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27	ANOTHER MAN'S COAT	I followed the Prince without another word, and when he received the Princess I had the happiness of taking the Little Playmate by the hand and conducting her as gallantly as I could into the palace. And I was glad, for it helped to allay a kind of reproachful feeling in my heart, which would keep tugging and gnawing t...	{ "id": "12191" }
28	THE PRINCE'S COMPACT	In spite of all drawbacks and difficulties (and I had my share of them) I loved Plassenburg. And especially I loved the Prince. The son, so they said, of a miller in the valley of the Almer, he had entered the guard of the last Prince of Plassenburg, much as I had now entered his own service. Prince Dietrich had taken ...	{ "id": "12191" }
29	LOVES ME--LOVES ME NOT	Now how this plan of my Lord Prince's worked in the Palace of Plassenburg I find it difficult to tell without writing myself down a "painted flittermouse," as the Prince expressed it. I was in high favor with my master; well liked also by most of the hard-driving, rough-riding young soldiers whom the miller's son had m...	{ "id": "12191" }
30	INSULT AND CHALLENGE	Now, because there is still so much to tell, and so little time and space to tell it in, I must go forward rapidly. In these dull times of grouting peace, when men become like penned pigs, waking up only at feeding-time, they have no knowledge of how swiftly life went when every day brought a new living friend or a new...	{ "id": "12191" }
31	I FIND A SECOND	I meant to go directly to the Prince in his chamber and tell him that from this time forth Helene and I had resolved to battle out our lives together. But it chanced that I passed through the higher terrace on my way to the lower--a bosky place of woods, where the Prince loved to linger in of a summer afternoon, drowsi...	{ "id": "12191" }
32	THE WOLVES OF THE MARK	The Hirschgasse is a little inn across the river, well known to the wilder blades of Plassenburg. There they go to be outside the authority of the city magistrates, to make rendezvous with maids more complaisant than maidenly, to fight their duels, and generally to do those things without remark which otherwise bring t...	{ "id": "12191" }
33	THE FLIGHT OF THE LITTLE PLAYMATE	We carried Dessauer back to the boat with the utmost tenderness, the Prince walking by his side, and oft-times taking his hand. I followed behind them, more than a little sad to think that my troubles should have caused so good and true a man so dangerous a wound. For though in a young man the scalp-wound would have he...	{ "id": "12191" }
34	THE GOLDEN NECKLACE	The Chancellor Leopold von Dessauer, High Councillor of the Prince, with his head still bound up, was pacing the sparred gallery outside the private apartments of his master. It was in the heats of the late summer, before the ripening of the orchard fruits had had time to culminate, or the russet to come out slowly upo...	{ "id": "12191" }
35	THE DECENT SERVITOR	"This grows past all bearing," cried the Prince one morning, when he had summoned into his hall the Chancellor Dessauer and myself. For, though the Prince was still wont to command in person in any important action, and in the general policy of his realm took counsel with none, yet it had somehow come about that we, th...	{ "id": "12191" }
36	YSOLINDE'S FAREWELL	The next morning early, as I went about making my dispositions, and putting men of trust in positions fit for them--for the Prince has given me the command of all the soldiers within the city--the Lady Ysolinde came to me upon the terrace. "Walk with me a while," she said, "in the lower garden. It is a quiet place, a...	{ "id": "12191" }
37	CAPTAIN KARL MILLER'S SON	Black, blank, chill, confining night shut us in as Leopold Dessauer and I rode out of Plassenburg. Our horses had been made ready for us at the little water-gate in the lower garden. Fain would I have taken also Jorian and Boris, but on this occasion the fewer the safer. For to enter Thorn was to go with lighted matche...	{ "id": "12191" }
38	THE BLACK RIDERS	The next day we jogged along, and many were our advices and admonitions to the Prince to return. For we were now on the borders of his kingdom, and from indications which met us on the journeying we knew that the Black Riders were abroad. For in one place we came to a burned cottage and the tracks of driven cattle; in ...	{ "id": "12191" }
