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FOGGIN'S HEIB.

ALGERNON GIBBING

Author of "The Keys of the House," Bocret of the North Sea," etc.)...

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY (TH, 1914.

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go to the church that night to fetch his glasses, deliberately of astonishment neked over exchanged no word, after the young man, hading the house from the other direction. She

It chanood that old Nichol, the clerk, had to as he was to help Mrs. Crosby in making up ker Post Office accounts. It was the end of and not long after minet, but twilight March

early under the shadow of those great hills,

her

and everything became very solemn. The day Grace Gill came out of the vestry carrying the band, she took hold of one of her husband's in his track a little more than a hundred yards:

had been cloudloss and soon after six the san had sunk a golden ball to the tons of the fails, when the moon, full and paid, was already well

up

above those in the east.

The grey church stood away from the village, the graveyard sloping to the aldor trees that fringed the stony stream. Nichol kesrda poowit, and cast his eye about, but he was fam- iliar with it all, and was not of a nervous or poetical turn. He only thought that there was light onough still for him to lay his hands on those glosses which were regularly tucked in under the old brown leather cover of his folio Prayer Book lying on the seat of his pow. So he turned the key and weat in, the

babe,

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During the last few words there was astir | have done it like that. But there are other Old Forgin, always stabled his own hores. amongst the people which had taken away methods of treatment bolde the physical When he had done this he went soross to the some of the aftention from Nichol. He scowl. After her marriage, Mr. Forgin had proved house and drank some spirits. Such passion ed on the moroments, but when he saw to be a listiem, thoughtful woman with a grow as his could not be indulged with impunity. young Harry Foggin, of Moorhall, pushing ing tandancy to religion, and rapidly diminish. He himself was conscings of its affect on him. his way forward, the alert could not help sharing split and bodily strength. Certainly it He had not slept for one moment the previons ing the general expectation. Foggin had not would not us say to suppose this congenial to night, had not even undressed or attempted to

Aleep. The dinner was laid, but he shouted been present in the church, so his arrival added the figure that was standing there like og Tom that he should want no dinner, that he a fresh spark of excitement to the scene, statua by the Scarra

What I claim the

Henry and his companion came on. the child, James," said the man

was going up the hill. As he passed out of the ever lay in their hours was hidden. They stackyard to the open fell, Clare was approach- And a murmILKEN. the ssembly. For an instant even Nichol was announced that that was his falhoz. But Clare saw him and followed. speechless. Then he oried out, Mrs. Gill!"

fixed

Byes steadily on the figure they ap Clare neither called, nor hurried The man All eyes

turned onos more, and sa arranged prosched. In coming nearer with her free strode at a steady mountaineer's paon while she was already out of breath. She simply continued Had this been the deliberate intention. thing could hate better suited to infuriats old behind. Her courage increased as he drew Fog in. His brows gathered and deep clear away from the kenge. She could face him better On and on he went, never mantled to his brows. Of course in a moment In the open air. ho took in the whole situation. Dat realising turning or looking about untill he rashed the all the dificulties of their position, he was deter Huestone roolca exiled the White Stones. Then, mined that the attacking party should open the as if from some instinctiva impulse, the old man. negotiations. This, however, Henry did with turned right rond abruptly. He stared at the out a trace of the expected embarrassment.

gure approaching, and stood still until it came Clare did not attempt to speak until her breath was more regular. The two simply looked at each other. The young woman's po- lone was heightened, bat her eyes were stealy.

looked

risage before her in an instinctive way, and anything the the words died on the other's lips before the.

scratiny.

At Inst they were revived in a modi- Where are you going?" he buried out filed form. whilst he was collecting his thoughts,

What are you after?' said Foggin. F came to speak to you." Who sent

"Now, Mr. Foggin," began the clerk, "ean you prove. But he had scarcely spoken when a young woman started forward and snatched the child from Mrs. Gill's arms.

