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' CHAPTER L '
?I1 EU' -Zenas
- Bortley moved
from the city, to
a suburban vil
lage, iQ search
of better air for
the children and
for his own
asth m atio
lungs, he told
his wife that
now she could
have the pleas
ure of knowing1
her next-door
neigh tors-an'experiencVshe never had
been granted in the city. Mrs. Bortley,
born and reared in a thickly settled
portion of the metropolis, believed her
husband's statement, for had not Zenas
mm w tmj e uvu - cm kaj uu iy jr wjr uu x
came to New York to make his fortune?
Had he not described to her; again and
again, the ideal society of his native
Tillage of Grasshopper Falls, where
everybody knew everybody else where
one man was as good as another so long
ttm Vic parndl K4 HirirffT rn?1 rtia Vlllo
and went to church on Sunday, and
;where every woman was a lady if she
had a black silk dress, ho matter how
plain, in which to receive calls? Had
not Zenas own mother, . wife of the
(bookkeeper of the local lumber com
pany, been asked by the congressman's
wife tr rifiln fn t rT-t n i r Enma rlictin-
- ' ctdshed guests from another state? And
at had been so delightful when Mrs.
jZenas had been ill or feeble, in her
little flat in the city, to hear her hus
jband tell how in the country any man
whose wife was feeling poorly could
borrow a neighbor's carriage or sleigh
and take the dear woman out for an air
ing, airs. Zenas never had an outing
except in a horse car, for her -husband,
though strong in affection and self-sacrifice,
had but a small salary, and the
olive branches which were the' family's
only riches always needed ' something
.which cost about as much as a carriage
jfor an hour or two.
So the Bortleys ventto the country,'
. r uu a uiusseu cnange tney louna it.
.j rj.ne cmiaren oegan to grow like weeds,
I j their mother's cheeks became fuller of
roses than the garden, and Zenas him
; aelf, though he was obliged to break-1
l fast early and sup late in order to make
; a full day at the store in which he was
entry clerk, found his asthma disappear-
img witn unexpected rapidity. His cot
tage cost less per month than a city flat;
e had a little garden "which, thanks to
his boyhood's experience, yielded many
(vegetables which tasted better than arry
,ne had ever bought from a grocer; the
children had a swing under an old ap
; pie tree and rolled in the grass to their
hearts' content; the pastor of a church
called after seeing the heads of the fam
ily in his comrrecration. and won
Invited to join the local club of his po
litical party, and also- to subscribe to a
: course of lectures to be delivered in the
local academy of music during the fol
lowing winter.
Yet Zenas was not happy. The neigh
borly affiliation which he had promised
fxls wife did not come about. He wait
ed ior it a lew weeks, for he was a dig
nified little fellow, and had some knowl
edge of the manners of good society,
but when his wife ' reminded him that
the summer had , nearly passed and no
one had called who had not some semi
business purpose, he informed himself,
with a mighty pull at all his faculties,
that something ought to be done. What
! most irritated him was ; that his next,
door neighbor, a handonae , woman
whose husband, so the agent of Bortley
cottage had said, would be obliged to
'. MB. CORTLKY TALKS OF THE COUIfTRY.
be away from home for some time, had
never called. Mrs. Maytham, the lady
In question, was distinguished looking
as well as handsome; her house was a
palace compared with the house which
. Zenas had hired, and she drove almost
daily behind a fine pair of horses. She
was a good woman, too, or Zenas was
no judge of human nature, and
had no children the little man, who
could not imagine that anyone regard
ed boys and girls except with the adora
tion which he bestowed upon ! his dar-
lings, was sure that if Mrs. Maytham
couia Know his brood she would in her
- loneliness have an unfailing source of
consolation. As for Mrs. Bortley,
Zenas loyal soul profoundly pitied any
one and everyone who did not know
. that estimable woman, f s I
Yet the two women did not become
acquainted Mrs. Maythanj did not call,
-and, when Mrs! Bortley felt hurt, her
husband suggested that perhaps the
older resident was from one of the
southern states in which calls must
first be made by newcomers upon the
Id families. -Mrs. Bortley acted upon
this suggestion, but was unfortunate to
elect an hour when her neighbor was
out; she made a supplementary effort
jwhen her husband explained that coun
,try people usually became acquainted
iby borrowing small necessities from
ione another, but when Mrs. Bortley
begged the loan of a cup of ground cof
fee one morning she saw only her neigh
bor's servant, and , the same result at
jtended the payment" of the . loan. In
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vain, too, did she display her children,
who really were pretty and well
dressed, when her neighbor walked
alone through - the well-kept t garden
which the Bortleys coveted for: its rare
display of flowers; Mrs. May than
seemed to ignore the very - existence- of
the well-behaved children for whom an
emperor might have been glad to ex
change his crown.