39	THE FLAG ON THE BED TOWER	It took us all our powers of persuasion with the Prince to induce him to depart homeward on the morrow, under escort of a dozen sturdy and well-armed lanzknechte attached to the monastery. But the thing was done at last. "And remember," said our Karl, as he embraced us, "that if ye return not on the eighth day at eve...	{ "id": "12191" }
40	THE TRIAL OF THE WITCH	At this point came my master back, looking exceedingly disconsolate. A starveling, furtive-eyed monk accompanied him. "The Bishop," he said, "is gone forth of his house. He is in attendance at the trial of a woman for witchcraft, one whom some of the common city folk hold to be a saint. But the young Duke and others ...	{ "id": "12191" }
41	THE GARRET OF THE RED TOWER	I felt my temples, my ears, my neck tingling with cold. I seemed to have fallen into a sea of ice. I think I would have fallen and fainted but that at that moment my master sat down beside the Bishop, and I was left free to retire into a darksome corner, where I staggered against a beam, slimy with black sweat, and hun...	{ "id": "12191" }
42	PRINCESS PLAYMATE	Then began my father to tell the story slowly, with many a pause and interruption, now searching for words, now racked with pain, all of which I need not imitate, and shall leave out. But the substance of his tale was to this effect: "After you had left us, the Dukedom went from bad to worse--no peace, no rest, no mon...	{ "id": "12191" }
43	THE TRIAL FOR WITCHCRAFT	The Bed of Justice was set by eight of the morning. For they were ever early astir in the city of Thorn, though, like most early risers, they did little enough afterwards all day. With a sadly beating heart, I accompanied Dessauer in the same guise as on the previous day. The crowd was even greater in and about the H...	{ "id": "12191" }
44	SENTENCE OF DEATH	And there, standing by the place of pleading, with his foot on the first step, I saw Dessauer, in his black doctorial gown, leaning reverently upon a long staff. He made a courteous salutation to Duke Otho upon the high seat. "I am a stranger, most noble Duke," he began, "and as such have no standing in this your H...	{ "id": "12191" }
45	THE MESSAGE FROM THE WHITE GATE	I rushed out into the street, distract and insensate with grief and madness. I found the city seething with sullen unrest--not yet openly hostile to the powers that abode in the Castle of the Wolfsberg--too long cowed and down-trodden for that, but angry with the anger which one day would of a certainty break out and b...	{ "id": "12191" }
46	A WOMAN SCORNED	At nine I was at the door of the dark, silent house by the Weiss Thor. I sounded the knocker loudly, and with the end of the reverberations I heard a foot come through the long passages. The panel behind slid noiselessly in its grooves, and I was conscious that a pair of eyes looked out at me. "You are the servant of...	{ "id": "12191" }
47	THE RED AXE DIES STANDING UP	How I stumbled down the stairs and found myself outside the house in the Weiss Thor I do not know. Whether the servitor, Sir Respectable, showed me out or not has quite passed from me. I only remember that I came upon myself waiting outside the gate of Bishop Peter's palace ringing at a bell which sounded ghostly enoug...	{ "id": "12191" }
48	HUGO GOTTFRIED, RED AXE OF THE WOLFMARK	Then cried Dessauer from the door to me as I stood thus holding my father in my arms: "Haste you, lad; there are men coming across the yard with torches. They are gathering in groups about the door. Now they are on the stairs--many soldiers--and with weapons in their hands!" And scarcely had he spoken when the sound...	{ "id": "12191" }
49	THE SERPENT'S STRIFE	Dazed and death-stricken by the horror of the choice which lay before me, I hastened down the street, hardly waiting for Dessauer, who toiled vainly after me. I knew not what to do nor where to turn. I could neither think nor speak. But it chanced that my steps brought me to the house of the Weiss Thor. Almost without ...	{ "id": "12191" }
50	THE DUNGEON OF THE WOLFSBERG	And now I must see the Little Playmate. Judge ye whether or no my heart was torn in twain as I went up the long High Street of Thorn, back to the Wolfsberg, alone. For I had compelled Dessauer to return to Bishop Peter's, in order to avert popular suspicion, since our real names and errands were not yet known there. ...	{ "id": "12191" }