"He is mine," she said with fushed festures, and her eyes fixed on Foggin. “You refused blm last night. You wouldn't own him and me, so I could bear it no

o langer. I've waited nearly two years

ask you

This is my wife hud shild, father," said he, "Wo can endure the seeroy no longer, so be- fore going we have come to let you know and to say good-bye."

This was blow for old Foggin. The strength least how to combat. Ho had completa apposite this

of

op.

clanging to of itself behind bimary door what will here, in public I now own you and of dignity and restraint was what he knew She appeared to be reading the weather-beaten

The man was not atall impressed his the death added, turning to the clergyman," you hear my for confusion, abject. hafliatio

ly silence of the dusky church. He made olmay moises without the slightest scruple. Eran his ordinary shutting footsteps filled the hellow place with re-ochoing sounds which were enough to drown all movements outside the door, and there been any. Nichol muttered a bit, found bis glasses, and retraced his steps. When be side the font he stood still to listen. He was not many paces from the door.

"Well, this coaps sll," said the clerk

aloud,

continued.

“You know, Clare, that in my heart I have always owned you," said Foggia with calm dig. nity, but a heightened colour and sight quiver of the lips. I expected too much. Lot come to forgive m Bir. Musgrave," he admission. This is my lawful wife and child”

At such words from Henry Foggin everybody stared. The young woman holding the child soomed strickon by his confession. Her eyes never moved from him, and every trace of col our left her face.

Come, Clare, I asked too much. We will now go to Moorhall."

Whatever rash impulse had driven tier to this sensational step, lnd evidently now passed. She was awed by the gravity and dignified sub mission of her husband. A segret dread of what she had done possessed her. From the recoil of her emotion it now seemed to the young wife that she could have endured any

I have not quite decided, but I will send you word in a day or two if you would like to know."

Clare's instinct at once saw the effect on the old man, but not knowing hier she mistook the nature of it.

"Why need he go for me?" she said impul- sively. Why should I drive him from his home? Are you sahamed of me?"

"I know nothing about you," said the father with farious scorn. "I know that hell came in through a woman, and do not think I'll let it in again at Moorhall! You can go where you've he turned his back on them abruptly and strode to the house. Clare started to follow, but was arrested by her husband's haud,

you p

·· “Nobody."

That's a damned la: You were here with him resterday."

"Yes, but he does not know I have come to day. Nobody knows. As I alone have dons any wrong, I have come alone to try and undo it. Why do you not punish me, me alone, not others who are innocent p

As she spoke, Clare stepped forward, as if tolay her hand upon him, but the old man shrank

"I'll have no

Than the clork win u.oused. Astonishment left thing for over to have spared him this moment. come from, the whole lot of you." With that back, Words with you. You're 10.

There cer ninly w 2 a aonud now, vót of his own making. And it was outside, but not far away. Indeed, evidently just beside the door Even Nichol could not mistake it.. An in- fant was shrioking lustily. The

ery him, and he came out sharply with anger on his lips. But in the dusk, nothing could be seon but a white bundle haid carefully out of His pathway at one side of the porch. Instead of completing the severe reproof he had prepared for the Intruder, Nichol lesaed down and stared.

"Well, I nirvor!" was his only exclama. tion.

The man pased out of the porch and gazed round the churchyard. Not a soul war to be scen and no sound beard but that of the in- fant the water and the restless plovers. He walked all round the building, looking this way

stared and stared.

She had at all events shown that she did not trust him. His words had always been, Trust me for a little longer." But she land failed him. She had entered the forbidden chamber and the door could not be closed again. In some bowil derment old Nichol saw the public interest passing from himself, and he made the effort to told him to come but the bluut old clergyman t

come down.

"It's out of your hands now, clerk," said he, and turned to say something earnestly to Houry Foggin. But the latter gave an emphatic no- gative, adding

"No more delay, Mr. Musgrave."

