i "e Ze _janship, but she _ Lorna his wife. man falls dead. THE STRATFORD MIRROR ae door at the end of a hall that was ora A Condensed Version Famous of R.D.Blackmore's : Novel. ie WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Desperately ill, the Countess of Lorne is journeying by coach to her home in Devon, England, with her daughter, Lorna. Stopping at an inn to change horses, Lorna makes friends with John Ridd, a school boy. The "Doone bandits," scourge of the dis- trict in the seventeenth century, are abroad, but the dying Duchess de- termines to continue her journey. Headed by Sir Ensor Doone, bandits attack the coach, making vic- tims of the retainers, and in the melee the Duchess succumbs. Lorna is car- ried off by Sir Ensor to his stronghold. Ten years later, John Ridd goes fish- ing in the Doone valley, falls into the river and is swept down to the very brink of the falls. He regains con- sciousness to find himself in the arms of Lorna Doone and realizes that the whirlpool had flung his body up on the shore. She tells him how she has! been kidnapped by Doones, - John pleads with Lorna to flee the place and accept his mother's guard- refuses, declaring flight would be futile, . Sir Ensor Doone, dying, gives Lorna a@ wonderful diamond necklace that had been her mother's, and craves forgiveness for the wrong he has done her. His son, Carver Doone, insolent- ly enters the room and taunts the old chieftain that he intends to make The distraught girl sends her maid to signal John Ridd for help and he quickly responds, John tears a hole in the thatched, roof of the banquet hall where the - marriage ceremony is being performed. s In a desperate fight with the Doone. - followers, he is being worsted when! the figure of Sir Ensor Doone appears in the doorway. The terrified bandits | think they see a ghost and John-- escapes with Lorna before the old To the Ridd home, where John has taken his sweetheart, comes the Coun- tess of Brandir to take Lorna to the king's court and restore her to her 'rightful estates. John, hungry for a sight of her, follows them to London. He glimpses her during a court cere- mony and, overhearing a plot of assas- sins, saves the king's life. John, overcome by the grandeur of his station and Lorna's and returns the court, realizes the difference in home.- Lorna follows him, declaring her love and they plight their troth. Ruth Huckaback; John's cousin, who is madly in love with him, betrays Lorna's presence to Carver Doone, who carries her off once more to the bandit's village. When John follows them, Ruth realizes that she probably has sent the man she _ loves to his ae death. Now continue the story: -- Chapter VIII. As Carver Doone rode-into the val- ley with Lorna on his saddle bow, the "entire village welcomed him with 'shouts of acclamation. . Flushed with triumph he faced his "father. ° "This is ill work!" said the Counsel- _ qor sternly. "It will bring the country about our ears." ase .- But Carver laughed at the rebuke. ; "Since when has the, wolf pack feared the sheep? Besides, the girl x ae belong to us!" "Carver, you do nat if not understand! the ' suddenly saw a body of horsemen, a lop a girl, her gold hair streaming on the breeze. squa@ron halted. Then, with a shout "meet her. men he knew, and his their presence. army against us?" ; A man came running through the crowd. p "John Ridd at the gate to see you, Carver,--under a flag of truce "At the name of her lover, Lorna gasped with mingled joy and appre- hension. Carver uttered an oath of rage and strode off- toward the gate. From the watch tower he shouted down to John, who, with his handker- "Carver Doone, if you be a man, come down and fight me single han- ded!" The answer was a hail of bullets winged their way toward the heart of the unarmed man. John, dodging behind a boulder, hundred strong, advancing at a gal- 'At its head, on a white horse, rode Amazed, John saw the girl draw rein and leap from her horse as the strewn with corpses. shoulder against the dogr, and the iron hasp gave way. Lorna hung from a hook to which her hands were bound. A heavy gag was across her mouth, and her feet were tied together. her bonds and laid her on a settle and chafed her hands. was able to speak. |sought to comfort her. not hear a stealthy step that along the corridor--they did not see the mad design that blazed in the Leyes of Counsellor Doone as he found 1 his plans frustrated. went to the Slowly he aimed it through the crack of the partly opened door. rang out, and a hand struck up the chief tied to a stick, was standing be-|V°#POn- The bullet tore its splinter- low the gate. $2 a through a beam above John's ead. whirled and ran Outside the door, gasping where thrown her -- and saw the miscreant running away, and started in pursuit of him. ran -- and presently John came out alone, with a grim look on his face. John set his In the corner behind the door Swiftly he loosed Presently she "T thought you would never come." She broke down, sobbing, and he So they did sole Instinctively the Counsellor's hand revolver in his belt. As he pulled the trigger, a scream At the sound of the shot, John into the corridor. he found Ruth the Counsellor had Into Sir Ensor's room he The end of the Doones had come. with a modern equipped Shoe Repair Shop and Reliable Workmen..... For a hurry up Half Sole, sewed or nail- ed, bring your old shoes to us and have them done the SUPERIOR WAY Superior Repair Shop 119 Ontario St. Phone 94! At Your Service | OAL ANTHRACITE COAL (Continued on next page) of incredulous joy, he darted out from behind the rock and ran to "Ruth!" he exclaimed, and could say no more--for all about him were voice was choked as he realized the meaning of These were his neighbors for miles around -- all with some heavy score to pay against the bloody Doones. . "There be twenty more coming from Dulverton, and thirty miners from, Oare! Oh, John, I cannot bear to live unless we rescue Lorna!" He smiled at he rforgivingly. "Some- how I feel that we shall save her." A shout from the horsemen drew his eyes to the gate, where, at Car- ver's order, the great porticullis was being lowered into place. "They think themselves secure," cried John, "but we shall strike where they least expect it- Let twenty marks- men follow me to surprise them from the rear. Meanwhile, do you attack the gate with battering rams and fire!" An hour later, he led his men along the cliffs to the secret path. "Took! They have set the gate on fire!" cried Ruth. Against the night, the smoke of the battle was lit by a ruddy glow. It was true--the Doone gate was afire. At that same moment Carver heard a terrible cry behind him. "we are lost--the village is flames!" It was the Counsellor who spoke, and his face was grey with sudden terror. Staring incredulously, Carver saw, amid the leaping flames, strange men fwho ran from house to house with torches in their hands. In an open space, beyond the flames, huddled the women of the Doones, hugging their 'children to their breasts. 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Sweet was the bride in her gown "of white, aind sweetly her soft eyes beamed at him as_ she murmured after the minister: "T, Lorna, toke thee, John--" On the name, her sweet voice seemed to break, and she swayed against his breast. For a pistol shot rang through the church, and the bullet had found its mark. The startled congregation whirled to the window whence the shot had come. Outside, the hoofbeats of a horse went at a gallop down the road. When they rushed to the door, the murderer was too far off to be rec- ognized--but no man doubted he was Carver Doone. Thundering down the road John went after Carver with the fires of hell in his heart. With a curse of fury, Carver saw he could go -no further. Snatching a pis- tol from his belt, he wheeled and fired at his pursuer, Ducking his head the bullet whistled past his ear. from a bone. 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