51	THE NIGHT BEFORE THE MORN	Even as the dwarf on the ledge of the castle clocktower creaked his wires and clicked back his hammer to strike the midnight over the city, even as the first solemn toll of the hour reverberated over the Wolfsberg, I was at the door of the Duke's room waiting for admission. The Chamberlain in attendance looked within...	{ "id": "12191" }
52	THE HEADSMAN'S RIGHT	"Rise, Justicer of the Wolfmark!" said Otho, smiling mockingly upon me like a fiend. I started up and gazed about bewildered as the coming terrors of the morning broke upon me. " 'Tis scarcely an hour to sunrise," he continued, "and I warrant the noble Red Axe will desire to feel the edge of his tool and see that hi...	{ "id": "12191" }
53	THE LUBBER FIEND'S RETURN	Al these things had overpast so quickly that when Helene and I found ourselves alone in the Red Tower it seemed to both of us that we dreamed. We sat in a kind of buzzing hush, on the low window-seat of the old room, hand in hand. The shouts of the people came up to us from the square beneath. We heard the tramp of t...	{ "id": "12191" }
54	THE CROWNING OF DUKE OTHO	But at long and last the most tardy-footed day comes to an end. And so, just as fast as on any common day, the sun at last dropped to the edge of the horizon and slowly sank, leaving a shallowing lake of orange color behind. The red roofs of Thorn grew gray, with purple veins of shadow in the interstices where the st...	{ "id": "12191" }
55	THE LADY YSOLINDE SAVES HER SOUL	The Duke's body sank down upon that of the soldier, still further blocking the passage. And as for his head, I know not where that went to. But the rush of his followers was utterly checked by the barrier of dead. With a wild cry, "The Duke is dead! Duke Otho is slain!" they rushed down and out of the Red Tower, eager ...	{ "id": "12191" }
56	HELENA, PRINCESS OF PLASSENBURG	There was, however, deadly work yet before the men of Plassenburg. We found, indeed, that the townsfolk were with us almost to a man. Their guild train-bands gathered and mustered at their halls. The guards at the city gates fraternally turned their arms to the ground. "The Prince will restore your ancient liberties!...	{ "id": "12191" }
1	A FAILURE.	He could see from the top of the hill, down which the road wound to the river, that the bridge was gone, and he paused for a moment with an involuntary feeling that it was useless to go forward; but remembering that his way led across, at all events, he walked down to the bank. There it ran, broad, rapid, and in places...	{ "id": "12249" }
2	THE BLUE CHAMBER.	In the morning he found the front yard had a wild and tangled, and the garden a neglected look, and busied himself, with the boys, in improving their appearance. In the afternoon he overhauled a small desk, the contents of which soon lay about on the floor. There were papers of all colors and sizes--scraps, single sh...	{ "id": "12249" }
3	NEWBURY.	Newbury was one of the twenty-odd townships, five miles square, that then made up the county of Geauga, and a part of the Western Reserve, the Yankee-doodledom of Ohio, settled exclusively by emigrants from New England. It was so much of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, etc., translated into the broader and freer W...	{ "id": "12249" }
4	AT THE POST-OFFICE.	Barton found a more attractive group at the store. The post-office occupied a window and corner near the front of the large, old-fashioned, square store-room; and, as he entered the front door, he saw, in the back part of the room, a gay, laughing, warbling, giggling, chirping group of girls gathered about Julia Markha...	{ "id": "12249" }
5	MRS. MARKHAM'S VIEWS.	In the gathering twilight, in a parlor at the Markham mansion, sat Julia by the piano, resting her head on one hand, while with the other she brought little ripples of music from the keys; sometimes a medley, then single and prolonged notes, like heavy drops of water into a deep pool, and then a twinkling shower of mel...	{ "id": "12249" }
6	WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THINGS.	How grateful to the sensitive heart of the young man would have been the knowledge that he was an object of thoughtful interest to Julia's mother, who, next to his own, had his reverence and regard! He knew he was generally disliked; his intuitions assured him of this, and in his young arrogance he had not cared. Indee...	{ "id": "12249" }
7	LOGIC OF THE GODS.	"Doctor," said Barton, in the little office of the latter, "I've called to borrow your Euclid; may I have it? I have never tried Euclid, really." "Oh, yes, you can have it, and welcome. Do you want to try yourself on the _pons asinorum? _" "What is that; another bridge of sighs? for I suppose they can be found out o...	{ "id": "12249" }
