net real flesh and blood. i! her head was resting on his broad Freddy's eyelid went down like a tutu

 in Bessie was getting to be more like her But how you have changed! You look ; shoulder. The long twilight shadows lay of a box.

 London, the old self, and Archie began to hope, as older by years than you did when you : across the floor; but Rush saw only the "Exactly; just so," he said airily
 I first thing she now had no crackbrained agitators went away." glory of the October sun as its rays fell ting his thumbs into his armholes "j.
 t Rush did after on her visiting list. She had tried woodcarving "I am delighted to hear that for you 1 upon the face of her whom he had at last case is all over. mat my tutor's,jqj

 : engag- and amateur photography as a used to torture me with remarks on my won after years of patient waiting. see, so please to remember that it 1

 \wg lodgings pastime, and now she was amusing her- ,, youthful appearance," said Rush,leadingher THE END. possible for you to have seen me."

 4 j ., was to call self by trying to hatch chickens with a to a chair and taking her vacant Glencore laughed cheerily. "AUrigb,*
 upon his patent incubator. Rush was very gladto place on the hearth rug. THE RUNAWAYS he said; "you are quite safe with try
 chief. He found hear this, for he had feared that Bes- "Did I? I am grieved to know that I but what on earth are you up to?"'
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 r Mr. Plummett in sie,in her craving for something that society was ever so rude as to make such per- This question seemed prompted by tb
 :I' an amiable! frame could not give her, might fall again J sonal remarks; but I can never say anything I Ii The same year that Lady Jane Magnus sight of a nondescript dog cart jostled

 Fd of mind and disposed into dangerous company. He did not of that sort again, for you certainly i. presented her beautiful daughter Adela, up to the door. "Are you all by jcc
 to be very know her. The lesson she had learned look much more than two years older." Lord Glencore was the match of the sea self here?"

 friendly. Rush learned afterwards that lasted her a lifetime.At "I cannot say that of you," said Rush; son. Just of age, of an old family, with "There's Harris, my old nurse, taj

 t his chiefs good humor and accessibilityon the end of Rush's two years in Lon- "you look ten years youngero" vast possessions and a heavy rent roll, I Jim, her hwba:1d-our butler he used b
 this occasion were a lucky accident. don Mr. Plummett sent for him to come "Don't tell me that; people always be- swelled by a long minority, the instant be-and Peggy. You know Peg, dart
 i' At another time he might have been unapproachable over to Paris, where he was living in ; gin telling a woman how young she 1 the hawk like eye of Lady Jane fell on youT"Peg.

 but on this particular great style. Rush crossed the channel, looks when they realize that she is no ''' the young peer- a thrill of joy assured: : No, I don't think I do."

 afternoon something had happened toit and hurried on: to Paris to learn a pieceof longer voung.oIt is the first sign that her that there stood the husband Providence "I say" exclaimed Freddy "isn't it,
 ; put him in a good humor and Kosli got important news. The managing editor old age is creeping; oru But tell me what had provided for Adela. beastly-shame the way they always
 the benefit of it. this means-why are home? I ; "You think it is all right, mother, do tj
 you shun her
 f it of The Dawn was getting too old to supPose to ? and she's just as goods
 John Gaspar Pluminttt was a peculiar do his work satisfactorily, so Mr. Plummets your departure from London must you? Adela ventured to say, growing a anybody. Her father was niy tier'J

 man. He was the son of a very able ; concluded to retire him on a pen- have been sudden, or you would have little uneasy when the end of the season eldest son, only he married his tar

 I"'A' father,and had inherited a fortune and a sion and offer Rush tho vacant chair, let your friends know of the treat in drew near, and Lord Glencore had never daughter, and my lady set the goveracr
 :: As a mail he had been store for them." addressed a single remark to her which
 newspaper. young with a salary of ten thousand dollars., on to cut up rough about it. So the poor
 .-J f.:- t"eryrlld,and at forty he was nut tamed i This the young editor was only too well ":tow please don't guy me, Miss could by any possibility bo construed into chap got the kick out and then hedia*;