Zenas, however, had no idea of giving
up, and the unexpected lack of new ac
quaintances a peclijirity of s"bWb"an
villages added to hiaHle termination Jto
know his nearest neisrhbor. " While wa
tering his late lettuce one Saturdav af-
ternoon and felicitating himself upon 1 fruitrtree plunderer Zenae1 had been
his success during hot weather with this j earned to gather - his own early pears
succulent butcapricious vegetable, he ; he not wish the tree to be de-suddenty'climbe&'-tree
and inspected ! puded some moonlight night by unbid
his neigh bor's-kftchen garden. Just as j den gatherers. .Well, if the man was
he had suspected, the only lettuce there ' on stealingfruit from the Maytham
had run to seed. In a moment Zenas
was upon the ground again, and pulled
some finely blanched plants which he
took to his neighbor's kitchen tloor,
saying to the cook: 4 , v
"I hope I don't intrude, but good let
tuce is scarce at this time of the year,
and as mine is very fine I thought per
haps your mistress would enjoy
some."
The servant took the crisp present
without a word. After moving several
steps toward. home, Zenas stopped sud
denly to admire a brilliant clump of
tritomas. As he stood gazing he heard
a window bind open and a voice call
ing in a low; tone: j
"Bridget!" ' ' :
"Mem." f
"Who was that?" J
"Misther Bortley, mem.''
"The owner of that gang next door?
"Yes, mem."
"Dmph!" The last expression was
emphasized by so vigorous a closing of
the window blind that the catch fast-
I
yt
: ,.'! HOPE I DOX'T IXTIltJPE?" j ;
ened with a sharp snap. A monfent be
fore Zenas rhad felt bent as well as
short; a moment after the wound to his
pride had straightened him until, as he
strode across the fence, he felt as tall
as Goliath of Gath. H e hastened to the
house to tell his wife, but . he checked
himself; he adored that wife of his; be
always was encompassing her with his
love that she might be shielded from
J the slings and darts of an unapprecia-
wve worm; sne snouK ; not know that any
one had alluded to her andhernestlicrs
as a "gang."
' Yet his own heart jrrew sore as it was
chafed by the word which could not be
forgotten. The-expression and the tone
in which it was uttered came to him un
bidden in his dreams and roused him
irom needed, rest came to him as he
read the morning paper- while dashing
by rail to the city came to him as he '.
added - columns of figures at his desk,
and caused him to make some terrible '
blunders. "Gang." Although he was :
a mild-mannered man, and a member of
the church besides, he came to regard j
his next-door neighbor, vtfoman and
nanasome though she Jvvasajvitb deadly
hatred.' So intense di4 :his j dislike be- !
"o ra.u uj . iie , wmaow. one
sultry -moonlight night and gleefully
beheld a stray cow enter the Maytham
garden and do more da nage than any
florist, could undo a1 that season.
"Gang," indeed. . vvV:" r
In fact it was more with y n sor
row that one day Zenas, learn'3.rom a
chance acquaintance on ;he' 'iraa,that
there, were special reason why Mr: May
tham would be away from home for
some time, for the man was a'defanliw
and fleeing from justieej T!he Bortleys
agreed that it was providential that the
families had not become acanaint: fm.
although Zegas, like a good man, tried
to pity sinners tvhile he hated - sin, he
told his wife ;that a mere entry clerk
with a family dependent
v i - UlUi -
ooTd not afford to be known as an ac-?
quaintance of that defaulter's family.?