8	A RAMBLE IN THE WOODS, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.	Already the summer had deepened and ripened into autumn. The sky had a darker tint, and the breeze had a plaintive note in its voice; and here and there the footprints of change were in the tree-tops. On one of those serene, deep afternoons, Barton, who had been importuned by the boys to go into the woods in pursuit ...	{ "id": "12249" }
9	A DARKENED SOUL.	As Julia left Bart, the full force of her scornful words seemed for the first time to reach him. The great restraint her presence imposed in some way suspended, or broke their effect, and he turned from the gate with a half-uttered moan of anguish. He did not then recall her words or manner; he only realized that, in a...	{ "id": "12249" }
10	AFTER THE FLOOD.	The next morning Bart was not up as usual, and George rushed into the low-ceiled room, under the roof. "Bart! breakfast is ready! Ma thinks it strange you ain't up. That was a splendid big bass. Where did you take him? Are you sick?" as he came in. "No, Georgie; I am only languid and dull. I must have been wofully ...	{ "id": "12249" }
11	UNCLE ALECK.	The marvellous power of Christianity to repeat itself in new forms apparently variant, and reveal itself under new aspects, or rather its wonderful fulness and completeness, that enables the different ages of men, under ever-varying conditions of culture and development, to find in it their greatest needs supplied, and...	{ "id": "12249" }
12	A CONSECRATION.	Among the adherents of uncle Aleck were the Coes, a mild, moony race, and recently it was understood that Emeline, the only daughter in a family of eight or nine, a languid, dreamy, verse-making mystic, had expressed a wish to receive the rite of Christian baptism, at that time practised by Uncle Aleck and his associat...	{ "id": "12249" }
13	BLACKSTONE.	The town of Burton was one of the oldest in the county. It was the residence of many wealthy men, the seat of Judge Hitchcock, Chief Justice of the State, as well as the home of Seabury Ford, a rising young politician, just commencing a most useful and honorable career, which was to conduct him to the Chief Magistracy ...	{ "id": "12249" }
14	THE YOUNG IDEA SHOOTS.	There was a region south, on the State road, partly in the townships of Auburn and Mantua, that, like "the woods," long remained a wilderness, and was known as the "Mantua Woods." Within the last year or two, the whole of it had been sold and settled, with the average of new settlers, strong, plain, simple people, with...	{ "id": "12249" }
15	SNOW'S PARTY.	It was called a house-warming, although the proprietor had not taken possession of the house with his family. The ball-room and most of the rooms were complete, and the building was, on the whole, in a good condition to receive a large company. The Major was the presiding genius of the festivities; and while the affair...	{ "id": "12249" }
16	WALTZ.	A little commotion about the door--a little mob of young men and boys--and a little spreading buzz and whisper--some hand-shakings--two or three introductions--then another buzz--and Bart made his way forward, with an air of being annoyed and bored and pushed forward as if to escape. He was under the inspiration of one...	{ "id": "12249" }
17	BART.	Bart devoted himself unselfishly and unsparingly to his school, to all its duties and to all his scholars, and especially to the children of the poor, and the backward pupils. He went early to the house, and remained late. He was the tender, considerate, elder brother of the scholars, and was astonished at his power to...	{ "id": "12249" }
18	SUGAR MAKING.	The long, cold winter was past; spring had come, and with it sugar making, the carnival season, in the open air, among the trees. The boys had the preparations for sugar making in an advanced stage. A new camp had been selected on a dry slope, wood had been cut, the tubs distributed, and they were waiting for Bart an...	{ "id": "12249" }
19	HENRY.	The principal event of the spring among the Ridgeleys, was the return home of Henry. He had closed his novitiate, and was awaiting his examination for admission to the bar. He had already, on the recommendation of his friend and instructor, Wade, formed a favorable business connection with the younger Hitchcock, at Pai...	{ "id": "12249" }