 1 to any great extent His exuberance of i j pleased to accept. Armed with his Knowlton," said Rush. "My departure :,! love and so did his wife and a jolly gee
 :. spirits showed itself in ttiaeonductof his from the other side was sudden I didn't "Perfectly right, dear. The society
 t chiefs orders, he returned to New York ; thing for me, too, or I would hare hit
 ,iL,. paper. He got up the wildest hchemes i! by the first steamer. None of his friends know until forty eight hours before I papers have coupled your names to- to sing small Only wait till I am caster 

 and generally carried them out with uo- i knew of his coming. He hadn't time to sailed that I was to come. The chief gether. An approaching marriage has though, and if they try it on w
 cess thus making The Dawn the best J write and he thought it hardly worthwhile sent for me to meet him in Paris. There more than once been hinted at, and, as a Peggy then, I'll let them: know. Shed

 t, known newspaper in America and the I to cable. The trip home was as he told ni3 ho wanted me to become matter of course, now wherever people older than I am, but all the sane,lasher :
 best known American m.\\-iXlpt.. in Europe uneventful the bad : managing editor of The Dawn at once ask us he is asked." -
 J as trip over been, butRush's ; uncle,and-I say you'll be heroncK
 1 Plummett, without bem;; handsome ; sensations were immeasurably so I hurried back to New York by the "Well, but-" too, if you t:1Mryd6, and you're
 was dLstinub tied first "Dear child, leave it to go
 i very looking.He : different. steamer. you may me. ing to, Sill you."*
 C had a tall aristocratic figure and bore : Before he had been sailing away from "Managing editor of The Dawn: You Don't you think so:* And an expression Lord Glencore blushed furiously asd
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 .' himself with a great deal of dignity. It take honors 1! of mild reproach was shot from the maternal 
 o Helen, now ho was sailing to her; and your coolly. That is aa fine Freddy, taking silence for consent,added
 .t...1i\. : would bo impossible% for a stranger to''I when the vessel reached quarantine he a position as a journalist: could have I ee.hDJ you fancy that if I saw i with a snort of supreme content, "ItOu

 ( pass him in the street without turning made a rough calculation to see if he congratulate you; Lit I am not sur the slighest shadow uncertainty I jolly good thing for her I ain't
 around and saying to: his if From the should Sir Jooelyn's invitation for yonCatch
 t, companion would not gain time by swimming prised. way I heard people accept me marrying Adda: Oh *,
 ye
 ho happened to have one"ho is that ashore. He concluded, however, that peak of your work in London, I was Goodwood, knowing that Glencore won'tbe I rather:

 distinguished looking man?*" He was he would be taken for a thief or a lunatic .. prepared for anythbgo""Peope there Not desirous of pursuinthistopicfWCher

 very particular about his dreg. and had if he gave way to any such impulse, were very kind to speak well "Won't he? Why, where is he go- Lord Glencoro put a <question.<
 rt1 a style cf his own that his friends tried and remained of work. If lug?
 had
 so quietly on board until my they only !known "'You're not going to drive that," to
 to imitate; but,as few had such a figure the vessel arrived at her dock. Againbe 0 my incentive, however, they would have : "Nowhere; ascertained: that, -OUIna'" said, nodding toward the horse, a oca
 the imitation was not successful. People had to restrain himself, for he wantedto wondered why I didn't do better.: But be sure. He is obliged to remain in town vicious looking "are "*

