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The Light in the Clearing A TALE of the NORTH COUNTRY fa the TIME of SILAS WRIGHT By IRVING BACHELLER Awsfcsr ar EBEN HOLDEN, mu AND L BAKJLBL OF THE BLESSED ISLES. KXEP1NC UP WITH LIBCE, Etc. Etc.

CHAPTER X. —IWA Party It was a rainy Sunday, la the middle of dm afternoon node Peabody and 1 Bad oat oat In oar spring buggy ritb the faisily umbrella—a

carefully dried, after in the clothes press. We were drenched to the akin la aptte of the umbrella. It was still raining when we arrived at the familiar door In Aafaery lane. Unde Peabody wooldnT atop. Ha hurried away. Wa

“Come in." said the voice of the ehoolmaster at the door. “The good weather under this roof.” He saw my plight as ^entered. *Tm like s shaggy dog that’s been

f A good appetite does not want sauce.

1 looked up at b!m. . “Michael Henry'* they're Just the thing for yon P I followed him upstairs, wont how It had happened that Michael Henry bad clothes. Into bla room and brought some handsome, soft clothes out of n press with shirt, socks and

boots to match.

“There, my laddie buck." said he.

put them on."

“These will soon dry on me,' “Put them on—ye laggard! Michael Henry told me to give them to yon. It's the birthday night o’ little Ruth, my boy. There’s a big cske with candles and chicken pie and Jellied cooklet and all the like o’ that. Put them A wet boy at the feast would pen the whole proceedings." put them ou and with a great e of relief and comfort. They were an admirable lit—too perfect for an accident, although at the time I thought only of their grandeur as I stood surveying myself In the looklngrfsss. They were of blue cloth and I law that they went well with my blond hair and light skin. I was putting on my collar and necktie when

Mr. Backet returned.

We went below and the table was iery grand with Us great frosted cake

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gleam of polished pewter among them. Mrs. Racket and all the children, save Ruth, were waiting for us to the din-

ing room.

“Now sit down here, all o’ ye. with

Michael Henry," said the schoolmaster. “The little lady will be Impatient ITl go and get her and God help us to

make her remember the day." He was gone a moment only, when

be came back with Ruth to lovely white ' , ress and slippers ana gay with ribbons, and the silver beads of Mary on her neck. We clapped our hands and cheered and. to the excitement of the moment. John tipped over his drinking glass and shattered It on

the floor.

“Never mind, my brave lad—no glass ever perished In a better cause. God

eas youT

We ate and Jested and talked, and the sound of our laughter drowned the cry of the wind In the chimney sod the Immmlng of the rein upon

the window*.

Next morning my clothe*, which tad been hong by the ktichen stove, damp and wrinkled. Mr. Backet came iii- room before I had rlaei “Michael Henry would rather see his clothes banging on a good boy than on a nail in the cloaet,” said he. “Sure they give no comfort to thy

nail at alt”

“j gains ailne are dry now.* I anThey’re wet and heavy, boy. son o’ Baldur could keep a light heart lb theta. Sure ye'd be aa much < o' place as a sunbeam to a cave bats. If ye care not for your own comfort think o' the poor lad to the green chair. He's that proud and pleased to sea them on ye It would be a steaw to reject bla offer. Sore, If they ware dry yer own garment* would be good enough. God knows. but Michael Henry loves the look o’ ye In these toga, and then the president la In town.! That evening be discovered a big atclu. black as Ink. on my coat sad trunsers. Mr. Backet expressed the opinion that it might have come from the umbrella, but I am quite sure that he had *|>of«d them «•> aave me from the last homemade salt 1 ever wore, save In rough work, and keep Michael Henry's on my bock, to any event I wore them no more save at chon- time. Bally came and went, with the Wills boy. and gave no heed to me. to her eye* 1 had no more substance than a ghost, it mameti to me, although I caught h< r. often. looking at me. I lodged that her father bad given her a had report of us and had oome regrets, to spite of my knowledge I hat we were right, although they related mostly to Amos. Next afternoon I aaw Mr. Wright forth ua the bridge aa they talked

errand. Tbo two statesmen were to broadcloth and white lloen and beaver hats. They stopped as I approached

wm.