20	WHAT THE GIRLS SAID.	Kate's little party, out on the dry, bright yellow leaves, gay with early flowers, under the grand old maples, elms and beeches, in the warm sun, came and went, with laughter and light hearts. If it could be reproduced with its lights, and colors, and voices, what a bright little picture and resting-place it would be, ...	{ "id": "12249" }
21	A DEPARTURE.	Morris came, and the brothers were together, and the two elder went around to many of their old acquaintance--many not named here, as not necessary to the incidents of this story. For some reason Barton did not accompany them. If anything was said between them about him, no mention of it was made to him. Henry came to ...	{ "id": "12249" }
22	A SHATTERED COLUMN.	In mid June came the blow. George brought up from the post-office, one evening, the following letter: "PAINESVILLE, June 18, 1837. BARTON RIDGELEY, ESQ.: "_Dear Sir_,--I write at the request of my sister, Mrs. Hitchcock. Your brother is very ill. Wanders in his mind, and we are uneasy about him. He has been sick abou...	{ "id": "12249" }
23	THE STORM.	About midnight the Painesville hearse drove up, accompanied by the four young pall-bearers, of the Painesville Bar, who attended the remains of their young brother. The coffin was deposited in the little parlor, and the carriages drove to Parker's for the night. The stricken and lonely mother was in the sanctity of h...	{ "id": "12249" }
24	A LAW-SUIT (TO BE SKIPPED).	A young lover's first kiss, a young hunter's first deer, and a young lawyer's first case, doubtless linger in their several memories, as events of moment. Bart had tried his first case before a justice of the peace, been beaten, and was duly mortified. It is very likely he was on the wrong side, but he did not think ...	{ "id": "12249" }
25	THE WARNING.	Two or three things occurred during the Autumn which had some influence upon the fortunes of Barton. Five or six days after the trial, he received a letter, postmarked Auburn, which read as follows: "Beware of Greer. Don't listen to him. Be careful of your associations." Only three lines, with the fewest words: ...	{ "id": "12249" }
26	LOST.	March and sugar making had gone, and Bart had completed his scanty arrangements to depart also; and no matter what the future might have for him, he knew that he was now leaving Newbury; that whatever might happen, his home would certainly be elsewhere; although it would forever remain the best, and perhaps sole home o...	{ "id": "12249" }
27	THE BABES IN THE WOODS.	"There, Orville, here are our fields. I am almost home; now hurry back. It is late. I am obliged to you." They had reached the opening, and the young man turned back, and the young girl tripped lightly and carelessly on; not to find the fence, as she expected, but an expanse of fallen timber, huge trunks, immense jams ...	{ "id": "12249" }
28	AT JUDGE MARKHAM'S.	When Mrs. Markham at last realized that Julia was lost, she hastily arrayed herself and went out with the others to search for her, calmly, hopefully, and persistently. She went, and clambered, and looked, and called, and when she could look and go no further, as woman may, she waited, and watched, and prayed, and the ...	{ "id": "12249" }
29	AFTER.	Toward noon of the next day, the Judge drove up to his own gate, alone, and not a little troubled. His wife and daughter were evidently expecting him. They seemed disappointed. "Wouldn't he come?" asked his wife. "He was not there to come." "Not there!" from both. "No; he went off in the stage last night to Jef...	{ "id": "12249" }
30	JEFFERSON.	Bart has come well nigh breaking down on my hands two or three times. I find him unmanageable. He is pitched too high and tuned too nicely for common life; and I am only too glad to get him off out of Newbury, to care much how he went. To say, however, that he went off cheerful and happy, would do the poor fellow injus...	{ "id": "12249" }
31	OLD BEN.	That evening, Case and Bart went in rather late to supper at the Jefferson House, and Case pointed out B.P. Wade sitting at the head of one of the tables. Bart studied him closely. He was then about thirty-five or thirty-six years of age; of a fine, athletic, compact and vigorous frame, straight, round, and of full a...	{ "id": "12249" }
32	THE LETTERS.	Tuesday evening's mail brought him two letters, post-marked Newbury. The sight of them came with a sort of a heart-blow. They were not wholly expected, and he felt that there might still be a little struggle for him, although he was certain that this must be the last. The well-known hand of Judge Markham addressed on...	{ "id": "12249" }