 who knew Plummett slightly fancies drive direct to Helen's house from the i enough about me; tell me about yourself; There'll not be a soul left for him to speak "Why not? He's screw a real you good one to I
 that his wild schemes were without Instead that is much to. Some business with his lawyer he
 i steamer. he drove to the Brevoort ; a more interesting subject. Come in and it's
 (
 go. see us start; vapid
 method and that he was a haruun-car- which was his headquarters for : You looked sad as I entered, and you said-and said it in a very pointed way, fun. We'd a regular crowd round TB,
 um sort of fellow who did d-\erythmg some time to come. New York had breathed a deep sigh. Has anything too." yesterday. else but croak
 Any one Peg
 hit or miss, and who-e bu intc was at never looked so attractive to him as it I gone wrong? I wish you would make "Stammering and getting fiery red," have been frightened to death**
 loose ends.. On the contr.1ljhe always j did on this October morning. Ho saw : mo your confidant; you must know that I 1 said the would be fiance disdainfully Incited by curiosity Lord Glencor
 t knew what he was about, and he had Jane shook her head. "Never
 Lady
 I along plainly enough where it fell short of : 1 would not only share any of your obeyed Freddy's invitation
 j head for business. !1 London grandeur; but there was a troubles, but take the burden of them mind -the manner; it is the meaning "We keep all the front well shut"
 t Although he was seldom'in New York homelike look about the place that was upon my own shoulders most cheerfully** are concerned in. He joins us immedi-
 said
 Freddy, as he marshaled his to
 1 he watched his papercarefully and knew grateful to who load A troubled ately after at Thorndean. There way
 1 very a man been expression passed oer'. you a den at the far end of the ballPassing
 who wrote every article in it. He had away for two years. Even the strangers Helen's face, and yet with it there was a will see that everything will be satisfactorily the narrow
 stairs he vent to *
 been looking closely after Rush ever i in the streets looked like old fntnds.I little twinkle in her eye as though some- arranged. Lady Somerton has gave

 IF since he came upon the paper, and was ( Rush had learned from a daily paper, ,: thing amusing had happened. such a happy way of letting young people shrill which whistle might answered have been by taken a sim.iI&rone <s i&

 r1 I very much pleased with his work. When : brought on board the steamer by the i, "I saw Mr. Hastings* leaving your dooras be thrown together, and from the echo.

 .i : he found that his London: office was not i pilot that the opera season would not I entered. Had you said anything to first I have seemed to bo very much "Ain't you ready?" was piped upfroo:
 managed as he thought it should be, hQ ;, begin for a fortnight, so he knew thatHelen's ; make him very happy-or very unhappy? guided by her." below.
 at once made his mind that Rush i Adela embraced her mother withgraceful
 up
 time would be His face
 j comparatively unj j I wore a most peculiar expres-: "
 "Coming, answered sold
 a girl's ;
 was the man to reorganize it. And he effusion.
 J He also sion. '
 employed. saw by the same and at the same instant with the'word
 proved to be right. In a general way he I i paper that "our distinguished prima : "I don't know whether he was happy :. "How c1et'erou- are:** she said admiringly down the flight of stairs, flop on tl*:
 told Rush what he would like to see donna, Miss Helen Knowlton," had arrived -; or unhappy in his mind. The only sensation ; "t'ouha. e managed beautifully mat tifr!
 ii t* done, but he did not give very minute in town from: Saratoga, and was 1 he expressed before me was one of .: for I did want to enjoy Goodwoodfree. cloud camo of dust a figure sent which Lord, through Glenccrf

 t: instructions as he wanted to sea whatdie I occupying "her charming little house in j i i surprise." And she smiled at the thought. When I am a countess, mamma surmised must be Peggy.up.
 .
 young man would do if left; to him- West Twentieth street. He first sent a "You will forgive me if I ask, you a : it shall be very nice for you." "rm so sorry. I thought it was ash

 eelf. Having bad charge of the foreign j j' telegram to his mother, telling her that .: question point blank. I have a feeling IL Freddy r- and then better able to ef

 i, .r department In New York, Rush knew its I he had arrived, and then he set about that Mr. Hastings made a proposal of C r Goodwood week had left who stood there, she gave vent to sa
 ahortoomingsand had a plan mapped out j unpacking his trunks and preparing to '! marriage to you this afternoon. Am Iribght" ,o London wonderfully empty. You did agonized "Oh Lord GlencoreP W*
 t'
 r I for its improvement. This he laid before call upon Helen. He divested himself ofi said Rush, as quietly as a man ,, not meet a soul you knew. seemed unable to say more.

 Mr. Plummett It won his instant ap- I i his traveling clothes, and after a refresh- could when very much excited. ,I I Lord Glencore repeated this fact to Freddy, who was enjoying her coo-
 proraL I l ing bath, arrayed himself in the lat.,;tI !1 "Mr. Hurlstone," said Helen rising, : himself most cheerily as he walked along: fusion to the full here burst in with!