Everybody seemed "down, on" the
Maythams; people said it was onlv no-
cause the house was in the wife's name
that Mrs. Maytham had a roof over her
head that thd couple had not lived
there' long, and never had become ac
quainted m thri village anyway
Though he still was full of biit.
Zenas-began io be interested anew in
his handsome neighbor, for he never
before had seen the w'if e of a criminal
one of Mrs. Maytham's class. Crimes
had been committed at Grasshopper
Falls, and wives of thieves and rowdies
were
VOO mimerOUS. US nwasinTml oi,V
... ...
Bcnptions for their relief showed, but
thev were a. kI-iuKSw f..r, i -
i . ji iinuA;wT--
less set, just like their husbands. whUff
nere, m ine very next house to Zeuas,
was a criminal's wife who was hand
some, self-contained, proud, apparently
rich and even scornful of the honest
"gang." .
Zenas thought of Mrs. Maytham until
he became almost fascinated by her.
His eye sought her each day as he left
home and returned. Finally, when he
got his customary summer vacation of
a fortnight, he spent hours of each day
in a hammock under the trees, looking
slyly for Mrs. Maytham and following
her with his eves whenever kTio c,,-
1 M 1 ' -
terea tnrough her finely-kevt grounds. "
He was sorry for her; he cduld under-
stand why she did not care to make new '
-
!
n
I
acquaintances; he could not see any
thing in her face that indicated com
plicity in her husband's crime; he so
pitied her in her, loneliness and prob
able gloom that he prayed earnestly for
her -but do what he ; would, he eould
not forget the tone in which she had.
called his adorable family a "gang.' - 4
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CHAPTER n.
As the dog days dragged on Zenas'
hammock under the trees became more
and more attractive as a lounging
place until finally' the little man, who
had often slept out of doors in the
woods when he was a country boy,
ventured to be young again and spend
an occasional night in the hammock.
The first effort was quite successful,
but during the second night he was
aroused from an awful dream of an
anaconda gliding . through the grass
near him, and causing a rustle such as
any anaconda could be depended upon
to make. - Starting up in affright be
neath his low-hanging co vert of boughs,
he saw what at first seemed really a
huge serpent about to cross, the fence
and enter the May tham estate. Throujgh
well-rubbed eyes,- however, the monsWr
resolved itself into a ladder, evidently
brought from a house in course of
building not far away. Of course, the
ladder was not moving of its own voli
tion; a man was under it.
Zenas was at once as wide-awake as
if no such condition as sleep had ever
existed; he also was in abject terror, and
was conscious of the outbreak of the
cold sweat of which he often had heard,
but- never before experienced. What
should he do? What could he do?
j Pshaw! Perhaps the man was a carpen
t ter, who had been after a bit of his own
j property, to have it ready for use some
t where else. Hut no, the clock of one
of the village churches struck two just
j then;"' it was impossible that any honest
mechanic could be going to work at
that time of night, brightly though the
! moon shone. Maybe the
shone. Maybe the fellow was a
piace, let mm steal; it was a shame that
such things .should be, but Zenas was
not one of the village's three policemen,
and,as he would rather have his own
single pear tree stripped than attack a
midnight prowler, he could not be ex
pected.; to protect hfe neighbor's prop
ertythe property of a neighbor who
.had called his family a "gang."
But, horrors! The man was no fruit
thieffor, he had taken the ladder to
ward the Maytham house placed it in
the shadow cast by the moon, and stood
motionless a moment as if to rest. Evi
dently ; he was a burglar and knew his
business, for it was town talk that the
Maytham house was expensively fur
nished, and contained much solid silver
ware, besides a great deal of bric-a-brac
worth its weight in gold. Probably the
windows, inside the blinds, were wide
open all cpuntry windows were during
the dog days. Let that ladder once be
raised, and the thief at its top, and
Zenas was sure that the frail blinds
would prove no obstacle to the fellow's
wicked designs. .