33	AT WILDER'S.	April brightened out into May, and over all the beautiful fields, and woods, and hills of Newbury, came bright warm tints of the deepening season; and under the urgency of Julia, her mother and herself made their contemplated visit of thanks to the Wilders, who could at least be benefitted by their kindness to Julia, b...	{ "id": "12249" }
34	ROUGH SKETCHES.	The sun drank up the waters out of Jefferson, and the almanac brought the day for the May term of the Court for Ashtabula county; came the Judge, the juries and unfortunate parties; came also some twenty lawyers, from the various points of North-eastern Ohio. It was to be a great time for our young students. Bart had s...	{ "id": "12249" }
35	SARTLIFF.	Bart had been introduced to Sartliff, who was an object of universal curiosity, even where he was best known, and coming out of the court-room one delicious afternoon, he asked the young students to walk away from the squabbles of men to more quiet and cleaner scenes. They took their way out of the town towards a beech...	{ "id": "12249" }
36	OLD GID.	Towards the close of the term, there came into the court-room, one day, a man of giant mould: standing head and shoulders above his fellows, broad shouldered, deep chested, with a short neck and large flat face, a regal brow, and large, roomy head in which to work out great problems. He had light grayish blue, or bluei...	{ "id": "12249" }
37	THE OLD STORY.	On the morning after Wade's return from the Geauga Court, upon entering the office, where Bart found him and Ranney and Case, and one or two others, there was the sudden hush that advises a new arrival that he has been a subject of remark. "Good morning, Mr. Wade." "Good morning, Ridgeley." "You returned earlier ...	{ "id": "12249" }
38	THE OLD STORY OVER AGAIN.	"Mr. Ridgeley," asked Miss Giddings, "what is this delightful little romance about the rich Judge's beautiful daughter, and the chivalrous young law student? I declare, if it does not bring back the days of knight-errantry, and makes me believe in love and heroism." It was one evening at her father's where Bart had cal...	{ "id": "12249" }
39	ABOUT LAWYERS, AND DULL.	Mr. Giddings was always much interested in all young men, and put himself in their way and society, and while he affected nothing juvenile, no man could make himself more winning and attractive to them. It was said by his enemies, who were of his political household, that in this, as in all else, he was politic; that h...	{ "id": "12249" }
40	THE DISGUISE.	Mrs. Ridgeley received the following: "JEFFERSON, June 8, 1838. " _Dear Mother_:--A strange thing has happened to me, for which I am indebted to Henry; indeed, I am destined to trade upon his capital. You remember how kind he said a Mr. Windsor was to him, employing him to transact small business matters for him, and...	{ "id": "12249" }
41	THE INVITATION.	Late one wondrously beautiful August night, as Bart was returning from a solitary stroll, he was suddenly joined by Sartliff, bare-headed and bare-footed, who placed his hand within his arm, and turning him about, walked him back towards the wood. Bart had not seen him for weeks, and he thought his face was thinner and...	{ "id": "12249" }
42	ADMITTED.	At the September term of the Supreme Court, Mr. Ranney presented the certificates and applications for the admission of Case, Ransom, and Bart on the first day, and they were, as usual, referred to a Committee of the whole bar, for examination and report. The Committee met that evening in the Court room, the Supreme ...	{ "id": "12249" }
43	JULIA.	It will be remembered that Greer was a somewhat ambiguous character, about whom and whose movements some suspicions were at times afloat; but these did not much disturb him or interrupt his pleasant relations with the pleasant part of the world. He was at Jefferson during the first term of the Court while Bart was th...	{ "id": "12249" }
44	FINDING THE WAY.	On an early December evening, in a bright, quiet room, at the Delavan House, in Albany, sat Bart Ridgeley alone, thoughtfully and sadly contemplating a manuscript, that lay before him, which ran as follows: "UNIONVILLE, Nov. 27, 1838. " _My Dear Bart_:--Poor Sartliff has, it seems, finally found the way. It was that ...	{ "id": "12249" }