 H t Rush thoroughly disliked the systemof I I style of English afternoon dress, and "you forget yourself. Your question is Piccadilly with a heart and step as light "Don't mind him: he's sauare. enoi !..
 interviewing"* carried on as it had j sallied forth. Before he started out he '! impertinent." asa bird's.. ain't you?" -

 been up to this time; but he saw opportunities looked at himself in the long mirror in i i "No, it is not impertinent No man It seems an impossible circumstance o I "Certainly lain" and then turning t)
 his room and congratulated himself that i who loves a woman as I love would i 1 that stalwart ,
 for making it a great feature.To ,j you a young giant, standing Peggy he.said "Fve never had tbr
 run after every fifth class actress before j he appeared at least ten years older than ,! ask her an impertinent question. I must over six feet in his stockings, his own I I pleasure of seeing you here have F*
 I she had fairly landed in New York i' when he left. The reason for this was bo answered once and for all. Everyone : master, able to do what he liked and go' I "No."
 = largely attributable to the Vandyke ; are engaged to Mr. Hast- where he
 Amer.4i imposing says you chose, should be in abject'I "But you've seen him havent J&*
 ica was disgusting to him; but to get a beard and mustache he had grown i: ings. Is it truer thralldom to a plain little middle aged Peg? And once don't remember
 'f statesman to talk upon an important during 1 his absence which not only made 1 i: Rush's heart beat so hard and fast that woman who was bent on compelling I! when the door opened and you I scuttled cflj

 : subject or to get personal memoirs from him look older but were exceedingly: be- it almost choked him. His eyes were him to marry her daughter. "And I I j and your frock caught and tumbl
 you
 l i distinguished men of letters, he believed i coming.. i! fixed intently upon Helen's, as though feel as if I should be made to do it, i I down? Oh, I say, what a gamel Ik ***
 was not only interesting but a legitimate i Arrived in sight: of Helen's house, t j he would read every thought that passed .: too," poor Glencore had said of late, t[ a shave we weren't caught that time"
 : branch of journalism. His brightness Rush felt his heart beating like a trip > through;: her brain. She hesitated a mo- driven into his last corner by the congratulation i I Poor Peggy's face like beet rtdI -
 was a
 4 and hammer: but it almost stood still when ment before answering him: ; and then of all I
 sincerity of purpose made him air Lady Jane's friends, "There wasn't to see,"*2**'
 I anything
 great many friends among the public he got to within twenty feet of the door, she said, slowly, in a low, soft voice: to say nothing of these horrid paragraphs said to Lord Glencore "&
 r men of England, and he succeeded in : for there, slowly coming down the front 'j "No, I am not engaged to Mr. Hast- : in those horrid papers, some of which ,: really wasn't for that, reassuringly.looked bat li -
 we ,
 steps, was the hated West Hastings, j ings. I have never been: had far
 S' getting some important interviews out of engaged to gone so as to mention an early I was so curious to know what "
 ?. Hastings was so much occupied with him, and I never shall be." date i, you
 them. In the matter of foreign news he : being fixed "for the marriage of a like," and she gesticulated violently **
 : I kept The Dawn hours ahead of any other i his own thoughts that he did not see : "Then,Helen," said Rush, taking her lovely debutante of this season: and a : Freddy behind Lord Glencore's h1ck'That's .
 | Rush. The expression on his face ; hand, "will listen to ? I earl ,I
 New York paper and everybody interested I was you me have young recently of age, whoeo an- the hannT responded 6:*
 in newspaper work said that Rush one of undisguised surprise. He looked loved you devotedly for five years-ever cestors came over with the Conquerer." j *
 .,. t Hurlstone was a journalist of mark. (: as though it were impossible for him to .I, since my eyes first saw your beautiful If he could but pluck up to : do young the man.tulatit'elj.. "Yef
 courage if off
 For two years Rush stayed in London. : believe what had happened; but whether ; face. I have had no thought but of you say he did not mean anything, never j'j' a cock same loft of you were packed wouldn't fajj<*