Ay, that's it, exclalined the clerk, "and

'ng be dead now but for me.”

thing to me, none of you. Who's talking of panishing you?".

"You don't know him, Clare," smiled Henry,

"If you tara your own boy from his own home "Not another word Now I have owned you, aren't you punishing him? Aren't you break. and the whole heavens are without a doubting a hoart that God gave you to comfort and Come along."

take care of? Hear me, hear me! You're S So they went down the hill again, but at the father to me, too, now, whether you own me or gate at which they had stayed in coming, they not, Loy the burden on me, on me only, and met Mr. Musgrave, the parson, a rugged dales I'll do anything you want mo. F'll show you man, and at length they wont home with him that a woman isn't all that you think her. "Do

Old Foggin had meanwhile reentered his homestead. He look around like one who had you think I could not love you too if you'd let lost something. When he came to the window

This time she had caught him, and her hand he saw the figures retreating down the hillside, trembled on his breast. Her face, now pals, Bo be formed and went out again. He passed was close to him. But, instinctively, involunt Like a boy that suddenly effect of an irresponsible.

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The eyes of the whole congregation followed were standing. He leaned with his bank against ing against a piece of the crag, Clare was the pair as they passed away to the hill. it and surveyed the premises. Two or three of stunned and lay motionless. From purple the Moorhall was an old house about two miles from the animale put their moses on his shoulder hat old man's feature turned as white as his hair, Nay, lass, dann mak it worse," he began the village worse the open pasture, and in the old man paid no head to them. It was here and leaning down he lifted the prostrate wo angrily. "Take it up."

Bruce, arried only a yor, in the flush of their thoughts of it, all minda want immediately Tom Hartley found him when he came to call man in his armis, and carried her to the house

to Old Forging: Be the father of Heary wis the master to diner, ach a house, Thore slue quickly recovered. first motherhood turned se angrily o

on the universally called. Nobody had much difically Tom bad charge in the house, for it was a "Do you thing it's my baby, man? He's in speculating on the cause of the young man's kind of legal Betion at Moorhall that no woman asteap at home in his cradle. I was only come and as, at the parson's direction, the ever entered it. As a matter of fast, by secret

company began to break

started in arrangement, the woman from the cottage did ing back fra village when I heard

nearly all the cooking and much else in the Well well, whicht, Inse 1" remarked the real earnest up, gossip

Only the silent sunlit landscape Iny aroanil domestic department, but woe to the whole clerk in a tone of appings. You woudna let the departing pair, with akylarks overhead. establishment if the master over caught a glimpse all the parish kein o't. I thought happen- The baby slept as it had done through all the of her visibly on the premises. Whether be But whse the hell-whao'a is 50P. Tak it up, proceedings: For some distsinos not word really know of her invisible attendance there, 1888. Yun can hash it botter nor me.”

Whilst the young woman was doing this, and was uttered. When Foggin had held open the nobody could say. He instituted no inquiry -examining the infant as closely as the light state and closed it again, about a mile from at all events, and so long as the woman was

the churchyard, he pointed to a bit of light grey never caught all went quietly. purmitted. Nichol's brain worked with extraor one with pinensktons of black mons upon it, and The master did not amally require to be call linary agility.

"You live out of the way, Grace," he said dead brown forn around, Clare understood and ed to dinner. He was as patctual as the sun in took her seat without speaking. Spine majestic all his movements. So as Tom cano forward -coaxingly. Tak it home with you, and keep while clonde sailed slowly on the pars blue sky, he looked again at his mastor. He was a shrewd it as quiet as the grave till the morn's morn and the great shadows of them could be seen handsome hill lad, and had seen the meeting again ?" ing. I'll call it it garth aftor service. It's talking over the mountains which hemmed in the ontelo. d, I'm coming," said the old man as

outside, drawing his own conclusioNS, bonny trick. I'll give 'em a start. I'll call it before all tho

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But whose is it puts N

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"Oh,

my husband, it is you who have to forgive mo!" said Clare before the other had spoken, and the eyes she fixed on him glistened with tears which the great eyelashes held lu them.