45	SOME THINGS PUT AT REST.	At the January term of the Court, the case of Ohio _vs._ Myers, came up; and the defendant failing on his motion to continue, the case was brought on for trial, and a jury was sworn. His principal counsel was Bissell, of Painesville, a man of great native force and talent, and who in a desperate stand-up fight, had no ...	{ "id": "12249" }
46	PRINCE ARTHUR.	It was not in nature, particularly in young man-nature, that such a creature as Julia should ripen into womanhood without lovers. In her little circle of Newbury, boys and girls loved her much alike, and with few shades of difference on account of sex. No youth of them dreamed of becoming her suitor; not even Barton, w...	{ "id": "12249" }
47	THE TRIAL	The March term of the Court at Chardon was at the beginning of its third and last week. The important case in ejectment of Fisk _vs_. Cole, was reached at the commencement of the second, and laid over for the absence of defendant's counsel. This directly involved the title of Cole to his land; a title that had been loo...	{ "id": "12249" }
48	THE ADVOCATE.	At the opening of the Court on Thursday, the court room was crowded. The interest in the case was general, and the character of the facts, and principal witnesses for the defense, was such as appealed powerfully to the memories and early associations of the people, and there was an earnest desire to hear the speech of ...	{ "id": "12249" }
49	WAITING.	Julia sat alone that evening in an elegantly, and, for that day, luxuriously furnished room, around which she had many times glanced, and in which her own hands had several times arranged and re-arranged the various articles. There was a bed in the room, which was large and airy, a vase filled with wild and hot-house f...	{ "id": "12249" }
50	THE GOSPEL OF LOVE.	Julia pointed out the bird's nest under the roof, and to a faded garland of flowers, hung upon the rough bark of the old hemlock, against which Barton had reclined, and another upon the rock just over where she had rested. In some way these brought to Bart's mind the flowers on Henry's grave; and in a moment he felt th...	{ "id": "12249" }
51	THE RETURN.	Spring came with its new life and promise, sweetly and serenely to the home and heart of Barton's mother, who was looking and hoping for his return, with a strong, intense, but silent yearning. For herself, for his brothers, and more for Julia, whom she now understood, and tenderly loved, and whose secret was sacred to...	{ "id": "12249" }
52	FINAL DREAM LAND.	Later still, when the elders had left the lovers to each other, Bart found himself reclining on the sofa, with his head in Julia's lap. And those little rosy tipped fingers toyed caressingly with that coveted moustache, and were kissed for it, and went and did it again, and so on; and then tenderly with the long light ...	{ "id": "12249" }
1	None	In those days, Santa Fé, New Mexico, was an undergrown, decrepit, out-at-elbows ancient hidalgo of a town, with not a scintillation of prosperity or grandeur about it, except the name of capital. It was two hundred and seventy years old; and it had less than five thousand inhabitants. It was the metropolis of a vast ...	{ "id": "12335" }
2	None	"I must say," observed Thurstane--"I beg your pardon for advising--but I think you had better accept your grandfather's invitation." He said it with a pang at his heart, for if this adorable girl went to her grandfather, the old fellow would be sure to love her and leave her his property, in which case there would be...	{ "id": "12335" }
3	None	That very day Coronado made a second call on Clara and her Aunt Maria, to retract, contradict, and disprove all that he had said in favor of the isthmus and against the overland route. Although his visit was timed early in the evening, he found Lieutenant Thurstane already with the ladies. Instead of scowling at him,...	{ "id": "12335" }
4	None	The next day brought news of an obstacle to the march of the wagon train through Santa Anna and Rio Arriba. It was reported that the audacious and savage Apache chieftain, Manga Colorada, or Red Sleeve, under pretence of wanting to make a treaty with the Americans, had approached within sixty miles of Santa Fé to the...	{ "id": "12335" }
5	None	When Coronado regained a portion of the senses which had been throttled out of him, he discovered Texas Smith standing by his side, and two dead men lying near, all rather vaguely seen at first through his dizziness and the moonlight. "What does this mean?" he gasped, getting on his hands and knees, and then on his f...	{ "id": "12335" }