 :, Two busy years they were. In all this ,I he could not realize. his good fortune or during all these years. I did not tell had meant anything, never meant to ':' a garret J
 time he had not seen Helen, but he had i, his bad Rush was unable to decide. He' you of my love, because I believed that mean anything-that he was quite happy her-stir'
 made up his mind, however, that he : were not to be taken he '(I
 beard from her occasionally. She did : you by storm-at as was-that he never intended to "Xo irk
 not hesitate to tell him that she missed ,; would know before he left Helen's house, least not by rne, who at that time could : marry any one-what would he not give! I'I out of,the Freddy no of, his Lord Glencore her 5i'
 + T him, but she did not tell him how much I and end the suspense he had been living ; be nothing more to you than a boyish ac- Full of a wild scheme which had lately and corner eyessaw:
 hoping to conversaWV
 : I: she wished that he was back in New I ia for the past five years. He had had i; quaintance. But I lived every day of come to him: that he would run off to he said: change the
 York. If Rush had 'I no such my life with the one end in view. You some far distant
 I planned his absenceas thought when he left the : country he was map- Tm afraid Tci moving loss t *
 a ruse he could not have planned a i! hotel, but the sight of West Hastings : are to me life, and love, and everything I ping out the details as he walked along, best of the day. I came in you to see J1
 more successful one. The man who invented i! aroused all the jealousy in his na- that there is in the world. If you will 1 so occupied that he forgot how far he start." Perhaps fathomed>tj*
 Peggy
 the "Out i tote and made him be my wife will have lover for had come, until within
 proverb of sight, out of fully alive to' you a a a sudden start he kind effort, for she looked at him fcW
 ., mind" didn't know what he was talking '!i the fact that he was occupying avery I husband to the end of your days. If you pulled himself up. He was passing the for the first time.
 about "Out of uncertain i say no to me, God help met! I Albert Hall close that
 sight never out of' position. His mind ; am: not to pleasant row of "Yes!" and she him a little w
 mind" would be nearer the truth. Helen was now fixed and he rang the door bell i i man enough to bear such a blow quietly. ', houses in one of which lived Lady Jane. smile; "did you2" gave

 ft had never thought so much of Rush as with such a determined pull that the liti i But you will not say no, Helen-you : The knowledge that he could walk "It's pleasant drive out **

 a, b i v during his absence. I can't say that he tie bell tinkled for several minutes, and I!i cannot say no to a nan who adores you, boldly by and fling a look of defiance at town, now.very Where are a going?*
 thought more of her for I do not see the old man servant who had been so i I t who worships you, who lives only for :' the papered.windows and closed shutter "To Richmond park "you.answered IioM
 ;
 t how that would have been possible. long attached to Helen's service forgot ;j' you. I must know; I cannot live any ,, as he had done the day before, sent Irrepressible Freddy. ,"Would you Ji1r

 + w Helen's life was a busy one too; but still I his dignity for once and came running : longer in suspense. Helen darling- : a thrill of satisfaction through the young to go? Well take there's heaps!
 r I (: she missed Rush almost as much 33'' to the door. He was as much pleased as i will you be my wile?" : man. He drew himself up and turned room behind. Why-why you; shonIdn'p;;;.

 though she had been an idle woman. surprised to see Rush, and ushered him i| Rush pOke every word slowly, and i his head to-when, oh, agony! exactly This was evidently in answer to sr
 He was not a man to be taken out of a unannounced into the drawing room, j! with an intensity that there was no mis- as he was opposite to it the door opened pantomime from,Peggy.

 ;i t young woman's life and not be missed. where Helen was standing, apparently taking. Helen stood pale as death before 1 and voice called out "Glencore |I "You don't want me-would rstner **
 Rush heard occasionally from Archie lost in thought before the wood fire that I' him.again a voice scarcely audible,said: j "Freddy! Is it you" Lord Glencore t'I didn't goTLord
 3 i who sometimes of crackled on the hearth. Indeed she "It cannot be! it cannot ber! managed to ho
 seeing
 TiUin halt, spoke ,was _. say was addressed ._ Glencore had turned su dld
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