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Old Foggin sat speechless in his chair, looks ing sorose at the soft on which he had placed the uuoonsione figurs. His eyes were the arst thing that Clare saw when she regained con- sensuess, fired immovably upon her. And she lay looking at them. The man did not withdraw them, and neither spoke

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Nay, if you don't know I dunno," The brilliant idea swelled in the man, and -quickly made clear his parpone. The old one-

Tom was astonished as he felt a grip on his tom of proclaiming public notices in the church-

"No, Clare, the fault was mine. It seemed shoulder, and looked into old Foggin's face. yard after morning service was not extinct in unreasonable. It was too much to ask you to "Look round, lad. House, barn, stabling, the district, so the vision of a triumph over trust me."

allt buildings; the intack and the foll from the his neighbours inspired Nichol. Whoover As if disturbed his mother's throbbing top to the book your What do you who would go up, and Clare accom-

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Sach was Clare's victory. The doctor tried to console her with the news that the man had had a lighter tap on the shoulder before, man called him egala peremptorily, and insisted and that say time this was to have been expect upon his sitting down with him in the chaired With a person of such an extraordinary usually occupied by his son. However, the youth temperament his surprise was that it hadn't continued to regard it as a joke, and was happened long before. But you have cared shrewd enough to do nothing that would irritate him of one craze at all evente," added the dos the old man. After You made mas man instead of a coward," jumped up and said, "We gun, the latter tez, as he showed hat some words that old

"We'll keep the beer for Foggin had put into writing. he said warmly te ho looked into her startled another day, Tom. Wine to-day He left theI want you loss to say in this house until I you had soon what it cost me to room and presently appeared with a bottle of am better, for I have something to tell her." speak to you last night, all would have been

port wina, fn the contents of which he compelled Novertheless the communication was never different. We should have gone on us befors Tom to join him After a long and hearty remade. Although he would allow nobody about Thank God, you did not believe me. You never past, as he allowed the youth to leave and clear him but Clare, he did not atempt to say to Mrs. Crosby

Crosby," was have believed me since our marriage. How the table, he said, "You don't objest to my name, her what he withed in writinz. According to should you? But this is all Now I am awake. do you, Tom Foggin, eh? Tom Foggin, or Tom appointment the lawyer arrived next day, Fog-

If you like better. That's your ent name, mind be parted again."

received him. The visitor produced the now man's bosom rose st the full congregation. Woak and almost hysterical as Clare's con-room, the old man unlooked his ohi bursan, and will. Foggin v depart until- both had seen Singapore, With an air of mysterious importance, he greet dust had shown her, this altared attitude aroused get out a long folded paper which he opened and not lot the lawyer depart -ed one after another of the outlying parishion her whole sool She was more impressed now read. It was his will-Ay, no more of that the last spark crackle out of the legal paper. ers. To the young, Nichol showed more than by har husband's behaviour, more convinced of breed he muttered, as he tore up the paper He refused to make another, at all events one the ordinary mappishness of offisial diguity. imponding calamity from the sotion she had placed it in the greta, and set a match to it.. of any legal efficiency. When Clare was silt But under the few words of the parting bene talian, then any warning or entreaty had been On the following day he went into the marketing by him the next day, he handed his raper diction even his harderel bosom quivered. Is able to effect in her before. Perhaps because at town to see his lawyer.

te her on which he had written, Your childis could scarcely utter the Amen.