“Well, partner, we shnli be leaving to an hour or no,” Bald Mr. Wright as be gave me Ms band. “Ton may look for me here aoon after the done of the Take care of yourself and go often to see Mrs. Wright and obey your captain and remember me ta your art and uncle.” “See that you keep coming, my ^ood ly," said the president as be gave »ne Ms band, with playful reference, no doubt, to Mr. Wright’s remark that I was a coming man. “Bart. I’ve some wheat to to threshed to the barn on the back lot,’ said, the senator as I was leaving “Toe can do U Saturdays, if you care to. at a shilling an le straw out of doors you've finished, then put It back to the Winnow the wheat carefully and It sad bring It down to the ary and ITl settle with yon when I I remember that a number of bo worked In Grtmahaw’s sawmill were passing as be rpoko. “Yea. sir" I answered, much el by the prospect of earning money. The examination of Amos was set down for Monday and the people of the village were stirred and shaken by wildest rumor* regarding the evidence to be adduced. Every day and women stopped me to the street to ack what I knew of the murder, followed the advice of Bishop Perkin* and kept my knowledge to mysatt. Saturday came, and when the chorea were done I went alone to the grain barn In the back lot of the senator*! farm with flail and measure and broom and fork and shovel and sacks and my luncheon, to a pushcart, with all of which Mrs. Wright had provided mi. t was a lonely place with three aides of the field and a road on the other. * I kept laying down beds of wheat on the barn floor and beating them out with the flan until the sun was well over the roof, when wn to e*t my luncheon. Then I swept up the grain and winnowed out the chaff end filled one of my tacks. That done, I covered the floor again and the thump of the flail vasod my loneliness until to the middle of the afternoon two of my schoolmates came and asked me to go swimming with them. The river was not forty rods away and a good traP led to the swimming hole. It was a warm, bright day end I was hot and thirsty. The thought of cool waters and friendly companionship was too much for me. I went with then and stayed with them longer than I Intended. I remember saying as I dressed that I should have to work late and go without my supper to order to finish my

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It was almost dark when I was putting the last sack of wheat Into my cart, to the gloomy barn and getting ready to go. A rustling to the strew where I stood stopped me suddenly. I heard stealthy footsteps In the darkness. I stood my ground and demanded: "Who's therer I kw n form approaching to the gloom with feet ns noiseless os a cat’s.

I Had Time to Raise My Flail and Bring It Down Upon the Head of

I took a step backward and, seatog that It was a woman, stopped. “If* Kate. 1 " came in n horree wMsper as I rmxgblced her form and staff. • Run. boy—they hate Just coroe out •>' the woods. I saw them. They will

take you away. Ran."

Ru> had picked up the flail, and Dow alto put It <n my hands and gave me a push toward the door. 1 ran. and none too quickly, fur I had not gone fitly feet from the horn to the stubble when I beard them coming after roe. whoever they were, i aaw that they were gaining and tuni<-d quickly, bad time to raise my flail ai.d bring ft

who fell as X bed seen a beef fan under the ax. Another man stopped beyond the reach of my flail and. after a second’s hesitation, turned and ran away in the darkness. I could hear or see do other motion to the field. I tuned and ran oo down the slope toward the village, a moment I aaw someone coming out of the maple grove at the field's end. Jost ahead, with a lantern. Then I beard the voice of the schoolaster saying: “Is It you. my ladT “Yea," I answered, as I came up to him end Mary, to a condition breathless excitement I told them of the curious adventure I had had. “Come quick," said the set r. “Let's go back and find the man to the stubble." I remembered that I bad struck the path to my flight Just before stopping to swing the flaU. The man must have fallen very near It Soon w where he had been lying and dropq of fresh blood on the stubble. “Hush.” said the schoolmaster. We Usteocd and beard a wagon rattling at a wild pace down the road toward the river. “There he goes," said Mr. Hacket “His companions have carried away. Ye'd be riding to that wagon now, ycreelf, my breve lad. If ye hadn't V made a lucky hit with the flail— God bless yer "What would they "a’ done with me?" I asked. “Oh. I reckon they’d ’a’ took ye off. lad. and kep’ ye for a year or so until Amos was out o’ danger,*’ said Mr. Hacket “Maybe they'd drowned ye In the river down there an’ left yer ctothes on the bank to make It look like an honest drowning. The devil knows what they’d ’a’ done with ye, laddie buck. Well bare to keep an eye on ye now, every day until the trial Is over—sure we will. Come, well go up ta the barn and see If Kate Is

there.”

Just then we heard the receding: r agon go roaring over the bridge on < Little r.ver. Mary shuddered with fright The schoolmaster reassured u by saying: “LronT be afraid. I brought my guu to case we'd meet a painter. But the danger i s past" He drew n long pistol from Ms coat pocket and held It to the light of the

lantern.