But what could Uie unsuspected ob
server do? He could not move toward
his own house without being seen and
heard; even were he within his doors he
had no firearms, no telenhnnp. no Vmx.
j ' L '
, glar alarm. He might slip out through
. "-" o v iiiij gaw auu LllCllt fc! AJ
the local police station, nearly a mile
away, but before any-officerould come
the robbery would be accomplished.
Worse still, the fellow, flushed with
success, might' move the ladder across
the fence and enter the Bortley home.
True, Zenas owned- no valuables ex
cept his wife and children, but the
thought of the rufSan prowling about
his sanctuary was not to be endured for
an instant. Could he ; scare the fellow
away by making a noise? Perhaps;
but he had heard of burglars who ran
right at a noise instead of away from it.
Should the burglar attack him, there
would be nothing to do but give up the
ghost at once, for "his heart was al
ready in his 'throat, and he felt unable
to move hand or foot. And his life was
insured for-only a thousand dollars!
j Terror and excitement had made him.
so wild 'that exhaustion speedily fol-
j lowed, with its Consequent apathy."
! 'Even his conscience followed the lead
of his will and became utterly demoral
I ized.. It was too bad, on general prin
ciples, that a house should he robbed,
j but that particular house, probably f ur
! nished with the wages of Maytham's
j crime well, the little man recalled!
J without a bit of shame, and to h.is great
j satisfaction, the infamous old saying
, that ; "the second thief is the best
1 owner." And really this as his con
science attempted to rally might not
spoliation be a judgment upon the
. woman who had been so blind, insen
sate and, brutal as to call the Bortley
familyr the larger and better' part of it.
a "gangy
But why all this worry and terror?
Probably the man was after all only a
common fruit thief. Onlv a tVw fao.
from where
the ladder had ben
! dropped was a great tree of "straw
i berry" apples, which the Bortley chil
j dren had been eying wistfully for a
; fortnight, as the blush on the fruit had
deepened to crimson. Such apples com
manded a high price, as Bortley had
learned to his sorrow. Well, if the tree
: were robbed his children would be de
livered from farther temptation; such
. trees were not safe when he was a boy.
He recalled, with a wicked chuckle
which was almost audible, how he one
had braved bulldog and shotgun to de
spoil just such a tree. Perhaps a tree
or; apples might not seem
much to that proud woman.
worth
! J ust then the man began to raise the
ladder, not to the .apple tree, but
against the side of the house. At
the same instant Bortley's heart and
a head began to throb as if they would
.! burst. He feared heart disease and
; apoplexy. He closed his eyes and tried
; to think of something else. What was
in his mind a moment before? Oh, yes
that proud woman woman woman
J In an instant the little fellow slipped
j out of the hammock, and, with jaws
' tightly set and nerv?s and muscles like
bundles of steel wires, 1 had bounded
across the fence and toward his neigh
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was, he had time, aa he ran, to realize
iuai ms wits had never before been
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burglar did not seem to mind this, for
he already had a foot on the lowest
round when Zenas, springing in front
of him, gave the ladder a push and
shake that threw - it backward. The
unknown man sprang off quickly, but
in an instant Zenas had him by the
throat, and, bearing him backward, got
him upon the ground. -
For a moment or two there was a
fierce struggle; (then the man, appear
ing to yield, turned on his side. Zenas,
fearing he had
killed the fellow, re
laxed his grasp,
but in an instant he
saw a hand drawing a pistol from a
jacket pocket. Quickly the weapon was
wrested away and tossed aside, and the
struggle by natural arms began, again.
Zenas recalled as if by magic all the
long-forgotten fistic lore of the school
yard and village green, but his antag
onist was larger than hi, so the little
fellow devoted himself to dodging, and
even some skill at this art did not en
tirely save him. First he became con
scious that he could not breathe through
his nose; then he lost the sight of one
eye, and his chest ached dreadfully, but
he availed himself of another youthful
trick, practiced by small boys who
were attacked by bullies he got behind
his antagonist and secured a tight collar-grip
with both hands, brought up
his knee sharply against the burglar's
back, and quickly had the fellow se
curely pinned to the ground.