last she was secure in this man's love for her,

It clanced also that day that his son Henry had heir.” His own 20u Henry he could not bear silence fell. When it was again broken by such is the heart of a woman. Of that socurity, gone to a distance to take the first steps towards to be asar bim. So the ruling passion was not the stir of movements and the clatter of heavy needs alone will convince her. Without the his altered existence. Chara had remained at altogether extinguished. On the day follow- boots on the fiags, old Nichol started up, and conviction she is weak, fretful, and wavering, the parsonsga, dejected and thoughtful Bothing he had another seizure, and died with shonted be his rasping times, "If you'll just but with it she has taken to herself more than her husband and the parson smiled at her pro Clare's me tenderly shout him, and her

garth I've summaat to on.

the strength of a man. With these words of posal of an appeal to the old man. As they And the people, after ta

against woman's breast after all out loudly talking

Nichol had mash to say of all the doings Having let fy his shaft, Nichol was in no there walls ority left her. And they continued admitted to her that this was bit farewell

walk over the pasture,

of that old home of his fathers. Coup!- which he claimed to have introducell to the A with the beauty of the scene, with all parish, and added. "He nivver livedlike hurry to follow up his sdvantage. He glosted Now old Foggin was no Sabbatarian. He ing over & cross question and cracked answer at had been round his shoop that morning, and was his arrangemant greatly facilitates referenón play outside. Now, then, Jem, get sgate, just then dropping down the hit called the days, she suddenly realised what the low would like an ivvery day Christian 3* said 20 irritable old man, as parson and clerk at White Stones. The man had soon the approach- mean to him. And she hit cocsaioned it. Just came out into the

sunshine. Po Tak your time,

howd on a minute it going to stars, went her husband, thongh awake to calamity, a came down the hill the previous day Henry had ample whispered piety in his ear his face

was the only replyak, tako, Eng figures for some time but had thought Through her weakness, impatience, and distrust,

your time," fitile of them. There were always idle folk she had robbed him, hermit, and her baby

And with great deliberation the clerk clam- bered by his knee on to a big square tombstone opposite the perch, and slowly raised himself until he stood upright with shoulders back

*Hoa-yaz, hos-veg roared Nichol, and paused again with his spackling eyes apon This

This impatient neighbours. is to give notice that last night at e'en some evil-disposed person-man or woman, I kenna which left on t cold

flags

`o' t Kirk porch-after mirk had set in-O

There was moon, Jem," mid somebody, --- a lual boy babby, happen six months old Nichol gave the words slowly at the top of his voice, and pansed again to enjoy the effect which was nomistakeable. At last he went on: “If Gnybody claims it, they nun do so now, and prove emnership, or itll be sent tot poorhouse ast law directs. And now God save

Queen!"

about on Sunday

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visitors might well come of this secluded home, of this tract of hillside to the cottage that belonged to his own home where the sau seemed always shining, and over stead or be going further on across the moor which the skylarks perpetually sung And he But all at once the old man stopped and looked was no longer angry Love of her was all intently. No more than a quarter of a mile intervened betwoon him and the figures he had in view. Ele recognised his son. and continued staring.

dat he's the lass!" ojaculated he aloud,

she dared not believe it. He would come to hate her, to tax her with this terrible wrong. Her baby would grow up and hear the story, and he, too, would turn eyes of unkindness and reproach on her for the dead that she had done. Now, as was well known in the neighbourhood, Bha could never bear it. Her eyes were resting womankind was & crase with old Foggin. For on the sunny one which mooked her so szuelly, one thing he was supposed to have been disap and fast as her sight was getting dimmed wid marted in his wife, the mother of Henry There fears the figure of a horseman erassed it going may have been additional reasons, but this was towards the billside. Quickly Clare dashed the one old Nichol, the clerk, would have given mist from her eyes and looked eagerly. It was you. It was several years once Mrs. Foggin ald Foggin returning home. The person WAS had died, prematurely worn out, all sald, by the out, She went to the girl in the kitchen to intolerable treatment of her husband. Not that tell her something about the child, and a mlauto it was in old Foggin's nature over to give a later Chire was dressed and speeding through blow with his fist to a woman, He could never the sun.

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