The loaded cart stood to the middle of the barn floor, where I had left It but old Kate had gone. We dosed the barn, drawing the cart along with Wh -n we came Into the edge of the village I began to reflect upon the strange peril out of which 1 had so luckily escaped. It gave me a heavy sense of responsibility and off the wickedness of men. I thought of old Kate and her broken sileoce. For once I had beard her speak. I could feel mj flesh tingle when I thought of her quick word* and her l.oarae. passionate whisper. I knew, or thought I knew, why she took such care of me. She was to league with the gallows nod could not bear to arc It cheated of Its prey. For ts<>h she Anted the Grlmshaws. een the hate In her eyes the day she dogged along •whlnd (he oM money lendei* through the street* of the village when her pointing finger had *eemed to say to me: "There, there la the man who ha* brought me to this. He has put these rags upon my back, this tire to my heart, this wild look In my eyes. Walt and you will soe what 1 wilt put upon him.’’ I knew that old Kate was not the irresponsible, wltinis creature Chat (s-ople thoucht her to hr. I bad begun to think of her with a kind of swe a* one gifted above all other*. One by one the thing* she had said of the future seemed to be coming true. Aa we were going Into the bouse the schoolmaster said: “Now. Mary, you take this lantern end go across the street to the bouse o' Deacon Rinks, the constable. You'll find him asleep by the kitchen stovr. Arrest his alutuberr, but not rudely, uud. when he has come to, tell him that I lave news o' the devil. Deacon Dinks arrived, a fat man with a big, round body and x w ise aud serious countenance between side Whiskers bending from his temple to bla neck and suggesting parentheses of hair, as If his head and Its accessories were to the nature of a side issue. He and the schoolmaster went out of doors and must have talked together while I was eating n bowl of broad and milk vNcb Mrs. Hacket had brought to me. Win* I went tc bed. by and by. I beard aomcluidy snoring on the tittle porch under my window. The first sound that reached roy car at the break of dawn was the snoring of some sleeper. 1 dressed and went below end found the constable to his roonskln overcoat asleep on the porch with a long-barreled gun at his side. While I stood there tin- schoolmaster came around the corner of the house from the garden. He put hi* band on tin- deacon's shoulder and gave Ml n little shake. “Awake, ye limb o* the law.” be di mended. “Prayer is better than

sleep."

was a flue morning, wh'yh it was not. the sky being overcast and the air dark aud chilly. Mr. Hacket removed bis g eatcoat and threw it on the stoop roying: “Deacon, you lay there. From now on Fm constable and ready for any act that may be necessary to maintain the law. I can he aa severe as Napoleon Bonaparte and as cunning aa Satan. If ' have to be." While X was milking the deacon nat on a bucket In the doorway of tbo stable and snored until I had finished. He awoke- when I loosed the cow rod the constable went back to the pasture with me. yawning with bis hand over his mouth ranch of the way. The deacon leaned Ms dhow on the top at the pen and snored again, lightly, while I mixed the feed for the pigs Mr. Hacket met ns at the Jjltchen door, where Deacon Sinks mid to Mm: “If you'll look after the boy today IH go hom? and get a little rest." “God bless yer soul, ye had a busy night." said the schoolmaster with a

alle.

He added as he went Into the bouse: *T never knew a man to rest wltt more energy and persistence. It wai a perfect flood o' rest. It kept me awake until long after midnight"

CHAPTER XL The Spirit of MMhael Henry

Others.

At the examination of Amos G shaw my knowledge was committed to the records anil ceased to be a sotu of danger to me. Grimshaw came the village that day. On my way the courtroom I saw him walking

, ape

the bead

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“Awake. Ye Limb o’ the Law* slowly, with bent head as I had seen him before, followed by old Kate. She carried her staff to her left hand while the forefinger of her right hand was pointing him out Silent as a ghost cud as unheeded—one would say—aha followed Ms steps. observed that old Kate sat on a front seat with her band to ber ear and Grimshaw beside his lawyer at a big table and that when abe looked si him ber Ups moved to a strange uauttered whisper of ber spirit. Her faee filled with Joy as ace damning detail after another came out to th« evidence. The facts hereinbefore alleged, and others, were proved, for the track.* ted the iflicnn of Amos. The young man was held and presently Indicted. The time of Ms trial was not deters

mined.

I wrote a good hand thorn* day* and the leading merchant of the village engaged me to post his books every Saturday at ten <-• ots an hour, 'flie forward until Christina* 1 gave my free day* to thst ta-k. I entlm the sum that I should earn and planned to divide It to equal parts and proudly present It to my aunt uncle on (Christmas day. One Saturday while I wns at i on the big ledger of the merchant I ran upon tbla Item: October 1 -A Wrtsfct—To one suit of Wothc* tor Michael Hoary from mevourro furnUhod by 8. Robinson AK Bhlrta to match 1 I knew then the history of the sal* of clothes wbleh I bad worn since that rainy October night for I remembered that Ham Robinson, the tailor, had measured me at our bouse and made np the doth of Aunt Deel'a weaving. I ebMWed. also, that numerous aro tides—a loud -if wood, two sacks of floor, three pairs of. boots, one • ten pounds of salt pork and four l-ushels of potatoes—*all for “Mldiad Henry"—had been charged to Hilas

Wright

8o by the merest chance I learned that the Invisible “Michael Henry" was the almoner of the modest - talesman nnd really the spirit of Mia* Wright fi-edlng tbo hungry and clothing the naked and warming the cold house. In Ike absence of Us owner. It was the heart of Wright Joined to that of the schoolmaster, which oat to the green chair. I fear Hurt my work suffered a moment's Interruption, for Just then I

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