While the struggle had been going on
Zenas heard window blinds open, and a
startled exclamation in a voice he re
membered well the voice that had ut-
"ZEANA8 HAD HIM BT THE THEOAT.
tered the word "gang." Now, as he
tried to breathe he heard a soft rustle,
and looking up saw, all clad in white,
and with hair disheveled, his handsome
neighbor.
"Madam," he gasped, "this this
burglar tried trjed to get into your
house. I saw him he tried to shoot
me. His pistol is somewhere in the
grass. Find it, please fire it fast
make an alarm bring help."
But the woman, instead of looking
for the weapon, fell upon her knees,
looked at as much of the man's face as
was visible and moaned:
"Oh, Arthur!"
Then she spraner to her feet and
hissed rapidly: - i
"lie's no buTfirlar. man. Tpt him m '
do you hear me? He's no burglar. I
say. He is my husband."
"Your husband!" gasped Zenas, re
laxing his hold, a movement of which
the prostrate man endeavored to take
advantage.
"Yes yes! Hasn't a man a right to
enter his own bouse any way he
chooses, when he's not expected has
no key? Let him go. Don't you hear
me say he is my husband?"
"Yes, madam, and sorry I am to hear
it, for I've heard of your husband's "
"Agnes," moaned the captive, "find
my pistol, quick, and shoot the fellow.
Put it close to his arm and fire; then
break the other in the same way that
will make the devil loose his hold. I
hear men running they are coming this
way." . '
. "Help! Murder! Help!'4 roared Zenas,
who also heard quick footsteps on a
sidewalk not far away. Then he said
quickly: "Madaml before you can find
that pistol I can kill this man, with my
hands at his throat. I've had to fight
savage animals with my hands." .
"God have mercy!" exclaimed the
woman, again dropping on her knees
beside the two men. "Listen to me,
man! As God lives, my husband is in
nocent of the charges against him I
know he is I know all the facts. He's
the victim of a conspiracy that must be
exposed before long. He has risked
everything to-night for the sake of see-
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rag his wife his wife, do you hear me?
Imagine yourself in his place for. your
wife's sake-for the one person alive
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"It's no use, Agnes," groaned the
man. "The fellow's a brute. Those
men are almost here I'm too weak to
run far if I try I'm gone."
"Oh, God!" the woman moaned, "Has
Heaven no mercy for the innocent?"
Zenas looked into the face before
him a woman's upturned face, full of
agony, the moon shining so full upon it
that its every line was visible. '" Then
he said softly and quickly:
"Yes, madam; Heaven has mercy, as
man will show you." He relaxed his
hold and thrust a hand into his pocket,
continuing to talk fast.
"Mr. Maytham, you say you're too
weak to run far; you won't be safe in
your own house hurrv into mi
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etalrs as softly as you can there's no
body on the top floor, and there's
light enough in the halls for yon to see
your way. Don't make a . noise, or
you'U rouse my family. Now' your
chance knock me aside and hurry
across the fence quick. Go softly-on
your toes keep In the shadow..
Away sped Maytham, and Zenas con
tinued, as two men came hurrying into
the garden gate:
"Kemember, madam 'twas a burglar
he ran across my .back yard he hart
me badly you're trying to restore me
make them ' help you; don't let. them
take me into my house till I'm re-
stored " -'
Then, for the men were almost upon
him, that good little man played hypo
crite with consummate ability. He
begged the men not to leave him,
bade them see how terribly injured he
( was, sent Mrs. Maytham into her house
. for water and stimulants, and told the
. story of the attempted burglary at great
length, until one of the men said:
j "Well, I 'spose 'taint no use to try to
j find the feller now he's got too much
i start. It's only by chance we followed
him anyway. I thort I heerd a ladder
bein' took from a house next me.
"Thieves, says I to myself. I peeked
out of winders, one' side an another;
then I woke brother Jim an he an me
went out kinder keerful like. We could
f see in the moonlight where the ladder
had been dragged along in the dust of
the rwl. Or--r tv-.rd a bend we
; thori v t ;t hiis i:..;in ladders
alius maue a noise when they bump
i wooden" house, an it's a kind o noise
i ycucan hear a good way in a still nkrht
lqib. we Degan to run then, an
', when we heerd the hollerin' we knowed
j vv nere to come. -
i . . . . - .