6	None	Lieutenant Thurstane passed the mouth of the ravine in the dusk of twilight, without guessing that it contained Clara Van Diemen and her perils. He had with him Sergeant Weber of his own company, just returned from recruiting service at St. Louis, and three recruits for the company, Kelly, Shubert, and Sweeny. Webe...	{ "id": "12335" }
7	None	At the shout which Coronado uttered on seeing Texas Smith's pistol aimed at Thurstane, the assassin turned his head, discovered the train, and, lowering his weapon, rode peacefully alongside of his intended victim. Captain Phin Glover's mule was found grazing behind the butte, in the midst of the gallant Captain's di...	{ "id": "12335" }
8	None	When Coronado proposed to Clara, she was for a moment stricken dumb with astonishment and with something like terror. Her first idea was that she must take him; that the mere fact of a man asking for her gave him a species of right over her; that there was no such thing possible as answering, No. She sat looking at C...	{ "id": "12335" }
9	None	For the second time within a week, Texas Smith found himself upon the brink of opportunity, without being able (as he had phrased it to Coronado) to do what was right. He levelled at Thurstane, and then it did not seem to be Thurstane; he had a dead sure sight at Kelly, and then perceived that that was an error; he d...	{ "id": "12335" }
10	None	When the Apache tornado burst out of the cañon upon the train, Thurstane's first thought was, "Clara!" "Get off!" he shouted to her, seizing and holding her startled horse. "Into the wagon, quick! Now lie down, both of you." He thundered all this out as sternly as if he were commanding troops. Because he was a man,...	{ "id": "12335" }
11	None	An hour before the attack Texas Smith had ridden off to stalk a deer; but the animal being in good racing condition in consequence of the thin fare of this sterile region, the hunting bout had miscarried; and our desperado was returning unladen toward the train when he heard the distant charging yell of the Apaches. ...	{ "id": "12335" }
12	None	The Apaches were discouraged by the immovability of the train, and by the steady and deadly resistance of its defenders. From first to last some twenty-five or twenty-seven of their warriors had been hit, of whom probably one third were killed or mortally wounded. At the approach of Coronado those who were around the...	{ "id": "12335" }
13	None	When the race for life and death commenced between the emigrants and the Apaches, it seemed as if the former would certainly be able to go two miles before the latter could cover six. But the mules were weak, and the soil of the plain was a thin loam into which the wheels sank easily, so that the heavy wagons could n...	{ "id": "12335" }
14	None	Thurstane found the caravan in excellent condition, the mules being tethered at the reservoir half-way up the acclivity, and the wagons parked and guarded as usual, with Weber for officer of the night. "We are in no tanger, Leftenant," said the sergeant. "A large barty of these bueplo beeble has shust gone to the vro...	{ "id": "12335" }
15	None	But the visionary terror had scarcely gone when a real one came. Coronado appeared--Coronado, the descendant of the great Vasquez--Coronado, whom the Moquis would destroy if they heard his name--of whom they would not leave two limbs or two fingers together. From her dormitory she saw him walk into the main room of the...	{ "id": "12335" }
16	None	It must be remembered that when Mrs. Stanley carried off skipper Glover to help her investigate the religion of the Moquis, she left Coronado alone with Clara in one of the interior rooms of the chief's house. Thurstane, to be sure, was in the next room and in sight; but he had with him the chief, two other leading M...	{ "id": "12335" }
17	None	Shortly after the safe arrival of the train at the base of the Moqui bluff, and while the repulsed and retreating warriors of Delgadito were still in sight two strange Indians cantered up to the park of wagons. They were fine-looking fellows, with high aquiline features, the prominent cheek-bones and copper complexio...	{ "id": "12335" }
18	None	Yes, it was a life and death race between the emigrants and the Apaches for the San Juan. Positions of defence were all along the road, but not one of them could be held for a day, all being destitute of grass and water. "There is no need of telling the ladies at once," said Thurstane to Coronado, as they rode side b...	{ "id": "12335" }

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