I ibo good of you," whispered Mrs.
! Maytham. - , :
5 iuver so much oblisred . said Zenas.
I Then, realizing for the first time that
Mrs. Maytham was not in daylisrht at
tire, he whispered something to the
men, who abruptly turned, said: "Good
night" and went away.
Mr. Bortley," said the woman, seiz
ing her neighbor's hands, 'you are a
nooie man." - -
"Madam," said the little man. who.
in spite of a broken nose and closed eye
now felt himself the equal of anyone
a"ve, -you are a true woman. Try to
feel easy about your husband. ; He will
be safer in my house than in his own.
until we see how the authorities reei-d
f tbe burglar story. They can' suspect
; me witn this lace." . 5
j Then he turned quickly and entered
his house. Softly he went up the stairs
- ana searched the top floor, light in
j hand, until he found the fugitive, to
whom he whispered:
I "Take, the room with the bed in it.
Turn the key, so rone of my children
j happen in on you in the morning. I'll
arrange for your wife to come in. I'll
get my wife and the youngsters off
some way after breakfast, and we
haven t any servants to poke around.
Good night."
Then the little man proceeded to
bury himself in his own reflections and
a wet towel with a lump of ice in it.
Vlt" a clearer head than he
ever had
taken to his desk in the city he never
theless had many conflicting emotions.
Within a single hour1 a mere quarter
of an hour, indeed, he had been guilty
of cowardice, suspicion, heartlessness
and several other unpardonable sins;
he also had indulged in violence, dis
simulation and a threat to commit mur
der, or at least manslaughter. He had
imagined himself dying of fright; he
had fought a larger man without the
slightest sensation of fear. He, a mem-'
ber of the church, was even now hiding
a fugitive, from justice; he, a married
man, had stood some moments in the'
presence of another -man's 'wife who
was in light evening attire before he
was conscious of the delicacy of the
situation. He had sprang to the rescue
because the intended victim as he sup
posedwas a woman, yet. that very,
same woman had called his Incompar--able
family a 'gang. " As he reviewed
the evening's experiences his mentality
became clouded to such an extent that
he crept into bed to seek refuge in
sleep. As he softly stretched himself
his wife sighed, half wakening: (
"1 thought I heard a noise little
while ago."
"Yes, dear; I tumbled down. It's all
right now; go to sleep."
CHAPTER III. .
Amazement sat" enthroned on the
family visage in the mornincr. when
the disarranged countenance of the
head of the family was exposed, but
Zenas said it would all pass off during
the day. All he needed,- he aid, was
absolute quiet, and he absolutely or-,
dered his wife to take all the children'
on a steamboat trip to New York and
back, taking the earliest boat, and
bringing him up a first-rate breakfast1
just before they started. His wife
obeyed him under protest, r-d no!
sooner were the family out of the gate
than Zenas, in his panjemas, took the
loaded tray, ascended to the top floor
and kicked softly p.t the door of his
gnest. As the door opened Maytham
looked more at the man than the break- -fast
and exclaimed in contrite tones:
"Did I do all that?"
'Don;t mention it," said the little fel
low with a reckless air. "I haven't had
sucn a ouiiy tight since I left schooL
Eat your breakfast before it gets cold,
so I can brincr vour wife nn tn baa
The , coast is clear; I've got the whole
family out of the house first time in
my life I ever was glad to do it. Every
thing here? water, towels, comb mul
brush? She deserves to see you looking
: your best." . ..
Then the little fellow dressed hastily,
, hid his face as much as possible In a
5 bandage and slipped out upon the rear
piazza. As he suspected,' Mrs. May them
was in her garden and saw him; he
. beckoried, in real country style, and she
was beside him in a moment.
I "Allow me, madam," said he with a
. bow which was dignified in spite of his
aspect, "to conduct you to your hus
band." He led the way upstairs, and
soon husband and wife -were in each
other's arms. The host discreetly with
drew, but stopped at the threshold and
remarked: -
"Don't feel the; least bitnneasyjn
Continued on 2nd.pap;e
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